連縁无現里 ~ Misremembered Memories (v1.00a) - Extra No Bomb (Tsubakura)

Published on 2023-02-06 | Archived on 2024-02-08

oh wow a len'en fangame

Neat fangame of which the full version just came out a few days ago, developed by Mugenri. (No, not the Len'en world.)
It's in the style of PC-98 Touhou, and comprises of two Extra boss-like fights against Tsurubami, and two playable characters, those being the main characters of the series, which determines the entire fight you get. Yabusame gets spell cards themed after the characters from EMS and RMI, while Tsubakura gets spell cards themed after the characters from BPoHC.

There are three difficulty levels, Easy Extra, Extra and Absurdly Extra, so there's stuff for everyone. (And AbEx isn't the way it is in actual Len'en.)
Extra on its own is quite difficult however. This actually took a damn while to get a run of. Not helped by the resources being scarce though. You get an extend at 10 million points, then double the previous one each next one. Getting the 80mil extend practically requires a cap of basically almost every spell if you wanna get it outside the clear bonus. Other than that, you get a 1UP item partway through the fight.
You can set your starting lives from 0 to 7, with 2 being the default, so I went with 2.

Some of the pattern balancing is kinda wack. Some patterns are some of the easiest stuff you've ever seen for an Extra, and then it's followed by a completely out there pattern. The final for Tsubakura's route almost feels like something I'd see out of Spell Card Collection, not in an Extra boss-like fight. And that roulette spell hurts my brain despite me knowing how to do it.
also 16 spells for this route jesus fucking christ
Also goddamn, you really made Spell Card Phantasm and Icarus opener at home, huh. At least they're much easier here. (Ignoring the fact that Inno found a strat for the original version of the latter that makes it baby mode easy lol) (also, granted, they did make the original SCP)

Also, yes, this is made on Danmakufu ph3sx somehow. The only things that lag for me are the Kujiru spell and the last phase of the roulette spell though.

Overall pretty cool, despite the wack difficulty curve.
Download this fangame here: mugenri.itch.io/le-mm
(You can pay for it too if you want.)

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