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GiftedACIII posted...

Most of the final boss themes are slower and more grandiose though, ie Septette, Border of Life, Lunatic Princess, Emotional Skyscraper. Utsuho's Nuclear Fusion, Miko's and Kanako's being the exception there. I like Sukuna's theme because it does sound like she's the underdog there and the section in the middle is very beautiful before getting to a strong climax. I also like that the stage theme builds up to it. I actually like the new trend of the stage 6 theme being a slower build up remix of the final boss theme. Most of the previous stage 6 themes are generally a bit middling with only PCB's stage 6 being one I really like.

That's true. Maybe I get less of an underdog vibe and it's more like I'm hearing a big grandiose song in a fight where I don't really buy it as the song.
As for stage 6 themes I always really liked Hellfire Mantle. It's a nice middle between stage 5's theme and the final boss theme.

GiftedACIII posted...

Do they? Seems kind of weird to have 3 numbered games being 1 era and around 9 games being the 2nd lol. But yeah, the MoF and SA bombs were pretty lame. Glad UFO went back to the screen clearing bombs although I'm not really a fan of UFO and TD's 2 bomb per life system either. I like DDC bringing it back to the classic method.

Yeah, I definitely used to see this. I don't know what they're doing now that there's a bunch more games, but people used to draw a line between 6/7/8 and 10/11/12.

I'll actually go to bat for one of SA's. My favorite loadout was the Reimu/Suika one. It had that bomb where it creates a portal and if any projectiles hit it, they turn into homing shots and fire back. I don't know if it's just me but that thing actually made me want to turn the difficulty up so I could get more mileage out of it.
The Alice one isn't great or flashy either but having 8 of them on hand is kind of nice.

I didn't mind how UFO handled it. My old strat was to only go for green UFOs, hoard bombs since they accumulated faster than lives and count on myself to use them instead of dying. I deliberately never looked up any optimal UFO collection strategies because I wanted to keep it interesting.

GiftedACIII posted...

I see, this is more about characters like Remilia, Kanako, Utsuho (although Satori is the leader of their group) and Byakuren having multiple stage bosses under their command whereas characters like Sukuna, Junko, and Okina only having a single stage boss associated with them. I can see how there's a difference there. Although tbf IN is also like that, with the first 4 bosses not related to Kaguya and the moon people at all.

Something like that. IN is its own beast though, has more than enough characters. Three local crazy people, one of two player characters as a boss. Reisen/Tewi/Eirin/Kaguya and you might not count it but I'd put Mokou in that group. I don't think I'd go as far as to group Keine in just because she's in the extra stage but it's cool she comes back powered up. It's like a supervillain team where they all have their own thing that makes them stand out.
More memorable than maybe 1 minion and being briefly assured that the final boss is a very important and powerful deity.

GiftedACIII posted...

Bike Byakuren is great lol. The fighting games had some really innovative stuff in the later games, fleshed out some of the characters a bit more too like Nitori originally just being some shy kappa to being very tech savvy and Futo... kind of just being there to being a goofball and throwing plates. Or Doremy using dreams to turn into a sheep mech or something.

Yeah everyone who gets into these gets a little zanier. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if Kogasa got into one of these. Would they give her so much weird, unexpected stuff that suddenly the rest of the characters don't seem as special?