#glitch6

It is possible to skip some boss spellcards in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

Demo Play replay from Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

Surprisingly (or rather said, disappointingly), there is only one replay - that of stage 4 Reimu A (Lunatic).

While there are no other indicators of the difficulty besides the patterns or your score, you can extract the replay and view it normally through the game interface and you will see that it is from Lunatic.

In ver. 1.02, the Demo Play would crash the game (see /post/187580207083/), but it was patched in ver. 1.02a.

In ver. 1.02g, the Demo Play exhibits the same broken behaviour as the rest of the game (you can find showcases of each stage from that version in the #glitch6 tag). The issues were fixed in ver. 1.02h. You can see the broken Demo Play from ver. 1.02g below.

In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil extra stage, Patchouli's midboss spellcards are as follows: 月符「サイレントセレナ」 Moon Sign "Silent Selene" at Enemy 2, 日符「ロイヤルフレア」 Sun Sign "Royal Flare" at Enemy 1 and 火水木金土符「賢者の石」 Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign "Philosopher's Stone" at Enemy 0.

In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, if you timeout the midboss nonspells you can skip the midboss spellcard that follows them (see /post/149423712927/ for all occurences).

Usually when the timer reaches zero, the healthbar will not change dimensions. However, if you try to timeout Rumia's midboss nonspell on Hard/Lunatic, when the timer reaches zero, her healthbar will suddenly drop to the point where the spellcard would have started.

Timeouting the nonspell on Easy/Normal will not make the healthbar drop, but there's also no spellcard on those difficulties. The healthbar drops only for Rumia on Hard/Lunatic. It doesn't act like this for Meiling or Sakuya.

In Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, if you timeout the last spellcard of bosses, when the timer reaches zero the healthbar will start to increase before disappearing.

But if the healthbar is already full, it will still increase and go beyond the timer.

It can happen to Patchouli (Easy/Normal), Remilia and Flandre. But if you deplete enough health from their healthbars and then wait until the timer reaches zero, the healthbar won't extend so much anymore.

In 2017, I've made a post (see /post/162816592969/) about some weird timers that appear between certain spellcards in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, which makes it look that there were supposed to be some nonspells there. I'm still not sure if there were some nonspells that were scrapped or if it's just some weird bug, but I've recently found out that in case of Cirno and Patchouli, those timers do not appear if you timeout the spellcards.

For Patchouli, this occurs between all spellcards from Enemy 0 (Normal, Hard and Lunatic), but for the simplicity of this post, I've only included one example.

Interestingly enough, in case of Flandre, it doesn't matter if you capture or timeout the spellcard at Enemy 2, the weird timer will appear. However, when you clear, it will only show 29, but when you timeout, it will count 29, 28.