Game:

Lotus Land Story (1998)

Duration: 25:08

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Yay, first Lunatic.

Except this Lunatic is about the same difficulty as Hard in most later games.

Stage 1:
Nothing special here, other than that to get a 3 million bonus on Orange, she should explode when a wave of larger bullets is close to the bottom of the screen (but still on-screen). 3.1 million is possible, but I was a little late this time.

Stage 2:
Used more bombs than I would have liked, but it doesn't matter too much. This game gives way more than enough lives anyway if you don't die with bombs remaining.
And to anyone who hasn't played this game's Lunatic yet: Watch out for Kurumi's surprise ambush bullet (or two) before the battle starts. I suggest slowly moving to the left or right so you aren't forced to make a quick dodge right after the dialogue ends.

Stage 3:
I don't risk it on those pre-boss bullets unless I have to. Also, right after Elly's timeout phase ended, I wasted a bomb for no reason apparently.

Stage 4:
A lot of streaming and other dodging, and two midbosses with ridiculous first attacks that I have to bomb, one of which I overshoot after the bomb and don't get a good bonus on (not that it matters).
And I know most of Marisa's attacks by now, but I'm still not sure sometimes whether she'll use a quick-get-out-of-the-way attack, a streaming attack, or something else.

Stage 5:
This is a strange stage. It still feels like a stage 6 to me. And I say Yuka here is easier than most stage 5 Hard bosses.
Yuka's main threats are that attack where she sends a lot of bullets aimed in one direction followed by a wall, and the Master Spark. I'm pretty sure Yuka's first three bullets during that Master Spark will always miss you in the lower-right corner (tell me if this isn't the case), but sometimes I've been hit by the fourth one.
I underestimated her health remaining at the end there, but it's better than overestimating it and dying when trying for a higher bonus.

Stage 6:
Not sure how to deal with Yuka's first and final attacks. Otherwise pretty simple for a final boss.
You can see my lack of practice with Yuka's stage 6 patterns though. I'll attribute that to being unable to continue, since this is only the second time I ever reached it on Lunatic. (I actually had one attempt quite a while ago where I finished stage 5 with no lives or bombs remaining, and managed to survive all the way to the final attack with two bombs left... interestingly enough, my score on that attempt was actually higher.)

Ending stats screen recorded because I felt like it. Anyone know what those percentages mean? I know the first one is game completion, and I think the second-to-last one (8.76% for me here) is slowdown percentage, but what about the rest?

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