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A Normal clear of this game, which also happens to be the very first attempt I did, so its also 100% blind!


I have only read about its gimmicks a bit. Everything else, all patterns and stage portion and bosses etc. I never saw them before. So theres literally 0 memo and routes here, just pure raw dodging (Or lack of, at the final boss, anyway).

Sooo... precisely because this is my one and only Normal run I ever did (and its going to stay that way, this Normal mode is done to me as far as I am concerned)...

I dont have much to say, actually ^^. Since I would be lying if I said I knew about the patterns behaviors/gimmicks. Because I sort of dont by virtue of having seen all of this just one single time...

For this reason, I cant really do some sort of in-depth talk about the run like in some of my other videos, I wouldt really have a clue about anything then xD.

So I will just mostly limit this to my general impressions about the game itself:

Stage portions and pattern designs seem pretty good, a lot of these are incredibly fun! There has been a couple of cheap shots here and there (Final boss comes to mind), but then again I should have expected some of these since I never saw them before...

Deathbombing in this game is hilariously easy. You have 0.33 seconds to react here. Thats 1/3 of a second, and its even more than what Reimu gets on PCB (!). If you are paying attention, you will basically never die with bombs in stock in this game because of this. I suspect this is also one of the reasons of why this game is kinda on the easy side for basic clears (I can see why it would be pretty hard with a No Bombs restriction though).

The OST is great. I already like it a lot, and I have only done a couple of runs after this one. Usually it takes a bit of time for me to actually start liking the OST, this time I didnt even had to wait, its that good!

Soo... quick super fast comments on the run itself:
This Normal honestly wasnt exactly challenging. It only sorta kinda got a bit hard at around Stage 4/5, which is a bit of a difficulty spike from the first half of the game, but its still not too bad.

Stage 6, well, it certainly picked up more there, and you can tell, because I actually took a bit of a beating at the Final Boss, but because I had so many resources by the time I reached her, it didnt really matter...

Now, granted, maybe I am asking too much of a Normal mode. But still, finishing with 4 lives on reserve on a completely blind run? Thats kind of overkill. I could probably No Bombs this like I did with FDF Normal but ehhh lets not. That was a one time thing, because I couldt quite clear it blind in one go like this one. I will just go straight into Lunatic/Extra :D