Ultimate Vitality of Imagination (v1.3.4) - Lunatic (Inf + TLB) - NMNBNRFS - MarisaA

"i'm retired," he insists for the nth time since, like, 2020 or something idk

This is a really wonderful game and I really like it for survival. It's punishing, but not bullshit. Snappy and keeps you on your toes at all times. Routing is intense, but there's a lot of freedom for creative strats (you'll need them!); the game doesn't feel the need to counter every cheese known to mankind.

The game has two completely different final bosses (and accompanying TLBs)! The Inf boss is the secret one, and it's also way cooler than the regular boss. You access it by going into the glowy cloud near the end of stage 6; note that you cannot do this in stage practice until you've done it in a full run.

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This run was interrupted several times by my family trying to talk to me (or my brother asking me to save his git repo), hence the random pauses on dialogue / in between spells (and you can see how long I paused for each time!).

The abrupt cut-to-black stage transitions only occur when watching replays. I didn't even know they did that until I got the run.

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Youtube wouldn't let me post the run notes in the comments (too long? contains links to pictures? idk) so here it is on pastebin instead: pastebin.com/MCMgg9qm

Credits:
- HUCK for the stage 5 final misdirect strat. I gaslit myself into thinking that a slight misdirect was better, and it wasn't.
- Do☆ for discovering that Murder on the Touhou Express white balls are deterministic, as well as providing lineup-based strats for stage 4 spell 3 and stage 5 spell 4. Also, he recorded this video.

All other strats are original.