Aya
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ScreenshotAfter yet another hiatus from Touhou, I've resumed playing this game once again. A few other scores were improved but 8-3 is the one I'm most happy with. Managed to take a royalflare triangle from chum. The main reason why I like 8-3 is because it has a puzzle element to it. The more I understand this scene, the better I become at herding the fairies into the best composition possible for the most amount of points, and the better I get at surviving and minimizing dangerous situations. With my current strat, and I can get 550k shots pretty regularly if everything goes right, and even a bad photo is rarely below 500k anymore. I also die less often than I used to.
There are a couple things I found annoying though:
1. Orin's hitbox is bigger than her sprite. Lost a 2.7m pace run earlier because I got killed by
empty space above her wheelbarrow. I've had that happen in ISC and I've heard that other bosses in this game have that problem too.
2. When Orin moves she would sometimes ram into me. Although this is less likely to happen as long as you don't get too close to her hitbox and dash away right after taking your photo. I die to that less often now.
3. With bad rng, the fairies can spread out into pretty nasty patterns sometimes, but so far I haven't encountered anything truly impossible.
Perhaps I'll go for a decent Hatate score at some point, and a royalflare diamond in the Aya category if I can pull off Hiatus' 600k photo strats, but until then, I'm pretty happy with this.
Some other Double Spoiler scenes I like are 8-1, 9-6 and 12-8, so I'll try to go for decent scores in those ones too.