While I was bored, I came up with an evil idea. Not the most evil, but definately below neutral.
It's a special way to play Touhou games when you're bored or up for a challenge. People who can regularly do no(x) runs would probably find this easy, but for those of you who can't beat one of those yet want to play a restriction challenge, here's one to try.
Basically, you start with only the ability to perform horizontal movement. That's the only thing you can do. However, once you hit stage 3, you can finally move up and down. After you've managed to beat that, you gain the ability to die, meaning you don't have to perfect through the latter half of the game. Stage 5 is when you finally gain the focus ability, and in stage 6 you can bomb. No deathbombing, though.
I tried this out on MoF and couldn't beat stage 1. Although I wasn't really trying and I suck at timing stuff out, so.
What do you think? Feel free to post replay, videos, or whatever of your arbitrarily limiting yourself. :V
For extra fun, combine with Drake's black squares of DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM.