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In Perfect Cherry Blossom, there is an additional timer between the last three spellcards (extra stage) and the last four spellcards (phantasm stage).

Usually between two spellcards, the background turns into that of the stage itself (like in a nonspell), but even if there is no nonspell between them, the timer remains frozen until the next spellcard begins (see extra and phantasm midboss fights).

But between the last 3 spellcards (extra) and 4 spellcards (phantasm) of the boss fight, the background turns into that of the stage itself and the timer resets to 98 and will count down until 96 seconds, after which it will change to the timer of the spellcard that follows.

Note: The timer might actually reset to 99 instead of 98, but due to the frame loss of the video, it is not visible. I know it’s not exactly the same thing, but for the purpose of this post (to show that there is something going on with the timer) it is enough.

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First spellcard from the last healthbar - behaviours - Perfect Cherry Blossom

In Perfect Cherry Blossom (regular run, not Extra stage), the Prismriver Sisters, Youmu Konpaku (boss) and Yuyuko Saijyouji have the last healthbar composed only from spellcards. When the first spellcard from that healthbar is over, the timer will stop and wait until the second spellcard begins, moment when it changes to that of the second spellcard.

From a logical standpoint, you would expect that the timer behaves similarly before the first spellcard of the last healthbar. And it does, for Yuyuko. As you can see, when the previous spellcard ends (35 seconds in this example), the timer freezes and waits until the next spellcard begins, then it resets to 98.

However, for the Prismriver Sisters, the timer doesn't freeze at all. Once the previous spellcard ends (40 seconds in this example), the timer quickly changes to 59 and starts counting down and doesn't reset when the next spellcard begins.

In case of Youmu, when the previous spellcard ends (33 seconds in this example), the timer changes to 59 and starts counting down, but it changes to 65 once the next spellcard begins.

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Alice Margatroid's second nonspell - Perfect Cherry Blossom version comparison

Alice Margatroid's second nonspell was actually a regular nonspell between ver. 0.01 and ver. 0.08e of Perfect Cherry Blossom. The starting timer was at 44 seconds and the attack consisted of two patterns.

The first pattern was formed of waves of round bullets being fired from two opposite directions. The waves of blue bullets were spinning clockwise and the waves of red bullets were spinning counterclockwise. In ver. 0.01-0.04b, Alice was firing a total of 16 bullets per wave in Normal mode (this includes both directions, or 8 bullets per direction). From ver. 0.05, the number was reduced to 12 bullets per wave in Normal mode and it remained the same even in ver. 0.08e. In ver. 0.06a, the colour shade of the round bullets was slightly changed.

Gifs are as follows:

ver. 0.01, ver. 0.04b ver. 0.05, ver. 0.06a, ver. 0.08e

The second pattern consisted of two "circles" each made of 5 rows of round red bullets. One circle was simply expanding, while the other circle was concentrating into the center point before expanding. In ver. 0.01-0.07, you could count 32 bullets in one row in Normal mode. In ver. 0.06a, the shade of red was slightly changed. In ver. 0.08-0.08e, the bullets of the "concentrating" circle were changed to red arrowheads, but you could still count 32 bullets in one row in Normal mode. However, the direction of the arrowheads does not match the one of the round bullets they've replaced. For example, if we look at the bottom half of the screen, the first 5 rows of round bullets are tilted to the right, but the second 5 rows are tilted to the left. In ver. 0.08-0.08e the arrowheads are tilted to the right, so it was not just a simple bullet replacement.

Gifs are as follows:

ver. 0.01, ver. 0.05, ver. 0.06a ver. 0.07, ver. 0.08, ver. 0.08e

Since ver. 0.09, the starting timer was changed to 98 seconds and the white part of the healthbar was removed. The timer will now count down until 92, after which Alice's second boss spell is triggered. The first pattern of the nonspell does not exist anymore. In ver. 0.09 and ver. 0.09a you could still count 32 bullets in one row in Normal mode, but in ver. 0.10, the number was reduced to 28 bullets and the speed was increased. In ver. 0.11 the speed was brought back to how it was in ver. 0.09a, but the number remained at 28. The position of the red bullets and arrowheads has been mirrored compared to ver. 0.08-0.08e. If we look at the bottom half of the screen now both rows are tilted to the left as opposed to the right.

Gifs are as follows:

ver. 0.09, ver. 0.09a, ver. 0.10 ver. 0.11, ver. 1.00

In the full versions, the nonspell seems to behave how it was in ver. 0.11.

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If you choose the MIDI soundtrack in PCB and then hit reset, it will reset to WAV, but the MIDI title screen theme will still be heard in the background. When you play a stage, you will hear the normal stage theme but you will also hear the title screen theme at the same time. When returning to the main menu, both WAV and MIDI title screen themes will be heard simultaneously but desynched. A total chaos. 

This can be done with the full version and the trials 0.01-0.04b.

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There is a super rare glitch in Perfect Cherry Blossom that makes Lunasa very vulnerable during her spellcard String Performance “Guarneri del Gesù”. That means you can capture her spell in a few seconds.

I have never encountered this glitch, but I found it in this video youtube.com/watch?v=PTHtus7zoHU

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Sometimes Merlin Prismriver will act glitchy in the last spellcard of the Prismriver Sisters. She will have the same movement as during the previous spellcard. 

I have never experienced this glitch, but I found it in these videos here: youtube.com/watch?v=Xh-_CRpt59I and youtube.com/watch?v=CU2Z6VobIvc.

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Alice Margatroid’s midboss spellcard timer from Perfect Cherry Blossom counts wrongly the number of seconds.

In the trial versions, from ver. 0.01 until ver. 0.04, 操符「マリオネットパラル -Easy-」 Puppeteer Sign "Marionette Parrar -Easy-" and 操符「マリオネットパラル」 Puppeteer Sign "Marionette Parrar" would start with 49 seconds, but after reaching 46 seconds, the timer would reset back to 49 seconds.

In the trial versions, from ver. 0.05 until ver. 0.08e, 操符「マニピュレイトパペット -Easy-」 Puppeteer Sign "Manipulate Puppet -Easy-" and 操符「マニピュレイトパペット」 Puppeteer Sign "Manipulate Puppet" would start with 44 seconds, but after reaching 41 seconds, the timer would reset to 49 seconds. 

This behaviour was also present for the Hard and Lunatic variants of these spellcards and is still present to this day, in the full version ver. 1.00b. Those variants did not change names.

操符「乙女文楽」Puppeteer Sign "Maiden's Bunraku" and 操符「乙女文楽 -Lunatic- Puppeteer Sign "Maiden's Bunraku -Lunatic-" start with 49 seconds, but after reaching 46 seconds, the timer would reset back to 49 seconds.

Alice’s midboss spellcards from Easy and Normal have been removed since ver. 0.09.

Note: The timer might actually reset to 50 instead of 49, but due to the frame loss of the video, it is not visible. I know it’s not exactly the same thing, but for the purpose of this post (to show that there is something wrong with the timer) it is enough.

EDIT (04-Nov-2023): added new gifs and rewrote the description in a more detailed manner.

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Sometimes in Perfect Cherry Blossom the bullets from the first nonspell of the Prismriver Sisters don’t clear after the spell is over and remain on screen during the second nonspell.

I haven’t managed to encounter this glitch. I found out about it HERE. It’s the same place where I got this picture from. I did not take this screenshot. 

If this glitch happened to you and still have the replay you can make a screenshot and reblog it to this post. From what I read, it can happen to the other Prismriver Sisters, not only to Lunasa.