#eosd tips

In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, the spellcard bonus is calculated using the following formula (thank you digiversalgalaxy for providing me this):

Spell Card Bonus = Starting Bonus + ((Starting Bonus*Time Remaining)/10)

The Starting Bonus is as follows (thank you zero318 for the following table):

This may look a bit confusing at first, but it's actually very simple. There are 64 values in the table and 64 spellcards in the game. So if you rearrange the information a bit you end up with:

200000 - spells 1-7 250000 - spells 8-14 300000 - spells 15-32 400000 - spells 33-40 500000 - spells 41-46 600000 - spells 47-51 700000 - spells 52-64

The spell number can be found in the game:

So let's take Rumia's midboss spellcard from Hard and two of Remilia's spellcards (Normal & Lunatic).

Spell Card Bonus = 200000 + ((200000*14)/10) = 480000 Spell Card Bonus = 200000 + ((200000*6)/10) = 320000

Spell Card Bonus = 500000 + ((500000*25)/10) = 1750000 Spell Card Bonus = 600000 + ((600000*23)/10) = 1980000

Since many spellcards share the same spellcard number even if they are on different difficulties, you will get the same bonus if you capture it on the same second (left side gif is from Easy, while right side gif is from Lunatic). Also, for reference, I already compared how spellcards with same number look like on different difficulties: touhou-memories.com/eosd spellcards. Please check that out if you are interested.

For spellcards that can have the remaining time higher than 99 seconds, the real value won't be displayed on screen, but the spellcard bonus will take into account the real value. We can calculate which was the actual value of the remaining seconds (one of the replays from ux.getuploader.com/darathreplays was used for making this gif).

6960000 = 600000 + ((600000*x)/10) ⇒ x = 106 seconds left

Flandre Scarlet's last spellcard from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, QED「495年の波紋」 Q.E.D. "Ripples of 495 Years" gets faster as you deal more damage to Flandre.

If you timeout the spellcard, it will stay at the initial speed until the timer gets to 30 seconds. After that, it will get incredibly fast. It will be faster than the fastest part if you would have damaged Flandre. You can see on the gifs from this post: the bottom right gif from above (if you shoot the spellcard) versus the right gif from below (if you timeout the spellcard).

If you start the game with 3 lives or less, the 'Stage Clear' screen will not contain any penalties. In trial version 0.08+, there is one empty row between the 'Graze' multiplier and the 'Point Item' text. In the full version, the empty row is between the 'Point Item' text and the difficulty multiplier.

You only get penalized if you start the game with 4 or 5 lives. There is no visible penalty on the 'Stage Clear' screen for continuing. In trial version 0.08+, the penalty for starting with 4 lives was '* 0.7', while in the full version it is '*0.5'. Similarly, the penalty for starting with 5 lives was '*0.4' in version 0.08+ and '*0.2' in the full version.

If you check trial version 0.13 you will see that the screen and penalties are like in the full version, but I prefer not to compare ver. 0.08+ with ver. 0.13 as ver. 0.13 was released after the full version was already comercialized. Due to other intermediate versions not being available, it is unknown when exactly the changes occured.

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil has a rank system, meaning that the bullets will get faster and more numerous as time passes if you don’t die. When you get hit, the rank decreases.

It is noticeable even in Rumia’s spellcard on Easy:

left side: small rank, died 2 times before the spell

right side: higher rank, did not die at all