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Mushihimesama Futari (2006)

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Took a short break from my BL Maniac practice to take a few runs through Original. And I'm glad I decided to hold off on touching BL Original until after finishing 1.5, because I feel like I can appreciate the mode a lot more.

As most people know, BL Original is significantly easier than 1.5 Original. Testament to that ease: I cleared despite literally throwing lives away in stage 2 and 4 by being way too aggressive while fishing for sweet, sweet blue gems. My opinion might still change as I spend more time with Futari, but right now I think it's the more fun mode. Once you hit 9999 on the stage counter and the bullet speed kicks up, it gets super exhilarating, and more than makes up for the lower base difficulty in my opinion. It feels like there's a lot more depth to scoring as a result of the BL tweaks, and I can definitely see myself coming back to see how far I can push my score.

One fun thing: apparently this PCB was previously run in a Hong Kong game center before I bought it, which means there's some actual scores on here from real people who at least sort of knew how to play. This run topped the Original scoreboard. I think it's really neat how arcade games allow competition asynchronously like that. I don't know who these other people were who played on this board when it was operating, but the fact that I can still compete against them and try to dethrone them is awesome.

Played on PCB.

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