Battle Bakraid
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Railroad
Stage Strategy
Just like Forest, this stage gives fairly minimal points compared to what can be done with the boss. There are some decent chains you can make here, but the key is to absolutely avoid bombing or dying (for the most part). Throughout the stage you want to pick up as many bomb pieces as possible, as this increases how many points you can get out of Cyclops.
When the stage begins, you should Aura kill the planes that appear. You will get many extends from them due to the score from the Axebeak trick. As soon as you get one, you will want to suicide once so that you get reloaded to 1.5 bombs. Provided you did this all fast enough, you should be able to still kill the train on the right track. As soon as this happens you will need to go up to the top-left so that you can kill the left-most train. After a little bit of waiting, you should kill the parked train on the inner right. A little bit later, kill the moving train on the inner left. You won't make it in time to the turrets without a suicide or a bomb, but do not do either of those. You should also be collecting all of the bomb fragments that you can, as I said earlier.
When you get to the turrets, wait until they're about half-way down the screen (err on the side of too early; too late and you miss out on some decent points). If you timed it correctly, you should be able to kill the head of the train coming towards you and keep your chain alive. If you position yourself slightly offset to the right of the center of the train, you can easily pick up all the bomb pieces, as well as get a bit of grazing to help lower the rank a bit.
When you come up to the large tank, there really is nothing special to do. The only way to get the chain from the turrets on top of it is to bomb it, and as I've said before, bombing is not allowed in this stage. The best thing you can do here is to kill the tank quickly so that you can Aura kill the tanks while moving upwards in order to boost your medal chain fairly quickly.
After that, some popcorn enemies will dive in towards the center. Kill them with your Aura, as they are worth 1000 points for Aura kills, but only 100 for normal kills.
Boss Strategy
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