Dariusburst: Chronicle Saviours ~ LEGEND VS. GIGANTIC BITE ~ THE FINAL BATTLE! [Suriaha w| Defaults]

The final, normal* mission of the massive campaign mode of Dariusburst: Chronicle Saviours. Here I take the Legend ship, with all defaults, to take on the game's most fearsome guardian, the legendary Gigantic Bite! A battle to the death ensues, and who will come out on top?


Boss timestamps:
1:09 - Hyper Jaw
3:40 - Lightning Flamberge
6:44 - Phantom Castle
10:04 - Golden Ruler
16:38 - Azure Nightmare
23:09 - Gigantic Bite
30:20 - Ending



Ten years ago today, the first of the Dariusburst series was released on the PSP. From there, the game enjoyed many tweaks, re-releases, and remakes. The base game was adjusted into the excellent Another Chronicles EX arcade release, and this served as the basis for the PC/PS4 release of Chronicle Saviours in 2015, which contained new bosses and the CS campaign mode. It's fitting for me, on this momentous anniversary, to share with you a run of the game's final challenge. I've been waiting to find and fight Gigantic Bite ever since the PC release, so this is a rather cathartic moment given the anniversary. This game is truly great and a feast for shmup fans and Darius lovers. This one is worth playing!


This run, despite being a personal best of my attempts, contains numerous embarrassing and sloppy mistakes. After 8 or 9 tries I was out of gas and my many stupid hits and shield losses attest to this. The timing for burst-countering is still not exact for me, and many times I lose crucial shields due to messing up the moment to burst while moving into the enemy laser. Other runs I have been able to burst-kill all of the bosses, sans Bite, but some of the quirks of the enemy AI and attack choice (partially random?) threw me off my game. I will admit towards the end of this run, going into the final stage with so few shields, I thought about quitting and restarting. But well, I stuck it out.



The scoring could have easily improved by being more aggressive with burst-killing enemy waves, but in many places I opted for safety vs. scoring potential. The main of this is that Gigantic Bite, in the lineage of shmup TLB (true last bosses), is a huge, 7-minute battle of attrition, meaning that the entire run you need to be carefully managing your finite shields to be able to tank and survive his onslaught. I will say that this is the fewest amount of shields I've managed to fight (and win) with against Bite.



There is a practice zone, Bedon, that lets you mano-e-mano Bite with 30 shields and full power - use this to learn his patterns. However, he has less HP in Bedon, so much that you will not meet those dreaded time-out cubes (as I do towards the end), which have ended several attempts by ramming into me and taking my remaining lives.



*Note: there is a secret, hidden 'bonus' mission, code-named Kyukkuho, that is unlocked only after completing every campaign map in CS mode. This is a bit of a hassle, to say the least, so I don't expect to have that one done any time soon.

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