Touhou Despair Thread - Endless 8

[Guest]

If I wasn't so fucking lazy I'd destroy Baity in any touhou game

[Zengeku]

If i wasn't so lazy i would track down ZUN and vikingize him.

[Krimmydoodle]

As I try to stress by saying it in my sig, any accomplishment is as important as the player wants it to be.  That said, I'm not going to argue about the semantics of what to call Donut's Kaguya fight.  I know what Donut did, calling it anything different isn't going to change anything, and it's an awesome accomplishment either way.  Note that I rarely use the term "perfect" to describe NDNB runs and will usually use the latter, because I believe "perfect" describes something a bit more intangible than a simple NDNB run.  But it's merely a personal choice and I won't argue that description with anyone, because it's still the same accomplishment regardless.  It's the same situation here.

[Zengeku]

We are just kidding him obviously.

[Guest]

Until one of us perfects Kaguya with all last spells

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Yeah, a truly perfect run of Kaguya would do what KamiG did to Hourai Jewel. I am not at a skill level to even try that. Same thing for the safespotting on the 4th last spell. I'm not comfortable enough to try that and get out outside of spell practice.

I would stick to the safer methods for those 2. But commonly accepted definition for perfect though is NDNB, all Last Spells captured(for IN),  and no timing anything out(other than survivals)

Edit: Forgot No Gapping for SA, but that one is optional too.

[Fast Fanatic]

So, for "perfect" runs...

No deaths, of course.
All spellcards captured (?)
No safespotting...?
No bombs? I've seen a bomb used in a "perfect" run before for the sake of scoring, though (I think... Gaining more faith in MoF?)
PCB, no borders broken
UFO, destroying UFO's seems to be okay.
SA, no gapping

Ugh. I'd rather just have NDNB runs.

(Btw, I captured Kaguya's second nonspell on my first try. Do you misdirect it?)

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Of course I try to misdirect it. Not sure if I do it right, but I at least try.

No safespotting is an option rule. If I make it to Izuna Gongen on another perfect attempt, it is getting safespotted.

Forgot the NBB despite the main perfect I've been going for was PCB Extra.

[DracoOmega]

Grrrr..... Kogasa, why must you be so ridiculous? I'm tired of repeatedly dying 3 or 4 times on her. I honestly think that Yuyuko is an easier fight, despite one being a stage 6 boss, and the other a stage 2 boss. >.>

[Anarchy Formless]

If you've seen how I treat Formless, there is a lot of things i say you don't have to take too seriously. Usually indicated by the 

[EX-beckett]

I honestly think that Yuyuko is an easier fight

Yuyuko is an easier fight. Then again, you could argue that Chen, Alice, the Prismrivers and Youmu are also harder than Yuyuko. 

[Zengeku]

For example how i appointed you without your consent to be my waifu. 
That's how we do back home. Go out, find girl you want and tell her "You belong to me now" and then that's that.

Yuyuko is an easier fight. Then again, you could argue that Chen, Alice, the Prismrivers and Youmu are also harder than Yuyuko. 

Not Chen but the rest certainly are.

(Yuyuko might hit me with her two final attacks. Chen... doesn't stand the slightest chance.)
About Kogasa i would also add that Alice is easier to perfect than Kogasa. Or pretty much any S3 boss and a lot of S4 bosses as well.

 

[LHCling]

ilu baity

ilu2

If I wasn't so fucking lazy I'd destroy Baity in any touhou game

If I wasn't so lazy, I'd be able to maintain WR scoring runs.

[10:02]<Baitikkuri> argh, screw you evil sun

Can't even get a decent run up beyond Stage 2 thanks to this, which leads to premature Game Overs. Probably doesn't help knowing that it shines into my good eye, which makes a blindspot on a certain part of the screen; the part of the screen I use the most for dodging. And maybe I shouldn't be playing at all because of blargh surgery after-effects.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

IN, MoF, and SA are the only Touhou games I would consider playing for score anyway, though as soon as you die, the score is screwed on MoF, Damn it Aya. PoFV too, but you have to play that for score otherwise you don't get enough extends to cover the 1 death minimum per stage starting at stage 6. I can't score worth crap in PoDD either, so I never get the second extend.

I wasn't even trying to score and got over 2.9 billion on IN. MoF is easy as hell to play for score. And if I was consistent at SA so that I'd be able to survive after all those suicides, I'd try, but as is I score higher just playing for survival.

[theshim]

PoDD is really, really stupid.

[Sen]

It's also really, really, fun!

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

SanaeA is a completely terrible shottype. 0/0 cleared Extra with her. Derped one of the nonspells, derped survival, derped Grudge Bow second phase.(now I need to actually bother to unlock it for both Reimus and MarisaB, but lol Normal. And lol at the thought of using any of those terrible shottypes on Hard)

[jc_foster]

Just lost a PCB Normal 1cc with 40 seconds left on Resurrection Butterfly. Decided to continue to unlock S6 for practice, and go on to perfect the rest of the card.

And that after a real "wtf??" capture of SPB.....

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Another 1 death run of IN Extra. And guess where it happened

Possessed by Phoenix second phase

[EX-beckett]

Three 1DNBNBB PCB stage 3 runs. The last was a Hanged Hourai Dolls doublekill. 

[jc_foster]

Another 1 death run of IN Extra. And guess where it happened

Possessed by Phoenix second phase

Here's a worse one: Failed RB30 again. On the second-to-last VERTICAL wave.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Cleared MoF Extra with ReimuA. 5 deaths, none of which should even happened. And I panic bombed Mishagujisama 3 times.

[Arcengal]

Dammit, if only my Prismriver fight hadn't gone down the toilet, I would have broken 1billion on PCB...

[RainfallYoshi]

Wow that was the sloppiest run of PCB Normal I've ever had.

Ran into a bullet for no reason during Chen.
Ran into a bullet for no reason during Alice.
Stupidly walled myself in during Stage 4 barrages.
Died repeatedly to Youmu spells that I normally have no problems with.

And to wrap up this horrible run, I died to Youmu's last spell when she had just a sliver of health left and Game Overed. Go me.

Don't you hate it when you think you're doing well and then just have a horribly sloppy run like this?

[Sen]

EoSD Lunatic again. Entered Stage 4 7/0.

Limped out the Patchy battle 3/1 or something and it all went to hell from there. Ughhhhhh, I didn't even make it to Remilia! I should have fucking cleared that, why can't I do Stage 4?

[omgrandomnumbers]

Kuzui Clear Water/Yamato Torus is only easy at full power. I am not at full power when I get to it. This is all.

And I just died at the last frame of Exiled Doll. Just bam! and died. I hate the new bullet-clearing system.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Got a few 1DNB timeouts of Concerto Grosso. It's not that bad, I just keep getting screwed by bad luck.

[Reddyne]

How do you beat SA?! I've 1cc'd nearly all of the other games once but SA and now I get friends wondering how I can beat UFO (which I always thought had a normal level of difficulty) but not SA (which I think is easily the hardest of the Touhous).  I JUST beat Orin for the second time EVER in SA normal. Now I have to get through all of Utsuho's nonsense? How?

[ふねん1]

I swear, if I die from a key remapper malfunction one more fucking time...

How do you beat SA?! I've 1cc'd nearly all of the other games once but SA and now I get friends wondering how I can beat UFO (which I always thought had a normal level of difficulty) but not SA (which I think is easily the hardest of the Touhous).  I JUST beat Orin for the second time EVER in SA normal. Now I have to get through all of Utsuho's nonsense? How?

SA has the hardest Normal by far. You said you beat Orin, so you should have the first 5 stages unlocked in Practice Mode. Play the hell out of those stages. Memorize what can be memorized, and make notes of which attacks should be "autobombs" in a 1cc attempt. Oh, and as for unlocking Utsuho for practice, continuespam her (unless you can enter Stage 6 with more than 3 lives). Being able to beat her once with default lives (after a game over) is almost practice enough, to be honest.

[Kanon]

How do you beat SA?!

Enter Orin with 7 or 8 lives, bomb spam, enter Utsuho with 6 lives, bomb spam.
Especially figure out a bombing strategy for Orin that minimizes deaths.
At least that's how I did it. It might feel a bit unsatisfying to see yourself epic failing both of those bosses though

If you practice stage 1-4 long enough you will almost perfect it.
Practicing them on lunatic helps to for me, as stage 4 normal becomes piss easy once you are used to lunatic.

Then it's just keep trying until you enter Utsuho with enough lives to spare.
Unlike UFO (where you milk 5 bombs right at the beginning of stage 6), I didn't bother to continue spam
because I couldn't figure out how to do any of Utsuho's cards at the time.