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The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (2002)

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Well, it's about time I did this.

I haven't been playing Touhou much at all as of late, and since I'm seeing more and more people capturing the famous QED (well, not really), I thought that I'd give it another chance.

It took me 3 damn Extra runs before I finally reached QED for the first time, and in this third run, I still failed a lot of things miserably (e.g. I lost two of my lives before Patchy was even done). However, this happened to be the run where I captured QED. Getting it on your first try is quite a nice surprise :)

Anyway, there really is no easy way to capture QED aside for simply dodging and reading the intersecting pattern. At first glance, it might appear that I cheesed the card by taking a good chunk of Flan's health before the pattern even starts, but this gives me no head start since the pattern will simply start with quicker bullets. In other words, doing all of this damage early only allows you to skip the very slow start up, of which isn't difficult at all.

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