Karisa's Atypical Touhou Challenges (on hold again)

[ARF]

#11 - Easy
ARF - 397 - SakuyaA - 0.246% - Replay

Based X key.

[Ghost]

#11 - Extra
FreeGothitelle - 1029 - SakuyaA - 0.024% - Replay

First go at this, her survival's brutal in terms of graze >.>

#11 - Extra
FreeGothitelle - 756 - SakuyaA - 0.050% - Replay

Messed up Fox-Tanuki Youkai Laser a bit, but eh.

[Cheez8]

#11 - Easy
Cheez - 709 - ReimuA - 0.479% - Replay
Homing shots weren't as useful as I'd hoped. At least, not these ones. I also derped hard and thought that after 1000 or so, the point items required for an extra life would shoot up to 9999. Probably ought to focus more on collecting those.

#11 - Easy
Cheez - 458 - SakuyaA - 0.621% - Replay
Whoa, there were a TON more resources to use than I was expecting! Whoops. At least I know exactly how many bombs Yuyuko's last two cards take to avoid racking up graze like mad... or at all.

#11 - Easy
Cheez - 326 - SakuyaA - 0.487% - Replay
Now that's more like it. Still a bunch of minor mistakes, like being completely unable to ram into bullets when I want to, but nothing glaring anymore.
...Um... I'll take a break now. Honest.

These challenges are great, by the way.

[Ghost]

#11 - Extra
FreeGothitelle - 604 - SakuyaA - 0.050% - Replay

Minor improvements to make (that I can see at least) , but RNG would probably make more of a difference at this point.

[Cheez8]

#11 - Easy

Cheez - 250 - SakuyaA - 0.470% - Replay

I'm starting to feel like 180 or 170 would be about the limit for this one, or at least for me. There's not too much left to change, I really just need to stop trying to do certain nonspells without bombing... Oh yeah, and not mess up everything in Stage 4 after the opener. Seriously, that was amazing, and then that was terrible.

[Ghost]

#11 - Easy
FreeGothitelle - 176 - MarisaB - 0.098% - Replay

Gotta challenge dat SakuyaA supremacy. (I feel like Marisa's better because she demolishes certain spell cards and gets way more cherry borders)

[Cheez8]

Wow. I seriously was not expecting any of the no-range shot types to do so well here, even if they are MarisaB. That's impressive. (No fair getting the hang of boss Youmu's final nonspell though!)

...Now to try to beat this with SakuyaA anyway because I'm a lazypants. :V

[rsy_type1]

Hmm....
It does not looks  that hard.
Let me review once....

[SomeGuy712x]

#12 - Easy
SomeGuy712x - 19 0/3 - MarisaB - C - Replay

I this this count is correct, but if anyone could confirm that I counted my extends correctly, that would be nice!

[Karisa]

Sorry, I've been busy lately. The next round probably won't be posted for a few days, so you have until then if you still feel like making a submission-- if anyone's interested in a longer extension (say, until this weekend), feel free to point it out before then.

[Karisa]

New round posted.


Results archive:

#13 - TD arrange patch

- Play TD using this patch!
- Clears are ranked by remaining lives, then remaining bombs. (The number of life/bomb parts is irrelevant.)
- All shot types allowed.
- All difficulties allowed, including Extra.

Format:
Challenge number - Difficulty
Player - Score - Stage (*) - Shot type - Slowdown - Replay
*progress within the stage for non-clears, remaining lives/bombs for clears

Example:
#13 - Hard
Sample - 300,000,000 - C (1/1) - Reimu - 0.0% - Replay

Rankings:
Easy
S-TORA - 635,174,550 - C (8/9) - Marisa - 0.190% - Replay
Emerald - 558,085,010 - C (8/9) - Reimu - 0.0% - Replay

Normal
Emerald - 769,679,890 - C (8/8) - Reimu - 0.120% - Replay

Hard
Emerald - 878,900,200 - C (7/3) - Reimu - 0.02% - Replay

Lunatic
Mino - 631,160,680 - C (4/1) - Reimu - 1.010% - Replay
Emerald - 862,906,320 - C (4/0) - Reimu - 0.000% - Replay
ARF - 863,676,170 - C (2/0) - Reimu - 0.020% - Replay
DXK - 711,421,330 - C (2/0) - Reimu - 0.210% - Replay

Extra
Emerald - 349,608,190 - C (5/1) - Reimu - 0.07% - Replay


#14 - EoSD low score, constant shooting, no timeouts

- Clear EoSD with the lowest score you can!
- You must always shoot when possible. (Hold Z all the time, basically. If a bomb prevents you from shooting, that's fine.)
- You may not time out any boss phases (spell or nonspell), with the exception of Flandre's "And Then There Will Be None" for obvious reasons.
- Only 1ccs allowed.
- All shot types allowed.
- Easy, Normal, and Extra allowed.

Format:
Challenge number - Difficulty
Player - Score - Shot type - Slowdown - Replay

Example:
#14 - Easy
Sample - 25,000,000 - ReimuA - 0.123% - Replay

Rankings:
Easy
Noobzor - 5,112,420 -  C - MarisaB - 0.290% - Replay
navpirx - 7,554,250 -  C - MarisaB - 0.314% - Replay

Normal
Noobzor - 15,952,380 - C - MarisaB - 0.254% - Replay
Sakurei - 29,135,780 - C - ReimuB - 0.267% - Replay
Emerald - 32,328,490 - C - ReimuA - 0.291% - Replay

Deadline: Sunday, November 24

[Emerald Mint]

I'm surprised that I haven't seen this 10D patch before. Very interesting tactics, it's like the game is the way it could've been made.

#13 - Easy
Emerald - 600,374,990 - C (4/7) - Reimu - 0.0% - Replay

It's going to take me some time to adjust to the new system. Definitely worth giving this a try.
I should be able to pull off a clear with 7 lives. An 8-life clear could also be within reach for me, with strong spirit tapping.

You may end up going over your maximum bomb supply on later stages, so don't be shy to bomb a few times if you need to.

[Sakurei]

#14 - Normal
Sakurei - 29,135,780 - C - ReimuB - 0.267% - Replay

can be pushed down to at leats 20m. I collected to many items, had some ill-timed bombs that had good cancels and shit. over 500 graze in stage 4....I also PoC'd once on accident somewhere.

[Noobzor]

#14 - Normal
Noobzor - 15,952,380 - C - MarisaB - 0.254% - Replay

Many mistakes, and I had like 1 extra life and full bombs at Red Magic, so that's 6 more spellcards I should have failed.

[Emerald Mint]

#13 - Easy
Emerald - 515,057,180 - C (6/6) - Reimu - 0.0% - Replay

Cut my run down to 2 deaths, down from 4. Closing in, somehow.
Experimented with a bit of trance timing as well.

#14 - Normal
Emerald - 32,328,490 - C - ReimuA - 0.291% - Replay

[Shimatora]

#13 - Easy
S-TORA - 635,174,550 - C (8/9) - Marisa - 0.190% - Replay

[Emerald Mint]

Impressive, Shima.

#13 - Easy
Emerald - 488,865,440 - C (8/8) - Reimu - 0.0% - Replay
Lol, I am short by one bomb because I accidentally bumped into Miko during trance before her last spellcard. :3

[Shimatora]

Impressive, Shima.

#13 - Easy
Emerald - 488,865,440 - C (8/8) - Reimu - 0.0% - Replay
Lol, I am short by one bomb because I accidentally bumped into Miko during trance before her last spellcard. :3

But you finished 8/8? (Unless you gained a bomb back after.)
Also, thanks!

[Emerald Mint]

But you finished 8/8? (Unless you gained a bomb back after.)

The game lets you have 9 bombs in stock, but will only display 8. Once you use a bomb at 9, the display will still show 8. I dunno if it counts to have 9 tho.

[Shimatora]

The game lets you have 9 bombs in stock, but will only display 8. Once you use a bomb at 9, the display will still show 8. I dunno if it counts to have 9 tho.

Oh! I actually had no idea.

[Emerald Mint]

Oh! I actually had no idea.

Me neither. I checked your replay and it shows you've ended with 9.

[Shimatora]

Me neither. I checked your replay and it shows you've ended with 9.

We'll have to see what Karisa's opinion is on this.

[Cheez8]

Oh cool, there's actually a patch that fixes... about a third of the things wrong with TD. That's an impressive feat. Not sure I'm really up to either of the challenges this time around, sadly. 

Congrats to Shima though for getting a max everything run so soon!

[Emerald Mint]

Oh cool, there's actually a patch that fixes... about a third of the things wrong with TD.

I agree that it makes the game more challenging and feels like how it was meant to be. You can still bombspam the later stages of the game if you have enough resources.
Now we just need something for DDC. Something like, make 2x bonuses award the usual pattern of fragments instead of always life fragments, increase life fragment requirements, nerf MarisaB and increase the PoC bonus multiplier to compensate, but that's just my personal opinion.

[redlakitu]

#14 - Easy
navpirx - 7,554,250 -  C - MarisaB - 0.314% - Replay

I'm somewhat familiar with EoSD Normal, but not familiar (and skilled) enough for this challenge, so I went for the easy thing. I know there's plenty of space for improvement, because:

-my bombs were probably badly mistimed;
-tragically, I have collected way too many point items on last two stages, because I was either too distracted, or simply not good enough, to avoid them all;
-I forgot to delay the post-midboss Sakuya spam.

Hopefully this highly unoptimized entry isn't going to be the only one in the Easy category. Meanwhile, I'll try to correct the flaws and submit a better one.

[Noobzor]

#14 - Easy
Noobzor - 5,112,420 -  C - MarisaB - 0.290% - Replay

Good run, except for that terrible misdirection clear :V

[Karisa]

Finishing TD with the hidden 9th bomb counts as 9, since that's how many bombs you actually have.

The 8/9 clears I've seen on Royalflare all label it that way, too-- search Royalflare th13 for 残8 to find a few 8-9s and some 8-0s but no 8-8s.

[Emerald Mint]

Thanks for clearing it up.

#13 - Normal
Emerald - 674,872,620 - C (7/7) - Reimu - 0.0% - Replay

[Star King]

Normal mode.

Damn.

[Emerald Mint]

#13 - Hard
Emerald - 878,900,200 - C (7/3) - Reimu - 0.02% - Replay

One death. I've picked this challenge up quicker than I expected.
Lunatic mode is a maybe, with fewer lives left.
Extra is also a maybe, though I'll need additional practice on Mamizou's last 3 spell cards.