Wow, I'm surprised that most of the bugs listed were ones I noticed. I didn't notice any of the bugged skills though with the exception of Komachi's Scythe that Chooses the Dead. I knew that it was pretty bull shit to be able to do high damage AND inflict Death at the low cost of 6 MP. And for the record, I never really used Komachi in the first game except for that one fight in the Plus Disk.
In this game, Komachi is easily my MVP. The amount of times she's saved me in a boss fight where everyone except Marisa is dead is staggering. Kept stalling while Marisa recovered MP in the reserve for another Master Spark. Also, joining the band wagon that Healer Komachi is awesome. 16% HP regen is great and I was surprised how much Prayer of Recovery was healing.
And on that note, I honestly think Magician Minoriko is like the best thing ever. And the obvious Enhancer Reimu is great as well.
Excuse me, wiki, but actually hits really damn hard. And she's really fast even without buffs, too. And debuffing her got me nowhere.
In the end, the only way I found to beat her was killing all the helpers before she got a second turn, with Nitori and Patchouli. Seeing that much damage (thanks Iku and Keine!) was fun.
I don't know about you but I was under leveled when I fought her and she was doing ignorable damage without buffs. Still took me a couple of tries to actually beat her because I could never take out the
before they buffed her. Also, you can pretty much direct all grievances with regards to the boss fight information towards me, as I pretty much wrote every boss fight from 5F on. There are some that I'm less than satisfied with, but it was better than having nothing written.
I ran into the same problem myself, racking up something like 1,200 BP on and still not finishing the event. Then I took a look at the Japanese wiki.
It turns out that only needs 120 BP. Minoriko, on the other hand, needs 200. Description on Touhouwiki seems to imply that you only need BP for each individual character, but you'll need BP for Minoriko for each event (Cirno's requires 400).
Many facepalms were had.
I'm guessing Minoriko only needs 300 for Nitori's event then.
How much BP is needed for Nitori and Cirno? Nitori is fine, but I don't want Cirno in the party any longer than she needs to be.
I've also wondered for awhile, but what exactly is a Synergy playthrough?