Decided to take a bit of a rest from Touhou... by playing some other shmups. In particular, finally took up Hellsinker seriously.
First of all, now I can beat all bosses in Shrine of Farewell most of the time. Couldn't even hope to do that before, and you have to do just that to unlock it for practice. Go figure. I still get demolished by segment 6 bosses, but I'm a bit better at them now, at least. That, and I can now get to them without using a continue or entering Shrine of Farewell. This finally allowed me to reach the final boss... which I didn't fight thanks to having to use a continue each time anyway. Oh well, at least I got Spirit Overload ending only once. Thankfully, I still managed to unlock Short Mission, so unlocking the rest shouldn't be much problem. Sometime later, that is. 20 runs in a row over the weekend, despite the different shottypes, seems like enough for me.
EDIT: Guess what, I went and unlocked everything, completing the game along the way. The rest of it turned out to be easy enough. Nice, couldn't hope to do this much with just pure skill last time I played some months ago. Well, a full 1cc is still beyond me, thanks to segment 6 bosses for the most part, so I'll need to practice the hell out of them someday. But that's postponed till next time (for real this time). Back to Touhou now.
