Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part 3

[fsvgm777]

Definitely Banquet of 200 Nautical Miles ~ Prayed Feast (Stage 5 theme) for me (the wiki suggests A Party's Climax 200 Nautical Miles Over the Sea ~ Prayed Feast for the translated title).

[Bang Jan]

Can I ask 2 questions in a row?

[Chuckolator]

At this point, do whatever you want. <_<

[Karisa]

What is your favorite stage 6 stage portion?

in other words, that stage portion that's mostly just a prelude to the final battle (you can include the midboss if one exists, or not). What's your favorite of those?

I'll go with MoF's, personally.

[Zengeku]

In terms of stage alone i'd have to say PCB because of how chaotic the bullet rape becomes. However, even though it's fun it still feels a bit unfair at times in how you just pray that not too many problematic things come your direction. But that's just because I suck no doubt, it's nevertheless the most interesting stage portion.

If we include midbosses though I'll have to go with EoSD because of Eternal Meek. That attack is one of the most badass spells in the entire series so that makes an otherwise empty stage feel rewarding to play through.

[chum]

In terms of pure level design, none of them are remarkable at all, too brief and simplistic and with only a few instances of actual challenge. However, I still think plenty of them have some neat stuff and the atmosphere+music is usually great. UFO's is awesome to me but man is it annyoing without SanaeB. This stage is  way different from the others. I think I'll have to hand this one to EoSD actually, love the foreboding music and midboss Sakuya is tough. It's fun to bomb the ring fairies. SA couldve been decent but the streaming section is too bloated and the midboss isn't interesting. PCB's would've been a good pick if it wasn't for the fact that you can just activate a border for the fairy spam (and this fact makes that section all the more annoying if you do not have a border) and Youmu's spell is too easily trivialized. The PC-98 game final stages are just pathetic. So yeah, EoSD (nevermind the fact that GFW's final stages are a million times better than any of the others)

[Seppo Hovi]

Kaguya. Bonus points for her not being RNG at all.
Waait, stage portions? PCB's.

[Zetzumarshen]

EoSD
Oh stage portion. UFO.

[ARF]

SA because it's cool.

[Esper]

Lotus Land Story. Definitely. I don't hate anything about it, the music's great, nothing's cheap as hell, and it really feels like the end of the game instead of feeling universally similar to the other stages like SA.

[Elysia]

Ten Desires, without question.

It's actually your fault if you get walled, unlike some of the other final stages I could name *cough MoF cough*. It's also not horrendously boring, unlike some of the other final stages I could name *cough SA cough*.

Though admittedly I've never tried to pacifist it.  :ohdear:

[ふねん1]

SA. It's the only one that's an actual stage, plus its theme is amazing.

[Athrel]

For me it's between PCB and SA. PCB has the better music, but I like SA's atmosphere better.

[I have no name]

MoF Stage 6 can wall you?

Can I just get away with saying Double Spoiler here  :V

[Zil]

EoSD's for containing gameplay.

SoEW's has the advantage of not existing though. Close second, I'll say.

[Star King]

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

Imperishable Night's 6B is also not bad because it feels good to collect those loads of point items, wut. Plus I love the stage theme there.

[Chuckolator]

TD

[K.B.]

SA. It's the only one that's an actual stage

...what.

[Yatakarasu]

Oh man, it's tied between SA and UFO for me.
SA, cause of difficulty. UFO, cause of atmosphere.

[ふねん1]

...what.

Basically, the only one structured like a stage, with stage stuff, midboss, and then more stage stuff before the boss.

[K.B.]

So Imperishable Night only has four stages D:

[ふねん1]

Within the context of other Stage 6's.

[Sakurei]

best stage 6? uh...difficult to say, but I suppose it's EoSD. random spam in the beginning is not bad and eternal meek is the coolest stage 6 midboss spell there is.

[Kaze_Senshi]

TD

[チソウ タイゼン]

EoSD.
It feels the most like a final stage.

> PCB is ONE segment of bullet spam
> IN is a segment of streaming and not streaming over and over
> MoF is like, streaming wall hell
> SA is boring as fuck
> UFO's S6 enemies take forever to kill and is generally really annoying
> TD is easy to screw up but if you don't just kind of gives you four bombs gratis

[Alfred F. Jones]

UFO or MS. UFO has FIRES OF HOKKAI and space invader fairies and Hokkai as a background and yay. MS has tons of point items if you need an extend right before you go into the Shinki fight.

[RNG]

UFO has some motherfucking atmosphere and ZUN really exerted himself with the Hokkai background. That stage is one of the few things in video games that always gives me the chills.

I'd also consider MoF if it weren't for the boring and annoyingly precise streaming sections.

[chirpy13]

SoEW because stage 6 is Extra :3.  W..What?  That doesn't count?!  Maybe LLS then.

[Validon98]

I'm a little conflicted on this, but I like LLS's and SA's. LLS because it's theme is beautiful for last stage (like IN, but better in my opinion), and SA's because of the tense lead-up to Utsuho.

[nintendonut888]

Lotus Land Story. I was always charmed by the simplicity of both the stage and the music. Where virtually every final stage is dark or dramatic or tense, this one is just...calm. Like Yuka is happily waiting for you to catch up to her.