The Mars boss is annoying since it has 8 pods. The top,bottom,left and right ones shoot these blue discs that fan out. I highly recommend you take one side of these out first. Top/left or right or bottom and left or right.

If you aim in between two pods,you'll take them both out,which is invaluable. The Earth boss is not bad although I highly recommend you take out the purple ship first due to the mines it emits. I usually leave the blue plane for last.

The venus boss is like the Mars boss,so similar strategy. Mercury's boss you constantly circle the boss while shooting. If done correctly you shouldn't get hit. You should continue that strategy for its' second form,although you have to be careful of the lightning bolt shots. You could use your specials if you need.

The Sun boss I would hold off on the special use until the second form. Shoot the small eyes in your way and then unload your specials into him.

If you have few/no specials then just clear the little eyes in the vicinity and try to avoid the shots the Sun shoots.

Hope this helps.

Stellar. Ha, sadly, that's how I am on the first loop. I'll die to the simplest stuff, but I have to restrain myself from resetting because sometimes things work out. Sometimes.

Score updated. 

The Sun is easily the hardest boss. F that guy.

Fuck Gyruss.

I die too often to the enemies that look like porcupines and start off as shells. If you've played this game past stage 7 then you know which ones I mean.

Yeah, I hate those, too. I usually breathe a sigh of relief when I get to stage 17 or so because they stop appearing. I've gotten to where I can handle them, but they're definitely a pain; you have to prioritize shooting them over everything else. 
 

They appear from stages 9 through 11 making Uranus quite difficult. They suck because they're fast and their movement is erratic. It's best to kill them quickly.

That's a unique level enemy. Every planet has one.  Some are more annoying than others. That nautilus looking thing is near or at the top. 

Saturn and Jupiter have harder bosses, but the levels themselves are much easier than Uranus. I'm glad that enemy is relegated to Uranus.

 

Enemies in Uranus . Uh huh huh.... you said Uranus.

Sometimes I wish that planet had a less hilarious name.

Three warps to ur anus.
 

At least they didn't call it Urpenis. Haha.
 

I've found that the best strategy for the swinging arm boss is not even try to aim your special shots at it because that is so hard to do. Just be extremely defensive and keep circling around it while firing and try to get enough shots in before getting killed.

Ended up using the "a" button on that crazy arms boss. That's the most difficult part of the game so far.

Just so you all know, I didn't forget about this challenge. Just been having a lot of stuff going on. I've been doing practice bouts on this. I can say that A controls suck ass. B controls are where it's at.

I made it to the Mars boss and still only got around 350k. I'm definitely not point racking. :/

I've stuck to the default controls. I might give B a try.

 

It's about the combos (clearing out the enemy waves before they reach the bottom in succession) and the perfects on the chance stages. 
 

I'm not the best at combos and the chance stages. I sometimes get a perfect on the first chance stage, and don't do as well on the rest.
 

I'm hoping the 12 hour road trip I'm going on Saturday morning gives me time to get a better run in, last place feels so dirty after my few big pushes in recent weeks

I've literally never had this happen. From what I know,the blue power up only comes out if you just have the single shot unless you know something I don't. Maybe you mean something else? 
 

I think I have the best Gyruss score of all time coming up.......

Arnpoly! Don't give up the goods man!!!! You'd never make it into Kobra Kai   
 

1 point?! Sweet! That's like super hard to get!

 

Gosh dang it! I'm not very good at this game. Looks like I'm going to have to really get better by Sunday. Rats!