/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>43870183
I disagree that UFO is easier than SA, in fact for Normal I personally don't even rank SA as #2. I believe half of the difficulty people perceive is from being misguided into playing ReimuA when ReimuC is the much easier 1cc in my opinion, but this wrong advice is old and perhaps due to a false equivalence assumed by people who play on higher difficulties and haven't realised they're largely out of touch with beginner mistakes, values, and so on, although I'm not here to claim that these are universal. Each player is different and may excel at different types of spells at first before they build themselves to handle them all. There may also be a sense of pride attached to that recommendation, since the ReimuC 1cc admitedly isn't pretty and it's more fulfilling to accomplish a 1cc with any other shot in that game. ReimuC just turns the game back into a sort of harder MoF, but returns the game to the MoF pressing X wins games kind of glory. ReimuC solves the Stage 5 headache and through the sheer power of her bomb should average maybe 2 to 3 lives saved over any other shot in a case where you haven't commited to learning Stage 5. Suddenly, with these ressources, the end game isn't so daunting, given the freebies Okuu has here and there. Her first 2 spells are hard and you can get overwhelmed by her 2 other nons but she remains one of the most easily figured out bosses out there, it's more a matter of execution which I think plays in the favor of beginners. Early game is chokeable but you have the easiest Satori fight and leniency from what your bombs offer you in Stage 3 & 4.
Byakuren has slightly less freebies than Okuu, even if a few more of her spells you can reasonably get good at decently fast if you practice them, as without practice they already sit on that cusp of doable area. Ultimately i'd still give her the edge in, and that's the main issue here, a game with only 2 bombs per lives and -1P on death. It's not impossible to get careless and burn 2 bombs on the same spell and thats rough.