Touhou 5 : Shinki Death glitch cause (Discovered by Starshine)

[@innocence6090]

This is a pretty amazing find, congrats to everyone involved in discovering it

[@KarisaMirisame]

Wow, it's nice to finally know the cause of this. Just need to stop shooting Yuki/Mai during the curvy laser phase to avoid the Shinki "random" death, I suppose? It gives no bullet cancel bonus anyway.

[@Spaztron64]

Yes. Once they leave the screen, they're gone for good and you're safe.

[@oosha2000]

At least, the bug is avoidable. Avoid defeating the duo (Yuki and Mai) during the homing bullet. If done successfully, you should be safe enough to start fighting Shinki after playing. It's unusual, though.

[@Zack54]

Well, I had no idea this was a thing. I was really close to having my first Normal 1CC, when suddenly I literally died at the start of the battle. All went downhill from there...

[@toro2812]

I feel you, MS was one of my first normal 1ccs but it was certainly not an easy task, the entirety of stage 4 is just absolutely infuriating.

[@Zack54]

@@toro2812 I have the same opinion about stage 4. That double boss fight is a run killer for me

[@oosha2000]

I got that bug today, really odd. I had one life left beforehand. After that, I had to continue normal mode once. Sadly, I got a bad ending as a result.

[@ASE-PRL]

what the fuck

[@oosha2000]

So did you manage to beat the game after that or did you have to play from scratch ?