Scored 1.54b on Mountain of Faith Lunatic. Neato.
Words about the run:
Stage 1: Standard fair. Ends with 245k faith because i can't be bothered with the bomb-milkings too much. I don't enjoy this stage, it's boring and irritating so I just minimize the amount of pain I have to go through so that I can get on with the game.
Stage 2: Evidently I haven't brushed up on my routes for this for a while because holy hell. Things went baaaad. Hina gave me a rather uncomfortable wave on her second spellcard, possibly as retribution for last nights ventures in her private quarters or maybe just because the RNG felt bitchy. Thankfully i managed to pull through it anyway and managed the rest of the fight without incident.
Stage 3: I forget how to handle the fairies that comes in before the 4 big cancel fairies and it forces me to bomb. Probably a very badly placed bomb too because it wasn't planned at all. I have muscle memory in my hands for this bit but apparently they aren't integrated enough. This bit of a setback leaves me with less than full power for Nitori's 'peeking at boy's dongs' in the onsen undetected-device' spellcard. I capture it because admittedly, i've been using that device for similar purposes for a while now so i know how it works. Rest of stage 3 progresses fine until the end fairies who are jerkbutts and give me a wall. Maybe i handled it wrong, i probably did. Then Nitori comes. I handle her gently and with great skill as usual, though by the end of it. She seems to have commies in the lusthouse (Danish slanglol, you can probably figure it out) so she gives me nasty RNG on the final forcing me to bomb or do risky dodges. I go with the former.
Stage 4: Oh my gods, this stage. I have no routes for this, please help me. The worst part about this is that the bomb on Nitori's final before leaves me with 3xx power on Stage 4 which is very bad. I need those bombs to bomb for point items but i also need to keep my power level high for Aya. Unable to juggle the responsibility of safeguarding the entire worlds safety from the cataclysmic event of me losing my cute score, i enter panic mode and simply bomb everything in sight. I then reach Aya with 1xx power and i'm officially, irreperably fucked. I have to bomb her first spellcard and then when i get to PWG, i eye out an opportunity to avoid the bullets but fail to grasp it, instead ramming into a bullet.
In hindsight though, i believe this death was for the better so that i could enter Stage 5 with power. Without power you don't go very far.
Stage 5: Most of the stage 5 route was carried out properly i think. I could of course not test it's merit entirely because of the power deficit but it had to do. No major mistakes anyway, i think. Not before the end of the stage where i do a horribly placed bomb and also manage to get myself to full power way too early. Very badly played there. Ooops. Then comes the true buster. The Stage 5 boss. And i'm kinda tempted to just arrange a bitch-hunt where me and the jolly fellows gang up on that shrine maiden to dig her kettle with wanton disregard to her personal feelings. Why such brutality? Well, because that death on Moses Miracle or whatever her 2nd card is called made me cry way more than she would ever do. ... SERIOUSLY?! what? dying? to that?!. Soooooo dumb. I am very disappointed with that failure. It was really stupid. Could've scored far better than 1.54b if that hadn't happened. 40 million for the life alone, plus not dropping faith, the items afterwards and the spellbonus? Probably in 1.7b territory. Also had to bomb the final because nerves and bad luck.
Stage 6: I think I do this stage rather decently, though i don't have a good method for some of it so that shows. Kanako goes down without misses and only one deathbomb on Yamato Torus. I even manage to capture VoWG which I'm quite happy about. I'm quite intimately familiar with this card so I have the confidence to chance it in a run like this. Dunno if i would have the guts to attempt it if I hadn't died on superslut 2000 but given the runs nature, i decided to give it my best shot and it was sufficient. Overall, i'm quite happy with this run, despite the stupidity. It's to be expected to have poor performance in areas when your approach to this game is as casual as mine is.
Well. This was quite a blog. I must've been bitten by a wild seppo or something. Anyway, nobody will read this lol. I just needed to get some thoughts organized.
