Touhou 12: Undefined Fantastic Object - Stage 5 (New Commentary Version)

[@rpgfans4537]

Players: Curvy lasers are hard to dodge Zun: Oh really? I got an idea I would make a boss using only straight laser. 3 games later Zun: Since you guys complain Shou curvy laser is hard, I have make a boss using only straight laser, everyone say hello to Clownpiece. Players: This is hell!!!

[@R.P.Genocraft]

UFO is just the kind of game where you can max out lives by stage 4, yet somehow that's still not a guarantee that you'll 1cc.

[@simunator]

god don't remind me. i still struggle with normal 1cc everytime i restore my game and have to unlock everything again

[@stillmelon]

Thats why i never 1cc UFO on normal.

[@at0mizer]

i’ve never gotten past murasa yet

[@AJAredstone]

I love how Marisa canonically hates curved lasers too. EDIT: HOW THE HELL IS REIMU SUPPOSED TO DODGE THE VAJRA?!?

[@gypsysprite4824]

i wanna say the fast vajra lazer goes much slower for sanae and reimu to accomodate for them not being near-aya speed

[@R.P.Genocraft]

@@gypsysprite4824 Reisen's not in this game btw

[@LadyStarwing]

As someone who favors needle reimu, it's honestly just a case of 'How I learned to stop worrying and love unfocused dodging.'

[@catboywizard]

@@LadyStarwing so true, I usually play as sanae and vajra is one of the most fun spells in the game imo. very daunting at first for sure but once you get a feel for how the lazers move it's like a fun lil dance!

[@LushieTilde]

Those UFO annotations perfectly describe my time with this game.

[@Iris_Descent]

Time for the funny story from my NB run that I told about back in Stage 1. So I don't actually find the stage portion that hard, neither do I find Nazrin's non-spell that bad. And of course, I struggle a lot on Most Valuable Vajra. (And Demon of Purification a lot of the time for whatever reason.) Hell, in fact, Shou stopped most of my NNB attempts. Meanwhile on my successful run: Dies right before Nazrin; has a massive brainfart and dies twice to her NON-SPELL; dies TWICE to Greatest Treasure; dies one more time right after Nazrin. Fast-forward to Shou's fight: gets through all the nons no problem; captures Radiant Treasure; captures Absolute Justice; ...CAPTURES MOST VALUABLE VAJRA; *CAPTURES DEMON OF PURIFICATION.* I DIED 6 TIMES IN THE STAGE ITSELF AND PERFECTED SHOU'S FIGHT. also in all honesty curvy lasers aren't even bad at all, they're actually fucking overrated, what's hard is the spells, which don't even use them aside from the small meme on Radiant Treasure

[@ngoclamtruong5033]

I know Gensokyo doesn't have Isaac Newton to invented gravity yet, but the fact that he didn't there to invented "straight" light wave even make me appreciate him more.

[@lawrencelafuente3450]

TheFrobgem the curvy lasers are based on the Buddhist teachings of Mandalas

[@GenesisJames]

Definitely a hard Stage 5 boss. The curvy lasers feel like they shouldn't be that hard to deal with, but I swear the hitboxes on those things are not generous at all. "Most Valuable Vajra" is hard, but it seems to be static, so you can memorize it and with a character like Marisa you can generally take it down before it gets bad... at max power, at least. Anything below max power and it takes FOREVER to get through that one!

[@lunatic0verlord10]

4:46 For the same reason everyone is always so excited to shoot Tsubakura.

[@CarmsCelestia]

1:05 Oh, hoped it was gonna be another No-bomb run. You use surprisingly little bombs, but ig thats why you're improving faster than me, who takes the easy way out too often. 5:50 Curvy lasers are hard when you encounter them the first times. But they become rather trivial later on, I didn't come close to dying to them during my last few runs. 6:08 Oh, *that's* how you're supposed to do it. I'm ⑨

[@lunatic0verlord10]

1:19 I remember this being much more frequent back in the PC-98 era... The Windows era only did it once before.

[@Interesting_Failure]

0:11 Editor telling Omega to knock shit off? What alternate world are we i- oh, right, Makai. Carry on.

[@mayhewwright]

Have you heard the metal remix of Shou’s theme? I absolutely love it!!

[@el_selvi100]

Falkkone ?

[@mayhewwright]

Diegoh Hernandez Ya!

[@lunatic0verlord10]

0:06 Their color palette wouldn't look out of place in a PC-98 game, I noticed...

[@jadeng.s.2549]

3:19 A furry appeared

[@kizunechao279]

The one with the dreaded curvy lasers.

[@jadeng.s.2549]

1:20 Obviously

[@broccoliiandcheese4491]

The danger noodles return!

[@ruins.2843]

This stage is the sole reason this game is difficult for me.