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>>46555776
Even the games are weird in how ZUN just picks and chooses the parts that actually become canon in later print works/manga.

So for example, in one of the Fairy Wars endings, Cirno meets with Aya, who directs her to Marisa for a fight. And while Marisa holds back and clearly has the upper hand, she also comments on how Cirno proved to be a much more dangerous opponent than she expected and that thing could've ended badly for her.
However, in SoPM, the newspaper article detailing the event instead makes Hatate the tengu Cirno talked to, and describes the battle as completely one-sided without any challenge for Marisa, making it impossible to determine how well Cirno actually did in that match.
LoLK is another example. In VFiS, Clownpiece implies that she faced all the protagonists, and she's pretty intimidated by them. Reimu also knows Hecatia, so that implies that at least she was involved during the events of the Extra Stage.
After her defeat, Junko and Hecatia ask Reimu to take them to Eirin since they wanted to meet her, however, Eirin proves to be completely clueless about Hecatia's existence in VFiS, which makes that particular event impossible. Hecatia's existence (though not necessarily her identity) also becomes known in one of Reisen's endings, which makes her scenario also impossible to have happened as it was shown in the games.

It's impossible to determine an accurate canon from the games, since you never know which part ZUN considers as actually happening in later works.