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Let's Play

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Start
5:41 - Scenario 54: Hell's Artificial Sun
45:12 - Cutscene
47:31 - After stage menu

Stage translations were taken from the Akurase Wiki:
https://akurasu.net/wiki/Gensou_Shoujo_Wars_Complete_Box/Flow_Chart

We've reached the second-to-the-last stage of SA Arc, and we're gonna be fighting the Raven imbued with the Yatagarasu's power, Utsuho Reiuji! Much like all major bosses on the game, this will only contain this stage as it took me quite long to take her down. Utsuho herself isn't a super hard boss for this stage, and is actually really manageable.

Stage 54 starts by deploying you way below the stage and Utsuho and a bunch of mobs are on the top. It's a long stage but once you get near Utsuho, half of the map barely matters. The mobs are nothing new as well, so let's talk about what I didn't manage to talk about last mission, Parsee and Yuugi!
Parsee and Yuugi will be joining my team from now on, and what do they do? Parsee is more focused on the damage department as her main and most powerful personal skill allows her damage to scale based on how many abilities and skill an enemy has. This ability is absurd especially on bosses as they have so much skills, which Parsee takes advantage off. Her only downside is while she hurts a lot, she consumes SP a lot for more damage boost and survivability and even accuracy. These are some noticeable downsides for her so keep an eye on those! While she's fragile, this where her partner comes in: Yuugi.
Yuugi is a lot more on the very beefy than Parsee for sure but also offers some option to increase her damage output with her personal abilities. She's a sturdy tank that comes wth Iron Wall, which is important for higher and harder bosses. For my playthrough, you'll see them together.

What about the boss Utsuho? Utsuho herself is a beefy boss that has very high accuracy thanks for her abilities. She comes with Potential L7, P-All, Pow-Limit, Null Distance, Predict L2 and Guard L1.
Her personal ability here is Yatagarasu which gives her a whooping 60% accuracy at 130 power. She also regains so much MP and 10% HP per turn. This means Utsuho can last for quite some time before she reaches critical health if you don't burst her down.
- She has an initial danmaku field that increases her damge by 700 if an attack hits.
- Her first spellcard is a mix of possible debuffs that nullifies defensive spirits such as flash, grit and iron wall and will always fully restore her MP each turn. The nullifying a spirit part is a threat as Utsuho has high damage, meaning she can easily deal with fragile support units if they're in range. Place support defenders wisely with graze and you should be able to overcome this or go behind her where the field isn't applying.
- Second spellcard gives her the ability to move through units and increase her damage everytime she gets hit. Passing through means nothing if you positioned around her well, but it becomes a problem so much your units are way on the back and she decides to chase after them, so be sure to check you positions before this spellcard activates!
- Her 3rd spellcard is another spellcard that is designed to drag the fight. It reduces your movement by 1 and allows Utsuho to regenerate 30% of her HP every turn. This is quite a big value but her next spellcard is a MAP so be sure to deal enough damage to lower her HP but not to trigger her MAP where your units are already done for the turn.
- Her final spellcard, like I mentioned, is a MAP that deals incredible damage, reduces bomb range by 2, reduces your final evasion by 30% and allows Utsuho to gain +10 power per turn. You can use daunt to reduce her power below 130 ONCE, but after that she'll start gaining power quickly, so you wanna defeat her here with Mystia's damage buff on your strongest pairs, Full Power Mode, Scan and support attack, since she doesn't get a lot of armor at least.

Once that's all down, the incident gets resolved!---- or is it? I didn't cut the scene here but this one involves Marisa's companion in driving Utsuho up to the surface, which means we're not done, and we're gonna proceed to one of the hardest bosses in the game, a contender beside Yorihime....