MARISA MATRIX - Normal Mode ALL Clear - 3,37 Million

Turn on captions for some extra comments. Very cool free doujin shmup from 2010 that mixes Touhou with Mars Matrix. The music is even a mix of Touhou and Mars Matrix music it's great. Go play Marisa Matrix. Mechanics The game uses the reflect shield from Mars Matrix but it doesn't work quite the same. The time it takes to recharge the shield takes much longer than in Mars Matrix, so you can't quite do the thing where you do constant short reflects. With the shield you can absorb bullets and then reflect them back for massive damage. If you hold the button until the meter fully depletes, you do a screen-wide bomb. You can only use the reflect when your power is at 100%, this recharges naturally over time. Aiming the reflect is actually pretty hard. You kinda have to move in the opposite direction you want to aim and then release the button. Also worth mentioning that your shot power is tied to your current reflect meter. Go play Marisa Matrix. Shots You can select between two main shots and two focused shots. For main shots you have a wide shot and a forward-focus shot. I found the wide shot really hard to use since your movement speed is really slow with it. For secondary shots you have Laser and Napalm. Laser is very powerful while Napalm pierces and also does splash damage. From stage 2 onwards Reimu follows you around like an option and her shot actually changes based on which main shot you chose. For wide shot she uses a forward focus shot and for forward focus she uses a homing attack. Go play Marisa Matrix. Extends Bosses drop an extend if you're at 2 lives or less. Besides that there are also a bunch of secret extends. In stage 1 there are sections with big fairies from the left and right that shoot aimed clusters of bullets. They drop an extend if you destroy both sides with the same reflect. You don't have to kill them, they just need to get hit with the reflect. You can get two extends from these. In stage 3 there is a section with crazy deathfairies. If you speedkill them fast enough to spawn a third deathfairy, then it drops an extend. The manual implies it's maybe possible to spawn a fourth for another extend. Go play Marisa Matrix. Scoring Scoring is basically using your reflect as much as possible to spawn lots of point items. You also want to increase your Rate so point items are worth more. Your rate increases by 10 for every 10 point items you pick up, though this only works in stages, not bosses. Rate resets after every stage. Bosses also drop big point items if you have exactly 3 lives in stock but not more or less. So for scoring you kinda want to stay at 3 lives for the whole game. I could have suicided twice at the end there to get them but eh. Go play Marisa Matrix. Unfortunately it seems like the game was never quite finished. The main game itself was finished, but there were plans to include cutscenes at the start and end of the game and also to include an Extra stage. If you look at the game files you can actually see portraits for Cirno and Flandre that were never implemented. The game even has options for Tate and scan lines. The dude who made this is pretty legit. Getting this game to run was really hard since it doesn't work very well on Windows 10. I couldn't get the music to run, so I did the run without music, then transferred the replay file to a Windows XP virtual machine and recorded the run from there. It's pretty jank but it works. I'm not sure if Hard mode is actually possible to beat, it's really silly. Download the game here: https://ykkb.hatenadiary.org/entries/... 00:00 - Intro 00:46 - Stage 1 05:23 - Stage 2 09:43 - Stage 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twitter:   / jaimersstg   Twitch:   / jaimersstg