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Least Favorite Spell Cards?
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Vile Lasagna:

--- Quote from: AJC on July 16, 2009, 05:34:34 AM ---i've only been playing SA for less than a few weeks but Parsee midboss card almost makes me want to go to japan and hunt down ZUN

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You'll get used to some nice routes with that one soon enough. See you when you start facing Orin...
?q:
EoSD:
Illusion Sign "Flower Imaginary Dream Vine"
Color Sign "Extreme Color Typhoon"
Fire Sign "Agni Shine High Level"
Wood Sign "Sylphae Horn High Level"
Fire Sign "Agni Radiance" (so. much.)
Maid Secret Skill "Marionette" (more so than Killing Doll)
Curse "Curse of Vlad Tepes" (more so than Vampire Illusion)
Sun Sign "Royal Flare"
Taboo "Cranberry Trap"
Taboo "Maze of Love"
Forbidden Barrage "Starbow Break"
Forbidden Barrage "Catadioptric"

PCB:
White Sign "Chalk-White Russian Dolls"
Brute Sword "Karmic Punishment of the Idle and Unfocused"
(Yuyuko's second and third nonspells... large bullet spreads and clipdeath walls)
Oni Sign "Red Oni Blue Oni"
Oni God "Soaring Guardian God"
Shikigami's Radiance "Charming Siege from All Sides" (so. much.)
Shikigami's Radiance "Princess Tenko -Illusion-"

IN:
Land Sign "Three Sacred Treasures -Orb-"
Pseudo-History "The Legend of Gensokyo"
Migrating Spirit "Fantasy Seal -Dark-"
Border World "Hakurei Danmaku Bounded Field"
(Marisa's second nonspell - like, seriously, is this supposed to do anything other than mess you over?)
Loving Heart "Double Spark"
Spacesphere "Earth in a Pot"
(Eirin's third nonspell.  Those are solid walls, seriously.)
Mind of God "Omoikane's Brain"

*entire Kaguya fight goes here*

Hollow Giant "Woo"
Hourai "Fujiyama Volcano"
"Imperishable Shooting"
"Ancient Duper"
"Paschal Moon-Reflecting Satellite Slash"
"Profound Danmaku Bounded Field -Phantasm, Foam, and Shadow" (oh yes I did)

StB:
5-4 Water & Fire Sign "Phlogistic Rain"
7-1 (Sakuya's nonspell)
7-2 Devil Sign "World in Nightmare"
8-7 Superman "Soaring En no Ozuno"
9-1 (Eirin's nonspell)
10-2 Lie "Tongue of Wolf"
EX-1 Taboo "Forbidden Fruit"
EX-2 Taboo "Forbidden Games"

MoF:
Leaf Sign "Falling Leaves of Madness"
Wound Sign "Exiled Doll"
Drown "Trauma in the Glimmering Depths"
Cork Sign "Terukuni Throughout the World"
Sacrifice Sign "Misayama Hunting Shrine Ritual"
Heaven's Dragon "Source of Rains"

*entire Suwako fight goes here*

SA:
Tongue-Cut Sparrow "Large Box and Small Box"
Four Devas Arcanum "Knock Out In Three Steps"
Recollection "Double Black Death Butterfly"
Recollection "Deep Mist Labyrinth"
Recollection "Return Inanimateness"
Recollection "Philosopher's Stone"
Recollection "Trauma in the Glimmering Depths"
Cursed Sprite "Vengeful Spirit: Possessed Fairy"
"Small Demon's Revival"
Youkai "Blazing Wheel"
Azinth:
This is going to be a really really long list.  I also broke the rules and included some nonspells and stage portions too, because some of them simply deserve to be mentioned.

EoSD
-Hailstorm (I?m really bad at this card and have no idea why.  That makes me angry)
-Bury in Lake (I love cards where random boss movement determines whether you?ll live or die)
-Illusional Misdirection (see Hailstorm)
-TEH BOOKZ
-Emerald Megalith (a shame, because when this thing?s not being bullshitty, it?s actually quite fun)
-Killing Doll (same as Emerald Megalith)
-Remi?s opener (Yay fucked up hitboxes)
-Vampire Illusion/Scarlet Gensokyo (solid walls are not fun to dodge)
-And Then Will There Be None? (I'm not too fond of EX survival cards in general)

PCB
-Phoenix Spread Wings (I have been walled by this thing many times, yet no one ever seems to have a problem with it but me.  I don?t get it?)
-Crusading Cherub?s Rampage (I clip this thing constantly, amusingly enough)
-Lunasa?s second nonspell
-Asura Sword
-Stage 6 fairy rapewall (Though it feels really cool when you actually manage to get it)
-Ageless Obsession (Are you a bad enough dude to sit still for twelve seconds?)
-Yuyuko?s second/fourth nonspells (these just get tedious after you?ve fought them a million times)
-Border of Humans and Youkai
-Danmaku Bounded Field (and the even worse Last Word version)

IN (This game jumps sporadically from amazing to insufferable trash-often within the same stage!)
-Mystia?s second nonspell (luck-garbage, even with the Ghost Team)
-Keine?s nonspells (see Hailstorm)
-Legend of Gensokyo (it loses its sting once you memorize it, but it?s still annoying)
-Fantasy Seal Blink (I don?t know if this thing has a pattern, and I don?t care enough to investigate)
-Marisa?s second nonspell (THE EMBODIMENT OF CLIPDEATH)
-Shoot the Moon (why do I suck at this spell so much)
-Tele-mesmerism (Though this one?s not that bad.  Reisen?s just so inoffensively uninteresting)
-Game of Rising (Blegh, I hate cards that derive their difficulty from visual trickery)
-Eirin?s bubble nonspell (what the fuck is this shit?)
-Hourai Elixer (a card that forces you to sit through over a minute of boring trivial crap to get to the actual difficult part.  And the actual difficult part turns out to be almost just as annoying.)
-Hourai Jewel (There are simply no words.  By far the worst attack in all of Touhou)
-Honest Man?s Death/Xu Fu?s Dimension (Tap.  Tap.  Tap.  Tap.  Tap.)
-Pheonix Tail (Animated bullets don't usually bother me, but this one's just painful to look at)
-Imperishable Shooting (Not as bad as I remember it being, but still annoying)
-Every Last Word that isn?t Saigyouji Flawless Nirvana or Blazing Star.  Most pointless gimmick ever.

MoF (Ick.  It would be easier to ask what I do like)
-Minoriko?s last card
-Hina?s last two spells
-Nitori?s Midboss Spell
-Momiji.  Just? Momiji.
-Everything Aya throws at you except for her opener and Storm Day (opener is only fun if you try to time it out though)
-Peerless Rape God (it had to be mentioned twice :p)
-Overly Bright Guest Stars or whatever it?s called (Once again, Sanae's other attacks are just inoffensively boring)
-Kanako?s first card (Tap.  Tap.  Slightly bigger tap.  Tap.  Tap.)
-Kanako?s second card (Tap.  Tap.  Tap.  Ta-OH WHAT HOW DID THAT HIT ME)
-Kanako?s final nonspell (This and Source of Rains are tied for the 2nd most annoying streaming attack ever.  The reason they?re second is because, miraculously, Hourai Jewel is even worse)
-Source of Rains (This card's only saving grace is that it drops 3.00 power upon dying, which means I can unhesitatingly doublebomb it to kingdom come)
-Suwa War (See Hourai Elixer.  I don't really like any of the cards in this stage to be perfectly honest.


I have way too much free time.  Typing all that out was quite emotionally draining, so I?ll do SA some other time.:V
stargroup:
Oh yeah, almost forgot.

UFO:
- Defense Sign "Pendulum Guard" (Stage 1)
- Large Ring "Hello Forgotten World" (Stage 2)
- Umbrella Sign "Parasol Star Memories" (Stage 2)
- Monster Train "Spare Umbrella Express Night Carnival" (Stage 2) [WORST CARD IN ALL OF TOUHOU. PERIOD.]
- Barrage "King Kraken Strike" (Stage 3)
- Annihilation "Consecutive Hooks throughout Heaven and Earth" (Stage 3)
- Rage "First and Last of Its Kind Scolding Scorch" (Stage 3)

In fact, the only spell cards from UFO I didn't list are the first two stage 1 cards and the first stage 3 card.
?lice Bl?ckb?rn:
There actually are very few spellcards which I outright hate at Lunatic level, the majority that I dislike are due to finding them boring rather than outright hateful. That being said, here is the list:

EoSD
- Bury in Lake (how fun...Azinth basically described why it's terrible)
- Sylphae Horn High Level (HOW DID ZUN THINK THIS IS DODGEABLE IT IS ALMOST AS BAD AS SCARLET MEISTER)
- Killing Doll Max Rank
- Vampire Illusion
- Royal Flare
- Maze of Love (hooray clipdeath)

PCB
- Crusading Cherub's Rampage, just for the yay clipdeath factor
- Alice's boss opener
- TRASH COMPACTORS aka Asura Sword
- The stage 6 rapewall (and no it doesn't feel really cool to survive it, it just feels like you managed to somehow luck out this one time)
- GOAST KNIVES
- Yuyuko's second and fourth nonspells, plus Repository of Hirokawa, due to TediumFactor(TM)
- The entire stage portion of Extra and Phantasm. The whole thing. Including the midboss, with the hateful InvisiOpener(TM) (seriously, the colour differential between the mesh and the background is so small that half the time I can hardly see it at all for the most part), the hateful ROBO/Zenki&Goki and the trivial Flight cards.
- Kokkuri-san's Contract, BoHaY, Danmaku Bounded Field
- For that matter, most of Extra and Phantasm can go die in a fire in this game.

IN
- GHQ Crisis (Yay micromemorization trash)
- Legend of Gensokyo (Yay more micromemorization trash WITHIN THE SAME BOSSFIGHT)
- Marisa's second noncard (THE EMBODIMENT OF CLIPDEATH, basically)
- Double Spark (dear god why am I so horrible at this spellcard I mean seriously what the heck)
- Invisible Full Moon (Just repeat the same trivial vertical movement until dead)
- Tele-mesmerism (Luckgarbage)
- Eirin's Bubble Nonspell
- Omoikane's Brain
- Hourai Elixir, if only for the fact that the first minute of it is completely boring trivial shit that one must sit through to get to the interesting parts.
- Most of the Kaguya fight, including Buddhist Diamond, Salamander's Shield and Life Spring Infinity
- HOURAI JEWEL. WORST ATTACK IN THE SERIES.
- Kaguya's second Last Spell
- Amazingly enough, nothing in Extra. IN Extra is very well-done.
- Most Last Words. Only ones I like are Saigyouji Flawless Nirvana, Fantasy Seal -Blink- (yes, I am insane, I know) and Total Purification.

MoF
- Minoriko's final spellcard, with HARVESTER LAZORZ
- Hina's final two spellcards
- Everything Nitori throws at you except for Optical Camouflage (midboss spellcard) and Kappa's Great Illusionary Waterfall (second boss spellcard)
- MOMIZI. Full stop.
- Aya's first spellcard, whatever it's called.
- Peerless Wind God, aka Aya's Survival Horror spellcard.
- Secretly Inherited Art of Danmaku and Takeminakata Invocation (I really, really, REALLY hate clusterfuck-worthy levels of micrododging very slow, VERY dense bullets)
- Kanako's second spellcard, for the horrid SURPRISE CLIPDEATH! factor
- Kanako's fourth noncard, for being so painfully boring.
- SOURCE OF RAINS. SECOND-WORST SPELLCARD IN THE SERIES.
- Pretty much everything in Extra, really.

SA
- Yamame's opener. Christ. This is GARBAGE.
- Midboss Parsee, which is redeemed only by the fact that it's the one card I can bomb to death in SA with no power penalty as Midboss Parsee drops 1.xx power upon death.
- Yugi's first spellcard, for being...completely and utterly trivial and yet STILL occasionally managing to kill me due to getting trapped between one of the curvy bullet arcs and the bottom of the screen when trying to catch the star dropped by Yugi after her opener.
- Yugi's final spellcard, for SPAWNING BULLETS ON TOP OF ME MULTIPLE TIMES SO FAR.
- Stage 4 midboss CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Catwalk
- Zombie Fairy
- The infinite streaming section before midboss Orin in stage 6. Seriously, what the fuck was ZUN drinking when he designed this. It takes bloody forever and is probably the most boring section in all of Touhou, really. Just tap and warp endlessly until dead. Even without gapping it's STILL trivial, the stream switches required are some of the easiest in the series.
- Hell's Tokamak. JESUS. I hate this card SO MUCH. THIRD WORST CARD IN THE SERIES. Also gets bonus hate points for being so bright that it is actually slightly blinding and I have to turn down my display brightness to absolute minimum in order to be able to dodge properly during it.
- All of Extra. All of it. Worst Extra in the series.

And yeah, that's it. Also, Azinth, you can 1-bomb away Source of Rains by streaming UP from your inital position while firing and then bombing while nearly over Kanako. Kefit does it in one of his videos, just check it out there for an example.
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