Ore no Animism 3 ~ The Marching on Fire | Hard mode 1cc | Natsume
Ore no animism is a Touhou inspired series with furry characters. This is the third game in the series and it pretty hard.
This game has rank system that increases over time and by grazing. You can see it on the meter on the left and it goes up to 100. You also have a flashbomb that you charge by collecting the heat items. if you max out the heat gauge (which is equal to your rank) and your rank is above 30, the UI changes to red and you get the flashbomb.
If the rank is above 80 enemies start to fire suicide bullets. Small enemies fire aimed fireballs and large enemies fire an aimed ring of fireballs. Flashbombing reduces your rank by about 15 and if you die the rank goes down to 20. bombs don't decrease your rank so they don't hurt your score at all. also the patterns get harder of course, and some of them can get pretty crazy on max rank (Sasuke's 1st and 3rd nons in particular get impossible).
The rank also acts as a multiplier for the spellcard bonuses. The base bonuses are pretty low but the point is to cap them at hight ranks. I don't know if the rank affects other sources of score too. You want to stay at hight rank at least in the earlygame because you get score extends.
Also practicing this game is really annoying because of the rank system since the rank might be a bit different when you actally get there in a run vs stage prectice. you also don't have spell practice (which would be VERY useful for Warze) and you can only practice full stages.
I have a resource route for the first 3 stages which I kind of fucked up and i've also somewhat routed stage 4. Stages 5 and 6 are pretty much gorilla though since I didn't bother.
I originally wanted to do this run as Ryu because he has an insanely strong shotgun but stage 6 is way too hard to do as him since Warze's gimmick is that during the fight he summons enemies, which your shot teally likes to target instead of the him. Also Natsume is just a comfy shot in general and her power is alright too.