Touhou 8: Imperishable Night - Extra Stage (New Commentary Version)

Beneath the full moon, even plants sleep through the hours past midnight.
In a human and youkai's trial of guts, what is there to fear?
Victim of the ultimate sin, where can you be found?
At last the extra stage. Compared to others before it this stage is a lot more organized than what you would expect. However that's only because enemy attacks come at you so fast that you have plenty of time to prepare for the next wave. Nothing is really that slow in this stage however in many cases the attacks are aimed at you so you can prepare an easy quick escape.
Keine is all about memorization more than skill. Hell her first spell is all about finding the safe zones. However this does not make her easy by any stretch of the word rather it adds to the stress of not almost requiring you to find and memorize the proper way through her attacks. But lord knows with Mokou right behind her you'll have plenty of chances to practice against Keine...
Mokou...not as bad as Yukari but definitely tougher than Ran and Flandre. It mainly comes from the fact that to beat her you...well quite frankly you have to try to kill yourself. Don't give me that look that seriously is the theme of this fight, almost all of the ways to beat her spells involve you moving all over the damn place a lot more than you would against other bosses and in many cases literally flying towards the danger is a lot safer than running from it. It fits with the whole immortal Mokou thing...but I'll be damned if I don't feel like a particularly suicidal moth that keeps dive bombing a flame. To note bizarrely enough Mokou's cool down phases feel a lot more difficult than her spell cards and later on they actually come at you so fast it's just pure twitch dodging to beat them.
Difficulty - Extra
Team - Aria of Forbidden Magic Team
Characters - Marisa Kirisame & Alice Margatroid
Extra Stage - Doll of Hourai
BGM - Extend Ash ~ Hourai Victim
Mid-Boss - History Eater: Keine Kamishirasawa
Boss - Hourai Incarnate: Fujiwara no Mokou
BGM - Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke
Spell Cards
2:05 - Past "Ancient History -Old History-"
2:28 - Reincarnation "Returning-Bridge Ichijo"
2:57 - Future "New History Of Phantasm -Next History-"
12:06 - Cool down
12:17 - Limiting Edict "Iwakasa's Moon Curse"
12:34 - Cool down
12:50 - Immortal "Fire Bird -Flying Phoenix-"
13:17 - Cool down
13:37 - Fujiwara "Flaw of Forgiving Shrine"
13:56 - Cool down
14:15 - Deathless "Xu Fu's Dimension"
14:35 - Cool down
14:53 - Forgiveness "Honest Man's Death"
15:12 Cool down
15:22 - Hollow Giant "Woo"
16:00 - Cool down
16:10 - Everlasting "Phoenix's Tail"
16:37 - Cool down
16:50 - Hourai "South Wind, Clear Sky -Fujiyama Volcano-"
17:19 - "Possessed by Phoenix"
18:41 - "Hourai Doll"
19:17 - "Imperishable Shooting"
Translation's courtesy of the Touhou wiki

[@embreadiment]

Legends say MegamanOmega is too cool to heart comments.

[@MegamanOmega184]

Legends also say he's gullible enough to fall for comments like this

[@jacobdelacruz558]

@@MegamanOmega184 wait rlly?

[@ZaTimou]

"A haunted house with nobody in it acting like a ghost... nothing's more terrifying." Yea, nothing but a jelly donut.

[@elegant_lilligant]

That thumbnail evokes many, many bad memories.

[@korohacker]

Mokou! Probably my fav extra boss battle apart from the one with the hat

[@hadoukendude2]

But they all wear hats?

[@user-gd5ug9ug4h]

@@hadoukendude2 except Raiko

[@NguyenHa-di4xb]

Maybe they mean Koishi because her fight is too hard lol. Koishi still best girl though.

[@GenesisJames]

The only extra stage I've been able to beat so far. Her patterns were pretty fun to figure out; a lot of them were pretty puzzle-like, which is cool!

[@jacobdelacruz558]

My first was Ran Yakumo and then Suwako Moriya

[@이현중-h8x]

I think mokou's illustration has different stlye with other characters' illustrations from IN. Is it only me who felt it?

[@OkamiKai6980]

Not just you, I felt it too.

[@kaiser9598]

I had a stroke when you did Ex-Keine’s first spell card, I never knew you could bullshit it like that xD Thank you for this video, I feel motivated to beat Mokou now!

[@Iris_Descent]

After finally having beaten PCB, EoSD and IN (the last of which was my first one), I honestly gotta disagree with that description. Yukari wasn't even that bad when you can adapt some strategies from Ran. (on that note, screw you, Balance of Motion and Silence) Plus there was the fact that PCB's Extra was really forgiving, as you got quite a few more bombs than some other Extra stages (which of course, _you_ don't use, but that's beside the point), and almost every attack gives a guaranteed border. I was able to beat Yukari day 1. (like what, 5 hours? Could have taken less if I didn't die on the last second of Danmaku Bounded Field... ugh) Meanwhile, yeah, Flandre was still quite easy. also thanks for fujiyama volcano flashbacks :superdying:

[@Iris_Descent]

Oh yeah this was also the video that settled "alright, this channel is definitely recommendable to anyone" If it weren't for this, I would have taken forEVER to figure out Keine's spells. (As well as Xu Fu's Dimension's safespot)

[@kienphucnguyen2001]

And omg malice cannon is so broken , because sc capturing was so much faster.

[@akenohononiku916]

Think of what would happen if marisa is immortal.

[@vallar57]

That actually might happen. Reimu's concern is so that Marisa doesn't become a youkai, but immortality that doesn't cause her to lose humanity is fair game afaik.

[@raresuwako6796]

I remember hearing Mokou's theme song but it was a Ronald McDonald version, good times

[@Angel_Gomez21]

Can't forget about Flandere's as well lol

[@andrewramlall3560]

The storytelling through Mokou's fight is so nicely done

[@ardoriccardoc4577]

I was waiting days for this, I still stuck

[@seb3082]

Wow I actually beat this in one sitting. Great video!

[@jadeng.s.2549]

14:17 Buddhist Propaganda

[@kienphucnguyen2001]

This is literally extra guide to those who are good at non-homing shot tho.

[@santiagosalas7088]

Thanks so much, i finally beat the stage

[@JosephHk743]

Good job! I watched the whole thing and the tips even helped me! If I’m not up to cannon spamming, would these strategies work for the others?

[@MegamanOmega184]

Yes and no to a degree. For the most part there's very few (if any) points where I'm using Marisa's speed to dodge things to the point where other characters couldn't keep up. So I think anyone _could_ do what I did here However at the same time other characters have abilities that Marisa doesn't have, so they could dodge things safer and smarter than doing it like I do here. Everyone else for example has homing or wide ranged shots, so they can play it safer and don't need to worry about getting under the boss to damage them like my strategies account for.

[@Flygoniaks]

Ah yes, PoFV is next, right? I'll be sure to link up the old art pieces in the comments.

[@velvet7304]

Ah yes, best girl time.

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ffs]

Legends say there's a MegamanAlpha, MegamanBeta, MegamanGamma, MegamanDelta, MegamanEpsilon, MegamanZeta, MegamanEta, MegamanTheta, MegamanIota, MegamanKappa, MegamanLambda, MegamanMu, MegamanNu, MegamanXi, MegamanOmnicron, MegamanPi, MegamanRho, MegamanSigma, MegamanTau, MegamanUpsilon, MegamanPhi, MegamanChi, and MegamanPsi

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ffs]

MegamanHeta, MegamanDigamma, MegamanSau, MegamanKoppa, MegamanSampi, and MegamanTsan are dead

[@AJAredstone]

Wait is Mokou using perfect possession during the "Possessed by Phoenix" spell card?

[@TurboGhast.]

No, the timeframe of IN is way too early and the card's possession acts differently. Perfect possession only came into existence because of the Urban Legend incident, which only starts well after this game. In addition, if this was perfect possession Mokou would be stuck in the dream world, not free to shoot bullets at you.

[@AJAredstone]

@@TurboGhast. Yeah true. It just popped into my head because the first instance of perfect possession was Reimu being possessed by Mokou. Maybe ZUN got the idea for the lore from "Possessed by Phoenix"? After all perfect possession is just an excuse to add a tag in system to the fighting games.

[@yunokitsune7642]

Im totally beginner in touhou and looking at this hell give me ptsd

[@alwayrember193]

What are the 10 time orbs for? The last spell? If so, wouldn't it be better at 0? Someone needs to TAS this to not even get those ten. Also at 15:15, coincidentally, a wild Junko appeared. I know nobody will get this joke, it's because Junko is in LoLK, the 15th game and the clock says 15:15 and Junko shoots circles

[@MegamanOmega184]

Theoretically you could get less than 10 time points, but it'd have to be a TAS. You get them from killing enemies and bosses, so a pure pacifist run would remove a lot of them. But you also get them from grazing bullets when you graze bullets at 80% youkai or human.So you'd need to not kill any enemy and time out every spell, but also make sure you're constantly swapping through focused and unfocused movement throughout the battle to make sure you don't graze too many things as one or the other.

[@testchannel9894]

How do you record the older games in 1080p?

[@zoeyuroboros5739]

given that you dont use bombs normally, why not pop a last spell every time you die? its like deathbombing but easier and also more expensive

[@kwobuk]

bc he cant

[@Reboundary]

The timing on death bombing is very strict. Basically you have to know you are about to get hit and press accordingly.

[@frdla4124]

I want to hear those rages in 9.5

[@MegamanOmega184]

I hate to say it, but sadly I didn't do vocal commentary in 9.5. Rather it was because of the stuff that happened in that game that gave me the idea to to vocal first impressions for DS.

[@josephayala5727]

How did mokou get immortal? She seems like a normal human to me

[@frdla4124]

She drank the hourai elixir

[@josephayala5727]

Hey megaman omega? Do you think that mokou and keine are both sisters just like mai and yuki from mystic square? Or is it just me?

[@goodgizmo8132]

@@josephayala5727 I know you weren't asking me, but I don't think that's possible. Mokou's been around for thousands of years and any family she had would be long gone.

[@josephayala5727]

@@goodgizmo8132 really? No way.

[@AJAredstone]

@@josephayala5727 They are not. I suggest reading stuff up on the wiki if you're curious. Keine is a were-hakutaku and a history teacher that became friends with Mokou. Mokou is almost 1400 years old and became immortal by drinking the Hourai Elixir, which is created by the combined powers of Kaguya and Eirin. Kaguya left it behind when she returned to the moon some 1300 years ago. Mokou drank it because she hates Kaguya and wants to kill her because Kaguya got her father killed. They've spent the last 300 years killing each other every single day.