東方桃源宮 ~ Riverbed Soul Saver - Extra Scoring 10,173,845,860 (MarisaC)
0In which Marisa Kirisame goes to Florida and beats up a snake by using some Bitch Crystals to attain Big Number.
I looked into scoring this game last month because it's half-simple. (I edited quite a few things on the Gameplay page for this game on the Touhou Wiki with the research I underwent, check it out if you want!)
Enemies drop double items during hyper, so you wanna be in hyper for as long as you can. For bosses, you want to capture every spell and get as many of those blue crystals as you can. When the key gauge is full, they're worth 10x your PIV (which is your item count), and when in a hyper, they're worth 100 times. They give nothing if the key gauge isn't full yet, though.
Also point items give 50% more PIV when the key gauge is full, but that's irrelevant since hypers give the double items, and therefore are more worth anyway.
MarisaC, of all things, is best for scoring. Her hyper does a ton of damage if bosses allow you to get up close, which is the best way to get the blue crystals, since apparently it's tied to DPS. And MarisaC's hyper has the best DPS in the game, so yeah. Due to how strong it is, it's also good for taking out enemies in stages, which really helps in Extra, since in this Extra (and Phantasm), some enemies only appear if you speedkill certain waves, which will give more items to obtain.
Also on certain spells, you can get up close and end them quickly. Which is huge, since Spell Card Bonuses decrease really quickly in this game. You also want to pointblank bomb with her, since it also does good damage, which is good for filling the key gauge back up.
Also exclusive to Extra and Phantasm, bullet cancels that aren't from bombing fill up your key gauge a little. I dunno why that specific, but it is what it is.
I had tried scoring the main game first, but stage 6 kept ending my runs due to the stage portion... (Those damn fairy trains keep dying when I don't want them to yet...)
So I decided to score Extra, thinking it would be a bit more lenient.
It was, just a tiny bit. I still lost my sanity going for a 10 billion run. (Which was my goal with this.) Some optimizations are just stupid...
also something something final spell runs at like 30 to 40 fps so my run might as well feel invalid (can you tell I feel like a fraud)
0:00 - Stage 1st half
2:11 - Mumumu Mikaboshi
2:43 - Stage 2nd half
4:53 - Yamata no Yato
Replay recorded by Lushie.
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