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Decided to spend some of my free time today continuing further into Puppet Dance Performance: Shard of Dreams.  Just because I felt like making a list of the statuses about the game so far, as vague and rambling as they have been.

Following one of few genuinely difficult boss fights in while, being a literal mirror match with Satori, we are given permission to enter the Underground's nuclear power plant? (or at least the control center) where the Puppet Liberation Front not Team Plasma has taken over........and nobody really takes them seriously enough to be bothered to do anything about them.  Cue a trapsy though a blazing Hell....that's literally the name....where I am relieved to find that I stocked up on the game's Super Repel equivalent.    Not much to note, exept that the Hell Fairy portrait is cute.

At the end of the path, we have to face Utsuho, the nuclear crow that maintains the reactor and isn't doing her job......until we show up and want to get past.  Given the absolute hell that she caused me as the pen-ultimate and then final boss of Fantasy Maiden Wars 3, I was ok with how straightforward the fight was.  I did lose a puppet or two, due to having to switch out and her team essentially being hyper-offensive, but it wasn't too bad, especially since they were still about 10 levels behind my team.

The fight didn't even have it's own theme, since Utsuho's theme has been used as the remixed trainer battle theme for named characters all game.  It's good but not unique at this point.

The Liberation Front leader was expecting us and set an ambush,  

What she didn't expect was Reimu (main character of Touhou and one of our two rivals in this game) busting at the same time.  Medicine, Team 9, and the Three Fairies of Light scatter and we split up to hold them off.  Unfortunately for the latter groups, they split off without their whole group.....and some of them really suffer for it.  Some sreencaps with a few possible funny bits.

Compared to when she was essentially the first real boss fight of the game, Rumia's team was pathetic this time.  She even only had 2 puppets instead of the 5 she had.  This wasn't even a boss-rush kind of deal, since there was a bed to heal in a short walk away.  It was hinted that the Liberation Front worked on a "loser releases their puppets" deal, though I didn't think an organization of fairies that mostly joined for something to do really would follow it......poor Rumia.

Just because I have to post their themes again

I'll end this update by covering the first(?) fight with the Puppet Liberation Front leader, Medicine.  I don't know the full story, but considering her canon self is Youkai of an abandoned doll that has a vague goal of a "doll liberation" it makes sense she would put together the game's not-Team Plasma. 

As for the actual fight itself, it was more challenging than most of the other fights in the game.....though only a few have personally reached a "challenging" mark especially since the new typings still mix me up.   Her A.I. was significantly better than most, actually using switching to it's advantage, which only Reimu, Sanae, and Satori's A.I. did before now.  She had status spreaders and good coverage moves that successfully caught me by surprise.  Even if the level gap was still there, it was a good fight.

She promptly escapes through a back way that was blocked by guards earlier and escaped somewhere..............