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Imperishable Night (2004)

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Man I didn't really know what I was in for here but I did not expect this would be so difficult. For Stage 4 this ended up being about the length of a Stage 6 boss in other games.

2nd spell just seems to be RNG vomit, I plant Remilia's familiars under Reimu then go to the sides to get a bit more reaction time but I usually just die to it if she spits too many mentos at me at once. Not fun.

Fantasy Seal Blink completely blindsided me, just an extremely tough spell out of nowhere. I guess I don't hear about it too often since fewer people face Stage 4A compared to 4B(?) It's a weird half-timeout spell where she's basically invincible for the first 3 purple bullet waves and then her HP drops super quickly after that.

Funnily I capped it on my first try and thought it didn't seem that bad, then proceeded to fail it like 30 times in a row before I got my next cap. After several hundred attempts I think it finally just sort of clicked for me.

The gist of what I try to do is stream the amulets away from the middle, then try to lure Reimu into moving directly up, down, left or right once she begins firing the purple bullets, since she actually moves straight towards your position at the start of it. If you can get her to move that way, the screen-wrapping becomes very simple because you know she'll just appear straight out of the opposite wall and you can easily stream the purple bullets in one smooth movement (or you can do a sort of S-shaped movement if you need to go around amulet walls). Also make sure to stream in the opposite direction of the one she's coming towards you at e.g. if she's coming from above you then stream from the bottom to the top.

Sometimes (often) it's not feasible or possible to lure her like that and she might move diagonally which is where it can get really tricky. You need to understand how the screen-wrapping works when she does that and react to it quickly, or, failing that, keep an eye on the spell circle around her to tell where she's going to pop out of, then keep in mind how the purple bullets are going to come at you once she wraps around so you can adjust your movement enough to stream them safely.

All this time you also need to keep the amulets in mind, it can get quite dense and some of the amulets aim at you really late which can wall you very easily, so you need to realise if you're about to get boxed in and manoeuvre out. It's a very involved reading spell.

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