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Perfect Cherry Blossom (2003)

Duration: 4:13

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Stage 3 of Touhou 7 ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom on Lunatic difficulty, with no deaths, bombs or border breaks.

I've always thought this stage is very fun, so I decided to try perfecting it. Managed to do it after a bit of practice.

Nothing is the stage stands out as super difficult, but most of Alice's attacks as well as the stage itself are dangerous to the point that the overall stage is pretty difficult by stage 3 standards. While memorization can help in some points, most of it is just random dodging or misdirection where you have to read tons of bullets in advance and react accordinly. Which is very fun! But challenging.

What is also a bit special about this stage is that there's almost no time where you can relax. Once Alice first enters the screen, it's constant danger for 4 minutes until the end, with the exception of Alice's second spell.

Things that gave me trouble:
- Alice's midboss spell. It is heavily RNG-based and it can sometimes throw fast red walls at you in dense laser tubes.
- Stage part after the midboss killed me more often than I'd like to admit. It's chaotic and there's lots of bullets to track, even if you misdirect some of it.
- Alice's first nonspell has a dangerous criss-cross pattern with the blue rice bullets. Criss-cross patterns are hard since you need to track two directions at the same time.
- First spell. Just a dense storm of green bullets. It has a pattern, but it's too fast and dense for memorization to be very helpful. Might also involve RNG on its orientation.
- Third nonspell is not too bad, but the red circles are intimidating and can kill if you don't pay enough attention.
- Final spell. I couldn't figure out a way to do it consistently, although I have a decent success rate with this strategy of misdirecting the first waves and dodging the rest.

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