Mugetsu's attacks - Lotus Land Story
When you fight Mugetsu, there are two main sets of patterns.
The first set consists of 4 different attacks. They are repeated in the following order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
a flower of white pellets
ring of round blue bullets + ring of moving yellow stars + rain of blue danmaku in the shape of "=" (also few "=" bullets are shot in opposite direction)
rain of smaller round yellow bullets
two rings of round blue bullets
The second set consists of 2 different attacks. The first pattern occurs only once, then it switches to the second pattern, which lasts until Mugetsu is defeated:
multiple rings of white pellets and round blue bullets
a flower of white pellets + a flower of blue danmaku in the shape of "=" (the two flowers have opposite orientations - the white pellets one has a counterclockwise orientation while the blue danmaku one has a clockwise orientation)
Timeouting Mugetsu's attacks will trigger a timeout phase, which is a more powerful version of the attack. For comparison purposes, left side gifs are the regular pattern and right side gifs are the timeout phase pattern. The videos used to create the gifs are Jaimers' youtube.com/watch?v=EC2K9hbP3e8 for the regular phase and Medal DAKA's youtube.com/watch?v=5BoKWIc20JM for the timeout phase.
The first pattern seems to have a timeout correspondent where Mugetsu rapidly fires circles of white pellets and blue "=" danmaku, along with some more random white pellets scattered throughout the pattern.
The second pattern has a timeout phase similar to the normal phase, but Mugetsu rapidly shoots rings of blue "=" danmaku. Also there is no longer a "rain" aspect of the "=" bullets, now they are fired at random in all directions.
For the third pattern, the timeout phase includes rapid shots of rings of blue danmaku in the shape of "=", but the behaviour of the small round yellow bullets seems to vary. In Medal DAKA's video there are two yellow rings fired, followed by many more similar bullets which don't fall as a regular rain anymore, but swing as they fall. In Jaimers' video, there seem to be more rings of yellow bullets and less "rain" ones. It could be the rank system that influences this, but I am not very sure.
The fourth phase does not have any timeout. From the second set of patterns the first one has no timeout, but the second one is just a more intense version of the normal phase. It has the same type of bullets, which are fired at a higher speed and frequency (more blue "=" danmaku is fired during the timeout phase).
Details about Gengetsu's attacks will be covered in another post.