Let's Play Labyrinth of Touhou - 4F Boss (Part 1)

[PhazonSpear]

Rumia's very helpful with her healing spell in this fight because it gets rid of those nasty debuffs that Alice's dolls like use. Cirno's helpful for keeping Alice and the rightmost doll paralyzed (don't bother worrying about the leftmost doll, just focus on keeping the rightmost doll paralyzed and exploit the lowered defenses on the recovery doll).

[PhazonSpear]

This boss was no problem for me. Took about a half hour, but it wasn't nearly as hard as the Youmu fight. Needless to say, I was disappointed, xD. Youmu was literally a damage race, and had very little strategy involved.

[xtrem3rd]

Oh, I really do love this battle theme. I remember when I ran into Youmu for the first time, and heard this theme. I was like "New boss theme? OH SHI-"

...Turned out that reaction was for a good reason. I was SO satisfied when I finally beat her, and not just because she's one of my favourite Touhou characters.

[MrTrickysticks]

I just had Wriggle poison them all :D

[Shadowelf93]

dude, how do You have Flan? is this one of those new_game+ runs where all the chars are unlocked from the start?

[Parallaxal]

@Shadowelf93 Yes, I said this from the very beginning of my Let's Play thread.

[rudaruda01]

SOOOO CLOSE PATCHY!!! You hit a 1377 on The Far left Fairy/Doll thing... If you would've hit just a few less... like... 1337... =w='

[Pretztailfan95]

Gah...more training for me...I tried following you since I wasn't doing well alone, but that didn't work. I got wiped out right away. But Remilia's faster than Sakuya, so I couldn't switch Sakuya out after she used Lunar Dial, which means Meirin couldn't heal Remilia after she used the Curse of Vlad Tepes, and it was all a big mess. D: *sobs*

[cokerpilot]

love the banter here

[Kalieum]

Are Youmu & Alice the only bosses to have this battle theme? I'm up to 14F now and (apart from Eientei & Bloodstained seals) all the other bosses have had the normal boss theme. Which isn't bad, but I like this one more.

[Parallaxal]

@Kalieum Yup, they're the only 2. Mandatory Touhou character bosses that guard the stairs to the next floor usually have their own theme. Youmu and Alice share a theme, while the rest all have unique themes. The only exception is Reisen, who has the normal boss theme.

[DarkFiraga64]

When I got here, I was really questioning the guy who decided to draw Boss Alice like an old man. I was already put off from how almost everyone else was drawn with tsurimes and no noses

[Parallaxal]

Alice is drawn this way as a reference to Delas Getta, the final boss of Toushin Toshi 2, a game by Alicesoft.

[DarkFiraga64]

Now everything makes more sense.