Len'en 1: Evanescent Existence - Stage 4 (Commentary & Translation)
78Show off your overwhelming difference in power
on equal footing, in order to mesmerize your opponent
and make them surrender.
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In your traditional Touhou game stage 4 is where you have your patented difficulty spike. Here on the other hand is more like the difficulty plateau. This is still harder than stage 3 was however this, stage 5, and the final stage all feel like they have a pretty similar difficulty level. This stage itself is fairly simple, aside from a few sneaky enemies that are only threatening against Tsubakura there's really not much noteworthy about this. Save for the fact that going up to the point of collection is suicide here.
Hooaka as a mid-boss gives you a good introduction to his... flaming Cirno abilities? It's not too difficult by itself but rather serves more as a warmup for his exploding frozen bullets later on.
For being an airhead Hooaka is a very technical boss. His attacks all consist of firing shots at you that he freezes and then soon after heats up to explode in some fashion. With the way these three phases of attack will overlap the trick to fighting him is being able to concentrate on numerous different styles of attack at once.
Spell Cards
1:27 - Cool Down
1:49 - Cold Card "Temporary Sublimation"
4:53 - Cool Down
5:06 - Cold Wall "White Out"
5:26 - Cool Down
5:41 - Cold Flower "Forget-me-not"
5:53 - Hot & Cold "Samidare Boiler"
6:08 - Passing Shower "Radiative Heat and Cooling"
Difficulty - Normal
Character - Tsubakura
Stage 4 - Fluctuating Existence ~Air Master!~
BGM - Thawing of the Frozen Heart
Boss - Cool-Headed Hot-Heeled Thermal Runaway: Hooaka Shitodo
BGM - Air Master! ~ Soul Dualism
Translation's courtesy of the Len'en wiki
You can download the game here at JynX's official download.
http://www.vector.co.jp/download/file/winnt/game/fh625337.html