So I'm having what I think is my best Touhou run ever, which is really underwhelming since I rarely play Touhou.
Getting to the final stage of Shining Shooting Star, I have no extra lives remaining, and I'm fully aware of it.
"OK, focus on collecting spell fragments and be prepared to bomb when necessary."
I'm fully expecting to have my soul served on a platter by the final boss.
Nah, mate, my peripheral vision fails me and I don't move far enough to the left to dodge a simple bullet pattern.
Since I wasn't expecting myself to die to something so simple, I was not prepared to bomb at all.
I would have been fully content with my run if I had died to something more appropriate for my situation,
but I'm instead left with this bittersweet feeling of dying to what is essentially Stage 2 danmaku.