Uploaded April 2009 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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And Then There Were None?
A video of me fighting and barely defeating the sister of the devil herself, Flandre Scarlet
Flandre Scarlet (Is kind of an epic name) is the ex-boss of the game Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, the 6th installment of the Touhou Project. The Touhou Project is a series of danmaku shooters. Danmaku is a term than can be loosely translated (and quite aptly in my opinion) into "curtain of fire" or "bullet hell", thus denoting game were high density in bullet is more important that a lot of enemies. The series was created and is managed by the one man team Team Shanghai Alice, composed only of ZUN.
Flandre is a pretty interesting character. Her wings aren't those of a normal vampire, yet you can clearly see them flutter which means they are real... more or less. She's mentally insane (or so they say, is more like very eccentric personality), yet that kind of make her a lovable character. And her existence is full with symbolism and references. Ok, maybe I exaggerated symbolism, but it does have references.
She's the first Ex-boss of the Touhou series Window games and makes it clear WHY she is an Ex-boss. Personally I believe she isn't using her full danmaku potential. Most Ex-bosses show their non-danmaku abilities in their fight one way or another. For someone whose ability can be called Destruction of Anything and Everything, you would expect a pretty chaotic battle with random explosive danmakus here and there, but no, it doesn't happen. But it does happen against Utsuho (SA last boss) manipulation of nuclear fusion AND against Mokou. (IN Ex-boss)
Oh well, she still gave one heck of a fight, though I believe it was more difficult getting to her with my lives intact (Damn Patchouli and her Royal Flare AND Philosopher Stones.
More info about the Touhou series can be found in this wiki page:
touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Touhou_Wiki
High Quality (Highly recommended)
youtube.com/watch?v=s8JmfCYmtHo&fmt=18
And Then There Were None?
A video of me fighting and barely defeating the sister of the devil herself, Flandre Scarlet
Flandre Scarlet (Is kind of an epic name) is the ex-boss of the game Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, the 6th installment of the Touhou Project. The Touhou Project is a series of danmaku shooters. Danmaku is a term than can be loosely translated (and quite aptly in my opinion) into "curtain of fire" or "bullet hell", thus denoting game were high density in bullet is more important that a lot of enemies. The series was created and is managed by the one man team Team Shanghai Alice, composed only of ZUN.
Flandre is a pretty interesting character. Her wings aren't those of a normal vampire, yet you can clearly see them flutter which means they are real... more or less. She's mentally insane (or so they say, is more like very eccentric personality), yet that kind of make her a lovable character. And her existence is full with symbolism and references. Ok, maybe I exaggerated symbolism, but it does have references.
She's the first Ex-boss of the Touhou series Window games and makes it clear WHY she is an Ex-boss. Personally I believe she isn't using her full danmaku potential. Most Ex-bosses show their non-danmaku abilities in their fight one way or another. For someone whose ability can be called Destruction of Anything and Everything, you would expect a pretty chaotic battle with random explosive danmakus here and there, but no, it doesn't happen. But it does happen against Utsuho (SA last boss) manipulation of nuclear fusion AND against Mokou. (IN Ex-boss)
Oh well, she still gave one heck of a fight, though I believe it was more difficult getting to her with my lives intact (Damn Patchouli and her Royal Flare AND Philosopher Stones.
More info about the Touhou series can be found in this wiki page:
touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Touhou_Wiki



![Rosenkreuzstilette - Schwer-Muta Casasola Merkle (Stage 4)
♪And theres a creepy girl, that always follows you, and has white jumpsuit, and a stupid squid.♪
A video of me 4th-walling Schwer-Muta Casasola Merkles highly misleading stage in the game Rosenkreuzstilette.
Schwer-Muta Casasola Merkle is one of the Eight RKS Magi you fight in the game and the ninth member of Rosenkreuzstilette [RKS009 Neun]. RKS is a Mario Clone that plays like Mega Man with the story of Castlevania and the cast of Touhou with the guest appearance of Bomberman. True story.
Oh Schwer, what to say about her? Despite her absurdly cute appearance, Schwer is the creepy child of RKS. Her entire stage is... well, let me just say you shouldnt watch this video if you want to be surprised.
Her fight basically consist of her walking around the stage and charging Geisterwand, the Mental Barrier/Ghost Wall or Mind Barrier. Of all those names, Im partial towards Ghost Wall, since it gives it a more mysterious air. After charging her attack, she release it, sending the morning stars spiralling through all the stage. She always attack from three positions, mirrored in each side of the stage. Her attack pattern is static, so you can through trial and error figure out where to stand and where to go when the attack is released so they pass by you harmlessly. The pattern changes when she enter Desperation mode, but it still is static. During the charge, Zeppy, her pet squid, will shoot ink toward the sky and when she release the ink falls on your position. If it hits, it will blind you, so be sure to move. In general, she fights like Wood Man.
I cannot really talk of this stage without being a spoiler, so not much to say about that. Ill just say is a very entertaining, if infuriating, stage. Schwer is a just so adorable that she has become of the mascot for the English community (or at least the Schwer and Schwer Alike community). Shes also... slightly creepy and weird. Apparently her backstory is something along the line of her being raised by a family of bear or something. Ok, thats just being humorous. But she did grew up in a bestial environment and this cause her to be cautious around others, with the only friend she truly trust being her pet squid. Kinda sad, really.
Sorry for the short description if you are one of the people who like them, but RKS doesnt really have the rich background Touhou has. I suppose I could enter into a long winded explanation of all the German and such used, but that would be boring and hard to do, so Ill just end this description on this note. Rosenkreuzstilette - Schwer-Muta Casasola Merkle (Stage 4)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uLeJAJDtKbs/mqdefault.jpg)


![Me vs Utsuho Reiuji (SA Final Boss-Normal)
Ha! Even a fool that possesses great power cant cause too much harm, even if its the power of dreams.
A video of me fighting and defeating, live!, the hellish yatagarasu, Utsuho Reiuji
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Utsuho Reiuji (nicknamed Okuu by her fans and Zun alike ^_^) is the Final boss of the game Subterranean Animism, the 11th installment of the Touhou Project. The Touhou Project is a series of danmaku shooters that is not like other bullet hells given the focus on characters. For more info, check the wiki at the bottom of the description.
What can I say about Utsuho? Shes awesome. Like other SA characters, I originally disliked her, but grew on me the more I played SA and read doujins. Still not a fan of her fight, though I do recognize the epicness behind it. NOTE: Even though her official nickname is Okuu, I like to call her real name simply because Utsuho sounds more formidable and majestic than Okuu.
Utsuho is normally depicted as an idiot in fanwork due to a quote from ZUN which I based the first line in this description. Parallel to Cirno who is called ⑨, Utsuho is called ⑥. As an Utsuho fan, I recognize the existence of this belief but decide to completely ignore it (the same goes with Cirno). As a matter of fact, my favorite interpretation of Utsuho in a doujin so far is in Listening to Each Others Hearts Voice by Hero Bear, [SKIP TO THE END OF THIS PARAGRAPH IF YOU DONT WANT SPOILER XD] a short doujin where Utsuho along with Orin are seeking to make Koishi happy by making a bird she found sing. How do they make this happen? They trick her (couldnt trick Satori though, but shes frikkin Satori, so is okay). Goes to show how intelligent she can be.
Same goes for Cirno. Back to Okuu. She has one of my favorite character designs in the series (Her cape thingy reminds me of Count Bleck O.o). I guess I dont really dig the lolita style, probably why her, Aya, and Reisen are some of my fav characters.
As for the battle itself, a note: This is not my best playthrough but there is nothing I can do about it. This was record at the instant while I was playing. Why? SA has a glitch in its replays where whenever you play a replay against Utsuho, your character will freak out and kill herself. Goes to show how scary she is. Normally this is bypassed easily by starting the replay on Orins stage, but after tweaking with the configuration of SA, this stopped working for me, so I had to play a practice. This is the reason why I had some many lives and full power. No worry though, I normally have two lives for Utsuho, gain one life during the fight and get there with full power, so I barely beat her with no extra lives left.
The fact that her power is manipulation of nuclear fusion and that she, along with Orin, are servant to Satori speak a lot of their power. I find her the second hardest final boss in the series (Yuyuko wins). No worry, Remilia (my fav. char. In the series) comes in a close third place. Like I mentioned in Flandres vid, bosses tend to show their non-danmaku ability in their bullet hells. Utsuho is not the exception (Flandre is). ALL of her attacks revolve around the idea of the sun, the ultimate source of nuclear fusion. All of her spells are gargantuan in their size. Is fun I guess, just too hard for my personal taste.
More info about the Touhou series can be found in this wiki page:
http://touhou.wikia.com Me vs Utsuho Reiuji (SA Final Boss-Normal)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vx3Kp7uRiBI/mqdefault.jpg)



![TD Demo: Touhou Ten Desires (Hard Mode)
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A video of me blasting and slashing, and slashing and blasting my way through the Ten Desires demo as our half-ghost gardener, Youmu Konpaku.
Ten Desires [東方神霊廟~ Ten Desires (romanized: Touhou Shinreibyou, lit. Eastern Divine Spirit Temple)], is the thirteen game of the Touhou Project series. The Touhou Project is a series of games where the artwork is much like life, which at the same time is much like a rollercoaster: it has its up and down, is short and sweet, but ultimately let you feeling you could had employed those two hours making the line in something more productive, leaving you hollow and empty. Oh, and flying lolis fight to save the land.
Before the rant, I want to say Hey there, long time no see. As you can hear (or will hear if youre anything like me), this time around I added the regular vocal Lets Play. This will NOT be a normal feature for many reasons:
A) English is not my main language.
B) Playing and talking at the same time is distracting.
C) I cannot give the same depth I give to annotations, which I ended using anyways.
D) English is not my main language.
I added my, oh so cacophonic, voice to the video due to the nature of it. Since it is merely a demo of the game, which hasnt been released, I considered this a nice chance to try it out. Since Fraps hates my guts, I have to run Audacity on the background in order to record. This causes my PC to go on a psychotic breakdown. So yeah... FML.
Anyways, lets talk about the game. Ten Desires take a page from Fairy Wars and keeps part of the interface used in that game. Mainly the whole Circle of Life thing. It combines this with aspect from previous game. Now, call me old fashioned, but I found the original system -128 Power, Individual bombs, Life bar on the top left corner- to be the best. I dont particularly mind the 4.00 system (except when it was linked to the bombs), but the Circle of Life kind of bugs me. Personally, it destroy a little of the immersion for me.
This game has a heavy focus on spirits. After all, the incident this time around is Weird spirit coming out of bodies. Shoot things until you find the culprit. This time around the gimmick is the divine spirit and trance system. Keep in mind I didnt knew this term while blindly playing through the demo because I dont read Japanese. And even if I did. =/
Basically, instead of colored UFOs, we have colored spirits we must collect. 10 pieces of either red or green gives you a life or bomb. Blue ones give you points while white ones raise your spiritual realm bar faster. The spiritual realm is, more or less, a substitute to the deathbomb mechanic. As in, you cannot deathbomb in this game if you have at least one spiritual realm. That sucks.
Getting hit while having at least one Spiritual bar full will activate Trance Mode, where your character will go berserk until the timer runs out. Apparently you can activate Trance Mode if you have full bars or something. All in all, the game mechanics were fun to play with. I particularly loved Youmus slash mechanic. Even though it forces you to play unfocused on long range, it injects freshness to the game. Too bad the other three heroines are a little more of the same.
Overall, the game looks promising. Maybe a little too standard. I dont really like that Im seeing a lot of characters from previous games. The music wasnt anything spectacular, but Im sure thats because I was talking while playing. And I had to let SA music grow on me for me to start liking it. The game is pretty rough and I hope ZUN will polish it more. Too bad this wont happen for the art, which I find a step backward from UFO. Also, is a little on the easy side.
Well, space here is running out. Im looking forward to this game. A lot. Other videos will still have to wait. My teachers are being merciless. I took a Physics test yesterday and I have another one the Monday after Holy Week. And I still have to more tests plus the final exam before the end of the semester on June. And that is only one class. Fun times. Ill try to do as best as I can, but right now Im also hooked with a MMO, Rift... so yeah.
For more info the Touhou Project, visit the wiki:
http://www.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Wiki TD Demo: Touhou Ten Desires (Hard Mode)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x6XrgmL02lE/mqdefault.jpg)