Slowly getting better at Imperishable Night [Normal]–specifically, the Forbidden Magic Team (Marisa/Alice). For a while I put off on using this team due to them getting Reimu for the stage 4 boss, who for the longest time gave me way more trouble than Boss!Marisa. Otherwise, I would be exclusively using Magic Team; straight shot + high speed suits me better than wide and homing shot + moderate speed.

I finally got around to taming Boss!Reimu, thanks to focus mode hiding the yin-yang shots, learning how to deal with Reimu when she’s in fly-off-of-one-side-of-the-screen-at-high-speed mode, and learning that on the “Duplex” spell cards that I can go across the bullet portals (for a lack of better term) safely.

The Stage 5 boss, Reisen, still gives me trouble. I often bomb spam when the bullets go back from being red, out of fear that I’m on top of a bullet and I’ll have lost as many as 3 bombs.

Overall, the Boundary and Magic Teams are the only ones worth using; the other two are too gimmicky for me. I don’t use Youmu/Yuyuko because I’m baffled by the idea of having a wider shot in focus mode, and I don’t use Sakuya/Remilia due to Remilia’s difficult sentry gun-like focus attack.

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