kitikami's video: Let s Play Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith - 3 Sanae Kanako

The stage 6 "spell" I was saying is easier on Hard is actually the non-spell I had been talking about, not the spell card I bombed through just before I said that (I basically ignored that spell card in my commentary, but it's a good idea to just bomb it because the hitbox of the small bullets is larger than it seems, so it is really easy to get clipped by that spell). I don't know why, but I find it a lot easier to turn around on the Hard version of that non-spell than the Normal version. Which also means it does get harder for Reimu A/Marisa C since they don't have to turn around on Normal anyway, but still. Although it's not really that rare for there to be an attack or two that someone will find easier on Hard than Normal in these games. Actually, the next spell card (Hisayama Hunting Shrine Ritual) is another one I actually find a little easier on Hard than Normal. Or at least about the same. It's one of those attacks that completely changes to a new spell card from Normal to Hard, and the pattern of the Hard attack is a bit easier for me to read. While I'm still not nearly as comfortable dodging with Marisa, the extra power over Reimu A does help a lot with ending boss attacks faster. Another note on the final spell's difficulty--this game changed the continue system so you don't restart from the point where you continued, but rather from the start of the stage with three lives. So to clear with a continue, you have to be able to beat stage 6 from scratch with starting resources, which is harder than getting to stage 6 with more than starting resources. Which means this game (and Subterranean Animism) is potentially easier to 1CC than to beat with continues. Which means it's pretty hard to unlock stage 6 for stage practice (in previous games it was fairly easy to unlock by spamming continues), which means learning that final spell is even harder. Good luck! Anyway, next time we Extra.