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ITT: SA Normal Bawwing
Anonymity:
So I've just started my first Fifteenth *I've lost count* normal run of SA.
Wtf. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFU- :'(
Might as well keep this first post updated. I had no idea what to expect from Normal Utsuho but I must have had a magic spark of luck in that boss fight which fizzled out before the end.
Most recent attempts:
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3446 - Up to beginning stage 6
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3447 - Stage 6... FFFFFF-
Stuffman:
It isn't so much that SA is a lot more difficult, it seems more like Reimu and Marisa are just much weaker. Basically all shot types except Reimu A have low damage or are impractical to use, and SA has the weakest bombs in the series so bombing doesn't actually get you through trouble spots.
I prefer to let Knockout in Three Steps get to its second step before moving inside it. I think that one is actually her easiest card aside from the shield bubble one, but the midboss swirly gives me problems too.
Anonymity:
Tried again, got owned in stage 3 by the blue lasers (i hate lasers in touhou, always bomb through sea cucumber in MoF), Captured the swirly though :D Don't know if it saved, I ragequit after losing my last life on the cats first attack in stage 4 :(.
I think I've narrowed down my main 2 problems, I don't bomb enough (it took me ages to learn to bomb properly on MoF, i would spend whole stages at 5 power for no real reason) and I move around too much (seriously, I make some things a lot harder for myself by moving around so much when I can just stream instead). I just don't know how to cure the problem :S
Anonymity:
Replay added, any tips would be good :D
hyorinryu:
I agree that what SA not so hard isn't the patterns, but the bombs. In any other game, a one bomb would get you through a card and some, unless the boss had invicibilty. In this game you can use two bombs and the card will be nowhere near over(Nuclear Fusion, I'm looking at you).btw, using marisa A, how many bombs do I need to plant on Utsuho's cards before they die?