#glitch16

Demo Play replays from Hidden Star in Four Seasons.

The order in which they appear is always the same: stage 3 Reimu Summer, stage 1 Cirno Winter, stage 2 Aya Spring (all three on Hard difficulty).

Marisa seems to be missing from the demo play, which is weird because she is a playable character. If you follow the pattern, the fourth demo play would have been Marisa Autumn. But it's not triggered.

If you peek into the game files, it actually exists. A replay of stage 4 with Marisa Autumn. I'm not sure what's preventing it from being played.

Similarly to what's happening to clone Aunn (see /post/637780234054385664/) there are some stage enemies that, when appearing, they keep blinking unless you shoot at them. It also seems that bombing or dying makes them stop blinking, but season release doesn't. The stage enemies which seem to blink are:

stage 1

stage 2

stage 3

stage 4

stage 5

stage 6

extra stage

Similarly to the main games from Mountain of Faith until Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom, in Hidden Star in Four Seasons if you fastforward through the dialogue you are able to see a different number of seconds briefly on the timer, before the actual countdown for the nonspell begins.

The second when you beat the midboss will be shown for a short moment at the beginning of the boss’ first nonspell, before the timer is changed to that of the actual boss’ nonspell.

For stage 5, only the milliseconds are visible for a very short time and you can easily not even notice them. But if you slowdown the recording, you are able to see that the milliseconds shown on screen before the boss timer are the milliseconds from when you defeated the midboss.

In Hidden Star in Four Seasons, when 鼓舞「パワフルチアーズ」 Drum Dance "Powerful Cheers" ends, the timer will suddenly start counting from 49 downwards. It counts until 47 then it resets to 49 again when 狂舞「クレイジーバックダンス」 Mad Dance "Crazy Backup Dance" begins.

And when 狂舞「クレイジーバックダンス」 Mad Dance "Crazy Backup Dance" ends, the timer will suddenly start counting again from 49 until 47 and will reset to 59 when 弾舞「二つ目の台風」 Bullet Dance "Two-Eyed Typhoon" begins.

In Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, when 血戦「血の分水嶺」 Bloody Battle "Watershed of Blood" ends, the timer will suddenly start counting from 39 downwards. It counts until 37 then it resets to 39 again when 血戦「獄界視線」 Bloody Battle "Hell Realm Sight-Line" begins.

Similarly, when 血戦「獄界視線」 Bloody Battle "Hell Realm Sight-Line" ends, the timer will suddenly start counting again from 39 until 37 and resets back to 39 when 血戦「全霊鬼渡り」 Bloody Battle "Highly Spirited Oniwatari" begins.

In Unconnected Marketeers, when 狐符「フォックスワインダー」 Fox Sign "Fox Winder" ends the timer will start counting from 39 to 37 and will suddenly change to 59 when 管狐「シリンダーフォックス」 Kuda-gitsune "Cylinder Fox" begins.

When 管狐「シリンダーフォックス」 Kuda-gitsune "Cylinder Fox" ends, the timer will again count from 39 to 37 and shift to 59 when 星狐「天狐龍星の舞」 Stellar Fox "Dance of Heavenly Foxes and Dragon Stars" starts.

Curiously enough, Doremy in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom seems unaffected by this. When a spellcard ends, the old timer remains on screen, stopped, until the next spellcard begins. Then the duration is resetted to match the time of the spell that has come.

There is also an oddity with the timer during extra stage midboss of Double Dealing Character, but that is presented in another post, since it's a bit different.