Magical Singular Day -Absolution- (Danmakufu) - Revelation 1cc + TLB - Type B
71Best Touhou game.
It really is a brilliant yet tragically obscure game that deserves way more attention than it is getting.
Absolution is a different version from the regular MSD. You could call this a Black Label version in a sense. You have combined shottypes from the regular version and the highest difficulty has been toned down to reasonable levels. Slight pattern changes and there are probably more differences.
This run is a 1cc of the highest difficulty in this version on default settings. This difficulty is also the only difficulty where the TLB shows up. Default settings include half autobombs, this meaning that every autobomb takes 2 bombs, so it's still a punishment for using them.
I'll try and document what I've pieced together from the scoring system thus far:
The system is based on stars that you get from enemies. In the top-right you see a green and a blue counter. The green one is the overall counter that multiplies the stars you get and it increases by collecting stars. The blue counter is the current stage counter. You decrease these by bombing but not dying.
There are several kinds of color stars:
Red stars - these are worth the lowest amount of points and also collecting them decreases rank. You get them by shooting enemies from afar.
Green stars - these are worth more and you get them by shotgunning enemies. Collecting enough green stars also nets you a bomb.
White stars - these are the ones you want to get as they are worth an absolute ton of points. You get these during hypers by shooting, cancelling suicide bullets and shotgunning.
Which takes us to the hyper system. Once you collect enough stars to get the big number in the top-left to a 1000 you can activate a hyper with C. The numbers above the big one indicate how fast you are gaining stars. It increases as you collect stars and decreases with bombing.
During a hyper all enemies will release suicide bullets that home in on you. You want to drag these along until you group a bunch together and you see them turning red. The red ones give the most points when cancelled but they disappear shortly after turning red so be aware of that.
During a hyper you can cancel the current suicide bullets by pressing C. However you can also cancel the hyper altogether by Holding C then holding X. It's a bit tricky to pull of at first but you want to do it pretty fast.
Cancelling a hyper when a ton of suicide bullets are around will immediately fill your hyper again so that you can then chain your hypers.
Chaining your hypers a lot will increase the hyper rank indicated by the number after the bar on the top-left. Rank goes up to level 10 and it decreases by bombing and dying.
Music used from Dodonpachi Maximum, Saidaioujou and Espgaluda II BL.
Download (for danmakufu version 0.12):
https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=1wcHny9x3mI4JwkETDwDx6NSl1-rNlasZ&export=download