U.N. Squadron (1)- Forest Fortress (Hard)

Savestates were NOT used during gameplay.
After several failures in the Wolfpack stage, I decided to start with this one instead. It's a lot more filled with enemies than the last two were, but it's not that hard if you know what to expect. On a side note, I think shooters should use controller buttons to stop shooting, not to start shooting. Why would I ever not want to be shooting, apart from the rare exception where I'm shooting blocks forward to dodge laser beams or something like that? sigh
For the unfamiliar: While there are powerups in U.N. Squadron, they actually function as experience points that increase the power of your basic weapon. These changes are permanent (at least, until game over) and actually transfer between the different ships, should you choose to switch to a new fighter.

[@SilentSlayers]

I love this song.

[@bassNY]

@AxemJinx Nah I got it - you have to destroy all the trees in the level. Then it appears on its own. I fucking KNEW I wasn't crazy...!

[@bassNY]

What are you doing to trigger that unicorn appearing? I've done it once on hard mode, but for the life of me I can't get it to appear again. There's gotta be more to it than just shooting in the right spot in the air - like, you have to destroy a certain amount of missiles, or destroy turrets in the right order or something.

[@plushbatfan]

@Axem Jinx Why didn't you use special weapons on this stage?

[@AxemJinx]

+Dream Big Productions At the time, I think I was just trying to challenge myself. I'm pretty sure I had to resort to using special weapons in the last couple of stages, though!

[@usurper70]

@bassistofclosson wow really? i guess I always just do that b/c it's always there!