Kind of felt like coming back to this one. Wanted to see if I can get past 12b in normal before I consider doing more work on hard. It was something I kind of thought about reaching since a couple months back when I was spending time with this game. There were a couple of goofs here. Death on stage 1 tends to be more common than it should, but I'm generally not too bothered by deaths early in stage 1 unless it messes up whatever plans I had on the boss. I could have done Ran's survival better, but I guess I had a bit of a brain fart moment there. Was mostly focus on trying to maintain my border route as best as I can.
Border break on the last stage 4 fairy was more of me gambling. What I wanted to happen was me being safe in whatever safety pocket I can get into. I've gotten into that space during some earlier warm up, but I kept messing up on my more serious attempts (probably should have stick myself directly below the fairy rather than at some weird angle). Something I'll probably need to practice more. My Sanae run a while back actually pulled that off and I kept a highlight here for reference (also shows how long the fairy sticks around): https://www.twitch.tv/videos/570171271
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