[ DEMO ] Touhou 17 WBaWC LNBNR 1cc [Reimu W]~

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Published on May 13, 2019 4:58:16 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9u8l1h2kZY

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Wily Beast and Weakest Creature (2019)

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Touhou 17's trial is out, and I played since the beggining, but it wasn't until now that I could make a decent run, so here it is.

I had a Roar Break in Urumi's second non, and 2 misses in Kutaka's last spell. I will practice those when the full ver. comes out.

I'll write my impressions on the demo, if you want to read it.

I'm... not convinced with this new mechanic. It's just too much in screen, and i'ts very distractful, more than it should be. With Roars, A.K.A. Hypers, you can cheese and trivialize a lot of patterns, specially with Otter, and what's worse, with no punishment at all, you also get Spell Card bonuses. Avoiding them is not an option, because they bounce everywhere and stay for a very long time, you can end with 10 in screen at the same time, which is just ridiculous. The best thing you can do is routing your way in order to only get neutral Hypers, because, honestly, it's just not fun to use and not dodge a thing.

Resources are quite limited this time around, you only get 2 lives in the first 3 stages, 3 if you get all the secret animals, which, considering how broken Hypers are, it's a design decision I can agree with. Regarding the secret animals, I liked them a lot; it's a really good way to give purpose to mid-bosses other than being the first sight of the new characters, and the way you get them is quite creative and fun as well, with... the exception of the chicken item. The jellyfish and cow methods use the idea behind their character's pattern design, creating challenges that work perfectly in those contexts. The chicken forces you to use Otter and... that's it. It also deprives us from getting an extra life piece, which I'm not sure to what extend is good or bad? Extra challenge, maybe?

The thing I liked the most about the game is that you're not forced to get a life piece or bomb piece in an specific moment. You can save them, wait for the boss dialogue and then clear everything with any possibility of getting hit in the process. It's really satisfying, specially considering that you don't get a lot of them.

The way I can see hypers being fixed is by being able to decide whether or not you want to use them with C after collecting 5 of them. What about resources? well, they automatically appear if you collect them while using a hyper, so it could work the same way if you have stored 5 spirits. What about secret animals, then? store a neutral hyper at the beggining of the stage, use it, and collect another neutral hyper with the secret animal. It'd still be annoying to get the neutral hypers, but it wouldn't be AS annoying as having to deal with the spirits ALL the time.

All of this in my opinion, of course.

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