Touhou 18 is broken? (v1.00a, 1cc, Normal, Marisa)
4First time I've ever uploaded a Touhou replay. Witness my skills as I trivialize the latest title with a lame, broken tactic!
Really, I certainly like the system this game has. It involves a number of extra abilities you can add to your character. I've never seen anyone using the combo in this vid, though. What you do is, start with Byakuren's card, which makes your special attacks stronger, and the Dragon Pipe, which gives you 1/3 of a 1UP whenever you clear a boss pattern without a special attack.
Thing is? The game doesn't recognize you've used a special attack if you activate it on the previous pattern and it carries over into the next. This has to have been overlooked somehow. You don't really need any of the other abilities. I just bought extra lives from the shop after each stage, mostly.
One might wonder why I didn't do it on Lunatic. Well, no matter how busted this tactic is...you kinda still need to be able to dodge stuff in the stage. This strategy reduces the amount of dodging needed, sure, but it doesn't take out all the work. Also you have some BS patterns in the second half of the game that aren't fun - you can tell which ones I haven't learned yet.
Anyway, I don't know if anyone else figured this out yet, so it's nice to be the first to upload a vid of it.