Being the nib I am, I still play my Lunatics with max lives. I could have had a default equivalent on LLS just now, but I'm terrible at Reimu so I burned 4 lives there. Oh well, at least I now have a Marisa
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UPDATE: In an attempt to get hardmode Marisa clear pics, I end up dying on stage 4 four times... By flying into enemies. 3 of which were the same enemies spawning from the same places. Yes, it was actually that retarded. Then I try again and die 5 times on Reimu, breaking my old record death count of 4 deaths on Reimu Lunatic and making it 5 deaths on Reimu Hard. God dammit T_T.
UPDATE 2: Adding onto my horrible runs, I now decide to just say fuck it to scoring and play for survival. I still blow the whole Reimu fight, die on rings of death with 4 lives in stock, find myself last life no bombs on Yuka by her last few phases, try to lower rank a bit by timing out so I can survive the sparks, survive the first spark, die on the second. Not that it would have saved me on the last phase, but ugh... Dammit Reimu, why so OP? I had an easier time with SoEW Marisa =(.
Update 3: Completely failed to supergraze Yuka's circle of bullets that closes in to the center thing, wasting 2 lives there. Made it to her second last phase with almost no resources for bomb-spam item farming, blah. Oh well, at least I cleared it, and Reimu was a 1 bomb no death this time... As it should be - Hard shouldn't give me more trouble than Lunatic, I don't care what game I'm playing, but definitely not in LLS where Hard is a complete joke.
Update 4: I forgot to screenshot my score. Even if it was a horrible run, I can't see myself doing this again for a long while, so I'm disappointed now =(.