PCB Lunatic, Stage 6: Yuyuko Saigyouji

• PCB Lunatic, Stage 6: ... HD
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Great battle or greatest battle?

[@warfu_]

It took me long to understand why there's the Resurrection Butterfly, her true last spell card. According to the story, Yuyuko wants to resurrect a certain someone, whom she doesn't even know. The soul sealed inside the Saigyou Ayakashi (the Saigyou Cherry Tree) was hers from her human life, and she was so close to resurrecting herself by the 80% of completion of the bloom, that it permitted her to throw one last Spell Card. A last breath of power by her other self attached to the youkai tree.

[@FishGamingReal]

First time I played, I thought it was the tree itself attacking

[@olixx1213]

@@FishGamingReal it is the tree in a way

[@jacobdelacruz558]

so if you play on easy mode, yuyuko was only 10% close meaning you had the remaining 90% of spring lmao

[@BenersantheBread]

@@jacobdelacruz558 Well no, Yuyuko's profile refers to the amount carried by the player character as tiny. It would've just been a small boost to the collection process.

[@BenersantheBread]

I've always interpreted it as the sealed (and dead) Yuyuko almost coming back to life and trying desperately to hold onto her life through the broken seal since the figure we see in the spell card is the sillhouette of Yuyuko, not the one we were fighting before.

[@justicevarner7417]

Yuyuko's last spellcard took me off guard when i first fought her.

[@EinManU]

me too 0_o

[@Nole2701]

i bombed the fuck out of the "last" spellcard on my first survival with continues playthrough. I had no bombs for the last unexpected spellcard that I didnt know existed. I eventually died.

[@adhit]

surprise buttsecks lol.

[@tabafatristanjayechona9417]

a spellcard you least expect, and not everyone have that

[@artintovate4962]

You and probably everybody that played PCB for the first time

[@radiodeamon]

The Resurrection Butterfly ALWAYS give me the chills, I love it X3

[@dariostar592]

Will you answer 11 years after making this comment?

[@miyakoyoshika100yearsago4]

@@dariostar592 no

[@miyakoyoshika100yearsago4]

11 years ago, 111 likes

[@doctorblaze8754]

@@miyakoyoshika100yearsago4 130 likes

[@AYORoot]

@@dariostar592 Apparently not

[@AJSdanmakufu]

The music synced with Resurrection Butterfly always gives me chills, especially right when the awesome part starts as time slows, the screen glows, and Yuyuko goes...away.

[@JcDizon]

I have beaten all the main Touhou games except for the first two and out of all the boss fights, the fight against Yuyuko is the most epic one. She has one of the best music themes, the background graphics, scenery and her bullets are beautiful and Perfect Cherry Blossom has the cherry blossom petals which keeps falling off during the final fight, Touhou 7 and 8 are the only main games that a final boss spell with its own music.

[@derpsire53]

Sariel also has a final spell with it's own theme too.

[@MajraMangetsu]

+derpsire53 I didn't know that, well thanks.

[@DragonEnthusiast]

Not to mention the transition to Resurrection Butterfly

[@syncswim]

The whole fight is one of the most iconic moments in modern videogame history.

[@goldypmu]

Okay, I got shivers when Border of Life started to play. Damnit Yuyuko!

[@Roxas199]

This is one of the better final battles in the series. No matter how bad you are, no matter how you fast you kill her, the music will sync somehow, and the fade out at the end is amazing.

[@aterfoswk5372]

you can also see it in lenen project

[@danieleduardomorenoperez1886]

​@@aterfoswk5372where

[@CooHaa135]

Youmu: If you step any further, the young mistress will kill you! Me: Yeah, how do you step further if your flying?

[@SadisticPenguinOfAND]

Yeah, I have to agree. The first time I cleared lunatic is actually on a run that I paused right at the end of stage 2 to go to lunch then class, joking with my roommate that "It didn't matter since I wouldn't beat it anyway." Of course then I get home, sit down, and clear lunatic (with no lives remaining of course.) I was dumbfounded. Moments like that are hard to come by in any other game!

[@aphreytheelite8287]

You got guts with one live left there...damn Yuyuko is so scary.

[@edderiofer]

*reads comment, then remembers the time I thought I had defeated Yuyuko by bombing away the last spellcard... then running into Resurrection Blossom* That was on Easy, by the way, after I had used up all 3 continues and had no lives left. I didn't make it, needless to say.

[@tailsfoxboy]

@风见幽香 Your thinking of touhou 6 embodiment of scarlet devil, where the game ends after you beat sakuya on easy. I think this even happens with touhou 4 lotus land story.

[@yuuka2490]

Before the last spell card. ( first time playing PCB ) I kept bombing just for fun because I thought I finished the game when her Health bar dropped to 0, I had 1 life, 0 bomb, suddenly, a song appeared while I was dancing in the midst of the screen. Yuyuko : hai, you didn't need that 1cc, did you ? Me : oh no it's fine, I've only spent like days trying to practice to reach you. OH SHIIII -

[@EinManU]

Kappacino Lmao.

[@duoname3]

Gotta love how we forgot to breath in these situation .

[@Hiandbye95]

Were this the longest 66 seconds of your life?

[@phillipmagon]

they were the last 16 seconds of mine

[@dimabodnaruk35]

Generally yes, but on the try where I managed to 1cc Lunatic, I had 1 hp and 4 bombs (allowing me to negate 9 waves of her butterflies, which is the exact amount of the waves she fires) so I just pretty much spammed her down without even trying to dodge

[@888chilly]

Argh, I got a game over on Ressurection Butterfly when there was two seconds left! Somehow, even though I did not get the good ending, I was satisfied...

[@Babybahamut]

The music, the intensity, the... oh god just everything. This is the best moment in Touhou. No matter how many times I clear it that slowdown right at the end is still one of the most awesome feelings. Hourai Elixir comes very close, but given the backstory of PCB the final stage is unquestionably epic. It really is a do-or-die situation story-wise. Fantastic run SP, had me on tenterhooks at the end there, and congrats on your Lunatic 1cc!

[@zandermanandcassymom]

I heard that there should be a safespot in Resurrection Butterfly just to the right of the default starting point. Anyways, besides Eirin's and Kaguya's themes, Yuyuko's theme is the most epic boss theme in the series.

[@HakugyokurouPrincess]

Well, of course! All of those amulets the miko was shooting at me hurt quite a bit...

[@IsabelElysium]

I know this is atleast 10+ years ago, but the fight against Yuyuko has to be one of the most memorable ones. ZUN always drops epic games with epic plots, like Perfect Cherry Blossom, which, no matter the age, is always amazing and never getting boring. That is the catch of Touhou games. Once you play it/see a gameplay of it/hear the amazing soundtracks, you can't really forget it, can you? The fact the most replayed moment in this video is right when Yuyuko does the fabulously popular spell-card "Resurrection Butterfly" doesn't surprise me at all, that is when the fight just gets even more amazing, even with the music matching the fight. Easily part of my Top 5 favorite Touhou games. Something also really epic about Touhou games is that the soundtracks are always bangers, and the bosses have challenging spell cards, but when you defeat them, you always have a proud feeling of yourself, no matter how many bombs you will consume or lives lost, remember that you tried your best (unless you purposely didn't). The feeling of 1cc is also amazing, it's something everyone could achieve through practice, some people give up, but the time that has been spent is precious. Perfect Cherry Blossom is one of the many Touhou games which are simply fabulous, mesmerizing in their own. Some games may appear with a dislike, but even so, remember that everyone has their own tastes. You can't really go against one's opinion, even if you're really desperate for it. Perfect Cherry Blossom is a fair game with a great plot, a catch that is amazing, and the backstory behind Yuyuko is sad and hopeless, but that is what makes a character great: the great backstory, the great story and catch to them, and maybe the appearance in certain cases. And Yuyuko fulfills all of these tasks. ZUN truly deserves recognition, some people who are just like him end up being ignored by society, but ZUN didn't give up, did he? ZUN tries his hard, maybe even rushing some things, but that's fine. Then he's all happy, and enjoying a nice glass of beer. That's great, isn't it? People like him sometimes are simply never appreciated, due to them being a drunkard or whatever. Another catch to Touhou Project is the amazing number of how many characters there are so far. And one of them, you're surely gonna like them. Each character has their own amazing touch to them, and that's one of the many amazing things. Maybe you're gonna dislike someone due to the severe incident or whatever, but everyone has their own tastes, again. The amazing soundtracks, it's impossible to not like one. The endless possibilities are all in Touhou and also other things as well. That is Touhou Project for you. And not only that, ZUN created a whole world many people acknowledged about: Gensokyo. Look at the amount of fanmade games, the amount of fanmade series, the amount of fanmade characters, the amount of fanmade stuff inspired directly from Touhou Project, the amount of KZbinrs who acknowledge Touhou and may also make content about it. A franchise like this is simply perfect, even if there are downsides. You can feel all proud and happy, and someone else will too. Somewhere there may even be someone like you. The endless amount of Touhou videos. All in one. A community quite old but has grown to be amazing. It's Touhou Project for you!

[@TheErraticdream]

When I beat her last spell card I felt immense relief and took my hands off the keyboard momentarily to rub my eyes... Big mistake.

[@estebleh4382]

last spell card surprise !!!!

[@Raymai97]

Wow! You are brave, if I were you I will just bomb through the last timeout spell... After beating for 6 stage I am not going to lose the chance to get 1CC... I started to play Touhou since Oct 2013, and I think I am getting closer to beat Touhou PCB 1CC on normal difficulty... I just beat Touhou IN 1CC on normal difficulty a few days ago for the first time... I think I just need to avoid mistakes... What to do, practice make perfect...

[@Awalys]

Dude, I was like 14 seconds close to end 1cc Normal. I had bombs, but why I did I didn't use them? Becuase I ma a BAKA

[@M.-fy8gj]

love this stage was the first 2hu game that i ever completed on both easy and lunatic modes been playin since 2009

[@JapanForSale]

I once played PCB in the school library while we were supposed to be studying for our JPN finals. For some reason, playing this in public with others watching actually made me focus even more. I usually can't even beat Easy on any of the games on the first try, but that time I more or less "easily" got up to Yuyuko on Normal. Even I was surprised at some of the crazy shit I managed to pull off up to that pt. Then when I thought I'd beaten her, RESURRECTION BUTTERFLY POPPED UP AND I SHAT MYSELF!

[@Kainync]

7:01 That moment that caught off guard anyone who reached it the first time without expecting this.

[@SadisticPenguinOfAND]

Yeah, that's the only reason I felt up to going for that capture. 4000 attempts at the harder version definitely made me feel safe enough to try.

[@yuk_ichi52]

Yuyuko’s lore and backstory is the one I love.

[@octapusxft]

I like how before and after the resurrection butterfly reimu moves left and right to show the excitement

[@OneDentsuSheep]

That was awesome man, congrats !! Yeah, I couldn't breathe during the last spell too. Awesome, freaking awesome.

[@OmegaTaishu]

WOW!!!! Man, you're incredible!! Congrats for capturing the last spell card!

[@Twila27]

Final stages in the Touhou games are what keep me going at night. Only game I know that even if I end up losing to the boss I'm not complaining because "That was such an epic fight" keeps running through my head as I slump down in my chair or against a wall. Then I have to clean the sweat off my Shift, Z, and X keys. =P Love the video, definitely subscribing. Annotations always make the video more personal than just a replay of a replay. ;P

[@baldkiwi444]

i'm surprised at the high quality of this video

[@ShuyaTheDark]

8:12 This moment lives in my head like a fever dream. I remembered the way the song ends, the screen full of clutter, the feeling of pure agitation. I was even trying to remember why the song matches the end of the fight so perfectly if you can defeat bosses before the time runs out... but not here. ZUN is a genius choreographer.

[@killyh]

Omg, I couldn`t breathe when Supernatural Border ended just before the final wave and you dodged those big orbs by a pixel.

[@SadisticPenguinOfAND]

@waalkwriter It makes you move more slowly, which gives you finer control over actions. Really that's where practice helps, so that you can close the gap between knowing where you want your character to go and actually getting your character there.

[@delpedrob6994]

The final is so epic!

[@SurprisedSniper420]

Best boss ever, very beautiful music :o gives you chills

[@sephirothsmiley]

It was very pleasant to watch. Also you have godlike reflexes on some spellcards... I usually do these kind of moves randomly and still die afterward. Damn i started with PCB, but never saw any lunatic run of it. (And watched tons of SA, IN, MoF...) Guess i'll have to replay PCB because of you ! :D (But in normal, i'm a mortal afterall)

[@HarryVoyager]

I do love how the KZbin compression algorithm hits this and just go Nope! That's an impressive amount of moving parts.

[@DeHammXXIII]

7:03 the most epic scene in Touhou imo

[@PCJedi6]

Wow, excellent job sir! Especially on Resurrection Butterfly!

[@Kelleck]

with one heart, you really were on the border of life

[@LeaksHater]

i realy love this last boss, the music is very cool too

[@Animee_channel09]

man i love yuyuko both her final stage and theme:(

[@rubitch]

I'm so bad,I didnt even got to Yuyuko's first spell EVEN ON EASY MODE

[@God-ch8lq]

many of us do, but we never admit

[@jermfanaccount]

yeah man, that was tough. even on practise mode it took me a good 16 times to beat her at least once

[@ash0787]

don't think of it as a battle but as a theatre performance

[@AYORoot]

I finished this yesterday playing normal, I was on my last live, no bombs, no more continues. I couldn't believe I actually finished it, my soul came back to me because I swear I wasn't myself when playing that last part.

[@karnifall]

I GOT A 1CC!!! A normal mode 1cc, but it's still a 1cc

[@cosmefulanito6854]

I got one too, recently. Touhou 7 was my first Touhou and the only one I've beaten in all difficulties, so I played it a lot. After beating all the others Touhou games, I felt like playing it again, and when I noticed I haven't died or used a bomb during the first 4 levels, I decided to try and 1cc and I did. It is my only "real" 1cc (Because the only other one is Touhou 15, because PointDevice mode), so it felt really good, even though I practically have the game memorized already

[@mirobelle9701]

This is art.

[@SaffronAJK]

@zappazoey Your rhyming gave the the chills.

[@StationSquareW]

Holy crap that last phase with the resurrection butterfly... O_O

[@usuallydead]

Ah, the memories. Back before fandoms destroyed everything they touch.

[@trashkun7354]

well, touhou clearly have one of the best huge fandom out there..

[@user-jr4rn6kd7i]

Its also kinda horribile but way better then certain others i would say

[@lexrilrideout1757]

@@user-jr4rn6kd7i whadya mean horrible? The fandom is relatively silent, and 90% of the fandom are in japan. 😥

[@user-jr4rn6kd7i]

@@lexrilrideout1757 Because every fandom is horribile one way or another, I gave up on looking upon fandoms Long ago, I love toyhou and the fandom is ok, but still bad

[@DarkNova2010]

Touhou fandom is one of the best ones I've found. They aren't salty and make great fanarts.

[@SadisticPenguinOfAND]

@JohnForn No idea. I wasn't really going for anything pretty here, just a clear... I could certainly do better if I tried.

[@doremysarchive3753]

Undertale fans: sans is the hardest boss in history noone can beat him! Touhou fans: Hold my beer... and let me petrify this man

[@logan_M_]

I once thought undertale was bullet hell. Then I saw DDD, I found the soundtrack for Touhou, saw this and realized how wrong I was.

[@mulppsxd]

yuyuko spellcards is relaxing for eyes, but insane for gamers.

[@Shadowelf93]

Wow, I looked at Yuyuko's first non-spell and thought, "What the HELL... this is easier than on easy!"

[@ericzhan3454]

Nah imho it's way harder. I'm trying to 1cc hard and as it turns out some of the alignments are really annoying to dodge. In addition, while the spirals on easy require you to go between spirals, the bullets move slowly and give you more time to line up. But the prismrivers definitely get easier after normal.

[@xtrem3rd]

@Kirbymar96 In PCB? You mean those spinning thingies that spew tons of really fast bullets at you?

[@kaisercalvin1742]

I got 1cc normal. I'm now trying on Lunatic. On an unrelated note, the Prismrivers have me locked in their basement, please send help.

[@Hijijiriri]

@omgiownzizzleu Resurrection Butterfly isn't really all that hard, the first way of blue and purple butterflies come in lines that you can easily get through but the trouble is with the red butterflies because of the way they shoot, angled. It's overwhelming at first but you can get used to it.

[@jx_1132]

After losing that second last live, i just knew during those moments, he or she was either sweating "internally or externally."

[@MonsiTheKT]

At the very end I gasped so very hard. I thought you were about to get hit right before the capture.

[@MowseChao]

I would've seriously freaked out at half the stuff you went through. O_O; Woah. With the bullets getting that close... I normally get really fidgety and end up flying right into one. I see what you mean about how games other than Touhou 6 have smaller hitboxes though. I remember playing PCB a lot and going "that should have killed me, for sure!" since I was used to EoSD

[@Optiplexations]

720p60 in 2009. Amazing

[@JapanForSale]

@JapanForSale Me and my classmate were screaming "OH GOD! RESURRECTION BUTTERFLY!!!" under our breaths, it was amazing how we didn't get kicked out of the library especially with the Reference Desk being right behind us. XD Then I somehow managed to survive those full 40+ seconds by carpet bombing and running out what few lives that I've somehow racked up from the very beginning. It was literally down to the last live and the last 2 seconds at the end, and I still managed to get through.

[@zandermanandcassymom]

@zandermanandcassymom Actually, that's in the IN Last Word "Yuyuko Flawless Nirvana". ".

[@overlordmao9623]

So many danmakus, it makes it hard to focus on that hitbox of that miko!

[@YokusaHHart]

7:09 "I lived, bitch."

[@xtrem3rd]

@Kirbymar96 I'd like that, but there are some games I'm just not good at. In return, I'm a natural at RPGs and hack 'n' slay games. I'm also generally happy enough if I only manage to get a good ending in a Touhou game, and I don't care too much about the scoring or difficulty. I don't know why, but I always overlook a bullet here or there and fly straight into it. I mostly have problems with patterns that are either random or require moving through narrow gaps.

[@SadisticPenguinOfAND]

@e22big Well, the trick there is that in Imperishable Night you can play against a harder version of that same attack in spell practice... I spent over 4000 tries timing that one out (In HD Last Words Timed Out 3) and so I can do this easier form now pretty much on autopilot.

[@SadisticPenguinOfAND]

@Gr3g4rF4lz4r Remembering the melancholy of human existence, even ghosts stray from the path of righteousness.

[@regalstar]

@WoWMyrrh No-penalty is always 3. Also, quite a number of people don't really consider an 1cc to be "true" if it's beaten at max lives, especially if the final live count is less than whatever the difference between 3 and max lives is.

[@felixisoutplayed5678]

*Instant regrets of playing lunatic*

[@zergy23]

wow, you sir have earned my respect ... you do have dodging skills >_

[@regalstar]

Do keep in mind that she takes reduced damage from her fan. Also Marisa-B can shoot at both her and her fan for extra damage.

[@OrangeFlamer]

So this is where Bayonetta gets her butterfly from.she maid a deal with yuyuko the she will summon any of yuyuko butterflies for her attack,and in return she will feed dead angels to yuyuko.

[@EOCB]

I always think of the last spell as if though I am fighting the tree rather then Yuyuko

[@OrangeFlamer]

Dont take it the wrong way,but it gives me joys knowing that you to had had difficulty in this level on lunatic =)

[@waalkwriter]

@SadisticPenguinOfAND But that's holding the shift key down right? I have to do that with my middle finger which makes it difficult to do up down maneuvers.

[@chadzorz]

0_o wow just wow that final attack how the hell did you survive that I got disoreinted just watching i couldn't imagine playing it :p

[@iamtheshim]

Regardless of shot type, I always find the teal knife noncard to be MUCH easier in the bottom right corner...

[@elgatochurro]

Wow its just like in the anime!!!

[@tofuchicken2]

Tears fucking sprung out of my eyes

[@anitab5401]

Resurrection Butterfly still haunts me

[@SadisticPenguinOfAND]

@waalkwriter You are using right shift? You can use the left shift.

[@xtrem3rd]

@Kirbymar96 For me, it's always the same spots where I die. For example, in PCB, I ALWAYS die A LOT against Youmu. The slomo always completely screws me up, I just can't ever seem to remember when it starts and when it ends. Generally, I find the Stage 5 bosses in Touhou games to be the worst of the lot. Usually, the first three stages aren't even worth talking about, the stage 4 bosses are somewhat challenging, and I usually manage OK on the final bosses, but stage 5 bosses ALWAYS slaughter me.

[@xyne6542]

For some reason this is exactly the same as the normal difficulty fight... wouldn't be the first time a stage 6 boss was the same from normal to lunatic.

[@lisapainfulthe7438]

Greatest fight for me

[@SadisticPenguinOfAND]

@xtrem3rd Don't worry, everyone I know dies a LOT against Youmu. :) The only ones that breaks that stage five rule are IN and MoF. Stage five bosses are HARD.

[@xtrem3rd]

@SadisticPenguinOfAND The second-to-final bosses in Touhou games always like to be the hardest, somehow (aside from Extra, of course), and it seems to be something most fans have picked up. Even most of the fanmade games I've played follow the rule of having the second-to-final boss be the hardest boss in the game, like Labyrinth of Touhou or Touhouvania II.

[@SadisticPenguinOfAND]

@milabalkan1111 Yes, and thank you!

[@waalkwriter]

@SadisticPenguinOfAND Really? Oh wow. Thanks. That makes things a lot simpler! I've beaten the game on normal, but I'm trying to get to where I can beat it without continues.

[@xtrem3rd]

@Kirbymar96 Oh yeah, I hate those, too. Essentially, I dislike all kinds of patterns that move too fast to read properly and force you to memorize instead.

[@regalstar]

@chadzorz To put it lightly, lots of practice.

[@souldragon9130]

Wait, then what happened to Yuyuko after Resurrection Butterfly?

[@Perckq]

God-tier

[@TheBloodyAvenger]

yuyuko is my favorite character

[@Hejeheihihi]

2009, 60 fps....wait

[@FoXMaSteR001]

epic dude

[@Elven_Red]

Ahh man you should feel victorious. I barely finished 7 on normal and felt accomplished in life. I don't even care there is hardcore, lunatic, ultra patch and that people do these three perfect pacifist no-focus and whatnot with an eyepatch on their right eye and their left eye just done with a stabbing session. I felt good about myself =D