Hey everyone! I rarely post here; mostly lurk/read and go on pooshlmer...
I used to play eosd, pcb, and in mostly, but recently, I've been really getting into the pc-98 games. Specifically, mystic square. I'll be playing the others (I'll be playing hrtp soon after I can complete ms) later....
So mystic square! I've had trouble with a few things that I'd like some advice about. This is on normal btw.
First is those huge homing laser blob things (forgot who uses these). Without stage practice (or spellcard practice, wouldn't that be helpful?!), it's really hard to just play through and learn the behaviors of those homing lasers. For the windows games, I usually keep playing and trying different strategies for parts of a stage or spellcard that I have trouble with, and finding something that works. But these homing lasers are a pain because it's so hard to practice against them. I usually end up bombing
What's the best way to dodge these bad boys?
Second - Yumeko. It's hard to tell you guys which spellcard/attack I'm referring to, since I don't know the name of it and I've forgotten when she uses this. It's the one where she shoots white bullets in a fashion very similar to the faeries in eosd stage 5 right before sakuya mid-boss appears.
Also, the one where swords appear on the left and right sides of the screen and fly towards their respective opposite sides. I figured it's not a good idea to stay right in the middle of the screen since that's where the swords from both sides of the screen meet, and thus there's less space for dodging. Any other advice for this?
Third - Shinki's second last attack. I have no trouble with her last attack (just pure dodging), and have 'captured' it the few times I've faced it. But her second last one - holy shit it's like charming siege from all sides except impossible. Bullets flying everywhere, and then those two lasers, and the big bullets she fires right at you. I ALMOST 1cc'd mystic square by saving up a bunch of lives and bombs, and just using bomb after bomb after bomb, dying, then bombing again.... but no go, her MASSIVE hp sends this strategy down the toilet. Once this spell is like halfway through, I cannot survive for more than about 6 seconds without bombing. Just how does one approach this? I'm sure this spell is also harder because it's so damn intimidating that it makes me lose my cool
I really wish I had a spell practice for this lol.
I think that's about it. Well thanks for reading! I know pc-98 games aren't as popular as the windows one, but maybe this post would inspire someone to try and face those homing lasers and shinki's omgwtf attack.
