Me vs Ran Yakumo (PCB Extra Boss)

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Published on April 30, 2009 3:39:46 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUKVEH5GetE

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Perfect Cherry Blossom (2003)

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"I already fought a pissed off snake, a cheery frog, a sick book, an eccentric bat, a pedantic cow, a revengeful chicken, a delusional cat, and now a pedophile fox. That means the only things left are a pedophile fox (again), a game-breaking demon, a good snake-frog-girl and a... Freudian phallus... Not really looking forward to that last one."

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A video of me fighting and, actually, quite comfortably beating the nine-tailed fox familiar Ran Yakumo

Ran Yakumo (Whose name holds no relation to running)) is the Ex-boss of the game Perfect Cherry Blossom, the 7th installment of the Touhou Project. The Touhou Project is a series of danmaku shooters. Go and check the wiki (link at end of description) for more information relating danmaku and Touhou.

Ran, whose name means "indigo" as in the color, is the shikigami of the youkai of boundaries and gaps Yukari Yakumo, who I'll beat... later. A shikigami is practically a familiar in the sense that is a servant to another being, in this case Yukari. I always thought of Ran as a very plain character (except for the mystery of how a Kyūbi ended as Yukari's pet/servant/slave). Even her design is plain, except for that weird hat of her. Is not my favorite character at all, not even in the top 30... Probably. A lot of Ran's spell cards make reference to Japanese culture, so I wont bother on explaining each of them. Go check the wiki for that.

Ran is probably the most difficult ex-boss I had faced so far. And she's not that kind of "WHY ARE YOU SO ****ING HARD FOR NO REASON?" kind of hard (Like Suwako and Ex-Chen). Is a "hard" firmly supported by the fact that she's a shikigami with a shikigami. You know you're strong when you, being a summoning, can summon another summoning. Now that's hardcore right there.

But seriously, what makes her worst is that her favorite kind of danmaku is the kunai danmaku. Their hitbox is practically the entire sprite, which create a psychological barrier that tells you "That's a big danmaku"... but is not. They are numerous though. On the objective side, I think what makes her hard is not only that her danmaku are numerous, but the patterns themselves require a lot of fast reflexes and precise hitbox movement. Still, I believe her to be the hardest so far, but obviously not the hardest of them all.

This wasn't exactly my favorite ex-battle either. It was the most challenging, but Flandre's and Mokou's were more epic while Suwako's and Mokou's more fun. Somehow, Ran's spell cards and the background seem so... uninteresting and plain. I dunno, maybe there was too much indigo kunai for my taste. Even if Mokou had too much red, red is more interesting than indigo...

http://touhou.wikia.com

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