Touhou 2: The Story of Eastern Wonderland - Extra (Commentary & Translation)

The avoided trap finally sprung.

This is it...Touhou's first Extra Stage...and DAMN is it harder than I thought it would be...

By comparison though this is much easier than most recent extra stages. For the level everything plays piece by piece so by the end you've memorized everything that comes out at you and what it takes to avoid it

As for Rika...Easier than it would seem but that's mainly because of the Extra stages bizarre difficulty curve. She has five phases and the first two are the most difficult with the difficulty going down from there

I choose Reimu-C for this. All three modes are doable for the stage without any change in strategy really however many of Rika's attacks require slight movements which can't be accomplished with faster modes

Difficulty - Extra
Character - Reimu-C
Extra - Different Sky ~ for Lunatic Gamers
BGM - Extra Love
Boss - Engineer: Rika
BGM - The Tank Girl's Dream

Translations courtesy of the Touhou wiki