Let's Play Mountain of Faith - 4 - priestess of something vs goddess of wind, rain and snakes

[Esupanitix]

Exactly how is your bomb count measured? Same goes for Graze. I'm very curious on the subject.

[RobinLSL]

@Esupanitix explained in part 0 I believe.

[Esupanitix]

@RobinLSL Oh. Whoopsies on my part.

[TARDISES]

playing the entire stage for the final spelclard woudl really maek you regret the game not having spell practice to skip the stage part, huh?

(THAT feature's gonna be back in TD, BTW. Possibly with last words like IN - which would mean new Sanae and Youmu spellcards or remakes of PCB/MoF/SA... you get the idea...)

[TheKisura]

I absolutely love your Touhou Let's Plays! I did not know what Focus Mode was before I saw them xD but were can I see the Faith meeter? o_o

[RobinLSL]

@TheKisura Thank you :) Faith is at the bottom left corner of the screen

[TheKisura]

@RobinLSL aaah, I see! Thanks!

[rayquaza2lover]

You make it look so easy...o_o I can't even 1cc this on Hard, on Lunatic I end up continuing at Nitori or something. I doubt I'd ever be able to 1cc a touhou game on lunatic, especially not during a live recording.

Virtue of Wind God looks very fun, though I've only been able to get to it's simpler version, Mountain of Faith. The spellcard Mountain of Faith is still loads of fun though, but I really wanna go up against VoWG sometime. xD

[draggyx]

My favorite Touhou boss... and my favorite theme. n.n

[snowyarticuno]

Huh, I never noticed that Kanako flashes colors like that.

Also~ I find it amusing that your faith goes up via bombing, since those are mostly there for "oh crap i'm going to die" emergencies. Seems like there'd be more faith for staying alive without bombing

[RobinLSL]

@snowyarticuno The act of bombing actually decreases your faith by 3000! However during bombs, all items come straight to you (1000 per green star) and every cancelled bullet gives you some faith back (10 per bullet I think but there's tons of them) AND if you don't bomb, you won't be collecting many items so will probably actually lose faith... there's just no comparison.

[Altadorian1]

Her open attack reminds me of Fujiwara's last non-spell. which I've never been able to capture T.T

[samsam2550]

oh and i notice that your spell card was somehow reduce? so up what happen? was it kanako's last spell to affect it? oh and awesome play though

[RobinLSL]

@samsam2550 The last spell of the game always makes your bomb less useful. You usually can't damage the boss during them and while I can't remember for the other games, in 10 and 11 the bomb graphics get "reduced" and the bullet-clearing power is also much smaller.

[samsam2550]

@RobinLSL ah thanks, always wondering about that.

[Drybones52]

Well I'll admit, this video series it indeed a pretty strong argument for using bombs all over the place. Especially stage four (honestly screw that stage). Bombing a few of those tricky moments makes that lion of a stage into the most cuddly of cats. Same can be said for stage six.

Though, because continues work similar to practices, I still try to capture more then I should.

[RobinLSL]

@Drybones52 Honestly I don't feel at all like I've abused bombs. While I did use about 35 of them, I think my power only got under the 3.00 mark twice in the whole game (stage 4 and VoWG, surprisingly). It's just that the way the game is designed encourages you to do it.

[yoshicookiezeus]

The one problem to 1CCing this game without learning how to actually dodge the attacks would probably be Mountain of Faith/Virtue of Wind God. I mean, you can bombspam pretty much everything up to that point, but if you aren't legitimately good at dodging that attack will just rip through your resources like it was, to use an overused expression, no thing.

[yoshicookiezeus]

That being said, I should practice this game more. If I can get up to halfway through the Mountain of Faith spellcard on my first Normal run after not having played the game in months, I should be able to 1CC it at my current skill level.