Warning: Rant Ahead.
PoFV extra is just BULLSHIT.
I hate swearing, but there's not much else I can say. Let's start with the fact you're forced to play as Komachi.
- You can activate all the spirits by pressing the focus button, but if you hold it down to actually dodge bullets, the spirits can fly into you and you're dead because you have NO activation field.
- If you mash the focus button to keep activating spirits and stopping that from happening, you can't see anything for the purple flashes that happen every time you press the focus button.
- And since you activate EVERY spirit on the screen, there's always going to be one that you don't notice, and since you don't shoot it it'll invariably time out and fire its red bullets of death at you at roughly 50mph because the rank starts out at 10-11.
SO MANY DEATHS because my character has such a stupid freaking system. Let's also talk about CPU bullshit.
- The amount of times I've died because I dodge into a bottom corner, only to smash into a fairy who spawned half a second ago, is ridiculous.
- LOL Sakuya and her peripheral vision knives.
- Tewi's "special ability" means she has twice as much life as you in extra. That means you can dodge everything for X seconds, she'll hit something, then you lose from some random bullet that you appears after you "won". Sometimes she'll lose again instantly, but other times she just goes "lolno" and kills you with unpredictable pink ring things.
- Marisa's Dragon attacks are impossible. The rank climbs to 16 after about 45 seconds and there Earth Light Rays along 90% of the screen. If you aren't in the right place, you're dead and even if you are, you're probably going to get smashed by a star. You die once and it's a piece of cake, but you need the lives dammit.
- YUKA YUKA YUKA YUKA! Her sunflowers block you off almost EVERY time, there are freaking bullets that HIDE behind them, their hitboxes are inconsistant as all hell, she seems to have INFINITE LEVEL 4 ATTACKS and even if you DO survive the 50 seconds, she never EVER messes up on your first attempt. 90 seconds into the fight and she's still dodging, having launched her sixth Dragon attack. wtf.
- Reimu's nonsense as well; you have to bomb her level 2-3 opener because it's almost impossible to dodge at such speeds, and then dodge a gazillion bouncing balls. As soon as you lose once, she becomes a piece of cake apart from Komachi's own shortcomings. But you need lives for...
- Shikieiki. On the rare occasion that you make it, you have to survive for TWO. ****ING. MINUTES. WTF!? You die and it's 50 seconds, which is more manageable, apart from her inheriting Yuka's infinite level 4 attacks, yamabullets filling the screen and, just in case we forget, spirits smashing into your face because you can't stop focusing for a SECOND. And when you do last 50 seconds, she just dodges everything for 15 seconds then starts a level 16 attack that just fires an unpassable wall of BS. You lose, that's your last life, go beat Cirno again because you're not good enough to hang with your boss. Game over.
*bangs head off desk repeatedly*
