I cleared SA's Extra...

[The Greatest Dog]

ReimuA is quite good for MoF extra, just saying.

Truthfully, I think that Marisa C, even with only two orbs, does the job ten times better.

Although I haven't cleared Extra with any shot type other than Marisa Bugged, so, eh.

[Ghaleon]

Out of the Windows Extra stages, I'm finding Koishi to be by far the hardest (Almost entirely due to Id and Super-Ego)

Same for me, only for me it's because of genetics of subconscious. I hate that card so much.


Koishi is the hardest extra stage boss for me actually, so if you can beat her, you should be able to handle em all IMO.
Suwako is probably the easiest if you memorize the "right" way to do her certain spellcards. For example if you don't know how to do 2claps somethingorother 1 clap, you'll probably get owned by it. It helps to memorize a safe patch for iron rings too, or else you likely WILL wall yourself completely (I still do because I'm too stubborn to memorize a way to not wall myself). Just don't be afraid to bomb spam suwa war. That card is just legitimately tough.

Where do people get this idea anyway.  Aside from maybe Xanadu, all of Yukari's attacks seem either equal in difficulty to Ran's versions or harder.

It beats me. I think they are druggies.

Though I admit banquet of the 12 general gods is harder than the Yukari's replacement spell IMO. And oh god double death butterfly. Even though it's the same damn thing only butterflies instead of knives, I find Yukari's to be HARD. And ran's to be "meh".

Ran's Xandu was actually easier for me the first few times. spell capped it every time. Can't seem to do it so easily anymore. Maybe being a bigger noob makes the card easier somehow >=P.

[Turtlesaur]

ReimuB hits half the screen, and SakuyaB can hit anywhere if you aim properly, and cover half the screen if you "aim" anywhere that's not exactly forward. Even marginal damage with any of the two is better than ReimuA's homing.

ReimuB's bullets aren't that wide unless you're at the bottom of the screen; if you want to get the 800-point live then you'll probably be closer to the middle during the hard parts (the 4-faerie sets that drop lots of points). SakuyaB requires you to actively change your direction in order to change the direction of the bullets and also comes with an own set of problems (bigger hitbox, little deathbomb time).

SakuyaB gets a border for pretty much every card and noncard, pretty much everyone else does better than ReimuA as well. Also, you're not supposed to bomb DBDB, you're supposed to border cheese it!

ReimuA gets borders for all the exciting noncards too (the later pattern-based ones). I don't think border cheese is enough on DDB (but all of my ReimuB replays happen to be at less-than-full-power during DDB - this could explain).

ReimuA is quite good for MoF extra, just saying.

MoF Extra allows you to bombspam through the entire stage at pretty much no penalty. The only card where homing really has an advantage over non-homing is Moriya's Iron Ring; everything else has you hanging under the boss almost all the time. I really don't see what use ReimuA has here and switching from A to B increased my success rate by quite a bit.

Aside from maybe Xanadu, all of Yukari's attacks seem either equal in difficulty to Ran's versions or harder.

Protection of Zenki and Goki (easier to stream), Xanadu (not bullshit), Spiriting Away (much slower) and Double Death Butterfly (larger gaps due to reduced bullet count) are easier on Phantasm. Xanadu is a HUGE one here.

And I'm never spending a hour watching replays to make one single post again.

[Drake]

At the very least, SakuyaB is a monster on stages, nevertheless Extra. 800-point extend eeeeasy.
For ReimuB you might have to do some extra dodging though, yes.

Border Cheese on DBDB is enough for anyone but SakuyaA and ReimuA. I still find both those cards fairly easy anyways, just to note.

I agree on the MoF Extra thing, and really, I should know. Bombspam the stage, gogogo.

I put Yukari on a slightly higher difficulty plane than Ran, mainly because regardless of those few cards being harder, it's still very easy to clear Extra. Yukari is still harder as a whole, I think.

I spent one minute to make this one single post.