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Right up my alley OP. I like scenes that depict character's Danmaku the most

>>43868388
>SA being harder isn't popular opinion?
Yeah, even in this thread, this anon >>43774811 listed UFO as less beginner friendly than SA. I mean, I understand the point that these people tend to make regarding these games. Playing devils advocate, I would argue that the UFO mechanic is far more complicated than the simple life piece mechanic in SA, and trying to formulate a strategy to 1cc UFO is much more involved tactically than SA. There's also the dramatic loss of irrecoverable power when you take a hit in UFO, which compared to SA, dropping below 3 power with some characters can easily be a run ender at certain points. By no means is UFO an easy game

However, even with all that in consideration, SA is ridiculously difficult when you consider the game based on the difficulty of just the raw danmaku, especially in stages 5 and 6. IMO, stage 5 of SA is one of the hardest stages to get through out of every Touhou game, ESPECIALLY if you're going into the stage with less than 2~3.0 power or so. It's so easy to get overwhelmed, because mistakes stack upon themselves so quickly in that game, it demands a very high standard of play and doesn't allow much room for error. Contrastly, UFO just isn't the same level of difficulty in that regard. Picrel, Okuu's penultimate attack puts you on a tightrope that necessitates very good screen awareness from 2 directions while massively restricting your character's movement. Byakuren's penultimate attack on the other hand is much more forgiving in both your alloted movement and in the level of awareness required to pass through the waves of bullets. The same can also be said for both of their final spellcards