Touhou Rage Thread XV: No "No Misses" Edition

[Elysia]

Naturally, I perfected everything else.

[Limian]

For what it's worth, here's a vid of someone capturing the attack.
It's super impressive that you've got down Gathering Void White like that, btw.

[an unmatched sock]

Again, with trying to 1cc SA with ReimuA. And again, I got up to Orin with about 6 or 7 lives. I got to stage 6 with 1 extra life. WHY IS THAT CAT SO GODDAMNED HARD?!

Utsuho is so much easier! I got up to Heaven and Hell Meltdown before I lost 2 lives! Yet I lose so many to that cat, it makes Stage 6 that much harder! If she wasn't such a problem, this would have been a 1cc for sure. Ugh.

[Zengeku]

Scored 1.2b on Mountain of Faith Easy on a No-miss full spellcard capture run. Might as well come clean about this little abomination.

I know I can't expect to score very well in the game given that my paths only apply for Lunatic as well as being rusty but the thing that angered me was that I was stupid enough to fucking attempt this without having a route ready. Why the fuck did i do that? Oh how i wish I could scroll time back and undo this.

Now I'll have to either improve the run or deal with this abomination forever. Neither sounds attractive. Fuck that was stupid.

[RegretDesi]

I agree entirely, unmatched sock.

EDIT: Just noticed that the number of pictures taken is the same as the time. My OCD approves.

[an unmatched sock]

I spend so long trying the Extra stage with MarisaB, and I never get past Koishi's first card.

First try with Reimu, who was just unlocked?

Sliver of health left on the second spellcard's health bar, farther than I've ever gotten with Marisa.

WHY DOES IT DO THIS. WHAT WAS I DOING WRONG.

[MewMewHeart]

I agree entirely, unmatched sock.

EDIT: Just noticed that the number of pictures taken is the same as the time. My OCD approves.

Orin and Okuu are the bane of me in DS, case and point.

[Karisa]

I guess I'll post this here too.

Rammed straight-on by an arrowhead while trying to stay under Kanako for spell bonus purposes, costing me a potential 1.48m. That really shouldn't have happened. While my spell history may seem low, I've been consistent at capturing this ever since deciding to stream slowly instead of trying to restream repeatedly like on higher difficulties.

[an unmatched sock]

I don't know what came over me, but I decided to try another Normal 1cc of UFO. I actually got up to Byakuren before being clip-death'd by Omen in Purple Mist.

That being said, I had 7 lives going into Stage 4. I had 2 leaving it. I'm fine with the two or three stage deaths, since I just got more resources from the stage anyway. Murasa, however... Clipdeath on her first nonspell (which was shameful), anchor'd on first spell, clipped in Deep Vortex, clipped on last nonspell (I think), died on that last time-out spell. That or I died twice there. I'm not fast enough to deathbomb, apparently.

Shou gave me less trouble than Murasa. WHY.

Also, this time I tried with SanaeA, and it sorta feels like I'm not doing something right...I can't quite place it, though. Strange.

[Blue]

I think playing UFO has made all my SA skills(or what passes for them) go down the drain. I could blame it on my not being used to ReimuC, but that doesn't explain why I can't do well with MarisaC. I've been restarting so much that I haven't even gotten to do an actual attempt. I just want to get to Stage 4 without too much stupidity...

Stupid deaths in stages 1 and 2, stupid deaths EVERYWHERE.

[CyberAngel]

Lost a Light Sign "Guse Flash" capture to a bullet that took its time to disappear when Miko was already dead. Fancy effects are all fine and dandy RIGHT UNTIL THEY START TO INTERFERE WITH GAMEPLAY DAMMITALL

[cactu]

Fuck, I got another 2MNB. I died on Killing Doll like a dumbass, and then Scarlet Gensokyo decided to throw me a bullshit wall and kill me with no way out. ;_;

[Mino ☆]

Fuck, I got another 2MNB. I died on Killing Doll like a dumbass, and then Scarlet Gensokyo decided to throw me a bullshit wall and kill me with no way out. ;_;

Who would have thought that there would be days when a 2 Miss No Bomb EoSD LNB was something to rage about!

Nah, jk, keep trying. You're almost there.

[Zork787]

You know something, I'm seriously starting to think Zun made Fairy Wars as bullshittingly difficult as possible, JUST for a laugh.... I don't even understand how people can even come CLOSE to 1CCing normal, let alone Hard or Lunatic!

[Mino ☆]

You know something, I'm seriously starting to think Zun made Fairy Wars as bullshittingly difficult as possible, JUST for a laugh.... I don't even understand how people can even come CLOSE to 1CCing normal, let alone Hard or Lunatic!

You eventually get used to it, and develop freeze routes. It becomes surprisingly fun once you get the hang of it.

[I have no name]

Yeah, GFW is just one of those games that has a steep difficulty curve.  Just keep playing and you get a feel for how to freeze things, and then it becomes really fun, easily one of the best Touhou games.  Until you get the hang of it though, it's brutally difficult.

[Mordon]

Like I said on the Best-to-Worst-Games topic, it took me like 7 continues to finish normal mode the first times I tried it, and I already was 1ccing some hards. I thought it was ridiculously hard and stupid too, but a few days later I was already tackling Hard routes. Higher difficulties actually don't get that much harder because it has more bullets and more bullets means more whole-screen freezing and more resources. Of course it IS harder overall, but some aspects become easier to compensate.

I think a lot of people don't give GFW the merit it deserves because they don't play enough to learn how it should be played. Sometimes you have to dodge a wave without freezing and leave the freeze for a harder part, and sometimes you can't afford to wait until 100% charge to freeze again or you'll be left defenseless against a bullet wall. The game is incredibly fun once you learn how deal with things properly.

@topic
My rage is almost all condensed in UFO and SA. Ufos that change color and/or go away just as I'm about to collect them, big ufos that simply don't die and are shielded by 12312 enemies, life and bomb parts that drop out of my reach, and so on. In SA I'm always out of power due to bombing and bosses LOVE to kill me or force me to bomb when they have no health left, because they take very long to kill with low power.

[Tsym]

The result of a total meltdown on stage 5. Deaths to midboss card, final section, and twice on Iwafune. The kicker is of course that I would have perfected stage 4 in this run if I didn't ram into a bullet as Seiga's midboss non-spell was about to end.

I swear that attempting a NBNT of this game is showcasing what's wrong with me as a shmup player: Poor reflexes and nerves. But the worst part is of course that these are precisely the two things that I find it hard to improve upon/find it hard to see improvement on. It's annoying is what it is.

[RegretDesi]

Trying to 1cc laggy Marine Benefit on Easy. I was in the middle of stage 4, in the POC, when suddenly a fairy moving faster than Youmu sliced me in half. Still don't understand.

[astroninja1]

this thread makes me feel inferior since i cant even make it past 3rd stages  of EoSD. PCB, and IN without continues

[RegretDesi]

this thread makes me feel inferior since i cant even make it past 3rd stages  of EoSD. PCB, and IN without continues

I was there once. Keep trying, you'll get it.

[Mino ☆]

Fate is a funny thing.

[Blue]

Well, I just attempted an IN Hard Border Team 1cc for the first time.

I died more to Marisa than anyone else. Marisa, why is bullet spam. Why.

I somehow managed to make it to Fire Rat's Robe though. Despite having no lives at the start of the Kaguya fight.

Also, I died to Galaxy in a Pot. That takes skill.

[MewMewHeart]

Yoshika, Seiga, and Futo are the bane of me on TD.

WRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY!!!!!

(╯?□?）╯︵ ┻━┻

[Karisa]

Seriously, how did I die there of all places? This wasn't even my first attempt of the day (previous run got a 39m capture here), so I can't attribute it to readjusting to PCB.

[RegretDesi]

Who would have thought that there would be days when a 2 Miss No Bomb EoSD LNB was something to rage about!

Nah, jk, keep trying. You're almost there.

You said No Bomb twice.

[Sage Ω (Ultima)]

Why can't I 1CC UFO? It's the last game on my list. I was doing perfect the first 4 stages I only lost two lives  but had plenty more. went from 5 lives to 1 & 3/5 after Shou and died on Byakuren's 2 spell card which I never failed before ever and I normally do good on stage 5.

Why does this game hate me soo much?

[Star King]

>PCB SakuyaB Extra scoring attempt for Mino's challenges
>Really good run going, all the way up to the nonspell after Charming Siege
>Probably at least 1.1B if I complete without deaths from that point
>Maybe even 1.2B
>Have to go do something
>I pause and go away
>Come back later
>"All right, let's do this"
>Attempt to unpause
>Press R instead of Z on pause screen
>I don't know why
>Maybe out of habit
>Stage restarts
>Back at the beginning
>Great run lost

why

why

why

why

why

[BT]

You're really damn fast if you were seriously going to get that kind of score.

Also pretty unlucky!

[vctrz]

Game over on stage 4