Argh, Uncontainable Nuclear Reaction. For one of my favourite cards in the series, I have quite likely one of the worst cap rates on it (something like 9/84) here. And no, it's not predominantly due failures at bullet reading, nor is it due to the card BSing me (every once in like 20 tries it will throw a wall, but it's extremely rare compared to even like, Scarlet Gensokyo or Vampire Illusion, so whatever). No, it's due to, for some reason, I get the most horrible controlsfuck on that card ever. This seems to manifest itsself in two ways:
A) For some reason, I cannot seem to STOP instantaneously. There is a noticeable delay between when I stop pressing the arrow keys and when my sprite stops moving and it seems to only show up in this one card in SA. What the fuck?
B) Clipdeath. Except that it's horribly inconsistent here, and seems to work both ways. Quite often I've tried to get through a gap which I could have sworn would still be open (and certainly APPEARED still open) by the time I got to it but that killed me anyway, and there have been a non-trivial amount of instances when I accidentally did something I shouldn't have and went through bullets that should have killed me, but apparently there was a big enough gap or not enough of the bullet was touching my hitbox that I didn't die.
Between this and Utsuho's second noncard being extremely difficult, it's really not all that surprising that over half of my practise runs have been rage-restarts before I even get to Peta Flare (I've faced that one some 40-ish tries, as opposed to the 84 for Uncontainable). At least the one good note is that I've actually become quite consistent at capping her second noncard by now somehow, which is quite fantastic.
