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Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom (2015)

Duration: 8:13

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(0:00) LoLK - Pristine Danmaku Hell
Arguably the hardest spellcard in mainline Touhou and at least to me, the hardest fully fair pattern. This took 171 attempts, split 122 in Pointdevice (3 power) and 49 in-stage (4 power, using thprac). I got almost nowhere in the first 150 until phase 4 finally clicked and I started dodging it literally a third of the time, and I got a 1 miss and the capture pretty quickly after. PDH is such good practice and a really fun pattern, when at the level where it's possible.
(0:57) HSiFS - Hidden Extreme Winter
This took 5 tries and the first two were extremely close. Definitely the easiest of the season finals, though none of these are easy.
(2:03) HSiFS - Hidden Crazy Fall Wind
I find this one a bit harder than winter due to requiring more small gaps, though unlike the rest it feels pretty static and I suspect this would be the easiest to be very consistent at for that reason. I got a bit lucky at the end of attempt 7 here with my choice of gap being poor but killing the pattern in time anyway.
(3:15) HSiFS - Hidden Perfect Summer Ice
256 attempts. The vast majority of those attempts died to the main hard part of the pattern, surviving Okina at the bottom of the screen. Funny enough, I didn't have too much trouble with the stream-turns once I had performed them once. That was enough to understand how to set them up. The density and lack of time to react at the bottom felt unfair to me, though I can definitely understand how this could be made at least somewhat reliable.
(4:21) HSiFS - Hidden Breezy Cherry Blossom
338 attempts. In my opinion this is the hardest pattern in the entire series except for Seventeen Article Constitution Bombs. Unlike ISC 10-7, HBCB does not have the excuse of being in a game with an emphasis on single attempts at unfair patterns. This can just wall you whenever it feels like it, and while it almost did here I managed to find a way through. I never felt like I was learning anything from deaths on this, even when I went to analyze failed replays. 90% of the time I still couldn't see a way out even post-mortem... first 1 miss was at about attempt 30. I stopped keeping track after the 5th one.
(5:30) WBaWC - Geometric Creature
Around 15 attempts at no hyper capture for this. Not sure what the best approach is, this kind of memorize an exact path pattern has always been a big weak area for me, though this didn't take too long to get a bit of muscle memory for the red waves.
(5:58) WBaWC - Idola Diabolus
Around 34 attempts for no hyper capture. I don't remember too much about going for this other than I wanted to do it without timing down and did it without any thprac tools, just raw spell practice. Pretty fun pattern to try to read as though it's truly random.
(6:56) UM - Yin Yang Divine Orbs
(7:26) UM - Yin Yang Suffocation
Misumaru big yin yangs are huge and these patterns are both much harder than they look. If the hitboxes were nicer these would be a lot of fun, but oof. Just oof.
I would have included Tyrannical Bullet Dominion but I didn't save my replay for it oops.

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