The Most Insane Competitive Game You've Never Heard Of - Maiden And Spell

[@houraidinbucuresti3583]

Hi! I'm going to try commenting again since my previous one was invisible for some reason. I'm a long-time competitive Maiden & Spell player, and I recently got back into playing the game. Thank you for making a video highlighting this game and its competitive scene! I think it deserves a lot more attention. The community is indeed very helpful, and is generally happy to answer questions from new players and help them improve. If anyone reading this had any questions about the game's competitive scene, I'd be happy to answer.

[@mitsudafanni7978]

This dev's new game "Rabbit and Steel" just came out yesterday. It a similar game, but it's a boss-rush roguelike where all of the bosses have MMO-raid like mechanics and there's multiple classes to play as. It's really good, and was the reason I checked out Maiden and Spell in the first place.

[@VitaSlicca]

Rabbit and Steel is such a good game! I also plan on talking about it as someone coming from FF14 and the fun mechs that the game throws at people

[@guppyft990]

great video!

[@Its_1cy]

Keep up with he great work (please, it is actually really good)

[@VitaSlicca]

will do fellow gamer :D

[@thevideogamerest2663]

the touhou fighting games should have looked like this

[@VitaSlicca]

it'd be cool to see touhou fans try to create a game using this kind of system!

[@oofmasta9395]

I needed this

[@FailureGamin]

Damn now I wanna return to M&S just to try the 1v1s. Good video!!

[@adith2225]

the fact that this video is the first one you made is really impressive the quality is really good keep it up :>

[@VitaSlicca]

Thanks! I had a bit of experience back then making smaller vids for classes, but I really wanted to give a shot and I'm glad you liked it!

[@jet4299]

Really great video and overview of the game! Long time Touhou and assorted bullethell player! Gonna be picking it up!

[@VitaSlicca]

Thank for watching! i loooooove me some touhou and bullet hell, and excited to know you'll be checking it out!

[@toanoradian]

I like this video! Your explanation of the basics of the game comes across very well, I can clearly sense your love of the game, and if not for my absolute lack of skills in SHMUPs, I'd try this one. The background music did get a bit too loud for me, though. You mentioned that the Discord is friendly and there's a healthy Tournament scene, but have you yourself ever participated in a tournament? Would love to hear you going against these...monsters. Lastly, I wish you expand more on the unique points of each magical girl. Like, "Lich" is mentioned in the Competitive Tournaments part, maybe you could talk more about what Lich is like to play, or your own favourite (your 'main'?) character. Thanks for the video!

[@VitaSlicca]

Thanks! To be honest, this was one of my first SHMUP game that I've tried, and compared to games like Touhou, I think this is one of the easier ones to get into if you're still interested! I'm a bit afraid of the tournament scene as I still haven't exactly figured out a main, but I enjoy watching from the crowd plenty. Aside from that, I'll definitely takes notes on the bg music, and expanding more on characters going over how they work and my own main. But thanks for the feedback and thanks for watching!

[@carbnchaos8136]

May as well leave a comment- im a rather new stormbeast player and i have absoloutely LOVED this game every time ive played it from just casual friendlies to the intense tournaments, its all incredibly fun The community is also probably the best ive ever seen with how friendly and positive they are, its been amazing slowly improving during the short time ive been playing, and ive improved a lot since my first tournament (which isnt saying a lot, since that tournament was the first time i tried pvp) all in all the game rocks, super fluid, fun to learn, and has a LOT of depth to it!

[@VitaSlicca]

as someone who comes from the tekken community, i very much loved the change of pace of how friendly everyone is! y'all are very cool, and it's always a delight seeing players in any fighting game improve B)

[@pointyyou]

Acceleration of Suguri!

[@jscythe74]

In the shmup community we call these "ballet shooters." The name is derived from the the subtitle of "Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet."

[@VitaSlicca]

Ooooh, good to know! Never knew that was a term, but I shall, what I believe is defined to be bullet hell 1v1's, to be a ballet shooter...?

[@jscythe74]

@@VitaSlicca Yeah, go check out WarTech: Senko no Ronde and Senko No Ronde 2 for some non-Touhou related takes on the same concept. Honestly there aren't a lot of games in this niche.

[@someoneunknown8778]

As one of the many discord folk who just found this vid: ...THAT'S NOT HOW YOU USE JELLYCAT REEEEE!

[@VitaSlicca]

I'LL USE IT BETTR NEXT TIME REEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[@weareded6538]

Alright, eight time rewriting this (maybe this is too long? I'll be brief). I'm a bit late to the party but I hope this comment reaches you. I'd just like to start by saying: Thank you so much for this video! The MNS community is quite small so we appreciate any sort of recognition and attention we get, I'm happy to hear you enjoy the game! If you still are interested in this wonderful game we welcome you with open arms! After all, the more the merrier!

[@VitaSlicca]

Thank you for the welcome, y'all have been so nice, and I appreciate how friendly everyone's been! I randomly stumbled upon the game on steam when steam recommended it as another bullet hell, but learned it was a pvp game. So i gave it a shot with a friend, learned about the MNS community from those discord link banners, and its really cool seeing the community continuously thrive B)

[@Many-names]

It's a very cool game. :mnsconfident:

[@VitaSlicca]

a hella cool game :mnsHappy: