Touhou ~ Book of Star Mythology - Extra Stage - Reimu A
5Star Destroyer
(She is soooo cool!)
I love how well the short yet technical stage portion here lets the player focus entirely on the very difficult midboss and the all throughout scary extra boss. It also strongly reminds be of my favorite Shin Megami Tensei Final Boss (Yasomagatsu). These things make it one of my favorite Extras in this series.
The stage itself just provides some opportunities to farm stars while punishing you hard for any positioning mistakes you make along the way. The very beginning is probably the easiest to mess up.
The first midboss spell is essentially an automatic bomb for me, because unless it is randomly super nice, finding the opening in time is very hard. The third midboss spell is also very scary due to it's super high density.
The boss has a lot of tricks up her sleeve. Her first spell has two patterns to it, one for her off-hand and one for her attacking-hand, so depending on which side she hold her weapon, you want to be on the other side, or you will face a very hard (but not unavoidable) pattern - that said, the off-hand pattern is anything but trivial.
Her second spell is her worst, especially for Reimu A, as her homing does not want to help you in the slightest. Shuriken bullets also don't help.
Her fourth spell is visually very impressive and oppressive. It looks cool, but sometimes things will just hit you when you don't expect it.
The fifth spell can easily trap you, which is a shame for how cool it is otherwise.
I love the sixth spell. It just looks really cool and plays really well.
For the seventh spell, different parts of the boss shoot different bullet patterns, which come out in a random order and can combine in weird ways. Compared to the same type of spell in Riverbed Soull Saver's Extra and Phantasm, this one feels a lot more thought out and less likely to create impossible combinations. I like it.
The final nonspell that follows is the only really difficult nonspell in this stage. While the previous ones are of average difficulty, this one just walls you in three different ways. It's really mean.
Walls are also the biggest problem in the eighth spell. It's not very hard, but it's gimmick can catch you off-guard.
The survival is a bit of a nightmare? I blame shuriken bullets. Everything moves in a way that is suuuuper uncomfortable.
For the final spell, the second phase is by far the hardest, but the whole thing is overall very stressful.
Finally, I have never seen the true Last Spell of this boss and the part of it seen in this video is not enough to unlock it for Spell Practice. Sad times.
* Translation Note: *
This game is the only one in this series that does not have an English patch, so I did my best and it was a lot of work, so I hope it's appreciated. Things might go a bit fast at some points. Timing this was a pain. Please pause the video if necessary. It felt weird to not have the story in here, when I want to show of the whole series.
The translation itself is almost word for word from the Touhou Wiki, with some very slight changes because I felt things were worded weirdly.
Book of Star Mythology is the 4th Touhou fan game in the series created by developer ido.
This game has made the interesting decision to be inspired by Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom. It is not quite as difficult, but still the hardest game in this particular series of fan games. It applies the chapter system from LoLK, giving you rewards at the end of each chapter depending on how many enemies you have defeated and how many star shaped Wish Items you collected.
Wish Items and Magnitude are the main scoring system of the game, where collecting more Wish Items raises Magnitude and reaching a higher Magnitude means getting more score.
Important to us is the little number left of the Score multiplier, which ticks down with each Wish Item collected. If it reaches 0 in a stage, the boss will use their Lastword at the end of the battle. Enemies constantly bleed Wish Items while you are shooting them from close up.
Shooting enemies in general also lowers the point of collection, making it easier to collect Wish items from afar.
The game also offers a Legendary Hero Mode, which gives you infinite lives, but we are not playing that.
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