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>What makes a specific pattern harder than most?
For me, I find the hardest patterns to be ones that use a lot of RNG. Tight pattern spells are tough too, but with those there is relatively little RNG, so you can practice those spells over until you get the execution down confidently. Scarlet Gensokyo is a notoriously difficult spellcard to capture, because it uses so much RNG that you can't really "practice" it like you would other spellcards; you just have to git gud at reading the screen while bullets fly at you fast from every direction.
>What's the best way to train, opposed to just throwing yourself at the wall?
I think this really depends on what your intended goal is. For simple 1cc's? I tend to focus my practice on stages 4-6, learning how to route the stages and putting extra emphasis on the bosses, planning bombs for certain sections. But for other challenges, like no miss, no bomb, etc, I tend to adapt different strategies for improving my gameplay... Such as playing certain sections on higher difficulties, grinding specific spellcards, stuff like that. Also, THPRAC is a must for training, if that wasn't already obvious.
>Why is Subterranean Animism specifically such bullshit?
Well for starters, the shot types really suck. Reimu doesn't have her signature homing shot (Reimu B is hot garbage for homing), Marisa B is tricky to learn to use right, and every other shot just feels gimmicky in general. Bombs are really pathetic, which against bosses, has a tendency to do little/no damage while reducing your overall power, which makes spellcards last longer than they would if you were at full power... The way you get lives is by collecting life pieces during spells and nonspells, but you get nothing if you get hit... Combine all of that with the very tight patterns and nasty spellcards in general, and you get a very difficult game compared to the rest of the series. Basically, the game is very unfriendly to beginners, but it's not so bad once you get a better understanding for the game specifically.
>t. 1cc'd SA normal with every shottype except Marisa C and Reimu C