Not really. How can you sightread stuff like Trauma in the Glimmering Depths or Guest Stars? I fail every single MoF card because I didn't bother to learn them.
Fun fact: I never bothered learning either. I actually did sightread capture
"Trauma in the (ry", but that may have been because I played on a lower difficulty first; needless to say, I was able to sightread capture it on Easy the first time I played. The same kind of principle applies for
"Guest Stars"; it just happens to "wall" you in if you ignore the lasers bouncing off the sides of the field. Regarding learning, I have still yet to learn
"Guest Stars", all I do is sightread it every time because the lasers move that slow. Bit blinding on the eyes though.
Red Frog is also apparently easy, yet I find it bullshit because you got to move in a certain pattern or you get walled. Same for NDL, go in one direction to trivialize it, go in other to die. And the game gives no indications on how to move.
"Red Frog" can be done starting anywhere on the screen, and it's concept should be picked up within the first 5 seconds of it starting. Besides, that's an Extra Spell Card and for the purposes of discussion, shouldn't really count. Why? Because Extra Stages are gimmick based. Example,
"Honest Man's Death".
NDL, it's possible to go both ways actually. The game does give an indicator on how to move believe it or not. Assuming a really high intuition (ha, most likely not but let's just say so for the sake of argument) you would by the end of the 2nd cycle, realize that the laser pattern alternates. Though, this is definitely stretching my argument so I'll stop there for this point :V
Try to sightread Terrifying Hypnotism. Until somebody pointed out that the bubbles shoot in the direction the lasers turn, I couldn't survive a single round.
Done actually. Believe it or not, it was all FEAR games as the Spell Card name suggests. I have a quote here from a certain person who commented about "sightreading" it:
for luna, 'terrifying hypo' 's yellow bullets seem to be pushing you to move away from the giant bubble stream. i don't know about this, but it's what i noticed after doing it the first time. the only thing i actually died to from what i recall were the yellow bullets themselves because of the effect of the bullets themselves; you get dragged into the hypnotic pattern and lose sight of your hitbox particularly if you use marisa as she dresses in darker colours making it harder to see. naturally, unable to see yourself in an attack is a bad thing, i probably would've survived more if i hammered shift to give myself a blaring signal where my hitbox is - 3-
...if
can't say anything about hard or lower though unfortunately
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Or Ichirin's second to last card.
Understandable; I'll leave this. I actually forgot about this.
Why can't bosses simply dump a ton of shit on me without any gimmicks or patterns?Touhou is imbalanced.
Because "dumping a ton of shit" on you is apparently classified as BS? Besides, Touhou is
all about the patterns, isn't it?
Why did ZUN change Yuugi's first spell anyways? That thing isn't even Easy, it goes into a tutorial.
Go download the trial from his site and find out?
anyways, this discussion is stupid
Quite. And it'll just loop itself until infinity.
I originally had a question here, but couldn't word it right, so I decided on this instead:
I just want to fucking dodge.
So quickly jumping back to this point, can you provide (an) example(s) from a target non-Touhou shmup?
Alright, that's enough walling for today; after the examples that will be it.
...what a good typing exercise.
Tried this.
You can also move to the right side if you so wish. And Syou constantly moving to the left isn't a bad thing at all; when it comes to the extremeties, the lasers can go off-screen and never return back on-screen to clip you from that side.
Attachment is broken and should not exist.
