Touhou: Hollow Song of Birds - Final Stage

𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, 𝘴𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦.
𝘈𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘬𝘺𝘰 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘣𝘰𝘸 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦.

Unlike your usual Final Stage, this one definitely isn't an easy romp before getting to the final boss herself, rather this one actually plays like how you'd expect the difficulty of a final stage to be. You're escaping a collapsing pyramid here and the stage itself feels like that with just a whole bunch of different stuff thrown at you. Biggest thing to watch out for is cause of that, it gets extremely easy to get trapped under a good number of enemy patterns

Horou has a motley crew of attacks here, not unlike all the stuff Set threw at you last stage. However while Set was more about literally punching or throwing stuff at you, here trapping and blasting you. Much of her fight feels like she's setting up different ways to pin you down under bullets, but then snipe you with one extra attack once you're pinned down. Also, important to consider in her fight that she will switch your weapon customization from spell to spell. For the most part, it's generally a non-issue (since most of the differences were status effects on stage enemies), but the biggest one you have to watch out for is Green, since that was the only color that changed your movement (you start moving faster and faster while unfocused).

Difficulty - Normal
Character - Extremely Ordinary Magician: Marisa Kirisame
Final Stage - I am the Prisoner of Time: Forbidden Incantation Tower
BGM - Pasi Lameta Vimaturesi
Boss - Jehuti of the Far East: Horou Torisumi
BGM - Golden Hymn ~ Ibis Trismegistus

Timestamps

0:00 - Stage
3:49 - Pre-fight Dialogue
7:44 - Non-spell
8:09 - Orange Sign "Desert-Colored Scorching Wind"
8:34 - Non-spell
8:58 - Red Sign "The Vermillion-Painted Arrow Has Chosen Thee!"
9:27 - Non-spell
9:45 - Violet Sign "Amethyst Gravel of Sado"
10:09 - Non-spell
10:30 - Indigo Sign "Mummy Fairy"
10:49 - Non-spell
11:15 - Blue Sign "Alchemic Hydrosword: Last Azoth"
11:55 - Green Sign "Ally-Summoning Jade Tablet"
12:02 - Small Sign "Thrust With All One's Might (Dual Meaning Charge)"
12:22 - Light Sign "Hollow Song of Bennu"
12:34 - Disorder Luan Sign "Shiran Ranran Rampage"
12:58 - "Echo to the Island of Gold, O Song of the Scarlet Ibis"
14:39 - "Over the Rainbow"
15:33 - Ending
18:44 - Staff Roll
20:38 - Next Time

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Translations courtesy of the Touhou wiki

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