~Hakurei Shrine~ > Help Me, Eirin!
ImPerfect Cherry Blossom
Zengeku:
I just need to get some frustrations about PCB out. I'm not here to tell you that your favorite Touhou game is bad or anything. What is written below is a 100% subjective.
Sometimes i just get so damn annoyed. Perfect Cherry Blossom. That's what they call you. I say ImPerfect Cherry Blossom. The game simply stops being perfect after Stage 3 because that's when everything goes to hell. No, it didn't prevent me from clearing it but its just where things stop being fun and turn into a combination of easy attacks and bullshit attacks.
I don't even know where to begin. First off, the Prismriver battle has bound to be the worst Stage 4 boss in the Windows era. And that's saying something cause they've got Aya to compete with. Their attacks are very bland and their opener as Marisa are just pure bullshit. Their Marisa exclusive spellcard are easy no matter how you look at it but the Normal version appears quite intimidating compared to the Hard version. Their other spellcards stretch from a very easy streaming attack to two spellcards that i can't say much about aside from being not very fun at all. And they all seem so familiar to each other. All the other Stage 4 bosses, even Aya have more interesting spellcards.
Let's move on to Stage 5 shall we? The stage itself: Just fine but the boss... the boss can make me so pissed. I have died so much to her spellcards. Much more than to any of her attacks. The problem i have with the spellcards are really quite simple. The slow down. I can't stand when the game slows down unless it does it permanently. Its not much of a help. It just slows down the game so i can die miserably to the wall of bullets. Why don't i just go through the wall where the gaps are? Well there is some reasons for that. Not only does the slow-down alter my movement speed but it also makes the bullets harder to make out thus only increasing the difficulty of the card in the wrong direction.
Stage 6. Yuyuko's attacks are decent but her spellcards are all very boring. None of her spellcards are any fun at all. There is some of them i really need to do some grinding off but i have to drink multiple gallons of coffee if i'm to stay awake. Its not because they necessarily are easy but they are mainly just non-fun to play or cheap. I personally like to refer to Yuyuko as the worst Stage 6 boss in the PC era.
So in other words. The game is pretty much over after Stage 3 for me.
ghost333:
I disagree...
PCB is my 2nd favorite.
and that was only becuase of the silly input lag.
the game itself is awesome orm stage 3 and beyond.
although stage 2 is truly a hell.( i am a lunatic player but i used to play on normal too!)
1) stage4: marisa has the easiest opener , I play sakuyaB and i still remember that when i switched to hard the opener was just BS and u dont even want to think whats going on for Lunatic
4 bombs are just not enough...
2)stage 5 : the slowdown is not exactly there to help u... i can think of it as a big bullet coming ur way.Although in lunatic-hard i cant imagine stage5 without it u will just get owned
3)stage 6: amazing stage truly a great last stage.it has nice music and is very tough.
ps:well i am quite bored to retype all the 30 lines i typed before ,when my pc crashed
(lazy me)
Arcengal:
I agree with the Prismriver sisters fight, especially on Hard/Lunatic. I play as Reimu B, and Lunasa's opener is very difficult to dodge, and almost seems random in its bullet placement. I usually bomb it as a result.
I don't agree with anything else, especially since PCB has the Crowning Moment of Awesome right at the end that no other game in the series can claim, with the possible exception of that one with Virtue of the Wind God Mountain of Faith.
Krimmydoodle:
--- Quote from: Arcengal on June 11, 2009, 04:28:26 PM ---I agree with the Prismriver sisters fight, especially on Hard/Lunatic. I play as Reimu B, and Lunasa's opener is very difficult to dodge, and almost seems random in its bullet placement. I usually bomb it as a result.
--- End quote ---
Actually, Lunasa's opener is aimed. Not directly at you, but in front of you. You want to start out by shotgunning her, so that the first few walls develop at the top, rather than down at the bottom where they'll trap you. In doing so, you buy yourself some time where you can capture the attack without getting too claustrophobic.
Gambit:
Even though I agree with you on the Prismriver sisters, I would rather fight them than Aya. However, I actually find Lyrica’s opener to be pretty easy (at least on hard anyway) and can beat it consistently. Merlin has the most bs opener out of the three.
And about Youmu, what can I say? Youmu is Youmu.
Eirin is by far the worst of the final bosses, imo, while Remilia and Yuyuko are the best.