Touhou Accomplishments 15 - Virtue of Win God Edition

[Zil]

With the exception of Chiyuri, who seems to teleport at random, every boss appears to follow a specific movement pattern. They appear in the upper center, then move in a counter-clockwise diamond shape.

I'm an idiot. They move counter-clockwise for the first loop, then clockwise for the next.

There were a few specific things I'd like to comment on and at least a couple that I'd like to add

Looking forward to it. If there's anything at all I can learn about this game, I'd love to hear it.

e: And for the sake of attaching an accomplishment to this post, I'm consintently reaching Yumemi in no-bombs PoDD Lunatic. I'm still experiening strange self-destructive reflexes against Chiyuri however. I may spend a while facing her in match mode.
And there was that Chiyuri run that reached Yumemi with 3 lives. So goddamn close.

[Elysia]

SUMIZOME PERFECT BLOSSOM TIMEOUT!

This card was THE obstacle when I was going for a perfect PCB Stage 6. I'm honestly still having trouble believing I actually pulled this off.

[BT]

The above put me in the mood to timeout some Lunatic Yuyuko stuff.

So far, all four nonspells & first card timeout get.

e: Also went ahead and tried this with Alice. None of her cards timed out (somehow.. I have no idea how I failed the second and fourth cards....)(I was close with 3 of them, and surprisingly enough, her first card was one of them ~_~) but all of her nonspells timed out. The only accomplishment here is her first nonspell, of course, which I did without going to the sides to dodge the blue waves.

There's also timing out midboss Alice(s). Alice #1 has been timed out (the progressive red & blue waves are actually pretty ridiculous) and I barely missed Alice #2 (same thing, red and blue waves are pretty hard).

[BT]

Capped Shou's first spell and all three nonspells in one fight.

Shame I had to derp on her second and fourth cards.

[Buu]

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=21362

Had I not died at Suwako's second spell due to mistapping (curse you MoF and your freaking obsession with micro-movement!), I would have perfected my first extra stage - if you were to not count the bomb used at the last fairy wall, though that one wasn't used for survival purposes but to collect a bit more stuff. Either way, I managed to capture both survivals in the same run for the first time and the second spell had to ruin everything. ;_________;

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=21363

Perfected Nue for the first time. One death during the stage at the orb spam section because I couldn't bomb in time but doesn't matter. (Extra stage is the only thing I still play UFO for, in case you're wondering)

[SuccinctAndPunchy]

Playing through Lunatic Kanako to get to VoWG and savestate there to practice the crap out that spell.

Sightread captured about half of her spellcards and nonspells. I probably could've gone for more if I hadn't gotten bored and bombspammed my way to VoWG.

Kanako's...quite bizarrely easy for a Lunatic final boss. Barring VoWG of course.

Speaking of VoWG. Holy shit this card is great fun.

I get what the fixation is with this card now, it's a fun challenge.

[Kliff]

Oh, hey, Koishi Komeiji defeated.

[Buu]

At last a no-death run of TH13's extra.

No extra boss puts me under as much pressure as Mamizou does; she's easily the hardest extra boss for me. I managed to capture everything up to her Reimu-copy spell, which I ended up timing out and then had to waste my trance gauge and a bomb at her survival - I got entirely out of rhythm at the second phase when the birds spawn. Usually I can make it to the last phase without problems but now I managed to mis-misdirect the birds right back at me.

Her final spell - which I to this very day haven't been able to capture yet - I ended up timing out. Another bomb went to waste but it's still better than kicking the bucket messing up my goal.

[チソウ タイゼン]

All right!

After far too long, First MoF Hard 1CC!

This is also going into the Fail thread for an unfortunate occurrence during the Sanae fight.
612 million points!

Not that I know what a good score is :I

Spoiler:

You were able to clear hard! Now you can put "good at danmaku games" on your resume.

I doubt it :getdown:

[Zengeku]

I doubt it :getdown:

Well... good by ZUN's standards.  :V

No really, worst placement of that message ever. MoF Hard. You could've been spamming bombs the entire way through and lose all your shrine maidens and he'd still tell you that you are awesome. I've heard that it's common in Japan to give people compliments even if they are not sincere. I think this might be an example of it.

[Lepetit89]

Well... good by ZUN's standards.  :V

No really, worst placement of that message ever. MoF Hard. You could've been spamming bombs the entire way through and lose all your shrine maidens and he'd still tell you that you are awesome. I've heard that it's common in Japan to give people compliments even if they are not sincere. I think this might be an example of it.

It is, problem is that you start seeing it everywhere. Especially annoying when you meet new people and the second thing they tell you is that your Japanese is quite good.

[Zil]

No-Bombs PoDD Lunatic 1cc!

FUCK YES!!!

e: Youtube

[Elysia]

No-Bombs PoDD Lunatic 1cc!

FUCK YES!!!

Serious congrats.

As for me, managed to time out Apollo 13 again...but on Lunatic this time.

[I have no name]

Now do it on hard mode.
I actually find the hard version, well, harder than the lunatic version due to being slower, requiring more precise movements.

[Thanuris]

no

Well, the density +  the speed of Lunatic makes it a lot more harder than the Hard version

[redlakitu]

So after getting into the community and learning about the standards, I found out that my earlier 1cc-s of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil didn't count because playing with max lives is frowned upon. Fair enough. Instead of getting depressed, I set the amount of lives down to 3 (hopefully that's acceptable) and decided to try. And after several ragequits on stages 2-4, here it is!

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=21383

Actually I was going to drop this one too after getting butchered by Patchouli (as usual), but decided that giving up all the time isn't the way to go. And despite totally forgetting how Stage 5 and Sakuya's spells work, I managed to reach Remilia with so many resources that I simply couldn't lose. I know it's just Normal difficulty, but it's still my best attempt ever, so I'm justified in feeling at least a bit proud.

If you decide to watch the replay, be sure to take a look at Stage 6 and see my capture of Scarlet Shoot (the first ever!), done in a very "I have no idea what I'm doing" fashion. Also you may notice that I bombed the hell out of Meiling. That's because at this point, I was sure that a stupid death was coming near, so I'd be better off just using the bombs instead of dying with all four in stock.

Also I'd love some advice on improving my panicked flailing.

[Buu]

Shoot the Bullet completed. Border of Bullshit was the last one I did, god did that one grind my nerves. I kept getting these literally undodgeable waves when only one photo was left until I figured out if I hurry up and charge all the time and take the photos in quick succession, Yukari won't even get as far. But I did it!

Also, can anybody tell me what this is? I have the feeling this shouldn't even be here but in case it does, what exactly is it?

[Zil]

I think ZUN planned to add more scenes, but later decided not too (eventually making DS instead), so it's just an empty space there now.

[SuccinctAndPunchy]

Also, can anybody tell me what this is? I have the feeling this shouldn't even be here but in case it does, what exactly is it?

I can't say definitively, but I think it was a placeholder for planned future content updates as more characters were added to the Touhou universe.

Didn't pan out, from the looks of it. But hey! We got Double Spoiler!

/complete and utter blind speculation

EDIT: NINJA'D BECAUSE I DIDN'T REFRESH THE PAGE.  :V

[I have no name]

So after getting into the community and learning about the standards, I found out that my earlier 1cc-s of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil didn't count because playing with max lives is frowned upon.

What?
I have to disagree, a 1cc is a 1cc regardless of settings.
Although I did go back and beat EoSD, PCB and IN lunatic with default lives just to see if I could.

[redlakitu]

What?
I have to disagree, a 1cc is a 1cc regardless of settings.
Although I did go back and beat EoSD, PCB and IN lunatic with default lives just to see if I could.

Well, that's not really my opinion, just the impression I had after reading various threads, plus in all the replays and playthroughs that I watched, the player started with three lives. All this gradually made me feel bad about playing with max starting lives.

[SuccinctAndPunchy]

Well, that's not really my opinion, just the impression I had after reading various threads, plus in all the replays and playthroughs that I watched, the player started with three lives. All this gradually made me feel bad about playing with max starting lives.

I don't really frown upon on either.

These games are hard enough, more lives or not a 1cc is a 1cc. Achievements being relative and all that.

[Zengeku]

Starting the game with more lives than default doesn't detract from the accomplishment itself but it is obviously a given that a 1cc with default settings is worth more than a 1cc with extra lives tagged on. Especially in the case of IN where you can start the game with a ridiculous amount of lives. Of course, if your run didn't need the extra resources in the long run then the clear is obviously as good as a default lives clear.

Most scoreboards only take in scores made with default settings so I'd suggest you always stick to that. However, if you want to play with extra lives then just do so. Nobody here's going to fault you for it but your clears will probably not be as impressive.

[SuccinctAndPunchy]

Anyway!

Progress on the 90FPS Double Spoiler front has been slow, but there is progress.

Cleared 5-8, 6-1 and 6-2. Methodical!

And then I cleared 6-4 followed shortly by 6-5 and 6-6! Not methodical! Because 6-3 is lame and not fun to play.



Playing stats:

5-8:  201 shots
6-1: 107 shots
6-2:  561 shots
6-4:  41 shots
6-5: 23 shots (Not as hard as it looked, it would seem)
6-6:  7 shots (Wahahah!)

Weeee, rather bewildering persistence, I have it.  :V

[redlakitu]

Starting the game with more lives than default doesn't detract from the accomplishment itself but it is obviously a given that a 1cc with default settings is worth more than a 1cc with extra lives tagged on. Especially in the case of IN where you can start the game with a ridiculous amount of lives. Of course, if your run didn't need the extra resources in the long run then the clear is obviously as good as a default lives clear.

Most scoreboards only take in scores made with default settings so I'd suggest you always stick to that. However, if you want to play with extra lives then just do so. Nobody here's going to fault you for it but your clears will probably not be as impressive.

What I want is to play according to the rules most people use, gradually getting better and claiming more achievements. It simply feels better that way. No other game series has touched my ambition like Touhou before. Nevertheless, I like everyone's attitude about clearing the games with extra lives. Also I never meant to belittle any achievements other than my own. So I apologize, "don't count" was a poor choice of words.

I don't want to bring the thread further off topic, so here's a 1cc of Imperishable Night on Normal, done just a while ago (again my first with default lives):

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=21395

A horrible bombfest, but it's interesting how I finished way more comfortably than before with two extra lives. Same goes for the EoSD replay posted above.

[Chuckolator]

Pictured: 1cc.

Because 6-3 is lame and not fun to play.

+1, probably my least favourite DS scene

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

never mind it's 9-4 now

[Elysia]

Timed out Marisa's first spell on Normal.

[Zengeku]

A horrible bombfest, but it's interesting how I finished way more comfortably than before with two extra lives. Same goes for the EoSD replay posted above.

Congrats on those runs. I think the reason you're finishing more comfortably is that with the fewer resources you are being more careful to conserve the resources and better at bombing things.

[I have no name]

6-5: 23 shots (Not as hard as it looked, it would seem)

Maybe I should go back and do 6-5.
Also, 6-3 isn't THAT bad, so you should probably go do it.

Have fun with 6-7 (the ultimate reflex test) and 6-8 (giant Suika wants a hug)

[SuccinctAndPunchy]

Maybe I should go back and do 6-5.
Also, 6-3 isn't THAT bad, so you should probably go do it.

Have fun with 6-7 (the ultimate reflex test) and 6-8 (giant Suika wants a hug)

And then I did do 6-3. 95 shots.

I still hate this card. Weeeee spin and memorise the timings, I dislike cards as heavily reliant upon trial and error as this one.

EDIT: And then 6-7 went down. In 10 shots. I think ultimate reflex test is kind of an overestimation (I did dodge straight through one of the bursts through sheer goddamn luck though).

I reserve my right to refuse to do Hanako-san in the Toilet due to it being broken. Just throwing that out there.