So, uhh, UFO Sanae B does actually shoot four frogs straight forward, not just two. In fact, she shoots six frogs in total, making her shotgun attack *insane.* If you pause a gameplay video (or even THIS video), you can actually count all six frogs.
Oh damn, you're right, I always failed to see them amidst the chaos and Sanae's regular shots, but there they are! You'd think I'd have picked it up in editing, but there we are. Cheers for the insight.
this video is such an amazing labor of love for Touhou, like once I saw the first few minutes I knew I was gonna have to sit down and watch the whole vid. I loved how you talked about the games and your opinions and actually explained the shot types in depth with jokes and shit intertwined with the reviews (+ its really helpful since I haven't played most shots after a certain point cuz I started using only marisa in recent games 🙏🙏)
I'm so glad you enjoyed! This was months of work in the evenings after my day job so it's great to see folk like you are getting something out of it. I appreciate you spending a little of your time to watch this vid.
Ayo really really good video, master spark eosd will always be number 1 in my heart Love when the algorithm blesses me with a channel that clearly deserves more views keep it up, praying for you success bro
As someone who also did an all shot ranking (but still hasn't made a video about it), I'd like to put in my two cents. While you did the ranking based on how much you liked the shot, my list is more about how good a shot is to get an easy clear in its respective game. While HRtP doesn't have a traditional shot type, it does have two routes. Makai has easier bosses while Jigoku has easier stages and more opportunities to get lives from score. I still don't know which is easier but I'd say Jigoku. SoEW ReimuB is actually the best shot in the game as her bullets are quite good, the speed is perfect and like you said, Full Power is a beast. She makes the Extra Stage completely trivial if you do a cheese strat of dying 2 times at the start to get 3 bombs and because of homing bullets you only need to spend one before the boss. In the main game (and we're talking Lunatic here) she's also great, as ReimuA is a bit too fast for my liking and Yellow Power has a bad range which doesn't hit anything and ReimuC decimates bosses but suffers on Stage 4 and actually requires a gameplan route. Yumemi is ranked a bit too low as she's capable of really messing with the AI by using her charge attacks making her one of the easier characters to beat the game as. EoSD Marisa suffers from the surprisingly uncontrollable high speed and very narrow spread which makes her difficult to play as and this isn't the case in other games. However I fully agree with the ranking. ReimuB still the best. I'd say IN Marisa was the best of all as she felt the strongest and completely decimated the entire game with her high power. Master Spark was also still a good bomb. In her modern incarnation not only did she lose her piercing lasers but Master Spark really stopped dealing good damage. It is now completely outclassed by every other bomb. The only thing going for it now is it's length. Yukari is also much better than expected, with high damage and usefulness. I accidentaly did a No Miss Hard 1cc with her. If we take the shot out of the game it's in, then LoLK Reimu is the best Reimu. She basically stayed the same from 2015 up until now except with one major difference: since HSiFS all shots have the same hitbox size. Reimu, how she is now, is able to completely destroy stage portions with homing and obliterate bosses with needles while still having an impressive range. She's easy unlike every other shot. With a smaller hitbox it's even easier to dodge all the bullets. While we're talking about LoLK & difficulty, there's a major change in usefulness between Sanae & Reisen. Reisen is more suited for Easy & Normal as there's not that many bullets and her shield makes getting graze easier while Sanae exceeds on Hard & Lunatic where you can just bombspam and earn infinite lives with grazebombing while also having better damage and range. With Reisen you actually have to dodge on higher difficulties while the reverse is true for Sanae. I fully agree that Youmu Wolf is peak. It's the strongest shot ever and it obliterates everything with ease. I never understood the love for Otter. I played Youmu Otter once and it was the worst Otter shot of them all. Your Touhou 19 verdicts might be outdated as you're clearly playing v1.00a when v1.10c came out a while age and solved most of the problems. To quickly summarise: Reimu got nerfed to oblivion, Marisa was and still is one of the strongest with a new C2, Sanae is even better, Ran stayed the same, Aunn is even better, Nazrin is now semi-competent (definitely better), Seiran has better C2, Orin now deals damage, got a new C2 and is actually competent, Tsukasa got her spell fixed, Mamizou is still bad, Yachie is OP, Saki is still useless (should be in the WHY? Tier), Yuuma is even more OP than before, Suika still obliterates everything, Biten got buffed, Enoko stayed almost the same, Chiyari got nerfed but she's still very dangerous, Hisami is the worst shot in the game, can't hit anything and has terrible enemies in the Story and Zanmu is even more OP than she was. All in all, while I don't agree with every placement here, I respect your ranking and the video was entertaining. Mima is still the best shot ever and HRtP Reimu can solo all of them with the touch of a finger.
Yeah, I'll admit I wasn't factoring stuff like scaling with difficulty into account, and didn't realise 19 had a balance patch... that still made Saki suck. Man, feels bad for the Keiga Clan. Thanks for taking the time to watch my video and leave such thoughtful remarks. We clearly differ on a lot of things, but that's what makes touhou great; it's a simple series that encourages many different playstyles and preferences.
@@MattJDave Difficulty doesn't really matter in most cases because if a shot is good on Easy, it will be good on Lunatic. It's just a few distinct cases that really matter. I haven't even really formed an opinion on PoDD's shots except Mima & Yumemi as they all play and feel the same and the game is really RNG with winning ald losing. Sometimes a worse shot forces you to play better in order to just beat the game, leading to a much more high quality run than let's say MoF MarisaB at 3.00 Power.
@BWF6_Official Can certainly vouch for that last point. MoF Marisa B isn't fun because the game just isn't a game any more. But MoF Reimu C, despite not... particularly being good, is very fun because of the unconventional strats you have to pull. Similarly, my only DDC Sakuya B Normal 1CC feels like the most beautiful run I ever pulled despite it being a dreadful shot lol.
i think you might be sleeping on UM Sanae - the only Hard Mode 1CC I've gotten. Her shots are super-powered up by Saki, but I think the biggest thing is what Byakuren's card does to your Bomb. It like triples the duration and power of Sanae's bomb, highly recommend giving it a try. IIrc I usually combined it with Sakuya's Ricochet Knives and Miko's C card.
Oh, I generally sleep on Byakuren's bomb buff, and figured it'd probably be redundant on Sanae, but hey, one of the beautiful things about UM is that it'd take years to do every potential run with every potential item combo. I'll definitely have to give Saki/Byakuren Sanae a go some time.
So, I just 1CC'd Sanae with a run that started with Saki passive, Byaku bombs and Marisa Hakkero. Then I went Magatama, Centipede, Yuyuko Passive, Kanako Snek, and Haniwa Clear, a build I shall christen 'Protecc to Attacc'. The goal is simple; use all the clearing and Sanae's general reliability to go no-hit as long as possible, snowballing Saki's passive and the Hakkero laser with centipede passive. But for when I inevitably face a skill issue, at least the centipede reset will be worth it seeing as... if you bomb just before a spell start with the Byaku-bombs as Sanae, you can basically get a free capture just from the sheer bomb duration. Legitimately nutty. Thanks for the build idea!
All but LoLK Reimu, Marisa, and Sanae (and of course PoFV Merlin and Lunasa don't actually have a story mode to 1CC). Otherwise yes, I've 1CC'd all of them on at least Normal; 121/124 ain't bad. I ain't an exceptional hitless lunatic player but I've played the games for a while.
