A Touhou player will balk at the idea their hitbox contains multiple pixels.
Upgrades to what you could carry are very useful, and you’ll want to prioritise them.
Some spells can consume a wand’s entire mana capacity, but make up for it with raw power.
Relics that upgrade your maximum mana or grant mana regeneration willupgrade all your wands at once!
The Crafting System Is The Secret To Success
The game’s main mechanic is thespell customisation.
You’ll want to learn how tomodify your spells using boosts and passives.
The early game can be trivialised by applying any form of simultaneous casting to your basic damage spells.
Spells that modify cost must be slotted into a secondary slot to effect secondary spells.
Use Status Effects Carefully
Status effects are a strong way of scaling your strength.
They have their own hitpoint pools so can distract weaker enemies or even block bullets headed for you.
The downside of summoning istheir ability to distract you.
Most late-game bosses have wide area attacks that limit your ability to spam out weaker summons.
A good example is the ray of disintegration.
The spell’s description tells you very little other than that it fires a continuous beam.
The numbers you’re given only tell you the cost and damage-per-second, but not the duration.
This also makes it a difficult spell to auto-cast asit causes unpredictable movement.
There is an added layer of challenge in following both your own movements and lining up your attacks.
Some relics can make dodging harder by modifying your hitbox or confusing your vision.
Some relics move the position of your head away from your body, either upwards or to the side.
There is an accessibility option in the prefs to prevent relics from confusing your hitbox.
Other visual changes will remain but your head won’t move about to trick you into dodging wrong.
Be more careful of curses that are less easily quantified.
Most effects forcurse removal will select a random one.
Taking several mild curses can make it more difficult to remove the stronger ones.
Many items or curses with seeming negative effects can be used to create novel synergies.
