Author Topic: May(/June?) 2015 Touhou Challenges (Read 8122 times)

Karisa · « **on:** April 01, 2015, 12:35:52 AM »

Substituting for Shimatora's Challenges. I'm keeping the same format for consistency: scoring, survival, and a quick single-spellcard challenge.

1st place on any category of the scoring or survival challenge will give you a monthly badge as usual, and the results will contribute to Shimatora's leaderboard.

Deadline: June 30 at 23:59:59 UTC
Oh, and here's a countdown timer.

Enjoy!

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Scoring Challenge

Score as high as you can in Undefined Fantastic Object with the stages in reverse order! All difficulties allowed, except Extra.

Challenge name - Difficulty
Name - Score - Stage - Shot type - Slowdown - Replay

Rankings:
Easy

Normal

Hard

Lunatic

Quick Challenge

Score as high as you can in any Last Word in Imperishable Night, except survival spells! (Total score, not spell bonus.)

Challenge name
Name - Score - Spell # - Shot type - Slowdown - Replay

Rankings:
Mr Jovial - 113,143,460 - Spell #217 - Yuyuko Solo - 0.000% - Replay
Nal Yoo - 99,253,130 - Spell #207 - Scarlet Team - 0.000% - Replay

Survival Challenge

Survive for as long as you can in Great Fairy Wars route C1 or Extra without dying! If you die, immediately pause the game and save a replay. All difficulties allowed.

Ranked by pattern reached-- for example, a run that reaches the stage 2 boss 2nd nonspell would rank ahead of a run that reaches a stage 2 boss 1st spell. Stage portion halves are considered to each be a single phase, for simplicity. Clears are ranked by score.

Challenge name - Difficulty
Name - Score - Stage & pattern - Slowdown - Replay

Rankings:
Easy

Normal

Hard

Lunatic

Extra
Agent17 - 8.647.280 - Extra Boss 3rd Spell - 0.040% -Replay

LoLK Challenge (added May 29)

Score as high as you can in the Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom trial version using Sanae! All difficulties allowed.

Challenge name - Difficulty
Name - Score - Stage - Slowdown - Replay

Rankings:
Easy
Emerald - 286,231,360 - Trial-C - 0.0% - Replay

Normal
Emerald - 329,376,370 - Trial-C - 0.1% - Replay

Hard
Emerald - 193,663,200 - 3 - 0.1% - Replay

Lunatic
Emerald - 178,216,750 - 3 - 0.0% - Replay

Mino ☆ · « **Reply #1 on:** April 01, 2015, 10:42:01 PM »

Scoring - Lunatic
Mino - 1,104,512,640 - C - ReimuA - 0.0% - Replay

Well if DDC is in the picture, you know I have to participate. :3

Actually, all three challenges sound promising. I did some messing around with LLS on stream earlier, but the rust was real, so I didn't clear any runs.

Anyway, as for this run, it's just a starting point that I'll get back to later. It actually had a bunch of promise going into Benben but as soon as I failed Benben's final spell, everything started going haywire. I missed almost all the 2.0s in stage 5, even failed two stage 5 spells, and ended up not getting many stage 6 2.0s. Failing Sukuna's final spell was the nail on the coffin.

The run had 1.25bil potential though, so I hope I can reach that by the deadline of the challenge.

I'll probably attempt to do things on Hard mode as well, and maybe Extra. We'll see.

KirbyComment · « **Reply #2 on:** April 04, 2015, 08:21:50 PM »

Quick Challenge - Spell #93
KirbyComment - 16,020 - Reimu - 0.0% - Replay

Don't quite know if there's a difference between getting a high Point Item Value and capturing the spell while staying close to the boss, but I just gave it a shot.

Survival Challenge - Normal
KirbyComment - 55,423,580 - C (7) - MarisaB - 0.62% - Replay

This is what happens if I haven't played Normal for an eternity and I can't spam my lovely bombs, my face gets destroyed :V.
Might want to redo this...

Mero · « **Reply #3 on:** April 04, 2015, 11:53:19 PM »

Quick Challenge
Sp. 93
Mero - 17,170 - Reimu - 0.3% - Replay
I think Marisa is better at getting spirits from shotgunning Miko, but Reimu fits on better graze spots.

Sp.118
Mero - 22,760 - Youmu - 0.3% - Replay
Didn't know what to do on the last phase, mostly a placeholder in case I feel like going back to it

Emerald Mint · « **Reply #4 on:** April 05, 2015, 05:52:14 PM »

Survival Challenge - Easy
Emerald - 30,867,650 - C (0) - ReimuA - 0.03% - Screenshot Replay

Survival Challenge - Normal
Emerald - 51,717,100 - C (3) - ReimuA - 0.05% - Screenshot Replay

Besides a costly miss on S6, this was alright.

KirbyComment · « **Reply #5 on:** April 06, 2015, 11:15:27 PM »

Survival Challenge - Normal
KirbyComment - 57,780,930 - C (3) - MarisaB - 0.61% - Replay

This looks more like it :3

Survival Challenge - Extra
KirbyComment - 59,874,720 - C (1) - MarisaB - 0.54% - Replay

Survival Challenge - Hard
KirbyComment - 64,275,060 - C [8] - MarisaB - 1.60% - Replay

Quick Challenge - Spell #93
KirbyComment - 17,020 - Reimu - 0.15% - Replay

Mino ☆ · « **Reply #6 on:** April 08, 2015, 07:07:22 PM »

Survival - Lunatic
Mino - 43,010,620 - C (10) - MarisaA - 0.02% - Screenshot

No video because I can't record Pc-98 fullscreen and it lags when I play windowed (so I'm effectively handicapped and can't dodge).

This run had max misses, so I may go back to improve it. If I do I'll try and find a solution so I can have a video of it.

Familiar Stranger · « **Reply #7 on:** April 23, 2015, 06:40:41 AM »

Scoring-Easy
SAKUYAE-396642550-C-SakuyaA- 0.220%-REPLAY

A lot misses and it's easy mode, but at least I cleared it! :V

KirbyComment · « **Reply #8 on:** April 25, 2015, 10:25:50 PM »

Scoring Challenge - Easy
KirbyComment - 671,909,490 - C - ReimuA - 0.250% - Replay

Pretty bad, but I just felt like doing a score run of a game I don't really run (yet) :3

Zil · « **Reply #9 on:** April 26, 2015, 10:46:26 AM »

Quick - 93
Zil - 17,620 - Medusa - 0.07% - replay

I expect one of you clowns to beat this!

Agent17 · « **Reply #10 on:** April 26, 2015, 07:20:40 PM »

Scoring Challenge - Easy
Agent17 - 459,723,070 - C - MarisaA - 0.120% - Replay

I did better (a little bit more than 470,000,000) with Sakuya but it was a B Shot Type...

Familiar Stranger · « **Reply #11 on:** April 26, 2015, 11:06:07 PM »

Scoring-Easy
SAKUYAE-480984450-C-SakuyaA- 1.400%-REPLAY

I did some practice since last run and I did better!

. Perhaps it's time to try to clear normal

Emerald Mint · « **Reply #12 on:** April 27, 2015, 06:11:44 AM »

Scoring Challenge - Extra
Emerald - 545,505,420 - C - ReimuA- 0.100% - Replay

Aeteas · « **Reply #13 on:** April 27, 2015, 09:51:14 PM »

Scoring Challenge - Easy
Aeteas - 716,600,260 - C - ReimuA - 0.000% - Replay

I should probably improve this.

SomeGuy712x · « **Reply #14 on:** April 30, 2015, 11:25:35 PM »

Scoring Challenge - Easy
SomeGuy712x - 624,094,190 - C - SakuyaA - 0.0% - Replay

Scoring Challenge - Normal
SomeGuy712x - 645,748,590 - C - SakuyaA - 0.0% - Replay

Scoring Challenge - Hard
SomeGuy712x - 497,875,250 - C - SakuyaA - 0.0% - Replay

Scoring Challenge - Extra
SomeGuy712x - 564,280,820 - C - SakuyaA - 0.0% - Replay

Quick Challenge - 93
SomeGuy712x - 17,640 - Youmu - 0.000% - Replay

Quick Challenge - 118
SomeGuy712x - 24,060 - Marisa - 0.000% - Replay

LOL at the end of my Quick Challenge runs. Good thing capturing the spell isn't necessary!

Karisa · « **Reply #15 on:** May 01, 2015, 03:59:21 AM »

OK, round over.

I guess it'll be up to me to post another round too-- I'll need to think about it for a little while.

Edit: Actually, perhaps it'd be better to wait for the Touhou 15 demo, then make a round for that when it's available-- any thoughts? Or should that be saved for next month when we've had a chance to evaluate the shot types and gameplay mechanics?

SomeGuy712x · « **Reply #16 on:** May 01, 2015, 05:46:06 PM »

We should probably save TH15 demo challenges until next month (you spelled "month" wrong as "momth", BTW). This way, we'll have had a decent chance to check out the shot types and other gimmicks the game uses.

Ranko Hoshino · « **Reply #17 on:** May 02, 2015, 01:53:43 AM »

Perhaps something related to TD Overdrive could be done?

Karisa · « **Reply #18 on:** May 06, 2015, 06:05:25 PM »

New round posted. Sorry about the delay-- last few weeks of the semester, you know?

Edit: Also, the score/survival badges have been given out.

Quote from: Ranko Hoshino on May 02, 2015, 01:53:43 AM

Perhaps something related to TD Overdrive could be done?

I assume you mean the main-game hacked difficulty setting? The problem is that I'm not sure how to make it an interesting challenge-- for survival it's a combination between Easy and Lunatic/Overdrive with fewer spell cards, and for score it'd likely be the usual TD bombing with less strategy (since blue spirits won't add to point item value).

Choco Beam · « **Reply #19 on:** May 09, 2015, 03:07:32 AM »

Quick Challenge
Nal Yoo - 99,253,130 - Spell #207 - Scarlet Team - 0.000% - Replay

That's all the luckshit I can handle right now.

Mr Jovial · « **Reply #20 on:** May 22, 2015, 01:48:19 PM »

Quick Challenge
Mr Jovial - 113,143,460 - Spell #217 - Yuyuko Solo - 0.000% - Replay

Probably not completely efficient but oh well. Yuyuko solo because I dunno how to use Remilia properly :smokedcheese:

Agent17 · « **Reply #21 on:** May 22, 2015, 03:31:22 PM »

Survival Challenge - Extra
Agent17 - 8.647.280 - Extra Boss 3rd Spell - 0.040% -Replay

I always had trouble with "Test Slave" >_<
I'll try it again when I have more motivation.

Karisa · « **Reply #22 on:** May 29, 2015, 11:02:23 PM »

I'll be away until June 7, so there might not be a June round (if there is one, it won't be until after I return at the very least). I'm still able to check MotK on my phone, but it's not practical for me to add scores or type up a new round that way.

Since this round didn't get much participation due to the LoLK demo release, I'm extending the deadline until next month. I've also added one new category for the LoLK demo itself.

If anyone else would like to run a challenge thread of your own (and you're prepared to keep it updated with entries), go ahead. It could be a similar or different format.

Emerald Mint · « **Reply #23 on:** June 24, 2015, 06:24:44 PM »

LoLK Challenge - Normal
Emerald - 329,376,370 - Trial-C - 0.1% - Replay

Emerald Mint · « **Reply #24 on:** June 27, 2015, 07:32:01 AM »

LoLK Challenge - Hard
Emerald - 193,663,200 - 3 - 0.1% - Replay

Emerald Mint · « **Reply #25 on:** June 28, 2015, 09:03:45 AM »

LoLK Challenge - Easy
Emerald - 286,231,360 - Trial-C - 0.0% - Replay

LoLK Challenge - Lunatic
Emerald - 178,216,750 - 3 - 0.0% - Replay

SomeGuy712x · « **Reply #26 on:** July 01, 2015, 05:20:54 PM »

D'oh. I meant to post these yesterday, but then I got distracted by stuff. Well, since the July challenges haven't been posted yet, I'll post these now anyway:

Quick Challenge
SomeGuy712x - 115,589,480 - #217 - Youmu & Yuyuko - 0.862% - Replay

Survival Challenge - Easy
SomeGuy712x - 21,806,140 - C - 0.010% - Replay