Touhou Accomplishments

[theshirn]

IN Hard 1cc!  All that's left is PCB and SA.

Sure, it was the crappiest 1cc ever, finished 0/1, died twice on Hourai Jewel alone (I SUCK at that card), spammed bombs like nobody's business, grand total of 9 cards captured (only 1 of Kaguya's - Buddhist Diamond), and I forgot to save the replay - but a clear's a clear!

[nintendonut888]

Q.E.D captures are like buses. You wait forever and then two happen in a row.

>_>

[Arcengal]

QED captured.

Replay: http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3164

I couldn't be bothered sitting through it for a screenshot. 

[Zengeku]

Nothing special but i guess its somewhat of an accomplishment.

Captured everything on SA Normal including Satori's recollection spells. Some of them playing as Alice, Patchy or Nitori was tough because Marisas movement always fucks with me. Oh and i only have a few spells left to capture on Hard. Except if you count Satori, then i still got a way to go before i cap everything on Hard. I haven't been playing for several days so i was afraid i would die if i didn't play. At least something came out of it instead of mindless playing around with easy stuff which is how i usually play. Sadly.

[nintendonut888]

Who's the strongest? ^_~



It's official. If I fail MS lunatic, I will fail it even on max lives. If I clear, it will always be with one life remaining. I'm actually very surprised I pulled this off, considering my rather shoddy performance all around, including dying with full bombs on stage 4. The only real highlights to this were once again beating cheeto lasers with only one bomb and not dying to Yumeko's laser streaming attack of O_O. See, I learned way back when that with Mima, once the attack goes insane, if you bomb once, shotgun Yumeko, and move back down, the attack will end before anything reaches you.

But still...I feel somewhat dissatisfied. The random bullet attack RNG was pretty kind to me, but considering each and every one of these attacks has some amount of slowdown, it bugs me that it may have influenced the outcome. Oh well...I'll get that better computer someday...

[Azinth]

But still...I feel somewhat dissatisfied. The random bullet attack RNG was pretty kind to me, but considering each and every one of these attacks has some amount of slowdown, it bugs me that it may have influenced the outcome. Oh well...I'll get that better computer someday...

Once you get that new computer, you should upload some pc-98 videos onto youtube.  There's hardly any stuff out there of pc-98 games on the higher difficulties, and it's high time the world saw Lunatic Yumeko in all her terrifying glory.

Anyways, I think I've managed to crack stage 3 of IN (I have a bad habit of achieving things right after complaining about them in the rage thread...).  I almost got a perfect run of it, but Legend of Gensokyo got me at the precise second that it was about to end.  Time to start grinding stage 4...
 

[nintendonut888]

I have every intention of recording PC-98 lunatic runs once I get a new computer (and recording equipment of course). There actually was a video of lunatic Yumeko uploaded by this old player named Laggy (I don't know if he still plays or not). He took it down for some reason though...

Anyways, I think I've managed to crack stage 3 of IN (I have a bad habit of achieving things right after complaining about them in the rage thread...).  I almost got a perfect run of it, but Legend of Gensokyo got me at the precise second that it was about to end.  Time to start grinding stage 4...

Sucks. Legend of Gensokyo doesn't give me much trouble now that I actually took the time to practice it and learn the correct movements. Ephermerality 137 keeps me from wanting to strive for a perfect Keine battle.

[Azinth]

Yeah, Ephemerality is a bitch with the Border Team.  Though I'm not too fond of the entire Keine fight really.  The whole thing forces you to memorize all of her patterns until they become completely trivial, since they can be absolutely brutal otherwise.  Probably why I don't feel bad about cheesing through it with the Malice Cannon.  You're basically just exchanging one memorization grindfest for another.

[Yukkuri]

Not that special, but 1CC clear normal PCB.

Is EOSD normal harder, because it took me a lot more tries to 1CC that.

[Arcengal]

1cc SA Hard, with Reimu A.
Stages 4 and 5 were an absolute trainwreck, with my power never getting higher than 3 the whole time. But I got there.

[Schpwuette]

Not that special, but 1CC clear normal PCB.

Is EOSD normal harder, because it took me a lot more tries to 1CC that.

I find it easier. If EoSD was your first ever clear, it makes sense that it would take more tries

OT: MoF Hard 1cc. SA is being a bitch

[SP]

190 tries, total purification successfully timed out 

The rest look fairly BS though.  I'd take any tips on Yuyuko, Wriggle and Mystia...  Alice looks just like a crazy memorization fest, and Youmu's gets crazy eventually but I don't think there are any tricks to it.

[bjw]

The rest look fairly BS though.  I'd take any tips on Yuyuko, Wriggle and Mystia...  Alice looks just like a crazy memorization fest, and Youmu's gets crazy eventually but I don't think there are any tricks to it.

Wriggle's... move vertically and just hope you can run down the timer

For Mystia's, all of the arrow bullets are aimed at your current position once fired, so you'll just need to micro the green bullets. I'm really not sure if the green bullets are aimed or not, but they seem to be... I'll need to play this card a bit, haven't done so since July of 08 >_>

And Yuyuko's? Let's just say you'll gain a lot of respect from me if you manage to pull it off, not that that really means anything 

[?lice Bl?ckb?rn]

Ephermerality 137 keeps me from wanting to strive for a perfect Keine battle.

Funny, I've never found Ephemerality to be much of a problem. GHQ Crisis utterly destroys me on the other hand, though. Is there some trick to it or is it just dodge extremely nasty danmaku on the fly?

[?lice Bl?ckb?rn]

EBWOP:

The rest look fairly BS though.  I'd take any tips on Yuyuko.

gj re: Total Purification. As for Saigyouji Flawless Nirvana, expect this to take more runs than all the other last words combined, if the history of some Japanese player who timed out all the Last Words and my own experience with this card say anything:
Timing out this card requires two things: being able to read the wave of blue butterflies properly when it has overlapping red butterflies over it, and hoping that none of the waves of red butterflies+bubbles are bullshit. None of the thirteen waves.

If you time this out successfully, yeah, you'll get a lot of respect from me as well. Not that that means anything, though

[Azinth]

Funny, I've never found Ephemerality to be much of a problem. GHQ Crisis utterly destroys me on the other hand, though. Is there some trick to it or is it just dodge extremely nasty danmaku on the fly?

You can dodge the first wave by standing in the exact bottom center, and if you're playing as the Ghost/Magic teams you can take out some of the familiars during that time.  Other than that, the whole thing is static, so you can just micromemorize it.  In fact, I'm pretty sure all of her attacks are static except for Three Sacred Treasures.  Like I said, the Keine battle is pretty dumb.



Edit:  FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF I just captured the opening fairy-spam attack in PCB stage 6.  I got driven into a corner just as the fairies left the screen, with an impenetrable wall coming right at me.  Then, the very nanosecond I was about to get hit, Youmu came in to save the day!  I'd never been happier to see that fugly old portrait of hers in my whole life(companioncube.jpg).

[theshirn]

All you people and your QED capturing led me to give Flansocks another shot.  Much, much better than my original clear, at least.  Died almost immediately to Cranberry Trap (sadly) but then did everything fine until Maze of Love, when I almost successfully ran the maze until I didn't.  I died.

Didn't capture anything else, but it was one bomb or death per card (two bombs on QED, but the second was unnecessary and I had a third in stock anyway) instead of two bombs or a bomb and death for the rest.  I should have capped ATWTBN but I dodged like an absolute ⑨ on one of the yellow waves towards the end.  Screwed up QED and bombed almost immediately, but hey, it's QED.  Did the rest of it pretty well, though.

[LHCling]

MoF. VoWG at Hard. 3 tries is all it took. Each one more progressively closer to capturing than the last. That's some serious dodging. I fortunately didn't have to sit myself in between amulets though; I prefer to dodge vertically more (screenshot in fullscreen by the way)

[theshirn]

MoF. VoWG at Hard. 3 tries is all it took. Each one more progressively closer to capturing than the last. That's some serious dodging. I fortunately didn't have to sit myself in between amulets though; I prefer to dodge vertically more (screenshot in fullscreen by the way)

Nicely done!

I find it mildly amusing that you've gotten Unremembered Crop 4 times, but Mad Dance only once.  Mad Dance is really simple on all difficulties, while Unremembered Crop gives me hell compared to the Lunatic version, which adds the blues but has much fewer green/red waves.

[LHCling]

Nicely done!

I find it mildly amusing that you've gotten Unremembered Crop 4 times, but Mad Dance only once.  Mad Dance is really simple on all difficulties, while Unremembered Crop gives me hell compared to the Lunatic version, which adds the blues but has much fewer green/red waves.

It took me a few tries to get the general strategy for Mad Dance down. I attempted to use the solution for the similar spell card on Easy / Normal, which is moving vertically. After realizing it was (close to?) impossible, I decided to attempt streaming horizontally (very slowly).

I'm now trying VoWG Lunatic out. Trying to position yourself between amulets is extremely difficult. There's too much happening on screen for me to focus on positioning myself.

Best case: 5 incidents before ending the card.
Worst case: 12+ incidents.

[nintendonut888]

I just lost to Icicle Fall Easy.

3 times.

ﾟ∀ﾟ

EDIT: Dear god EoSD easy is painful to go through. There can't have ever been more than 8 bullets on the screen at once.

[Herasy]

Finally gained an accomplishment!
PCB normal cleared!

Although I had Zero lives and Zero bombs at the end, I hate those red butterflies. 

[?lice Bl?ckb?rn]

So last night I capped VoWG 5 times in a row.

Then today I wake up after entirely too little sleep, decide to play MoF stage 6 highly-sleep-deprived. Do a run with lulzy deaths on the stage, a death to-of all things-Kanako's streaming knives on her final noncard (how in the hell did I manage that? Definetly something for the Most Embarrasing Touhou Moments thread) and then I cap VoWG.

What.

[Zengeku]

Not that special, but 1CC clear normal PCB.

Is EOSD normal harder, because it took me a lot more tries to 1CC that.

I'm a little crazy i know but in my opinion, EoSD Hard is easier than PCB Normal.

Ohoh!!! Finally something worthwhile to post! Completely out of the blue i managed to beat Subterranean Animism on Hard difficulty. I guess its time then. Whenever i feel like startin' i'll be embarking on the road to madness!

Oh and no ZUN, I'm afraid i can't dodge rain... 

Maybe, if I'm a little to lazy to get started with Lunatic yet, I'll tie up some loose ends with the Hard mode. There's some spells that needs capturing and so on.

[nintendonut888]

Does ZUN's congratulations thing on hard say something about dodging rain? I beat hard mode before the English patch came out and am too lazy to do it again.

Anyway, can a run through IN stage 5 count as a perfect run if I only fail Tele-mesmerism? PLEASE? I hate that spell card.

[Drake]

Yeah, ZUN's like "You're so awesome you should go out and dodge rain".

Slightly paraphrased.

[nintendonut888]

I like his text for lunatic. "You can probably see an unusual world. Let's go drinking next time."

[Vile Lasagna]

I'm a little crazy i know but in my opinion, EoSD Hard is easier than PCB Normal.

I'd say quite crazy judging from that. I've already come quite close to getting a good ending at PCB even though I'm mighty inconstant ("Woot! I'm the man now! I've beaten stage 4 losing only one life!" **loses whole continue before the end of stage 5**). But I think my very best runs on EoSD have only taken me so far as Sakuya. I'm also not convinced that more training will make Remilia easier than Yuyuko so...

[DarkslimeZ]

Fuck yeeessssssss! Finally beat Flandre! First ever extra stage clear, whoo~~~

My score is low for some reason. Most of my higher-end attempts end up with more points than this, but whatever. If anyone wants to see it, I uploaded the replay. It's really nothing spectacular. But I still did it >o<

I also totally bombed through the last parts of Q.E.D. XD

Oh and I ALMOST captured that time-out card... literally one more second and it would have been mine >__>

Replay: http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3174

[stargroup]

wow dude nice job

I would expect eosd to be my last extra clear O.O