Touhou 12.8 - Great Fairy Wars - Extra Stage

My first clear of the Extra stage from the new Touhou 12.8. It's far from the best possible run, and not even my best run; I'm just placing it here for historical purposes. I may or may not add more commentary to this later. If I don't, deal with it.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Krim
• Touhou
• th12.8
• GFW
• FW
• Great
• Fairy
• Wars
• Extra
• Stage
• Cirno
• Marisa
• Kirisame

[jaysorbet]

I beat all routes on Normal (3 diff endings) and the ending I got said I can go on "Extra Mode" However, when I check, it still says "Locked Stage." How do you get to the Extra Stage?

[KrimsunMunkey]

@jaysorbet There's actually six routes to the game, rather than three. You pick A/B/C at the main menu, then after Stage 1, each route offers two branches from there. Note that in the main menu when you highlight A/B/C, it'll show scores for A1/A2 or B1/B2 or C1/C2 to the left. The numbers represent which branch you took after Stage 1. Those are the six routes necessary to unlock Extra. If you don't know which routes you still need to do, look at your scores and figure it out from there.

[EpixAura]

This is a confusing interface... I can't even see how many lives you have... (no, seriously, where are the lives?!) =(

I'm so confused...

Can't wait for an English patch.

[KrimsunMunkey]

@EpixAura The numbers on the right are, from top to bottom:

Lives - getting hit by a bullet loses you 100%. If you drop to 0% after getting hit by a bullet, it's game over. Marisa flashlights will drop this number gradually to 0%, but will not make you game over.

Charge (same as the number on top of Cirno's sprite)

Bombs - like with lives, one bomb costs 100% (the snowflakes in the lower left corner give you a traditional itemized bomb count)

Experience - increases Cirno's shot level.

[regalstar]

What's with the huge flashlight on Marisa's last card? It doesn't hurt Cirno at all?

[KrimsunMunkey]

@regalstar The giant flashlights don't kill Cirno directly, but they chip away at her life percentage in the upper right corner. If you have a lot of lives and the flashlights go unchecked, you can lose a lot from them, though you still have to get hit by a bullet to game over even if you lose all of your life percentage in this fashion.

[xX3rdDegreeBurnXx]

I feel bad for Cirno xD Do you know what ZUN's excuse for making this game so hard was?

"There really aren't that many bullets. Cirno's just really stupid so it makes it seem that way to herself."

So even the hardest Touhou game ever made is only as hard as Cirno thinks it is Dx

[NonRandomUser]

THE STRONGEST TOUHOU GAME.

[ShadowFlower15]

2:00 DAIYOUSEI

[Rider339]

@SportacusChannel I beleive it's because Cirno thinks shes the strongest fairy now she's won the war and got really cocky and therefore decided to take on a human.

There is a translation of what they are saying on the touhou wiki.

[Adonijah7]

Who knew Cirno can be so badass... even though the difficulty is all in her head.

[SportacusChannel]

what has marisa to do with fairies? O_O

[uwlwsrpm]

"Since this is from Cirno's perspective, it looks like there are more bullets than usual." Poor Cirno! Does that mean you were trying harder than you should have?

[mobtank]

@xX3rdDegreeBurnXx And Marisa even says that she is going easy on Cirno and use her weak lasers, if she had used full power master spark the fight would be over right there.

[SarkenHS]

I am the only one who are shocked that marisa is flying... WITHOUT BROOM?

[SarkenHS]

@Tacoradical Lily white, from the mid boss of touhou 7 - stage 4, and Daiyousei, mid-boss from touhou 6 - stage 2

[Tacoradical]

I noticed ZUN put some good effort into this game. By the way, ZUN couldn't be that drunk at all. Otherwise, think about how crappy this would've been.

[Tacoradical]

I can't see the midbosses. Who are they?