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Subterranean Animism (2008)

Duration: 4:13

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This is by far my favorite Stage 4. It's challenging without the bullshit, and it's interesting enough such that it never gets boring. Furthermore, this is probably the best stage in SA: it's unique, it does a lot of things right, and it has music that stands out above all the rest.

Anyway, this proved to be pretty difficult to accomplish. Whether or not this feat is harder to do than a perfect SA Stage 6 run is arguable, but if all I do is look at how much I needed to grind both, Stage 4 proves to be victorious.

This stage has three key spots that are difficult, and yet, the first two tend to vary greatly (anywhere from easy to BAWWW). These sections are: (1) the first Orin encounter (the difficulty depends on her movement), (2) the second Orin encounter (the difficulty depends on how stupid the rings form, and whether or not you can take her down before the wisps explode), and (3) the section right before the final set of lasers, where you have to stream bullets. After enough practice though, the stage became pretty easy for me aside for when (1) or (2) decided to give me the shitty end of the stick.

Satori, however, is tough. Her first three patterns are all trivial (aside for clip deaths with her two noncards: holy shit ZUN, make better collision detection please). Her recollections are where all hell breaks loose. Now, I've only played against Satori's Yukari recollections so I'm not sure if ReimuA has the toughest set of cards, but from what I've seen, she sure as hell does.

Double Black Death Butterfly is terrible. I suck so much at it. Not only is my DBDB record my worst record in SA, but it is also annihilated by my records for such cards as Resurrection Butterfly and VoWG. I just don't understand why I suck so much at this thing.

Her 2nd card, the laser/butterfly rain (never bothered to learn the name) is tricky but at least easier to read than the preceding card. My capture rate against this thing is probably somewhere around 1/3.

Lastly, there's BoWaP, of which is one of my favorite cards in the series. I've seen this thing so many times now that it poses virtually no threat to me. If I had choked here with some lousy death, I would have... well, best not to imagine.

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