東方海恵堂 ~ Marine Benefit (5/8/2013 ver.) - Hard 1cc (MarisaC)
0Away from a new and shitty game, and going instead to this old classic I hadn't tried for too long.
Marine Benefit is quite the old game, made originally in 2011 by Primary-Color Space. It was inspired by the old bandwagon of predictions that Ten Desires would have an underwater theme.
It was actually originally made as a browser game for Flash, but has since been made downloadable. As such, it honestly doesn't have the best sound design (like the enemy kill SFX, or there just being no sounds that you would expect to be there, like the spell card SFX) and the backgrounds are a little funny, but honestly? It's pretty charming in its own way, and actually quite well put together considering what it first was, for a Touhou game.
For the sake of not being overly verbose, I'll just say to look up the mechanics of the game and how they work, since I don't wanna be parroting so much.
MarisaC is a cool shot. She works like PCB SakuyaB, except the angle goes opposite to the direction you move. Also the options being behind Marisa can help quite a bit. The shottypes in this game can be kind of a hit or miss, but the boss patterns are mainly well-balanced and some are pretty creative too. The only part I'd say is really bad in maingame is the green spam in stage 5.
Also a funny thing is how getting shot power only increases your number of options. It doesn't actually affect your shot power, since they made it so the main shot gets weaker for every power level to make up for the options. I get the intent, but it may not work out that well sometimes... Oh well, I've dealt with worse.
The game's character cast is pretty cool. The music also goes pretty hard. It was composed by Crystalwings, who you may know as KUROHA nowadays.
By the way, my game is in Chinese since I downloaded the replay patch from RIRI. It adds actual replay functionality to the game, plus I have to use it anyway, otherwise the game lags horrendously without Japanese locale, or doesn't work with it.
Also, the game refuses to run at 60 fps for me, only up to 58, or 57 when recording. So bleh.
0:00 - Stage 1
2:25 - Konoha Susanomori
3:44 - Stage 2
5:31 - Naruko Uzushima
7:32 - Stage 3
10:09 - Tsubame Minazuki (Why do you start as midboss into boss transition...)
12:24 - Stage 4
15:39 - Kasumi Shindou
19:22 - Stage 5
23:05 - Megumi Yaobi
27:26 - Stage 6
29:20 - Mikoto Yaobi
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