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Subterranean Animism (2008)

Duration: 9:47

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Link to a reuploaded version that preserves the annotations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3COxxVdxXUM

Alright, it's time for another Touhou flash game!
This time, it's Yamame Swing!

This game can be found here:
http://3-me.net/flashdir/yamaswi/

This game is entirely keyboard-controlled. Here's how it works: When the game first starts, press Z once to stop Yamame from falling and lock in the string's length. Then, use the left and right arrow keys to start swinging her, and then hit Z again to launch her.

Your goal is to launch her as far as possible to the right. To get as much distance as possible, first you'll want the string as long as possible, so hit Z the first time when Yamame has dropped as far as possible, but make sure you hit Z before she hits the ground. Otherwise, you'll get an automatic zero for your score (but don't worry, as you can always quickly try again). Next, you'll want to build up a lot of velocity by swinging back and forth. However, don't go completely over the top of the tree branch, or else the string will break and Yamame will drop straight down and you'll get a zero. Then finally, the best time to launch her is when she's at the 45 degree angle in the lower-right while moving to the right with a lot of velocity. A good launch should get you over 200m, and the top 300 scores are all in the 227m area, only differing by centimeters (I am among them, with a score of 227.26m, which puts me into a multi-way tie for 184th place at the time of this upload).

Now, I'm not exactly sure when this got unlocked (maybe after getting a 200m launch, but I'm not 100% sure... (UPDATE (12-19-2015): SuperSupermario24 told me it's just from playing the normal game 3 times, regardless of distance.), but there's a special mode accessible from the fifth option on the title screen. In this mode, the game plays the same, except you're allowed to swing over the top of the tree branch as much as you want, which can get you some insane velocity! However, it's kind of a matter of luck whether you launch in the correct direction or not! If you do launch in any direction that's not straight into the ground, it could be several minutes before Yamame lands. Hope you've got something to keep you busy while you wait! (However, if you launched backwards, or think your angle is horrible, you can save yourself some time by refreshing the page.)

There's a separate leaderboards for that mode, and they are all above 100,000m! When I started recording this video, I was in 25th place there with a score of 104,220.57m, which I thought I was very lucky to get, but then, during this recording, I achieved 104,430.03m, putting me into 3rd place! I was really shocked that I pulled that off, as I was just looking for a halfway-decent launch for the recording, and expecting maybe somewhere in the 70,000-90,000 range at best. Wow, that was extremely lucky!

Oh, a couple more things: You can change Yamame's pose at almost any time during the game by pressing the up or down arrow keys. She has four different poses, but I don't think they affect your launch distance or anything like that. Also, after launching, you can adjust Yamame's rotation with the left and right arrow keys, and if she's perfectly upright when she hits the ground, she can land on her feet. I don't think that affects distance either, but if you get onto the leaderboards with an upright landing, your score will be marked with a heart (of course, my scores are).

Note: This game does not work on the Wii's internet browser. All it appears to do is repeatedly flicker the playing screen, with nothing being functional. (Not that you could do anything without a keyboard anyway.)

There are still more Touhou flash games that I'm considering making videos of. If anyone has any suggestions for a Touhou flash game for me to play, I'll consider it, but there are no guarantees. It will kind of depend on whether I like the game enough or not.

Feel free to comment, but just know that I dislike profanity. Any comments containing F-bombs and/or S-bombs will be smashed with a spider-youkai-shaped wrecking ball! (In other words, they'll be deleted.)
(Comments containing other types of inappropriate content may meet this fate as well.)

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