Hyper mode can be activated once you use up your two bombs and when you have a full charge gauge. Once these requirements are met, just pressing bomb will activate it.
whoa
WHOA
This changes everything. Just stormed through stages 1-7 as if they weren't there despite the AI insisting on staying around for far longer than in the previous run.
Chiyuri wiped the floor with me, though, despite an epic first attempt. :V
Lots of fun, though, once you REALLY know what you are doing.
edit: just got to Yumemi with two lives in stock, proceeded to use all continues and still didn't beat her. :V
Also, using HYPER mode against Yumemi usually results in so much crap being destroyed on both sides that it causes a boss summon tug of war which always ends with
another boss on your face.... maybe I should just use it as a bomb and
stop shooting? I'm still not sure how auto-summons work, Yumemi seems to get a lot more of these than Chiyuri or anyone else.
Another problem I'm having with Yumemi is that some of her non-boss specials are threatening once they start piling up, unlike Chiyuri's - who's quite beatable if you manage your resources well to keep her boss attack out of the picture for long enough (
much easier said than done, of course). Also, that
does involve keeping an eye on her side of the screen, though, which sometimes leads to eating a stray bullet. :V
