Touhou 17 ~ Wily Beast and Weakest Creature - Stage 5 Lunatic Perfect (MarisaW)

Been some time. I've been busy making serious headway in my own shoot-em-up that I'm hoping to have a demo of this year, which has really absorbed so much of my time and has contributed to other factors that have been making Touhou and WarioWare a bit less desirable right now.

Right now I'm really trying to refind my love for Touhou, as the biggest inspiration of said game I'm working on and hoping to finish what I started with getting every stage LNN and ExNN that still remains. As of now, I'm at 74/88 with most of the remaining stages being heavy hitters.

I've been working seriously hard at HSiFS Stage 6 as the one remaining stage from a game I've already covered that I never got the run on. That stage is giving me types of hell I never even knew existed right now and has made me seriously consider quitting at least once. Also been dealing with hardware issues which has made it harder, with my down arrow key often failing to register and directly killing me at multiple points. This run was done on a new keyboard, as has been all of my work the last couple days reacquainting with WBaWC as I try to find what it was that made me fall in love with this series in the first place.

This stage isn't anything crazy. Some parts of the stage section can use some polish route-wise but it's nothing really. Mayumi is a very consistent boss. Right now the biggest hurdle is making sure I don't get in my own head during 2nd non, which is just tight and unorthodox enough to make me second guess. It's a pretty cool non but yeah it's quite spooky. It's probably one of the easier lategame stages of Touhou (though I think it's definitely harder than stage 4 in this game) but man I really needed a win after my loss of motivation this past year. I hope this run is just the start of something of a return to form, but who knows what life has in store?