MUSHIHIMESAMA FUTARI Ver.1.5 stage 5 boss[ultra]

A replay that I found on a japanese site. This is said to be the hardest boss in shmup history... as far as I know, no one ever has beat this boss without continues. this is probably the nightmare of all shmup players...
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[@johnl2124]

Last boss continue costs $100 XD

[@DarkS3raph1m]

Even though this boss is simply impossible to understand, I did enjoy looking at the artistic patterns that took so many of this person's coins.

[@alexcs64]

It's insane.

[@SPAZERx2]

Beating this boss means bragging rights forever.

[@DarkMetalOverlord]

WHAT THE FUCK?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[@SrmthfgRockLee]

and people think LoL is hard.. lol warcraft 3 has so much more multitasking.. so much more skill, and in this chinese.. japanesE?game.. they actually made it hard with one unit..yeah escape maps.. indiana jones.. good! u have to look out for so many details.. great music too I'd like to play that game sometime ;o

[@fooliomcfatjr]

For anyone that's wondering why he stopped at the end, he was trying to learn the bullet pattern so he could dodge it for the next time he plays

[@qazxswe5697]

i like to see someone run this without continue or bomb

[@AceOfHeartsDX]

I've been playing bullet-hell shmups for a few months now, and I've seen quite a number of videos of "difficult/impossble fights". However, even though I am, myself, really starting to understand advanced dodging techniques, this vide *still* makes me gape. I don't *care* if the hitbox is a single pixel - this should not be humanly possible. I salute you: you must rank among at *least* the top 10 shmup players in this world.

[@BBQporkramen]

This is actually only the first form. There's two more forms after this. In the Mushi Futari superplay DVD, players Yusemi-SWY and Dame K.K both cleared Ultra mode on one credit.

[@EvrainBrandigan]

@Pro21xx the game itself is designed as a challenge: if you manage to beat it without dying not even a single time, this boss offers the supreme challenge. It's supposed to be a test of skills. And yes, someone actually beat it in a single continue and without dying.

[@hawkwardd_]

Thank you for the information! Don't worry, you helped as much as you could and I'm very grateful for that =D

[@ChurchOfSolipsism]

This game is kinda famous for not being region locked like everything else Cave has released so far on the Xbox in Japan. It's also available as a plain simple PCB you can plug into your run-of-the-mill jamma arcade cab or supergun.

[@Mysterioman]

BGM perfectly matches with the intensity of this boss! so... many... bullets... even lagged because there was so many...

[@Sasupoika2]

"We all have life. Some do what they enjoy to do, some seek for acception from others by doing things that are said to be life."

[@EvrainBrandigan]

@Holammer amen to that :) The good thing is that even CAVE differentiates its offer, and Futari itself has three ranks of difficulty. There are people who prefer Original (normal) mode and those like me who want the challenge of Ultra (very Hard) mode :) Long live shmups, I'd say

[@camydoger]

"A firework display being sick" - Charlie Brooker on schmups.

[@foxxthefox]

@Holammer Things change my friend.. Even this games does. Classic SHMUPS are about killing enemies who shoots very few bullets but moves in such a fast motion. Hit box is big. Golden Age shmups(that sadly doesn't end up in the Western Consoles too much) are about Dodging a few hundred bullets that moves very slowly... Hit box is small. It may look shocking at your first game. But in the long shot... a shmup will be a shmup...

[@Mylexsi]

it's the challenge of it. some people (like me =D ) find enjoyment through attempting things they cannot currently do, and eventually overcoming those challenges.

[@CaffenatedHippie]

The bullet patterns are strangely mesmerizing...

[@hardcoredirengreyfan]

god i give big props to people who can control 2 ships like the people who play ikaruga on hard with both people mad props.

[@gaddeath]

Well, "futari" can have more than one meaning. Usually its used to say how many people there are (i.e. "Kore wa futari desu", or There are two people) However, they use this to say "part 2". So "Mushihimesama Futari" pretty much means "Insect Princess 2" in a nutshell. However, some people say that "futari" is used because you can "switch" between the two characters (each with their own shooting style so I heard).

[@gaddeath]

Mushihimesama means "Insect Princes"; note how most of the enemies and bosses are forms of some sort of "insect".

[@xtruxtonx]

too insane, and avoidance that almost fills the entire scene of attacks, just as if it had become a mosquito or something even smaller

[@Dazreiello-old]

Wanna know what I love about games like these and their bosses? Its not like other games where the boss realistically seems to give you all the chances in the world to defeat them, no, these bosses are out to kill you good! They want you dead as can be, Its only up to how much skill you have to avoid the continuous death fields.

[@drewgarcia117]

It's also an arcade title, so it's harder so that people will put more money in to beat the game. Most arcade games are harder than a console game so they can get that extra bit of money out of every play.

[@Wei_Radula_Regiment]

Haha, you and me both! I didn't even expect it to be good when I began, it's just that as the comment chain went on, it was like a build-up.

[@OneWingedGamer18]

OMFG!!!!!! The Number of bullet is just INSANE!!! can't pass this boss without a million continues O.O

[@EvrainBrandigan]

Keep your eyes on the shining circle, that's the hitbox.

[@XistoKente]

Adventure starts here. Supply yourself, bring extra water.

[@transcending_concrete]

I have this game on XBOX360 and there is a replay of someone who did this mode without Continue. He lost no sinlge life during the whole game, did this boss here and then started the TLB (True Last Boss) and loses all lives except one. And he won. Think it was some Japanese guy. I was impressed.

[@thegreathaku395]

@TotalMadnesification Correction, huge amounts of people have beat this boss. He said that it's nearly impossible without continues.

[@SharPhoe]

In most Bullet Hell games, firing off one of your special bombs will either remove all bullets from the screen or render you temporarily invulnerable.

[@Mecharocca]

Oh yes, surely they are, though who could honestly say we don't love them for it? ;)

[@Galodude]

I think they forgot the point about how hard a final boss can be. A person this big [0] can go through things this small that are this close together[ ........................]

[@wlmason73]

The first few times I watched this I couldn't figure out why the player stopped shooting at the end. At first I thought that maybe the boss was invincible at that moment, but watching the life bar it's clear that wasn't the case. Then I thought there was probably some game mechanic that I didn't understand. However, I finally realized the player was actually trying to learn the bullet pattern once victory had been assured.

[@PhantasmXD]

correction: I just downloaded the soundtrack to this game and it has the character's voices as tracks. Here's what she says:"お前の代用品などいくらでも言う。。。死ね"(omae no daiyouhin[substitues] nado ikurademo iu... shine)... Sounds like she's talking to the player and the player's extra lives LOL

[@EvrainBrandigan]

@xtrem3rd most of these attacks are actually a random pattern + an aimed pattern (eventually multiply or vary proportions), with time your mind learns to see the pattern and thus dodge easily (for example, the reticulus plus arches can be easily avoided by just watching out for when the reticulus closes and then moving up and down through the arches). The undodgeable walls are there to force you out of safespots, just that. They're not part of the attack... if you MOVE.

[@ThePageofCups]

@SuperMetroid4567 The video. The game can be imported from PlayAsia for the 360 (it's a region free game along with a few other Cave shmups. the others are region locked.) or you can get the arcade cabinet for a few thousand dollars.

[@calvinruin]

@Hazefulify Yea, thats why japanese danmaku shooters are so scary. They paint the screen purple and say if you touch purple you die. Nearly impossible but addictingly fun XD

[@gigaslave]

Multiple curtains of criss-crossing bullets moving at mixed velocities. (jawdrop.gif)

[@SpikeRosered]

Now that I've played DeathSmiles I finally understand what's happening when there are gaps in the attacks. Either the player is using a bomb or he's done enough damage to move the boss into the next stage of attack.

[@GeaForce]

Well, that's why this genre is known as "Bullet hell". People who made theese games feed from players anger and despair... However, the feeling you have after completing one of them is close to an orgasm

[@dominikabra]

I could play this on the XBOX360 and indeed, a single hit kills you and the blue glowing bomb destroys all enemy shots for a short period of time. You get three of those bombs with each life. The power of continues is the only thing that will let you through...

[@BonazaiGirl]

Yep. Didn't die once. Still, to even REACH this boss is a significant accomplishment itself!

[@BlackNhite]

"What is this? I can still see the background behind your bullets? Unacceptable! MOAR DAKKA!"

[@Rider0fLightning]

My jaw is so far down it hit the magmatic core of our planet and burnt up!

[@ThatDudesDude]

My ears is filled with epicness but my eyes are filled with horror, PURPLE AAAAAAAAH!!!

[@Lorhin]

they always keep all the sweet games in Japan... us westerners are missing out on stuff like this.

[@switcheezy]

fuuukkkkkk the amount of bullets that boss unleashes is unreal....

[@ScarletSho]

This is like fighting flame hyenard! Having to dodge multiple shots, all the while he is screaming at you.

[@RYNO2511]

that is probably at the top of most impossible things to do in the world, even more than becoming the hulk

[@OZZYRULES200]

I bought this game a month ago and can't beat original mode without dying but it's still fun in small doses.

[@krawky398]

That's true, but(for me, anyway) you also have your sprite being bigger as well as not really knowing what your hitbox size is, so it's easier to panic, and panicking is always bad in a danmaku game.

[@RougeMephilesClone]

And that video by Terry Fuckwitt over there? The ten minute long one? That's played on the hardest difficulty, in which the queen fights you after you finally kill this thing. The people who made this game are nuts.

[@DarkMystletainn]

To beat this on any difficulty you need:Knowledge of Touhou on lunatic,knoledge your hitbox is smaller than what you think,and that is pretty much it...

[@MRSketch09]

No kidding. I can only imagine the amount of blood vessels that would burst on my forehead.

[@XGluon]

Oh. My. God. This makes Hibachi of Dodonpachi fame look like a Gradius final boss.

[@zakashin]

Yeah it took me a while to figure out that the top and bottom side of your ship determine if you are hurt by certain projectiles.

[@goglespit]

Somewhere right now a planet is being blown to smitherings for no apparent reason

[@metaler17]

I cant even process how good his reactions and his precision would have to be to do this game without continues.

[@chistophersaylor]

i feel like im on the verge of having a seizure or panic attack whenever I watch this

[@shadowx9471]

Whoever's piloting that ship must love that cat. O_O

[@TheDoomerBlox]

Yes, someone can say "unfair!" Your weapons are crazy, but the boss' weapons are.. Yeah, screen-filling.

[@hawkwardd_]

Wow! Love the music, one heck of a psychotic boss... I MUST try this lol. What platform is it on? Oh and she sounds pissed... REAL pissed.

[@fenrisulvr]

you're too good for this planet.

[@ixekun]

it's playable once you get into it really, but the game is generous enough to let the bullets hit the cockpit instead of the ship as a whole.

[@supertoastdemon]

And those Mechboyz will build a massive Dakka Machine that has enough Dakka to level an entire city in seconds... and It will still not be enough Dakka.

[@21stCenturyDub]

@xtrem3rd "Last Boss" on the Mushihime-sama Futari OST I believe. Nice mix of orchestral rock and hardcore techno rhythms.

[@StarFyreXXX]

is it possible to beat without dying? some of the spreads dont look like they have any gaps.

[@MomijiTsukuyomi]

Yukari's hard just because it's a really long fight. :p I've never been lucky enough to get my hands on Mushi Futari yet, but I can rarely get past the third stage in the original Mushihimesama (Maniac) without continuing. Note: The PS2 port of Mushihimesama comes with 'Arrange' mode, in which it's a cross between Maniac and Ultra difficulty, and you can change your shots, as well as you have 6 options instead of four. I personally think it's more fun, but you can't continue in that mode.

[@maniace]

On what platform did this come out? Only in the arcades or?

[@kalebparham]

it's actually a lot more fun than you would think

[@cloudeleven]

2:48 is the craziest thing ever in video games.

[@WheelrProductions]

I want to cry..... this is insanity

[@EvanShimizu]

@thecaveman7 That was on a different mode. He did the GOD MODE final boss. Apparently this Ultra mode boss is significantly harder.

[@cooooooookiiee]

give this dude credit man i would di in not even a second man thats tough man

[@Clownpiece]

America: Congratulations! You beat the game! Japan: Tutorial Complete!

[@OSomeness]

The game has a system that rewards you points for straying close to the bullets. This is called "grazing".

[@Deachet]

"...no one ever has beat this boss without continues..." No one except Chuck Norris.

[@Vahnno1]

The player's ship may be big, but only one pixel of the whole thing is vulnerable to hits.

[@BonazaiGirl]

A youtuber DID beat this boss w/out dying at all, even unlocking the TRUE final boss on god mode.

[@ZorotheGallade]

Shoot'em up bosses, aka "Put a brick on the trigger and TRY not to touch anything!"

[@hdofu]

this game is one of the entrance questions on the "becoming a japanese citizen" exam

[@EmeraldDragon96]

In America: congratulations you beat the game!!! Japan: End of Tutorial

[@EvrainBrandigan]

@xtrem3rd most shooter music is awesome, and CAVE usually hires soundtrack god Manabu Namiki and his Basiscape record label; you have to play it real life to understand the insane adrenaline rush you get from such a brutal boss fight, nothing you can ever get from Halo or other Western game, you feel the "you are all-powerful, yet I WILL crush you" attitude. Plus, most bullets have their own hitbox, with an "outer rim" that is innocuous and an harmful core. You learn with time to see that.

[@neilsil]

I loved how at 2:04 she started laughing and then exploded.

[@SweetChillyT]

What a cruel boss,but the guy playing did great considering. Cool music too.

[@Vahniche]

Achievement Unlocked! "Master Of Dodging Bullets"

[@foxxthefox]

@OilyTower I'm serious... I find this games tougher than Touhou Lunatic... My friends are even surprised when I run through a new touhou game they let me tried in lunatic, and then they told me that I was the only person that went that far without getting the Power Ups(P). And I'm like meh... cant tell the same with Mushihimesama( the prequel of this game ) that thing in Ultra is just... wow...

[@EvrainBrandigan]

@Nintega point is in Japan arcades are meeting points, complete with cafes, fast foods and the like, you go there have a quick play and then drink something (for example in Akihabara there was a SEGA run arcade complete with a maid cafe and high-class restaurant, all in the same facility) so for japanese guys arcades are still great to go to. And they learn to play serious games.

[@Ibeatgod689]

Being able to beat him means you can dodge rain. DAMN!

[@LovecraftsCatName]

@Sasupoika2 i dont know where is the originality on filling the stage with bullets while using a repetitive pattern that always follow the same route f.e(deathsmiles) most of touhou attacks have a random path maybe not quick sucession as cave games cave games basicly consists in fill the stage of bullets just letting you a small gap between them zun games let you more space between bullets but makes you think faster about your movement pattern

[@emmeeemm]

Oh, Good. This fight would be even more hellish without them.

[@theripper00]

@Dazreiello No skill involved. You can NOT dodge an Entire screen of bullets. All this is required to beat this boss is 6 dollars in quarters.

[@Tounushi]

Unholy amounts of dakka. STILL NOT ENOUGH.

[@jcs101194]

@iblobtouch They say that Chuck Norris beat this boss with a broken guitar hero controller... while brushing his teeth.

[@Sasupoika2]

Actually, the original player who did that video was Harist if I remember right. He has the video on youtube.

[@EvrainBrandigan]

CAVE will never understand the word "fairness". In an interview, one of them big guys said that when someone tells the lead programmer a boss is too hard, he actually makes it HARDER!

[@BrotherMojo]

@LargeFG7777 It's absolutely possible to avoid those attacks. In the Black Label version, they added a second form for this boss, accessed only by beating everything else in the game without dying once, on the hardest difficulty. And people have done so. Search for "Spiritual Larsa" and you'll see what I mean.

[@Leander_]

After this boss is over ''STAGE ONE COMPLETE''