Ever since I finished Hard, I'm getting much higher spell bonuses in Phantasm than I usually do; most notably I've captured Shikigami "Protection of Zenki and Goki" with a bonus of 7236180, where as before I could only capture it for around 6 million points. I think I've learned how to stream even much smaller than before, yeah thanks for that Youmu. Also, I've finally been able to capture two cards that I haven't been able to before, and they are Sinisiter Spirits "Double Death Butterfly", and, FINALLY, Shikigami "Ran Yakumo"; this peaceful card only LOOKS easy, but it still actually isn't. It's really, really, REALLY difficult compared to Shikigami "Chen", which was shiteasy. So at least this doesn't happen to me anymore:
(yes I know I used this image before. Still find it funny and a bit sexy though)
Unfortunately I still fuck up "Boundary of Humans and Youkai" and "Boundary of Life and Death" pretty bad, but not as bad as before. Now at least I can get to half of BoHaY before getting hit, and I only get hit once now and survive the part where you get caged in the middle. BoLaD, well... still the last 20%. Those blue balls are just too... >_> Lastly, for the life of me, I cannot decipher as to why
I still keep freaking up "Danmaku Bounded Field" when it's clearly easier than the IN version of the spell. I just keep on freaking up one wave, all the time; in this most recent run (which I didn't save the replay) I screwed up on the second to the last wave.
But I'm feeling more confident in this, actually. Maybe after I can finish Phantasm with more than 700million points, I'll start tackling Lunatic.
EDIT: So I played Easy for the lulz
...and I'm not amused:
1.) I got 885389040, which is the highest score I've gotten so far, beating both my Normal and Hard runs >_<
2.) I still died 4 times, and failing 2 cards in the process. One of them had to be 10% Reflowering >_<
3.) LYRICA?!
Err... I couldn't recreate it that well, so I just played it again for a screenshot:
Those bullets don't cramp up like that on Normal and especially on Hard <_< What the hell is this?! This is one of the moments where I died btw