東方実在相 ~ Dream Logical World (v1.00a) - Easy Scoring 12,783,658,560 (Reimu/Kasen)

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Published on January 25, 2022 1:18:02 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uVsmNw7_VM

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Dream Logical World (2022)

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New fangame that came out less than a week ago by Team Analogue Reverie. Been in development for like over half a decade.

This game is no joke, ohhh no, it's way harder than not just your traditional Touhou fare, but probably so far the hardest fangame I've played.
There's a lot of complaints about Normal being way too hard for Normal, with some people even calling it harder than some Hard modes in some official games.

I do have a few issues with this game, honestly. I do think the difficulty balance is out of whack. Stages 1-4 are pretty fine on Hard, but then stage 5 is an absolute nightmare. Yes, you can route it, but at least on Hard, it's the kind of route where it's like "welp, if you don't get it exactly down, prepare to die". Which I'm not exactly fond of.
Easy feels fine, and to me, Normal somewhat, but even then the difficulty jump between those two is insane. Normal to Hard is also pretty ballsy, and that's not to speak of Hard to Lunatic. And let's not forget about the 5th difficulty, Overdrive, even harder than the already super hard Lunatic in this game!
Oh, also, this game's optimization is really not the best. First three stages are fine, but then I get to the last 3 bosses and the framerate kinda goes to shit.

I do like the rest of the game though, it's pretty neat. Bombs are replaced with Aspect Shifts, which don't directly deal damage, instead providing a different effect, depending on the character using it. There are 12 playable characters spread across 6 different teams, switching when focusing and unfocusing much like Imperishable Night.
Aspect Shifts will give a score bonus and PIV bonus depending on how long you kept it going for. The minimum is 6 seconds, but you can extend this time by grazing and collecting items. Furthermore, point items are always worth their maximum value during Aspect Shift.
Extends are gained through score, every time you get one, the next threshold is double the previous one. However, depending on difficulty, some thresholds are cut off. On Overdrive, your first score extend is at 80 million points. On Lunatic it's 40m, Hard 20m, Normal 10m and Easy 5m.

Reimu/Kasen are probably the best team for scoring on lower difficulties. Reimu's Aspect Shift is completely useless though. All it does is give invincibility as long as you're below the AS line. You can't graze in there either (understandable, since you'd be invincible quite literally for the whole stage if you could do that), you can only extend it with items. Kasen's AS though, increases your grazebox. Want to make sure you graze everything as much as you can? Go for it.
Aspect Shifts also give 2.5 seconds of i-frames when starting, so you can use that to graze spawn points, like on Tetsuko's nonspells.
Spell Card Bonuses and AS bonuses also increase as you get more PIV. The multipliers come after each 10k PIV. Later on, on the final boss, you wanna milk only nonspells, since spells give like over 600 million points with that much PIV.
Also, if a stage ends with an Aspect Shift still active, you still get the full bonus as if you waited it out until the end, so if your AS is not ending any time soon, you can go for more grazemilk. (Something I could have done on Kiseki.)

In this run, I get everything almost perfectly. I fucked up on Katerina's midspell in stage 3, which was also a difficult choice already, I either would graze two lasers at the time in phase 3, or nuke the Spell Card Bonus which, with the PIV at the time, started out at 69 million) to get a graze off the laser spawnpoint, which allows me to keep the AS all the way until the end of the stage, and also fucked up on Nunokae's stage 5 midnon. Thankfully there I also made a recovery route on the fly.
If not for these fuckups, I could have gotten 13 billion, or maybe even 14 billion.

Speaking of which, Nunokae is adorable, I love her. Easily jumped up to my top 5 favorite Touhou fan characters.
Really like how she's also the kind of person who is just genuinely nice to anyone who's been nice to her and does things out of the goodness of her own heart.
Kind of a refreshing break when like half the Touhou cast is an asshole in one way or another.

But anyway, overall, I do think it's a fun game, even if hard. The lower difficulties are still fun to mess around with, and this game's scoring system, while not too hard to figure the basics out, is still very satisfying and fun to mess around with and optimize. 1cc is so much more fun than survival condition runs.

0:00 - Stage 1
2:03 - Nunokae Yukimura
4:29 - Stage 2
7:30 - Tetsuko Yorubana
10:00 - Stage 3
13:05 - Acytota
15:56 - Stage 4
18:03 - Marisa Kirisame & Yuuka Kazami
21:24 - Stage 5
25:15 - Kiseki Amashirasagi
28:55 - Stage 6
31:56 - Aimi Tourouzaka

Replay recorded by InceRabbit.
(Playing a replay with different effects than it was played on desyncs, by the way...)
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