東方宝天京 (Touhou Houtenkyou) ～ Treasure Castle Labyrinth - Labyrinth 1cc (HijiriMarisa, Green Lantern)

Описание: You can download TCL for yourself here:
https://www.bulletforge.org/u/naudiz/...

"'New content'? I wonder what that means, 'new content'"

First new stage of the update, here's the labyrinth stage. I think Tenxka is probably one of the most iconic TCL characters so this stage had a lot to live up to. The stage itself has a pathways gimmick that calls to mind LuaSTG Activity 7, but in practice feels way more like, say, UVoI stage 5 or something. There's no looping passageways, you can just choose to take a different route and fight different stage formations. I did think it'd be cool if there was a secret route where you fight a team you didn't pick as a bonus midboss (sorta like EUB), but that's very ambitious and as is this is fine. Also I like how Amane's midboss danmaku feels a bit more coherent and less alien. She's learning!

Tenxka is a major step up from Miyako in terms of difficulty but still on the easier side, her patterns are pretty intuitive (albeit intimidating). The only real surprise for me was the death aura in her final spell, since I saw the words "survival" and thought I needed to stop shooting. Turns out shooting is how you protect yourself from the death aura. Oops. Huge fan of the survival, feels like a more approachable version of the maze spells I see Ince put in his scripts. In terms of difficulty I'd put this extra stage on par with SP's, albeit for different reasons. Tenxka definitely isn't as puzzle-y as Nusakoro, but she still feels like a proper challenge and is just as satisfying to beat, while still being a step easier than typical extra stages. A very climactic resolution to the labyrinth incident if I do say so myself.

0:00 - Video Start
0:30 - Labyrinth Stage
2:27 - Amane Shin
3:57 - Labyrinth Stage Continued
6:24 - Tenxka Shin
17:18 - Tenxka Soul