R-Type Final 2 (EP)

In this stage (a remake of stage 3 from the original R-Type arcade game), you are fighting a giant battleship.

Almost every surface on the battleship is covered with turrets or metallic armour, and you must destroy all the turrets and break all the armour.

There are six turrets at the back that will continuously respawn. To be on the safe side, destroy these at least once.

There are three parts of the ship (the front piece, and two pieces on the front underside) that will detach and fall after being shot a few times, and will eventually fall into the lava and sink. Again, to be on the safe side, try to fully destroy these before they sink.

It's not difficult to rip up most of the armour on the battleship, but the area just behind the gold-coloured "bridge turret" is not very easy to shoot at. I've highlighted the area I'm talking about in this picture:



Personally, I used my favourite R-9B3 SLEIPNIR ship, which has a missile that fires very infrequently, but has a massive area effect (play on Score Attack so that you start with all power-ups). I found that by shooting the missile at the bridge turret in the early part of this stage, the area effect was big enough to destroy the least-accessible of these three turrets. I then took out the other two during the final part of the stage (if you wait long enough, the ship will drift to the right a little more, giving you a chance to shoot these).

You can do this on any difficulty, even Practice.