this video now makes me wonder if shinki was even using her full power in touhou 5 or if she accidentally underestimated the 4 protagonist. She could've been testing how strong they are too.
Felix Jones Reimu made Shinki cry. Shinki begged Mima to “Never come here again.” And Shinki was terrified at the thought of Yuuka coming back to Makai. The only one who didn’t do anything noteworthy is Marisa, but she still won the fight. (Shinki isn’t weak by any means though, it’s just the people she fought were really strong.)
My opinion is that they were fighting full power as the Spell Card Rules were nonexistent back then. The fact that Makai was ablaze by the time the battle ended also points to that. By using SpellCards everyone can display their power while being able to tone down so everyone is on equal footing. Look at Yukari, her last SpellCard shows that she can also deliver world-wide explosions, but she decides to go and enforce the SpellCard Rules (at least in Gensou)
@@armormakes It depends on what the heck Shinki actually is in my honest opinion. If she's just another one of Touhou's lower case "gods" that just so happened to be a cut above the rest then she's B-A tier at best. But if she was simply blinded by so much anger that she couldn't properly focus her power on her enemies, and is supposed to an actual Fallen Angel from the Bible...then, well...I think we all know how strong those guys are...
@@hansword Lore in first 5 games is almost non-existent, made for lulz and vastly different than Windows games. They was made before ZUN decided to create some kind of lore explanation for what is happening outside of the games. So trying to explain "why this and that" is an impossible task, because "It just works" What about Shinki, it is unknown if she even exists in new canon of windows era, most likely she suffered the fate of Mima and will never be introduced again
Shinki created a universe I am pretty sure she is one of the most powerful characters in touhou and honestly her fight was not enough in the 5th touhou game she should have been so ungodly hard its insane I like to think of her as an end game villain something that seems unbeatable with power so insane that Remiu needs help from serval people to take her down
Assuming, Shinki is really a god like "the creator of civilization", then I don't think Shinki would lose to Reimu and Marisa including Mima and Yuuka......
Reimu is a cheat power, she literally has the power that any outcome always favours her. "Fantasy Nature" is pretty much the power of plot armor, but Reimu can control it + Reimu can float past reality itself. Hakurei powers are OP Yuuka is ancient, like *ancient* Ancient. Yuuka is so unbelievably strong, she destroyed an entire dimension that theoretically spans into infinity and didn't take a scratch. She isn't called "Sleeping Terror" for nothing, Yuuka is just too laid back to show her true power, BEFORE spellcard rules were a thing, Yuuka killed gods with sheer brute force.
@@brosephstinson1297 if I remember correctly Yuuka is basically the strongest yokai in Touhou, she's so powerful that if she's not actively suppressing her power, just being near her is like getting choked to death already
