Re: Anthophobia
I didn't find it *too* difficult, but then if this is only the 1st stage of the final game then I can't imagine what the other stages are going to be like.
Some things that made life easier for me were:
0. You have a few second of invulnerability after you are hit/grabbed. Intentionally getting grabbed at the right place makes the later part of the demo much easier
1. At the start of some stage, you can stand one ledge up and free hit the zombie horde til they all die.
2. Hypno plant calls for bullets. They can be hit from a bit off screen.
3. For the apartment room with 2 hypno plant, it might not work out everytime with 0 damage but I usually go in facing left, fire off 2-3 bullets and back out the room, repeat until the room is cleared. Basically don't give them time to drop a hypno seed on you.
4. For the last gauntlet, make good use of the strong zombies, their grab is basically free invincibility given very little damage. Everytime you run past a lamp turn around and shoot it down to stop pursuit. Usually nothing would be chasing me by the time i make it to the barrel and I can leisurely grab the final supply room key in peace. You can also mad dash thru, but you likely won't be able to max hp for the boss missing the supply room.
Having more checkpoint would be nice though, it did take me a few tries before i worked out all the kinks for the area before the gauntlet. I do like the oldskool sort of difficulty however.
