At least your beloved piercing lasers are back, somehow

Back in HSiFS’s extra stage, Marisa passed Okina’s trial and was asked to work for her. Now Saki is doing the same thing for her alliance. What kind of resume does Marisa have??

1:14 The rabbit we *DIDN'T* expect to see in this game. There's, like, two rabbits we expected to see before her, and neither of them are here.

I mean, Reimu's statement might be hilariously wrong, but I'm pretty sure they're contractually obligated to try to beat each other up whenever they run into each other during an incident, and you try coming up with believable reasons to say "I'ma shoot you" after this many times.

Just realized, if you cross your eyes while watching gameplay of the phantasmagoria style games, it looks like a coop game

enoko has possibly my favorite boss sprite in the game. Dogy Dance

Awwww, cute small detail I just noticed is in Nazrin’s excited portrait, the big line in the emoticon thingy near her head has holes in it like cheese

11:05 Saki be like "oh? You're approaching me?"

This just in: Omega gets his piercing back and undergoes catharsis. That level 2 is truly scary but only in PvP. Still though, it is more than enough of a menace to earn doing only that

Yay! Glad to see more udoalg

Marisa is one of the best non-Reimu non-a certain chupacabra characters in this game. Her damage is great, has a good story mode boss lineup barring Reimu and Zanmu, and for pvp has a pretty strong level 2 and 3. She's so good that I managed to get a Lunatic 1cc as her despite my skill level being around Hard 1cc. Next time, time for Sanae to be harrased by some foxes

the new Wonderful precure ep seems great already joking aside it's nice to see more udoalg, need marisa's secret to have more clothes

Cat ear shaped bow

I won't deny that Reimu leaping to THAT conclusion is pretty stupid I don't remember which character is the point where time actually progresses instead of just different perspectives, but it's by that point that Reimu's change in tune gets really noticed by people

Well at least marisa got lasers only this time. Her kleptomaniac tendencies goes up to infinity and beyoooond

As alluded to in the video, the AI is very much not inclined to take any hits especially without the sufficiently dense spam of high level attacks. What you might not expect, however, is that killing the stage 6 enemy AI (usually Zanmu) has now taken over as the primary strategy in more than a couple LNNs in this game... Marisa, though, is not one of them. Her Lv1 when spammed can make short work of any enemy bosses, which on top of her excellent base shot damage, makes her one of the easiest shots to get LNN with. Just be a bit more mindful of Zanmu's penultimate spell and properly stream that.

7:53 Which is what has been recently happening in canon... WBaWC: Gets strung along by Yachie while Marisa is the one who take out Saki. SFW: Gets an asswhooping from Yuuma and Flan ends up dealing with her. And we never see if she manages to stop the Yorigami Sisters' tourist trap, either. And my money is on "she was roped in the scheme, so Flan had to settle things". UM: Marisa canonically solves the Incident. 100thBM: Marisa is the sole protagonist while Reimu is a mid-level encounter who was seemingly taking part in the black market.

12:02 After all, she is the one who canonically defeated Saki, in that game.

7:46 Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.

19:29 Pretty sure the last time Marisa got ANY sort of backstory was back when Rinnosuke's novel first came out.

16:03 Odd that we fight the leader before the new recruit, when both are in a group where might makes right.

The AI is actually really bad at dodging certain stuff.

21:40 Because Reimu's current track record hasn't been the best, and Marisa's past victories are encouraging her to keep her streak.

17:09 Odd that the new recruit fits the clan's wolf imagery better than the leader herself.

20:44 So she skipped over Hisami, huh? Funny, I expected the game to follow the typical formula of "fight the right hand lady before fighting the final boss" that 9, 10.5 and so many other games followed.

And I still never went back to actually try to get that Marisa LNN but on recording... That said, she's definitely a high tier character. All things considered, at least the AI isn't as BS here as in PoFV. As said in the video, on higher difficulties, they can actually end up taking hits here and there, which makes Human vs CPU in VS Mode, like, actually feasible for the human player. Though I suppose it helps that you aren't cancelling bullets 5000 times like in PoFV. I dunno if you've noticed, but it's so funny to me that Nazrin's card images are swapped when you get them. Her card in this video, does not, in fact, look like a rod, and in the last video it certainly didn't look like a pendulum. 8:00 9:32 oh boy here we go again Also remember when I said I really don't like Reimu in this game? She also sucks as a boss, why are her patterns denser than the average Twitter user??? 9:40 This is not Normal difficulty density!!! 15:40 Not only does she have a bullet shot in her hat, Marisa's fingers look like they're pointing straight at it when Saki's portrait is the highlighted one. Enoko is so cute. I have nothing more to say. Though I'll be damned. I swear her pendant STILL looks like the Chain Bomb from Kirby and the Forgotten Land to me. It's the shade of green that does it for me. I wasn't gonna bring this up until later, but Enoko is already a good example of this happening. (So is Nazrin, but this only really happens against more aggressive players that move up on the screen often.) For some reason, on lower game screen resolutions, the tells for the EX attacks go to a completely different place than where the attacks pop up. This can be very bad on Enoko, and ESPECIALLY on a certain boss later that we all know and hate. I think 1280x960 has them pop up fine, not sure about 960x720. There is a patch that fixes this, but stuff like this _shouldn't_ need a patch... 22:04 oh god why does Zanmu look like she's looking straight at the player (Also hm, maybe noting down all the talking points I wanna mention in a comment on Notepad really does help...) (also hey new pfp)

26:01 Is that the Stage theme? The theme selection for this game is bizarre.

One thing about this game that I'm confused about is the effect of Saki, Yachie and Yuuma's cards. Like, what do they actually do?

6:35 Sounds like something a certain nothingness-using emo would say. In other words, you're not the one who should be saying that, Marisa.