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Yellow "Den" (triangle pointing down): Signal strength goes up (on top left) = multiplier goes up
Blue "Mo" (rhombus): Absonet (bomb) gauge filled
Orange "Tate" (square): Shield activated for a short time (bracket-shaped white line in front of ship)
Red "Chikara" (square): Attack power goes up (not sure in what way?)
Orange "Hai" (triangle pointing up): Junk; the player's part-time job is to collect junk (not sure what this does outside of the bonus unlockable pictures)
[Yellow "Hai" (star; not in the list): there are apparently two types of Junk items; maybe the star one is more valuable?]
Pink "Soku" (triangle pointing down): Speed up (faux Wi-Fi gauge on top right goes up)
Green "Ju" (square): Charge battery = replenish (some) health
Blue "Ten" (triangle pointing up): Score item
[Not seen in this list, but it seems like there are light blue and dark blue score items]
Game Rules
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Your goal is to collect items as you get to a small planet near the moon.
How fast can you go, how high can you score, how far can you fly?
It's all up to me... I mean you!
Controls (Not going to translate all of these. The small text at the bottom just mentions that some buttons work in the main screen as well. ZL and ZR move though 10 items in the email list and the fax machine mission list.)
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Shot, Sword, Absnet, Weapon change (changes shot direction), Multi (sword+shot at the same time)
+ button is pause.
Story
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After the "Umbra Incident" I [Tadayo Aita, main character with glasses] left school and moved into an abandoned train station near Shinjuku a few months ago. I'm getting by with a part time job collecting junk.
Someone else at my workplace, Atora Ataka [character pictured with black hair], gave me a personal request that sounded pretty dangerous. She wanted me to get in a device suit called Byakko, and go to a small planet near the mo--
The moon?! She wants me to go to space?
"What will Tadayo find at her destination after collecting junk and completing work assignments on the way?"
That's pretty much the gist of it. Can you help me out? I don't want to go by myself!
Orders [Fax Machine]
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You can check the progress of the orders you did on duty [i.e. while playing the game]. Press the up and down buttons to move by one line each time, or move 8 at a time with ZL/ZR.
[There are 222 different orders. Some examples: "Move" "Don't move" "Kill enemies with the sword" "Absorb bullets with your shield" "Use unlockable equipment" "Get to the city area."
You get bonus pictures and unlockable equipment as you complete orders (I don't know the actual requirements for each one though).
The "000/222" in the bottom center of the fax machine screen shows how many orders you have got to MAX level. You raise the level for each order by doing what it says multiple times.
The "00.0%" is "Progress." It is higher than the "000/222," so it might indicate how many of the orders you have done at least once?
There is a space on the bottom left of the fax machine screen. I wonder if it serves some sort of purpose later...]
Hangar [Rightmost part of the main menu]
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Select a machine with the right and left buttons, and head off!. Choose between Byakko and Kanamaki Chiractor [sp?].
[Not in the manual, but you can choose equipment with up and down once unlocked (through completing orders, apparently).]
Characters
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Tadayo Aita: Aged 17, the main character of the game. I'm piloting the craft this time, rather than offering navigational advice, and I'm not happy about it! I don't really have much of a choice, though.
Atora Ataka: Age unknown (late twenties?). She's a full-time employee, but is generally tasked with chores and other menial tasks at at Cream Corporation. She's in Team Six at the Junk Collection Department. Her glasses don't have prescription lenses - they're just for show.
Items (Skipping the list as I put it up before)
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You can get lots of items from enemies. You can change items by slashing them with your sword, but they go away if you slash them too many times [10 times, according to one email].
Absnet and "OVER"
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Absnet makes you invincible, raises the score multiplier, and gives other benefits, too.
If you collect several speed items, you go into the OVER state (high-radio state), raising your speed and upping the stakes!
The best way to get to the planet quickly is to use Absnet, get speed items, and keep your OVER state... at least, I think that's what you need to do!
Settings
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Assign actions to each button, change sfx and music volume, and switch internet ranking on or off.
Email
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Check the messages you got on the job. You can find some tidbits, but most of it is useless. Press the up and down buttons to move by one line each time, or move 10 at a time with ZL/ZR.
Ranking
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Three rank lists: time, distance, and score. You can check local and online rankings here.
Game Screen
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(1) Orders: Objectives (quests) to do in game. They get a nice red stamp when you clear each one.
(2) Reception and score: The stronger your reception, the higher your score multiplier.
(3) Time: Total time after starting work [the current game].
(4) Wee-Fee strength and battery gauge: Your reception goes up quicker with better Wee-Fee strength. Your battery goes down when you take hits. The battery goes down when using Absnet, or even when you aren't doing anything at all. Watch out: it's game over when it reaches 0%.
(5) Absnet gauge: You can use Absnet when this gauge is full.
(6) Distance: This shows the distance [travelled on your way] to the planet near the moon.
(7) Ship: You control it, and I'm riding in it! You can use shot, sword and Absnet. You can shoot and slash with the sword at the same time, but your attacks get weaker. A shield activates in front of you if you don't do anything [you can move, though] for a while.
You can pause with + and go back. Your score and progress with orders [in that run] will be wiped out though!
Bonus
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Get bonus pictures by gaining further progress in orders. Exciting!
Some other things found elsewhere:
* One email says that you get "better items" if you break enemy parts before destroying them (the big yellow enemies have wings and spikes to break, for example). Not sure what "better" means though.
* The unlockable equipment offers benefits beside the up-front drawbacks. Apparently, the "armor" that stops you using Absnet also makes it more likely for you to get healing items. Reminds me of the "styles" in Downwell in a sense.
* You can overshoot and go past the moon if you fulfill certain requirements (going past the moon means you get extra distance and extra score to climb the leaderboards). The top online player (@bbastg on twitter) says that you need at least 30 of the star junk items (regular junk won't do, it seems), and you might also need to avoid getting hit at all. I'm not good enough at the game to be able to confirm any of this.
機体輸送券1/2/3/4: Mech transport ticket 1/2/3/4 - lets you start at progressively later parts of the game. 4 starts you in space.
対新法部分装甲: Armor - no absnet, but you get more health items.
イベダOS: "Evader OS" - you can only move left or right (the name is a play on "space invaders"). It seems like you get more health items.
ロケットエンジン: Rocket engine - you go faster. Makes the game a lot easier - I got my first clear with this.
超特価エンジン: Super-budget engine - you move around the screen slower, you might move towards the moon slower as well.
謎の葉っぱ: Mystery leaf - makes enemy attacks stronger (more bullets, and more points for cancelling them if you can make it through)
謎の忍耐力強化薬: Mystery endurance-enhancing chemicals - raises enemy HP.
巨人用拘束具: Restraint device - no shot, no sword, only absnet and shield
視力: This is the only one left - it means "eyesight" but I don't know what it does. This is the abbreviation that appears in the list of orders, and I don't know what the full name is.
アイテム未使用: Oops, forgot this one - "no items," equip nothing special.
There is also the unlockable "reflect shield" that upgrades your shield to reflect bullets rather than absorb them, as you would imagine. I haven't unlocked it but it seems like it may be a permanent upgrade rather than a selectable item.