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IN hard Reimu solo; any tips?
Milkyway64:
This is driving me crazy. I can make it to Final B consistently, but my resources are usually drained to no lives and a few bombs. Here's a general outline of my usual run;
Stage 1:
9 times out of ten I get through without dying or bombing. I'm good here.
Stage 2:
6 times out of ten I beat this without bombing/dying as well. However, for some reason the horned owl spellcard has been killing me more often when before, I've had no problems.
Stage 3: It all goes to hell here, starting at First Pyramid. By the end of the stage I use about 8 bombs total, losing two lives. The noncards and Legend of Gensokyo get me more than the others, though.
Stage 4: I hate Marisa so much, and the stage before her. I use 2 bombs on average on the non boss parts, and then from there I either have an easy time (Event Horizon/Starlight Typhoon'Double spark = cake, even though my strat for that last one uses one bomb) and then others, like Asteroid Belt, Shoot the moon, and some of her noncards, make me use two bombs at a time, and that doesn't even count deathbombs, in which case it'd be 3.
Stage 5:
The actual stage part of it is pretty tame, but Tewi wrecks me. At least, her first noncard does. The second I can get 3/4ths of the time. Reisen seems to be a mixed bag to me, she used to be very difficult, but now if I'm lucky I can get away with only using 2 bombs. Otherwise, it's like Keine and I get destroyed.
Stage 6:
If I'm lucky, I have about 3 lives, 2 bombs to last me with another one coming from the points the enemies drop. Most of the time, though, I have nothing. I die before even reaching Kaguya. Since you actually have to beat a stage to practice it, I can't do much here, just hope for the best. The farthest I have made it so far is Hourai Jewel, which I managed by lucking out/bomb spamming the Divine Treasures. If I can make it that far, I know I'm capable of finishing this, but I need a little help. I'm pretty frustrated, I've been at this for a week or two and stopped showing consistent progress a long while back. Any good survival tips? Any good strats for some of the more difficult cards, like Legend of Gensokyo?
DarkslimeZ:
If you're having that much trouble with Keine, then I suggest practicing stage 3 a lot. Most of her spell/non-cards are nothing to worry about, so make sure you have that down.
And Marisa is tough. All the advice I can offer you there is to practice practice her spell cards. Try not to death-bomb; see if you can tell where you're going to die/usually die and bomb there before a bullet hits you. Also, start at the very left on Shoot The Moon and work your way over to the right; since Reimu has homing, you should be able to get her that way.
Bomb Tewi is all the advice I received. Unfortunately, for team characters her second attack is easier than her first, but with Reimu solo, there's no way of making her familiars transparent.
Anyway, once you have Stage 3 down pat, you'll be a lot better off for the rest of the game. Hope this helped ;D
Milkyway64:
Reimu doesn't need to worry about familiar damage, so I'm good there.
I'll work on Keine, and thanks for the shoot the moon advice. My current strategy ivloved rushing back and forth to make the stars scatter, letting me slip through to repeat the process. The lasers coming from below made that difficult, though...
Milkyway64:
'K. I am now making it to Kaguya very consistently, but I keep dying. This challenge is officially harder than Extra.
I'm just going to keep going, but damn, this is stopping being fun real fast.
Milkyway64:
I won! Yes!
As it turns out, I lacked 2 important things. DO NOT DEATHBOMB, more bombs > less but more powerful bombs. That was VERY important.
Second, I should have sang moar. I freestyled the BGM for Kaguya and rocked through the entire thing. YES.