Touhou SSS: Extra Stage [1st Clear]
And here is the Extra Stage of this game! This clear came rather quick. Literally just about 30 mins or so after the Blind Normal Clear, actually.
While its not particularly difficult, its a LOT of fun to do, it has a lot of interesting patterns. Some of which I do not completely understand...
Not that that is even needed. You can do just fine with the resources you are given once you practice a bit. Its actually a bit on the low side, but most of these patterns are not *THAT* hard to do, either, so it balances out. Plus, look at the size of the video. This Extra is ridiculously short!
This Extra took me 3 attempts to clear. Which means its not exactly on the harder league of Extras (FDF/SA/LoLK Extra this is not). In fact, with just 3 attempts that would usually make it among the easiest Extras out there...however I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and say its more like a Moderate level Extra for the following reasons:
1) I heard that there are multiple spellcards here that change according to the character you use. For all I know, Sanae might just be the one with the easiest spellcards. Or she might not, I dunno, if someone can confirm this that would be great.
2) I am not sure if I actually completed this. Why?
Because in the very first attempt I did, I used a continue to keep going (Yes, you can use a continue in this Extra, dont ask why) and once I beat the final spellcard... another additional one appeared. For no apparent reason?! WTF.
Here in this winning attempt, that didnt happen for some reason... not sure why. But the important part is that this one additional spellcard is actually capable of killing you. Since I beat the "Final" spellcard, but this additional one didnt activate this time for WHATEVER reason, I am not sure if I should consider this a true clear or not. Especially when I finished with 0/0, thus there is the real possibility that, had that additional spell showed up, I might just have died to it...
I guess we will never know. But what I do know is that the game counted this as a Clear, so I should probably just go along with it. Had I died to it, I probably would have cleared in the next attempt anyway so yeah. And I plan to do No Bombs of this Extra later on anyway, so if this is some sort of invalidated clear well then... I guess I will fix it later?
I seriously dont know what is the whole deal with that additional final spellcard, if someone could tell me what the heck was that about it would be nice.
Anyway. Extra is done for the moment at least. Lunatic is next, and considering how I did on my first "Exploration" run of it, I honestly dont think it will take a long time to clear this Lunatic...