This crystal boosts the level of whoever picks it up by one. It can also be used to be thrown at enemies, which scores you 10 000 points. If your character is at maximum level (level 5), you will get a Level Bonus of 10 000 points when picking it up. This crystal boosts the level of whoever picks it up by two. Only given at the Continue screen. This Powerup gives you one more chance to Change your character. You are automatically awarded one of these if your second last character dies with no more changes left. One also appears each time you use a Continue. This powerup gives your current character a Barrier. The Barrier will protect you from one additional enemy hits. This item appears at various points of the game, one also appears when one of your character dies. It is very heavy, holding one will affect your characters movement. It is basically a bomb. Hit it once to activate it, which makes it fly out of the screen. If it hits anything on the way, it explodes, doing the same explosion that happens when you Change to another character - it totally clears the screen doing major damage to even bosses. You can, of course, catch it after it is activated and throw it to something which makes it blow up. Most of the enemies that take a couple of shots to kill can make it explode, so do the various blastable obstacles you encounter throughout the game. Another way to blow it up is to keep shooting at it, but that takes a LOT of shots. Also remember that while holding one of these above you, it will eat up any projectiles or enemies that come nearby, so it can also serve as a protection. Colliding with too many enemies and projectiles will also make it blow up.