東方獣王園 〜 Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost - Lunatic No Focus 1cc (Nazrin)
With live commentary, because there are no replays.
Nazrin is one of the hardest characters to 1cc with. There are however some strategies that can make 1cc more reasonable.
Charging to at least a Level 3 recharges your shield. This does need some luck but it always keeps you from having to use bombs, which I think are usually not at all useful. Nazrin's bomb prioritizes moving towards spirits and destructable EX attacks over the boss.
For the final boss, Nazrin's Level 2 becomes important. This summons a yellow wave that instantly kills activated spirits. This effect extends to Yachie's big otter spirits too and these spirits even count towards summoning automatic Level 3 and 4 summons. The Level 2 also gives you a pretty large amount of invincibility frames which are useful to pass through the walls of Yachie's normal and penultimate spell.
Now Nazrin's Level 3 is also important. This summons a wave of pendulums. These have a chance to make the AI get hit. It losing all hearts is also a win condition. The pendulums break AI in the same way how PoDD AI gets broken (large objects they dodge poorly). When mixing summons from the big Level 2 cancels with manual Level 3s, you can get multiple waves of pendulums being fired simultaneously, which makes it unlikely the AI will dodge all of it, even with the protection from her Level 1 and 2.
The consequence of this strategy against the final boss however is that many things get reflected from both sides, thus making the playfield more intense. This was more fun and satisfying though and really got me used to this boss.
With this goal achieved, I'm probably done playing this game seriously. I may still decide to go for an Orin clear if it's not too frustrating, as at first glance she seemed even worse than Nazrin to play and not in a good way. Her Level 2 even has a glitch where it kills you if you're too high on the screen.
For a Twitch replay and other random moments I had with this game, check the highlights:
https://www.twitch.tv/KirbyComment/videos?filter=highlights
0:00 Stage 1 - Orin
2:59 Stage 2 - Ran
5:24 Stage 3 - Seiran
7:49 Stage 4 - Mamizou
11:03 Stage 5 - Enoko
14:02 Stage 6 - Yachie