Seihou 1: Shuusou Gyoku - Extra Stage (Commentary & Translation)

Silk Road Alice
God this Extra Stage is a royal pain in the butt... Like this game has had before, the stage itself isn't too awful long but it does come at you hard and fast. However it is nice in that the hardest part of the stage is pretty early on and before the mid boss, so if you die there, there isn't really much harm in quickly resetting.
The mid-boss is more showy than actually being a threat. Oh yeah it'll kick your ass A LOT before you figure it out (I was almost ready to give up on this stage because of that bastard alone). But as soon as you learn how to beat it, it becomes second nature.
Marisa is... very luck based. She has a multitude of attacks and they all have varying ranges of difficulty depending on whether one to six of her spells are active when she fires them off. Learn the tricks behind all of the attacks and, while I hate to say this, be ready to bomb at a moments notice. Marisa is NOT above throwing you an undodgeable wall of bullets in a heartbeat.
And Reimu can go fuck herself... (☄ع◣д◢)☄
Anyone who knows Seihou knows what I mean there... But if you don't, Reimu's only real threat is her second phase everything else is just incredibly difficult but nothing too much to worry about. I will say this much though, I did actually figure out how to beat it without bombing (which is saying something considering NO ONE has perfect cleared this stage) but it is pretty much a requirement to come into this fight with full lives.
Boss Phases
1:46 - Mid-boss phase 1
1:59 - Mid-boss phase 2
3:37 - Marisa phase 1
4:09 - Marisa phase 2
5:19 - Marisa phase 3
6:43 - Reimu phase 1
7:15 - R̶e̶i̶m̶u̶ ̶p̶h̶a̶s̶e̶ ̶2̶ (indescribable hyper bullshit... (ಠ益ಠ )
7:40 - Reimu phase 3
8:20 - Reimu phase 4
9:03 - Reimu phase 5
9:32 - Reimu phase 6
9:48 - Reimu phase 7
Difficulty - Extra
Attack Mode - Laser
Extra Stage BGM - Silk Road Alice
BossA - Marisa Kirisame
BossB - Reimu Hakurei
BGM - The Witches' Ball ~ Magus
Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly ~ Ancients
Translations courtesy of the Touhou Wiki

[@mitsuhaha5574]

5:18 SHE DID A FLIP!! MARISA DID A FLIP!!!

[@lunatic0verlord10]

3:25 Well considering that the Kusanagi Sword just might still be in Gensokyo behind the counter of Kourindo, Gensokyo is probably the first place to look for the Holy Grail. The second one being the Lunar Capital. The third one being the Dream World. The fourth one being Heaven. The fifth one being Makai. And the sixth one being Hell.

[@neobullseye1]

7:33 That part where you try to Deathbomb, but end up using up a life /and/ a bomb instead. RIP XD

[@HashiNuke]

That also happens in Thousand Night Anamnesis

[@Mix_1247]

@@HashiNuke huh i was able to death bomb a lot of times without losing a life

[@tomlynmathewsjr7514]

I feel like that if Reimu's last pattern were a spellcard, it's name would be something along the lines of "Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly".

[@Wizzard220]

Honestly, the fact that stages 1~4 (depending on game) happen at all is because those bosses and whoever we play as are just too happy to fire at each other for little to no reason so the fights in Seihou don't seem too out of place compared to Touhou. Still hilarious to have the Holy Grail mentioned here. And Witches' Ball ~ Magus and Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly ~ Ancients are still as lovely as ever

[@AJAredstone]

Len'en up next! Almost in time for the 6th Anniversary

[@franbh94]

Do you know anything about Len'en 5? I mean, if Jynx said something about it.

[@MegamanOmega184]

@@franbh94 A _long_ time ago he released this image of it and has talked a little about it since. It's a prequel taking place before the events of EE and it's supposedly _not_ going to be a shooter. Len'en 5: Monochrome World images.shoutwiki.com/lenen/c/cd/MWTeaser.jpg

[@lunatic0verlord10]

@@MegamanOmega184 I think the demo for the spinoff has been released a few months ago, so we know that Jynx is still active.

[@shtj6761]

Wait, Omega recommending using bombs? Who are you and what have you done to the real Omega??

[@jadeng.s.2549]

Depending on his resource situation in Stage 6’s or the difficulty of the extra stages in Touhou games, he will bombspam if he has limited resources or dies consistently E.g. The EoSD stage 6 gameplay video (Only has 2 lives left), The LLS Extra Stage gameplay video (is constantly dying on Gengetsu’s attacks and is forced to bomb with the lack of lives he has left)

[@WishMakers]

Yes yes yes! I still love this stage very dearly, not to mention its godly music. 4 years worth of videos, new games, etc. hasn't changed that.

[@Glatier]

I like how Erich didn't even bother to tell Viv that the whole holy grail thing was a joke and just acted like she really understood what he really meant

[@lunatic0verlord10]

10:35 Either The Last Comer has been declared as "there's no way this fangame could be canon", or Reimu simply did not partake in the incident...

[@Suika182]

Given the timeline, this was probably BEFORE Iesua came.

[@UltimatePhantasm]

Transition? No, this has to be some some sort of AU. They're far too strong to be just coming out of the Classic era... Especially since ol' Mari here has motherfucking ANGEL WINGS

[@kazeith]

Yeah, that caught me off guard, winged Marisa would be kinda amazing on some latest Touhou games, especially fighting type spin-offs, and your pfp would be different too. But since she is just a human, that would be impossible.

[@kazeith]

Look at this too: en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/File:Th03marisa_boss.jpg It's from Phantasmagoria of Dim Dream

[@UltimatePhantasm]

@@kazeith Unlimited Marisa I mean, she kinda pulled it off in PoDD, though the wings were less so part of her body and more some sort of shadow-y energy wings with some sort of outer space pattern on them....but I digress.

[@kazeith]

@@UltimatePhantasm Yeah, the wiki says it's a pair of illusionary wings, but still kind of cool. Haven't found the fanart of it yet.

[@HashiNuke]

AU? What are you from, fucking Undertale?

[@nathanaeldean6301]

Holy hell, this would be a pretty respectably difficult stage even with focus. To do a no focus run of this is insane

[@prizmastarz742]

Whew,,,,,next game is Len'en Let's go with JynX's absurdity

[@jadebayoba7073]

6:41 Ammm, Omega, did you sleep well?

[@paw-paddedcalamity216]

Now that I play FGO I can actually understand the Holy Grail joke here. Still seems random to have that term come up here though. (And never read FSN)

[@josephayala5727]

I see what you mean about about reimu's second phase attack. It's an almost impossible to dodge spell card... Rage!

[@jadeng.s.2549]

Remember children Dichromatic Lotus Butterfly Red & White (DiPP Version) >>> Ancients (Seihou 1 Version (OG)

[@akoya7965]

shut the up kid

[@jadeng.s.2549]

Akoya shut doesn’t go up

[@akoya7965]

@@jadeng.s.2549 shut your up

[@brantontucker6734]

Wait a second.... Reimu turning into a ball of light!? Reimu, have you been taking lessons from Yuka

[@SerpentYoukai]

Kazami Sensei~

[@AyanaGaming]

Nue must have been taking lessons from yuka as well actually lol

[@zachreid8680]

I've been waiting for this....

[@lunatic0verlord10]

3:29 I'd like to see one of those "Fate/Whatever but the Servants are from other series" fanfics all with Touhou characters. Now the question will be who's who, as there are some Classes that have more options than others. Compare Archer and Caster, who have way too many options, to Lancer, who only has two options at best (and one of them hardly even uses her spear as more than a glorified walking cane).

[@BatterMontaguemusic]

Who would be Rider?

[@lunatic0verlord10]

@@BatterMontaguemusic Either Saki or Miko (with Saki as her Noble Phantasm). Though it could also be Komachi or Futo.

Marisa's Orange Attack and Reimu's Second phase give me nightmares

[@josephayala5727]

True that.

[@kalecavanaugh4067]

But if you closely you see the orange bullets make large pathways, the orbs though are bullshit

[@jadebayoba7073]

Ok.... I don't know how, and where, but you uploaded this soo much time ago.... Its maybe a Mandela Effect?..

[@goodgizmo8132]

This is a reupload with the commentary updated to the newer style since KZbin removed annotations. He's been doing it with all his old videos since the start of the year.

[@bashily2844]

I found ONE video of a perfect clear, uploaded 2 months ago, long after this video was first uploaded Here is the first (and only) recorded perfect clear: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaHHinqhjLR6ra8

[@jrsinen5080]

3:17 Basically Doraemon

[@lunatic0verlord10]

Is it me or is the Stage Theme based on the Windows Title Theme?

[@lunatic0verlord10]

10:39 It's kind of a shame the Extra Boss was this predecessor of Clownpiece instead of, say, a time-travelling ViVit...

[@marisakirisame867]

Better graphics that EoSD, huh?