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Stage 68 done after much pulling of teeth over what seems like like a week.  Fuck this stage.........I can not say this enough.  I'll take dealing with Makai bugs again rather than this bullshit.    I'll post the extra stuff here and put my bitching in a spoiler tag at the bottom.    Pardon my language here, but that last bit put me in a bad mood.   Side note:  Might have to consider upgrading past my normal comfort zone, since this series is much harder than a normal SRW game.

 Also, very big thank you to @epicNecro for getting me the translations for the boss' Spell card and Danmaku field effects!  Going in confused would have made this quite a bit harder.

Shinki's pic and attacks

Interesting note: Most of her attacks are directly inspired by the true final boss of SRW 2nd OG  (and to an extent it's component, the final boss of Alpha 2 and 2nd OG- defualt route). 

Pretty cool reference overall.  I love what 2nd OG did with this plotline (and how regal the new Gun Edan animations are------though the Adamatron blows it out the water, partly because of references/allusions to past SRW timelines).

Her second to last attack seems somewhat based on End of Evangelion's Unit 1 (third spoiler tab).  @Wolfox Don't know if you ever got around to EOE, so watch with some care.......not that it matters THAT much without context----it's just an attack.

Interesting note 2: With her allusions to Satan and being called the "Creator-God of Makai", there seemed to be quite a few people who imaged she would be the final boss of FMW 4 (or at least the final canon character boss)..........this is just going by a few threads I found, but had to mention it.

Well, screw the skill point for this stage completely

Want an Earth-chan?

FINALLY was able to take down all the mid-boss class mooks.............so many restarts and soft resets just getting through the first turn's enemy phase EVERY time.    I am really behind where I wanted to be since this stage has been taking so long.........and this is on the LOWEST  Hard mode sub-difficulty.   I guess I could have upgraded some units above the halfway mark, but the last thing I want to do is have it be an easy run like SRW W.........then again, that is one of the easiest SRW games, even without heavily upgrading a few units.

I was going to abandon the skill point, but then I decided I would be more likely to get through the stage if I took down the actual mid-boss.   That chewed through more resources than I wanted to spend, but I got all my units through that meatgrinder.

Now to take down the main boss of the stage...........who has 4 spell cards (essentially 5 HP bars with four gimmicks attached).   If worse comes to worse, I'll just skip the skill point and time out all but the last one (since I am NOT missing out on an item).

And just because here's Byakuren's attack video, since I haven't been able to post anything but complaints about this for the past few days  (and I don't want the stage commentary to be loaded with videos).  At least @SilverHelio will like the music.  Even through I know it's supposed to be a Super Sayian reference, I can't help but think of Yang for her three 'Superhuman mode' attacks (start at about 1:10)   @Wolfox @Alistair.........part of it is probably the hair length and the projectiles from the first of the attacks.

Once again, not sure why I find this so hilarious.   Probably a combination of the scenario and Adam actually having a funny line 

And I find out a new patch for FMW 4 has come out as soon as I am about to restart the stage...........the developers explicitly label it as the 'final version' (if the translate extension I have is reading it correctly).   Might as well update.