Touhou Accomplishment Thread 21: Time to go FULL SHMUP

[Yatakarasu]

Welp, got my Normal No Bomb run of SA...with 8 misses. Needs a lot of improvement, stage 3 I'm looking at you. But Orin and Utsuho were both no miss no bomb so that's cool. (so many stupid and easily avoidable deaths)
Time to work on that No Miss No Bomb.

[Smokey]

I JUST captured all the spellcards with every shot in DDC. The joys of wasting your life away :>

[LepLep]

I JUST captured all the spellcards with every shot in DDC. The joys of wasting your life away :>

Good Job!

[Snakebite969]

Lunatic 1cc!

Of course, 1cc stands for: One Course Clear

So really, it's not that impressive.

[Oh]

SA Lunatic 4.074b
Somehow I didn't game over, probably because I made some horrible mistakes on stage 2.

[Sakurei]

Finally. The game for once didn't deny me the 100m. And I overshot by a lot too. Had I cleared (muh, no lives entering Yumemi), I could have beaten Zil. I'll start on working on the video and upload the file to youtube. It's probably my best run in anything, despite the game over.

Next goal is PB with a clear. Eventually.

Congratulations denpa. It's a nice score. Don't play SA anymore though. It's terribly scary.

[Zil]

whoa, congrats! I wonder if I should be worried now. :p

[PurpleTheGuy]

I managed to beat Mokou three times this week (and my last one was successfully unlocking "Imperishable Shooting"). I think I only used one bomb which is on the final part (or else no 1up for you). Also managed to get Hourai Elixir, it was quite a good spellcard to do (*cough* Mishaguji-sama pattern *cough*), then I've unlocked some more in which I forgot.

I did a lot of 1CC (Normal, Extra) this past few days, whoa.

Hey, nice job! That reminds me of, back in October of last year, when I beat Mokou for the 1st time using the Scarlet Team and, later, using the same strategy I used for the Scarlet Team more-or-less, the Border Team!  The 2nd time I beat Mokou w/ the Scarlet Team, I unlocked Imperishable Shooting. It was so cool! All this, I did right after I got out of my almost two-year hiatus on Touhou and shmups. In-fact, it was among the 1st things I did, when I got back last August or so, beating Mokou was the 1st major thing I did. It took me two weeks to do, somewhat, though I didn't play everyday, and put in only a few hours each time, so yeah.

From beating Mokou, you are, no doubt, able to do many more incredible things! Keep at it! Your Touhou and general shmup power level will rise pretty quickly! 

Hmm, when I used a bomb on the final fairy before Mokou (I used the Scarlet Team at the time), I ended up getting a 1-up anyway. If I'm not wrong, you can still get a 1-up, as long as you don't bomb at the fairy, if that makes any sense. I think that's how that certain mechanic worked.

Also, nice job on catching Hourai Elixir? What difficulty did you catch it on? I was able to catch Hourai Elixir on easy mode, as it currently stands.

[Karisa]

The second 1up item in IN Extra comes from defeating the death fairy at the end of the stage. It shouldn't matter if you used a bomb.

You might be thinking of the 1up in UFO stage 4? That one only appears if you don't die or bomb; if not, you just get a bomb item.

I'd actually interpreted Hinalyte's post as using a bomb to collect more point items from stage enemies, to more easily reach 666 items. (Though it's not needed, since there are over 1000 point items in IN Extra.)

Edit: Hmm, I've never seen that before, but I've usually auto-restarted if I ever died to that fairy.

[Inadequate]

The death fairy drops a bomb item instead of an life if you're invulnerable due to either a death or bomb when the fairy dies.

[Mino ☆]

Subterranean Animism Lunatic 4-Miss No Bomb 1cc

Yay for distractions from PCB scoring! Very minor improvement on my SA 5MNB. Not satisfied yet.

3MNB or bust! :3

And maybe 2MNB if I really feel like it.

[PurpleTheGuy]

Yeah, that is how I recalled it, from my experience, though, it's been a while since October, when I first beat Mokou. I could have sworn that it did happen, I played through IN's Extra enough to recall it, but it's a little foggy.

I would post a replay of mine's that would show that certain fairy mechanic (I bombed around that last fairy's bullets, not at the fairy itself) on Imperishable Night's extra that I referred to, but unfortunately, my Scarlet Team replay (The one that would've showed that certain mechanic) has been glitched, so I have to go through it again. Oh well, I was going to play through Imperishable Night's Extra sometime again sooner or later. It'll be this summer, that I'll go back through it again. Can't let that go to rust.

[LunarWingCloud]

Soooooo good news and bad news.

Good news, I 1cc'd EoSD Hard with ReimuA!

Bad news is, I accidentally windowed out of the game before I could save a replay so I couldn't save one. D: At least I know I can do it, so I can probably do it again sometime and save a replay then.

[I have no name]

Recorded and uploaded my MoF LNB.  Honestly, I still can't believe I got it (I guess all I needed was to avoid a Stage 5 choke...)

[Sakurei]

whoa, congrats! I wonder if I should be worried now. :p

Probably not. At the very least not for the next few months. Or weeks. I don't know when I will start scoring again. PoDD is a beautiful and great game, but it can be very very frustrating, so I'd like to take a break before I try again. Not to mention that next time I will actually have to score past stage 6 instead of survivalscrubbing hoping for good RNG.

I uploaded the PoDD run. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol-O913R-XU

[Lepetit89]

14 clears later and I'm done with IN on Hard Mode. Didn't get to play as much as I wanted to, so I plowed through what remained of IN's Hard Mode in the past three days, finishing Final A and B with all remaining characters as well as capturing all Spellcards up to Hard with them. Only character I had actual problems with was Alice, I had the most failed runs (twice in Stage 6 for Final B) with her, followed by Sakuya, whose very first run ended in Stage 5. Still, the runs with those two were among the ones that were the most fun.

Anyway, only PoFV left on Hard, then I'll do the fighting games with all characters on all difficulties up to Hard to finally earn my right to play 13.5 and 14.

[☆ Hinalyte]

Hey, nice job! That reminds me of, back in October of last year, when I beat Mokou for the 1st time using the Scarlet Team and, later, using the same strategy I used for the Scarlet Team more-or-less, the Border Team!  The 2nd time I beat Mokou w/ the Scarlet Team, I unlocked Imperishable Shooting. It was so cool! All this, I did right after I got out of my almost two-year hiatus on Touhou and shmups. In-fact, it was among the 1st things I did, when I got back last August or so, beating Mokou was the 1st major thing I did. It took me two weeks to do, somewhat, though I didn't play everyday, and put in only a few hours each time, so yeah.

From beating Mokou, you are, no doubt, able to do many more incredible things! Keep at it! Your Touhou and general shmup power level will rise pretty quickly! 

Thanks. :D

Hmm, when I used a bomb on the final fairy before Mokou (I used the Scarlet Team at the time), I ended up getting a 1-up anyway. If I'm not wrong, you can still get a 1-up, as long as you don't bomb at the fairy, if that makes any sense. I think that's how that certain mechanic worked.

I always use a bomb on it, but it always ends up giving a 1UP, so my guess is that it will give you a bomb instead if you get hit.

Also, nice job on catching Hourai Elixir? What difficulty did you catch it on? I was able to catch Hourai Elixir on easy mode, as it currently stands.

All difficulties!

[cactu]

Clearing is too hard, but a PB is a PB. If I didn't gameover, it would have been 655M.

[Mеа]

A weird accomplishment, but I just noticed that the fairy death animation in 14 looks really pretty, with the swirly confetti flower things and the ripples. Now I'm too distracted to play well.

[RNG]

Ho.  Ly.  Crap.

Congrats!

[Smokey]

Clearing is too hard, but a PB is a PB. If I didn't gameover, it would have been 655M.

Ganbatte your best as hard as you can!

[Sakurei]

Clearing is too hard, but a PB is a PB. If I didn't gameover, it would have been 655M.

Congratz dude. You can get 650m. Pretty sure you'll get it quite soon. I'm looking forward to seeing it, cactu.

[Szayelaporro Granz]

Finally, my first legit Lunatic 1cc! Eiki is such a goddess. I'm quite proud with this run since I don't use OP character like Aya this time.

[Reiko]

Finally, my first legit Lunatic 1cc! Eiki is such a goddess. I'm quite proud with this run since I don't use OP character like Aya this time.

Not trying to spoil your victory, but Eiki is in fact quite overpowered. Probably not as much as Medicine or Aya, but her boss laser notably breaks the AI and often leads to unreasonnably quick kills. My first Lunatic 1cc with her destroyed Reimu on the second round after 1:30 or something.
I didn't watch your replay though, so I can't say how it turned out for you.

[Star King]

Yeah well if you wanna technical about it most characters are capable of hitting the AI early in some way. Gotta draw the line somewhere, unless you really wanna only wanna count stuff like Mystia and Reisen 1ccs as "legit".

[Szayelaporro Granz]

Not trying to spoil your victory, but Eiki is in fact quite overpowered. Probably not as much as Medicine or Aya, but her boss laser notably breaks the AI and often leads to unreasonnably quick kills. My first Lunatic 1cc with her destroyed Reimu on the second round after 1:30 or something.
I didn't watch your replay though, so I can't say how it turned out for you.

Haha, it's okay. In fact, I figured it out myself but somewhere in me denied that fact. I beat Reimu after wasting 2 lives. Next time I might use Reisen, I'm just not used to Reimu or Marisa's level 1.

[I have no name]

Aya and Medicine are the only "broken" characters, with Shikieiki and Reimu being borderline (at least for me).  Notably Aya is only broken vs. the AI.  I got my first clear with Aya, then followed it up with Marisa and Reimu.

The reasons for brokenness are Aya's EX attacks are too fast for the AI to forecast (it looks a couple frames ahead), Medicine's EX attacks ARE outright broken when stacked (and trust me, they stack very fast), Shikieiki's boss attack (the laser one, specifically) has the same effect as Aya's EX attacks, and Reimu will rarely trap with her level 2+EX attack from the AI going inside it.

If you want a clear with a 'balanced' character, Marisa is probably the easiest, though she can trap with very close lasers, it doesn't happen often enough for her to really be considered broken.  Reisen is a bit tricky as the AI will never be randomly hit, relying on luck a bit more, and Cirno is quite fun and effective, from my experiences.

[Sakurei]

I think the only 3 characters that virtually never kill anyone early (aside from Yuka, I guess)  are Komachi, Mystia and Reisen. But that doesn't mean everyone else is OP as hell. In fact, to 1cc with Mystia or Komach is significantly easier than it is with Sakuya or Tei because those 2 are shit to play with while those 3 "weak" characters are easy to use effectively.

The only thing Eiki has that kinda fucks the AI up is her laser during her boss attack. The rest doesn't really faze the AI. She's not really overpowered and the only 1ccs I really wouldn't consider all that clean are Aya and Medicine, because they just wreck the AI to a level where it's not even funny. Don't feel like you have to use a "weaker" character to clear just for the full timers. Eiki is just as "legit" as those 3. Congratulations.

[Szayelaporro Granz]

I think the only 3 characters that virtually never kill anyone early (aside from Yuka, I guess)  are Komachi, Mystia and Reisen. But that doesn't mean everyone else is OP as hell. In fact, to 1cc with Mystia or Komach is significantly easier than it is with Sakuya or Tei because those 2 are shit to play with while those 3 "weak" characters are easy to use effectively.

The only thing Eiki has that kinda fucks the AI up is her laser during her boss attack. The rest doesn't really faze the AI. She's not really overpowered and the only 1ccs I really wouldn't consider all that clean are Aya and Medicine, because they just wreck the AI to a level where it's not even funny. Don't feel like you have to use a "weaker" character to clear just for the full timers. Eiki is just as "legit" as those 3. Congratulations.

Yeah, both Sakuya and Tewi (especially the former) are characters I avoid plague due to their extreme inconvenience. The reason why I prefer Mystia and Reisen (especially the latter) is pretty much what you said.  Yuka is arguably the shittiest for scoring, but she's still pretty fun to play with. I'm not really used with Komachi's scope style though.

That relieves me. Anyway, thanks for the congratulations.

[Validon98]

Holy crap, got my first ever Lunatic 1cc in Imperishable Night!
I had to bomb the hell out of the final card, but despite that I made it with one last bomb in stock. Whatever the case, I did it, and that's all that matters. ^^;