I have cleared floor 18 in Labyrinth of Touhou.
The mobs in the floor are getting nastier and nastier.
The Guardians don't have special attacks but have a iron wall defense,
those light elemental things have powerful spells and can easily mean a total party kill if you let more then one attack
and Shub-Niggorath (spelling?) deserves a mention for being the biggest jerk of all time (so far) for his habit of emptying your team SP.
That it resisted both magic and Spirit... um, whatever the purple and light blue element are called in the translation patch, anyway, that it resisted those didn't helped.
The floor itself wasn't so bad. Picked the wrong way? Just try another until you find the proper one. Leave the floor if it save you time.
And the boss. I have heard that this boss was hard and it was true.
I had to level up for a while to make up for flaw my team had for you see,
this boss test your abilities by using against you about any type of attacks in the games.
All elements, about every ailments but instant death (I think?) and magic, physical and mixed attacks.
The battle last for a while so you need a good defensive game too.
And on top of that, the boss seems immune to ailments and debuff, making characters like Cirno and Reisen less useful.
The boss wasn't above one shotting a character you just switched in either. It's one thing when Marisa or Patchouly gets KO without getting to attack once.
It's another thing when it's
Ran. X D
That being said, after grinding a little, I would often try a rematch against the boss and it was encouraging to see I was lasting longer each time.
Eventually, I managed to defeat it. I didn't expect to last so long after having Reimu being KO but apparently Mei Ling and a barrier was able to buy me just enough time.
I don't know if I am overleveled so for reference, I recruited
at level 87.
Now, let's tackle floor 19 and 20 and finish the main game. Then it'll be the bonus disk floors. ^^