Donut, I can provide a question if you don't mind me filling in. While going through MoF again today, something triggered an old memory of a certain topic on here. I'll expand its question a little to form this:
From a purely visual standpoint, what is your favorite attack?
Because not every attack is a Spellcard (like that old topic asked for). So yeah, what attack from anywhere in Touhou do you think looks the best? My answer would be MoF midboss-Sanae's nonspell. I've always loved the way the big stars unfolded, creating that cool symmetric pattern.
from Touhou games:
- MoF/VoWG (for the pattern form, colors and the creativeness). I can't think of attacks that are visually impressive alone, but there are quite a lot of places where it's some combination of stage setting (MS stage 2 and 5, LLS stage 6, PCB stage 4, MoF stage 6), BGM (IN's Keine and stages 6A/6B/Extra, UFO stage 6, DS scenes starting from where Ichirin appears, GFW stage 2, final stage and bosses), the dodging of said patterns (patterns don't need to be visually elaborate or tight to be fun, imho)
from fangames:
- Reimu's bow-and-arrow scs (there's two iirc) in Phantasm Romance 2.5 Plus
- I remember some other stuff from danmakufu (Magical Singular Day, Phantasmagoria Trues, and other scripts on nico), but not exactly what was it..