Touhou - Fantastic Danmaku Festival III Lunatic 1cc

Описание: I've been a superfan of FDF2 in the past so I was really hyped when they announced this game many moons ago. Well it took a few years but it's finally out. And it does not disappoint. Once again StarX and the gang have topped the visuals, music and patterns of their previous game. FDF2 was already among the most visually engaging fangames with crazy inventive patterns in the extra stage. And here these aspects have found their way into the main game. Last time the game was too easy for good players which prompted me to make an ultra patch. This time, the game is too easy even for me but an ultra mode is included, as well as ultra extra. They seem to be more of a challenge.

But yeah the extremely low difficulty is my biggest gripe with the game. Here's my progression through this game: first try normal 1cc (to be expected). first try hard 1cc, first try extra. second try no miss extra (achievement). first try lunatic 1cc. and then this run which was like 3 miss or something. I get that I can just play ultra or something, but compared to every other touhou game this is just wayyyy to easy. Like, I just played Blue Devil in Belvedere again and that normal mode was harder than this on lunatic. I'd say it's comparable to like official mainline games on normal. The one saving grace is the difficulty curve which is essentially flat. Wriggle is just about as difficult as Reisen. So you kinda have to be locked in for the entire run, not just stage 3-6. Part of the problem I think is how much leverage you can get out of the hyper mechanic. Several times you can see me iframing bullets when I start the hyper as well as tons of screen clearing and free hits. You also get a ton of resources, something like 11 lives.

Overall it's a great game that excels in its technical competency and artistic merit moreso than having a balanced difficulty curve. It's kind of a shame really but I think I've already kinda maxed out everything I wanted to do in this game after like 5 hours of playtime. Oh well.

A shmup that doesn't cause great pain just doesn't hit the same.
Please, god, give sisyphus a heavier boulder,
for I can't imagine him happy otherwise.