Clumber: I've already stated how to do this. Also, Selling the Cheese Towers refunds the full value of the original tower. Stacking Power Towers helps. Going Power/Pierce/Cannon/Power/Power on both sides facing in then a Lava/Vis/Lava/Vis/Lava on following tiles allows for full pierce/cannon range. It's just a matter of selling/rebuilding on the Wrath Spawns.
My personal Build
Player 1: Stone Skin + Ultra Blocker + Blood Thirsty --- Primary Weapons: Electric Guitar and Molotov
Player 2: Stone Skin + Ultra Blocker + Blood Thirsty --- Primary Weapons: Pneumatic Drill + Light Tubing
Player 3: Stone Skin + Tanking Charger + Super Ninja -- Primary Weapons: Teddy Bear + Katana
Strategy: Skip Turn1. Turn2 - Equip Teddy Bear. Turn 3 - Equip Light. Turn 4 - Move Player1 Forward. Turn5 Equip Electric Guitar on Player 1. T6-T8 Re-equip Light Tubing if necessary, if enough points equip Pneumatic Drill. Equip Katana when available if the match isn't over.
Enough HP and survival with early push ability to block Ranged users and if they use any ranged past Turn3 it simply gives your teddybear tank charger more Energy to squeeze a faster Pneumatic/Katana combo to eat through everything. Also always keep a disposable break item incase you fight a weapon break user.
For those of you needing to do Zodiac Memory - I personally went with Nidhogg (4B1W - Air Starter) for the Lunar Eclipse (Huge DPS, Heals Target at Cost for energy. 20% Damage Taken gives energy back), Gelyan (Poison Attack is huge here). Items: 2 Life Stream and 2 Fairy Dusts w/ Deep Blue & Arcane Earrings). Strategy is to use Life Stream when 1HP'd to prevent a potential poison+1HP InstaDeath. Constant HP Production while Stunning and Arcane Earrings to feed Energy for keeping Lunar Eclipse Activated when not taking damage.
Reward is "Zodiac Master". Class S Item which gives 5/5/5/5 in Lucid Dreamer or 10/10/10/10 in Nightmare mode.
A Couple of things that haven't been said about this game:
I usually run tests on a low-end and high end computer; a lot of games these days even with Quality toggles won't allow you to really get by on a single core CPU and onboard everything. This one managed to pull all of this off smoothly where there's very little problems. I'm rather impressed that the programmer(s) involved could put together an enjoyable and difficult game that literally everyone can play.
Dragonthera: There's a few bonus levels that have a lot of sway towards making the game really easy and are worthwhile to back-track for a few extra credits sometimes for a bigger upgrade - The point of not getting it every time is to prevent mass-upgrading before level 2. Not that the game is very difficult to begin with other than the first 2 chapters where you have no upgrades.
Found the best working strategy is to just be a cheeser. Destruction build -- Speed 3/5, Dynamite 1/1, Zeus 2/5, Dyna Scholor 3/5 (more on this later), Rocket 1/1, Dyna Scholar 5/5, Rattlesnake 5/5. The rest of the build is completely flexible. - Strategy: Box the Spawns in to one major chokepoint. X cross Barricades at chokepoint for later Rocket Turrets. End Lane Frost Turret. This allows for heavy burst damage (no pun intended) while snaring any incoming forces. Even on Challenge, 2 Rockets+Dynamite will annihilate anything - while giving cover for the ranged commando fingers. Enjoy
Not sure how many people realized the spider boss' name is CHAR-L07 (Charlotte's web). Abusing Robo Bomb is the best/easiest way for Madcap moding the bosses as you get about 2 seconds of invuln frames and a Massive amount of spike/burst damage once you have about 4 bomb upgrades. You can even kill the security drones in the ship in 1 gem/gun rotation by edging and bombing.
I can't say things were really that difficult and stars were pretty much no need to repeat anything as they're all on the way to the exit. My strat was nothing more than Buy the first shotgun, then the best +Cash Shield. Then Raptor. Then bought the highest +Cash Shields that were unlocked til the end. Bought the best shotguns available til the end. Just prefire run spread across the screen while reloading. Clear a full screen or two. Rinse, repeat.
Everything maxed by Day 16. No need for Rage or Magic ever. Meh. Also - When any suicide/ram/ballistae/transport dies - theres this odd side effectof killing everything around the border... It makes the game almost trivial
I personally prefer the Poison Wands. Not only do they have full screen range without projectile falloff (sling) - but literally all you have to do is love tap a left group, move to the right and love tap them. Both die with almost no damage taken yourself. They're especially useful on the maps with swarms. - Having a big weapon on the side to do a quick pickup toss or hit+toss on larger targets is a good idea too.
2d Jump Platformer does not mean it's automatically Canabalt - I may have griped about this in the past (e.g. Prince of Persia), but this has its own independent feel and flavor to the game. When you try to start doing multiple perfect-jump combo's for maximum point generation, you realize there's a lot of style and a fair amount of planning going into each jump; rather than simply jumping through obstacles in time of avoidance.
I swear sometimes you guys would call Metroid simply a ripoff of Castlevania but you get a gun.
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