東方永夜抄 ～ Imperishable Night.

[Karisa]

Hard - Youmu
Karisa - 3,300,794,590 - Cb - 0.041% - Replay

IN Youmu is a fun shot type. I think she's a favorite of mine among the harder-to-use shots.

Some silly spell failures during Kaguya (including ramming into a bullet at the start of the 1st last spell, bombing Brilliant Dragon Bullet out of habit when I wasn't actually cornered, and surviving the 4th last spell supergraze but getting hit before capturing it), but it turned out all right by my current standards. I know I can improve it by at least a few hundred million though.

[Choco Beam]

Hard - Youmu
Nal Yoo - 4,604,570,210 - Cb - 0.331 - Replay

Failed 5B run. Several huge mistakes. Aiming for 5.2B.

[Sapz]

Seppo: Got a replay/slowdown rate handy for that Extra Border team score?

[vctrz]

Lunatic - Scarlet Team
vcz - 4,984,724,130 - Cb - 0.092% - Replay

Eww.

[LepLep]

*Quietly submits more sillies.*

Hard - Yukari
L3PiK - 1,318,349,040 - Cb - 0.000% - Replay

Hard - Yuyuko
L3PiK - 1,617,291,370 - Cb - 0.000% - Replay

Hard - Alice
L3PiK - 424,665,040 - 4 - 0.000% - Replay

Hard - Sakuya
L3PiK - 699,825,860 - 5 - 0.000% - Replay

[Sakurei]

well, I guess I can still submit it.

Easy - Youmu
Sakurei - 3.039.361.940 - Cb - 0.000% - Replay

the replay may have desynced, but you can still see the numbers when you open the replay menu. next is to find out how to prevent the desync.

[Sapz]

Update checkpoint.

[vctrz]

Lunatic - Scarlet Team
vcz - 5,020,323,500 - Cb - 0.095% - Replay
vcz - 5,052,698,870 - Cb - 0.000% - Replay

[Sapz]

Update checkpoint. Zengeku's scores removed by request.

[Zengeku]

Appreciated.

[redlakitu]

Easy - Reimu
navpirx - 2,006,966,670 - Cb - 0.000% - Replay

An old score. Still my best scoring achievement so far. I neglected posting it here for whatever reason, so let's fix the mistake now.

[Seppo Hovi]

I've been neglecting IN (Extra). Threw a few (Ten? Twenty? I lost the count.) credits at it today. The result was half-assed, even more so than usual, but at least I had fun.

Extra - Yuyuko
Seppo Hovi - 1,619,803,260 - C - 0.000% - Replay

Was originally going for an NMNB performance, given how the replay I wanted to beat had played with the same condition, taking no risks. However, I ended up failing Phoenix Tail (which is one of the easiest attacks anyhow) by backing up into a bullet, Hourai Doll by getting greedy and doing a beginner's mistake, and IS by just not caring about it anymore. I also bombed the final nonspell, since I didn't see the reason to risk losing a life (or having to use a deathbomb) when one of Yuyuko's bombs makes you invulnerable for the majority of the attack.

Had to pause somewhere in the middle of this run, since my poor blood pressure had my hands freezing, and I spent a few minutes to warm them up. I think it was after Honest man's death.

1.8B certainly doesn't seem too awful, maybe even 1.9B if I bother to learn the proper grazing techniques. 2B on a youkai solo would be a nice number, but I'll leave that for someone else, most likely.

-

It's a bit of a  crude welcome back to IN, I guess (I wanted to make a post with a WR or something after not posting on this scoreboard for a while, but then I wanted to play Extra and submitted the run for the sake of typing a few words), but it'll have to do.

I don't know how I'll write the few forthcoming scoreboard posts of mine, considering that this forum now has a thread for the sole purpose of self-reflection. I think I'll keep at least writing my posts here, at least the ones with a run commentary. The blogs I write after scores sometimes (including this one) would probably be more suitable to the other thread, but I don't like making two posts instead of one, especially not when the contents are of one post. Anyhow, I doubt there'll be much trouble, whichever way I decide to choose. Whoever moderates these and possibly finds my posts irking can voice themselves, and I'll oblige them once that happens.

For now, I'll keep up with this.

-

I'll try to play some Easy, or more Extra next time. Nobody knows.

[ark]

Update checkpoint.

[vctrz]

Lunatic - Scarlet Team
vcz - 5,078,788,840 - Cb - 0.000% - Replay
vcz - 5,246,789,820 - Cb - 0.000% - Replay

I won't choke next time. I hope.

[cactu]

Awesome scores, vcz!

[Sapz]

Update checkpoint.

[Seppo Hovi]

IN is falling lower and lower on the list of scoreboards. No love.

-

Extra - Youmu
Seppo Hovi - 2,404,710,280 - C - 0.433% - Replay

Someone got me interested in throwing it a few credits, and I ended up playing a bit of Extra on Youmu this weekend. I didn't bother relearning anything and played a really half-assed safety performance, probably netting in less value than most of the NMNB runs out there, people just don't know how to PoC. Not that I do.

Had a better run during which I did more scoring, but it ended in a rather dumb way with me colliding to Mokou after her seventh spell.

-

Extra - Border Team
Seppo Hovi - 2,270,069,000 - C - 0.153% - Replay

Lots of 0's in the score. Even the numbers are mocking me, rather fittingly.

It felt like I had something left undone, so I went and did a few Border Team runs. Can't say much good things about this one either, I seem to fail Mokou's first spell almost every time I get to her without (major) mistakes in the stage portion as my route goes. I got a bit greedy with IS and didn't have enough time to move into more favorable position on the screen, resulting in my eventual failing of that card. No neat grazing, as usual. I don't remember how bad the cancels were (probably very), and I'm not going back to check.

Scarlet Team and Alice solo would remain for Extra. I - technically - could do a run for Scarlet Team every now and then until I get it, but the Alice solo one would require actual practice and grinding the spells, which I'm not going to do anymore with these games, most likely.

It's not very wise, or courteous, but I'm probably just leaving this thing unfinished as well, throwing it into the box of forgotten goals with all the other things. I'd delete this account, but I could still sometimes do a run or two on the weekly challenges, and update a few scores, so I'm leaving it here for now. Until the eventual change of heart and severing ties for good.

[Sakurei]

Extra - Youmu
Sakurei - 2.408.274.360 - C - 0.000% - replay

That was pretty funny. It's not a particularly good run. dumb mistakes everwhere, 2 of which were big ones - like dying on a spell despite having a bomb. 10/10 material. I have the capabilities for 2.5b, maybe 2.6b.

posting here to force me improve it. my stage route sucks.

[Seppo Hovi]

Ah, I get to make a new post. It feels uncanny, considering the update should be right around the corner. - I could just as well wait for it to pass and post then. But I'm as impatient as your average person, so there's no use resisting the urge to just post anyway.

-

Extra - Scarlet Team
Seppo Hovi - 2,317,294,980 - C - 0.158% - Replay

This took me a few days of playing over the past few weeks. I was planning to just keep at the game after the Border Team score earlier and hopefully get a score for the remaining two swiftly, but then for a few different reasons I ended up not playing at all for a short time. It was somewhere last week, where I loaded up the game again and started relearning the route for things. - Shortly the pieces started falling to their places and I ended up reaching the target score this evening.

-

When I originally started this little project with the Extra stage, I had hoped to leave this one for the last, and that I'd get to rest after it. However, it turns out that there now are both Alice and Youmu I should pay attention to. The other one is rather low, but the Alice one worries me, mostly due to the flawless survival. - I'd want to expend a bomb or two and not worry of IS, especially on a shot that has slightly faster-than-average focused speed.

After reading the controversy regarding the player that score is set by on the another board, I re-watched the Alice run and came to the interpretation that it is most likely a TAS. There's no way I could be sure, or prove it in the first place, especially when the player is long gone unheard of and I cannot ask them to stream the game. - Which is why I think it should be left there as it is, considering that it serves as such a great reminder of another failure for me. (i.e. my opinions could very well be - and most likely unconsciously are - biased)

-

I feel tired. So very tired. This game, people, targets and journeys all. The enthusiasm is gone, only thing there is left for me seems to be woe.

Ah, but I'd rather not end another post in such a moody sense. Let's say I've quit in a good sense, stopped doing anything that feels painful and now play casually every now and then.

[chirpy13]

Easy - Marisa
Chirpy13 - 2,327,176,260 - Cb - 0.035% - Replay (no focus)

Posted it in that other thread already, so I may as well migrate it here.  Missed two last spells and died on Keine.  Couple safety bombs on Reimu because her nons scare the shit out of me with solo humans.  I may have milked a couple things I shouldn't have, I don't really know routes for this game that well.  Could have been close to 2.5b with no mistakes I think?  I won't stress over that though.  It could have been a lot worse.  I'm not sure when I'll get back to this if at all, but I think I'll need to watch replays at some point if I want to get much more than 2.5-2.6.

[Seppo Hovi]

Extra - Youmu
Seppo Hovi - 2,428,473,650 - C - 0.125% - Replay

Run highlight: Start of Hourai Doll. Three failed spells, dropped all items at Volcano by ending it too early for no item drop. 2.5B would be somewhat easy, but I probably won't bother.

-

Watched pnd stream some PCB earlier, maybe I'll play it.

[Sakurei]

Extra - Youmu
Sakurei - 2,657,661,270 - C - 0.200% - Replay Screenshot

250 million improvement! feeling pretty good about the run. as usual minor mistakes, but as far as my route is concerned no major mistakes either. I knew I was capable of 2.6b. now off to long hours of practice to learn the grazes that remain.

[Sapz]

Update checkpoint.

[Choco Beam]

Normal - Reimu
Nal Yoo - 3,060,850,640  - Cb - 0.3% - Replay

Godawful stage 6. I haven't touched this game in 10 years so I just use that as an excuse. 3.6B might be possible if I grind this though that won't likely happen, but who knows? Haven't watched the WR run so I'm sticking to my route for now. It might be similar anyway, maybe.

[CyberAngel]

Normal - Yukari
CyberAngel - 1,650,717,860 - Cb - 0.333% - Replay

Me? Third place score? Just by playing for survival good enough? I already like this game's scoring system.

[Karisa]

Just so you know, solo youkai aren't that popular. That'd probably explain the 3rd place.

Not trying to discourage you or anything though-- if you feel like learning IN's scoring system, please go ahead. I feel like there aren't many people around here who are interested in learning the scoring systems anymore, mostly just the players who have already been scoring for a while. So it's nice to see some interest for a change.

Normal - Yukari
Karisa - 1,863,594,280 - Cb - 0.000% - Replay

I decided to try this category out of curiosity since I was thinking about it, despite a lack of interest in using solo youkai-- here's what I got without really knowing how to use solo Yukari, and with a disastrous Kaguya (seriously, six failed spells).

[Noobzor]

Normal - Scarlet Team
Noobzor - 2,403,184,590 - Cb - 0.040% - Replay

Also got 6 spells failed on stage 6. I even failed Kaguya's penultimate spellcard after successfully getting out of the safespot.

[CyberAngel]

Normal - Remilia
CyberAngel - 1,488,623,680 - Cb - 0.411% - Replay

Could've been better, even coming from me. Still, Remi solo needs some love. She's such a fun shottype, not held back by nerfed Sakuya and all. Seriously, though, she is a bit unique when solo compared to when being in a team - her familiars take a short while to get back to her when unfocusing, allowing for some placing shenanigans I found pretty useful on occasion.

[CyberAngel]

It's been a long time, and the occasion is special, so time to bump this.

Easy - Yuyuko
CyberAngel - 1,328,330,730 - Cb - 0.387% - Replay (no miss/no bomb)

So this is how far you can get with just playing for survival nicely. Not bad.

EDIT:

Normal - Yuyuko
CyberAngel - 1,314,046,500 - Cb - 0.396% - Replay

Horrible mistakes in stage 5, but the run is not half bad otherwise. Oh well. Yuyu's scoreboard needs some competition, and this is a good enough start.

[CyberAngel]

Long time no scores! Nothing too impressive lately, but...

Hard - Marisa
CyberAngel - 1,461,753,290 - 6b - 0.499% - Replay

:getdown: And here I was about to rant how she's not as good as I expected after I had a narrow clear that I had to retry to get on Normal.