Aaaaand Lunatic 1cc.I'll just say holy fucking crap. The Lunatic in this game is absolutely bonkers insane. This is way, way harder than UFO Lunatic ever hoped to be. This is not Lunatic. This is Ultra. And it's glorious.
Well, my first impression is disappointment. Patterns are too chaotic, control-reversing and hitbox-enlarging gimmicks sound like very bad ideas for a danmaku game. I'm not really willing to pick this up anymore. But hey, I might just need to take some time to warm up to this game. Who knows.
Apparently, there's an Attack on Titan reference?
Seija's left/right inversion is easy to adjust to, but up/down is just insane. Specially when the transition happens while she's shooting. I just can't get past her on Normal. I don't even wanna think about Hard.Gods, its like playing Dark Souls again. It's glorious.
Oh yeah, all those who were hoping the mirror youkai thing to happen?Spoiler: Seija's second set of spellcards refer to mirrors.The Easy-Normal is called Reverse Sign "Danmaku of the Mirror Land" and the Hard-Lunatic is called Reverse Sign "Evil in the Mirror"
EDIT: There seems to be a translation patch already.
Man, everything I want has to come out the same time! Farewell sleep, I hardly knew thee. Hmmm, how's the difficulty on normal/hard? Would you say it's in the upper tier as the lunatic appears to be?
Normal - SA lunatic/UFO hardHard - SA ultra/UFO lunaticRunatiku - UFO ultra lunatic/impossibru (except for Jaimers)
Is it the same auto-updating patch or a new one?
Y'know, on closer look things seem way too interesting to pass up. But I'm still worried about those gimmick cards. How bad are they, the control-switching and hitbox-enlarging ones, especially on higher difficulties?
...Just as soon as the vsync patch is made and this input lag goes away. ;;
Spoiler: A somewhat underhanded workaround for the stage 5 boss would be to remap the controls when she uses a spell, but you didn't hear that from me.
The enlarging one isn't particularly difficult, nor is the first control switching one. The second one is trickier, but the last card is hell, because the screen turns as she's shooting. It's very easy to lose yourself during the transition. I just bomb everytime the screen begins to shift.