Touhou 14.3: Impossible Spell Card/Day 1

1-1

Regular:

• Use the cloth as the ring of bullets is about to hit you in order to avoid it.

Itemless:

Strat 1:

• The rings have gaps that are aimed away from you, so misdirect them upwards so they are aimed downwards, and then go through the gap.

Strat 2:

• You can micrododge the rings at the bottom, but it is quite tight. You will have the most room to do this in the opposite corner from Yatsuhashi.

Strat 3:

• Shotgunning or head-sitting with the Cursed Decoy Doll sub-weapon will deal enough damage to end the attack before the ring can reach you.

Extra Info:

• This scene shoots an extra ring after the first wave, making a timeout difficult. This does not usually affect regular play.

1-2

Regular:

Strat 1:

• You can use the camera to take a photo of the spirals of arrowheads in order to delete them. However, this strat needs you to be close to the boss.

Strat 2:

• You can use the cloth to hide from the spiral waves much like in 1-1.

Itemless:

Strat 1:

• You can spin the spiral waves. The blue wave can be spun no matter where it is aimed, but for the red wave it is recommended to stand to the right of Wakasagihime when it spawns, switch to the left side to avoid the first part of the wave, then circle back under and around to the right for the rest.

Strat 2:

• You can micrododge the waves at the bottom or sides of the screen. The red waves have some relatively clear lanes if you can read that far ahead.

1-3

Regular:

• Attempt to stream the light blue bullets and then use the cloth to hide from the dark blue walls.

Itemless:

• Same as the regular strat, you just have to dodge the dark blue walls. Stick to the opposite corner of Cirno when applicable to give yourself the most time to react to the walls.

1-4

Regular:

Strat 1:

• Use the cloth to hide from the arrowhead walls as they come down closer to you.

Strat 2:

• Use the camera to delete parts of the arrowhead walls.

Strat 3:

• Use the umbrella to warp from the bottom of the screen to the top after the final wave of arrowheads has been shot.

Itemless:

• This is all about good pathfinding (And some luck on the final wave).
• You can also micrododge the arrowheads before they transform - for later waves, this requires finding adjacent bullets with a large height difference to go between. This strategy is harder, but significantly less luck based.

1-5

Regular:

Strat 1:

• Hide from the icicle waves with the cloth.

Strat 2:

• Take a photo of the converging waves in the middle with the camera and move aggressively through them.

Itemless:

Strat 1:

• Shotgun at the start to get damage in, move down to the bottom, and stand to either the left or right of center.
• Micrododge through the first wave, and then micrododge the second. Do not try to dodge both arcs at the same time. Unfocused movements will help you dash through the tight spaces.
• Move up to shotgun again and repeat until you've depleted all of Cirno's health.
• You have a significant amount of time at the start to head-sit Cirno with the Cursed Decoy Doll sub-weapon. This will deal enough damage that you only need to dodge one wave of icicles.

Strat 2:

• There is an RNG safespot directly underneath her, move down directly after starting the scene and pray.
• It is RNG due to the crystals spawning in slightly different positions each attempt.

Extra info:

• You can shoot down the crystals in this scene, but you do not have the shot upgrade at the start of the game and it's not easy to do even with it.
• If you do shoot them down, Cirno does not regenerate them.

1-6

Regular:

• Use the camera to get rid of each wave of fish. You need to be up close to the boss to do this.

Itemless:

• Shotgun at the start, move out of the way and then move back to shotgun. The fish bullets are always aimed down first, so you can use that to your advantage.
• Misdirect the fish. After they aim at you for the 3rd time, they will explode into red bullets, so try to lead them into the side of the screen so most of them get deleted before they do that.
• Repeat until the boss is dead (the timer is quite long, so don't worry about DPS).