[Touhou 18 / 東方虹龍洞 ~ Unconnected Marketeers] DEMO Lunatic Sanae 1cc (Orb, Cirno, Shanghai)

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Published on March 22, 2021 10:49:03 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYyHU0void4

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I'm hours late for the Touhou 18 demo bandwagon, but here it is.


It's Touhou. What do you expect? It's fun, and I'll certainly get the full version when it's out.


Difficulty wise, yikes, I think it's on the difficult end of Touhou. It's pretty close to Touhou 15's. Stage 1's patterns are, while tight, is straight forward (get it?), but Stage 2 and 3s like to bind you to the bottom very early. The bosses barely do any tap dodger stuff here.


To compensate that ZUN give us ability cards. 3 types: active, equipment and passive. If you can't read (I can't too.), stick with equipment cards because you'll direly need DPS. I don't know how, but when you've done enough runs or collected enough cards, you'll be given another slot to use at the start of your run. I'm not sure if the game will penalize you for using too many cards, but this is Touhou. Pray tell ZUN didn't implement any rank system! So far I haven't seen any evidence of rank system. Orb and shanghai is suggested because they have homing capabilities. This game is rowdy and will cover a lot of your playfield, so you'd be crazy to tackle Lunatic without any homing, especially when you use Marisa or Sakuya. Both of them don't have any homing shots by default!


Touhou 18 is undoubtly the most Euro-shmuppy of Touhou games. First, concentrate on gathering the new cards, forget about getting extends. Extends are cheap, but cards are permanent enough to be selected on the start of your runs. In theory it should be possible to beat the game no-miss, no-bomb and importantly, no-ability cards. But that would be an extreme challenge; just get the cards. And don't die, because each time that happens your money will be halved. Eek!


The good news is when you don't have enough money to buy the card you can also expend your power. If your goal is to get new cards, certainly clearing the game and gaining extends isn't your priority. Whenever you find a card you like, just sacrifice the run and get that card pronto.



#stg #shmup #touhou18

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