Touhou 7: PCB - Phantasm Stage - Perfect

This literally came out of nowhere. A perfect Phantasm clear with MarisaA. I'm sure it has something to do with all time I've been spending playing unfocused. In this run, I avoided a countless number of possible deaths through pure luck. The funny thing is, on my Extra stage video I uploaded not to long ago, I talked about how much I hated going for perfect runs.
Here is the link to the replay file:
replays.gensokyo.org/download....
This is a screen cap of my results:
i.imgur.com/B1zTY.png

[@1ri_on_]

This guy: **wins against Yukari without dying** Me: **dies to Alice in Normal**

[@gdplayergdplayer2754]

Me: *dies at Eternity Larva on easy*

[@makise-homura]

@@gdplayergdplayer2754 Yay, I was thinking it's only me who usually does that, glad to see there's more people like me lol

[@mahouu.]

Me: *dies to primsriver sisters on normal*

[@Yaj8552]

@@mahouu. I was stuck on that stage for a LONG time. Just keep at it! Now it's one of my favorite stages to play.

[@bernkasteler7190]

i swear to god some of primsriver patterns are harder than yuyuko

[@ruins.2843]

Anybody who is holding or wearing a fan is instantly considered dangerous to me, no matter the power.

[@ruins.2843]

whats a umbrella?

[@ruins.2843]

yukari should've used that.

[@ruins.2843]

it is really strong though, able to throw people across the stage in a fighting game.

[@ruins.2843]

hardest spellcard

[@ruins.2843]

that one is too scary to be mentioned...

[@7781kathy]

Bounded Field "Boundary of Life and Death" At the last phase... WOW.

[@EverestBlizzard]

Yeah, that's nothing. If you notice, the counter begins at 99, which is unusual for something outside of a final spell. If you don't shoot Yukari to active her phases and leave her on the first phase, at 20(?) seconds she starts shooting all the bullets at once, but faster.

[@EverestBlizzard]

Circle is my favorite color yeah, thanks for the clarification as I wasn’t sure and didn’t want to go trawling through a video to make certain.

[@saulgerardo372]

It slowly becomes hell

[@hiwiwitch4135]

It’s like yukari shoots all types of 2hu bullets in one spellcard

[@emeraldkyurem7798]

Just another day in Gensokyo ;)

[@aresbenitez-bb6bd]

Fr just your neighbors playing danmaku

[@alphaepic6335]

Yukari: I promise I won’t get political Yukari, 3 drinks in: 7:57

[@Jimmy--Little]

Yukari= Hitler

[@paralamota8632]

that manji symbol

[@user-cy6lh6cz9u]

あれはハーケンクロイツじゃなくて仏教のシンボルです😂

[@justagoofyahhusername]

i snorted at that 💀

[@jadebayoba7073]

Can we all just remember that *she was sleepy?*

[@olixx1213]

Also spellcard rules

[@Comeoniwantaccount]

@@olixx1213 fuck spellcard rules

[@blara2401]

"Noctambulism ? That's my hobby too." "It's kind of a syndrome." "No, not myself. It's humans who get noctambulism. With me manipulating the border between asleep and awake."

[@platinumrage6687]

banquet of the 12 general gods was way more difficult than balance between motion and silence

[@karmateo6204]

True

[@yoeljeremy4547]

It's like touhou players's public secret lol. actually, many of Ran's spells are harder than Yukari's (Charming siege from all sides, fox-tanuki youkai laser, etc.)

[@BGDMusic]

i find a lot of yukari's spells easier than ran's counterparts

[@GarryDumblowski]

Looking back, I definitely feel like the Phantasm concept could have been executed better than it was here, it feels like the main thing that makes Yukari different from Ran is just the final spell. They're not as crazy or mind-bending as they could have been. Of course, even among fangames Phantasm stages are rare, so there aren't many opportunities to see quite how far the concept could be taken.

[@alexmason1604]

the song fits prefectly to the battle

[@ruins.2843]

agreed. it gives that feeling like the Phantasm stage took a darker turn (even though it didn't.)

[@starchythepotato2877]

11:22 imagine if he blinked

[@bulb9970]

I just jumped to that timeframe and had trouble finding where he was like a Where’s Waldo picture

[@OmegaTaishu]

Dat "Boundary of Life and Death" was frikkin awesome! :D Congrats!

[@Ponera-Sama]

1:08 Yakumo Ran (Midboss) 3:37 Yakumo Yukari (Final Boss)

[@marzipan__]

I'm supposed to be working on an assignment right now

[@maulerfranco666]

This is pretty much me when I was making these videos. Fortunately, I graduated and don't have to worry about that anymore. Best of luck to ya.

[@hakuro2026]

@@maulerfranco666 hmm, anyway Haven't seen you doing Touhou perfect runs anymore Can I ask what's going on?

[@SleepyKonii]

"I should've said this earlier, but I love how this is Marisa vs Yukari." -My Friend DoubleA2015, 2018.

[@thesos8828]

8:00 Yukari is a gamer.

[@TitanChromeE]

Yukari gaming

[@mrhoundeye1064]

@@TitanChromeE pfffffft didn't expect you here

[@TitanChromeE]

@@mrhoundeye1064 I keep forgetting where I am… too many stupid games…

[@mrhoundeye1064]

@@TitanChromeE i don't judge, i'm named after a half life enemy and i'm not even active in half life at all

[@Zaharad]

God damn, makes me wanna cry seeing the stage that's given me the most trouble, and the stage that I see as the hardest in ALL OF TOUHOU get so mercilessly destroyed. Damn. Just.....damn.

[@Ministevo1]

Try a pacifist Touhou 4 extra, Mugetsu and Gengetsu are a nightmare in pacifist

[@pdpgb]

+ Ministevo If that means no bombs either, you would have to reach Gengetsu rape time with enough lives to tank through it which I'm not sure is even possible. Especially if you can't get extra lives through killing things. . .

[@EverestBlizzard]

I can't really speak for PC-98 Touhou (Though what I've played of Touhou 1 is insane and Touhou 2 is cheap AF) but Touhou 11 has some absolute hell on lunatic, 12 has the stage 4 timeout which I can barely scrape by on in normal, not to mention Byakuren and a damn tough extra stage. 14 has some really tough stuff too. If you want to really hate yourself though, just look for lunatic LoLK stuff, or Black Label Lunatic clears on that game.

[@TheRazer781]

@Donhimesama Daifutari Pretty sure this 6 year old discussion is about touhou but okay, and also, comparing touhou and dodonpachi or any other CAVE games just isnt fair lol, CAVE games are just on another level in terms of difficulty

[@KitsuneGB-hc9zb]

I love how what some consider the hardest final boss in the series is, like… An eighteen year old human who’s just kind of a nerd.

[@MarcosHenrique-ix8gu]

I love the fact that yukari didnt even bother,it may not appears to be but,according to the lore yukari was just passing time all the spell cards that you see here,are merely 20% of her power,she is also known to play with her food,but she didnt managed to eat marisa in first place,she was just...passing time,and yes she is strong as fuck

[@GUMPAAful]

Marcos Henrique Well, almost all the touhou characters do that, they don't show the full potential of there power , even now there are character that are way more poserful than yukari and she can't eat marisa because is a rule that exist in that gensokyo , if you eat a human you will be kill by Reimu

[@mrrp405]

i aM onL y at 2%o f MY PoweR

[@rcsiapno1]

@@mrrp405 Shaggy Meme

[@yannhe]

Yukari = shaggy confirmed

[@anonymousanonymous8216]

GUMPAAflux pretty sure lots of youkai in gensokyo eat humans, and yukari supplies them by pulling them from the outside world. but I forget where I read that so take it with a grain of salt

[@enzomottacodeco7795]

Hey man, I managed to pull off a phantasm perfect a day ago, and used this video to help me manouver some attacks that gave me trouble. So I thank you for this amazing run that can hopefully help and motivate other players too :D

[@anthonyatanasoff3703]

Me: barely completed EoSD on Normal This person: accidentally perfects PCB Phantasm

[@hakuro2026]

Oh boi you haven't? I think I'm just lucky that I did win EoSD on normal (surprisingly no continue) It's because, eh, too lazy to being serious in some spell cards So I used bombs :v Maybe.. you should be a bit lazier? Lol maybe don't

[@anthonyatanasoff3703]

@@hakuro2026 I have. Just barely. I lost all bombs and lives like halfway through the fight, I was so stressed, I felt like I was gonna get a heart attack. Me completing the game was a fucking miracle. And then I see this

[@hakuro2026]

@@anthonyatanasoff3703 sad, I hope you could play very well Anyway, when did you play Touhou for the first time?

[@anthonyatanasoff3703]

@@hakuro2026 I think the first time I tried it was two years ago. I yeeted it away for half a year or so, not being able to go through Patchouli-Sakuya part (iirc). Tried again. Reached Remilia. Couldn't do it. Another rage-quit. Half a year or so later, falling victim to KZbin recommendations, I installed this game again. Completed it on normal. Tried Extra Stage several times. Teeth-grindingly difficult. "Nope, I'm not doing this" Switch to PCB. Iirc I reached maybe last stage, but had to continue because my sanity wouldn't handle leaving the completion here. Bad ending. Who would've thought (fuck you, ZUN). And here I see "oh oopsie-doopsie, this perfect phantasm completion was on accident, oh well". Rage-quit I'm tempted. KZbin recommendations are kicking in again. And your comment. I might try again. I don't want to, I know that I will be suffering again. But something deep inside me kinda wants this If next time happens, it will definitely end in another toxic rage-quit. I just know

[@BiIafy]

​@@anthonyatanasoff3703Did it end in another rage quit?

[@Alex-xb5hf]

My god this soundtrack is a masterpiece

[@commensalism1997]

"She was also living on border of gensokyo" that actually can describe maribel

[@topnepCh.]

Just cleared extra. Seeing this, I think I might try something else right now.

[@Mekira_Sunflower]

extra is like a training for this

[@GlowsLythos]

phantasm isn't actually that bad. i cleared extra and phantasm for the first time within one week

[@randomspartanhoe4501]

@@GlowsLythos Meanwhile, I need 2 month to clear phantasm

[@sanaeurl]

@@randomspartanhoe4501 2 month? i can't even fight yukari in phantasm

[@huyletran6704]

@@sanaeurl All of you can defeat extra ? I can't defeat normal :

[@eclipsesoluna3453]

Hmph. I win, Yukari.

[@Omega_Sans12345]

You beat youkai! Good job!

[@minepose98]

@@Omega_Sans12345 Congratulation!!!

[@cozylotion7918]

Yoki gamer...

[@GetsuyoHonodera]

After watching this video, I realized that 80% of Yukari and Phantasm is just a buffed Ran and Extra It looked rather easy right now... I defeated Ran

[@dirtkiller23]

Phantasm,as ZUN said is the true "Extra" stage.The Extra stage with Ran is just nerfed Phantasm with Yukari.

[@minepose98]

Interestingly, some of it feels like a *nerfed* ran. Her third spell shows that well.

[@olixx1213]

@@minepose98 3rd is harder imo 2nd is MUCH harder in extra tho Screw banquet of the twelve general gods

[@keiseki3666]

This stage really tested my skills from when I first played EoSD when the hitbox patch didn't exist because of half the time I couldn't even pay attention to the hitbox if I wanted to A.hit anything or B. see what was coming.

[@moobattle]

Does nobody else laugh at Ran's spindash?

[@robertsalomonsanchez]

I can't imagine actually completing this stage, not even because of the patterns but just the sheer amount of time that it takes. About 10 minutes of straight onslaught done perfectly is crazy, lunacy even

[@robertsalomonsanchez]

Of course that isn't to say that I can handle the patterns 😄

[@maulerfranco666]

Thanks a lot, dude. I never realized how crazy of a dodge that was until you pointed it out :D

[@marianegracel.gumban2823]

At 6:46, one of Yukari's nonspells is very similar to Okina Matara.

[@simonstaysnclr]

I really wanted to get to Yukari to hear that soundtrack, cause i really liked it. Then found out i cant even get past Rans second attack on EX stage, well atleast i can see it here...

[@samiam7327]

Does anyone else feel like border of life and death should’ve been the final spellcard? I think it’d be a great finish.

[@ssjcrafter8842]

It is in Ran's fight(though under a different name)

[@zlt__]

Border of Life and Death is the final, most ruthless test of your skill, and Danmaku Bounded Field is your reward for passing that test. Relatively simple, but insanely beautiful spellcard that Yukari graces you with for entertaining her.

[@DxkSK73]

Good job Mikkey! Awesome run you pro you :)

[@maulerfranco666]

Dude, that's awesome! Thanks a lot :D

[@HouraiSama]

8:11 yukari what the hell

[@aphreytheelite8287]

Really if you perfect this with all spell capture you will get higher than the mighty one billion score! Good job!

[@BrownCake69]

i appreciate how good the quality is based

[@MARTINREN1231]

have anyone seen the animation of this made by MinusT? his version of the "boundary of life and death" looks like an epileptic lightshow LOL

[@katodo8598]

Adversitizing won't do.

[@MARTINREN1231]

+Felipe Turella I'm not advertising. it's more like wanting to share what I saw lol

[@potatodude3947]

you say that like it doesnt here

[@pea6576]

I could only make it past ran's first spell

[@whitegurinReyn]

Finally i beat it. After 7 years. Edit : i dont know about you guys but For me, Phantasm Stage is easier than Extra stage.

[@maulerfranco666]

7 years!? Dang... Congrats though!

[@sanaeurl]

@@maulerfranco666 dang you're still alive

[@maulerfranco666]

@@sanaeurl only in the literal sense.

[@23tlp]

Congrats!

[@johnjoh2034]

Man this vid helped a lot, finally beat Yukari

[@maulerfranco666]

Good job! Glad to hear the video helped. One of the best ways to learn anything imo is to watch others.

[@johnjoh2034]

@@maulerfranco666 You can say that again, it's one of the most useful tips after just playing alot as well.

[@Hejeheihihi]

Beautiful

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

PRO gameplay I can't near the midboss

[@tr0ylol]

that was beautiful

[@Bulldogg6404]

This. Is. Legendary. Major props, man! @11:22 What is thi-- I don't eve--- how in the... *shuts laptop*

[@AppleSoda60]

8:02 is Yukari's secret swastika attack

[@yanastase]

Dont do a joke for this pls

[@zakyahmadfadhilmucharam_bu3200]

8:02

[@이리야]

mokou also has a swastika-like attack, what is with extra bosses lmao

[@pizzahut8482]

Spell card: Germany arcanna symbol

[@sakuyaizayoi5369]

WW2 moment

[@IkaraPopsicle]

This is where the "Touhou focus keylock" originated from, and is still used to this day

[@destrodevil6975]

8:52 Double death butterfly was Satori's spell card!! You small Marisa!!

[@Jawslehoff]

No, it's the other way. Satori use the spellcards of your support character in SA.

[@sanaeurl]

No its not. Satori 'borrows' the spell card of your partner you fought in order to fight you

[@Ice-yp4wg]

Marisa ain't the only "borrower" in this series.

[@Alanlopez-pg2nz]

Thanks to this guy today i completed my first Phantasm 1CC (a hella bombs and deaths lol) The most helpfull thing was The final spell :D

[@maulerfranco666]

Congrats! I'm happy to hear you found my video helpful.

[@wontyoubeagoodsister]

And then you compare this to lunatic doremy and realise that LoLK is hell

[@magic4266]

Something I noticed with Bounded Field 'Boundary of Life and Death' (second last spell card) 11:32, is that yukari won't move all the way to the edge if you influence her movement, and if you pull her to the left, you can sit in one spot and create a static lane for yourself to get through the mentos much more easily

[@Skyrimfan002]

This really helped me beat Danmaku Bounded Field. Well I had 0 lives by the end, so the rest I couldn't imitate lol

[@Latency345]

How you do this is beyond me.

[@mabelpines1533]

all the enemies in pcb spin so much

[@maulerfranco666]

A Gravity Falls character commenting on a Touhou video is a crossover that makes my head hurt.

[@kienphucnguyen2001]

You really are pushing it human. Are you the real hakurei kannushi? Or yorihime’s child?

[@yandeloid471]

i swear butterfly in the zen temple is why i haven't completed this fight, i could have a perfect run going but it just rips me to bits every time ;-; this guy just does it like it's nothing

[@pdpgb]

Seriously? I suck at this game and capture that one every time. You just sit at the edge when it's blue then spin around in the middle when it's red and repeat. The sound even tells you exactly when you need to move.

[@minepose98]

@@pdpgb It is easy to fuck up the spinning part though. Or perhaps he struggles with the switch from red to blue?

[@whirlwindnoa]

I see, you are professional.

[@maulerfranco666]

I've long since retired. Now I'm just an old, washed out, has-been. A genuine stick in the mud.

[@thehakuchannel]

Wow, eight stages!

[@DoomDilemma]

I just played this stage myself and died at the last spell in the last second ;_;

[@BirdBrainedBird]

Extra stage: normal on crack Phantasm stage: Extra stage on crack

[@shitodoclub9500]

ironically, this is way easier than the spells Ran pulled in the extra stage

[@hmmmno9511]

This looks hArD

[@keiseki3666]

Ah Ran showing the fact that Chen really didn't have any unique moves, just less powerful imitations. Though to be fair Yukari did the same with at least half of Ran's cards.

[@graveltheblock5578]

Based Yukari

[@thithanhtinhhoang5723]

Oh my god!

[@-Fhaiz-]

I Would Say That Yukari's First Spell Card Is Looks Easier Than Ran First Spell Card

[@Creeper_ofDoom]

Ok yeah there is no way on earth i am going to beat this. when i die i will still have yet to complete phantasm

[@Nahidawiththeifone]

Came back to this to say that...I beat her while playing Universal collapse in the background lol

[@maru_void0]

3:58 for some reason Marisa looks like her pc 98 design

[@teetus_2848]

Good job now.

[@okguy167]

So you're telling me that you did this flawlessly your first successful run? Ok. Yukari isn't as hard as people say anyway.

[@moneyspider2172]

10:21 Frogger

[@unfunniestman]

that's a really long staircase, 3 stages and it keeps going on

[@jacobdelacruz558]

this is just a more buff version of the extra lol

[@patchesby.]

So this is what im going to beat?!

[@naidesurin]

necrofantasia is deep

[@cienciandre]

The big question here is Why the fuck does Yukari use a parasol If she's only awake at night!?

[@digschannel1833]

How many tails does ran have

[@arare-principissaphocarum958]

9

[@toortyb]

why stairs when you can fly

[@Omega_Sans12345]

How to unlock Phatasm stage? I want fight Yukari Yakumo! Becouse i defeated Ran Yakumo.

[@dirtkiller23]

Extra stage complete,plus 60 captured spellcards,one from every difficulty.

[@skyecifer7921]

Extra stage completed, 60 spellcards captured by all characters across all difficulties.

[@Hwellwell]

i cant get the spell 8:53 it's too hard for me o_o

[@GarryDumblowski]

That's kind of to be expected. Double Black Death Butterfly could be described best as "a thing" (although personally it's not the game's "That One Attack", that would be one of the prismriver sister's cards)

[@BabyBlueFord]

The Prismriver Sisters seem to always give me trouble for some reason. I'm not sure what it is, but I think it's how the patterns are organized. They're really strange in my opinion.

[@ruins.2843]

Be glad you can even make it to Yukari...

[@fraylord1379]

Boundary of Humans and Youkai is most annoying to me -_-

[@fraylord1379]

Other than that I can perfect the stage or at least just 1 bomb

[@SleepyGarysGameStream]

👍👍

[@39fleeting]

Is this Yukari?

[@nazb2298]

Did your eyes hurt?

[@Suicid3C0r3]

How?

[@trimmien]

7:57 based yukari

[@supreme_xenon]

Lame joke

[@CreamPuffssz]

8:02 aint nobody saying how this looks like?

[@user-ko9xe9sk4c]

It looks like manji卍 a symbol for Buddhist temples in Japan

[@CreamPuffssz]

@@user-ko9xe9sk4c ohh ok

[@siriveon3549]

@@user-ko9xe9sk4c Also a Swastika symbol used by Hindus and Nazis

[@supreme_xenon]

How to make a Nazi joke without saying it's a Nazi joke

[@quasarstorm4009]

Sure, perfecting phantasm is an achievement, but have you ever beat gruz mother on ascended?

[@nguyenochungquy5016]

What is the point of collecting points and bomb if your video is perfect

[@averycreativeusername7618]

How to unlock this stage? I finished Extra with SakuyaB only

[@alejomakevids]

playing with every playable girl until you get 60 spellcards captured.

[@falleghaniyah2832]

Is it just me or Phantasm is easier cuz i just i did captured her for 2 tries

[@cartoonriley56]

And they say Flandre is hard...

[@bitupr8458]

Genuinely find Yukari easier than Ran which is weird, the phantasm stage itself is more difficult for me than the boss itself

[@vostoca]

3:33

[@daothanhhai711]

cute hand wave

[@Vanger686]

foren

[@yoelaerio3470]

how to get phantasm stage,i already finish the extra stage

[@siwakonmeesuwan3443]

you need to capture 60 spell cards first.

[@weirdoscreation]

@@siwakonmeesuwan3443 at the entire game?

[@minepose98]

@@weirdoscreation Any difficulty

[@kjcomputer]

8:01

[@supreme_xenon]

What about it? That's just a Manji symbol

[@hatsunemiku6548]

oh my goodness o.o I can't even do her last spell! it's impossible for me Dx

[@platinumrage6687]

but like. how?

[@maulerfranco666]

+Platinum Rage Oh, you just spend two years of your life playing religiously. Easy Peasy!

[@platinumrage6687]

+maulerfranco666 ive played for 3 years and i can only beat mokou and suwako

[@GarryDumblowski]

Honestly, I think it has something to do with how your mind works. Touhou seems like the kind of game where being good at it relies more than other games on natural predisposed talent. Which isn't a bad thing, I'm personally not nearly as good at Touhou as +maulerfranco666 here, but I still have a ton of fun playing it.

[@platinumrage6687]

I ended up beating ran and yukari idk how but im proud of myself

[@GarryDumblowski]

Platinum Rage *applause*

[@honkmoo9878]

uh