Byakuren has two rage phases? She must have a lot of rage from all that time spent as a rat in a cage.

I'm surprised Gengetsu's infamous timeout phase for her last attack in LLS Extra wasn't included in the video.

07:00 Some bullets from spell 2 always spawn off screen, and they are not deleted by the cancel. This is an actual problem for non 3, it's common for LNB/LNN credits to wait for bullets to move down before killing murasa.

Murasa's rage phase is really just rain lol

Devil's recitation is still the coolest spellcard. It's just so cool and memorable after MS. Also uncapped speed bullets from Murasa is terrifying.

Just play Phantasmagoria where you can always get rage mode on s9 Eiki on round 1... on normal mode

Mamizou’s rage phase is the only one I’ve gotten without trying for it. As Youmu, if you have 2.99 or less power, her attack range is too short to really hit the boss. This meant my first Mamizou clear with Youmu ended with a last spell timeout…

I’ve seen a few people actually clear Koishi by timing down her final spell exclusively.

it makes sense for byakuren to have some pent-up rage, she spent so long sealed in makai, and then iirc the heroine (well, at least reimuA, idk about reimuB, marisa, or sanae) ends up expressing intent to reseal her right after unsealing her even if that latter bit didn't happen, there's still her imprisonment in makai also c4p is an absolute legend

Was hoping you'd show the utter clusterfuck that is timing out that one Gengetsu attack, if only as an honorable mention seeing as it does predate the Windows-era games. Other than that, good video. Only knew about the Grudge Bow and Yukari rage phases until now.

The real rage phase is when your try to do a 1cc run and fail at the final stage or final boss and your rage phase spell is slamming the desk (also possibly smashing the keyboard).

I'd be really interested to see you do a video on all spellcards that have anti-cheating mechanisms in them! This seems to be significantly rarer than rage phases - I can only think of one or two off the top of my head - but this usually presents in spellcards that suddenly spew out a huge barrage of bullets if you try to shotgun them. I've always loved when spellcards/patterns in general were modular like this and directly respond to player actions (outside of the standard examples like streaming, of course).

Oh that's a cool idea for a video! It's a shame ZUN rarely does these anymore (outside of unintentional timeout shenanigans and Momoyo's final, most of them are just a skip to last phase). Seija's nons are pretty funny if you time them down, especially if you time lock them. The length of the bullet lanes increases by 1 every time she fires with no cap. The bullets spawn more and more inward with each bullet in a lane, until eventually they spawn so inward they actually go outward into the other direction. And on time lock it will end up spawning across the entire screen. (Also good music choice for DDC, really underrated track!)

6:28 now the bullet is at the speed of light

The term "rage phase" came from thprac, before that it was usually called timeout phase. You can also get the spell bonus from timing Grudge Bow out, that's funny to note. Also, please don't mix the fire rate with the speed of the bullets (11:20), those are two different things. Futo's final becomes weird when you time down phase 2. Otherwise the video is pretty exhaustive, nicely done!

I’d only really accessed the rage phases through thprac so I was surprised by how strangely some of these patterns progressed with time, like what the heck is going on with hecatia and junko lol

Gengetsu's last spell rage raping all the livin being: 6:29 *It's raining men*

Thank gosh, I've never raged at any of these bullet patterns thanks to some words of wisdom from my father based on his fond memories of playing the original TMNT arcade beat 'em up.

Love you. Thank you for making touhou content that we all can enjoy

A video on rage phases was unexpected and cool to see. There is at least one rage phase that was missed which is with Ran's final. Thprac doesn't even recognize it though so I don't blame anyone for not knowing it exists. It's also just much less interesting than Yukari's variant. While not at all rage phases and more so just product of using timelock, locking down midbosses causes them to pool over into the stage section and even into the boss which can result in some weird things.

every touhou girl raging until doom guy with the beserk kick in

Flan in the thumbnail: *Literal demon* Byakuren in the thumbnail: *Angy*

In Rabi Ribi there is an attack which I am 99% SURE that it is a reference to Moses Miracle (the boss I am referring to in Rabi Ribi is Rumi, on of the DLC bosses)

Interesting video, I don't think I could do any of these patterns.

I actually knew about most of these rage phases, mainly because I played these games so much that sometimes I get bored and try a Pacifist run I actually have captured a lot of these, most of em are pretth fun

I'll watch this once i beat all the games, lol Currently on Touhou 7 (game) and on Touhou 9's OST

They sure are more easy to anger than we expected.

Imagine one day being hit with a baseball and suddenly you can time out Rans Illusion God.

You missed Miko's Wild Dance. Every wave adds more arrows to Futo and Tojiko's rings, and eventually they become borderline walls and to have any chance you basically need to bait one of them offscreen. Not a true Rage phase but works like Tongling and Moses.

There's a funny attack in ISC that serves as a sort of unintentional "anti-rage" phase. In Day 8-1 (I believe) Sukuna's attack loop is capped at a value such that it runs out before the spell is timed out. Around 30 seconds remaining, Sukuna simply does not shoot any more bullets, but still moves around the screen as normal. There are also many attacks in 100BM (usually after 4th Market) that gradually increase fire rate or density of attacks as the spell goes along for around 50 seconds, such as Youmu's spell. This can get disastrous if your card loadout doesn't have enough fire-power for these beefier-than-usual bosses.

Really wish touhou mainline had console ports. My only experience with official touhou are the spin offs on switch so hyouibana and goyoku ibun.then again all the projectiles would probably make any switch combust into flames.I have played Luna nights and in the middle of scarlet symphony though

what about timing out the touhou 4 extra stage final?

I think Orin has something similar to this that is entirely proximity based? It's not exactly a "phase" but one of her stage 5 spellcards has her go totally ballistic and release WAY more bullets if you get / stay close to her.

God I love touhou gameplay content.

So spin-offs aside, Imperishable Night and Hidden Star in Four Seasons are the only windows games in the series without any rage phases? That's kinda odd, ngl.

Zun was like: this is NOT Undertale, get on with it!

I remember having a dream where I survived nue's rage phase and I was so happy

It is said that the Spellcard system was made to even the power gaps, so that the weak can stand against the strong, and goddamn you are expected to dodge this much barrage, rage mode spellcard are essentially just impossible spellcard when it goes on for too long.

15:15 I recall hearing nobody has managed to clear this even with tool assists.

I love how rage phases are basically your typical CAVE shooter. And then you have Inbachi-like madness that Gengetsu anf Momoyo are

My motivation to continue playing Touhou games has gone down

i'm sorry, your description of fairy destruction ray has me giggling so hard. i'm just imagining marisa getting right into cirno's face turning a flashlight on and off as quickly as she can

small addendum to the Border of Life and Death rage phase, there is actually at least one (potentially two, according to second person's description) other person who has captured it, one being @ A_kotiya who has a channel on youtube. the video is in Japanese so it's difficult to find unless you know what you're looking for, and i currently have no leads as to who the "third person" is.

how do you pronounce "kirisame marisa" with 100% phonetic accuracy but tie your own tongue into a knot at "kochiya sanae"

My eyes hurt watching this😂😂

Ahhh, I understand why these exist. Let me explain, from a game design standpoint: Notice how these rage phases only occur on patterns that increase in intensity the more damage the boss takes. On these patterns, a cheeky player might think to avoid damaging the boss at all, and then time out, in order to avoid increasing the difficulty. Rage phases seek to punish these players who think they can beat the system. "Oh, you're going to time out the pattern so you dont have to dodge the hard version? Here's an EXTRA hard version"

whats that small yellow thing i kept seeing around reimu in these clips? They always look like she got hit and lost a life but she doesnt .3.

I play Reimu-A in PCB and the rage phase of Ran's final spell easily achievable because of low damage. Still, got ExNM here.

Touhou Pacifist Runs when? In all seriousness though with those patterns I do not know how possible it would be. But fun nonetheless 😅

Murasa has just a _tad_ too much speed

Now the ternm *Touhou isn’t the hardest of it’s genre* Really echos in my mind

Are rage phases the endless now?

Anyone doing "pacifist" runs would have likely seen a lot of these too, since that involves winning w/o attacking at all. But, good luck dodging all this crap. I know I'm nowhere near good enough to do stuff like that, especially on Lunatic.

as a person whos only played LLS and MS, windows touhou games have such confusing mechanics

The real rage phase that i have with touhou is try to 1cc IaMP on lunatic

I still consider Junko`s PDH by far the most difficult rage phase in the official Touhou franchise.

Didn't know you were still alive.

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So; for those wondering: "Where is Gengetsu!" Firstly; it's a Windows-era video. Secondly... there is so much more to Gengetsu than that single meme. Go search "No Shooting Lotus Land Story Extra". It's not JUST Gengetsu's final. It's not even just Gengetsu; Mugetsu does it as well on her final. LLS Pacifist [so you can't even use bombs like this video] is perhaps the single hardest thing in Touhou. It's worth noting as well that LLS was the debut of Rage Phases. SoEW didn't have them. It also makes it pretty clear that the PC-98 games basically do have "the spellcard system" in terms of gameplay [it even trends towards easy attack - hard attack] just not named or with visible timers like we know now. This is most obvious with Alice Extra where she goes in colors with a "non" and "spell"

Something I find absolutely hilarious about Dragon Eater is that it's not even possible for TAS, as far as I can tell. There's a video of a TAS doing it and they die despite having nine of the strongest bullet-clearing cards.

How can you stop the timer and not die

Also I thought hecatia was pronounced (hu-kay-shuh)

I DIDNT KNOW THIS WAS A THING IN ALL MY YEARS OF TOUHOU?! OMGGGG?!

Thank god im not the only one that thinks the Touhou 6 Ex stage is bullshit

It's simple: ZUN hates the showoff-ish masochistic players who would attempt passive timeout gameplays