Darius Gaiden No-Bomb Clear ABDGKPZ'

I avoided powering up shot to the final level because Great Thing is next to impossible to damage fast enough and destroy without white bullets in your shots unless you abuse some sort of rapidfire cheat. A boss timing-out strategy may be possible as well, but that's very tricky. This clear also features heavy adaptive difficulty control: no unnecessary boss body parts have been destroyed until the final boss, and almost no power-ups were grabbed when already at max power (except for two accidental shields in Zones B and Z'). I even avoided some power-ups in Zone P instead of Z' because it's trickier to avoid them in Z'. Some tips for this route: -By only attacking Prickly Angler at point-blank range you can manage to destroy the boss with all its body parts intact--and prevent any unnecessary adaptive difficulty increases. -The Zone Z' miniboss is super helpful for surviving the later part of the stage. The longer you delay taking its control orb, the longer it takes for it to die w