Epic game!! I decided to do it bombless on Hard, cuz I think doing patterns bombless makes you appreciate them more. I failed to get a blind 1cc-- retried Patche's fight twice, since for some reason her first nonspell is the hardest thing in the whole game for me-- but it all felt very doable and fun. Way easier than the official games, but if it was as harsh as them my dumb self-imposed challenge would probly result in me playing this for like 6 hours and only having fun for the first hour, so I'm glad it's so forgiving. The patterns are really familiar for the most part, but most of them change just enough that the experience of dodging them is meaningfully different from the originals. Patche's final spell was really cool, to the point that it felt like it really expanded like, what the game was capable of. I really hoped there'd be more afterwards, but you know, this is already epic for a 2 week game.
Really funny writing too-- besides Patche's final spell, the Yukari text message thing was the highlight of the game for me. The art is awesome, the music is rad, everything's just super polished... yeah. It's cool as heck. Good job on all this.