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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.

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Okina Matara’s name does not appear during Spell Practice of 「背面の暗黒猿楽」 "The Back Face's Sarugaku of Darkness" in Hidden Star in Four Seasons, but it will be shown if you face the spell through a regular extra stage run. However, you can make her name appear if you use season release.

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Blinking stage enemies - Hidden Star in Four Seasons

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

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Weird timers in Hidden Star in Four Seasons

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.

I will continue to document this behaviour for the games that follow and have it.

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In Spell Practice of Hidden Star in Four Seasons, Mai & Satono’s spellcards have two stars in top left corner, with the exception of their last spellcard, which has none. Normally, spellcards in Spell Practice should not have any stars.

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None of Mai&Satono’s spellcards from extra stage have any stars in Hidden Star in Four Seasons. The first spell should have 2 stars and the second spell should have 1.

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Strange timer between spellcards in Extra stage (HSiFS, WBaWC and UM)

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.

Please note that the seconds mentioned in this post are the main values seen on screen (for example, when it says "49", it could be very well "49.99", but I was not sure if it was indeed 49.99 or 50.00 and due to the frame loss of the video the 50 is not visible). I know it's not exactly the same thing, but the purpose of this post is to showcase that there is something wrong with the timer. For accurate seconds, you can look into the code yourself.

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In Spell Practice of Hidden Star in Four Seasons, Nemuno’s first spellcard has two stars in top left corner, her second spellcard has one star and her third spellcard has none. Normally, spellcards in Spell Practice should not have any stars.