Touhou HRtP Tips

- During regular levels, learn to use sliding to keep the orb in the air instead of throwing ofuda at it, which is not only harder to get right but can get you killed if the orb hits you at an angle. Slides make it pretty easy because the orb moves at the same speed as reimu so you just need to follow it.
After a while you'll stop hitting any new bricks with the orb because the bouncing angles while using slides are fixed. That's when you throw a single well aimed ofuda (while the orb is falling, don't do it while it's rising or you'll speed it up uncontrollably) to change its direction slightly and get back to using slides again.
If you keep the combo going you'll start getting 12k points per brick, which is great for gaining extends.
- On levels with lots of bricks, use one bomb as soon as the level starts, you'll get a ton of points and usually an extend.
- Ignore the P pickups, using bombs will drop many of them and you can't pick them all so the combo on those will get dropped often, chaining bricks is a more reliable way to score.
- Learn the boss' patterns so they won't catch you unprepared. Some of them are pretty easy to avoid, some will take practice and accurate movement. Mima and especially Elis can fuck you up with their random attacks (lasers/bullets need you to stay below the boss but rockets need you to stay away so it's a matter of luck), but you can afford to lose a couple lives or bombs if you do everything else right.
- Unlike other games, you don't lose your bombs by dying and you can use bombs to get lives back, so during bosses it's fine to be greedy with them and only use them if you're at max bombs or you're certain you're about to die. The exception to this rule is when you've got no extra lives left, you need to survive and the boss will take damage from bombs so feel free to spam them at the slightest sign of danger. Even in these conditions you can recover the 1cc run if you get some extends in the following levels.