Controls: (Assumes default settings, controls can be changed.)

Keyboard: (Only directions can be changed in Keyboard.)



Controller: (Controller button displays are also available for those with PS, Xbox and Switch controllers. In the Key Config under "Button Type", move left or right to change selected button type.)



Difficulty Selections:
-Casual (Easy): "For first time players"/"Recommended for first-timers". (The game's easy difficulty.)
-Maniac (Normal): "For players looking for more exciting games"/"For those wanting something more than just casual gameplay". (The game's Normal difficulty.)
-Expert (Hard): "For players who are confident in their shmup skills"/"For those confident in their shooting skills". (The game's Hard difficulty.)
-Nightmare: "For the player who never lets up"/"For those who never back down, no matter the challenge". (The game's first higher difficulty than Hard.)
-Chaos: "We won't take complaints about this difficulty." (The game's second higher difficulty than Nightmare.)

Game Config:
-Control Mode: Consumer: Press the Slow button for slow movement. / Arcade: Hold the Shot button for slow movement.
-Help Mode: Depending on the number set from 1 through 5, destroying an Item Carrier in the beginning of each stage will give you that many lives. "Auto" is most likely set depending on the stage. Be aware that using this will not save your statistics for best score and clear times and that you will have a heart right next to the difficulty denoting on that clear. If you want that star for the clear, set it to "Off".

Video Config:
Settings such as changing the window display, FPS, V-Sync, and for elements of the UI, can be done here.

Practice Mode:
Clear the first stage once with any character/difficulty in "Game Start" (Main/Story Mode). Additional Practice Mode options for Counter and Speedrun will be available once those unlock conditions are met.

Counter Mode:
Unlocks after clearing Boss Rush once. ("Counter" is a toggle option, with separate best scores if its toggled on. Enemies fire revenge bullets upon destruction and bosses as well after each life bar.)

Trial Mode:
-Trial Tour: Clear the "Game Start" (Main/Story Mode) once with any character. (You'll play 5 [or 6] out of 9 stages, after each stage clear, you can either play the next stage, or 2 stages over. The stage order can go as 1 -> 2 or 3 -> 4 or 5 -> 6 or 7 -> 8 [-> 9, if conditions are met.])
-Boss Rush: Clear Trial Tour once with any character/difficulty. (You will fight each stage Boss in order.)
-All Stage Tour: Clear Boss Rush once with any character/difficulty. (You'll play on all stages.)
-Speedrun: Clear All Stage Tour once with any character/difficulty. (Clear the game in the quickest time on all 8 stages. Stage 9 is excluded.)

Nightmare Difficulty:
Clear any mode you wish in Trial Mode on Expert Difficulty once (can also be done in Main/Story Mode with all stages [Stage 9 optional] cleared on Expert). However, the difficulty will be selectable first in "Game Start" (Main/Story Mode), clear all stages (Stage 9 optional) to have the difficulty selectable in Trial Mode. (Nightmare difficulty will be unlocked in the order of the modes in Trial cleared on that difficulty first. Trial Tour -> Boss Rush -> All Stage Tour -> Speedrun)

Chaos Difficulty:
Similar to "Nightmare Difficulty" requirements, but clear Trial Tour on Nightmare.

Data Window:
Clear Trial Tour once with any character/difficulty. Data Window displays game information at the bottom left corner.

-Stage Frame: The number of frames the stage is counting.
-Distance: The distance between enemies and the player, getting close to an enemy will gain more "Followers".
-Bullet: The number of enemy bullets on screen along with their speed.
-Graze: The number of times the player evades enemy bullets in close proximity near the hitbox.
-Being Shot: The number of times getting hit by enemy bullets, this also counts if a "Style" is activated with "Mental Lv" (Bombs) stocked whenever the player is hit. The display "Hidden Stage OK!" will appear in any of the Trial modes except in Speedrun. The number of times "Being Shot" which is necessary in order to play Stage 9 on the information listed below on how to unlock it. If it exceeds it, the display will fade and you will not be able to play Stage 9 and the game will end on Stage 8 after defeating the boss.
-Invincible: The number of frames you are invincible to enemy bullets depending on certain factors. (Using Bombs/Style, or if you lost a life.) Once it reaches 0, you are no longer invincible and are vunerable to enemy bullets.
-Key State: Shows when buttons are pressed and when direction is moving.

Unlocking Stage 9:
Trial Tour must be unlocked first, then play Trial Tour once with any character/difficulty. Once you reach the Stage 8 boss Melona and all her lifebars are gone, make sure that the number of times "Being Shot" (taking a hit), does not exceed the listed below throughout the entire game depending on the "Style" selected. (Updated to reflect ver. 2.0 changes.)

• Shield +/Enhance: 6 times (Casual/Maniac/Expert) / 8 times (Nightmare) / 10 (Chaos)
  
• Shot +/Enhance or Missile +/Enhance: 5 times (Casual/Maniac/Expert) / 7 times (Nightmare) / 8 times (Chaos)
  
• Double +/Enhance: 3 times (Casual/Maniac/Expert) / 4 times (Nightmare) / 5 times (Chaos)

If the conditions are met, you will go straight to Stage 9 and can fight the True Last/Final boss. Clear Stage 9, and it will also be unlocked as a selectable stage in "Game Start". (Main/Story Mode)

Extra Stage:
Unlocked after clearing Trial Tour once on any difficulty (retroactively unlocks if you met the requirements previously before the 2.0 update), you will play in the Extra Stage: Artist Community on a fixed difficulty similar to around Nightmare/Chaos. (With the line "Warning! You won't be able to choose your difficulty!") You will face the game's Extra Stage boss Hinako Tenmabashi with lots of lifebars and attack patterns that you will have to extremely dodge carefully.

Gallery:

• Characters: Clear the game with each character to view character info.
  
• Bosses: Defeat the bosses in each stage to view character info.
  
• Enemies: Clear each stage in Trial tour once (you will only unlock a select few) or through Boss Rush (where you can unlock them all).
  
• "Like!": Clear Trial Tour once.
  
• "An Act at a School": Clear Boss Rush once.
  
• "Beach Community": Clear Trial Tour in Nightmare Difficulty.

Achievements:

1. Welcome: Watch the tutorial all the way through.
   
2. Animal World: Clear Stage 1
   
3. Sweets World: Clear Stage 2
   
4. Digital World: Clear Stage 3
   
5. Sea World: Clear Stage 4
   
6. Dark World: Clear Stage 5
   
7. Dream World: Clear Stage 6
   
8. City World: Clear Stage 7
   
9. Kingdom World: Clear Stage 8
   
10. Secret World: Clear Stage 9
    
11. Elementary Shooter: Clear Trial Tour on Casual difficulty.
    
12. Intermediate Shooter: Clear Trial Tour on Maniac difficulty.
    
13. Experienced Shooter: Clear Trial Tour on Expert difficulty.
    
14. Master Shooter: Clear Trial Tour on on Nightmare difficulty.
    
15. True Absolute Winner: Clear Stage 9 on Trial Tour.
    
16. Boss Mania: Clear the Boss Rush.
    
17. Boss Master: Clear the Boss Rush on Nightmare Difficulty.
    
18. Long Runner: Clear All Stage Tour.
    
19. Counter Heaven: Clear Trial Tour in Counter mode.
    
20. Counter Hell: Clear Trial Tour in Counter mode with the difficulty on Expert or higher.
    
21. Nene-chan is Furious: Destroy Nene-Chan's 4 bear cubs during battle.
    
22. Thanks for the Food!: Destroy the mid-boss in Stage 2 after all "Butter Blocks" were destroyed first.
    
23. Bit-Like Conversion: Destroy 30 of Rika Sakurazaka's "Bits" during battle.
    
24. Round Jellyfish: Destroy all of Jellyfish Mizuki's tentacles at the same time.
    
25. Black Winder: Get a Perfect Bonus on Eko's 6th health bar.
    
26. They Found Out!: Defeat Kyuri (Stage 6 Mid-Boss) within 14 seconds to reveal a 1UP item.
    
27. They Found Out, Meow!: Defeat the Mid-Boss version of Cyan Sorahoshi while destroying units/parts on both sides to reveal a 1UP item.
    
28. Glowing Look-Alike: Defeat a glowing self-similar enemy without the use of bombs/style to make a 1UP item appear.
    
29. Wasteful Mistake: Lose a life while having the Mental Lv. at maximum stock.
    
30. Freedom from Approval: Clear any Stage with 0 likes.
    
31. Bomber Girl: Use Bombs 20 times.
    
32. Bomber Queen: Use Bombs 200 times.
    
33. Buzzsaw: Activate Buzz Fever 20 times.
    
34. Timeline Regulars: Activate Buzz Fever 200 times.
    
35. Bullet Hell Warriors: Defeat 1,000 enemies total.
    
36. Crushing Queen: Defeat 10,000 enemies total.
    
37. Gachi Love Girl: Followers "10+" appeared a total of 300 times from normal enemies.
    
38. Gachi Love Master: Followers "10+" appeared a total of 3000 times from normal enemies.
    
39. Dangerous Flight: Graze enemy bullets 500 times total.
    
40. A Scrape of Honor: Graze enemy bullets 20,000 times total.
    
41. Evasiveness: 30 total Perfect Bonuses against bosses.
    
42. Bullet Hell Master: 300 total Perfect Bonuses against bosses.
    
43. Queen Secretly: Clear Trial Tour without activating Buzz Fever.
    
44. A Bit of a Celebrity: Reach 10,000 Followers.
    
45. A Great Celebrity: Reach 50,000 Followers.
    
46. Influencer: Reach 100,000 Followers.
    
47. Fulfilling Approval: Reach 100 million Likes.
    
48. Hot Bullet Hell Girl: Reach 1 billion Likes.
    
49. The World is Watching: Reach 5 billion Likes.
    
50. 100% Clear: Unlock all other achievements.

Any achievements unlocked in-game prior to the 1.10 update will unlock automatically and retroactively as steam achievements upon launching the game.

Q: Getting a "Perfect Fight Bonus" if you used a bomb?
A: If you use your bomb right before the boss goes into the next attack phase and not while vulnerable, and before the boss timer starts, you can get this bonus without getting a penalty of getting "Beautiful Fight Bonus", just time it about 1-2 seconds into their next attack phase. Be aware that you only can have up to 3 max stocks of Mental Lv. (Bomb), so use carefully. (This also works in CosmoDreamer.)

Q: A specific boss has a shield, how do I get around that?
A: The boss on Stage 8's last life (if you haven't triggered the unlock condition for Stage 9, or if you are playing the main mode or speedrun) will shield itself if you use a bomb or style. Same with Stage 9's boss's last two lives will have her shielded. This is usually a trait to TLB's in CAVE games (or others) that have a shield if you use a bomb.

(More coming soon...)