Me vs. Nue Houjuu (UFO Extra Boss)

"So, you're a human who's forgotten the fear of youkai!
Die from the terror of this unidentified flying object!!."
-Nue Houjuu
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A video of me fighting and defeating in an epic battle the Unidentified Fantastic Flying Girl, Nue Houjuu
Undefined Fantastic Object, the 12th installment of the Touhou Project. The Touhou Project is a series of danmaku shooters. Danmaku is a term than can be loosely translated (and quite aptly in my opinion) into "curtain of fire" or "bullet hell", thus denoting game where high density in bullet is more important that a lot of enemies. The series was created and is managed by the one man team Team Shanghai Alice, composed only of ZUN. For more information on the series, check the wiki at the end of the description.
"Wow, that was fast" you might say. Well, you are right, it was fast. Even though I got beaten in time by SadisticPenguin, I hold no grudge. He's better than me, I'm subscribed to him, and I respect everything he stand for... even if I wanted to be the first video of Nue on KZbin -_-
Nue Houjuu, as I previously stated, is the Ex-Boss of UFO, the recently released game Touhou Project. I woke up at 4am to found out the page I was planning getting the UFO from was out of service. What's the meaning of this? Simple, the page exceeded its bandwidth (I think). In other words, the game has been released. So I proceeded to get the game from another page. I went back to sleep after I found it and started downloading it, woke up at 8am to play it and I must say, I regret nothing. UFO might not be PCB, which I consider one of the greatest if not the greatest game in the Touhou Window series. However it wasn't a let down. The only thing I was a little sad about was the music. I feel Nazrin's theme and Sky Ruin (stage 3 music) where the only truly memorable pieces. But aside from the music: the atmosphere, the characters, the patterns, the "I HAVE NO MOUTH. AND I MUST SCREAM." difficulty, everything was undoubtedly made by the hand of one genius, ZUN. Hell, even the art (read well people) THE ART!!! of the game was magnificent. I don't know what ZUN did. I heard he received external help for the characters drawing, not sure. Whatever it was, this game's art maintains the uniqueness of Touhou without being bad. And that's difficult. Whatever ZUN did in that area, he should keep doing it. What can I say? I was totally satisfied with his work.
This game is just an excellent piece of art that works in perfect harmony, concluding in the final duel with Nue Houjuu, a nue youkai that serves as the Extra Boss of this monument to excellence. When Nue first appeared, it "wow" me. It wasn't because of how cute or good looking the character was (no really, after the first shock, I started thinking "Nue is kind of hot for being ZUN's drawing." No, the reason I was shocked was because the first time I saw her and heard her theme, I could only connect one thing, or rather, one girl to Nue:
Sister of the Devil, Flandre Scarlet.
I wasn't the only one thinking this. I made sure not to check the wiki or anything else until I fought her. After that, I gladly went to check her background and, like I was expecting, I wasn't the only one that made the connection. Nue's similarities with Flan are impacting: their peculiar wings, their age (visually), their dark Creepy Girl aura, their similar theme song, even their danmaku patterns. Everything about this "new" (lol, pun. How is Nue pronounced anyways?) girl screamed "DEVIL". As a matter fact, I didn't "knew" (lol, pun, again) what class of youkai she was until later, so at first I thought she was actually a devil. She even wields a trident. Though to be fair, Poseidon wielded one before Lucifer. The only reason I knew (how do you spell Nue? Is it like "New" or is it like "nuh-EH" or "NUH-eh?") was because A) ZUN wouldn't use a simple devil and B) if he did, he would add a pointy tail and two horns.
I would write more, but youtube said I exceeded my limit. Too wrap it up. As you can see, my PC is fixed; however, classes started and I will be less active. I'll tackle Nue again when an English patch becomes available. I'll write more about her then.
For more info about the Touhou Project, please visit:
www.touhou.wikia.com

[@cosmix4460]

This game helped me on crossing the streets

[@danieleduardomorenoperez1886]

Yeah its good to know thar you could cross the street while there is a formula 1 race in there

[@chunchunmaru5250]

I too used a bomb when crossing a street

[@dabww44]

@@chunchunmaru5250 BOOM

[@TitanChromeE]

@@dabww44 BOOM

[@simeonstone9733]

@@TitanChromeE KA-BOOM

[@luiztomikawa]

her spell card looks like a minigame! you know!? The one to cross the street with a lot of cars...

[@R3gular]

Definitely Frogger

[@TridiumMC]

real life

[@endlessazure2142]

And you know what colour is sanae right?

[@-storm7-969]

Crossy road...

[@Teixas666]

"We interrupt This UFO playthrough to bring you: Frogger"

[@platinumrage6687]

i wish we could just fight the bosses because i keEP DYING TO THE FREAKIN STAGE AND KOGASA

[@413rb]

+Platinum Rage Fuckin' Kogasa. God fucking damnit. I want that to happen too!

[@houjuugaming7121]

IKR. Kogasa's "Train choo-choo fuck you; you will use at least 2 bombs or one life on this spellcard even on easy mode, oh yah also something about ghosts i guess" attack is BULLSHIT. Oh, and the fairies in -Unzan's- Ichirin's Stage are SO DIFFICULT!!! Ughh...

[@413rb]

HoujuuGaming That thing is confusing and dense as fuck on Hard mode.

[@EverestBlizzard]

Kogasa is difficult to figure out, on "Light falling large raindrops" or whatever the hell it's called, I can usually get past it but RNG can sometimes do me in and sometime I get hit without knowing what the fuck hit me. "Guerrilla Typhoon" can fuck off. I've captured it before on a few occasions but once again RNG is a bitch. "Karakasa Surprising Slash" is surprisingly easy. I die very rarely because it's just reaction based lasers. I guess if you were to time it out you'd have a tough time but ordinarily it's easy.

[@wontyoubeagoodsister]

SAME BECAUSE EVERYTIME I GET TO RAIKO, MOKOU OR SAKI I HAVE LIKE 1 LIFE LEFT

[@darthagnanngotel4931]

Try imagining Nue teaming up with flandre and koishii.

[@rustedthorium3916]

"you have engaged in war with a herd of angry lolí"

[@EverestBlizzard]

Loli Heaven~

[@SillyLittleMan28]

@@EverestBlizzard umm i think that will be loli HELL

[@ConsarnitTokkori]

flandre and who

[@venor2612]

@@ConsarnitTokkori I see what you did there

[@shin-5325]

"Like Suwako, instead of Laughable in the beginning." ... "Laughable." . . . *Laughable* ....................

[@shin-5325]

***** Yes. I do.

[@Kilesfactor]

Yeah, you are pretty laughable. xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[@Gekidoooo]

umm I've question I heard that celebrating festivals with you is dangerous. is that true?

[@shin-5325]

It includes a lot of Danmaku. Does that count?

[@Gekidoooo]

***** O_O count me out then...

[@overstack7128]

SOMEBODY SCREEEEEEEAM god damn you are surely a good player

[@Divine_spirit22]

Nue is a an easy extra boss.

[@bruhbro1181]

@@Divine_spirit22 imagine a buffed nue with galaxy collapse... oh god

[@Reboundary]

Maybe I'm overanalyzing, but to me, Heian Alien sounds like a mix between the general styles of Touhou music. You have the insane side near the start, going into the epic style, then the calm and beautiful parts (Which is very fitting because her battle style is a combination of others). Thus, the different parts flow very well together.

[@bruhbro1181]

although hes lucky it isnt the overbuffed galaxy collapse else he would die fortunately gamma loop has beaten the song before and you can ask him for help, he spent 3 months just to beat the song

[@anta8416]

you're right

[@bruhbro1181]

Galaxy Collapse superlevel will destroy 99.9% of Touhou players for sure.

[@voyagerwitch]

man, the death of annotations on youtube really screwed these videos over. the annotations were great.

[@VentiVonOsterreich]

This is further inspiring me to make my own danmaku game. Thank you, Zun, for giving us these awesomely unique bullet hell shooters. If only we can play as Cirno not just in a fighting game...

[@wastedmetalman6559]

You can, in fangames. Also Fairy Wars I believe.

[@Yuureiki]

I heard you can in touhou 16.

[@zekchomenko2927]

You must love HSiFS

[@TheKeatonWarrior]

5:25 that non-spell looks very similar to Yuugi Hoshiguma's "Storm on Mt. Ooe"

[@Kiryu_han]

TheKeatonWarrior e

[@Joshthepikachu2123]

I sure wonder why her non-spells even use ofuuda/spell tags. It shouldn't even hurt most of the heroines given they have no evil aura, lmao Oh well, danmaku logic is silly anyway

[@EverestBlizzard]

You could ask the same of Mokou. I quite like the amulets anyway, they're nicer to dodge than most other bullet types.

[@yuk_ichi52]

We need more Touhou characters that like or have the ability to fiddle around with one’s mind, like the Komeiji sisters, Nue just gives people panic attacks because they can’t identify her or nouns that have been affected by her ability, something amazing innit

[@ReunionMana]

I thought that Nue's bracelet was the Seed of Unknown Form, not her serpent tail, and that her tail was on the end of her trident.

[@williamcote4208]

The spell card "Nightmare of Heiankyou" reminds me of Flandre's spell card "Taboo: and there will be none"

[@jadeng.s.2549]

@William Côté “Nightmare of Heiankyou” resembles more of Koishi’s spell card “Philosophy of a Hated Person”

[@koishiwii8370]

I've been able to defeat the boss back as a child. Good childhood memories. *unhears the victory theme from Donkey Kong Country*

[@raikaria3090]

Nue is weird. UFO is generally considered up there in difficulty in Touhou games [Behind 11/15 usually; but still above average] but Nue is honestly one of the easier Extra bosses. Some of her spells are borderline jokes [Like her 3rd one]. Not to say Nue is *easy* but compared to the rest of UFO; she's not as hard. I'd say fights like Mokou; despite being in generally considered easier games, are harder than Nue is.

[@pullipdollfangirl22]

Nue Houjuu is so CUTE !

[@TheVermilliaFamily]

I absolutely hate it when people compare spellcards of one character to previous characters. Especially for EVERY SINGLE SPELLCARD that character shows. It's so annoying. When you compare it to 'stealing', you're essentially saying that ZUN has no creativity.

[@raak1010]

The problem with that statement is that in this case it's referring to Nue, a character whose species is specifically an amalgamation of multiple animals. It would make sense for Nue to take more than a couple of cues from other characters. And whether it was intentional or not, this all started when the initial reaction to Nue's appearance and theme song was "That looks/sounds a lot like Flandre's". And that wasn't a localized reaction, it was fairly widespread. Again, that might not had been ZUN's intention (personally I like to think it was), but it was the end result.

[@pacibibi]

Galaxy Collapse

[@porygon4023]

Am I the only one who thinks the attack at 2:58 looks like the scenes in Star Wars where they go into hyperspeed? It makes sense with the alien/spaceship aspect.

[@amoura39]

LOLLLLL THAT SURVIVAL SPELL IS SO TERRIFYING LOL I never reached that one~ It reminds me of Clownpiece's horrifying limiting stripes

[@groudonsbest]

i wonder if you have noticed that all the UFO bosses except Shou & Byakuren have unique item danmaku. Nazrin - Pendulums, Kogasa - Umbrellas, Ichirin - Unzan's fists, Murasa - Anchors and finally Nue - UFOs

[@JenJenRome123]

All I got to say is.... "Where's your god now?"

[@miss_teaful6028]

I kinda came here to listen to the music but I watched the whole video tho great video :)

[@MrBlue9020]

Hey, anyone notice there's no portrait of Nue in the spell bg? (which is usually common for an extra boss) But then, she IS supposed to be unidentified...

[@daltonharmon1018]

me when i see danmaku chimera: Oh boy danmaku chimera! does anyone else have a love hate relationship with that spellcard like how i do?

[@Kukitea]

Orochi just gave me all these Okami feels. Also, this guy is a badass.

[@universalperson]

I believe Nue's non spell where she drops orbs at you is based off Shinki from Mystic Square.

[@shymin12356]

2:56 that reminds of Chen's last spell in PCB bosss 2

[@SodaSizzle]

2:56

[@adnaP_esreveR]

The red UFO attack kinda looks like Scarlet Gensokyo. Maybe it's just me...

[@elith6930]

Looks like yamame's 1st nonspell to me

[@hada9415]

Ryan Du Funny thing that everyone remembered something different. My first thought was Sakuya...

[@elith6930]

IDK, it just looks like the 2nd part, where all the red orbs come at you.

[@TheDiego908]

I remember having an IN Reimu flashback in one of her non spellcards

[@AquaSZSSoo]

1:09 Reminds me of Remilia from EoSD. To be more specific, her Curse of Vlad Tepes and Vampire Illusion spellcard

[@fake00ut]

she has the best theme in the entire game

[@MrCapnYoshi]

I have never seen this game before, nor do I know anything about it. BUT I RECOGNIZE THIS MUSIC FROM SOMEWHERE AND I CANT FIGURE IT OUT. HELP!

[@raak1010]

An arrange of this song somewhere? They do get arranged quite often

[@udon6092]

It may just be the melody or something, my sister said the exact same thing and I couldn't find out anything...

[@-storm7-969]

Galaxy collapse

[@rasmusmalmberg6468]

The very beginning is taken from some Japanese song

[@EasternStory]

its galaxy collapse

[@htfkid2000]

Undefined Fantastic Object Unidentified Flying Object U.F.O !? HOLY SHIT!!

[@BossAwesomeSauce]

Ah so this is what galaxy collapse is based on

[@Pablo-cr1rr]

Oh my fucking God your game play is so intense, love it

[@KonataStar00]

3:50 Yeah I know, Green is the colour of Hope, and red-violet was the colour of Loyality, right?

[@Grahckheuhl]

It may be a long load time depending on the day. Weekends are terrible as people often times load during those days, as well as the quality of your videos. You have astounding quality, so it just takes longer. Also: lol, love your comments as always.

[@bootlegyoumufumo4632]

6:06 it's named "Nightmare of Heiankyo" but in Vietnam in particular and Southeast Asia in general, it's just another Sunday morning.

[@wistralis7387]

When her attacks sync with the music :)

[@WoWMyrrh]

@regalstar not as far as i noticed.. the danmaku streams and lasers are the same, yeah, shinkis balls were smaller, but i guess thats cause of my pc-98 emu... everything's smaller there... its exactly the same, instead of the graphic :x

[@MettanAtem]

The "falling orbs" non-spells are DEFINITELY similar to Patchouli's Emerald Megalith (which I hate a lot).

[@cjn1414118]

@raak1010 No one can seem to agree on the order of the Extra Bosses in terms of difficulty. For me, Suwako is actually the most difficult, wheras Koishi and Nue are incredibly easy for me. Except for Koishi's "Philosophy of a Hated Person". That, in my opinion, has got to be the most difficult non-BS spell in all of Touhou.

[@AmberLB93]

I am amused by the fact that she shoots UFOs at you...hur hur...

[@OrangeFlamer]

At he green lasers i expected it to be green invasion of Parsee

[@Ionescel]

Those little orbs look like the following: 1. Shinki's orbs 2. Utsuho's mini-suns 3. Kanako's orbs (1st non-spell attack, EX)

[@HirosamaNadasaki]

1:00 reminds me of Seiga Kaku or Toyosatomimi no Miko, 2:25 reminds me of one of Patchouli's spells in Shoot the Bullet, 2:49 reminds me of one of Chen's in Stage 3 of PCB, 3:50 Miko again, 5:20 reminds me of Yuugi, 8:10 the streams of bullets on the sides reminds me a bit of Youmu

[@HirosamaNadasaki]

I thought Ran's reason for not being bomb-hurted is that she enters in a gap or boundary or something like this created by Yukari...

[@itskhanh-kun]

Mini suns... reminds me of... *warning warning* HOLY SHIT NONONONONONONO!

[@FaceImplosion]

0:40 I noticed Nue's non-spell and the music start off simlutaneously, before syncing at 0:48. To me, it's kind of catchy :D

[@regalstar]

@WoWMyrrh Only the lasers and blue bullet streams are the same. The things that actually kill you (or force you to wham into lasers) are completely different.

[@Abderian]

2:47 I'ma say Shoot the Bullet, Rumia or Mystia... one of the early ones. I remember weaving through green bullets in approximately that formation.

[@Ssoommeetthhiinngg]

you people make this look so easy wth

[@HyperVanilo]

Practice makes perfect

[@axolot-waitaminuteaaaaaaaa5977]

teacher: the test is not hard the test:

[@udon6092]

Does anyone else think that Nue's last spellcard looks vaguely like Gengetsu's last spell?

[@_Compound_]

No but it looks a lot like ocrams attack from terraria you know a million lasers but not quite as ear splitting as ocrams

[@amoura39]

I LOVE HER SO MUCH SHE'S SUCH A COOL CHARACTER AWWWWWH

[@nuehoujuu3893]

This has my seal of approval.

[@PlaystationMasterPS3]

6:49 if zun made frogger...

[@Totallynotkyubey]

2:50 non-spell belongs to Youmu, it only lacks the knives thrown into the middle gap

[@billcipher4893]

When listening to music I can't help but be reminded of U.N. Owen was her. Flandre Scarlet theme.

[@ruins.2843]

this is the first touhou video i've ever watched

[@432pro]

And you've already got best girl as your profile pic :)

[@RadicalGaming1000]

So this is where galaxy collapse came from or was inspired by at least

[@TheLostAngel15]

The Red UFO Bard-err Invasion of Rage spellcard reminds me of Mamizou's first spell card. Except it's gingerbread men shooting at you.

[@groudonsbest]

i know im posting loads of comments lol but, 7:55 i believe Ran turns transparent and has a "card shape" aura that acts as a shield if i remember correctly. Now Flandre.. how does turning into a bat prevent you from being touched by a Giant Freakin' Laser and Divine Exploding Orbs?

[@Zaephyer]

I haven't CAPTURED it yet, but yeah, Nue's Timeout is pretty easy. Personally, I think Invasion of Terror is easy, too. Nue overall is pretty easy for an Extra Boss, though she does trip me up a LOT with her Red UFOs.

[@LotusEnduroGT]

Nue: Just lay your weapons down and walk away.

[@RealwhiteXYT]

Pov:if nue got buffed and all nue skill got reworked and turn to real bullet hell Me:💀

[@groudonsbest]

@SoulOfRandomness its must have spawned some danmaku as you touched a part of it, the aura itself is classed as background (much like space warping around some characters) and has no hitbox.

[@pullipdollfangirl22]

Nue Houjuu has two different wings and a snake on her arm.

[@viktor1412]

u wondering why the upload time is so big? BECAUSE THIS IS YOUYUBE WHERE THE UPLAOD TIME IS MASIVE(15 minute video=3huers of uploading time)

[@rudaruda01]

Nue Sign: Mysterious Snake Show, Reminds me of Letty. the curving lasers she ABUSED with her last spell card (At.. least on Easy... =w=')

[@APCtheOWAD]

2:48 - it was using amulets - but that reminds me of one of chen's attacks

[@EuniceAkaNicca1]

Idk why touhou characters have red moving circle behind on them idk whats that means

[@HyperVanilo]

Just your basic magic circle

[@Noobsaibot21]

@Nemhyz I actually found it to be one of the easier one's. PCB & EoSD challenged me much more. Although, maybe my reactions have just been honed so much over time. :)

[@cluckcluckchiken]

Heh, I found Blue UFO of Grief to be cake, but Danmaku Chimera gave me so many headaches...funny how some things can vary in difficulty for people :P

[@MUGENanaya]

Red UFO invasion of rage = Cranberry trap HOLY CRAP SERIOUSLY NUE IS SO FUCKING CLOSE TO FLANDRE

[@Khiash]

5:21 nope, that was a bomb.

[@hazzaismyname]

@raak1010 if flandre was serious you wouldnt be saying that. SHE WAS PLAYING

[@NotAsduf]

3:03 Hey, that looks like Seija's pattern... or rather, Seija's pattern looks like this.

[@darkkijin]

The reason Ran doesn't get hurt by bombs is because she runs away off the screen

[@Gullwingsofrock]

@raak1010 Oh. No I don't use a Mac I have Windows Vista but thanks.

[@LuckySmash9]

Hm, you think the first spell is Merlin? Well, I've never played with Sakuya on PCB that far, but it looks more Minoriko to me. And when an Extra Stage Boss starts using moves similar to a 1st stage boss, you know its going to be an easier fight than usual...

[@reisenudon8]

Am I the only one who thinks that the start of Nue's theme sounds a little like Dark Side of Fate mixed with UN Owen was her? ?

[@groudonsbest]

@SoulOfRandomness That isn't danmaku though, it fires danmaku, all things i mentioned will kill you if you touch them :P all of the danmaku Byakuren uses can be used by other characters.

[@0822kitten]

Yes, but does 45 Nue's make just as much sense? That's the important question here.

[@momokun90]

Is is me, or Nue looks surprisingly easy for an extra boss? I mean.. look at her non spell DX

[@soooslaaal8204]

1:45 fideos verdes con rana

[@Alice-qg5zh]

Si

[@SarkenHS]

I have try to beat houjuu nue today... i was only able to go to the spellcard n°9... it's a little hard but possible, i always lost 2 live against the green ufo spell card, and rainbow ufo spellcard... so i lost 4 lives because of 2 spellcard, if i can lost only 1-2, and not 4 i think i can win... Anyway, congrulation for beating her up^^

[@elmati11]

I want to like, but that perfection of 1111 does not let me.

[@zergy23]

lol raak1010, i think you did just as a good as SadisticPenguin no jk =) and besides your comments always make your videos funnier =d

[@Magicacoca]

Lol..."The happiness killed me" x°D Do someone know where I can download this game? I can't find a nice place...

[@EuniceAkaNicca1]

Bonus card 2:45

[@Zaephyer]

To be honest, Grudge Bow reminded me more of Patchouli's Philosipher's Stone more than anything else.

[@TheForgottenCherish]

Nue's last spell looks like Aya's timeout card :o

[@tenryuu]

@comment 3:25: He is, if anything, in love with those glowing bullets. Not fun if you're MarisA.

[@majorgnu]

Wow. That looked... fun. That's right... _fun._ I had forgotten what that was like. I've been trying to beat LoLK's extra and I guess I just forgot. God I hate Junko.

[@TheForgottenCherish]

Raak, did you know that some touhou characters have YT channels? I saw Marisa, Sakuya, Aya, and now Nue. XD I blame Yukari!

[@WoWMyrrh]

at least nue's spellcards are a little changed from their 'originals' .... Byakuren got that one completely equal to Shinki! O: Ya know which one i mean? The one which is a little like honest mans death from mokou... danmaku to your left and right and then those balls ... later on 2 lasers... :x

[@stepmanianub]

Nue's final spellcard really puts Aya's Illusionary Dominance to shame doesn't it? XD The music wasn't that great for me, though... and the survival card could use better... patterns are graphics... it brings me back to Flandre's And Then There Were None card... Koishi's Philosophy of a Hated Person and Youkai Polygraph were funner survival cards, heh... but still, awesome job on beating TH12 so soon! =)

[@Mokoodo]

I can't even manage to beat stage 5 on Normal... Now I have to beat the whole game without using continues :I