...And Your Saga Will Become The Guardian Legend: Let's Play!

And they cause way too much collision damage.

It's been a very long time since I played this so I can't remember if you can shoot your main gun at the same time as your secondary weapons. I think it would have sped things up if you could have done that.

You're probably right, Torzelbaum.

#10: Area 3 Item Hunting

Where Red doesn't get a ton of items, says penultimate instead of final, and tells you all about the Enemy Erasers.

Item Pickups

Shield - Defense Power 2
Rapid Fire - #4
Enemy Erasers - Max: 20

Bronies, must you ruin everything?

I didn't forget this LP.

I've just had to throw out over 50 attempts.

Yes, it's that ridiculous.

It's time for that guy already?
You have my support man, fireball that jerk into oblivion.

My insistence to share TGL fanart continues!



Oh, and there's a video or something, too.

#11: Corridor 3

Where Red has to try post-processing for the first time ever, does the corridor on autopilot, and really hates this boss.

Item Pickups

Third Key - Grants access to Area 4

Every version of that boss is a horrible fucking bastard.

I think that strategy only works with the Level 3 fireball weapon.

And they're all DIFFERENT horrible fucking bastards.

Now that you say that, I think you're right. Thankfully the lasers were up to the task instead!

If someone was having a really dire time trying to get to the boss with full health, that mild bullet hell section would be the perfect time for them to bust out the enemy erasers. Especially since they don't use chips.

It sounded like you were going to show off the EE exploit there at the end but it looked like you only used it once, did you change your mind?

In some of the failed attempts, I actually used them during the boss fight. They CAN (but frequently don't) make the boss drop pickups. This is the only way you can get pickups off the Blue Optomon boss.

The problem with doing it during the boss is that you throw off your timing and/or you don't get anything worth it.

Please forgive me if I'm mistaken, but it sounds like you don't know of the exploit I'm talking about. It still wouldn't be wise to use during a difficult boss for the reasons you've already said.
I'm going to spoiler this in case I'm wrong and you're just holding out on the explanation for another video.

Enemy explosions are valid EE targets.

That is to say that destroying a screenfull of things with an EE, then spamming more EEs will continue to reroll the drops of every explosion on the screen. Now a good number of these drops will overlap and disappear, but you could theoretically just keep wasting EEs until most of the destroyed enemies drop items (some of which will probably be more EEs).

Gotta admit, finding all these fanarts is a lot of fun, as is sharing them with you.


#12: Corridor 14

Where Red gets two of the same item, fights an easy boss for a change, and totally didn't explore this entire Area.

Item Pickups

Blue Lander x2 - 14th and 15th Health Unit

#13: Corridor 4

Where Red has to farm for chips, begs a Lander for help, and has to fig- wait, what, it's over?

Item Pickups

Bullet Shot x2 - Level 2 and 3
Rapid Fire - #5
Cutter - Level 2
Attack Up - Attack Power 3
Blue Lander - 16th Health Unit
Fourth Key - Grants access to Areas 5 and 6

#14: Corridor 6

Where Red sequence breaks to open half the game, flies into a volcano, and erases all the enemies.


This was kinda a last minute decision, but I thought "hey, sequence breaking is always interesting, right? Also, note that the name is listed as Alyssa in that fanart. That's because The Guardian's name is never revealed in the game or the English instruction manual. Miria is the name given in the Japanese version, as well as the designation "System D.P." cyborg. Alyssa is her fanon name.

Item Pickups

Fifth Key Grants access to Areas 7 and 8
Seeker - Level 2

"Oreo cookies." I would say Oreos don't have red or blue filling but I'm probably wrong. Still oreos are squat discs not spheres! Maybe you should call those enemies Orbeos instead.

The Oreo thing is actually a nickname that's stuck from my childhood.

Halloween Oreos have orange filling, which is close enough to red. And I'm pretty sure there's some type of Oreo with blue filling. :P

In this type of game I would always try to use just the basic weapon as long as possible (I never learned the boss weaknesses in Megaman 5 for example). Around here is where I switch to the fireball weapon. Those volcanoes are just too much.

Also, those Oreos are totally killable. The ones in the central area should go down in ~20 seconds with the attack upgrades you have. Still not worth the effort of course.

#15: Corridor 15

Where Red isn't intimidated by the miniboss, talks about Zelda 2, and totally gets lost.

Item Pickups

Blue Lander - 17th Health Unit
Red Lander - Chip increase: 800
Repeller - Level 2

#16: Corridor 5

Where Red sequence breaks again, uses new weapons, and makes a Star Trek reference.

#17: Corridor 16

Where Red gets a power-up that does nothing, finds a secret shop, and gets revenge against an old pain.

Item Pickups

Bullet Shot - Extra
Red Lander x2 - Chip Increase: 1600
Side Wave - Level 3

I'm a little curious if a bonus video with some glitchy passwords would be interesting to anyone.

Depends how interesting the glitches are, really.

No snazzy fanart this time.


#18: Corridor 17

Where Red kills all the pineapples, is on the wrong side of the wall, and enters the eyeball zone.

Item Pickups

Grenade - Level 3
Saber - Level 3

#19: Corridor 7

Where Red doesn't kill the annoying terrible enemies, gets the best subweapon ever, and really isn't paying good attention to his health bar.

Item Pickups

Repeller - Level 3
Shield x2 - Defense Power 7
Front Wave - Level 3
Cutter - Level 3

New video is processing. In the meantime I leave you with this gem.

#20: Corridor 18

Where Red makes the minibosses look easy, is about as far as childhood Red, and makes the boss angry.


Item Pickups

Red Lander - Chip Increase: 2400
Blue Lander - 19th Health Unit
Laser - Level 3
Fireball - Level 3

#21: Corridor 8

Where Red has to take a few hits, has the worse timed phase change ever, and still messes up the names of weapons.


Item Pickups

Bullet Shield - Level 3
Sixth Key - Grants access to Area 9

also, this game has the best soundtrack.