HRtP Lunatic No-Bombs Clear (Makai Route)
I first did this in January, but Donut wouldn't believe me (well, I DID have slowdown without realising it, though it doesn't really make the game any easier), and couldn't figure out how to record PC-98 games.
Now that I have a new laptop and 100 Gb of space to waste, here are the videos of my run, with some commentary in the descriptions. I seriously need to find a better audio recorder than Windows Sound Recorder (any idea?).
Part 1 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJs5yehMlzQPart 2 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReK3IcKEou8Part 3 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHY5Y8MXH1MOne of Sariel's attacks caused huge slowdown during the run. But usually, if the game lags, it'll catch up by running at 300 FPS for 2-3 seconds, while here it just slowed down, so I don't know if it's possible to get rid of it.
I hope this will make people STFU about the difficulty of HRtP.
In terms of practice needed, HRtP Lunatic is BY FAR the easiest Lunatic. And HRtP Easy is BY FAR the hardest easy, as some bosses' attacks are identical in both difficulties (especially the complete bullshit ones like Sariel's lasers and half of Elis' attacks).
It's also harder to gain lives because the cards' value in a chain doesn't raise as fast, giving less extra lives, and less lives to waste to lower the bullets' speed.