【東方】Mystical Chain - Boss Rush (Desperate)
34Last time I played this was 4-5 years ago, but it's still fun as hell. I don't think I ever tried Desperate difficulty back then so here it is. It's not much different from Lunatic mode. A few spellcards are slightly different but the biggest change is that everything will probably bring you to 1/2 hp if you let it hit you. Everything. No continues either. This is kinda hard to play on gamepad too cause I'm terrible at inputting commands. I've added some annotations here and there for entertainment. Enjoy? Most of the video is spent on Patchy and Mystic Records though...
The game is simple enough, you switch between two characters in order to chain combos and defeat the opponent. You can only hit the boss when their magic circle blinks red. For this I went Marisa + Alice, because I'm not good with Patchy and Alice is just a better magician overall. Plus, her grab is very dumb and gives invincibility frames.
Chapter 1 Shikieiki 0:17 : She's easy first boss cut her some slack. You can end each of her cards in one combo but I'm bad at that.
Chapter 2 Kaguya + Mokou 3:03 : Two losers fighting who suddenly decide they need spectators. They're not aiming for you so the fight is pretty easy. Beat one up and the other laughs, so you beat her up too.
Chapter 3 Youmu + Yuyuko 6:08 : The way I tried to do the first card went bad so that took a bit longer than I had wanted to. Second card has some funky ass hitboxes on Youmu's sword. I also had to employ some groundbreaking strategy at the end in order to win the battle. Close call.
Chapter 4 Remilia + Flandre 9:30 : This is where the game decides it wants to fuck you completely. Unlike Kaguya and Mokou these two definitely want to hit you, which is bad cause nearly all of their attacks will knock off half your hp in one go. So, with that in mind, everything that could go wrong did go wrong :(
Chapter 5 Patchouli 15:16 : This is the battle that hates you the most. And you probably hate it too. There's very little room for mistake here, since any one of Patchy's attacks can bring you to 1/4th hp. Royal Flare just straight up kills you if it touches you. I let Alice die at the end in order to gain some spell charge, cause I need 3 by the end of the next boss. Sorry Alice
Secret Mystic Records 24:12 : Best boss in the game. Sick as fuck music. She isn't as hard as Patchy or the Scarlet sisters but shit still hurts if you screw up constantly. Like I did. I was gonna let Alice die again in order to fill up my spell charges but fortunately it didn't have to come to that. Why do I need 3 spell charges? Well I wanted to have a bit of fun.
Great game, still one of my favorite touhou fangames ever.