Still going to be screwing up the recharges and stuff, but I'll definitely be thankful for the slowdown in death modes.
Scoring question, even if it won't really matter much due to probably messing up. In the original Deathsmiles, are you supposed to start not using power up mode as you select level 3 the fifth time or once you start the extra stage? I know that was one of the huge risk/reward things involving scoring, while you wanted to get powerups and the recharges on earlier stages. Not that I'll expect to hit the recharges outside of MBL 1.1 where it's a joke to get them.