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If you want the achievement Against the odds : just chose the easiest difficulty (towers have less health), hover in circles to avoid the bolt (i play with the gamepad so it's probably easier) and shoot all the towers.. DONE!
and carefully... ;)
Basically you need to destroy the first 3 laser ball towers as fast as you can so that you're already shooting at the first laser tower on the left as it comes on screen. One of these 3 laser towers will give you a laser power up and then you can take out the MG tower on the right with this power up and at least 2 of the next laser ball towers on the right. Once you've done that the rest of the level is pretty straight forward because you'll have way more space to dodge the EMP.
The only thing you have to be really aware of on the PC version is that it's difficult to outrun the EMP missile in a straight line (much easier on mobile), so you'll need to do way more circle dodges.
You'll get enough laser powerups from destroying towers to get through the harder tower clusters at the end of the stage (try to keep 3 laser power ups if you can).
Other than this, stage 5 is a great level to farm stars on for upgrades because you don't need much of an upgraded plane to take full advantage of it. Make sure you sink all of your stars into the magnet upgrade to begin with until it's max'd out, othewise you'll be missing stars and they'll clutter your screen, making it harder to dodge.
I will try to practice the way you describe it.
EDIT: aaaaand managed to destroy all towers on easiest level! Amazing what a difference some pointers make. Thanks again all who helped here :)
imho, maybe more fun would be if you had the option to try to "lead" the EMP sprite so it crashed into an electrical tower or something (and then the sub could maybe fire another one a little later). I don't expect them to make any changes in the game, so it's just a dreamy hypothetical suggestion. :)
Once you've done it 20 times you'll get the hang of it :) It's a great level for farming stars and upgrading your entire plane :)
That's the idea. The "regular" way of doing it is to just get hit and focus on collecting the stars. There is an achievement that you get for destroying all the towers i think. I don't think its "total bs." The rest of the game is a bunch of shooting and stuff so it was cool to have a level that the gameplay is turned on its head.
Agree with your post, the game was fun until this level... I'd rather play darius burst a good bullet hail.