Touhou 16 - Extra Stage (Reimu) - Perfect Clear!

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Published on November 22, 2019 5:53:08 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wtmyGkJRdw

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Hidden Star in Four Seasons (2017)

Duration: 12:46

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Now with mechanical keyboard ASMR! (the video was recorded in replay mode, but the audio was recorded during live play)

Hidden Star in Four Seasons has by far the easiest Extra stage in the series (especially with Reimu). This only took 11 days of practice. (11/08/2019 to 11/19/2019)

A lot of the antics in the stage portion are because I'm trying to go for low season level. (I mean, why not!?). This mostly means avoiding PoCs. I make it to Okina at season level 5.

Stage:

- The whole section before the midboss is no vertical.
- The red bullets before the midboss is no vertical, no horizontal. ;D

Midboss:

- Drum Dance "Powerful Cheers": Normally, Reimu can trivially speedkill this, but being at season level 2 makes that difficult to pull off.
- Mad Dance "Crazy Backup Dance": Toughest part of the run. There is an easy speedkill strategy, but I don't use it because it gives too many season points. When not speedkilling, the trick is to stay low and unfocused so that your homing shots can efficiently clear out any remaining Yin Yang orbs.
- Bullet Dance "Twin Typhoons": No vertical. This spell is easy and 100% static. The low history is only because I bombed this to save time when practicing on the Boss Rush patch.

Boss:

- I don't think starting on top of Okina's nons actually kill them faster, I'm just trying to piss Gastari off. :D
- All of Okina's nons are aimed to some extent, but a couple of them are not exactly streamable. I don't really have a trick to the ones with diagonal groups (blue and red). The green and orange ones that shoot groups of 3 are also surprisingly nasty for reasons I still don't understand.
- Secret Ceremony "Reverse Invoker" - Static.
- Secret Ceremony "Rear Shots of Betrayal" - There's some RNG in Okina's movement but this speedkill always works.
- Secret Ceremony "Danmaku Dupion" - I make two of my season options miss Okina in order to deal less damage so that I have time to move up at the end. (I could also have stopped shooting at some point, but where's the fun in that?)
- Secret Ceremony "Fire of Ena" - Easy. No particular strategy.
- Secret Ceremony "Kyougen of the Back Door" - Start above her to deal more damage so that it ends before the second wave.
- Secret Ceremony "Matarah Dukkha" - Notice my pattern. Circle around twice, dodge both waves in the lower right, and repeat. This movement pattern guarantees that no bullets will be in your way while you are circling.
- Secret Ceremony "Sword of the Seven Stars" - The lasers' orientation matches the line between you and Okina, so stay precisely at 6:00. (there's a somewhat safer area around 8:30, but the spell takes super long there)
- Secret Ceremony "Performers Unattached to Society" - I stay in the center rather than following the boss to reduce the number of waves of rising bullets. This makes the spell take longer, but makes it a lot easier to read the falling bullets.
- "The Back Face's Dark Sarugaku" - Notice the laser can be tricked to repeat the same side, and in fact it is safe to pass through it the moment it begins shrinking. Whenever I'm at the bottom of the screen, I just stay on my side of the diagonal bullets rather than trying to slide horizontally through them (that used to kill me a lot).
- "Anarchy Bullet Hell" - During phases 3 and 4, the number one trick is to stay far ahead of Okina. Granted, this can make phase 3 take a long time, and I do hang around in some spots during that phase to deal more damage. Phase 4 has such low HP however that you should focus exclusively on keeping your distance.

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