Uploaded December 2008 | Updated September 2026, 16 hours ago
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Perfect Cherry Blossom stage 4 used to give me far too much trouble, but I finally sat down and cracked it apart. Watch as I dissect everything in the stage portion, including Lily and the onslaught immediately after her.
Unfortunately, Lyrica's opener, while usually trivial, becomes a complete nightmare on highest rank that I have no idea how to deal with. I've never captured this attack when I get to it on highest rank. In fact, I died here on the easy wave, the one that follows is significantly harder. There's no good way to practice it either, since playing against the attack on highest rank requires getting through most of the stage unscathed, and dying once on the attack reverts it to one of the trivial lower ranked versions. Because of all of this I don't see myself trying to push this farther into a perfect run, at least not without some sort of epiphany on this attack.
Random notes:
- Max lives/bombs is pretty cool, the only other time I've seen that is when doing IN stage four practice runs.
- The Prismrivers' final spellcard is the definition of luck garbage. Ugh. I'm so happy it cooperated in this run.
- I must apologize to Lily for comparing her and the onslaught that follows her to Momizi and her subsequent bullshit. Lily and gang are fun, and as I demonstrate in this run quite doable. Momizi is not fun, and her gang is essentially impossible.
The replay file can be found here: replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=1645
Watch this in high definition: youtube.com/watch?v=HmONw-PN-Fk&fmt=22
High Quality for slower computers: youtube.com/watch?v=HmONw-PN-Fk&fmt=18
Perfect Cherry Blossom stage 4 used to give me far too much trouble, but I finally sat down and cracked it apart. Watch as I dissect everything in the stage portion, including Lily and the onslaught immediately after her.
Unfortunately, Lyrica's opener, while usually trivial, becomes a complete nightmare on highest rank that I have no idea how to deal with. I've never captured this attack when I get to it on highest rank. In fact, I died here on the easy wave, the one that follows is significantly harder. There's no good way to practice it either, since playing against the attack on highest rank requires getting through most of the stage unscathed, and dying once on the attack reverts it to one of the trivial lower ranked versions. Because of all of this I don't see myself trying to push this farther into a perfect run, at least not without some sort of epiphany on this attack.
Random notes:
- Max lives/bombs is pretty cool, the only other time I've seen that is when doing IN stage four practice runs.
- The Prismrivers' final spellcard is the definition of luck garbage. Ugh. I'm so happy it cooperated in this run.
- I must apologize to Lily for comparing her and the onslaught that follows her to Momizi and her subsequent bullshit. Lily and gang are fun, and as I demonstrate in this run quite doable. Momizi is not fun, and her gang is essentially impossible.
The replay file can be found here: replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=1645
