YMMV / Touhou Hisouten ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

• Sequel Difficulty Spike: A lot of mechanics were changed from previous game, as to make certain tactics less viable. For example, each character has one life bar per round instead of two, the Spell Cards are now restricted by the deck system, making spamming them impossible, the projectiles now cost the same instead of being all over the place, the characters can now fly using the spirit gauge... Except the AI in story mode still doesn't play by the same rules as you. Also your deck is for the entire story mode, which effectively forces you into managing your cards for the entire mode. What stops it from being a complete rise in difficulty is that AI no longer uses normal attacks during Spell Cards (though it doesn't have spirit gauge at all now), the characters' movesets are now more varied (meaning certain characters have more options against the weirder story spellcards), and Story Mode length now varies between characters, with most being the typical 6 instead of 7 as in previous game, some being even shorter than that (all the way up to just 3)... and two being longer, at 8 stages.