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Title: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sapz on April 22, 2011, 05:11:46 PM
Previous thread (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,7358.0.html).

Feel free to share stories of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory here. :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on April 22, 2011, 06:23:27 PM
Damnit Kogasa stop killing me with your first spell card.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on April 22, 2011, 08:47:16 PM
Why does Stage 5 of SA have such a difficult boss fight? ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: tempest590 on April 22, 2011, 11:54:15 PM
why can't I even GET to the stage 5 boss fight on SA? The random spam after the midboss kills me cold.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on April 23, 2011, 10:23:20 AM
Why does Stage 5 of SA have such a difficult boss fight? ;_;

Likely because its Stage 5.  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on April 23, 2011, 05:38:28 PM
ND1B Lunatic Kaguya 4/5 Last Spells Captured

The bomb was getting hit on her final nonspell and deathbombing it. Failed Rising World obviously but at least got to the final part of it.  :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on April 23, 2011, 07:10:53 PM
Perfected Eirin on Easy, Normal, and Hard!
... in Stage practice.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: touhoumaniac on April 23, 2011, 07:42:37 PM
PoFV easy mode final stage with shiki, no lives lost, full hp, 77mil score and Reimu was about to die. 10 seconds later managed to lose all my hp and 1 life. It would have been the best easy score ever considering previous best score reached 70mil score at the moment reimu died... :o
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Marisa Kirisame on April 23, 2011, 08:05:01 PM
Came very close to doing a 1cc of  IN on normal, but...


Kaguya killed me during her final spell with about a 10th of her health left.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on April 24, 2011, 06:30:03 AM
Sleepy Touhou. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=13451)  All of those deaths were a "What, there was a bullet there?" except for the death on UFO grab, where it was "What, there was an enemy there?"

*stumbles off to bed*

EDIT: I lied, I had to upload it first. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBaczWr1aec)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jes_Isaive on April 24, 2011, 07:35:49 PM
Game Complete: 99.87%
 :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on April 24, 2011, 08:52:26 PM
So close to capping Yuyuko's last spell card in PCB hard. On the second to last wave, I get clipped by a bubble bullet. Darn it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on April 25, 2011, 02:03:09 AM
I dislike Flying Fantastica a lot ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on April 25, 2011, 05:01:09 AM
So close to capping Yuyuko's last spell card in PCB hard. On the second to last wave, I get clipped by a bubble bullet. Darn it.
I did it again. ;_;
00 on the timer too. Died from red bubble bullet. Why? WHY? (this game is mean)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on April 26, 2011, 01:33:09 AM
I can't capture Deep Mist Labyrinth. The other two, I can do fine but Satori always crashes into me.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: J.O.B on April 26, 2011, 01:57:34 AM
I came so close to caping VoWG despite not even being able to get up to it normally(score.dat downloading ftw!).
I died as Kanako had 2 seconds of health left. :(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on April 27, 2011, 08:41:00 PM
God died at stage 2 on UFO, impossible -.-....Hard mode blind run, haven't played touhou 12 in some time, only normal mode and other touhou games, so hard balancing which one to be specialised in. Normal mode is fine, can do hard on some Touhou games, but this is just annoying -.- not paying attention well not trying.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Phlegeth on April 29, 2011, 05:43:17 AM
Yamazabbadu needs to sentence herself to hell for cheating so hard.
So there were her black holey swirly thingies everywhere trying to poke me.  And one of them did and I dinged and was pushed into a corner.  The second I regain control and snap out of invincibility fairies enter through that corner.  I was killed by a common low level fairy.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sality on April 29, 2011, 05:55:55 AM
Game Complete: 99.87%
 :colonveeplusalpha:

I can relate to this.
Just playing MoF on normal difficulty myself, and I got beaten by Kanyanko's last spellcard.

Why I cannot finish any Touhou games since Touhou 10 !!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcorann on April 29, 2011, 08:32:56 AM
So I decide to do some TD runs for the tournament, and I end up with a 63.8M run on Normal, considerably better than my last best.

Then I look at the slowdown: 6.6%, so I can't submit. That'll teach me to play with lots of stuff in the background.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on April 29, 2011, 11:20:17 PM
Kanyanko
/me cats spontaneously explode

Damnit Ex Lily-Daiyousei stop with that second nonspell it's too random
/me bombs a second time
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: DarkslimeZ on April 30, 2011, 12:03:06 AM
End of last spellcard of TD Trial on Lunatic, first time ever, bomb, game crashes, rage, etc
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on April 30, 2011, 12:37:31 AM
Game over Byakuren's second nonspell. Died twice to Sinkable Vortex with the second one thinking I could make a certain dodge. I didn't. Also died with a bomb in stock on Shou's final nonspell on a dodge I really should have gotten right. Died and bombed Walls of Justice.

With the 3 bombs I did die with, I could have at least gotten to Byakuren's third card, maybe final nonspell or Devil's Recitation. Still not enough resources to 1cc with for me unless I somehow capped her final 3 cards on Lunatic without ever having gone against them, which would be highly unlikely..
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on April 30, 2011, 12:33:17 PM
YUYUCOW Y U DO DIS (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=13528)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on April 30, 2011, 03:09:22 PM
Game over on Byakuren's third nonspell.

Fails in the run include

Dying to stage 4 midboss Nue
Dying to Sinkable Vortex with a bomb in stock
Dying to Shou's first nonspell in the way I did, but I would have died to RTG anyway.
Dying to walls of justice, again.
Dying to Shou's final nonspell with 2 bombs in stock while using the safespot.

Those extra resources could have easily gotten me to Superhuman or LFO.

But I still don't feel close to doing this yet.


Also, is the replay uploader for UFO on Gensokyo.org screwing up for anyone else. I tried uploading some of my recent runs, but it shows up on the thing as Practice Stage 4 instead of a normal run. Then whenever I downloaded the replay to check I was getting some random hard run and not my Lunatic run.


Edit: game over on Byakuren's final nonspell. Died with 2 bombs in stock on walls of justice. Still not really close as there's still some BS attacks in the game, so I have to not screw up the ones that aren't BS.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on April 30, 2011, 08:36:45 PM
Obligatory "You can do it" post.

Hell. At least you are putting in some effort at pulling it off.  :V
And can't you just memorize Nue in Stage 4? It must really suck to lose a life there. That's like equivalent of losing two lives because you don't get a 1-up.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on April 30, 2011, 09:00:45 PM
At least your at stage 6 that's worth somthin'  Im still in practice mode grinding out stages 2-4.   :derp:  anyways SanaeA + UFO Extra=pain for me.  but this is prob cuz i tried getting two extra lives while not losing any for like a half hour.  fff and i had some decent runs too... I was like i want moar lives even tho i dont need them orz
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Marisa Kirisame on May 01, 2011, 02:10:10 AM
Came very close to doing a 1cc of  IN on normal, but...


Kaguya killed me during her final spell with about a 10th of her health left.

I Finally beat her today and the Fujiwara no Mokou fight. I played and am now regretting doing so. (I will beat her somehow....)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sality on May 01, 2011, 02:39:50 PM
/me cats spontaneously explode
  (http://img293.imagevenue.com/loc474/th_260474474_SoMuchWin1_122_474lo.jpg) (http://img293.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=260474474_SoMuchWin1_122_474lo.jpg)
     
Parsee, stop being so jealous and don't force me to use bombs !!
* use bomb
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on May 01, 2011, 03:00:15 PM
Oh man, getting through the last phase of Vague Recollection of Kinkaku-ji is such a chore...

e: Playing Double Spoiler anywhere past level 5 will completely wreck my sanity; it took me 107 tries to clear 9-8. <_<
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 01, 2011, 04:39:26 PM
I am sick of having to restart on stages 1-3 on UFO. The stage 1 is all my fault, but there's so much that can go wrong in those others.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on May 01, 2011, 04:49:32 PM
Stop restarting.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 01, 2011, 04:58:57 PM
I could do that, but I don't see a point in playing a run that is pretty much hopeless.

I know some of you follow what some superplayer that I don't remember said about not throwing away runs when you're losing, but I refuse to follow it. I'm more a follower of what YoS.K does whenever he plays. (If you haven't seen the account on Ustream, it's pretty much restarting when something goes wrong early in)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on May 01, 2011, 05:09:07 PM
I'm more a follower of what YoS.K does whenever he plays. (If you haven't seen the account on Ustream, it's pretty much restarting when something goes wrong early in)

Habitually restarting when something goes wrong only works if you're already grossly consistant at the game anyway. If you're not insanely good at the game, restarting because you screwed up early in the run will greatly increase the amount of time it takes for you to get better at it, which invites frustration and even more inconsistant playing. Don't do it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 01, 2011, 05:15:25 PM
Even still, dying on Stage 1 is completely unacceptable and I will always restart when that happens. Stage 2 and 3 it has to go really bad before I actually restart.

If this was an arcade game, I could see a point in continuing to play anyway for practice, but there's stage practice. I'd rather do my practicing there, not during actual runs.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 01, 2011, 08:27:08 PM
I know some of you follow what some superplayer that I don't remember said about not throwing away runs when you're losing

HFD? The DOJ dude? Well you might really want to listen to some of that advice. Last time I tried a full run of UFO Lunatic I had two lives left at the end of Stage 3 and still got to Shou's final non-spell or somewhere like that even though I lost a shit ton of lives during Stage 2 and 3.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 02, 2011, 02:26:55 AM
Radiant Treasure Gun game over.

5 deaths on stage 3, 3 deaths on stage 4. Had 2 bombs in stock on game over, 2 bombs in stock on 2 deaths on Ichirin, 1 bomb in stock on another death on Ichirin.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Iliq on May 02, 2011, 11:05:15 AM
So my last minute TD run for the tournament went pretty well up to Kyouko.

Then I died on her last spell.
Then I died at the beginning of stage 3.
Then game over because a spirit spawned on me.

 >:(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 02, 2011, 11:11:45 AM
Had a game over on LFS Lunatic by backing into something I already dodged. Still 0/0 and having not captured it made it unlikely.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GenericTouhouFailure on May 02, 2011, 11:58:45 AM
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Lunatic 1cc denied.
I'm fucking pissed at the two derpdeaths on stage two and the derp on stage 4.
Goddammit game. Let me 1cc something before my exams start.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on May 02, 2011, 02:15:11 PM
Lunatic 1cc denied.
I'm fucking pissed at the two derpdeaths on stage two and the derp on stage 4.
Goddammit game. Let me 1cc something before my exams start.
So what happened to "nonexistant skills"?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 02, 2011, 07:26:21 PM
So taking a small break from raging at UFO, I went to time out some IN Spellcards.

Lunatic Omoikane Brain, 0 seconds left, failed timeout. Oh well, I'll just get it down to 0 again sometime and then not fail it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 03, 2011, 06:39:22 AM
Omoikane. Hate that sort of spell. Its not about reading the pattern but more about your own, and your keyboards, ability to microtap. Good job getting it that far. You should do Astronomical Entombing! >:D
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on May 03, 2011, 11:34:18 PM
Darn it! So close to getting a 1cc of UFO normal. Needed two seconds to win, but Reimu forgot how to bomb after she bombed. IDK why. I'm never gonna 1cc this game on anything above easy.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jes_Isaive on May 04, 2011, 12:22:31 AM
So I got to stage 4 on UFO with five lives.
Suddenly Murasa.
How does this even happen.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on May 04, 2011, 12:53:22 AM
So I got to stage 4 on UFO with five lives.
Suddenly Murasa.
How does this even happen.

Yeah, I'm kinda like that in UFO too. Hell, in order for me to 1cc it i have to pretty much not die ultil stage 5. and even then the room for error is very slim.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on May 04, 2011, 12:54:33 AM
This is not my day for scoring, dear God. How long is it gonna take to get that ideal TD Lunatic Reimu run I want?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Dark on May 04, 2011, 01:22:30 AM
jhfvgsjgshfgsjsjhfs Kaguya y u kill me on Fire Rat's Robe.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 04, 2011, 01:58:25 AM
Darn it! So close to getting a 1cc of UFO normal. Needed two seconds to win, but Reimu forgot how to bomb after she bombed. IDK why. I'm never gonna 1cc this game on anything above easy.
Don't give up!!  Practice Byakuren some, she's pretty tough.  We'll just say on my first 1cc I went in with 8 lives and came out with 1, but once you're used to her she's... reasonable.  Maybe work on your other problem areas to save resources too.

So I got to stage 4 on UFO with five lives.
Suddenly Murasa.
How does this even happen.
Stage 4 is a wall in most games, the difficulty just goes through the roof in comparison to the previous stages.  Just keep trying and you'll break through it :3.  SA and UFO both got me there, and then the 1cc was another wall after that.  IN Lunatic got me there too... And EoSD... And PCB... Yeah, pretty much all of them >_>.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on May 04, 2011, 04:17:06 AM
I went into Byakuren in that run with either 3 or 4 lives, and made it to her last spell with 1. (darn it last spell) On practice I'm worse, because I usually use up ALL of my lives, somehow. >_>
Don't ask how, I don't know. :ohdear:

But yeah, I've practiced her many times over, and she's a royal pain every time, mostly from that last spell card and curvy lasers. I can't read those!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 04, 2011, 12:31:43 PM
I went into Byakuren in that run with either 3 or 4 lives, and made it to her last spell with 1. (darn it last spell) On practice I'm worse, because I usually use up ALL of my lives, somehow. >_>
Don't ask how, I don't know. :ohdear:

But yeah, I've practiced her many times over, and she's a royal pain every time, mostly from that last spell card and curvy lasers. I can't read those!
Try sitting under Byakuren and dodging the lasers with just vertical movements.  The stars she shoots are aimed too, so no worries there either.  The first spell is pretty nasty for clipdeaths, so you might want to bomb that one, even though it's relatively easy.  Maybe bomb the fourth nonspell too once Byakuren gets close to the bottom too if you can't get used to circling.   Air scroll is annoying because bombs don't do much damage, and her last spell is tough, but that's to be expected.  Aside from that she shouldn't give you too much trouble though.  Definitely try to get used to capturing Devil's Recitation too.  You'll thank yourself when you go for Mystic Square Hard/Lunatic.

EDIT:  Speaking of UFO, UFO MarisaA no focus attempt, fail on Air Scroll.  Died 6 times on Shou.  4 of which were on the same card.  Take a guess which card.  Go on, guess. (http://i52.tinypic.com/116rj2d.jpg)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on May 04, 2011, 02:07:31 PM
MS Hard:

Before Yumeko: 10L/0B Full Dream Gauge.
After Yumeko: 6L/2B Zero Dream Gauge.

hahahaha y u do dis yumeko
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 04, 2011, 02:33:58 PM
Lunatic Shou 2DNB, Radiant Treasure Gun and Complete Clarification.

Edit: Lunatic LFS 0/0, again.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Reddyne on May 04, 2011, 03:37:58 PM
I think SoEW actually has a negative deathbomb period - not a time in which you have available to use a bomb to save yourself just after getting hit, but rather a bomb activation time in which you aren't invincible to bullets, even if you just used a bomb. The spawn points are cheap in a few instances, Reimu's hitbox feels a mile wide, no focus, and it just feels like the bosses have some jerk moves that you need to know are coming beforehand, and even then some of them feel cheap. The other games are such an improvement compared to it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 04, 2011, 03:45:52 PM
Game over Stage 6 midboss Nue. Died with 2 bombs in stock 5 seperate times in the run.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 04, 2011, 04:14:12 PM
No focus IN Hard, gameover at the last second of Hourai Jewel.  FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on May 04, 2011, 04:32:53 PM
Died during Kanako's 3rd non spell in hard mode-.-.... dammit need to practice, yet i can't *sigh* i hate you exams i hate you, why so early!? study > touhou for now
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on May 05, 2011, 02:02:56 AM
All my time spent toward scoring the TD demo got me wondering about something, and a bit of time trying out the PCB Stage 6 spam seemed to confirm it. I think my general dodging skills have taken a dip lately. Don't know how long I can get back to where I was before, though thank God that the semester is almost over.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on May 05, 2011, 05:47:43 AM
Ex-Marisa kicked my BUTT yesterday. I think I silver-medal'd 3 cards or something silly like that, even cards I consider auto-caps like Shoot the Little Moon went terribly. Only beat the stage because of the insane amount of resources GFW extra gives you.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 05, 2011, 03:20:26 PM
Died when I had 3 spare lives and 2 bombs when an enemy point blanked me while I was at the top of the screen trying to grab a green.

This caused me to end up at LFS 0/0 instead of 1/0. I would have captured it if I had decided to try to dodge to the right instead of trying to dodge up like I did. Instead I failed when she barely had any health left.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on May 06, 2011, 03:07:10 AM
Okay ive timed out kogasa last nonspell i should be able to get it in a real run now.
*dies to this nonspell in a real run*

.... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUU

YUDODIS KOGASA?
one of these days ill get it  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 06, 2011, 06:23:40 AM
Was doing a Normal SA run with ReimuA...Stage 4, I actually managed to safespot BoWaP without losing spell card bonus. After getting Satori down to a sliver of health, I decided to time out the card. At 01 second remaining, I fire to finish it off...and at the same time, I hear myself go pichuun~ without even moving :fail:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 06, 2011, 04:24:53 PM
Okay ive timed out kogasa last nonspell i should be able to get it in a real run now.
*dies to this nonspell in a real run*

.... FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUU

YUDODIS KOGASA?
one of these days ill get it  :V
That must have been surprising. :P
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on May 06, 2011, 04:47:18 PM
Was doing a Normal SA run with ReimuA...Stage 4, I actually managed to safespot BoWaP without losing spell card bonus. After getting Satori down to a sliver of health, I decided to time out the card. At 01 second remaining, I fire to finish it off...and at the same time, I hear myself go pichuun~ without even moving :fail:
I bet what happened was Satori leaned into you during her death animation. That happens to everyone at least once, so don't feel too bad.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: DgBarca on May 06, 2011, 05:13:09 PM
Why are Lunatic EoSD Stage 1 and 2 so annoying ?
Bullets that looks like power items, demarcation, scrap of paper suddenly hitting you, cirno opener ?
WHHHHHHHHHHY ?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on May 06, 2011, 09:47:45 PM
Why are Lunatic EoSD Stage 1 and 2 so annoying ?
Bullets that looks like power items, demarcation, scrap of paper suddenly hitting you, cirno opener ?
WHHHHHHHHHHY ?
I really hate that, when bullets get me confused with power-ups. Or an unfortunate one recently, the point item was perfectly on top of a bullet. Guess what happened?
Demarcation Lunatic isn't that hard. Give it a few tries and you'll get it.
Scraps of paper (or whatever they are, can't really tell) are made easier by using ReimuA because of homing shots. Though this is the weakest shot type so...
Cirno's opener also isn't terribly hard. I start off to one side of her, so the edge of my shots are hitting her, move the other way, and then the last two triangle bullet setup can be dealt with going through it, by making one slight tap of the arrow key.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 06, 2011, 11:07:30 PM
Of all the tries to capture LFS earlier, I didn't even get it to the red phase before screwing it up. Did get a 1.xx route for Magic Butterfly though.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 06, 2011, 11:35:51 PM
...is it just me or is Stygian Riverside easier than Prism Concerto? I have more captures on Stygian Riverside than on both Prism Concertos combined -_-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on May 07, 2011, 12:01:31 AM
Why is it that no matter what game(not including the fighters) , easy: Im a friggin master, yet the moment I touch normal, I derp-mode around stage 3? I mean really, the two difficulties arent much different from each other.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 07, 2011, 12:18:47 AM
Why is it that no matter what game(not including the fighters) , easy: Im a friggin master, yet the moment I touch normal, I derp-mode around stage 3? I mean really, the two difficulties arent much different from each other.

Start playing on Hard, instead.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on May 07, 2011, 03:09:47 AM
Ufo lunatic hates me guiz D: The scenario: im playing stage 5 like nobody's business trying to get it unlocked for practice.  but ufo was like lol nope and killed my laptops battery ;_; needless to say i lost my progress orz
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Kimchii on May 07, 2011, 03:15:05 AM
damn pcb stage 4
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on May 07, 2011, 05:25:50 PM
ReimuB MoF lunatic run... ended at stage 6. I guess I'm too spoiled by Marisa C.
Stage 5 and Sanae was a bomb spam fest as usual. Other stages were okay, but stupid derps in stage 3 makes me cringe.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ChanceWolf on May 07, 2011, 07:04:23 PM
Tried Imperishable Shooting without focus, because someone said I can't do it... then I've done it, and because I was so happy about it I mistook the Yes button to try the spellcard again for the button to save a replay...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on May 07, 2011, 09:20:27 PM
Random Ran fight, since it's been a while and I've been in a Touhou mood today. Made it to Kokkuri-san's Contract with a perfect.

Alright, this is it. The last ten seconds are what this all comes down to

I get tripped up and try to move thorugh an intersection of criss-crossing bullets.

HUBRIS! HUBRIS IS THE UNDOING OF ALL TOUHOU PLAYERS. :fail:

Then again I died on Izuna Gongen too so just as well.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on May 07, 2011, 09:42:20 PM
Tried Imperishable Shooting without focus, because someone said I can't do it... then I've done it, and because I was so happy about it I mostook the Yes button to try the spellcard again for the button to save a replay...

Ouch, that really sucks. Had something similiar happen to me once, though it was just a regular clear of Reimu's Last Word. Still, it annoyed me to no end since it had taken me so many tries to finally clear it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 08, 2011, 07:40:24 AM
Last life, Reimu B, Bounded Danmaku Field.

I was staring at the center, for some amount of time then realized I died when the arrowheads were being spawned
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on May 08, 2011, 07:59:52 AM
Last life, Reimu B, Danmaku Bounded Field.
Fixed that for ya.

And yeah, that spell can be mean sometimes. Even if it's completely static, it's still mean. :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: jc_foster on May 08, 2011, 02:24:23 PM
...is it just me or is Stygian Riverside easier than Prism Concerto? I have more captures on Stygian Riverside than on both Prism Concertos combined -_-

Nope, it's not just you. I remember my first time facing the Prismrivers on Hard, and when I got the blind capture of SR, I was thinking, "..... that's it?"

Of course, I then game-overed about 15 seconds into stage 5.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on May 08, 2011, 02:59:45 PM
I almost cleared PCB Phantasm.

Almost.

Danmaku Bounded Field then ensued.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 08, 2011, 06:56:18 PM
Fixed that for ya.

And yeah, that spell can be mean sometimes. Even if it's completely static, it's still mean. :V

Oops, that's what I get for posting at such a time :V

Well, it kinda was my fault for staring at Yukari instead of focusing on dodging. The first time I cleared Phantasm, I had to Bomb Spam it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on May 08, 2011, 09:29:49 PM
Oops, that's what I get for posting at such a time :V

Well, it kinda was my fault for staring at Yukari instead of focusing on dodging. The first time I cleared Phantasm, I had to Bomb Spam it.
Yeah, that's exactly what I did. The hardest wave IMO is the fourth. I know there is the safespot trick, but I've never been successful at pulling that off.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: triangles on May 08, 2011, 09:34:16 PM
10D demo crashes just when I'm about to 1cc
easy mode...
for the first time as Sanae.

My heart is broken  :fail:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on May 08, 2011, 09:35:27 PM
Aww, that must be tough. :( If it makes you feel any better, this crash is fairly common and is caused by defeating Yoshika's last spell card while she's eating spirits.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Silent Harmony on May 08, 2011, 09:50:30 PM
So yeah, by all means it's a 1cc, though not having proof of that does indeed suck. :(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 08, 2011, 09:56:30 PM
Just tried Phantasm again, perfected Yukari up to DBDB. Then died to a knife with 5 bombs intact.

Ran Yakumo: As Ran was spinning at the bottom, I decided to not move at all so I was fed a butterfly at point blank.

Entered Boundary of Humans and Youkai with 3 lives...entered Boundary of Life and Death with 1 remaining :colonveeplusalpha: Then after she fired the bubbles, I decided to run into a rice bullet.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on May 08, 2011, 11:05:45 PM
MoF Hard
Bullshit deaths
Awful play
Just f off.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on May 09, 2011, 02:20:24 AM
MoF Hard
Bullshit deaths
Awful play
Just f off.

Hey Aya, mind toning down those nonspells a bit?
Pretty please?
Pretty please with a newspaper on top?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 09, 2011, 02:41:07 AM
I hate UFO. I can't believe I lost 4 lives on Stage 3
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on May 09, 2011, 06:40:48 AM
Hey Aya, mind toning down those nonspells a bit?
Pretty please?
Pretty please with a newspaper on top?

It's not even her non-spells. It's the fact that I always seem to die to Terikuni Throughout the World despite it being one of the simplest patterns in the entire series and Storm Day loves giving me two easy waves followed by a freaking impossible one. Also I had had a drink so I was TUI (Touhou'ing Under the Influence) but hadn't drank to the point where I was a better player, only a worse one.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: RegalStar on May 09, 2011, 10:59:53 PM
I seemed to have forgotten how to do Water Elf  ??? Seriously, I used to have 90% capture rate on it (on Hard anyways), then one day it seems like I can't do it at all.

Also, is it just me or are amulets bigger in UFO than they are in, say, IN? Nue's non-spells seem surprisingly clippy for some reason.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jes_Isaive on May 09, 2011, 11:53:25 PM
I hate UFO. I can't believe I lost 4 lives on Stage 3

I can. I managed to lose 5 once.

Also goddamnit Shou screw you and your goddamn spinning green laser bullshit.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 10, 2011, 12:32:26 AM
If you're going for a first 1cc, you should be bombing Vajra if you have a bomb in stock. I autobombed it on my Lunatic one even though I had a chance of capturing it, I just didn't want to risk it. I went for the capture when I did my Hard run a while back and panic bombed after dodging something too. Lunatic, didn't want to risk ramming a bullet are getting slammed by the laser.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on May 10, 2011, 03:56:49 AM
Lunatic Stage 3 Midboss Ichirin

I can capture this spell!
*dies*
Well at least I wont have to...
*dies again*
well maybe ill get to
*DEATH*
THIS GAME IS RIDICULOUS.  DODGING SKILLS WHERE?  :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on May 10, 2011, 04:55:48 AM
Lunatic Stage 3 Midboss Ichirin

I can capture this spell!
*dies*
Well at least I wont have to...
*dies again*
well maybe ill get to
*DEATH*
THIS GAME IS RIDICULOUS.  DODGING SKILLS WHERE?  :colonveeplusalpha:
Hello me, but on normal. Just ragequited the game. SanaeB = no freakin power at all. She takes way too long to kill stuff. (I'm not playing Marisa yet because she doesn't like me)

And those many deaths for me are Murasa's last spell and Byakuren's last spell. I swear Murasa's last spell is just too slow on normal at the beginning. I can't get into any rhythm there at all. (bomb spam it)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on May 10, 2011, 05:02:35 AM
Hello me, but on normal. Just ragequited the game. SanaeB = no freakin power at all. She takes way too long to kill stuff. (I'm not playing Marisa yet because she doesn't like me)

And those many deaths for me are Murasa's last spell and Byakuren's last spell. I swear Murasa's last spell is just too slow on normal at the beginning. I can't get into any rhythm there at all. (bomb spam it)

Have you tried reimu-a?  A pretty good bomb along with a strong forward.  But you may have to relearn stages cuz you dont have a spread shot =/.  I remember sanae-b being awesome on normal though b/c it was so easy to gather ufos, but i dunno it's your choice after all.  also yeah i find both of those spells difficult on normal as well.  so uh hang in there im sure you'll get it eventually.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on May 10, 2011, 05:37:33 AM
Have you tried reimu-a?  A pretty good bomb along with a strong forward.  But you may have to relearn stages cuz you dont have a spread shot =/.  I remember sanae-b being awesome on normal though b/c it was so easy to gather ufos, but i dunno it's your choice after all.  also yeah i find both of those spells difficult on normal as well.  so uh hang in there im sure you'll get it eventually.
I have played as ReimuA. Just yesterday and the night before, I cleared UFO normal with both of them, and SanaeA. Haven't gotten the other three yet. My favorites in that game are probably ReimuA and SanaeA, as they are pretty powerful. I'm just sucking more with Sanae because I'm so very used to playing as Reimu in most of the games. (space PCB, I play Sakuya)

At least SanaeB trivializes Kogasa's first boss spell, where as most other shot types don't.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 10, 2011, 06:29:56 AM
Annoyed with how slow Reimu moves in PCB.  ReimuB is practially designed for easy 1CC behind SakuyaA (who can't bomb past the Prismrivers if shit hits the fan)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Paper Conan on May 10, 2011, 11:34:28 PM
Annoyed with how slow Reimu moves in PCB.  ReimuB is practially designed for easy 1CC behind SakuyaA (who can't bomb past the Prismrivers if shit hits the fan)

lol same here. That's the only thing keeping me from 1ccing Lunatic PCB

oh, btw, hai guiz i'm gonna leave this here because lol (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=13652).
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LOL SUPER FAIL AT FLANDRE. NOT ONLY DID I FAIL SO FUCKING BAD AT EASY CRANBERRY TRAP, HER SECOND CARD THINGY, AND THE BEGINNING OF ATTWBN, I EVEN CAPTURED MAZE OF LOVE, STARBOW BREAK, HER BOUNCY BUBBLE CARD THINGY, AND MAZE OF LOVE. :flandretrollface:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on May 11, 2011, 03:26:21 AM
I have played as ReimuA. Just yesterday and the night before, I cleared UFO normal with both of them, and SanaeA. Haven't gotten the other three yet. My favorites in that game are probably ReimuA and SanaeA, as they are pretty powerful. I'm just sucking more with Sanae because I'm so very used to playing as Reimu in most of the games. (space PCB, I play Sakuya)

At least SanaeB trivializes Kogasa's first boss spell, where as most other shot types don't.
oh i gotcha.  also try marisa-b i herd shes a pretty good shottype  :V You do know about the shotgun with sanae-b right?  Imma assume you do and with that good luck.  Now for my obligatory ufo rage of the day.  Why can't my skills in practice run translate over to when im doing a real run?  Stupid stage 3... then again that might be because i tried a ufo path that wasn't very good for me >.> Well i usually see improvement once i change up a thing or two so maybe ill actually have progress!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on May 11, 2011, 07:22:02 AM
Who do I have to sleep with to get a 2 billion score in IN extra?! Seriously, I've managed a playthroughs with 1 life lost and 10 captures, ALL captures but 2 lives lost and so on, but the highest I keep getting is 1.9. It's sooooooooooo annoying?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 11, 2011, 10:38:46 AM
Dammit, why the hell can't I dodge with Magic Team? The spells are easy enough, its the shottype! I swear it!
And Demon Binding Ring has got to be one of the most annoying things with that team. It takes forever because I get that little time under them.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 11, 2011, 03:26:37 PM
Tried some IN earlier. Was completely sucking at everything. Failed all sorts of grazing stuff, only had like 3 spare lives after Keine from all the screw ups. Proceeded to ragequit.

Tried some Byakuren and still haven't captured her last card.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 11, 2011, 04:54:08 PM
Dammit, why the hell can't I dodge with Magic Team? The spells are easy enough, its the shottype! I swear it!
And Demon Binding Ring has got to be one of the most annoying things with that team. It takes forever because I get that little time under them.

For me, it's Reimu's freaking nonspells.  Everything except Fantasy Seal -Spread- is fairly simple (or at least on Easy and Normal Modo), but I really struggle getting Alice to be able to stay underneath Reimu to handle the nonspells, which are way harder, IMO.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 11, 2011, 06:35:44 PM
For me, it's Reimu's freaking nonspells.  Everything except Fantasy Seal -Spread- is fairly simple (or at least on Easy and Normal Modo), but I really struggle getting Alice to be able to stay underneath Reimu to handle the nonspells, which are way harder, IMO.
My issue was getting a good stage, since it's hard to PoC with the waves those fairies with circling familiars on both sides... Especially the ones where there's 2 waves of them in a row.  I ended up just giving up without even submitting an easy score.  With Reimu's nonspells, just stalk her with Marisa and switch into Alice before yin-yang orbs hit you.  It's much easier than Marisa solo, where those orbs make her nonspells pretty much a bomb-through for me (even on easy D=).
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 11, 2011, 07:15:14 PM
The non-spells? Those are easy enough for me. Bullets may be a bit fast but the gaps are large so I don't get many deaths because I run into stuff.

And yeah Chirpy the stage is also the main source of my trouble. Its an outright embodiment of a situation that literally just screams "you can't cover both sides at once, border team can pick those next time" that the game is filled with.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 11, 2011, 10:25:02 PM
Guess who keeps messing up against Mokou's and her Hourai Doll with Border Team :c Also, if I didn't derp on Honest Man's Death, I could've had at least 7 Spell Card captures that run

Just watch, I'll clear IN Extra.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 11, 2011, 10:52:01 PM
How do you essentially perfect stage 1-3 and then wipe on the Prismriver sisters?
Also - I chose Lunasa because her nonspells are way easier (on easy)

In my defense, I was playing on the bus.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Paper Conan on May 12, 2011, 04:01:37 AM
Every single fucking bullet must've shot me atleast once today.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 12, 2011, 04:33:18 AM
And those many deaths for me are Murasa's last spell and Byakuren's last spell. I swear Murasa's last spell is just too slow on normal at the beginning. I can't get into any rhythm there at all. (bomb spam it)
Definitely run some stage 4 practice then.  Let her stalk you clockwise, let waves pass by you while they're still slow, and just keep moving between corners  The last 10 seconds of that card are where you should be having your troubles, since that's when she starts moving faster than you can run laps.  Byakuren's last spell... Well, I can understand that one >_>.  I've only captured it once myself *double checks* never myself.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on May 12, 2011, 04:56:12 AM
Grrr why does normal Byakuren's 4th nonspell have to be more difficult than Genetics of Subconscious?
Oh, and LFS normal capture rate... 0/40.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 12, 2011, 06:16:39 AM
I've only faced Byakuren on Easy, but, is that the one that moves around?  I hate it too.  I just bomb past it, because fuck that shit.

LFS looks easy, and it isn't super easy, but I hate how sometimes the colors of the bullets blends into the background.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on May 12, 2011, 06:03:39 PM
exams....must finish gaaaaah, fail touhou play at phantasm~ ah well...must wait about 2 weeks -.-....damn rust is invading my body!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Vyrien on May 12, 2011, 07:27:19 PM
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exams....must finish gaaaaah, fail touhou play at phantasm~ ah well...must wait about 2 weeks -.-....damn rust is invading my body!

Screw exams, Touhou is much more important! I dragged myself out of bed today even though I'm ill because I wanted to get past the Oni stage on double spoiler :V

Speaking of which, OH MY GOD Suika! Failed hard on Large speck in needle hell -_-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jes_Isaive on May 12, 2011, 08:43:58 PM
Screw exams, Touhou is much more important! I dragged myself out of bed today even though I'm ill because I wanted to get past the Oni stage on double spoiler :V

Speaking of which, OH MY GOD Suika! Failed hard on Large speck in needle hell -_-
Next stage says hi screw you.
Reason why I haven't gotten anywhere in it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on May 12, 2011, 08:57:26 PM
Marisa is too fat.

That is all.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Vyrien on May 12, 2011, 09:00:36 PM
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Next stage says hi screw you.
Reason why I haven't gotten anywhere in it.

Just started it after capturing Adamant helix and the curvy laser one.

NOOO SHOU! WHY?! Also why 7 photos?! *Instadeath*
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jes_Isaive on May 13, 2011, 12:00:19 AM
Just started it after capturing Adamant helix and the curvy laser one.

NOOO SHOU! WHY?! Also why 7 photos?! *Instadeath*
Goddamnit now I'm playing it.
Also, I was wrong about that stage screwing you over. It's 8-_ that does that.
Okuu :c
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 13, 2011, 12:08:33 AM
So I go for my MarisaB UFO Normal to have all characters right?  Not only am I completely unable to dodge, but I am completely unable to see the bullet that hit me.  And it didn't just happen once.  Nope, not twice either.  I think it was... seven times?  Plus all the deaths where I DID see the bullets and got hit anyway.  Last life lost to stage 6 Nue.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on May 13, 2011, 12:43:29 AM
Marisa is too fat.

That is all.

Marisa begs to differ. (http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t270/FoxFanatic1995/th021.jpg)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 13, 2011, 01:03:04 AM
The more I play Imperishable Night, the more I hate it :c
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 13, 2011, 02:20:37 AM
LYRICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!  LUNASAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Damn PCB Stage 4 being almost as hard as SA Stage 5.  And then having Youmu and her clusterfuck afterwards.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on May 13, 2011, 03:05:17 AM
Marisa begs to differ. (http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t270/FoxFanatic1995/th021.jpg)
No no no, go tighter. I could almost fit two Reimus through there. Oh wait, Marisa is already "almost two Reimus". Derp. :V

I kid, I kid. I just made that first comment since I'm not used to using her hitbox yet. Nothing that major. Though I believe I'm not the first one here to note and "criticize" the fact that characters have different hitbox sizes... (Donut, was it?)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Paper Conan on May 13, 2011, 03:09:45 AM
No no no, go tighter. I could almost fit two Reimus through there. Oh wait, Marisa is already "almost two Reimus". Derp. :V

I kid, I kid. I just made that first comment since I'm not used to using her hitbox yet. Nothing that major. Though I believe I'm not the first one here to note and "criticize" the fact that characters have different hitbox sizes... (Donut, was it?)
I don't know. I do know that I've called Marisa fat a while back.
(and PCB Reimu slow as hell)
BV
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 13, 2011, 03:24:22 AM
No no no, go tighter. I could almost fit two Reimus through there. Oh wait, Marisa is already "almost two Reimus". Derp. :V

I kid, I kid. I just made that first comment since I'm not used to using her hitbox yet. Nothing that major. Though I believe I'm not the first one here to note and "criticize" the fact that characters have different hitbox sizes... (Donut, was it?)

Donut, maybe Zengeku, me, and probably a few others.

I know the reason I used ReimuA and ReimuB while going for UFO Lunatic was hitbox size. SanaeB would have been my next option. Maybe I'd consider MarisA for the piercing. But I would have hated having Marisabox, and of course I view SanaeA and MarisaB as pretty much unplayable.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 13, 2011, 03:28:27 AM
Donut, maybe Zengeku, me, and probably a few others.

I know the reason I used ReimuA and ReimuB while going for UFO Lunatic was hitbox size. SanaeB would have been my next option. Maybe I'd consider MarisA for the piercing. But I would have hated having Marisabox, and of course I view SanaeA and MarisaB as pretty much unplayable.

SanaeA is actually not that bad.  I like her for homing more than I do ReimuB.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on May 13, 2011, 03:13:28 PM
No no no, go tighter. I could almost fit two Reimus through there. Oh wait, Marisa is already "almost two Reimus". Derp. :V

If you're going by hitbox area, she's more than three.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on May 13, 2011, 04:40:03 PM
You learn something new every day. Who knew there wereTimeout Cards (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=13731) on Normal?

Edit: Fixed.
Also... Goddamn Murasa.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 13, 2011, 05:06:29 PM
maybe Zengeku

Definitely. Bigger hitbox is really annoying and cause of many tragic clipdeaths. Why all the characters can't just have the same hitbox I don't know, it was a retarded decision back then and its still retarded today.

Its most annoying in SA due to that games many very dense patterns. Satori is a good example. Her non-spells are static and simple to read so its really aggravating to die just because you couldn't fit your hitbox in there.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ChanceWolf on May 13, 2011, 05:25:15 PM
You learn something new every day. Who knew there wereTimeout Cards (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=13731) on Normal?

Don't worry, there is another one in a other game... :V
It's
Aya in MoF
.

It's annoying that since a few days I even die in stages on normal, somehow I can't play Touhou anymore .___.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on May 13, 2011, 06:17:26 PM
You learn something new every day. Who knew there wereTimeout Cards (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=13731) on Normal?

I completely lost my cool when I got to that card the first time.

"Come on, come on, come on...There!!! Wait, why is she still... what's happe....WHY ISN'T SHE DEAD!? I CAN'T EVEN HIT... IT'S A ****ING SURVIVAL CARD!?"
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 13, 2011, 06:31:24 PM
Shou's curvy lasers made me rage.  Letty's curvy lasers made me eh. 
Merlin's CURVY LASERS MAKE ME WANT TO BOMB THE SHIT OUT OF HER.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 13, 2011, 06:32:48 PM
Don't worry, there is another one in a other game... :V
It's
Aya in MoF
.
Also Yuyuko in PCB.  Reflowering =3.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on May 13, 2011, 08:03:14 PM
Bigger hitbox is really annoying and cause of many tragic clipdeaths.

makin' me cry
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 13, 2011, 08:05:56 PM
There, don't cry. Have a bisquit.

However it might not be that much about hitbox size in Subterranean Animism more than it is a case of Marisa being legendarily shitty.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on May 13, 2011, 10:47:46 PM
Also Yuyuko in PCB.  Reflowering =3.

Well, yeah, but that one was there even on easy.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: DgBarca on May 14, 2011, 11:25:01 AM
...UFO hard...
...UFO hard...
Ichirin, why ALL of your attack are cheap as hell ? 
And Murasa, you timeout card is horrible, horrible horrible.
I'm so raging right now...
GAHGHGHGHGHGGDHGHAGJH
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on May 14, 2011, 04:18:50 PM
That Yuyuko....3rd last spell(hard mode) and death! argh!!! my skills have been flushed away, after 2 weeks of no touhou, sux.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Udongein on May 14, 2011, 05:56:02 PM
>Perfect PCB Extra stage portion for the first time
>Die on Wizard Fox Thoughts
 >:(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on May 15, 2011, 06:35:04 PM
Getting closer to finishing EoSD Lunatic, made it to stage 6 with 1 live and 3 bombs but kicked the bucket against Scarlet Meister. Might have made it to Remilia's final spellcard if I hadn't gone and lost a live during Remilia's third non-spellcard pattern because I felt that primal urge to collect those point items, charging straight into the knives. Still, the real bummer is that I could do this if only I stopped making these blatantly stupid mistakes. Died twice in stage four with two bombs in stock each time, not cool!

Edit: And again, 3 lives, 0 bombs upon entering stage 6. Didn't even make it past the third spellcard this time, this is even less cool! Oh, well, gonna try again tomorrow, the shame of messing up so badly will help me grow stronger.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 15, 2011, 09:13:37 PM
if I hadn't gone and lost a live during Remilia's third non-spellcard pattern because I felt that primal urge to collect those point items, charging straight into the knives.

Edit: And again, 3 lives, 0 bombs upon entering stage 6. Didn't even make it past the third spellcard this time, this is even less cool! Oh, well, gonna try again tomorrow, the shame of messing up so badly will help me grow stronger.

I made that same stupid death in my 1cc.

Also, I was 3/0 when I entered stage 6 on my 1cc, got to Remilia 2/3, and finished 0/0. Not sure what shot type you're using, but you're pretty close pretty much as long as you're not using ReimuA.


Edit: Ugh, a 0/1 PCB 1cc. I am seriously better at UFO's danmaku than this game's set. I really have a lot of trouble. Didn't even get close to my high score either.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sality on May 16, 2011, 05:57:51 AM
Am I an idiot for wanting to do my first 1cc in PCB with SakuyaB?  Maybe. 

That means I was an idiot too ?


Private Square shows its real usefulness in Yuyuko's last spellcard so to speak.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 16, 2011, 06:09:30 AM
Those bombs are excellent everywhere... except the Prismrivers, since you just wanna bomb past those biatches.   It's especially annoying since every other shot type can bypass a card/deal severe damage to a trio card in one bomb, while Private/Perfect Square will only clean out the bullets. 
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sality on May 16, 2011, 06:22:17 AM
If I recall correctly, I was like using one bomb for each spellcard phase in Primsriver stage.
Don't worry about that. What matter is your capability to be able to survive or not. I used all my bombs and lives when fought against Yuyucow. Come to think of it .. that was so intense because that's my first 1cc ever :3

OT : Why my TH13 always crashed whenever Miyako heals herself !! RAEG
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 16, 2011, 06:31:58 AM
If I recall correctly, I was like using one bomb for each spellcard phase in Primsriver stage.
Don't worry about that. What matter is your capability to be able to survive or not. I used all my bombs and lives when fought against Yuyucow. Come to think of it .. that was so intense because that's my first 1cc ever :3

OT : Why my TH13 always crashed whenever Miyako heals herself !! RAEG

I is Parsee jealous of anyone with the ability to do that (epicbad at Touhou). 
OT: Because Miyako ate your TH13.exe
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on May 16, 2011, 11:20:12 AM
I made that same stupid death in my 1cc.

Also, I was 3/0 when I entered stage 6 on my 1cc, got to Remilia 2/3, and finished 0/0. Not sure what shot type you're using, but you're pretty close pretty much as long as you're not using ReimuA.


Seems like great minds think alike and make the same mistakes! Using Reimu-B, I love them needles. Not expecting to finish with anything but 0/0 either, I think more than 4/5 of all my first 1CCs are like that. Though my first PCB Lunatic 1CC actually had an entire life left, but that was only because I got to 1200 point items after the last red wave of the final spellcard.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sality on May 16, 2011, 01:02:59 PM
I is Parsee jealous of anyone with the ability to do that (epicbad at Touhou). 

My unlimited love for Sakuya has guided me to 1cc's throne in PCB. LOVE HER TENDERLY and you will reach your throne !!!

DO EET !!

Achoo!
Actually, I thought I was just lucky because I can pass Prismriver without spending any life at the time :3
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on May 16, 2011, 08:16:31 PM
And that was my first Scarlet Gensoukyou. I really need to get through Remilia's third and fourth spellcards with fewer losses. Of course, I also blew two bombs during the fourth non-spellcard pattern when it came to streaming the huge orbs, too paranoid, also messed up during the first spellcard. So much wrong, this could have gone so much better, bugging me like hell.  Still, victory is within reach, I'm sure. Scarlet Gensoukyou looks tough, but it's the only thing left now.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on May 16, 2011, 08:44:12 PM
Okay, so I officially hate SA's life system. It's a little unfair TBH, considering you need 5 stars for a life, and if you clear a pattern(spell or otherwise) you get one, whereas if you die,(bombs dont count thank GOD) it just goes "lol no star for you". That is completely bass-ackwards and is the sole reason I cannot clear stage 4 on normal.

Seriously. Just... RAAA.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 16, 2011, 08:48:00 PM
Okay, so I officially hate SA's life system. It's a little unfair TBH, considering you need 5 stars for a life, and if you clear a pattern(spell or otherwise) you get one, whereas if you die,(bombs dont count thank GOD) it just goes "lol no star for you". That is completely bass-ackwards and is the sole reason I cannot clear stage 4 on normal.

Seriously. Just... RAAA.

I just lost all three lives on Stage 1 :derp:

Stage 4, just spam bombs if you can. Especially on midboss Orin.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 16, 2011, 10:11:08 PM
Obligatory ORIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!
Also, I epicflailed through stage 4 easy in SA.  A stage that I normally perfect >_> (then die lots in Stage 5). 

Seriously, I can manage to get through stage 1-4 with very few bombings and maybe a couple of deaths at worst, and then Stage 5 comes along and most of my resources go bye-bye
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 16, 2011, 11:16:40 PM
I died trying to safespot Orin's opener in Hard. And to get to Stage 5 on Hard, I had to continue six times on Stage 4. I had to continue 4 times on Stage 5 trying to unlock it for Practice but I gave up :c
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 16, 2011, 11:36:10 PM
Which shot type are you using?  I've only ever made it past stage 4 and 5 with two, the A-types :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 16, 2011, 11:39:47 PM
ReimuKari :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 16, 2011, 11:54:02 PM
BoWaP is ridiculous on any non-easy difficulty.  Of course, you could safespot it...
By the way, Double Death Black Butterfly needs to go away.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 17, 2011, 12:07:23 AM
I capped BoWaP on Normal without using the safespot. I'm not used to Satori on Hard (yet) but now that I have it down for Practice, I can learn it.

I HATE DBDB. I have a better chance to capturing it on Phantasm than on SA Normal. GOD DAMN IT I NEED THOSE KNIVES!! :C
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Vyrien on May 17, 2011, 07:00:10 AM
I spam played SA whilst waiting for UFO to come out, found UFO wasn't as good (IMO) then continued to play it, as a result I don't find stages 1-4 that hard, but dear god ORIN when trying to 1CC the game on hard Orin's all like 'O HAI! You haven't lost any lives yet? Good for you!' Then proceeds to utterly rape me in every way -_-

Also Double Black Death Butterfly is horrible.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Yuyuko Yakumo on May 17, 2011, 10:09:20 PM
...I can't 1cc SA on normal.

That's pretty much all I can say without throwing my computer at the wall right now. :fail:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Kimchii on May 17, 2011, 10:12:51 PM
...I can't 1cc SA on normal.

That's pretty much all I can say without throwing my computer at the wall right now. :fail:

I can't even cc SA on easy  :( That's how much I suck at it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 17, 2011, 10:24:42 PM
...I can't 1cc SA on normal.

That's pretty much all I can say without throwing my computer at the wall right now. :fail:

I can't either. Orin likes taking out a chunk of my lives
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on May 17, 2011, 10:47:40 PM
Rule of 3 guys, rule of 3.

I too am in this boat.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on May 17, 2011, 11:05:00 PM
Rule of 3 guys, rule of 3.

I too am in this boat.
Explain? I think I know what you mean (by this "rule of 3").
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on May 17, 2011, 11:46:40 PM
I also cant CC SA on normal. Additionally, I cant CC any shooter on normal.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 18, 2011, 12:56:56 AM
I also cant CC SA on normal. Additionally, I cant CC any shooter on normal.
Play moar, and practice on hard if you need to.  SA's one of the tougher normals, but normals in general aren't too bad if you give it some regular practice.  Put in a couple hours every day and you'll get there in no time :3.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on May 18, 2011, 09:08:23 AM
Curses, foiled again! Remilia's last NS-pattern, 1 extra life, 2 bombs. Then I mess up the streaming-part with the huge orbs, get myself killed. Scarlet Meister with two bombs, no problem, Scarlet Gensoukyou with one bomb, which I had to blow right off the bat because the power items only got me to 127, which meant that I was about to be hit in the face by something I expected to disappear upon getting into Full Power Mode. Regardless, blew through half of Remilia's health-bar, finally managed to understand the spellcard after meticulously analyzing every single replay of my attempts at it, this is more about scare-tactics than anything else. I can deal with it. Next time I'll win, I've finally made it to the last push. Just one step left!

Still, it bugs me to no end how I wound up getting killed again because I got nervous. It's my greatest weakness, really. If there's too much on the line, I just start shaking, which really doesn't help me at all.

Edit: Geesh, another failure with maybe 10% of Scarlet Gensoukyou left. Next time for sure!

Edit: Good grief, this would have been it if I had not died with 3 bombs in stock during Patchouli's last spellcard. This is the first time my Score History is full of Stage 6 entries before I get to clear the game.

Edit: Few other attempts, but the worst was probably the one where I was pretty much eviscerated despite getting to Remilia with 3 bombs and 3 extra lives. Oh, well, managed to get some rest, a new day has begun, today I'll pull it off.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 18, 2011, 06:47:27 PM
I just realized I never cleared PCB Extra with Marisa B, so I decided to do a Marisa B Extra run. I failed hard. Didn't capture Blue Oni Red Oni, kept dying during the Stage, and decided to quit when I died at the PC-98 part.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: jc_foster on May 20, 2011, 12:39:46 PM
Trying to get a no-death MoF Stage 6. Three attempts make it to Kanako's last card.

First, die with Kanako at 3%.
Second, 2%.
Third .... about .5%.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sality on May 20, 2011, 12:44:50 PM
Hell, I cannot even finish IN now :V
... and even worse because I did ridiculous/unnecessary death 6 freaking times.

.....
Goodbye, World.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on May 20, 2011, 02:49:19 PM
Must resist the urge to tool-assist the rest of this PCB Lunatic run...

*Extend! -death*

What.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 21, 2011, 01:24:28 AM
I can't manage to clear MoF Extra again for some reason... I did it months ago, but the run was pretty awful so I figured I'd improve it.  It's not working.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on May 21, 2011, 02:09:32 AM
Komachi Normal Clear on PoFV...

Save replay? > Yes
*game crashes and closes after a second of freeze*
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 21, 2011, 02:21:13 AM
pick slot, go back, pick slot again, save, game does not crash

At least it never happened  for me.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on May 21, 2011, 02:30:03 AM
pick slot, go back, pick slot again, save, game does not crash

At least it never happened  for me.
Yes, that is a glitch that happens only to PoFV (at least to my knowledge) It doesn't matter which slot you pick originally.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Archin on May 21, 2011, 03:08:45 AM
Lets play EOSD, haven't played it in a while. WTF... Lost all my lives against Meiling on Normal in a practice run!!!

2 Lives lost on her Rainbow Sign "Wind Chime of Colorful Rainbow"!!!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on May 21, 2011, 04:36:22 AM
LLS Lunatic

S5 Yuka

0/0

derp the first Master Spark phase

yeah
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on May 22, 2011, 01:14:56 AM
Kay stage 4 post midboss nue lunatic
Imma prob die soon
*dies*
Alright now to make a red.
*Grabs all the wrong colors*
Man I didn't even make a multi I suck ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on May 22, 2011, 01:24:31 AM
midboss nue lunatic
midboss nue
nue

Wat.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on May 22, 2011, 02:04:03 AM
Wat.
would you rather me call it an orb of light?  Cuz that orb of light is nue ya know  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on May 22, 2011, 02:13:37 AM
Make the connection please. I still don't see how.

Edit:  :derp: I get it now. She's in her "What the hell are you form" during Stages 4 and 6.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on May 22, 2011, 02:15:48 AM
Make the connection please. I still don't see how.

Edit:  :derp: I get it now. She's in her "What the hell are you form" during Stages 4 and 6.
You dont  ??? Okay stage 4 of ufo.  There's that ball of light in the middle of the stage.  That's nue.  Have you not played ufo extra?
Edit: oh you figured it out.  :derp:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on May 22, 2011, 09:29:20 AM
Is this an accomplishment or a fail? (http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll294/maxxjaxx/pcbsuperfail.jpg)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zante on May 22, 2011, 10:21:13 PM
Stories with Hourai doll.

First time I got to it, I lost when Mokou had 1/3 of her health left.
Second time I got to it, I had One life + The last life left. I had 2 bombs. But thanks to my father distracting me.. I lost.
Third time, no lives and 3 bombs. I lost when she had 1/2 Health left.

All that in the same day. Is it a problem If I want to break my keyboard in someone's head in real life?~
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on May 24, 2011, 07:40:21 PM
Combine not knowing proper UFO route meaning score will suck, screwing up Kogasa's spellcards, and sucking at Nue fight for whatever reason.

I'm at around 245 million or so and I haven't even cleared the stage yet today due to screw ups.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Reddyne on May 25, 2011, 03:53:28 PM
Finally, IaMP! Why did I never put any effort into this? I only played a friend's copy before.

Oh, that's right. I'm completely uncoordinated when it comes to fighting games and I'm even worse at this than I am with SWR/Soku. How do I not suck? I'm going to be awful even if I practice for a month.
Is this an accomplishment or a fail? (http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll294/maxxjaxx/pcbsuperfail.jpg)
Would ya like me to drag out that image I have of me and Flan both dying at the same instant?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 25, 2011, 04:33:37 PM
Is this an accomplishment or a fail? (http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll294/maxxjaxx/pcbsuperfail.jpg)
Reminds me of this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiqa8BIlP10).
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 25, 2011, 10:05:16 PM
Worst EoSD Extra run ever. Had way too many stupid deaths. Clipped a bullet on two of Flan's non-spells, didn't capture Silent Selene, and crashed into Flan right after capturing L?vatein. I only kept the run because I captured Royal Flare. I had bombs intact during almost all of those deaths.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on May 26, 2011, 08:05:16 AM
SA Extra.
90FPS.
ReimuC because she's the fastest and by obligation I have to use the fastest moving character. (Actually, it's because of Koishi's goddamn nonspells that move at mach 5)

I got to Subterranean Rose with 1 spare life and a total of 8 bombs.

I didn't use any bombs.

 :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 26, 2011, 08:16:55 AM
UFO Byakuren's Great Magic: Devil's Recitation.
I always come close but end up getting trapped by the random bullets.

Also obligatory SHOUUUUUUUUUUUU and Star Maelstrom.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on May 27, 2011, 02:35:18 AM
Tried UFO Hard again.

Playing at 90FPS hasn't done anything to improve here, though I captured more stuff than I usually do...
I game overed at Byakuren's first card.

Edit:
Time for real rage.
I try it with ReimuB.
I reach Byakuren with 7/4, I captured all of Shou's cards (Hard), Parasol Star Memories, Murasa's Survival...
I nudge the power cord and the power shuts off.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Yuyuko Yakumo on May 27, 2011, 04:05:56 AM
I hate how you actually have to beat a stage to unlock it in stage practice mode. The reason I can't 1cc UFO on normal. ;-;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on May 27, 2011, 04:08:46 AM
We could lend a score.dat for stage practice~
And just backup your normal dat. for when you go for the win.

Edit: Not so much rage at Touhou, but at my computer again...
It's too shitty to record my UFO Hard 1cc without sound desyncs or lag or something ruining it.

I don't wanna ask other people if they can record it and make it pretty looking again...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on May 27, 2011, 10:57:58 AM
We could lend a score.dat for stage practice~
And just backup your normal dat. for when you go for the win.

Edit: Not so much rage at Touhou, but at my computer again...
It's too shitty to record my UFO Hard 1cc without sound desyncs or lag or something ruining it.

I don't wanna ask other people if they can record it and make it pretty looking again...


If you want, I can record it for you (using Fraps and Windows Live Movie Maker) and upload it somewhere for you to download. Might not be able to do it until sometime tonight, though, since I exceeded my download limit and have to deal with 60kb/s right now, but using filehost services that shouldn't be a problem I think. Just give me a note if you need help and I'll get to it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on May 27, 2011, 07:00:42 PM
Just gonna leave this here. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=13926) And I was moving away from the bullet too, so further "what the hell" ensued.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 28, 2011, 02:18:21 AM
So I was working on a UFO run for the Tourney.
Derped a few times on Murasa and Kogasa, messed up a few UFOs, but nothing too bad.

Byakuren, with two bombs and one life.  Okay... not bad.  I bomb past the the two things I know I can't do - Star Maelstrom (after dying) and her Last noncard.  Then, I proceed to cheat death and capture Devil's Recitation for the first time (!!), then die to a clipdeath on Flying Fantastica.  NOOOOOOOOOO!

and it seems I should have saved a replay, since my score was decent >_>
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 28, 2011, 04:40:03 PM
Geez, why is Mega Mari such a poorly made mess?

Its the only Touhou x Megaman game there is to my knowledge and they had to fuck up the concept so hard, that makes me sad.
Hard gameplay - that's what I want but unavoidable attacks? Not so much.

What do I mean by this? MY GOD, YUKARI SUCKS IN THIS ONE.  >:(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jaimers on May 28, 2011, 10:24:41 PM
Its the only Touhou x Megaman game there is to my knowledge.

Well there's also this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVmf9u4ZwCc&feature=related)  :V

Hard gameplay - that's what I want but unavoidable attacks? Not so much.

What do I mean by this? MY GOD, YUKARI SUCKS IN THIS ONE.  >:(

Play better I guess. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTcoVrcnAj4#t=4m26s)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sophilia on May 28, 2011, 10:47:09 PM
If it helps any, the block patterns are completely static.  As far as I can tell the shikigami shots are pseudo-aimed - when Yukari spawns them they get your location at that point then take that as the first place to shoot at when they circle around to it.  Also there's a hidden mushroom in the void above the boss room.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 28, 2011, 11:55:32 PM
Well there's also this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVmf9u4ZwCc&feature=related)  :V

I would probably have been offended by that if i gave a damn about Megaman 1. Damn, that's stupid. But interesting to see nonetheless.

Quote
Play better I guess. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTcoVrcnAj4#t=4m26s)

Yeah so the strategy involves tanking hits and using sub tanks? Ehh... yeah, quality game design there. Like in the rest of this game just with a little touch of Gate from X6, like the guy in the video mentions, with instant death pits and a combination of a really easy (to survive through) stage with a few trial and error elements here and there that you have to pass through everytime you run out of lives.

Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 29, 2011, 07:30:19 AM
Playing for score in UFO is way more difficult than I imagined it would be.  Seriously, running on low resources vs. Shou is no fun >_<
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zante on May 29, 2011, 10:03:43 AM
I never even managed to beat Touhou 10 using continues on normal. But then, I tried it again(still on normal. I'm not very skilled...), and got to Kanako's last spellcard without using any continues at all. If I managed to beat her, that would mean = 1cc. But I failed, and my friend laughed at the face I made when I lost.
Oh well...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on May 30, 2011, 01:43:38 AM
Lost 3 lives to Meira >.<

Oh hai Remilia. Just as Red Magic's over, I lose my last life to a bullet. Go me!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: a_certain_kappa on May 30, 2011, 04:14:01 AM
Never CC'd SA.
I AM SO PISSED. I mean, I CC'd all other Touhou games, why can't this one? Why?! It's like ZUN deliberately designed this thing to be a mean of torture to be used by the top secret Japanese Government Agencies. I swear, this game is not for the public, but instead is used to train Japanese Commandos to have a better hand-eye mechanism.

Isn't it bad enough that Okuu mercilessly attack you, with bullets coming from every conceivable angle? but you have to stay away from the 2 glowing red suns  that limit your movement to about 12.671 percent of the screen?! Everywhere you move, Komachi is waiting to take you to Sanzu River! Yes, that is how far I've gotten into the game. Pathetic, I know. It's like I'm playing in Hell, literally.
And that is not the final spellcard?! What, you mean there's more?! Like that's not hard enough, and you need to programme one more spellcard that will undoubtedly be harder that the last one.

At least the game have the courtesy of giving you unlimited continues.
Continuing...?
Yeah, I have to use continues to even get pass Orin. Even if Hina don't visit me and I got lucky and don't use it, I will be ill-equipped to face Okuu. I never use continue to beat other Touhou games!
In other Touhou games, you get to continue from where you die. But this game just says "No, that won't do. It will be too easy". It's like the designer thinks "Hmm... let them continue where they die? No, that would be too easy". Is he a masochist?!

How on Earth can you beat that bloody Raven. And that Cat keep taking my life like crazy. I know that's her role, but can't she makes an exception sometimes.

Oh, I never played Easy-Modo by the way. That's for elementary school students.

And I was just fooling around. Except for that bloody raven.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Yuyuko Yakumo on May 30, 2011, 07:54:55 AM
^That's pretty much what I was thinking when I was trying to 1cc SA. The good and bad news is, it's probably the hardest game out of the series. (closely followed by UFO) It does help to look at replays of the game. That's how I managed to limit my losses on stage 5 to 1 life.

But yeah, I feel your pain. I think that ZUN literally wanted to create hell (since that's the theme of the game after all) by boosting the difficulty of the game.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 30, 2011, 01:02:25 PM
(closely followed by UFO)

Whut? SA's like a cakewalk compared to UFO. You get three times as many bombs and a huge amount of lives. Some even says that UFO Hard is harder than some games on Lunatic.

Oh, I never played Easy-Modo by the way. That's for elementary school students.

That's an awesome attitude. Keep it going.
Also. Upload replays.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on May 30, 2011, 02:42:36 PM
Geez, why do I keep insisting on playing Touhou when in this state?

Oh yeah, because I'm a stubborn bastard. ::)

I need to sleep more.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jes_Isaive on May 30, 2011, 10:43:27 PM
"Gah, I can't beat Stage 4 anymore. Well, a bit of practice mode should fix tha-"

[Stage 3 000000000]
[Stage 4 ---------]
[Stage 5 ---------]

;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on May 30, 2011, 10:55:47 PM
"Gah, I can't beat Stage 4 anymore. Well, a bit of practice mode should fix tha-"

[Stage 3 000000000]
[Stage 4 ---------]
[Stage 5 ---------]

;_;
Your avatar is too fitting for that post.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aliquantic on May 30, 2011, 11:27:15 PM
It's my first time playing Touhou in nearly forever, it's 1am, I'm dizzy and using an alien keyboard and a small laptop screen in bed... ideal conditions for IN Lunatic in other words! I mysteriously play very well, bombing everything that comes within five inches of my character, and I get 1.2b on leaving Marisa with 4 or 5 lives left...

And then I completely forget what stage 5 is all about, bomb multiple times on the stage, die on Tewi and blow all my bombs on her, bomb some more, deathbomb Reisen's first (seriously, with Border Team!), but still, I get to stage 6 3/2 which should be very doable... uh oh not if we waste three bombs on Eirin, three bombs on Kaguya's second non-spell, and bombs on literally everything else she's got :s

Still, 1/1 on Life Spring Infinity means it's a guaranteed clear, right? Hey let's use the wrong bomb at the wrong time, then die, and then courageously bomb spam Hourai Jewel since it's all it takes mathematically... if you don't fail the streaming after your last bomb, and game over about three seconds away from a 1cc. 2.2b or some such, I don't even want to know how much the clear bonus would've been :s

At least it's nice to know I can still play, if my playing conditions are sufficiently suboptimal :o 3b should be very doable if I get drunk...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zante on May 31, 2011, 12:40:25 AM
"Gah, I can't beat Stage 4 anymore. Well, a bit of practice mode should fix tha-"

[Stage 3 000000000]
[Stage 4 ---------]
[Stage 5 ---------]

;_;

Same thing happened to me, but on MOF, with Stage 6... Oh well.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: shadowbringer on May 31, 2011, 12:41:33 AM
Finally, IaMP! Why did I never put any effort into this? I only played a friend's copy before.

Oh, that's right. I'm completely uncoordinated when it comes to fighting games and I'm even worse at this than I am with SWR/Soku. How do I not suck? I'm going to be awful even if I practice for a month.Would ya like me to drag out that image I have of me and Flan both dying at the same instant?

http://mauve.sandwich.net/iamp/how-to-not-fail-at-iamp.txt

Play better I guess. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTcoVrcnAj4#t=4m26s)

there's also this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk1_f4BmkiM) video, which was made before :D
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on May 31, 2011, 01:29:35 AM
UFO just know YOU MADE ME DO THIS.  I really didn't wanna resort to this but I have no choice.  I must use a completed score.dat to practice stage 6 lunatic.  Ugh and I thought I could unlock it myself but I GUESS NOT.  welp this will give me the practice I greatly need.

Edit: Also every time I think i have a problem with say stage 3 I go into stage practice and do just fine on it =/  FML.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on May 31, 2011, 03:25:33 AM
Dear God, today was just complete, utter failure with Touhou. Got absolutely nowhere on anything, making some of the stupidest mistakes I've made in a long time.

Maybe I should just get back to that sketch to clear my mind. After I sleep, of course. Because I'd love to continue getting back on pace, but nooooo my (un)natural sleeping cycle has to stand in the way again...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 31, 2011, 01:39:27 PM
there's also this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk1_f4BmkiM) video, which was made before :D

That however could actually be considered good playing. He manages to completely avoid damage for a good chunk of the battle until he then starts to lose it. Which means I might actually go back and try again now that I've seen evidence of some legitimacy.

Even though a Gate clone with moving platforms without X6's lenient checkpoint system sounds pretty annoying. Especially considering that there's a long and tedious stage before it. And the passwords systems inability to save your progress through Fortress stages... which was never a good idea. Just not an issue back when things were so easy that you could beat it all in about 20 minutes.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on May 31, 2011, 02:37:21 PM
Whut? SA's like a cakewalk compared to UFO. You get three times as many bombs and a huge amount of lives. Some even says that UFO Hard is harder than some games on Lunatic.
I'm gonna have to agree with them.  I think it's largely in part because UFO's first 3 bosses are actually challenging though (or at least I think so).  Murasa onward seems to fit in more with the rest of the games though.  I really like the later parts of UFO, even if Shou's spells are incredibly gay with clipdeaths if you don't just bomb everything.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jq1790 on May 31, 2011, 03:36:30 PM
I'm getting halfway decent at Resurrection Butterfly -30% Reflowering-, even managing a few caps of it lately, so I should be able to handle this with three bombs, right?

Used one, dodged a bit, got a Border, broke that, dodged for a while more.  Oh, hey, there's like 8 seconds left, so let's NOT do the smart thing and play it safe by bombspamming it to get my next 1cc!  No, let's instead forget to bomb at all and die with 2 bombs in stock when there's less than ten seconds left!  Best idea ever, right?

*headdesk*

I've also been having more issues where I can't seem to cap Lost Soul's Village -Fatal Sin- anymore even though it's relatively easy for me now most of the time...  Ugh.  At least I can almost always still make it to Stage 6 at all...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 31, 2011, 03:40:07 PM
Just sending some more hate towards Megamari's Yukari... because she needs it.

I'm gonna have to agree with them.  I think it's largely in part because UFO's first 3 bosses are actually challenging though (or at least I think so).  Murasa onward seems to fit in more with the rest of the games though.  I really like the later parts of UFO, even if Shou's spells are incredibly gay with clipdeaths if you don't just bomb everything.

Yes. So if Stage 4-6 is like Touhou normally is but the first stages are different in that they are actually challenging then the entire game is still more challenging. In basically any Touhou game before UFO there would be maybe 1 of 2 attacks of actual difficulty in the first three stages and maybe some challenging stage portion. Bomb that. Stages nullified. Then you can ride resources for the rest of the game.

You'll actually have to put some effort into things to get to Stage 4 in UFO without losing a life.

EDIT: And now the force beams are fucking unpassable. I guess you can only make it by when they fucking feel like it even though I have memorized the path. Let's just call this game Mari. The insults I can come up with are endless but i'll save them for later.

EDIT 2: And i'm back to adjust things a bit. Turns out the only thing I have a problem with is the first Patchu stage. The rest is playable and seems even totally dodgable most of the time. Most bosses seem to have some sort of bullshit about them though.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on May 31, 2011, 05:27:56 PM
I think it's largely in part because UFO's first 3 bosses are actually challenging though (or at least I think so).

It's not just the bosses either. The last stretch before Ichirin is one of the most frustrating parts of any Touhou game, at least on hard and up.

Sadly, the trend looks like it'll continue. Dammit Yoshika.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on May 31, 2011, 06:57:42 PM
IMO, it also seems that SA is also easier to learn, and hands you resources on a platter.
UFO makes you work for your resources, and if you're not careful, you might end up wasting a bomb or dying to get a life piece. 

Also, no amount of reading stops Shou clipdeath and awkward angle snipes with freaking curvy lasers.  At least Orin's cards are easy to react to/memorizable. 
Shou wouldn't be too bad if it weren't for some of her bullshit hitboxes.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Yuyuko Yakumo on May 31, 2011, 11:02:25 PM
I was proud of making it to stage 5 on PCB on Hard today...

...until I saw I made it to stage 6 four months earlier.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on May 31, 2011, 11:23:24 PM
IMO, it also seems that SA is also easier to learn

Well, you can say that its easier to memorize UFO Stage 3 than it is to memorize SA Stage 3 since the latter is all about some positioning and some lasers. But the game gives you so many bombs that you you can bomb your way through everything hard about it and get to Yuugi with 3.60 power. Yep, i've done that many times.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: TAKE IT CACODEMON!! on May 31, 2011, 11:33:20 PM
This fucking computer lag that makes me herp and derp at IN on EASY MODO (kyahaha). Seriously, what is up with that? I'd start having good runs until the arrow keys flip out on me.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on June 01, 2011, 12:36:29 AM
YOU GUYS WHY CAN'T I LUNATIC (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14015)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Reddyne on June 01, 2011, 12:57:26 AM
Died halfway through Three Fairies in GFW. Farthest I've ever gotten regardless of route.

Derp death count during that particular boss fight: 2
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on June 01, 2011, 02:42:49 AM
How can I get all the way to devils recitation on one run and then later not even get past stage 3 on other runs orz    GDI my ufo runs are so inconsistent it isn't even funny
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on June 01, 2011, 03:00:32 AM
Lost 6 lives in PCB stage 4 Hard :fail:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on June 01, 2011, 06:44:06 AM
Strong dislike is an understatement I have for Virtue of Wind God easy and Miracle of Otensui. 
Although I basically almost 1cced MoF using ReimuC in a blind run.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on June 01, 2011, 03:43:23 PM
TWO LIVES TO LETTY
GAME OVERING ON CHEN


WHAT IS WRONG WITH MEEEEE
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on June 01, 2011, 03:46:28 PM
SA Normal.

One night, make it to stage 6. I had to quit because it was late at night.
Next day, gameover on Yuugi.

GDI IMMA MAKE YOU DROP THAT FRIGGIN' BOWL OF SAKE.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 01, 2011, 05:25:35 PM
MoF stage 1 (Lunatic) keeps killing me... So embarassing, I should at least be able to perfect stages 1/2 =(.

Fuck you Minoriko
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 01, 2011, 07:13:32 PM
Meh don't worry about it. That Minoriko traps me with her lasers a bit too often as well. Even the stage would kill me if I don't follow "the route". Or use MarisaC. I would actually say its easier to perfect stage 2. Unless you are one of those guys allergic to Hina's midboss card.

But you can just bomb that for score - not a bad excuse at all when used about a run that holds absolutely no other scoring tricks.  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on June 01, 2011, 07:53:21 PM
"The route" is pretty much the only viable way to get through Stage 1, isn't it? At least I think you're talking about the one I use, only thing that might change are some directions after Shizuha. Hardest part starts after Minoriko's first spellcard, though, hate the NS-Pattern and her second spellcard, though I only hate the latter when I get unlucky.

Not sure about Stage 2 being easier, though, I just find the barrages in Stage 1 easier to control. Hina's midboss spellcard seems surprisingly easy, though, since the bullets aren't too much of a problem if I start off in the middle and then just move back. With Reimu A, Hina goes down before things get out of hand.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 01, 2011, 11:34:18 PM
"The route" is pretty much the only viable way to get through Stage 1, isn't it?

You can probably tackle things a little different but if you wanna kill everything and get all the score items then there really is only one path to take i'm pretty sure.

Quote
Not sure about Stage 2 being easier, though, I just find the barrages in Stage 1 easier to control. Hina's midboss spellcard seems surprisingly easy, though, since the bullets aren't too much of a problem if I start off in the middle and then just move back. With Reimu A, Hina goes down before things get out of hand.

Nah. The reason I call Stage 2 easier is because Hina won't randomly imprison you with lasers. Its not like its something Minoriko does often to me but it happens occasionally. Its probably possible to get out of at least 95% of those situations i'd call being trapped though. Regardless, tougher than Hina's stuff that won't "trap". you at all. And Stage 2 might be more tricky to memorize but you can easier compensate for lack of memorization in it as its not as good at walling you.

Some players have trouble with Hina's last card however but Its not that far into the game and its the only decent threat in the stage so you can just restart. I also like the fact that you don't seem to have problems with Hina's midboss card. I could never understand why people would have even minor problems with it. Lunatic players i mean.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 02, 2011, 12:59:11 AM
FFFFFFFFFF-

Another shitty MoF run.  For some reason my game decided to slow itself down to 30FPS and kill me on Nitori's third nonspell during a random sudden return to fullspeed.  Same with Momiji.  Flew into one of the crows on stage 4, flew into a yellow bullet from the end crows, gameovered on Aya's second spell.  I hate this game.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Udongein on June 02, 2011, 01:07:00 AM
>Random SA Extra run
>have 4 lives going into Genetics
>lose 3 of those
>Game over on Subterranean Rose's first phase

>:(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on June 02, 2011, 01:11:13 AM
FFFFFFFFFF-

Another shitty MoF run.  For some reason my game decided to slow itself down to 30FPS and kill me on Nitori's third nonspell during a random sudden return to fullspeed.  Same with Momiji.  Flew into one of the crows on stage 4, flew into a yellow bullet from the end crows, gameovered on Aya's second spell.  I hate this game.
If you play with a controller once, you'll have to plug it in again (just plugging it in while the game is running even, dont even have to use it.) every time until you restart your computer otherwise it'll run at 20-30fps. Or at least I have to anyway...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 02, 2011, 01:16:20 AM
If you play with a controller once, you'll have to plug it in again (just plugging it in while the game is running even, dont even have to use it.) every time until you restart your computer otherwise it'll run at 20-30fps. Or at least I have to anyway...
I play keyboard.  It's just my shitty PC, probably overheating a bit too because it's summer.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: a_certain_kappa on June 02, 2011, 04:05:28 AM
>SA
>Stage 3
>Oh, about to face Yuugi better take all the points by moving to the top of the screen
>Move to the top left part of the screen
>Yuugi suddenly emerge from the top left screen and begin moving diagonally toward me
>Yuugi hit me. *pichhuun*

ZUN did that on purpose.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on June 02, 2011, 04:25:05 AM
BY GAR I'M A FORKING IDIOT. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14026)

How does one die THRICE in Satori's easiest card? HOW?!?!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on June 02, 2011, 04:37:27 AM
>SA
>Stage 3
>Oh, about to face Yuugi better take all the points by moving to the top of the screen
>Move to the top left part of the screen
>Yuugi suddenly emerge from the top left screen and begin moving diagonally toward me
>Yuugi hit me. *pichhuun*

ZUN did that on purpose.
Oh wow the same thing happened with me with nue, ichirin, kogasa, and shou...this happens to me too much   But yeah It's the worst feeling aint it?  Anyways today i managed to enter LFS 0/0.  Maybe I woulda had an extra life or two if stage 3 didn't overkill me ;_; GDI im so close to this ufo lunatic 1cc i can almost taste it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sen on June 02, 2011, 06:36:50 AM
WHY CAN'T I GET PAST TD STAGE 2 BOSS WHATEVER HER NAME IS

THAT SLUT
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on June 02, 2011, 10:42:09 AM
Because Kyoko wishes to hear your misery echo as you fight her-*shot*
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 02, 2011, 10:14:07 PM
Kyoko

Just to be a nitpicky prick; you need to spell it Kyouko or Kyōko.  :trollface:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on June 02, 2011, 10:50:50 PM
WHY CAN'T I GET PAST TD STAGE 2 BOSS WHATEVER HER NAME IS

THAT SLUT

It's all about expanding the area of the screen you're keeping track of. The more bullets you recognise as threats, the easier it is to dodge them.

Yoshika, on the other hand, is just silly on Hard and Lunatic.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on June 03, 2011, 01:56:09 AM
I fucking hate Koishi and her god forsaken nonspells.

This is at 90FPS.

(I swear, ReimuC has some interesting advantages over ReimuA... 1) Bomb power. 2) Directing shots in Genetics of the Subconscious 3)Maintaining max power at 3.xx 4) You can use yourself as a battering ram during your bomb when fighting Subterranean Rose.)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on June 03, 2011, 02:33:14 AM
Okay, this is an old one, but it's like this...
7th attempt at GFW EX 'cause I screwed up Funen's route.
Get kicked off comp by father, talking about how, "I'm wasting time and have no reason to be down here so long, etc, etc.
Next day, Constant failure, even though I already know the damn route, completely thrown off game cause of lingering irritation.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 03, 2011, 02:53:23 AM
(I swear, ReimuC has some interesting advantages over ReimuA... 1) Bomb power. 2) Directing shots in Genetics of the Subconscious 3)Maintaining max power at 3.xx 4) You can use yourself as a battering ram during your bomb when fighting Subterranean Rose.)
5) Skipping Sanae.  Though I guess that could be a disadvantage too because you lose the three life pieces...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 03, 2011, 03:25:31 AM
Wanted to get a recording of LLS Extra, so I gave it a quick run, went into Mugetsu with 2 lives, got an extend, and died twice a bit after.  Was gonna just end the run and retry but I figured what the hell, Gengetsu's easy enough anyway.  Ended up clearing 2 lives no bombs.

So where's the RAEG?  The bottom of the video got cut off. :colonveeplusalpha:

(oops, sorry about the double post! D=)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on June 03, 2011, 03:36:06 AM
5) Skipping Sanae.  Though I guess that could be a disadvantage too because you lose the three life pieces...

Sanae's easy. Nine syllable stabs is a throwaway (most of the time), you dodge one wave of Miracle Fruit and bomb, you dodge for like three seconds for Bumper Rice and bomb.

Anyways, I shouldn't be complaining anymore because...
Well, see the Accomplishments thread~
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on June 03, 2011, 04:44:48 AM
My God, that Another Mode Mima run was terrible (read: something like 8 lives lost). Sure, I was going in semi-blind, but I at least expected to make it to Extra 3. I didn't even get to Mima's final.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on June 03, 2011, 06:45:56 AM
Hai, why can't I clear IN and EoSD Extra...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 03, 2011, 09:06:54 AM
Yoshika, on the other hand, is just silly on Hard and Lunatic.

Just remember guys, that's awesomely silly.  :V - Now if anyone is silly its Kyouko for having a spell of absolute minus threat regardless of difficulty.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 03, 2011, 01:49:00 PM
Hai, why can't I clear IN and EoSD Extra...
What parts specifically?  And just because you might not know about them, there's a safespot on the death fairy before Mokou (bottom-left corner for border team, here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDF5LnpyIL4) for others), and a pseudo-safespot for Flaw of Forgiving Shrine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxxT3Dgnz2I#t=3m05s).
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 03, 2011, 06:11:33 PM
There isn't a safespot on the death fairy before Mokou

Fixed. Lol. - Seriously, don't safespot. If you can't read the thing then follow the advice in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhklegJN7dY&feature=channel_video_title) by good ol' Kefit.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on June 03, 2011, 06:58:44 PM
Safespot if you can't read the thing but follow the advice in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhklegJN7dY&feature=channel_video_title) by good ol' Kefit.

Further fixed.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on June 03, 2011, 07:02:23 PM
What parts specifically?  And just because you might not know about them, there's a safespot on the death fairy before Mokou (bottom-left corner for border team, here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDF5LnpyIL4) for others), and a pseudo-safespot for Flaw of Forgiving Shrine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxxT3Dgnz2I#t=3m05s).

EoSD I used to die at catadioptric but now it's maze of love.
IN I suck at Possessed by Phoenix =(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 03, 2011, 07:10:51 PM
EoSD I used to die at catadioptric but now it's maze of love.
IN I suck at Possessed by Phoenix =(

Okay so Maze of Love has two different ways to go about it. You can circle around Flandre by staying close to her (like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5EqPtLpLjw&feature=related)) or you can do like I do. Hug the bottom of the screen and micrododge thing. That will make the card over with really fast but it might be pretty difficult to pull off. demonstrated in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZu2O_JQ4vs)

As for Posssesed by Phoenix - its comprised of multiple phases. Which is the troublesome?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 03, 2011, 07:58:09 PM
Fixed. Lol. - Seriously, don't safespot. If you can't read the thing then follow the advice in this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhklegJN7dY&feature=channel_video_title) by good ol' Kefit.
Because you like to see people actually dodging or for the extend?  Because you also get the extend and point items if you timeout the fairy (just gave it a run to double check so I don't end up looking like an idiot)

As for PBP, first phase I vertical stream and micrododge (there may be a better way, dunno), second I use the vertical tapping method (bomb if you go too quickly and get walled before it ends), though circling works as well if you prefer that.  Third phase is a complete joke, just run laps around the screen.  The fourth is basically the same as the third, but with a few bullets on the screen that you should try not to ram yourself into.  Basically just practice the first two parts, if you can get those it's an easy cap.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 03, 2011, 08:28:28 PM
Because you like to see people actually dodging or for the extend?  Because you also get the extend and point items if you timeout the fairy (just gave it a run to double check so I don't end up looking like an idiot)

Because I like to see people actually dodging. think safespotting is lame.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on June 03, 2011, 09:47:12 PM
EoSD I used to die at catadioptric but now it's maze of love.
IN I suck at Possessed by Phoenix =(
Maze of Love
Circling is self-explanatory. You'd have to last a while and be accurate in movement though.
Micrododging: if you are Reimu, try it; the round blue bullets are aimed at you, so you have to move left or right.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Dusknoir on June 03, 2011, 10:23:40 PM
Maze of Love
Circling is self-explanatory. You'd have to last a while and be accurate in movement though.
Micrododging: if you are Reimu, try it; the round blue bullets are aimed at you, so you have to move left or right.
Why with Reimu only ? I thought her hitbox was not smaller until PCB...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 03, 2011, 10:25:10 PM
Why with Reimu only ? I thought her hitbox was not smaller until PCB...

And that is indeed also the truth. In addition, you don't need such pixel perfection if you know what you are doing. There is a few pixels of leeway.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lord Scalgon on June 03, 2011, 10:39:32 PM
About 30-35 seconds left until I officially pull off a NBND VoWG timeout...hm...maybe I just might be able to pull it off.

*around 5 seconds later, gets hit by an amulet

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU  :colonveeplusalpha:

[followed by 5 intentional deaths...I left my seat to rage after I died the first time]

How...how could this happen?  I was just about to realize my long-awaited ambition...

(...and so my NB2D VoWG timeout still remains my best attempted VoWG run)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on June 04, 2011, 12:00:23 AM
I tried circling and micrododging Maze of Love, but I keep dying =(
As for Possessed by Phoenix, let's just say every part hates me :fail:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 04, 2011, 08:50:34 AM
I tried circling and micrododging Maze of Love, but I keep dying =(
As for Possessed by Phoenix, let's just say every part hates me :fail:

If that is the case then be happy about spell practice. Seriously, go there and practice until you got it. The guy in this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amU_6OrxLz8) video demonstrates it well. Its also the same method I use for the second phase. Alternatively you can microtap from the bottom of the screen but that is an art I have never mastered.

Oh and since i'm in the rage thread I might as well say, fuck ZUN for designing spells that are ridiculously easy to read that can only be failed if you mess up microtapping. Not that it happens that often but its more the concept of it.  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Major Havoc on June 05, 2011, 03:01:33 AM
I've never been able to see the good ending of Perfect Cherry Blossom because of the prisimriver sisters.
Not even them though, just the stage four fairies...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Paper Conan on June 05, 2011, 03:05:07 AM
Lunatic Orin zombies and Yoshika kunais.

:fail:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 05, 2011, 11:49:04 PM
Further fixed.

Aww man, you broke my post.  :(

If you can't read the thing, get better :V

There, repaired.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on June 06, 2011, 12:45:40 AM
If that is the case then be happy about spell practice. Seriously, go there and practice until you got it. The guy in this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amU_6OrxLz8) video demonstrates it well. Its also the same method I use for the second phase. Alternatively you can microtap from the bottom of the screen but that is an art I have never mastered.

I am so glad there's Spell Practice <3 Though I've been putting off IN for now.

In other news, Counter Clock is killing me
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on June 06, 2011, 12:49:23 AM
Aww man, you broke my post.  :(

There, repaired.

You only noticed now?

Also, have a video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51we6En02aE)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 06, 2011, 03:18:15 AM
Also, have a video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51we6En02aE)
Looks tool assisted to me.  Very sloppy gameplay+shaky Reimu+great micrododging is just screaming it.  Especially QED, it looks like the guy's having a seizure and yet he still manages to cap it, no way that's just nervous twitches.

I'd recommend SadisticPenguin's (ND3B [3B on the last 2 cards]) or Sapz' (perfect) runs if you want spellcard methodology, both great runs.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on June 06, 2011, 04:20:34 AM
I am sick and tired of dying in the first three stages of PR. It's just so demoralizing making all those little mistakes. Also fuck Danmakufu-Reimu's invisible hitbox. Before anyone says anything, it's not merely that it's invisible, more that it's technically an "invisible visible hitbox". A programming oversight, but I just can't shake my mind off it. I need to see if I can change this up somehow.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 06, 2011, 01:01:01 PM
You only noticed now?

Yup.

Also. That EoSD video. It looks a bit fishy how he handled QED after sucking that much at pretty much anything else. Very inconsistent performance.

Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on June 06, 2011, 01:41:23 PM
I didnt have the time(nor the bandwidth) to look at it. I was merely googling the spellcard name and came up with that.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 06, 2011, 02:12:50 PM
I didn't mean it in a mean way, just trying to help Railgun find a couple good replays.  ;3
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on June 06, 2011, 07:01:08 PM
almost had a MoF hard mode 1cc damn stage 4 and 5 >.> perfected stages 1-3 and ended up with 3 lives on Kanako, did Kanako semi-blind can't remember her cards well.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on June 07, 2011, 12:39:16 AM
Holy crap I'm really rusty at SA Stage 3.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on June 07, 2011, 01:21:04 AM
Koishi crashed my game on both of my MarisaA clears just now. I even captured Genetics on both runs, but they don't count since the stupid score didn't save...

On another note, my recent failed run captured Philosophy of a Hated Person! I figured out the movements for the second phase, so it's only a matter of being manly for the third.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: NEETori on June 07, 2011, 02:42:44 AM
Why is it so easy to derp IN stage 5, one of the easiest stage 5s in the series?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on June 07, 2011, 02:50:17 AM
Displeasure of the Seven Sins (PCB Youmu Hard)
I was able to dodge every wave, on my way to capture it. Just as Youmu was exploding, I run into an arrow >_<
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on June 07, 2011, 03:03:40 AM
SA Extra, MarisaA.
Every single fucking time! I've cleared it three times now! It's crashed three times in a row!
What the fucking hell?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 07, 2011, 03:23:40 AM
SA Extra, MarisaA.
Every single fucking time! I've cleared it three times now! It's crashed three times in a row!
What the fucking hell?
Maybe you should just record it live.  At least then you'll have a replay, even if you can't Gensokyo it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on June 07, 2011, 03:43:23 AM
MarisA  has a lot of issues with crashing in SA. There's this, the stage 4 in Practice crash, I've had crashes with her after 1ccs, and others.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on June 07, 2011, 04:13:40 PM
TWO 1CCs ruined by Yuyuko.
Damn her.

Stage 3's End: 7 lives, no bombs
Stage 4's End: 2 lives, one bomb

advice plox

Have a replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14146)
If you look closely you can find some of my best dodging during Youmu's fight
Look elsewhere and find the stupid
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on June 07, 2011, 04:28:51 PM
An awesome score run ruined by this bullshit computer. I timed out a few nonspells, blue ufos all over the place, wound up at Shou with one bomb, 3 lives. I had about 220mil just before going into Most Valuable Vajira. All of a sudden, this damn thing decides to turn off without warning.
FUUU-(ry indeed.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _cf on June 07, 2011, 05:07:11 PM
Trying to 1cc EoSD, etc. Due to pulling some stupid dodges way beyond my current level I finally manage to arrive to Remilia with 4 lives. Get so hyped and I'M ON FIRE NOW THERE'S NO WAY I CAN LOSE NOW and then manage to lose, anyway, by the time of Scarlet Shot. (replay at eleven).

the Idiot Ball is such a hard thing to carry...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on June 07, 2011, 09:56:59 PM
<Mewkyuu> :|
<Mewkyuu> How did I derp at Apollo 13
<Oestrogen> press bomb
<Mewkyuu> Ok, I'm at Hourai Elixir now.
<Mewkyuu> LAST SPELL FAILED
<Mewkyuu> WHAT
<Mewkyuu> 00 SECONDS LEFT :|

NO IT HAPPENED AGAIN




AND AGAIN




IT KEEPS HAPPENING
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 08, 2011, 01:24:32 AM
Trying to 1cc EoSD, etc. Due to pulling some stupid dodges way beyond my current level I finally manage to arrive to Remilia with 4 lives. Get so hyped and I'M ON FIRE NOW THERE'S NO WAY I CAN LOSE NOW and then manage to lose, anyway, by the time of Scarlet Shot. (replay at eleven).

the Idiot Ball is such a hard thing to carry...
When you're granted a miracle like that... Bomb. Everything.  Then you just have to do okay at Red Magic for the clear =p.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on June 08, 2011, 03:58:56 AM
Trying to 1cc EoSD, etc. Due to pulling some stupid dodges way beyond my current level I finally manage to arrive to Remilia with 4 lives. Get so hyped and I'M ON FIRE NOW THERE'S NO WAY I CAN LOSE NOW and then manage to lose, anyway, by the time of Scarlet Shot. (replay at eleven).

the Idiot Ball is such a hard thing to carry...

Sakuya is my wall.
Mid-Sakuya, that is. (By conspiracy, I always have 0/1 at that point)
REMILIA GET WITH 5 LIVES
GAME CLEAR WITH 4
HOLY CRAP NOW LET'S UNLOCK EXTRA WITH MARISA

*dies to Koakuma*
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on June 08, 2011, 04:21:42 AM
WHY WHY WHY am I failing so hard with Marisa C in MoF. To think that she was my fav. player before...
Have I really spoiled myself with ReimuB too much?

EDIT: fine, scraped my MarisaC lunatic 1cc. Enter stage 4 with 6 lives, come out with 1 :colonveeplusalpha:, then I magically managed to get out of stage 5 with even less resources than I entered with. Had to (and thankfully did, or else my computer would have been thrown out of the window) no death Kanako.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on June 08, 2011, 05:21:41 AM
WHY WHY WHY am I failing so hard with Marisa C in MoF. To think that she was my fav. player before...
Have I really spoiled myself with ReimuB too much?

EDIT: fine, scraped my MarisaC lunatic 1cc. Enter stage 4 with 6 lives, come out with 1 :colonveeplusalpha:, then I magically managed to get out of stage 5 with even less resources than I entered with. Had to (and thankfully did, or else my computer would have been thrown out of the window) no death Kanako.
It's MarisaC that does the spoiling~

Whee, I just died to Danmaku Chimaera....
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 08, 2011, 11:56:13 PM
Let's talk about UFO.  I can't get past stage 3 Hard half the time and when I do I just die at the start of 4.  It's harder than SA Lunatic :(.  Man, what am I doing wrong?!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 09, 2011, 12:02:21 AM
Man, what am I doing wrong?!

A little hard to say without a replay.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on June 09, 2011, 01:30:00 AM
Watch mine too ;-;
I died to Yuyuko again

In need of Stage 4 advice
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 09, 2011, 01:30:48 AM
inb4notenoughblueufos

That death with a bomb in stock on stage 3 I didn't even see the bullet.  Last Ichirin death I bombed too late.  Anyway... Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14179).  Ugh.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on June 09, 2011, 04:19:47 AM
inb4notenoughblueufos

That death with a bomb in stock on stage 3 I didn't even see the bullet.  Last Ichirin death I bombed too late.  Anyway... Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14179).  Ugh.

Runs off to make demonstration replay after watching yours
Goddamn SanaeB sucks at killing anything.
If you move slightly off center then one of your frogs will miss and suddenly you're at like only 111 DPS (when at 2.xx power), 122 DPS at 3.xx power, and 131 DPS at 4.00
When you bomb, you're shotgunning the boss. Which is good. What's not good is that you're not unfocused when you shotgun (at 3.xx and below you deal more damage unfocused)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on June 09, 2011, 04:26:02 PM
Died to Lunatic Red Eyes Invisible Full Moon or whatever it's called


that slut
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Heartbeam on June 09, 2011, 07:35:55 PM
In need of Stage 4 advice

It would be nice to read your thought process prior to each death since half of them looked pretty nonsensical.  I'll assume you lost track of the stuff that matters and panicked.  Also, putting it in the help thread might be better for catching attention for this sort of thing.

I wonder what your other runs of stage four would look like.  So, it looks like you need a gameplan.  Everything in the stage portion is aimed in some way with exception to the blue/red phase of Lily White which is random (maybe) and the final fairy which is static.  It would make sense, then, to try and stream everything and see what doesn't work out.  And then we have some enemies which won't make the screen messy if you don't destroy them, but they'll launch a wave of aimed green arrowheads before leaving the screen.  Still less hazardous than the suicide bullets, I think.

Watch the replays, observe enemy behavior, then map out your route.

Now, this next stuff I don't think falls under advice so read at your own risk.



Beginning section before stage announcement.
You seem to have it down so no comment aside from the broken border which looked like it was intentional.

Fairies dropping down firing blue bullets.
If you want to ignore weaving through the bullets like that then you can try streaming from the left.

Fairies dropping down from both sides.
Since you accidentally left that first fairy too soon there's no telling what you would have done here.  Shoot them down one by one without going for the POC?  Dying then bombing was probably the right call if you're so greedy for items like I am.  I'll have a replay at the bottom of this post for that section, and after that it'll come down to practicing the timing.  The fairies do have some armor on them as they drop down, so don't concern yourself too much if you're a little late to reach a side.  They'll go down in short order.  The other thing is that it's pretty important for someone like Marisa-B to be hitting with the focused shot since her damage is pretty lacking unfocused.  I guess that's obvious, but I have a tendency to leave early the chances of her finishing off the fairy are pretty low compared to the other shot types.  Definitely not like the lagging damage from Marisa-A.  Sit tight and get it done; the speed will make up for it plenty.

16 waves of kedama before Lily White.
I mean, the first two sets with the blue and red circular bullets were passable.  Freestyling is fine as long as you know what to expect from the attacks.  I'll need to look at your thought process again for the bomb during that third set.  I mean, not everything has to be methodical and a panic or I-don't-want-to-deal-with-this bomb is okay.  You looked like you were in the clear through.  The last set is a combination of the previous three and you can simply continue to stream it.  Get pushed to the side like that and you can opt to not shoot.  Good job though.

Lily White
She doesn't take full damage until she pops up for the third wave of aimed / static bullets.  You can wait in the center then move to a side and slowly stream in, or move to the side immediately and follow the same pattern.  Then you can get a clear shot when she appears in the middle for the barrage.  Or if you know what you're doing then stay in the middle area the entire time.

Bonus waves depending on how much time remained before destroying Lily.
Yeah, just keep your head on.  You looked like you were doing well for a bit, taking it slowly and streaming up above the blue curved shots.  Then the kedama firing purple bullets showed up and you moved around a fair bit, spreading the aimed shots.  Still not too bad, but then you outright died to the column of blue bullets.  Nerves, maybe.

Fairies dropping down the middle (then eventually one on each side).
It looked like you resigned to shooting unfocused when more than one fairy appeared, but don't lose hope!  Stay near the bullet stream and the focused laser will hit.  And it'll be more efficient.  Again, not sure what happened with that death.  Nervous to collect the items and didn't account for what was yet to come in the stage?

Blue / red shotgun fairies and friends.
Looked good at first.  You had the border so you would chase after the fairies on both sides.  After it extinguished you moved around to catch a little more before resuming your streaming.  Then you did that which led to a panic(?) bomb.  After that you didn't resume your streaming and the red shotgun fairy's pronged attack turned into a ridiculous spread.  Then another panic death, it appears.

Death fairy.
Well you removed the beginning of the attack, but yeah.  Static stuff.


Phantom Dinning, the round bullets shouldn't be a problem.  Focused on the aimed arrowheads.  If there's streaming then a cutback should be involved, but even then they don't fire so often that it would be necessary.  If you're going to take the bottom for Prism Concerto then I would recommend shooting one of the side sisters rather than the one in the middle.

Replays
Safety Precaution (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14188)
I ♥ the POC (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14187)

I guess the best path for the safety run would be pacifist from the kedama waves until Lily White, but that method is pretty self-explanatory.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on June 09, 2011, 07:40:07 PM
I keep getting hit on the parts of SFN where I shouldn't be, and usually dodging the parts where I thought I'd likely be.

I don't know for sure how many attempts at timeout have been recent, but my total attempts for timing this out have gone over 1,000.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 09, 2011, 09:09:35 PM
I don't know for sure how many attempts at timeout have been recent, but my total attempts for timing this out have gone over 1,000.

Daww you are disappointing me. BUT KEEP AT IT! I know you can do it.

... just try your best at geting it before 4000 attempts okay? If you go there, then don't mention any numbers. Just say it took a long while.  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on June 13, 2011, 03:20:28 PM
*sigh* Perfecting IN Stage 5 Lunatic may take a while. Never mind my random derps during the stage portion, 4 of Reisen's 5 cards still have potential to screw me over, despite knowing full well how to do them. And it only takes one of them to ruin everything. ::)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on June 13, 2011, 04:01:29 PM

My thought process is very automatic.
(http://i53.tinypic.com/wrcro4.jpg)
As for the items themselves, it's almost as if I can't live without them.
A bit of me on the inside dies every time I notice an item fall off the screen.


Thank you for the replays. Now it is practice time.

Stage 4 went a lot better than I expected. Now don't say I did bad. Because I thought I'd do worse, much much worse.

I just realized I forgot to give a link to my performance. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14248)

As for Stage 5
YOUMU YOU ARE SUCH A THORN IN MY SIDE WHY WON'T YOU DIE.
YOU
ARE
A
WHOOOORE
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on June 13, 2011, 06:47:22 PM
Blind Nightbird is a seriously stupid card when you try to time it out. Got it down to 42 seconds earlier, but this is completely stupid and I might give up on it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 14, 2011, 11:15:18 PM
I really don't know if this is worthy of a rage or not but... I messed up an IN-no bombs run... by deathbombing. Fucking reflexes. I guess i better unbind the bomb button the next time I get the idea of trying something like that... even though its a pretty silly thing for me to attempt in the first place.

Even if I no-miss no-bomb the entire bloody game, which would probably not even be that hard to do, i'll just get to Kaguya and have her claim my lives on attacks that screws you over as they please. I guess my better option would be to go to Eirin since I can pretty much tear her heart out when compared to my Kaguya performance.

I really need to practice Kaguya. Life Spring Infinity is easy enough unless I get bad luck, then i face either bullets, Kaguya's sprite or lasers. Hourai Jewel... maybe I should just count on getting there with enough lives since just the slightest glimpse or mention of that attack is enough to get me fucking pissed. That streaming card isn't very good on me either. The rest of her fight I can't bring myself to hate. I'm just really bad at that.

Other than Kaguya, the potential problem spots in this game would be:

-Keine's first card.
-Marisa's 2nd non-spell.

The rest should go smoothly. Maybe Reisen will get a hit in if I fuck up my input but other than that it should be fine.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on June 14, 2011, 11:52:53 PM
Messed up a perfectly good IN Stage 4 run by completely misjudging a laser familiar's location during Shoot the Moon. Perfectly as in, literally the only mistake.

I will get that perfect run, and bullshit screwups on my part ain't gonna stop me.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on June 14, 2011, 11:56:47 PM
yeah, you'll get it, and so will I eventually if I ever decide to try to Perfect the stage again. I have had 2 runs of the stage with a mistake in it. The first was a practice run where I perfected everything up to the Last Spell then failed it, and the other during my No Bombs 1cc where I derped Asteroid Belt and perfected the rest.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on June 15, 2011, 12:25:01 AM
four runs ruined by Yuyuko
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on June 15, 2011, 03:29:36 AM
And there goes Satori and Orin, ruining another good run. (didn't even beat Orin) :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on June 15, 2011, 03:53:40 PM
that's another run ruined by Yuyuko

This time I was on Perfect Blossom ~ Getting Lost


aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on June 15, 2011, 05:19:50 PM
Last night, trying to unlock Marisa A for MoF extra. Kanako's Mountain of Faith killed my run ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on June 15, 2011, 05:25:33 PM
Haven't played touhou for 3 days i think, and yea feel the differance, damn you eXceed for making me addicted to that instead of Touhou
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 15, 2011, 05:50:59 PM
Nah, don't feel bad about that at all. You might get a bit rusty on the Touhou side if you are away from it for a little but playing other shmups will benefit you greatly as you'll learn some general shmupping experience from playing them. 
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on June 15, 2011, 06:34:17 PM
Nah, don't feel bad about that at all. You might get a bit rusty on the Touhou side if you are away from it for a little but playing other shmups will benefit you greatly as you'll learn some general shmupping experience from playing them.

hHha good point, time to pack in some variation but yea just did a recent run on PCB, derp'd stages 4-6 came out with 0 lives and 1 bomb....With a score of 837,205,820. Not bad, but could be better especially with the bonuses for lives could have hit my first billion.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on June 16, 2011, 03:05:38 AM
Dammit, stop dying partway through Yuyuko! If I'm going to die, at least do it on her last two attacks. It's already rare enough getting past the stage spam, dying anywhere else feels like a fucking waste of time (despite the fact I'm dying earlier instead of later; don't think about it too hard :V).
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on June 16, 2011, 05:51:48 PM
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14299

VoWG timeout attempt. Only one death... but at 98 seconds :V
I wonder when I will get my timeout.. would I be number 12 then?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on June 16, 2011, 05:53:43 PM
Then I will be number 13. I'll try again today after I get home!
I'm determined to get that timeout even if it takes the rest of the summer to do so!

(will probably edit post...?)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on June 16, 2011, 07:41:38 PM
I remember Enigma was #10 with VoWG. Did anyone else do it after him? Maybe I missed it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on June 16, 2011, 07:46:01 PM
Naut
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: TAKE IT CACODEMON!! on June 17, 2011, 04:12:09 AM
Facing off Eirin. I waste all my bombs on her, thinking she should only have three for some weird reason.

...I barely survive her fourth card and lose my final continue on the fifth. :<
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on June 17, 2011, 04:18:49 AM
Hey Patchouli. Stop stealing my lives.

EDIT:
I'm able to no-focus Kanako, but I can't time VoWG out?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on June 17, 2011, 08:59:14 AM
I'm able to no-focus Kanako, but I can't time VoWG out?

Its because the challenge is all or nothing at Kanako unfortunately. Outside of her short-.lived opener, I can't think of any difficult attack of hers. The closest would be that Knives spellcard but that provides huge gaps half the time.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on June 17, 2011, 10:14:20 PM
Grrrr....Damn you Phantasm mode -.- I did it before and i'll clear it again although i haven't touched upon this for some time now, focused on eXceed and the SA normal 1cc i did awhile ago
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on June 17, 2011, 10:22:36 PM
IN Hard with Border team:
Cleared Reisen with 4 lives...giving me a chance to finally 1CC a game on Hard. Lost my final life on Hourai Jewel ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sen on June 18, 2011, 07:50:07 PM
Fuuuuu-

Got Lunatic Match Mode Marisa in PoFV down to half a dot before I accidentally ran into a laser. :/
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 20, 2011, 03:19:13 PM
Misjudged hitboxes and late deathbombs label:

http://i56.tinypic.com/353412s.png

At least 4 of those deaths were bullshit >_>
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: TAKE IT CACODEMON!! on June 20, 2011, 05:09:19 PM
Why am I still playing iiji modo
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on June 20, 2011, 09:59:53 PM
Me: Hey why don't I try EoSD Lunatic again?

Remi: Omae wa mo shindeiru... *Scarlet Meister*

Me: Oh, NOW I remember why, it's because I need to do the Kaguya* plan with Remi, but I can't because the game is so FREAKING HARD.

*The Kaguya plan is when you get to the final boss with a ton of resources and just bombspam because you suck at all her attacks.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on June 20, 2011, 10:33:41 PM
*The Kaguya plan is when you get to the final boss with a ton of resources and just bombspam because you suck at all her attacks.

I thought Kaguya was supposed to be the easier of the two IN final bosses?
Her nonspells are harder than her spells, though.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on June 20, 2011, 10:50:25 PM
I thought Kaguya was supposed to be the easier of the two IN final bosses?
Her nonspells are harder than her spells, though.

Kaguya is the easier boss, I'm just terribad at fighting her.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _cf on June 20, 2011, 11:03:43 PM
Misjudged hitboxes and late deathbombs label:

http://i56.tinypic.com/353412s.png

At least 4 of those deaths were bullshit >_>

Oh man, this screencap. THIS FREAKING SCREENCAP.

I never continue in EoSD, through as seeing a good end is always the objective. Unless you were trying to do a no bomb run (in which case you're a better man and I'm not in place to provide advice), at that particular place I usually spend a bomb immediately before, to defeat the six faeries that throw the red, blue and green rings of bullets. That bomb helps to survive the barrier faeries too (I usually try to kill the center and left faeries so I only need to dodge barriers from one direction).

As for my current RAGE, how the F DO YOU CONTROL MARISA? I TAP LEFT OR RIGHT AND STUPID CLUMSY WITCH FLIES A MILE TO THROW HERSELF AT A BULLET. AND THIS IS WHILE FOCUSING. THEY'RE NOT MUSHROOMS, YOU STUPID ADDICT, THEY'RE BULLETS. BULLETS![/vent]

I'm dying at places I got to the point where I don't die with Reimu anymore, as miniboss Meiling non-card (!!!).
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on June 21, 2011, 12:02:49 AM
As for my current RAGE, how the F DO YOU CONTROL MARISA? I TAP LEFT OR RIGHT AND STUPID CLUMSY WITCH FLIES A MILE TO THROW HERSELF AT A BULLET. AND THIS IS WHILE FOCUSING. THEY'RE NOT MUSHROOMS, YOU STUPID ADDICT, THEY'RE BULLETS. BULLETS![/vent]

Play at 90FPS. Then never complain about movement speeds again.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: chirpy13 on June 21, 2011, 12:28:20 AM
Oh man, this screencap. THIS FREAKING SCREENCAP.

I never continue in EoSD, through as seeing a good end is always the objective. Unless you were trying to do a no bomb run (in which case you're a better man and I'm not in place to provide advice), at that particular place I usually spend a bomb immediately before, to defeat the six faeries that throw the red, blue and green rings of bullets. That bomb helps to survive the barrier faeries too (I usually try to kill the center and left faeries so I only need to dodge barriers from one direction).
I want to be able to say "Who said I continued? :V", but this is probably the only time in my life (since before my first 1cc) where I DID use a continue to practice grazing Sakuya's head (midboss nonspell) >_>.  She proceeded to collide with me 3 times and waste all my lives.  Anyway, rings are no problem (tap, tap, done), but I decided to be a retard and try dodging the walls.  Not that it would mattered at that point anyway from all the HURRdeaths before that.  As for no-bomb run, naw, generic Lunatic attempt =/
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on June 21, 2011, 02:40:46 AM
Sonofabitch I lost two lives at Danmaku Bounded Field ;_; Both times where I had bombs
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on June 21, 2011, 07:14:02 AM
Danmaku Chimaera. 90FPS.

WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF?

Actually, most of Nue's cards are easy enough (up to Green UFOs, where I game overed) but the noncards are autobombs. Isn't that the case for all of the Extra 90FPS bosses I've fought, though (except Flandre)?

I can get to Nue with 3 spare lives and 3 bombs, full power. If only for Chimaera which killed me three times... :colonveeplusalpha:

Edit: Hey, I got to Nue with 5 LIVES (and no bombs, but still)
and then after one death on Danmaku Chimaera, I thought I'd be gold.
And then I died four times to Green UFOs.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on June 21, 2011, 10:25:49 PM
My recent attempt at UFO Normal (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14397). Gameovered to Byakuren's second Nonspell.

At least i'm getting better. Before I couldn't even beat stage 4. Now i can do that consistently.

Edit: What the hell am I doing wrooong~?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on June 22, 2011, 12:47:26 AM
...I got a game over on Madly Dance of Medoteko (Hard) SUCH AN EASY SPELL CARD TOO!!!

What is this I don't even...

Also, I lost 5-6 lives on Stage 4 that run :fail: /wrist
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on June 22, 2011, 09:17:08 PM
WHAT

I DIED ON RAN'S EASIEST NONSPELL EVER
AND KOKKURI-SAN'S CONTRACT: I TOTALLY DODGED THAT

I even captured Descent of  Izuna Gongen...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on June 23, 2011, 03:44:32 PM
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Kanako's last spell GRRR

she had 3mm length of health left damn it god dammit
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on June 23, 2011, 03:51:35 PM
seven runs ruined by yuyuko

Come onnnnnn
371 million points
That's hardly average

but 4,300 graze
...Is that a lot for a normal run?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sungho on June 24, 2011, 03:23:46 AM
FFT you, th06.
FFT you, last fairy of stage 1 for not giving me a big power item.
FFT you, Cirno and your Perfect Freeze. Those bullets with infinite acceleration are one of the most FFTing things in a shooting game.
FFT you, Sakuya and your ***ded knives and your spells with FFTing random ***ded knives.
FFT you, Remilia and those FFTing metal fatigue bullets which gives more paranoia than "Danmaku Paranoia"
And of course, FFT those random movements. This combined with lack of enemy marker makes this game harder than it should be.

By the way, FFT stands for Fast Fourier transform.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on June 25, 2011, 01:27:44 PM
I'm getting so sick of EoSD. I need to get PCB soon before I go mad.

EFFING FARIES AT THE START OF EOSD EXTRA. I'm so used to using Marisa B who just kills them instantly because of her lasers that I don't spend enough time killing them with other characters therefore I miss out on some of them which are left to fly around and screw me over just before they leave the screen. I often fail so hard at collecting the power on the portion of faries that fire red streamable bullets that I can't stream them properly and have to run around trying to get enough power. When that happens I often die. GOD DAMNIT.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: n i c o l e on June 25, 2011, 10:36:18 PM
trying to clear pod.d/normal for the first time and I have a run that is about as perfect as it will ever be barring a silly death in stage 7 and things go perfectly in stage 8

but then lol 4 lives on Yumemi I can't

I just can't
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on June 27, 2011, 04:56:50 AM
Make it to lunatic byakuren with 3 lives and 3 bombs.

Die twice to magic butterfly
 :colonveeplusalpha:
Lose my final life to the following nonspell.
At least im getting back into the swing of this.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on June 27, 2011, 05:43:32 PM
Cant.Play.In.Very.Hot.Weather.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Dusknoir on June 27, 2011, 06:07:25 PM
Cant.Play.In.Very.Hot.Weather.
The same happens to me : since yesterday, my fingers are slipping, I need to blink twice more than usual, and my computer is slower... ><
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on June 27, 2011, 06:30:15 PM
So there's this Youmu
Against my Youmu

AND YOU SLASH OF PRESENT MY SLASH OF PRESENT
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on June 27, 2011, 09:12:32 PM
.....so. close.
Almost default 1cc'd EoSD with Marisa A. Used 1 bomb on Red Magic, and when Remi had about this much |       | health left, I got hit. On my last life too.
Fortunately I've managed to control myself better since the time before so it didn't turn into an "OH FUDGE NONONONO *smashes head on screen*" but I was still pretty ugh afterwards.

edit: (rant up ahead)

Maze of Love....
WHY THE HECK DO YOU EXIST?!!? HOW THE CRAP AM I SUPPOSED TO DODGE YOU I CAN'T CIRCLE I CAN'T POSITION MYSELF RIGHT BECAUSE MY FINGERS ARE SHAKING SO MUCH AND I USE SO MANY BOMBS AND DIE LIKE TWICE IF I HAVE THAT MANY LIVES IT'S JUST TOO HARD. ZUN WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU MADE THIS?!?!? THIS IS GOING TO DESTROY ME.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on June 27, 2011, 11:20:40 PM
Are you serious? Six consecutive runs ruined at stages four and five?
why do I suck at PCB now
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Athrel on June 28, 2011, 01:07:55 AM
In a UFO normal 1cc attempt I had max lives by the time Murasa appeared and only died twice during her fight.

I made it through stage five able to maintain the lives I had.

Shou made sure to take the remaining 6 away during her fight.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Vyrien on June 28, 2011, 08:37:13 AM
In a UFO normal 1cc attempt I had max lives by the time Murasa appeared and only died twice during her fight.

I made it through stage five able to maintain the lives I had.

Shou made sure to take the remaining 6 away during her fight.

This, so much this. Then, if by some miracle you make it through Shou, Byakuren's all like O HAI THAR and blitzes you -_-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: XephyrEnigma on June 28, 2011, 03:23:23 PM
This, so much this. Then, if by some miracle you make it through Shou, Byakuren's all like O HAI THAR and blitzes you -_-

Ain't this the truth.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on June 28, 2011, 07:30:37 PM
....why? ;____;
I got to Catadioptric with one life and no bombs (which is good for me), lost my life on the first wave. With three bombs left, I thought I was going to make it, but then a STUPID FREAKING BULLET BOUNCES OFF THE SCREEN AND CATCHES ME OFF GUARD.
Why do I play Extra when I know it's only going to cause me grief? 
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: wisefelipe on June 28, 2011, 08:37:08 PM
Every single one of Patchy's spellcards.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _cf on June 28, 2011, 08:42:38 PM
Every single one of Patchy's spellcards.
Even with Reimu A? They used to scare me a lot too, but these days I can capture them rather regularly. Not Lava Cromlech, however. That card is a pain.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on June 28, 2011, 08:47:16 PM
Even with Reimu A? They used to scare me a lot too, but these days I can capture them rather regularly. Not Lava Cromlech, however. That card is a pain.
Sylphae Horn High Level >_>

ReimuA gets the easier cards IMO. While MarisaA gets the harder ones. The other shot types are somewhere in the middle.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Koakkuri on June 28, 2011, 08:49:52 PM
I honestly love most of Patchouli's card, even the Water and Wood ones.  :3

On-topic: Curse you Elly and your scythe and your that one bullshit pattern I still haven't figured out.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: wisefelipe on June 28, 2011, 09:30:37 PM
Even with Reimu A? They used to scare me a lot too, but these days I can capture them rather regularly. Not Lava Cromlech, however. That card is a pain.

I agree she is not too hard to Reimu A, but I'm better playing as Marisa.

I can get past her fairly well... but it's sad to get to her without dying even once and leave her with 3 lives left....

EDIT: Also, I'm stubborn and even when I know I can't EVER beat those two windmill laser+bullets patterns and that Metal Fatigue spellcard without bombing, I always try and end up dying recklessly.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on June 28, 2011, 10:48:14 PM
(http://i56.tinypic.com/fuospf.jpg)

C'mon... just get through this huge gap... *pichun*

Damn it not again... 1DNB VoWG timeout.
I really need to learn how to calm myself down. Gaah that timer sound.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Reddyne on June 29, 2011, 04:24:01 AM
I'm not really that bad at GFW, I just spontaneously decide that I should lose 4 lives over a span of 30 seconds on level 3 (regardless of route) because that's how I operate. There's always that ONE PART where something throws me for a loop completely.

Anyway, still 4 of 6 paths to go.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on June 30, 2011, 02:54:07 PM
My keyboard isn't sensitive enough...If it had recognised that I had pressed the friggin X key during Maze of Love then I might have just gotten to Starbow Break with one life and two bombs. But no, ti decided that I must get hit even though I pressed the bomb key like 3 times.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on July 01, 2011, 05:10:16 AM
*sigh* I'll never understand why but I have a tendency to space out when doing spell cards....this cost me my latest attempt at a 1cc of ufo lunatic ;_;  I had two lives going into lfo and lost the first one super early due to spacing out -.-  and yet i regained focus and almost beat it but nerves got the better of me.  GDI WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME. :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on July 02, 2011, 06:51:34 PM
Still failing at Fantasy Heaven. I don't know how I can last through the whole thing. My best record for time (which I can now do semi-consistently) is going to the last 8 seconds. Then it always walls me. Why did ZUN have to make this card so darn difficult?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on July 03, 2011, 03:30:07 AM
Still failing at Fantasy Heaven. I don't know how I can last through the whole thing. My best record for time (which I can now do semi-consistently) is going to the last 8 seconds. Then it always walls me. Why did ZUN have to make this card so darn difficult?

Do it at 90FPS. It's essentially the same, and the attempts go faster~
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on July 03, 2011, 04:42:57 AM
Entered Flying Fantastica Normal with 3 lives remaining.

...all gone ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Phlegeth on July 03, 2011, 10:37:06 PM
I'm beginning to think the underground hate Kappas.  Take Parsee for example, during her final phase, those round bullets float up towards the sky.  Except when I'm teamed up with Nitori.  They're on a crash course with Marisa.  And not to mention the average fairy seems even more hell bent on blowing Marisa out of the sky when she's teamed up with Nitori.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on July 04, 2011, 12:51:39 AM
Still failing at Fantasy Heaven. I don't know how I can last through the whole thing. My best record for time (which I can now do semi-consistently) is going to the last 8 seconds. Then it always walls me. Why did ZUN have to make this card so darn difficult?
New record! Got down to 4 seconds! Making progress, I think?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on July 04, 2011, 01:43:38 AM
I just realized I have no idea what to do against Koishi :V I'll go watch some more extra replays
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ARF on July 04, 2011, 08:17:07 PM
Remember when I raged about dying to Keine when she was exploding? Well, the same thing happened to this guy (http://score.royalflare.net/th08/dlreplay.cgi?id=2195), but on Kaguya's Hourai Jewel. Just wanted to post this to prove that it's possible to die when bosses explode.

It's a good score attempt, but many failed last spells and amazingly cringeworthy misses ruined it. Totally watchable regardless.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on July 04, 2011, 08:39:50 PM
Remember when I raged about dying to Keine when she was exploding? Well, the same thing happened to this guy (http://score.royalflare.net/th08/dlreplay.cgi?id=2195), but on Kaguya's Hourai Jewel. Just wanted to post this to prove that it's possible to die when bosses explode.

It's a good score attempt, but many failed last spells and amazingly cringeworthy misses ruined it. Totally watchable regardless.

Terrible when that kind of stuff happens. Annoying enough when it happens after finishing a pattern, but I think it's one of those occurences that really shape your character. Happened to me against Flandre, but I had it coming and I managed to laugh about it anyway.

Recent rage: messing up a potential MoF Lunatic attempt by not managing to get through Kanako's final spellcard with one extra life and 4.00 power because I just had to be a hero and get hit halfway through the ordeal without having used a bomb yet. Better luck next time!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on July 04, 2011, 09:01:09 PM
Geez, I'm out of it when it comes to TD. Trying to improve my old score after being away from the game for so long = pain. :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on July 04, 2011, 11:45:18 PM
Aaaaaaahhhhhhh! ALMOST had a SA normal 1cc with ReimuB, almost. I needed a few more seconds on the last spellcard. Why is it so dense on normal?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on July 05, 2011, 02:31:03 AM
Oh, FUCK YOU, PCB Stage 4
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Silent Harmony on July 05, 2011, 07:06:51 AM
I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't "get" MS seeing how I've heard so many people call it easy outside of Yumeko. Nice to see I'm as terrible at these bosses as ever. :fail:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on July 05, 2011, 03:21:59 PM
I feel like I'm the only person who doesn't "get" MS seeing how I've heard so many people call it easy outside of Yumeko. Nice to see I'm as terrible at these bosses as ever. :fail:
Luize, Yuki and Mai are actually challenging if you don't remember their patterns, some of which just POP OUT at you spontaneously.

UFO Hard: Seriously?!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _cf on July 05, 2011, 05:45:13 PM
Oh, FUCK YOU, PCB Stage 4
This. again, and again. Even on easy mode, this stage is pure pain.

I can win PCB on easy, but on normal, stage 4 (not the prismrivers, mind you, the stage itself) destroys me. What little of me arrives on Youmu is mercilessly cut.

And I keep reading that EoSD is the "hard one" (this and SA), and I can consistently 1cc it now.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Silent Harmony on July 05, 2011, 05:58:58 PM
I can win PCB on easy, but on normal, stage 4 (not the prismrivers, mind you, the stage itself) destroys me. What little of me arrives on Youmu is mercilessly cut.

Stage 4 is all about memorizing spawns and knowing where not to shoot. The three hardest parts (imo) is the fairy's that pop out on opposite sides in the first half, Lily, and the mess after her. Each of those, and the death-fairy at the end, are basically auto-bombs (but Lily and the fairy give a bomb). Just keep at it and it'll be ok.

Then you can rage at stage 5 like I do. :D
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on July 06, 2011, 12:21:48 PM
I didn't realize before but I think MS might actually take the prize for being the most boring Touhou game ever made. The first four stages are so bland and uninspired, mainly just simple and static patterns and the biggest threat being enemies firing aimed snowballs while you are standing right next to them giving you no time to react.

Lame stages is quite the norm for Touhou though (until certain levels of the later games). The bosses for these four stages are unequalled in easiness.

It really sucks considering the gold that is the last two stages. Its really too bad there aren't any replays for this game. I'd love to see the top scoring runs of this game.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on July 06, 2011, 12:27:23 PM
Funny, I think MS is perfect for players of all levels. Oh welp, lolopinions.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on July 06, 2011, 01:02:23 PM
How do you know that the game is perfect for players better than you?  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on July 06, 2011, 01:06:03 PM
How do you know that the game is perfect for players better than you?  :V

Because, like you said, ohaithuryumeko
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on July 06, 2011, 01:09:59 PM
Ah Yumeko. Yes, she is indeed very awesome. The game would indeed be perfect if the game held up to that standard but it doesn't. Having a safe state ready to go against her at max rank whenever I want is bloody awesome though. Something I'm really missing in UFO against a certain boss.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Phlegeth on July 06, 2011, 09:16:18 PM
Does a halfCC count as an accomplishment.  Like I said in the derp thread I made it all the way to Murasa's survival card in UFO Normal with Marisa A.  And I captured every card except for Ichirin's last one and Murasa's last two.  I panicked at the last moment during that card and then panicked again when she didn't quite die.  I'm so close I think I might actually 1CC a game on normal!  Not counting Marisa B on MoF.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on July 06, 2011, 09:27:50 PM
After getting through the portion of the Extra Stage before Patchouli with no bombs and no deaths, I thought "HOLY CRAP I'M AWESOME RIGHT NOW!"
Silent Selene is normal; bomb about halfway through and take her down with normal shots.
And then my computer didn't register my bomb in Royal Flare.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on July 07, 2011, 09:49:52 PM
No matter how long I've been playing TD, I just can't get used to shotgunning Yuyuko's final. It's legitimately one of the hardest things to do in a scorerun of this game.

And then my computer didn't register my bomb in Royal Flare.
Are you using the Vsync patch? If you are, then make sure no bullets are anywhere near you next time you try that.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Koakkuri on July 08, 2011, 09:04:03 AM
It has been said before, it will be said again, but it also has to be said now:

ORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!

Also, Murasa, quit sinking my dreams kthx.  :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on July 08, 2011, 04:39:31 PM
Failed a Lunatic 5CC to Yuyuko's penultimate nonspell -_-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on July 09, 2011, 12:30:43 AM
I really do not like Sakuya A, especially during Phantasm

I also kept dying (with bombs intact) because I can't tap. I tap and Sakuya moves a mile in said direction. Though I have no problems tapping with Reimu, Marisa A, or Sakuya B ._.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: AxiamWolfe on July 09, 2011, 02:04:29 PM
I chose to bite the softer bullet and just start 1CC-ing GFW on Easy (I can't on normal on any route, despite having done so in all other main games).
On my third playthrough in a row doing route C-1, defeated the three fairies and their "Three Fairies" spellcard. *BOOM*


"Wait, where's my stage bonus? Why am I still here?"
(http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q248/grem16/GFWglitch.jpg)
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14656 (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14656)

Damn it! Now I gotta do this damn run all over again! :getdown:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on July 09, 2011, 05:21:51 PM
It has been said before, it will be said again, but it also has to be said now:

ORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!!!!

Pfff, Orin's like 1000 years too early to be close to Syou "Fuck Your 1cc" Toramaru in terms of utter rage and bile.

Edit: I love MoF extra so much. So much until SUWAKO'S FREAKING SURVIVAL NONSENSE CARDS and, if you manage to overcome them, a hilariously easy last spell. It just lacks finesse.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lecithul on July 10, 2011, 08:35:25 PM
Bah, was going through MoF Normal with MarisaB, and got farther than ever before. I had six lives left when I met Kanako. Head into "Mountain of Faith" with a decent three lives left. Die once, completely lose my concentration, and proceed to die three more times in quick succession.  AGH, I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO UNLOCK EXTRA FINALLY D:

Oh yeah, it was death-less until Stage 5 after midboss Sanae too. Such a good run for me. -.-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Reddyne on July 11, 2011, 02:34:48 AM
Why do I subject myself to either of the Aya games? Some of the earlier stages are frustrating as it is. However, there comes a point in which the amount of strategy required for each stage (a pretty consistent but growing amount) is just completely overridden by sheer dodging skill that I lack. It'll take not one, not a few, but a few DOZEN attempts before I see any forward progress in these stages. Every other Touhou game features some degree of variety, but if you're stuck on getting through one of X many stages you need to advance, you see the exact same carbon-copy pattern over and over so many times that it just gets too frustrating for my taste. Even with this, I STILL can't stomach the way Aya controls and the next time I go in for the final pic and die with the frame box still blinking around whoever it is I'm up against, I'm going to test the neighbors' ability to dodge PC monitor danmaku.
Bah, was going through MoF Normal with MarisaB, and got farther than ever before. I had six lives left when I met Kanako. Head into "Mountain of Faith" with a decent three lives left. Die once, completely lose my concentration, and proceed to die three more times in quick succession.  AGH, I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO UNLOCK EXTRA FINALLY D:

Oh yeah, it was death-less until Stage 5 after midboss Sanae too. Such a good run for me. -.-
That last spellcard is either heaven or hell for me. I either capture it or completely lose my composure and blow all my resources on it.
Pfff, Orin's like 1000 years too early to be close to Syou "Fuck Your 1cc" Toramaru in terms of utter rage and bile.

Edit: I love MoF extra so much. So much until SUWAKO'S FREAKING SURVIVAL NONSENSE CARDS and, if you manage to overcome them, a hilariously easy last spell. It just lacks finesse.
Part 1: WORDS AND NOTHING MORE! Shou's almost refreshing compared to Orin's HATE.

Part 2: Suwako's so much fun. She's the only extra stage boss I play simply for pleasure. My first extra stage win, too.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on July 11, 2011, 06:16:56 AM
I can't unlock Imperishable Shooting ;_;
I also lost my last life to Hourai Doll -_-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on July 11, 2011, 06:39:59 AM
Are you using the Vsync patch? If you are, then make sure no bullets are anywhere near you next time you try that.

Only just noticed this now :v No, I'm not. I'm playing on a laptop so it's probably more to do with the 3 keys pressed down at once scenario. Never a problem when I press the arrow keys, but it doesn't seem to be able to keep track of when I press the X key as well as any of the others.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on July 11, 2011, 02:35:08 PM
...failed a capture of Kokurri-san's Contract and Izuna Gongen each with one second left...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on July 12, 2011, 09:04:11 PM
I dunno if this is to be considered a failure or some sort of odd accomplishment but since this certainly isn't a new thing for me, i'll just put it here. I did another, (how many is it now? 7-8 i think) 1DNB battle with Shou. This time I failed at Radiant Treasure Gun. Right at the end of the card. Because I sat still like a fucking retard completely dazzled by the bullets cause' they look pretty.

Captured everything else and at no higher than 2xx power too. There is something mean about that Shou. She knows her stage is worse than reading old danish poems that makes sense to absolutely fucking no one while she herself is fun and thus forces me to go through that nonsense that holds exactly two parts with difficulty and a whole lot other ones only there to provide fodder for score runners. Or kill those devoid of fingers, I don't know what ZUN was trying to accomplish with it. The notion of trying to better myself at it isn't gonna do me much good when I know the entire thing inside out. I can't even think of a way to optimize my scoring in that area. - That doesn't involve some sort of grazewhoring bullshit.

Tbh, UFO is one of the better Touhou games. But its kinda like Megaman X6 good. It has some awesome ideas and cool music but its certainly counterweighted by a relentless tide of tedious bullshit. Well, I've said my piece. I will get that tiger one day, I swear. And after her, I'll have no excuse but to go after Byakuren.

tl;dr - Shou is fucking evil but I like that evilness. Stage is fucking boring though. UFO is kinda like Megaman X6. Another barely failed perfect battle. Yadayadayada
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Phlegeth on July 13, 2011, 09:40:15 PM
I HATE Capsizing Anchor.  I can't get anywhere because of that.  It doesn't matter how many lives I manage to collect she's just going to take them all with in 15 seconds.  And of course Nue/Nameless Ball of Light thinks I need a Bomb instead of a 1-Up.  I managed to capture every card up to that point just to die 3 times to that one card, again.  I can capture Deep Vortex pretty consistently now.  And Phantom Ship Harbor isn't has bad, I still panic bomb on it.  Same with Sinker Ghost, except more deliberate bombing.  It's just Capsizing Anchor.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on July 13, 2011, 09:48:23 PM
I'm not entirely sure but I think you need to capture the S4 midboss in order to get the 1up. Or at the very least not die against it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on July 13, 2011, 09:53:27 PM
Yep, you've got to capture it, so you can't even bomb. I'd just treat it like a regular midboss and see if you can get through the pattern. Don't let greed blind you, if you have to bomb, bomb, +/- 0 is better than losing a life.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on July 13, 2011, 10:30:44 PM
I can confirm that you need to capture that sequence to get the extra life. However, each of the four waves is a randomly-orienting static pattern (all in the same "style" too), so grind it in Practice, learn it, and love it. Okay, maybe not "love it", but at least learn it.

On-topic: Death on Mokou's fifth nonspell.

For crying out loud. I'm better than that.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on July 13, 2011, 11:46:20 PM
I can confirm that you need to capture that sequence to get the extra life. However, each of the four waves is a randomly-orienting static pattern (all in the same "style" too), so grind it in Practice, learn it, and love it. Okay, maybe not "love it", but at least learn it.

It's aimed at your position, and so is the stage six version (which is just a bit faster) :)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on July 14, 2011, 12:16:29 AM
Holy crap, I've forgotten just how much of a pain scorerunning SA Stage 1 can be. I don't even know how to do half the stuff in it, but even what I do know has an annoying tendency to kill me. Plus there's the fact I keep dying very early in Stage 2 for some godawful reason. ::)

It's aimed at your position, and so is the stage six version (which is just a bit faster) :)
I'm pretty sure it's not. But either way, it's still mostly memo.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Reddyne on July 15, 2011, 12:30:17 AM
UFO extra stage because I just sorta gave up on GFW and DS is DS. The stage I've got down pretty well, including UFO strategy. Summon up one when the 4 (5?) death fairies are about to douse you with bullets, and shoot it down when the second wave comes. But Kogasa has 3 of the most annoying spell cards for a stage like this. The hitbox on her first is ridiculous, let alone how easy it is to get pinned and how difficult it is to get out of getting pinned. The second is downright unpredictable save that the hole you were about to dodge through closes up. The third just makes my eyes hurt after several laser volleys. Meanwhile, 4 or 5 of Nue's first 6 cards are gimme's, and then they get rough if you aren't right on the ball.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: J.O.B on July 15, 2011, 01:53:30 AM
Just keep trying, UFO extra isn't all that hard. If you can get the stage down then you're already 2/3 there. Nue's only cards that are really problematic are her last card, her survival and IMO Rainbow UFOs.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: RegalStar on July 15, 2011, 03:05:40 AM
WTF, Sakuya? (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14714)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Thanuris on July 15, 2011, 08:35:52 PM
WHY (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=14726)  :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on July 15, 2011, 09:47:30 PM
Played CtC Blind and fcked the penultimate spell of Reimu. FUUUU on normal.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on July 16, 2011, 09:19:10 AM
I went ahead and tried to pacifist UFO Hard Stage 4.
It was fun.
I captured Nue.
I died a few times to the stage, but it was still hella fun.
I shot Murasa a few times because I use Z to actually read the conversations.
I failed Floundering Anchor (because it's a timeout lol)
I failed Sinkable Vortex (because timeout lol) actually this was really hard and insane and hella fun. I like this card a lot now.
I died to whatever her third card is.
I died to Dipper Creeping Closer at the very last second.

And I forgot to save the replay.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on July 16, 2011, 10:58:16 AM
So I'm failing epically at trying to no-death PCB Extra. What the hell, I already have no-death Phantasm, and I'm struggling at Extra?

This makes something like 50 failed attempts now. My last one? "YES I BEAT UNILATERAL CONTACT! THREE BOMBS LEFT! NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW!"

(dies to Shikigami "Chen")

...

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU  :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on July 17, 2011, 02:13:00 AM
Eff you EoSD Reimu A. Eff you and your weak shot power. I would have gotten that 1cc if you had just been the TINIEST BIT STRONGER. Why did I have to die RIGHT AS REMILIA WAS EXPLODING?! And by RUNNING INTO A BULLET, of all things!!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Athrel on July 17, 2011, 04:47:05 AM
Eff you EoSD Reimu A. Eff you and your weak shot power. I would have gotten that 1cc if you had just been the TINIEST BIT STRONGER. Why did I have to die RIGHT AS REMILIA WAS EXPLODING?! And by RUNNING INTO A BULLET, of all things!!

The exact same thing has happened to me before. I had extra lives though so I laughed instead of raged.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on July 17, 2011, 05:52:40 PM
The exact same thing has happened to me before. I had extra lives though so I laughed instead of raged.

Heh, if I hadn't derped twice on Metal Fatigue then maybe things would have gone that way instead.

On another note, I just got Perfect Cherry Blossom. Ghosts, half-phantoms and a certain trumpet-playing poltergeist can go to hell.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Athrel on July 17, 2011, 05:57:20 PM
On another note, I just got Perfect Cherry Blossom. Ghosts, half-phantoms and a certain trumpet-playing poltergeist can go to hell.

But then they'll be there to plague you while you play Subterranean Animism
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Mеа on July 18, 2011, 03:22:21 AM
Curvy lasers.
That is all.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: wailofthebanshee on July 18, 2011, 02:33:26 PM
Wriggle on lunatic drives me insane. It's not because it's hard, no, in fact, it's because it's way too fucking easy. I always do some stupid mistakes at Keine/Marisa/Kaguya which means i have to restart, which in turn means that I have to do that god damn WRIGGLE STAGE again and hear that annoying WRIGGLE MUSIC. Fucking wriggle.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on July 18, 2011, 06:24:13 PM
> Okay guys you have twenty minutes before the bell.
Reimu A Phantasm go!
> Watch your time guys.
- ...(begins Boundary of Humans and Youkai)
> bell rings

Fffffffffff
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: TAKE IT CACODEMON!! on July 18, 2011, 10:20:17 PM
Helix danmaku is fucking evil
Title: A
Post by: Dusknoir on July 18, 2011, 11:35:44 PM
Why is Petit Flare so hard on EASY ? I can capture it consistently on both Normal and Hard, and it doesn't give me lot of trouble on Lunatic, but the easy conterpart has ruined three perfect runs in a row... >> It just fells like the bullet's hitoboxes are ten times bigger, or they like to wall me. X____x"
Title: Re: A
Post by: wailofthebanshee on July 19, 2011, 10:30:35 AM
Why is Petit Flare so hard on EASY ? I can capture it consistently on both Normal and Hard, and it doesn't give me lot of trouble on Lunatic, but the easy conterpart has ruined three perfect runs in a row... >> It just fells like the bullet's hitoboxes are ten times bigger, or they like to wall me. X____x"
The question is, if you are good enough to play on lunatic, why are you bothering with easy?
Title: Re: A
Post by: Zengeku on July 19, 2011, 12:04:12 PM
Why is Petit Flare so hard on EASY ? I can capture it consistently on both Normal and Hard, and it doesn't give me lot of trouble on Lunatic, but the easy conterpart has ruined three perfect runs in a row... >> It just fells like the bullet's hitoboxes are ten times bigger, or they like to wall me. X____x"

I don't think the hitboxes are larger. If you are playing on Easy mode, which I have no idea why you are doing, just move around them entirely. They cannot form walls on you that you cannot get past or move around and they move incredibly slowly here.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Black Phoenix on July 19, 2011, 02:41:23 PM
Wriggle on lunatic drives me insane. It's not because it's hard, no, in fact, it's because it's way too fucking easy. I always do some stupid mistakes at Keine/Marisa/Kaguya which means i have to restart, which in turn means that I have to do that god damn WRIGGLE STAGE again and hear that annoying WRIGGLE MUSIC. Fucking wriggle.

I know the feeling, only on Normal rather than Lunatic. Speaking of which, why the hell am I once again dying to things I've already practiced the crap out of. As if it's not bad enough I've had to jack up my starting lives in an attempt to get round the fact that ZUN will only allow me to practice stage 6B after I've proven I don't blinking need to, I then die to crap like Keine's non-spells, Ephemerality 137, and Stardust Reverie of all things, the only blasted spell card Marisa has that I can capture with anything resembling consistency. I'm getting somewhat sick to the back teeth of practicing stuff only to do worse on a proper run, or to die to stuff I should breeze past with my eyes closed!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jq1790 on July 19, 2011, 02:48:29 PM
I'm getting somewhat sick to the back teeth of practicing stuff only to do worse on a proper run, or to die to stuff I should breeze past with my eyes closed!

I can definitely relate to this, only with a slightly different flavor due to it being Extra Stage...I've seen some of these cards like a hundred times or more...WHY can't I seem to consistently get them!?

(PCB Extra, more specifically relating to Charming Siege and Princess Tenko.  Even though I know HOW to do them, I just seem to jack em up someplace...)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on July 19, 2011, 03:56:24 PM
My god that LFO attack is nasty. It keeps kicking my ass like no other pattern in the entire series! I don't know what to think about it. Sure its nice with challenge and all that but its still a pain to have every good Byakuren run i make being plagued by two deaths against LFO on account of running straight into bullets like a fucking retard. Its not the bullets that hits me. its me that hits them.

Its the red phase at the end where things just go completely nuts with bullets from all directions. Scarlet Gensokyo feels easy compared to this, man. At least SG's bullets are slow. Then again, the only hard part about that card was the walling factor and hitbox inconsistencies.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on July 20, 2011, 03:19:21 PM
GOD DAMNIT YUYUKO
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on July 21, 2011, 03:57:58 AM
My VoWG skills is deteriorating. What's up with all those deaths before the timer starts counting down, in almost every run?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on July 21, 2011, 06:51:25 AM
I kept losing to Hourai Elixir, especially where there were less than 5 seconds remaining on the card -_-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: CadrinHaverit on July 21, 2011, 01:58:01 PM
(Cool story incoming, bros)

I know I am a hothead and an idiot (first 1cc of UFO Normal with MarisaA - dat be good choice, mon!), but sometimes I even amaze myself.
Yesterday. UFO normal practice session since I have only 1cc'd it with MarisaA and SanaeA so far. New game, RaymooA.
Things are going smooth.
Then Murasa happens. Twitchy eyes. Game over in Makai because I instantly lost my cool.
Alright, SanaeB time for some spread shot chillin' at the stages. Getting kinda impatient about reaching the later stages.
Suddenly, Unzan gives me epic fisting. Twitchy, twitchy eyes. I got to Hokkai, but I don't even care anymore at this point. Derped my way to Flying Fantastica somehow with 0 lives 0 bombs. Good game no 1cc.
Ok, I know what people say with MarisaB, but it's turn for her- GAWDDAMMIT, WHY U SO FAST!?!??!11eleven
Dying to Kogasa while trying to catch an UFO. See a pattern here? Murasa gets the finishing blow on my last life.
ReimuB. Died to Nazrin. Srsly. Game over at stage 3.
Next few attempts: ReimuB. Bombing the sh1t out of nearly every part of the stage and almost every boss non-spell, because I am so pissed off at this point and just want to get to Byakuren ASAP. Dying randomly to everything a lot.
Then, some ten tries later, suddenly no derps happen at all up to Palanquin Ship Interior. I even discovered that I was doing Heavenly Net Sandbag wrong the whole time and got a spell capture for the first time in history. Heck, I even figured out how to smoothly and almost completely reliably capture Kogasa's last spell card. And this time I somehow managed to get in the flow of the lasers in Ichirin's last spell card, too (I still received some fisting due to not being careful).

So yeah. I am totally owning Murasa. Feeling confident on her survival spell card.

But then a freaking thunderstorm of the century decides to brew outside. Obviously not leaving the computer plugged in (I don't have a laptop) for a random lightning to fry it.
Come on. Karma really hates me.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on July 21, 2011, 02:42:41 PM
Urrrghh. There is a few things that can cause my world to collapse. One of them is to not being able to perform properly. As in, just tolerably. Not even that can I do today. I blame that fucking mindless job that I took for this week and the next.

I can't handle Satori. Like, at all. I even die to her first spellcard. The one that's mutual for all characters. How the fuck is that even possible when you know how to do it? The only thing of hers I've been able to capture of hers in all of three runs is Boundary of Wave and Particle... which isn't much of a consolation when the card is so bloody easy that Rumia would be ashamed to use it.

Exaggerating a bit here of course but damn... I didn't even think dying twice to DBDB was possible. It has never happened before. Its usually just die once and then kill the card before the bullets starts moving again. But when you move into bullets that doesn't even move you start to question your own ability to do anything with your hands. Oh well, Danmaku Flu's happens I guess. I'll get over it and knock everyone of her teeth out as revenge. I just need to compose myself so I can make a run before Sunday.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on July 21, 2011, 03:54:10 PM

 I'll get over it and knock everyone of her teeth out as revenge.

Hold it, can't let you do that, cowboy! Anyway, I know what you mean, passes soon enough indeed. Usually, I find myself performing better than before after following up a few playing-heavy days with a break of three or four days. Once you want to pressure yourself into playing better after underperforming, it's hard to recover anyway.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on July 21, 2011, 06:46:24 PM
Screw you CtC i hate Reimu's endurance spells even on normal mode.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on July 21, 2011, 06:55:20 PM
Hold it, can't let you do that, cowboy! Anyway, I know what you mean, passes soon enough indeed. Usually, I find myself performing better than before after following up a few playing-heavy days with a break of three or four days. Once you want to pressure yourself into playing better after underperforming, it's hard to recover anyway.

I'm sure we can work out some other form of compensation. Its alright.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on July 21, 2011, 08:33:40 PM
I'm sure we can work out some other form of compensation. Its alright.

Well, that's a relief, just performing in a satisfying fashion should do the trick I guess.
I certainly don't know what to think about Boundary of Wave and Particle being easy, though, is it on the same level as the StB-Version on Lunatic? Won't see it until next week, at least I'm fairly sure I should be able to unlock at least Stage 4 by then.

Sent you a PM, by the way, just in case you missed it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on July 22, 2011, 02:00:35 PM
Bad Touhou week.

Restarts EVERYWHERE, ON EVERY GAME before Stage 3.

All. The. Time.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on July 22, 2011, 06:38:31 PM
So I'm failing epically at trying to no-death PCB Extra. What the hell, I already have no-death Phantasm, and I'm struggling at Extra?

This makes something like 50 failed attempts now. My last one? "YES I BEAT UNILATERAL CONTACT! THREE BOMBS LEFT! NOTHING CAN STOP ME NOW!"

(dies to Shikigami "Chen")

...

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU  :colonveeplusalpha:
Why am I quoting this?

Because the same exact thing just happened AGAIN. (one bomb in stock instead of three though)

Chen can just go to hell.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and this was after I made the mistake of autocollecting after Unilateral Contact. Cue absolutely insane dodging similar to Mokou's rings of death. Some of the best dodging I've ever done right there. And because of the death, no one else will ever see it. YAY.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on July 22, 2011, 07:31:04 PM
Subterranean Animism. Stop fucking killing me before Stage 4. It's kinda lost its charm. Fuck Yamame and her opening non-spell. Fuck those lasers on Yuugi's stage. Fuck Stage 2 for being such a pathetic placeholder. Fuck Kisume for being so pathetic. Fuck the stage design for slaugthering my attention spam with tedium. Oh and fuck my own silly incapability to dodge stuff the game becomes difficult.

Well, that's a relief, just performing in a satisfying fashion should do the trick I guess.
I certainly don't know what to think about Boundary of Wave and Particle being easy, though, is it on the same level as the StB-Version on Lunatic?

I dunno about the difficulty about the StB card. It seemed pretty simple to me and its not really the same pattern. They are just similar. Plus, in SA you get the awesome bonus of decent movement speed while focused.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on July 22, 2011, 08:43:12 PM
Subterranean Animism. Stop fucking killing me before Stage 4. It's kinda lost its charm. Fuck Yamame and her opening non-spell. Fuck those lasers on Yuugi's stage. Fuck Stage 2 for being such a pathetic placeholder. Fuck Kisume for being so pathetic. Fuck the stage design for slaugthering my attention spam with tedium. Oh and fuck my own silly incapability to dodge stuff the game becomes difficult.

I don't know if you're putting self-imposed challenges into this.
If not: bomb more.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on July 22, 2011, 08:47:39 PM
Quote
I dunno about the difficulty about the StB card. It seemed pretty simple to me and its not really the same pattern. They are just similar. Plus, in SA you get the awesome bonus of decent movement speed while focused.

I actually had a bit of trouble with the StB version, though I'd say that Aya's movement speed did play its part there. Oh, well, let's see what I can do with Reimu.


I love your rage, though, especially because you don't forget that you play a major role in your failures, too. Blaming it all on the game is just outrageously lame.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Koakkuri on July 22, 2011, 09:00:54 PM
I got to Flying Fantastica for the first time with no extra lives and bombs. Knew for sure I wouldn't capture it, yet tried anyway (obviously).

Suddenly, after a rather mediocre run, I dodged amazingly well, getting through colour after colour, thinking I just might make it.

Got walled and died. Byakuren's health bar was down to the last 10%

RAAAAAAAAAAGH!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on July 22, 2011, 11:36:08 PM
I don't know if you're putting self-imposed challenges into this.
If not: bomb more.
Not self-imposed, but Sapz-imposed. :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on July 23, 2011, 07:23:15 AM
I don't know if you're putting self-imposed challenges into this.
If not: bomb more.
?

Oh, I am. Don't worry. The game normally hands 1cc's to you on a silver platter if you use bombs. You can bomb your way through the difficult spellcards and the stages can be neutralized very easily. Or at least you can do away with the memorization parts. Which is also why I have never learnt them. I didn't need to.

Not self-imposed, but Sapz-imposed. :V

And Sapz is evil!!! I thought this sounded like a good idea, and it is actually, but in reality it was just Sapz who knew that I would be bad at the stages and chose it for that single reason!

I love your rage, though, especially because you don't forget that you play a major role in your failures, too. Blaming it all on the game is just outrageously lame.

Yes. The game's difficulty is pretty well crafted and as such it would be lame to just point fingers and call the game bad just because I suck. I do not approve of some of the stage design, that's true but that's not because its poorly made. Its just because its a style of difficulty that doesn't really spark my interest into getting good at it.

I've had a nasty history of calling things bad just because I wasn't capable of it. That's not something I wish to repeat ever again.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on July 24, 2011, 03:43:53 AM
I just failed getting into BoWaP's safespot twice in the same run.

Do I really have to remind myself why playing at night is a bad idea?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Phlegeth on July 24, 2011, 05:52:10 AM
UFO Stage 2 in general, I hate you and am tired of your face.  You do not learn, I have a reset button and if I die I'm going Keine on your ass.  Especially on stupid deaths like your midboss hanging around like a minute after I kill her.  Or when she doesn't appear quick enough and I grab that last red UFO and wasting it.  I want to enter stage 3 with at least 5 complete stars, why do you keep getting in my way?

This probably goes in the Derp thread, but it pissed me off and I quit so I'm putting it here.  I died to Nazrin's Rare Metal Detector.  The first part of that card where she shoots at the wall.  I'm 57/71 with that card on Marisa A.  I should know better.  I blame Kogasa for putting me in a blind rage.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: J.O.B on July 24, 2011, 05:54:46 AM
MoF in general. I use the bombs too much, so that's why it's the only game other than UFO that I haven't 1cc'd on hard.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: CadrinHaverit on July 24, 2011, 01:04:53 PM
IN Extra Stage. I swear to God, UFO and MoF feel somewhat more responsive than Imperishable Night. My reactions were spot-on for dodging the red bullets in Honest Man's Death, but I had to deathbomb twice on it. IN must have some kind of input lag.

Also, inconsistent deathbombing windows. I'd never think I could die with bombs in stock anymore after getting used to UFO's restrictive deathbomb time frames. Seems to me like It's actually the good ol' 0.1s window if you get hit while unfocused and while not playing the Boundary Team.

And I can still occasionally get lost in the Returning Bridge.

I just can't Woo today, either. Doing this the (supposedly) legit way, but I got rusty at dodging the rice shower.

>:[

Eh, at least I'm getting a little bit better at actually dodging the final death fairy's attack and the fast streaming part shortly before said death fairy's appearance.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on July 24, 2011, 01:16:53 PM
Are you using the Vsync patch? If not, start using it. It's not worth playing with input lag.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: CadrinHaverit on July 24, 2011, 03:01:56 PM
What...

Um, nope, I am not using that patch. I knew one existed for EoSD and PCB, but not for IN. Any help as to where I can get it? Would be greatly appreciated. I am unsure where to look for it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on July 24, 2011, 10:10:26 PM
Get vsync here. (http://www.mediafire.com/?izzv1lmnamm) It has patches for all games up to UFO.
There aren't vsync patches yet for anything past UFO since they're still under testing, I believe.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: J.O.B on July 25, 2011, 06:54:23 AM
There are patches out for 12.5 and 12.8 already.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on July 25, 2011, 07:22:10 AM
There are patches out for 12.5 and 12.8 already.
:o I was not aware of this!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on July 25, 2011, 12:34:08 PM
I'm so frustrated with PCB that it's not even funny.
Chen's second card with the tiny bullets that get faster as they fall towards you can just go and die.
Why is the first part of stage 4 so bloody long?!
I CAN'T figure out Youmu's signature pattern for the life of me.
But of course, my main rage is Yuyuko. Every single one of her spell cards are just pieces of bullshit. I mean come on, no-deathing the game on Easy right past Youmu's final appearence, then dying SIX EFFING TIMES to Yuyuko herself? Why do I find her so difficult on EASY?!?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Thanuris on July 25, 2011, 12:54:50 PM
I don't get how is Yuyuko BS, i find her easier than the other last bosses (and you can bomb everything/border break anyway)

Now for actual rage: When i finished Philosophy of a Hated Person (after two deaths on it  :blush:) Koishi spawned on me and i died another time. I hate her.(i died to subterranean rose too but that was my fault)

Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GuppyForce on July 25, 2011, 03:15:19 PM
I'm so frustrated with PCB that it's not even funny.
Chen's second card with the tiny bullets that get faster as they fall towards you can just go and die.
Why is the first part of stage 4 so bloody long?!
I CAN'T figure out Youmu's signature pattern for the life of me.
But of course, my main rage is Yuyuko. Every single one of her spell cards are just pieces of bullshit. I mean come on, no-deathing the game on Easy right past Youmu's final appearence, then dying SIX EFFING TIMES to Yuyuko herself? Why do I find her so difficult on EASY?!?
I was really terrible at Yuyuko too at first. Getting to Yuyuko with no continues wasted and using up 2 or 3 of them on her. She's easy once you get used to her spellcards.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Vanhaomena on July 25, 2011, 04:20:37 PM
I had to stop trying to 1cc SA Lunatic after two late Utsuho game overs because my left middle finger started to hurt from holding Z down for hours. That bird is so going down tomorrow.
Also, what the hell is the point of the noncard with crossing curved bullet lines. It's next to impossible do reflex-dodge if you don't know where to go, but impossible to die to if you do know. Those are the only kind of attacks I don't approve of. To spare the rage of those who are yet to meet it: face Utsuho directly and alternate between hugging the bottom and being a hitbox's width away from the bottom.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on July 25, 2011, 04:53:25 PM
But if Utsuho moves any lower than where she is at the start of that attack, then that spot will be closed off. I only recommend staying down there for the first wave, then pick somewhere else to go.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on July 25, 2011, 07:04:24 PM
I don't get how is Yuyuko BS, i find her easier than the other last bosses (and you can bomb everything/border break anyway)

Partly because of those darn butterfly hitboxes which I can't figure out, and her ridiculous non-spells (apart from her 4th one). Also her theme just bugs me when I fight her - don't get me wrong; I love it but it just doesn't suit as a final boss theme IMO. It makes me want to relax, which kills me. And then I end up dying five+ times while this stupidly calm music is playing in the background.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on July 25, 2011, 07:35:39 PM
Also her theme just bugs me when I fight her - don't get me wrong; I love it but it just doesn't suit as a final boss theme IMO. It makes me want to relax, which kills me. And then I end up dying five+ times while this stupidly calm music is playing in the background.

Heh. You just need to some mental association work. If Border of Life doesn't start your brain thinking "oh shit here we go" then you're doing it wrong.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _cf on July 25, 2011, 07:40:14 PM
Heh, if I hadn't derped twice on Metal Fatigue then maybe things would have gone that way instead.

On another note, I just got Perfect Cherry Blossom. Ghosts, half-phantoms and a certain trumpet-playing poltergeist can go to hell.
Quote
a certain trumpet-playing poltergeist
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a certain trumpet-playing poltergeist
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a certain trumpet-playing poltergeist
If I see that fucking Merlin one more time...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Black Phoenix on July 25, 2011, 07:57:32 PM
Go to hell Border Team. For what appears to be classed as the easiest team to use in IN, especially for beginners, I absolutely suck with them. Reimu's shots are rubbish (although not the worst, that award goes to poor Sakuya), Yukari's homing is temperemental (I don't care if you're not directly under the boss, if Reimu can lock on from there, so can you!), and neither of them have the stage-clearing capabilities of Yuyuko, exacerbated by Reimu's horrid movement speed (another issue she shares with Sakuya), so the stage section of stage 3 has gone from mildly irritating to a nightmare. I can do the bosses (except Eirin and Kaguya), I'm just getting murdered by the stages.

And I suspect I'll have the same problem with every other team as well. Looks like I'll be stuck on IN a while longer yet...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on July 26, 2011, 03:39:39 AM
I am sick and tired of Reimu's Last Spell. Every single time I think of some way to make it easier to handle, it then proceeds to shit in my face. I'm convinced that perfecting Stage 4A will just "happen".
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jq1790 on July 26, 2011, 04:59:03 AM
Partly because of those darn butterfly hitboxes which I can't figure out, and her ridiculous non-spells (apart from her 4th one). Also her theme just bugs me when I fight her - don't get me wrong; I love it but it just doesn't suit as a final boss theme IMO. It makes me want to relax, which kills me. And then I end up dying five+ times while this stupidly calm music is playing in the background.

Butterfly hitboxees:  Ignore the butterfly, dodge like a normal ball bullet.  Butterfly portion has no hitbox, only the same spot as if it were just a ball, far as I've seen.

Nonspell 1:  Start directly under her, then move to follow her.  That'll help keep the rice bullets from turning to much harder to pass walls.

Nonspell 2:  Start under her til the bubbles are about to fire, then zoom to left.  Stream bubbles as slowly as possible, bomb on right side if you don't kill the lifebar in time.

Nonspell 3:  Use vertical movement more than horizontal.  The knies start out just falling, then start aiming at you.  After one or two waves pass you, they'll stop directly aiming for you and just be close.  Focus on not sidling into them when you're moving to dodge the bubbles.

Upon "Bloom Nobly, Cherry Blossoms of Sumizome ~ Border of Life":  I second the poster who said if this doesn't pump you up, you're potentially doing it wrong.  I'll admit, some parts are slow, like the beginning, but once you start hearing the buildup after the intro, it just screams "Oh  crap it's starting, it's starting!", then the main part of her theme, at least for me, really gets me into a "Let's do this!  It's the final battle!" type mood.  Though of course, if it's not your sort of motivation song, then that's obviously fine too, since we're all different.  =)  Either way, let's enjoy the song for whatever we each see in it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on July 26, 2011, 06:17:17 AM
Every time I go up against Mega Flare, I ALWAYS run into a blue ball ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on July 26, 2011, 07:28:56 PM
Butterfly hitboxees:  Ignore the butterfly, dodge like a normal ball bullet.  Butterfly portion has no hitbox, only the same spot as if it were just a ball, far as I've seen.

Nonspell 1:  Start directly under her, then move to follow her.  That'll help keep the rice bullets from turning to much harder to pass walls.

Nonspell 2:  Start under her til the bubbles are about to fire, then zoom to left.  Stream bubbles as slowly as possible, bomb on right side if you don't kill the lifebar in time.

Nonspell 3:  Use vertical movement more than horizontal.  The knies start out just falling, then start aiming at you.  After one or two waves pass you, they'll stop directly aiming for you and just be close.  Focus on not sidling into them when you're moving to dodge the bubbles.

Upon "Bloom Nobly, Cherry Blossoms of Sumizome ~ Border of Life":  I second the poster who said if this doesn't pump you up, you're potentially doing it wrong.  I'll admit, some parts are slow, like the beginning, but once you start hearing the buildup after the intro, it just screams "Oh  crap it's starting, it's starting!", then the main part of her theme, at least for me, really gets me into a "Let's do this!  It's the final battle!" type mood.  Though of course, if it's not your sort of motivation song, then that's obviously fine too, since we're all different.  =)  Either way, let's enjoy the song for whatever we each see in it.

Thanks. I honestly had no idea about the 3rd nonspell.
About her theme: Some parts of it, like the part you mentioned just after the intro, don't count in what I said about it not being so much of a final boss theme. I think the reason it doesn't really get me going is because the only other Touhou game I have is EoSD, so I'm used to themes like Remilia's for final boss fights. But you know, I bet it will grow on me, because a lot of things like this do.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on July 27, 2011, 01:48:46 AM
SUWAKO IN SOKU

CANNOT GUARD AGAINST IT

PRESSING BACKWARDS ALREADY

IT ISN'T GUARDING
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on July 27, 2011, 08:47:25 AM
Okay, I don't normally swear but FUCK YOU, EoSD HARD STAGE 2.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on July 27, 2011, 04:13:57 PM
three consecutive deaths will full bomb stocks
leading to a failure on BoHaY
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on July 27, 2011, 04:20:16 PM
Seriously, the full version of TD can't come soon enough. I need more stages that are actually fun to play and reasonable to perfect here.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on July 27, 2011, 05:05:20 PM
MoF Stage 4 Lunatic. Why must you haunt me?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: CadrinHaverit on July 28, 2011, 09:47:52 PM
So, I got that vpatch for IN... I changed "vsync" to "1" in the .ini, but I don't really see the difference. Though maybe it is here. I mean everything has been going smoothly since me getting it, so I assume the difference in input lag can be felt, but not seen.

On topic. Murasa... GET OUT. Made me lose three lives again, including two to her @^$&@ survival spell card. This is preposterous. I only lost one life to Shou in the same run (actually captured the Most Valuable Vajra).

Then there was Stage 6. Entered with 6 lives and one bomb, ended up losing all lives and dying with one bomb in stock. How is that even possible? Derpbomb on Omen is justified, so is one death on Star Maelstrom (outta bombs) as it keeps on giving me nightmares. But not ONE, NOT THREE, but TWO deaths on Devil's Recitation due to failing ot read the movement of the aimed bullets once, then running into a red laser (I shit you not)? Should have at least deathbomb'd, but failed to both times? Come on.

St. Nikou's Air Scroll... I don't even. I always stick to the bottom right corner in the beginning of the spell card and fail to weave through 2-3 intersecting waves of bullets. Guess it's a bad spot to stay in, eh.

Even after picking up the huge power up she drops before Flying Fantastica, I only had 3.xx power. Suddenly I lost all my pattern reading skills and my remaining two lives went kablooie. Sad face. It was actually the closest I've ever got to beating UFO Normal with RaymooB.

Also, them non spells. For some reason I can clear the third one no problem on easy, but on normal, it's just impossible. Perhaps I move around too much?

Then I chose to practice the UFO Extra. I'm not even angry, but each damn time I see those randomly raining bullets, I feel the urge to rage. Come on, I am used to predictable, static stages like IN's Extra, not to spontaneous dodging. I am actually pretty bad at dodging bullets itself, I mostly memorize things. I want a stage that I can memorize and then breeze through each damn time!

Then there is Kogasa's Guerilla Typhoon. Man, WHAT THE F-!
EX-Keine ain't got nothin' on her spell cards, difficulty-wise.

Speaking of IN's Extra... dat death fairy. My face every time the bullets surround me down there at the bottom: D=. Only managed to dodge it all twice in like 200 runs somehow. I am starting to think that it would be easier for me to just hug that fairy and circle her counterclockwise while grazing the hell out of her bullets.

Mokou's Rings of Death. Sacrifice your lives or bombs to get through. Actually, I bomb on most of her non-spells, they go too hard on my eyes. :/

Fujiyama Volcano. Why is navigating through expanding waves of red balls of doom so hard?!

I feel that I'm just bad. And that I can't stop being bad. :\
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on July 28, 2011, 10:57:11 PM
So, I got that vpatch for IN... I changed "vsync" to "1" in the .ini, but I don't really see the difference. Though maybe it is here. I mean everything has been going smoothly since me getting it, so I assume the difference in input lag can be felt, but not seen.
No no no, why are you putting it at 1? 0 is where it should be. I put it at one as a test just now and it's dropping a minor amount of frames. (59.87) Leave that number at 0. (0 doesn't mean it's turned off or anything)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on July 29, 2011, 01:06:53 AM
Why is Zombie Fairy the only Orin card I can capture consistently? ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Mеа on July 29, 2011, 01:47:43 AM
Then I chose to practice the UFO Extra. I'm not even angry, but each damn time I see those randomly raining bullets, I feel the urge to rage. Come on, I am used to predictable, static stages like IN's Extra, not to spontaneous dodging. I am actually pretty bad at dodging bullets itself, I mostly memorize things. I want a stage that I can memorize and then breeze through each damn time!

Then there is Kogasa's Guerilla Typhoon. Man, WHAT THE F-!
EX-Keine ain't got nothin' on her spell cards, difficulty-wise.

Maybe you're not using Sanae B for extra mode. She's almost too cheap. The only part I have a hard time is the very beginning before you get to full power, and the part after Kogasa where the bombs on the side shoot diagonally and ufo fairies shoot from above.

For Guerilla Typhoon, maybe you're staying on the bottom. I find it easier to stay a bit below the center.

Now my turn to complain. Why do PCB bosses have so much health? I died just as Ran died after doing a half blind run. Luckily, I beat it right after in my next run.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: CadrinHaverit on July 29, 2011, 03:42:24 AM
No no no, why are you putting it at 1? 0 is where it should be. I put it at one as a test just now and it's dropping a minor amount of frames. (59.87) Leave that number at 0. (0 doesn't mean it's turned off or anything)
Thought it was an on/off switch and that the framerate was meant to be like that. xD Yeah, I did some testing and figured out that I'm a moron (surprise, surprise). My framerate without the vsync patch used to be a constant 60 with sudden jumps to 62 and drops to 58 soon after all the time. With vpatch and "vsync=0", it's pretty much a constant 60. Thanks for that.

I still don't know if the patch does anything else for me other than stabilizing the frame rate. But I've cleared IN on Hard and choosing FinalB for the first time evar today. Spontaneously. Been a long time since I last chose to humiliate myself by using up all my continues and beating FinalA hard.
What made me rage? Well duh, it was a (semi-)blind run (because obviously I knew what was ahead of me, saw it in some replays, I just wasn't really prepared or haven't ever practiced most of the stuff on hard mode), so my stats at the end of the game were:

Bombs used - 30
Lives lost - 9
Spell card bonuses - 10
Final score was like 1,6 billion? That's only slightly higher than my top score on normal (~1,4 bil). :/

I kid you not. Yeah, that means I had used up all of my bombs (which is obviously a good thing, but still, FAR too many deathbombs - I used Reimu and Yukari for supereasy bombing anyway) (EDIT: wait, what? what about the ~10 extra bombs you get during stages? I guess it counts a deathbomb as 1 bomb and not two) and lives by the time I dispelled Hourai Jewel. Of course then she commenced her last spells in which her power to manipulate the eternity and the moment ROFLstomped me. (As usual, though) (Not that I cared, but my fails on these were a little more ridiculously pathetic than usual.)

So much fail EVERYWHERE after Stage 1. (Compared to normal mode, anyways.) :fail: Still, guess I gotta keep at it and after dying time and time again to silly stuff I'll eventually get the hang of it... hopefully. It's been fun. The challenge is back'n'stuff.

Then there was the obligatory IN Extra run. (OBLIGATORY! Feels like the old times when I was playing WoW, grinding the same stuff daily. Except this is actually fun.) Worst run ever (literally, the score hasn't even reached 1 billion, it's been my lowest so far). Failed to get Imperishable Shooting. Failed on Flying Phoenix... twice. Cost me a life and a deathbomb because I misunderestimated the phoenixes' width. (This truly belongs in the derp thread.) Gave in to the pressure of danmaku in general at Xu Fu's and simply used the Reimu & Yukari's unfair trick to make the spell card a joke and get a breather. STILL can't handle slowly tapping my way up in the second phase of Possessed by Phoenix (my index finger felt unbearably still while doing this, and I am always stressed to see my girl lingering on the border of life and death for so long by just narrowly escaping the bullets, so I could not really keep these taps short enough and timed well enough for 15 seconds straight). Multiple fails on Hourai Doll that have almost cost me the clear. What's up with that? I guess it's just a bad day... or something...? On the other hand, I don't think I was owned by the non-spells THAT badly this time.

Man, been raging a lot recently. Better take a break. Take it easy (or normal, in IN's case, since I'm now apparently officially a hard mode player) for a bit.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on July 29, 2011, 03:48:22 AM
Thought it was an on/off switch and that the framerate was meant to be like that. xD Yeah, I did some testing and figured out that I'm a moron (surprise, surprise). My framerate without the vsync patch used to be a constant 60 with sudden jumps to 62 and drops to 58 soon after all the time. With vpatch and "vsync=0", it's pretty much a constant 60. Thanks for that.

I still don't know if the patch does anything else for me other than stabilizing the frame rate.
For IN, not much. IN has pretty good built in vsync (you can actually see it in the custom.exe) but vsync patch does a better job of it. The games with the most amount of input lag are EoSD, PCB, and MoF. The others are pretty good on their own. (use vsync anyway >_>) Stabilizing the fps is another feature of vsync. It'll still randomly jump occasionally, but not as much, for every game. (to an extent depending on the game obviously, and your computer)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on July 29, 2011, 05:26:20 AM
SONOFAFUCKINGPIECEOFSHITBITCHFUCKYOUREIMU

00 on counter for Fantasy Heaven *PICHUUN~* :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on July 29, 2011, 12:55:23 PM
If its any consolation, its farther than I've ever got.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: J.O.B on July 29, 2011, 01:50:14 PM
I'm sucking so bad now.
I had to continue ON LETTY!
And this is even for a player who had his first SA Hard 1cc with 4 lives remaining and no practice prior for 1-2 weeks.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lecithul on July 29, 2011, 08:01:53 PM
Eff you EoSD Reimu A. Eff you and your weak shot power. I would have gotten that 1cc if you had just been the TINIEST BIT STRONGER. Why did I have to die RIGHT AS REMILIA WAS EXPLODING?! And by RUNNING INTO A BULLET, of all things!!
EXACTLY THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME. AGH.

Also, in UFO, I always seem to be much better at the Stage 6 version of the Stage 4 mid-boss than the Stage 4 mid-boss itself. Always. I don't think I've missed capturing the Stage 6 one actually. Perhaps it's just me being really concentrated those times I make it there, but it still makes me rage when I mess up on the Stage 4 one and lose two effective lives. I also sometimes mess up on the second-last wave and then do fine on the last wave. WHY.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on July 31, 2011, 01:34:23 AM
Ugh, I can't unlock Marisa's Last Word. DAMN YOU KAGUYA!!!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on July 31, 2011, 05:02:28 AM
I will never play Touhou while a friend is round ever again.
(while fighting Sakuya)
"Those knives are strawberry flavoured!"
"SHUT THE HELL UP I'M TRYING TO FOCUS HERE"
Game over at Luna Clock.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Schezo on July 31, 2011, 08:40:34 AM
I don't know what it is, but if I have to enter Boundary of Humans and Youkai one more time with 2 lives 3 bombs and game over to it before even the fucking last phase that shrinks I swear...

I mean Kokkuri-san's contract didn't even do this to me, I can capture that consistantly but I always seem to just drift right into the blue bullets on the Boundary.

Holy hell.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: CadrinHaverit on July 31, 2011, 10:06:00 AM
I will never play Touhou while a friend is round ever again.
(while fighting Sakuya)
"Those knives are strawberry flavoured!"
"SHUT THE HELL UP I'M TRYING TO FOCUS HERE"
Game over at Luna Clock.
Hahah, can totally relate to that.
"Look mah boi, look, I can totally do what the guy in that video I linked to you the other day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nb5Ohbt1Sg) did!"
Then we have a chat and I game over on Possessed by Phoenix' second phase while barely being able to focus. While I can clear IN's Extra Stage with almost complete consistency now.
 :fail:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on July 31, 2011, 03:49:48 PM
Fuck you Yukari. Fuck your Phantasm stage that I have to do over and over and over every single time I fuck up on my attempt to no-death you again. Fuck your Boundary of Humans and Youkai that caused a fucking lag spike with four fucking bombs in stock with 5 fucking seconds on the card, costing me a run I should have fucking had. Fuck your Mesh of Light and Darkness being completely fucking random. Fuck your nonspells randomly killing me. And fuck SakuyaA for being weak and fast while focused and not having Reimu's hitbox.

EDIT: And I just had another run where I got as far as Double Death Butterfly before dying with one bomb in stock. That lag spike STILL pisses me off, even two weeks later, because that was THE run. There's no way I'll ever have a run that good again; even my successful no-death with SakuyaB didn't have that many bombs in stock at that point!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: theshirn on August 02, 2011, 12:27:29 AM
after a few false starts (read: deaths on S1) did a run of PoDD for the first time in...hell, probably a good year

one death on s2 mima, three on chiyuri, game over on yumemi

haaaaaaaaate
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on August 02, 2011, 08:16:42 AM
Why am I having so much trouble with Four of a Kind and Kagome, Kagome? I've captured both of these before but I usually end up dying and bombing like twice in both of them on a typical run. This is why I just can't get past Counter Clock; I loose so many resources on those bloody cards. The fact that Maze of Love comes straight after doesn't help, either.

edit: ...IT WAS SO CLOSE ;A; 07 seconds on the timer for Ressurection Butterfly *DEAD*
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: OmegaFlonne on August 02, 2011, 06:34:30 PM
Medicine's poison and Reisen's distortion invincibility in StB made me take a break to avoid breaking something. Also: me playing PCB

Stage1: Too easy
Stage2: see stage1
Stage3: OK, getting a little harder, but still not to bad
Stage4: Merlin.. Why!
Stage5: GAMEOVER O_O YOOOOUUMUUUUU!
*sobs in corner*
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on August 02, 2011, 06:51:26 PM
PCB Lunatic:
Stage 1: STOP DYING
Stage 2: Too easy, but bombed once on Chen's last spell because *too close to Chen when the first burst of bullets was fired*
Stage 3: Ok this is great for Hard difficulty, but really, a bit too easy
Stage 4: 2 deaths on post-Lily shit
Stage 5: Might as well use these bombs while I have them...
Stage 6 (stage portion): Ok ok so why did I just bomb there I totally could've dodged that nothing was even in my way urghhh
Stage 6 (boss portion): These hitboxes
Stage 6 (last spell): Too eas- WHAT
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on August 02, 2011, 10:03:44 PM
Died 5 times against Remilia ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on August 03, 2011, 08:02:10 PM
Enough scoring for one day.

I believe that says enough.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on August 05, 2011, 11:29:26 AM
Okay Kappa's Porocca or whatever you are called. Stop killing me within 10 seconds only to let me perfectly dodge the remaining 30. Stop sending me through that stage again and again. Even the best of stages becomes no end of tedium when you need to go through them again and again everytime just to access a single spellcard. That's why Spell Practice owns. It prevents me from developing hate towards the stages.

Especially since Stage 4 in SA is pretty static for a difficult stage. And the midboss, idk is there anyone who knows of a feasible way to beat that fucker with MarisaC? Especially if you have under 4xx power? I'd love to see that if someone can.

-----------------

Okay. I suck really hard today. There is no limit to the amount of fail i'm producing here. Its like die 6 times on Byakuren, game over on Shou (in bloody stage practice. that would give you an idea about how much sucking went into that run), being completely unable to dodge through simple dodges at Kappa's Porocca and getting walled on any attempt that doesn't fail through my own stupidity.

Oh and Murasa would you stop spawning bullets in the path I need to take during your third card? That is fucking retarded. Other than that, I think I'll take a little break until school starts again. My brain hasn't been working properly for the majority of this vacation and I don't have any more fun games to play and since Touhou is hating me for the moment... I'm looking forward to going back to school.

Also really thirsting for some Ten Desires now. I desire something fresh to play. Something to hold my attention until Deus Ex HR comes out.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on August 06, 2011, 02:59:43 PM
EoSD Normal ReimuB 0/0 what

I mean OK I got 3/1 the next day but AAAAAAAGH
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on August 06, 2011, 03:26:24 PM
OMG FUUUUUUUUUUUUU

died at dat yuyuko -.- with Sakuya B hard mode...must not be lazy and concentrate on first 3 stages and slack of the rest....
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on August 07, 2011, 12:50:02 AM
I finished a run of IN extra yesterday 1/3.

ONE.
THREE.

Barely scored over a billion.
Just piss off Fujiyama.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: CadrinHaverit on August 07, 2011, 01:20:23 AM
I finished a run of IN extra yesterday 1/3.

ONE.
THREE.

Barely scored over a billion.
Just piss off Fujiyama.
Hey, I often waste all of my resources at the end if that makes you feel better. Fujiyama is worse than Mokou Rings of Death to me and I never capture Possessed by Phoenix either, not to mention most of her later non-spells.

Speaking of which: obligatory (MANDATORY!) IN Extra Stage practice (can't ever get enough of IN's Extra!). I am repeating the stage portion ad infinitum just to refine and perfect it. Mostly the death fairy, though.
EX-Keine is my bitch now and my history of her spell cards is as good as that of Wriggle's first spell card on Normal. Then, finally, enlightenment comes as I bash my head against the death fairy over and over again and I start seeing a path through the hail of danmaku. Some repeats afterwards, I can consistently navigate that path without fail.
=D

Then I decide to try Mokou for a good measure. I die to her opener. Too surprised to even deathbomb.
D=
I was trying hard, but the entire run was derpy like that. I think I've only managed to capture Phoenix's Tail (luck-based, mostly) and Flaw of the Forgiving Shrine (n/c) (also I don't do Xu Fu's Dimension the cheesy way, or Woo).

So yeah, that practice did not do me any good. Now I don't really wanna bore myself to death doing the stage portion just to get to Mokou and practice fighting her a little. And frankly, it's all about fighting Mokou, not some lame fairies or EX-Keine who can't even cave you (never understood that little meme either).

EDIT: I tried to make it a little more clear that the "enlightenment" part was about figuring out how to beat the death fairy by dodging her attacks.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on August 07, 2011, 03:44:59 PM
What do you mean the practice didn't do you any good? You got the entirity of the stage portion nailed didn't you? Since you are very motivated I'd suggest taking that motivation to spell practice. And don't just play her easy cards. Play her "difficult" ones. You will likely also reach enlightenment here. Fujiyama Volcano was a real bitch for me back in the day. Then I decided to do something about it and played it 70 times in spell practice. After that, it was piss easy.

I do understand your bit about Keine though. She is a perfect reason not to play that stage for score.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on August 07, 2011, 04:44:42 PM
What exactly is wrong with Ex Keine in terms of scoring?


For me, the problems are

having to no death the stage or your score will likely suck.
Supergrazing Mokou's opener since she'll always ram me and I can't even get the timer anywhere near 0 while supergrazing.
I can't supergraze Possessed by phoenix
You have to capture Imperishable Shooting if you want a decent score
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on August 07, 2011, 05:35:20 PM
There isn't really anything particularly wrong with it but doing it well can be a bit tricky and having to time all of them out takes forever. And then what if you fuck up at some important score trick against Mokou? Then its EX-Keine all over again. That's annoying and it starts feeling like more of a test of persistence than a test of skill. ( I do realize that there is a lot of skill involved in IN scoring, just in case anyone misunderstands.)

Scoring in the main game is a little different. I don't have to learn scoring tricks to beat my own score since you are perfectly able to score at least 3 billion through simple survival play, capturing as many cards as possible and dying as little as possible. If you want to score more then scoring tricks will be necessary but its still a million times better than a score system where the runs in which the player dodges everything perfectly ends up with 70M while the runs where the player dodges pretty much nothing at all ends up with 300M. Here I'm of course speaking TD.

- I will give it the benefit of the doubt though. ZUN might realize that 'holy jesus, maybe having players bombing and trancing every single attack is not the best of ideas' and change it a little. Perhabs making trances harder to get or making it impossible to harvest souls while using bombs.

Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on August 07, 2011, 05:47:39 PM
I'm pretty sure there's not enough time and graze in almost timing out all of Ex Keine's stuff to make it worth it, but it's not like I've actually checked.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on August 07, 2011, 08:16:11 PM
Its been a while since last I saw a scoring run but iirc, Keine was timed out. The super grazing maintained the spellcard value and the grazing and time orbs gave their obvious benefits.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Mеа on August 07, 2011, 11:10:09 PM
I have no clue how it even happened, but all of my Great Fairy Wars data is completely gone. And I finally got to extra mode after several hours of playing 6 boring stages.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on August 07, 2011, 11:20:48 PM
Don't worry about it. You can have my data if you'd like. http://www.mediafire.com/?9ahhpqv27ako1q9
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: mikeKOSA on August 08, 2011, 12:13:24 AM
I was so fucking close on getting a MoF Ultra Lunatic 1cc it hurts. Just 2 more bombs damn it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Mеа on August 08, 2011, 12:45:20 AM
Don't worry about it. You can have my data if you'd like. http://www.mediafire.com/?9ahhpqv27ako1q9

Thanks for your help.... but there's no data in it.
Maybe its just my computer or something.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on August 08, 2011, 01:24:33 AM
All praise Kanako, the god of wind and CLIPDEATHS!

Oh hi there Rice Porridge in Tube -clip-

Oh hi there third nonspell -clip-

Oh hi there knives during fourth nonspell -clip-

Oh hi there Miracle of Otensui -clip-

Just AGH. And don't even get me started on Misayama.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on August 08, 2011, 01:42:46 PM
Thanks for your help.... but there's no data in it.
Maybe its just my computer or something.

Eh? Its the score.dat file. Its all you need. Just replace this file with your own and you'll have extra unlocked. Remember that the score.dat file is stored in your AppData/Roaming/ShanghaiAlice/th128 folder. (At least with Vista)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Mеа on August 08, 2011, 09:44:31 PM
Eh? Its the score.dat file. Its all you need. Just replace this file with your own and you'll have extra unlocked. Remember that the score.dat file is stored in your AppData/Roaming/ShanghaiAlice/th128 folder. (At least with Vista)

Hmmm, well that's the problem, I'm playing on a mac. Well, I'll figure something out.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on August 09, 2011, 10:06:56 PM
I don't know anything about macs and as far as I can see, there is nothing about it in the readme. Well, when you play Mac you run the game through emulation right? I think I heard something about that before. Wine or something like that. Do you per chance have any idea where your replays are saved? Try running a search of your computer for replay files. That should lead you to where the dat. file needs to go.

Really though, I don't know anything about macs so if I haven't been helpful then I'm sorry but you are going to have to going to through things again.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on August 10, 2011, 12:08:29 PM
Best MoF Normal ReimuB run in a while, beating my best by Stage 4. No death'd Stage 6 in its entirety except for a clipdeath in Otensui. Yes, I capped everything except for that. Broke 515m.

Rage goes where?

I LOST SIX LIVES ON STAGE 5 FOR NO DISCERNIBLE REASON. It just went so horribly I wasn't sure if I was still myself until s6.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on August 11, 2011, 11:56:44 AM
Fuck you, Ran and your Fox Tanuki Laser and your Princess Tenko. Go die in a hole filled with fire.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jq1790 on August 11, 2011, 03:42:38 PM
Fuck you, Ran and your Fox Tanuki Laser and your Princess Tenko. Go die in a hole filled with fire.
Princess Tenko's annoying as heck, cuz the technique's not that hard, but if you mess up the timing you're totally screwed over...

Fox-Tanuki Youkai Laser, on the other hand...Try staying higher up on the screen- about a little above halfway.  If you let her trap you down below, you'll probably get slaughtered.  Also, try to stay directly under her so her shots don't fire off at strange angles.  That tends to cause a huge issue.  Good luck!  =)

But yeah, Princess Tenko can die in a fire.  Not as much as CHARMING SIEGE FROM ALL SIDES though.  I despise that card sometimes.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on August 11, 2011, 04:18:26 PM
Fox-Tanuki Youkai Laser

Do that one trick with that spellcard. When Ran is about to fire the lasers, run to the top and circle around her to misdirect the bubble burst. You might have to move through a few lasers, which is normal.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on August 11, 2011, 06:26:03 PM
Do that one trick with that spellcard. When Ran is about to fire the lasers, run to the top and circle around her to misdirect the bubble burst. You might have to move through a few lasers, which is normal.

Move through the lasers? I assume you don't mean the actual lasers, just the lines before they show up.
It's probably possible with the first bubble burst but can you do it with the next ones? My problem with this card is that the lasers always go diagonal on me so I end up running into them.

CHARMING SIEGE FROM ALL SIDES

I have a really on-off record with that card. I remember loosing 3 lives to it the first time I faced it and my last on Princess Tenko because I was startled when Ran teleported right on top of me. But yeah, I dislike that one too.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on August 11, 2011, 06:43:32 PM
Move through the lasers? I assume you don't mean the actual lasers, just the lines before they show up.
It's probably possible with the first bubble burst but can you do it with the next ones? My problem with this card is that the lasers always go diagonal on me so I end up running into them.
Yeah, just wait directly above Ran, then circle around down when she fires the bubble burst. It's a bit hard to move back up, so just move through the lasers' "light bases" as it has no hitbox.

Ran teleported right on top of me
Ran has no collision hitbox on that spellcard. You are having bullets being spawned on you, that is why you died.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on August 11, 2011, 07:31:48 PM
Ran has no collision hitbox on that spellcard. You are having bullets being spawned on you, that is why you died.

I know she has no hitbox - I recognised the card but panicked and started running everywhere which led to my death.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jaimers on August 12, 2011, 07:36:03 PM
blargalfuck

(http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4866/th011.th.png) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/820/th011.png/)

But hey, got to VoWG with way less than 4 extra lives so that's something.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Iryan on August 13, 2011, 11:03:39 PM
Okay, so it was not really something big and I mainly failed because of sleepiness and the stupid laptop keyboard, but still.

Attempting a 10D normal 1cc attempt with a chracter I haven't unlocked the Extra with yet.
The last boss's final attack is exploding, during the explosion I get hit. Enter Trance. I already get the game clear bonus. Trance ends. Game Over. Continue. 1 second later it fades to black. Bad End. No Extra unlocked.

Not really a large thing, but still, I don't think I've ever had a failure that close.  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on August 13, 2011, 11:41:42 PM
>Attempting to no-death PCB Phantasm with ReimuB

>Get to Boundary of Life and Death (which I generally suck at safespotting with)

>Get a border with about a third of the health bar left and one bomb in stock

>Press X just as the border is about to run out, which the game fucking refuses to listen to

>Press X to bomb, which the game fucking refuses to listen to AGAIN

>pichuun

...

ASLKDJFRASDOPIFHAQEWOPGOPIAJPOWHOIWASDJGFOPIARHOIPAJF  >:(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on August 13, 2011, 11:48:20 PM
The fuck.

I unlocked extra with Reimu, and it's going much better than with Sanae.

I reach the boss' survival spell card with four lives in stock, and even capture the spell card.

It then crashes. This is not the first time this has happened right as this spell card ended.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.

EDIT: Huh. I just went into spell practice and captured the survival spell card (eventually), and it crashed there too. WELP, guess Reimu's extra is currently impossible to clear. ZUN will likely release a patch for this, but that doesn't make it any less annoying.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Milkyway64 on August 14, 2011, 12:34:56 AM
On the subject of bugs, certain spell practice cards (lunatic stage 4 and 5 mid boss) play their non-card instead, making them impossible to clear and, in stage 5's case, makes it impossible to unlock an overdrive.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on August 14, 2011, 01:28:59 AM
Why the hell are both of my hands getting sore? No way a week-long break can leave me that out of shape, can it? I haven't even been playing that long today.

And I second the bug-related issues. Considering just how big some of them are, I also expect a patch. That doesn't change the fact that they don't deserve to exist. Plus, it seems like ZUN never fixed that bomb counter glitch I found from the trial version...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: theshirn on August 14, 2011, 07:09:48 AM
sightread

SO

BAD

upload coming tonight if the internet doesn't crap out on me, tomorrow if it does

didn't make it out of stage 4 :(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jaimers on August 14, 2011, 10:41:29 AM
Lost a perfect TD stage 5 lunatic dying on the very last second of that piss-easy final spell.

I facepalmed so hard it still hurts.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on August 14, 2011, 02:19:26 PM
ASFDKLGNIJF GOD DAMNIT FUCK YOU YUYUKO
01 seconds left for Ressurection Butterfly *PICHUUN*
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on August 14, 2011, 07:33:55 PM
Ten Desires: I keep messing up my runs on Stage 5. The rest is so easy...

is why I haven't 1cc'd Normal until yesterday
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on August 15, 2011, 08:36:32 AM
Zigzagging arrows. Why must you be evil?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Just a GBZero on August 15, 2011, 02:48:11 PM
Ten Desires, rather fun I'd say.  Only one problem keeping me from doing well.  Its not dodging the attacks or random bullets, they are not to hard to do so.  The hard part is the bloody fairies, or more so RUNNING INTO THEM BACKWARDS.  Really they seem to have a larger hitbox than before and its messing me up.

Also got Wriggle Kicked by the stage 1 midboss.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on August 15, 2011, 02:53:14 PM
I seriously cannot do this as Reimu.
Why?
Needles are needles, shouldn't they be reliable?
Marisa is stronger and with a better bomb and trance.
Sanae can trance more so than Reimu.
Youmu just cuts everything.

God dammit. Reimu, you're not supposed to be bad!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GuppyForce on August 15, 2011, 03:09:44 PM
Damnit, I finally get one good run of Ten Desires. All the places I wanted to trance were tranced and I got the 15 part life. Just to lost the 1cc at the final bosses' second last card thanks to being on a laser immediately when trance ended. Would have been a very likely 1cc if not for a bunch of stupid deaths, like on Yoshika's 3rd card, one of Futo's nonspells, and the freaking huge hitboxes of Miko's 2nd card.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Barrakketh on August 15, 2011, 03:12:47 PM
Marisa is stronger and with a better bomb and trance.
As she should be.  Danmaku is all about power!

Homing is also kinda like EZ-mode for stages, and Reimu still has decent power.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Black Phoenix on August 15, 2011, 05:06:00 PM
Fuck off Kaguya. Go and die in a fire. And take bloody Reisen with you. 9 lives going into stage 5 (a first for me, Reimu is far easier than Marisa, even if you go up against her with the two most awkward teams). Reisen demolishes about 5 of those (three to Invisible Full Moon, a card I was certain I'd got the hang of), and then Kaguya eats the rest.

All this would be eased somewhat if Scarlet Team actually had a bomb that was worth a damn. Speaking of which, what is the best way of getting damage out of Remilia's bomb in IN? Or is it just designed to do sod all against spellcards?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on August 15, 2011, 05:12:07 PM
Needles are needles, shouldn't they be reliable?
Marisa is stronger and with a better bomb and trance.
I thought Needle Reimu was a bit stronger than Missile Marisa. Unless the mechanics changed since the demo. Marisa's Trance is obviously stronger though.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on August 15, 2011, 05:47:42 PM
I switched away from Marisa after missing many life pieces due to not being able to bomb and then move to collect them.
Grrr... stupid Yoshika - shouldn't be dying so much to a stage 3 boss. It's even normal mode...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on August 15, 2011, 05:50:54 PM
I am personally fine with Reimu no longer being the undisputed champion for me like she has been in every game since IN. Even if she deals slightly less damage and can't trance as often, she still has her small hitbox. For the first time since PCB, the hitbox has been a balancer, not a breaker.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on August 15, 2011, 07:17:24 PM
I thought Needle Reimu was a bit stronger than Missile Marisa. Unless the mechanics changed since the demo. Marisa's Trance is obviously stronger though.
Needles: 18.80
Missiles: 18.00
See for yourself. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4iDgJ_zVPI) Or go try it on some random card.

Edit: rawradsfsfje what is this.
Went into
Miko's
first card, Marisa went 17.58~ while Reimu is 16.48~.
Goinga go see the stage 2 midboss card.
Double edit: Reimu and Marisa make the same time on the stage 2 midboss and Yuyuko's first card.
dfasdfxcv
Triple edit: I think I see?
Miko
moves up slightly from the start of her first card, Kyouku and Yuyuko's first stay in the starting position, and in Yuyuko's third she moves down.
So...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on August 15, 2011, 09:42:11 PM
Yeah, I saw that vid already. I suspected that since the missiles were already at Yuyuko once the card started, that might have affected something. The differences between their two normal shots are still gonna be very small though. All the same, where's Mefidex... :ohdear:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: theshirn on August 15, 2011, 10:32:47 PM
Input lag has killed every extra run so far. >:(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on August 16, 2011, 04:42:49 AM
Why is it that the nonspell before
the extra boss's transformation card
always lags the game and causes bad choices
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on August 17, 2011, 02:16:17 AM
Ugh, I keep messing up my TD scoreruns on midboss Kogasa in the strangest ways. If it's not successfully refilling my Trance right after her, I'm somehow not collecting both bomb fragments during Trance. I fear some other, even weirder mistake will screw me over in the future.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on August 17, 2011, 07:59:54 AM
Grrr 300 attempts, only 30 of them reached the midboss and 8 of them reached the boss.
Damn it stupid extra midboss.
First card sometimes just shoots you out of the blue.
Second card never even captured it.
And now I'm failing third card?

Oh, and stupid stupid animals. 7th, 8th, and 9th card. Can't dodge very well.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GuppyForce on August 17, 2011, 10:45:18 AM
Trying to Unlock Practice Mode for Stage 6 SA

Continue about 30-60 times

1st life lost on Fixed Star (WTF)

2nd life on Hell & Heaven Meltdown

3rd Life on Hell's Artificial Sun...

Bomb and bomb

Utsuho has 1mm of health left

BAM Boss Death Sound!

Let go of keys in Joy

Die to a bullet FUUUUUUUUUUUU

Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on August 17, 2011, 10:57:25 AM
First card sometimes just shoots you out of the blue.

Then you are doing it wrong.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on August 17, 2011, 05:53:47 PM
Then you are doing it wrong.
I don't think I'm doing it wrong. I'm pretty consistent now. It's just that it's very annoying to die and restart because of it.
Oh, stupid survival crash bug, making me waste a life to bomb, every time.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on August 17, 2011, 10:48:13 PM
Go die raccoon bitch. Seriously.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Critz on August 18, 2011, 12:40:12 PM
Fucking fuck. Despite no lossy deaths as Marisa at all and careful bombing, I found myself with 0/2.4 on final spell in TD, bombed first phase once, second once then got walled with two trance flames and got hit near the end, killed final boss during death trance, but apparently it didn't fucking count, so I got bad ending and no fucking extra unlocked. Fortunately, I don't give two shits about that extra boss except unlocking all overdrives, but it's pretty fucking depressing that I can't even 1cc fucking normal because ZUN balanced somewhat easier patterns with being more stingy with fucking resources than in goddamn SA...

EDIT: http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=15370 (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=15370)
I think I'll be sticking to Sanae for a while. Starting S6 with 5 lives is a far fucking cry, especially since I HAD a lossy death now, on Tojiko's nonspell of all shit... Still, barely made it. 1cc with Youmu will be a fucking nightmare...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on August 18, 2011, 07:17:53 PM
Jesus fucking Christ, 10D you are pissing me off, stupid dialogue messes up my trance-timings -.-....I want double effect of Green Spirits yet not waste it on fairies and use it on boss.FFS
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on August 18, 2011, 09:37:50 PM
10D you are pissing me off, stupid dialogue messes up my trance-timings

This.
There is literally too much wait time between the last few fairies of a stage and the boss's pre-battle dialogue event.
Every stage, it happens... even stage 1.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: theshirn on August 19, 2011, 03:16:35 AM
Apparently the invincibility time after a bomb has been DRASTICALLY reduced.  Either that or Miko's second to last card's lasers ignore it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on August 19, 2011, 03:23:27 AM
Apparently the invincibility time after a bomb has been DRASTICALLY reduced.  Either that or Miko's second to last card's lasers ignore it.

I think it's specifically that card. Either that, or the problem is that the laser comes back immediately after a bomb's effect ends, making it instantly on you at the bomb's end. Other than that one I haven't had any issues like this.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on August 19, 2011, 04:10:59 AM
DAMNIT ZUN, WHY do you insist on dropping no power items whatsoever after the survival? Yay going into the last spell of an EX boss at 0/0/1.xx power and then almost capping the spell anyway, but because I was so close it's even worse and AAAAARGH. Oh, and I would've had a bomb, but fucking survival glitch, RAEG.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on August 19, 2011, 04:41:09 AM
I keep telling myself I'll wait until the English patch before I'll get serious with 10D lunatic, but it seems fate is against me...I tried a whimsical full run, and long story short, game over on
Miko's
second spell card. This was a run full of deaths with bombs in stock and trance gauges just a smidgeon below max, so if I can pull off a similar run and cut out even half of those mistakes, this 1cc is mine. :3

I still want to wait though. :(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on August 20, 2011, 11:21:47 PM
Yukari's Last Word hates me
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lybydose on August 21, 2011, 12:46:41 PM
http://puu.sh/4C0q

what the fuck why is this a stage 3 spell

<Naut> Please save images as a smaller file type, such that they are less than 150kb.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Ranko Hoshino on August 21, 2011, 04:09:41 PM
Try to collect as many spirits as you can so they won't heal Yoshika.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on August 21, 2011, 08:29:35 PM
Fuck. 1DNB run of TD Lunatic Stage 5. The death was at the 2nd spellcard. Fuck that shit man, I don't like it when I lose my perfect run attempts to the easiest of attacks. If it was to the first spell or the third one I could accept it easier.

I do use a single trance on the stage. Those laser orbs makes my laptop lag so I just trance that part. Its piss easy even at full speed though so its completely irrelevant.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on August 21, 2011, 10:18:03 PM
A slow moving amulet killed me during Toyosatomimi no Miko's penultimate card
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Formless God on August 21, 2011, 11:45:32 PM
(http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/254686_1727989619912_1843603191_1162770_3591239_n.jpg)

Made it here on my FIRST try as Youmu, a shot type I never bothered with before. She fucking tears Stage 4, Seiga and Stage 5 apart.
And then I died with those five bombs intact.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lybydose on August 22, 2011, 04:54:31 AM
Try to collect as many spirits as you can so they won't heal Yoshika.

Even when I collect the majority of spirits I time out the spell with like 30% life remaining, all the while dodging patterns that are like 3x harder than anything else in the game except card 123 (mostly because I have to be almost halfway up the screen to actually make it up fast enough to collect spirits).
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on August 22, 2011, 05:10:17 AM
PCB Hard run ends to Youmu, following a string of EIGHT DEATHS on Stage 4

wtf is wrong with meeeee


I think I did some really good scoring before then though.
Is something like 160,000,000 good for the end of stage 3? :ohdear:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on August 23, 2011, 03:55:00 AM
Fuck you Mokou. How do I die to the FIFTH nonspell? Really?

I captured EVERY SINGLE SPELLCARD except Imperishable Shooting and STILL FAILED TO NO-DEATH MOKOU.

RAEG.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on August 23, 2011, 03:06:02 PM
For my first ever pacifist run, you'd think I'd pick an easier stage (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=15523) :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: TAKE IT CACODEMON!! on August 23, 2011, 09:05:08 PM
Yoshika.

Please take your kunai and DIAF.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jaimers on August 23, 2011, 11:28:48 PM
Stage 5 in Scarlet Meister.

Just what the shit dude.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on August 24, 2011, 03:27:24 AM
Oh dayum
I can't Suwako anymore

On the bright side, I can now get 200,000,000 by her third card, which iirc is higher than my high score on it :)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Abita on August 24, 2011, 04:08:12 AM
Being all tra-la-la in EoSD, get to library, fairies and books tear my shit apart
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on August 24, 2011, 05:38:16 AM
ATTN: Ten Desires

I do not press the X button because I think it looks cute. I press it because I would like you to bomb.

That was approximately three deaths on Miko too many.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on August 24, 2011, 05:46:20 AM
I do not press the C button because I think it looks cute. I press it because I would like you to save me from death.

I don't want to see Marisa shitting out grey spirits.
Corrected.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jaimers on August 24, 2011, 06:48:13 PM
Oh my God Scarlet Meister is really  fucking aggravating.

It's so easy to suddenly die and bosses won't stand the fuck still.
Also Jesus Yuka, CALM DOWN. You're just a stage 5 boss, you don't have to go all out and be harder than the final boss.  :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Pikabolt11 on August 24, 2011, 07:01:07 PM
Why can't I clear Earth in a Pot...

Darn it Eirin! Stop shooting those tiny spheres! (Bombs again)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on August 24, 2011, 11:26:35 PM
ATTN: Ten Desires

I do not press the X button because I think it looks cute. I press it because I would like you to bomb.
Mamizou's last card.

One life in stock, one bomb in stock.

Death with bomb in stock.

Second death with two bombs in stock and almost no health on the card.

WHAT. THE. FUCKING. HELL. :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Formless God on August 25, 2011, 06:07:51 AM
Fucking IN. I know how to do everything, yet I'm not consistent at anything. Also, lolwalls and odd hitboxes.

Oh my God Scarlet Meister is really  fucking aggravating.
Upload the whole thing when you're done. I'm having a hard time getting past Stage 3 without TAS :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sungho on August 26, 2011, 06:12:41 PM
道符「TAO胎動 ~道~」is the worst spellcard ever made. After Hourai Jewel Branch, that is.
Seriously, what kind of spellcard has curvy lasers, big bullets that chase the player around, and has a servant that shoots the same amount of bullets?
Freaking things don't even give graze. They don't disappear so I can't even know what hit me.
Reimu 1/157 Marisa 0/197 Youmu 1/95
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Shady_Ghost on August 26, 2011, 11:17:33 PM
Reimu 1/157 Marisa 0/197 Youmu 1/95
THATS NOTHING
(http://oi53.tinypic.com/2vnp3bc.jpg)
I'm clearly amazing at this game right?  :derp:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elratauru on August 27, 2011, 04:41:07 PM
FUUUUUUUUUUCK. GOD DAMMIT.

Cleared MoF 1CC on Easy tons of times, First time I play SA seriously on Easy to 1CC it, and I die like 23094324 times against a cat in the 4th Stage ??!

Why are you so hard SA? :'( It feels like Im playing normal on MoF, and I cant still beat that :'(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on August 27, 2011, 11:14:21 PM
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=15602

Good lord this makes me upset

Replay Breakdown:

Pre-Kanako: No Deaths
Kanako: No Deaths
Post-Kanako: No Deaths
Pre Red Frog: No Deaths
Red Frog: 3 Deaths
Suwa War: 2 Deaths
Scourge: 1 Death, resulting in Game Over
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on August 28, 2011, 01:03:19 AM
Oh didn't realize that dude updated the ultra patches a while ago, this time UFO ultra is much more reasonable. In a technical sense, anyway. Stuff is passable... Just very very difficult (an improvement from borderline impossible). Fun nonetheless. Byakuran's final is God tier.

But it wrecks my shit and is pissing me off with it passable but ass-kick difficulty now :I
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Formless God on August 28, 2011, 02:19:29 AM
Uuurgh, I'm giving up on timing out #111. It seems to involve getting lucky about 15 times in a row ...
Pretty fun card, though.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on August 28, 2011, 11:03:34 AM
Why can't I capture Metal Fatigue?
I swear, this card is way too difficult to be on Normal. And for Marisa B as well.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Vanhaomena on August 28, 2011, 01:18:18 PM
Oh didn't realize that dude updated the ultra patches a while ago, this time UFO ultra is much more reasonable. In a technical sense, anyway. Stuff is passable... Just very very difficult (an improvement from borderline impossible). Fun nonetheless. Byakuran's final is God tier.

But it wrecks my shit and is pissing me off with it passable but ass-kick difficulty now :I

Replays or videos of that would be awesome, although it's understandable if you don't want to publish a failed run :V.
I hope I can contribute with an EoSD Ultra video soon, but this far my tries have been on-topic with this thread only, not the accomplishment one...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on August 28, 2011, 02:21:36 PM
Excuse me while I slash my wrist,
because I forgot that bombs exist. (http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll294/maxxjaxx/tendesiresfail1.jpg)

E: And that 18 piece extend was WITHIN MY REACH AS WELL ahgadahvgwevpacufogvvgjnh
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on August 28, 2011, 04:06:48 PM
Uuurgh, I'm giving up on timing out #111. It seems to involve getting lucky about 15 times in a row ...
Pretty fun card, though.

What do you mean 15 times in a row? Stream more slowly.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Formless God on August 28, 2011, 09:14:29 PM
What do you mean 15 times in a row? Stream more slowly.
You can stream downward slowly, but you need to dash up quickly to avoid turning everything into a clusterfuck (even then, everything turns into a clusterfuck half of the time).
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on August 29, 2011, 03:45:48 AM
Replays or videos of that would be awesome, although it's understandable if you don't want to publish a failed run :V.
I hope I can contribute with an EoSD Ultra video soon, but this far my tries have been on-topic with this thread only, not the accomplishment one...

Well I had a run get to Byakuren's second last card, so hopefully I can free up some time to give the game a few more runs and 1cc it (just a few trouble spots here and there that need ironing out). I'll make up a video when I do.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jaimers on August 29, 2011, 06:35:31 PM
Goddammit why is there no patch that makes the stage progression go faster in just Vanilla TD?
Would make the game a whole lot more fun to play.  :|

Well I had a run get to Byakuren's second last card,

Replay?  :3
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on August 29, 2011, 07:16:51 PM
Goddammit why is there no patch that makes the stage progression go faster in just Vanilla TD?
Would make the game a whole lot more fun to play.  :|

A patch that skips the first three stages would be lovely.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Xyden on August 29, 2011, 11:26:53 PM
More like skip the entire game

dohohoho

On another note jesus christ why is Fairy Wars Lunatic so fucking unforgiving and brutal. Goddamn I can't get past Stage 1 without dying.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on August 30, 2011, 12:31:18 AM
Goddamn I can't get past Stage 1 without dying.

Stop moving into a bullet. Move instead through a gap in a bullet wall!
Oh, and don't be near a boss/midboss when it dies.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on August 30, 2011, 01:38:39 AM
Replay?  :3

As requested. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=15644) Did one better though, this replay gets halfway through Byakuren's last card. If I didn't make some stupid mistakes (like getting hit twice on Murasa's first, as well as getting hit on stuff like Byakuren's Milky way curvy laser thing and her easy non), I'd say it would've been a 1cc. Not being able to get Nue's extend is very annoying, though.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on August 30, 2011, 02:15:44 AM
Dying multiple times due to being directly above Ran/Yukari when Ultimate Buddhist/Butterfly in the Zen Temple ends and having her ram into you?

No, thank you.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on August 30, 2011, 06:51:15 AM
WHY CAN'T I 1cc SoEW NORMAL!?!?!?!?!?

My most recent attempt actually got to Mima...and died to her final attack.  If only I could stop clipdeathing through the whole game.  Supid hitbox > bullet sprite...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on August 30, 2011, 02:35:10 PM
Fuck it, Killing Doll is easier than Marrionette. I haven't captured either but I've come way closer to capping KD when I can't even get Sakuya down to half her health in the other one. The latter is way too dense and if I try to go around the waves of knives I can't hit her enough before the time runs out. There's more bullets in Killing Doll but they're more spread out than it's Normal/easy counterpart.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on August 30, 2011, 08:49:54 PM
Fuck it, Killing Doll is easier than Marrionette.

I thought this was established truth? Marionette's wrap-around is absolute bullshit compared to Killing Doll.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GenericTouhouFailure on August 31, 2011, 12:47:20 PM
I thought this was established truth? Marionette's wrap-around is absolute bullshit compared to Killing Doll.
Agreeing to this one.

So much raeg.
Blind run of 10D on normal
Stage 1-5: No deaths
Stage 6: No deaths
FLASHY YELLOW COLOR SUN ORIENTED CRISS CROSS ATTACK: 1st death.
End game: 4 deaths  :colonveeplusalpha:
I hate my life.

Undead murderer timeout....
51 attempts and no dice.
I've just never tried so hard on a single attack before...
Goddammit why is there no patch that makes the stage progression go faster in just Vanilla TD?
Would make the game a whole lot more fun to play.  :|
This as well.
Stage one is boaring crap that annoys me when stuff fire point blank when i'm trying to raise my score counter :3
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on August 31, 2011, 12:50:03 PM
10D Normal with Marisa.

>S1-4 No deaths
>Game over just as Futo's last card finishes.
> Once more, full bomb stock.

What. Is. Wrong. With. Me.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on August 31, 2011, 08:49:28 PM
FUCK YOU CHEN I HATE YOU SO MUCH JUST DIE AND GO TO HELL ALREADY GAHHHHHHH
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on September 01, 2011, 03:25:45 AM
(http://i56.tinypic.com/5aqu5s.jpg)

hnnngggGHHHHHUUULLLTRAAAAAAAAAAA
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Miruruneko on September 01, 2011, 02:49:18 PM
I think one that annoys me every time....
-Plays EoSD-
Does perfectly, up to Patchouli-
-Patchouli murders most of my lives-
-Sakuya finishes them off-
;_;

Or, more recently...

-Ten Desires Extra stage...-
-Does perfectly in the stage-
-Nue pops up-
-Evil moving red balls of death come out ;_;-
-Dies- >:C-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on September 01, 2011, 03:22:52 PM
The full power-ups that shoot out of Sakuya every time I play Princess Tenko indicate how frustrated I am at this card.
FFFFFFFF---
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on September 01, 2011, 07:46:20 PM
Fuck off Sakuya. I have lost count of the number of times I have had time stop at the same time Aya died. As if to mock me.

I have captured 4 out of 4 Remilia cards in scene 7. I have captured 0 out of 4 Sakuya cards in the same scene. And I have more captures from Ran, Yuyuko, and even Kaguya than I do from Sakuya. There is something wrong with that.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on September 01, 2011, 09:11:07 PM
(http://i56.tinypic.com/5aqu5s.jpg)

hnnngggGHHHHHUUULLLTRAAAAAAAAAAA

Holy shit what
I won't be touching that with a 10-foot barge pole any time soon.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 01, 2011, 09:19:44 PM
Damn it, so close Naut. You can do it! I don't know how but I know you'll find a way.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on September 01, 2011, 09:40:06 PM
Ultra Suwako, WTF.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Vanhaomena on September 01, 2011, 09:58:36 PM
What was to be demonstrated again? (http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8629/reallyke.png) This weeks special.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on September 02, 2011, 12:52:16 AM
2 Ultra Suwako final card game overs, 1 of them being a double KO.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengar Zombolt on September 02, 2011, 01:42:14 AM
What was to be demonstrated again? (http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/8629/reallyke.png) This weeks special.
One of us! One of us!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on September 03, 2011, 12:05:10 AM
MORE PROOF THAT TAIZEN CAN'T TOUHOU (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=15727)

Failing Yuyuko's easiest nonspell (you know the one) on my Xth attempt at 1CCing Hard? YAY.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 03, 2011, 01:51:22 AM
not one, but TWO double KOs while trying to capture Miko's 6th spell on lunatic.  Other double KOs in ten Desires I've had include Mamizou's final spell and Mamizou's overdrive.

WHY WOULD ZUN ALLOW DOUBLE KOs IN SPELL PRACTICE IMPERISHABLE NIGHT DIDN'T HAVE THAT PROBLEM
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on September 04, 2011, 12:55:49 AM
I don't care what the game fucking says, I FUCKING BEAT MAMIZOU.

Two lives to spare, one second left on the survival card, I bomb...and the game FUCKING CRASHES ANYWAY.

WHAT THE FUCKING HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU ZUN, TEST YOUR FUCKING GAME.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Valantus on September 04, 2011, 03:49:28 AM
-plays UFO
-Dies on Kogasa

Since when are stage 2 bosses so hard ;__;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on September 04, 2011, 03:59:06 AM
-plays UFO
-Dies on Kogasa

Since when are stage 2 bosses so hard ;__;

Since you decided to play UFO :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on September 04, 2011, 05:51:48 AM
Geh? I can't even bring myself to play Fairy Wars properly...!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on September 04, 2011, 09:20:20 AM
I don't care what the game fucking says, I FUCKING BEAT MAMIZOU.

Two lives to spare, one second left on the survival card, I bomb...and the game FUCKING CRASHES ANYWAY.

WHAT THE FUCKING HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU ZUN, TEST YOUR FUCKING GAME.

He did. That's why there's a patch out for it. Install it already.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 04, 2011, 03:35:39 PM
He did. That's why there's a patch out for it. Install it already.

Normal developers test before releasing their games. Not after. :D
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on September 04, 2011, 04:02:14 PM
It's possible that it never crashed for him.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on September 04, 2011, 07:32:03 PM
Doesn't that just mean Mamizou's survival was too tricky for its creator?  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on September 05, 2011, 06:31:15 AM
Undefined Fantastic Object...that's all I have to say ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 05, 2011, 07:47:42 AM
I'm trying SA normal no bombs, get through Orin with 1 1/5 lives (2 deaths to needle mountain, 2 deaths to stage, 1 to Cat's Walk), get to Utsuho, capture the first 2 nonspells, but get walled on both Nuclear Fusion (1st spell) and Mega Flare.  Lame.  also RAAAAGE.

derping Yuugi's nonspell, the last fairy in Stage 4 and the BoWaP safespot probably didn't help >.>
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 05, 2011, 08:30:21 AM
Doesn't that just mean Mamizou's survival was too tricky for its creator?  :V

It probably was.

It's possible that it never crashed for him.

Yeah perhabs. I know nothing about computers so that might be the case.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on September 05, 2011, 12:45:50 PM
So I decided to try timing out Mamizou's last card.

It all goes to hell at 20 seconds. Holy hell, nice timeout phase. There's no sound effect for it starting up, but you know it as soon as it starts...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on September 05, 2011, 06:52:17 PM
*bombs on Scarlet Gensokyo* Alright, two bombs left, I can do this! I can 1cc Hard at last!
*runs into bubble bullet* WHAT NO NO NO NO I WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE INVINCIBILITY SHIELD FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 05, 2011, 07:07:02 PM
You are probably destined by fate to have that sort of thing happen to you at least once while trying to 1cc EoSD. Don't give up on it though, you can do it!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on September 05, 2011, 07:14:47 PM
You are probably destined by fate to have that sort of thing happen to you at least once while trying to 1cc EoSD. Don't give up on it though, you can do it!

Yeah...during my quest to 1cc normal on Marisa B a similar thing happened. Then I broke the computer. That was dumb.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Thanuris on September 05, 2011, 07:38:20 PM
*bombs on Scarlet Gensokyo* Alright, two bombs left, I can do this! I can 1cc Hard at last!
*runs into bubble bullet* WHAT NO NO NO NO I WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE INVINCIBILITY SHIELD FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--

history of my life
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 05, 2011, 10:34:54 PM
Yeah...during my quest to 1cc normal on Marisa B a similar thing happened. Then I broke the computer. That was dumb.

Haha. yeah, the temptation to break your equipment can be great.  ;) Try your best to avoid that from happening.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 06, 2011, 04:48:13 AM
safespot on Border of Wave and Particle, spell ends...I die.  WHY CAN'T I NB 1CC SA ON NORMAL
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GuppyForce on September 07, 2011, 07:36:01 AM
FUDGING HELL

Game over at Flying Fantastica

And this would EASILY have been a 1cc if I hadn't lost TWO LIVES ON KOGASA and THREE LIVES ONE BOMB ON DEMON OF PURIFICATION. WHATTHEFUDGE. AND I CAPTURED THAT SHIT BEFORE
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on September 07, 2011, 09:23:50 PM
Why am I so bad at Peerless Wind God?

Edit:  Someone needs to relearn Sanae's first boss card, also absolutely terrible play on this run (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=15811)

At least out of all the places to game over on Sanae, I pick one of the one or two that there would be no shame in.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GuppyForce on September 08, 2011, 09:12:13 AM
THREE consecutive deaths in IN stage 4. None deathbombed/last spelled...

Why am I much better at deathbombing in PCB than IN...

And yet another reason why I find PCB easier than IN. I'm kinda weird like that
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on September 08, 2011, 04:29:32 PM
I hate Storm  Day so much; I can almost never figure out where I should be dodging. Saruta Cross can be annoying too, but I'm figuring that one out.


But Peerless Wind God despite my incompetence at Storm Day is what is really pissing me off. It's not BS at all, and I can correctly read it at least 90+% of the time. And then I'll screw it up by either moving too far, moving too little, or just completely hitting the wrong arrow keys, or knowing I need to move a certain way then move the opposite way for some reason. It just pisses me off that my capture rate should be so much higher and I capture it less than 10-20% of the time instead because I can't dodge it even though I've correctly read the paths.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: mikeKOSA on September 08, 2011, 11:27:06 PM
(http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6883/asdhvf.th.png) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/153/asdhvf.png/)
Just a couple more shots!
No bombs attempt btw
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on September 09, 2011, 01:57:05 AM
Okay, my inability to Hard 1CC is beginning to annoy me.

PCB: All the way to Yuyuko's last nonspell
MoF: Expanded Onbashira: This Time With Ascending Bullets
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jq1790 on September 09, 2011, 06:11:32 AM
Rrgh, so close to a Phantasm clear now!  I've managed to make it to Bounded Field "Boundary of Life and Death" for the first time tonight(Technically this morning.  Hello, Touhou at 2 in the morning!)...  Had I bombed earlier back in "Boundary of Humans and Youkai"(Or preferably captured it, but I'm thinking more realistically right now.), I might've had the bombs to survive...  Then all that would remain would be Yukari's Arcanum "Danmaku Bounded Field", which is certainly easier than the spell before it.

Yukari, your time is nigh!

Though...I'd really like to know how come I managed to go from three spare lives at "Butterfly in the Zen Temple" to one by the end of Shikigami "Ran"...  So troublesome, this Phantasm stage is...

Probably the most infuriating part is I know HOW to do it, I just wind up slipping up all over the place doing stupid stuff like running into bullets instead of dodging them.  *twitch*
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on September 09, 2011, 06:51:02 AM
Fairy Wars. Extra. 90FPS.

I died twice to Marisa's first card.
She wouldn't move up for the love of god.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 09, 2011, 09:35:14 AM
Urgh. What the fuck, that Ultra patch makes Aya completely ridiculous. I don't see how any of this is supposed to be dodgable. Damn, it would be nice and convinient if you could turn off that auto-bombing so you don't blow the attacks away before you get a chance to try and dodge them.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: mikeKOSA on September 09, 2011, 09:59:24 AM
Urgh. What the fuck, that Ultra patch makes Aya completely ridiculous. I don't see how any of this is supposed to be dodgable. Damn, it would be nice and convinient if you could turn off that auto-bombing so you don't blow the attacks away before you get a chance to try and dodge them.

Saruta Cross, 2nd nonspell and Stormy day is doable. Dunno about everything else.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 09, 2011, 10:45:08 AM
I agree about Storm Day. Also Saruta Cross. 2nd non-spell dies so quickly if you bomb so I never got to attempt dodging it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: mikeKOSA on September 09, 2011, 11:00:18 AM
1st nonspell seems doable too. It involves redirecting bullets and making tight dodges. Also, almost capped Ultra PWG.

2nd non-spell dies so quickly if you bomb so I never got to attempt dodging it.

Well, you might want to be at 4.xx power and hope Aya stays on top of you. That way you can end the attack before you get walled on the 2nd wave.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on September 09, 2011, 12:07:40 PM
MoF's Ultra Patch isn't really playable.

Storm Day is easier on it BTW, unless it's been updated since I got it.


Edit:

 Suwa War :(  (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=15841)

Also in a different run, I timed her final card down to 2 seconds left then died.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ARF on September 09, 2011, 04:25:06 PM
Did anyone else try MoF Extra with Ultra Patch? I think clearing with 4 extra lives could be possible if you use ReimuB.
My ReimuA antics has gotten me a 2 extra lives 0 bombs clear, but I can't even seem to get close to that anymore :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on September 09, 2011, 04:30:01 PM
4 spare lives should be legitimately possible. I think you could do 5 spare lives with TAS.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ARF on September 09, 2011, 04:36:06 PM
4 spare lives should be legitimately possible. I think you could do 5 spare lives with TAS.

Agreed, but who cares about TASing anyway?  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 09, 2011, 07:51:23 PM
How would you go about 4 lives? There is too much BS for that. Oh maybe not, but that would require perfection on pretty much anything else.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on September 09, 2011, 08:00:19 PM
Because the only spellcard in Ultra Suwako's fight that is truly BS is Froggy. The others are at least theoretically possible, but there's some other stuff that's pretty much BS as well.


And as for Normal Suwako, why can I not stop derping 7 stones, Froggy, and Suwa War?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Thanuris on September 09, 2011, 08:43:57 PM
Because the only spellcard in Ultra Suwako's fight that is truly BS is Froggy. The others are at least theoretically possible, but there's some other stuff that's pretty much BS as well.


And as for Normal Suwako, why can I not stop derping 7 stones, Froggy, and Suwa War?

at least you didn't fail mishaguji-sama after capturing everything but that
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jaimers on September 09, 2011, 09:57:39 PM
Am I the only one who thinks midboss Nue is harder than Mamizou?

Because seriously.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: TAKE IT CACODEMON!! on September 10, 2011, 12:24:12 AM
Hey! Sunflower Fairies right before Seiga!

FUCK YOU.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 10, 2011, 12:53:12 AM
Am I the only one who thinks midboss Nue is harder than Mamizou?

Because seriously.
I think Nue's difficulty is more concentrated, but I consistently capture 1 of her 3 spells.  Mamizou I consistently get at least half of her attacks, but 2-3 of her 10 spells.

While uploading my GFW extra clear, I noticed that I got clipped by the very edge of an orb on Big Crunch.  I'd been closer to the center and not been hit without invincibility, so what the heck ZUN?

Also, choking on Suwa War with around 10 seconds left.  Because I streamed down-left instead of just left.  It's not fair.

EDIT: Attempted PCB no bombs normal, get to Yuyuko with 4 lives, get to Repository with 2, die twice to it, game over on her last spell before Reflowering.  WHY AM I BETTER AT REPOSITORY ON LUNATIC THAN ON NORMAL
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on September 10, 2011, 04:34:53 AM
I can't figure out for the life of me why I can't clear TD Ultra Normal even after doing PCB Ultra Hard  :(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Schezo on September 10, 2011, 06:02:11 AM
Alright, so the next chucklefuck who thinks it will be hilarious to make fairies that fire rings nonstop all the way to the bottom of the screen will need to get punched in the face. 

It's that bad for me.  Fuck.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 10, 2011, 08:37:20 AM
Because the only spellcard in Ultra Suwako's fight that is truly BS is Froggy. The others are at least theoretically possible, but there's some other stuff that's pretty much BS as well.

How would go about Croaking? The first survival card is also pretty wtf for me.
Also, while the 2nd card isn't absolute BS I'd still expect a few bombs on that one due to how goddamn pixel perfect you need to be.

Am I the only one who thinks midboss Nue is harder than Mamizou?

Nah. Midboss Nue has only one hard card. Mamizou at least has a bunch of tricky attacks. Its not her non-spells though. I've seen stages in that game that are more original.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on September 10, 2011, 02:32:56 PM
I think you could dodge Croaking with luck or TAS. I did almost dodge a wave of it during a clear just to derp one of the last things I had to dodge in it.

And although I do not think Red Frog is BS, I could be wrong. I was able to last until there were 2 without being hit, but I didn't figure out how to do the part after that.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on September 10, 2011, 02:49:36 PM
DAMNIT FUCK YOU MOKOU

Why do you insist on being absolutely impossible to no-death?

I reach Phoenix Tail with three bombs in stock, bomb the card once. Okay, I can't capture that one every time. Fine. Rings of death, two bombs, move on. Capture Fujiyama Volcano and Possessed by Phoenix, those are easy, and so is Hourai Doll, so close, I'm going to do it...

...get hit by Hourai Doll, not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES. WHAT IS THAT.

Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on September 10, 2011, 07:42:17 PM
I think you could dodge Croaking with luck or TAS.

You could do the same with Froggy as well. They're both obscenely difficult. I would argue Croaking is worse than Froggy though.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 11, 2011, 10:15:19 AM
Agreed. With Froggy I can at least dodge for a few seconds before getting hit.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on September 11, 2011, 01:22:56 PM
Remilia, stop fucking killing me at your opener when I have 3 bombs in stock. It's getting old.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Sonae on September 11, 2011, 08:45:03 PM
u-uu... everyone else dying at les fail times than me...
Shikieiki loves to rape me with danmaku ):
4 lives and she still kicked my ass...
-sighs-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on September 12, 2011, 01:50:58 AM
What the hell

A death to Suwa War at 00 -_-

That, and dying with Mishaguji-sama at 2s left before clear

That, and dying to Red Frog at 02.




tasukete
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _cf on September 12, 2011, 06:21:37 PM
Remilia, stop fucking killing me at your opener when I have 3 bombs in stock. It's getting old.
This is so me. I misread the hitboxes in her opener all the time. I kind of lost the count of how many times I find a "safe" place, stop there to look to the next wave and then pichuun.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 12, 2011, 08:02:06 PM
Guys. When it comes to Remilia, a word of the wise is; Get those bombs used. Remilia's spams bullets that are so easy to misread since their hitbox is different in the rest of the series. In a situation like this, its better to just bomb pre-emptively.

My personal experiences is getting killed with bombs in stock because I didn't bomb because I was certain I was fine. I wasn't because EoSD hitboxes.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Cykyrios on September 12, 2011, 08:35:26 PM
Just got killed by Remilia, I was about to 1cc... >.>
Damn you Remilia, eat my bombs!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 13, 2011, 04:24:00 PM
My inability to 1cc UFO normal with MarisaB is really getting annoying.  Just had a 3rd failure to Flying Fantastica, with about a half dozen stupid deaths with bombs in stock.  Murasa went horribly, Ichirin went 1DNB, Kogasa was 1DNB, Shou went about as well as you'd expect, and Byakuren got a cheap hit on me on the first spell and the final nonspell.
I've 1cced every other windows Touhou game on every possible normal with every shot type, so WHY IS THIS ONE SO HARD!?!?!?

Also, why is UFO hard so, well, hard?  SA hard I cleared in about 5 tries, 10D hard in about 5, MoF hard in about 10 (mostly due to VoWG), UFO hard I can't get through Stage 3!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on September 14, 2011, 04:26:01 AM
Also, why is UFO hard so, well, hard?  SA hard I cleared in about 5 tries, 10D hard in about 5, MoF hard in about 10 (mostly due to VoWG), UFO hard I can't get through Stage 3!

The early stages of UFO aren't filler. The difficulty actually exists!
And then Murasa is standard fare, Shou is WOAH RADIANT TREASURE GUN. Byakuren... Hope you have plenty of bombs!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 14, 2011, 04:33:25 AM
The early stages of UFO aren't filler. The difficulty actually exists!
I'm still making way more mistakes than I should be, as I've captured everything through Stage 2 but ALWAYS die to it stupidly somewhere, Ichirin has too many lasers/pink bullets behind pink fists that I can't see.  I fail at reading lasers too.  I'm sure if I could GET to Stage 4, I'd make a million stupid mistakes there too.

Also, I just tried to perfect IN easy, died to Red Eyes Hypnosis, which I find HARDER on easy/normal than on hard/lunatic.  Ended up missing one of Kaguya's last spells too (the 4th one), which brought my total score to a million short of a billion points.  Much rage was had over the combination of stupid mistakes.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 14, 2011, 08:00:18 AM
I'm still making way more mistakes than I should be, as I've captured everything through Stage 2 but ALWAYS die to it stupidly somewhere, Ichirin has too many lasers/pink bullets behind pink fists that I can't see.  I fail at reading lasers too.  I'm sure if I could GET to Stage 4, I'd make a million stupid mistakes there too.

Its not like having captured the card before means you can do it consistently. Which part of Stage 2 kills you stupidly? Practice those parts. Try to ensure that you can do it consistently. If there are parts that you simply can't get consistent on then you just might wanna bomb that. Oh and you should really bomb King Kraken Strike for 1cc'ing purposes. Or whatever the Hard version is called.

The trick here is practice. And a hell of a lot of patience. The latter was something I really lacked.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GuppyForce on September 14, 2011, 08:14:41 AM
Also, I just tried to perfect IN easy, died to Red Eyes Hypnosis, which I find HARDER on easy/normal than on hard/lunatic.
Nope. For easy don't bother trying any of the tricks from normal to lunatic. Just stay at the bottom and dodge. There's huge gaps but the way reisen shifts the bullets causes the normal method not to work.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on September 14, 2011, 08:19:02 PM
My inability to 1cc UFO normal with MarisaB is really getting annoying.  Just had a 3rd failure to Flying Fantastica, with about a half dozen stupid deaths with bombs in stock.  Murasa went horribly, Ichirin went 1DNB, Kogasa was 1DNB, Shou went about as well as you'd expect, and Byakuren got a cheap hit on me on the first spell and the final nonspell.
I've 1cced every other windows Touhou game on every possible normal with every shot type, so WHY IS THIS ONE SO HARD!?!?!?

Also, why is UFO hard so, well, hard?  SA hard I cleared in about 5 tries, 10D hard in about 5, MoF hard in about 10 (mostly due to VoWG), UFO hard I can't get through Stage 3!

The difficulty spike on most Touhou games usually comes at Stage 4, or sometimes at the 3rd boss (Alice, Keine).
UFO's difficulty spike comes at the start of Stage 2.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Formless God on September 14, 2011, 09:54:02 PM
Half a second away from capturing Peta Flare Ultra asdasdasfsdasf
Utsuho's attacks are pretty doable on Ultra.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 14, 2011, 10:18:22 PM
Hells Tokamak Ultra made me cry. Oh and fuck Nuclear Fusion.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on September 14, 2011, 10:36:29 PM
Okay, SA, you... are odd.

Since when does someone unable to clear Stage 5 on Normal clear Stage 4 on Hard...?
Only to die from trying to PoC Orin?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on September 14, 2011, 11:07:12 PM
Okay, SA, you... are odd.

Since when does someone unable to clear Stage 5 on Normal clear Stage 4 on Hard...?
Only to die from trying to PoC Orin?

Yeah, I also cleared Stage 4 Hard before I cleared Stage 5 Normal.

Speaking of SA, I hate Spleen Eater ;_;
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 14, 2011, 11:45:03 PM
I don't see what's so hard about Orin on normal.
On hard she's brutal though.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on September 15, 2011, 05:30:34 AM
10D stage 1, I hate you. Stupid stupid deaths everywhere.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 15, 2011, 09:19:50 AM
Moo. I just failed PSM twice in a row. I think I'm going to need to pay some extra attention to Kogasa's movements so she doesn't bump into me. It might also be because I'm standing a bit too close to her. Other than that, I'm pretty close to consistently perfecting her. Occasionally I fuck up her 2nd or 3rd card but that's getting more and more rare.

EDIT: I also liked the part where my computer slows down to 45 FPS every time Unzans fists come on screen. Its worst at the final card where the framerate dips all the way to 45 because of the two heads and the fists and all that. King Kraken Strike is a bit more merciful but it still lags a bit. And unlike the final card which is easy, KKS is actually difficult and lag is the worst thing that can happen here since it will throw off my timing and feel for movement speed. Which is damned annoying.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: mikeKOSA on September 15, 2011, 11:16:58 AM
There's nothing like seeing a blue ufo runs away with your point items.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: BT on September 15, 2011, 03:08:54 PM
> Still very new to the games.
> Reaching Yuyuko with 3 full continues left (achievement! screw youmu).
> Dying completely slightly before Butterfly Resurrection.

"Man".
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on September 15, 2011, 03:34:16 PM
> Capture Miko's last card with Youmu, no vertical, no focus, in spell practice
> hit down instead of up, therefore selecting "give up and retry" instead of "save replay"

"....."
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on September 15, 2011, 11:48:28 PM
I am playing so disgustingly today

A death to Parsee
A death to Minoriko
Two deaths to Satori
Failing a Phantasm Run at the fourth wave of Danmaku Bounded Field (with a full set of bombs in stock
Two deaths to Phantasm Ran



WHY DOES THE SPELL CARD INVOCATION NOISE MAKE ME BOMB
WHAT IN THE HELL
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on September 16, 2011, 12:43:01 AM
I didn't even get the 15-piece extend!!
No wonder I'm having so much trouble in this game.
There is no way I'm 1cc'ing with only 5 lives.
And just as I was happy to finally no death the first 2 stages, GRRR Stage 3 and Yoshika ate 3 lives away.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _cf on September 16, 2011, 01:02:19 PM
Alright, wtf is wrong with me and Ten Desires? I tried to win it on EASY and I'm dying blind idiot deaths all around stage 4 and game-overing on stage 5. About 100% of these deaths are me ramming something (bullet, faerie, boss) while trying to collect the spirits.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on September 16, 2011, 05:40:27 PM
Are you kidding, EoSD? That was so a bomb. I bombed before I died on Q.E.D. But you decided to just let me die with two bombs in stock. I hate you so much.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Paper Conan on September 17, 2011, 01:33:34 AM
Dear Nazrin,

     Please go fucking kill yourself.

                                   Love,
                                       Paper_Conan
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on September 17, 2011, 10:05:36 PM
Just died twice to Yukari's first stupid spellcard after one of the best stage runs I have had in a long time.

Cue Ragequit.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: mikeKOSA on September 18, 2011, 03:50:35 AM
MoF Hard. Pretty much a perfect run going into Sanae with 956M, then died at her opener. wtf? that shit is harder than its lunatic counterpart due to those slow bullets creating more "walls". Same goes for Kanako's 3rd nonspell.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 18, 2011, 07:24:15 AM
About a dozen UFO hard stage 1 restarts, for various reasons ranging form stupidness in the stage to dying AT LEAST once to ANY AND EVERY SPELL THROUGH MIDBOSS KOGASA
which before this session, I had perfect capture records on Busy Rod, Gold Detector and Kogasa's midboss spell.

...and the session ends with a run that gets all the way to ST. Nikou's Air Scroll, before Game Overing with a bomb in stock.  I had 2 stupid deaths with bombs in stock  right before/at Shou, which combined would have given me an additional life to work with, which would have been enough to reach LFS with a life in stock.  2 deathbombs during the Byakuren battle, Ichirin killed me THREE times, and Murasa went well, as usual.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on September 18, 2011, 04:25:36 PM
Why is Route B-1 in GFW about 5 times harder than other route!? Seriously? The Star Sapphire fight is *retarded*, it's just three spellcards of random bullshit. Twinkle Sapphire cost me 4 lives on that last run.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on September 18, 2011, 07:27:16 PM
Oh hi Ten Desires. Why am I sucking so much right now? Shall I come back when it's 0400?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on September 18, 2011, 07:44:44 PM
REMILIA WILL YOU STAY THE FUCK STILL ONE FOR ONE SECOND!!?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 19, 2011, 12:00:16 AM
UFO hard Stage 3.
I HATE THIS STAGE IT'S STUPID AND DUMB

EDIT: CHOOOOOOOOOKE!  another 2-3 seconds would have been a 1cc... Why'd I:
die with full bombs on stage 2 while grabbing a UFO
not bomb Kraken Strike until after dying
not destroy that green UFO at the start of Stage 6
die with bombs in stock on Byakuren's second nonspell

ANY ONE of those would have meant I 1cced UFO hard...and now I have to get there again.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on September 20, 2011, 09:14:41 AM
Dear Orin, why are you so difficult?

Vengeful Cannibal Spirit can go to hell
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 20, 2011, 10:02:40 AM
Vengeful Cannibal Spirit can go to hell

But that is by far the easiest card she has. There are Stage 2 cards more difficult than this one. Before UFO. Are you sure you just don't know how to handle it?
Go check out a replay. I believe that you should be able to handle it with ease if you get the right approach down.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ARF on September 20, 2011, 06:27:11 PM
I was doing a pacifist attempt at Shizuha when Marisa showed up, then THIS happened :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbJx9vfTuMM
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on September 20, 2011, 08:57:00 PM
But that is by far the easiest card she has. There are Stage 2 cards more difficult than this one. Before UFO. Are you sure you just don't know how to handle it?
Go check out a replay. I believe that you should be able to handle it with ease if you get the right approach down.

I didn't think it's that hard, but when it's 0500 and about to go to sleep, not being able to get past Stage 5 and unlock it for practice made me frustrated :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 20, 2011, 09:39:56 PM
Oh, is that the case? Then...

Dear Orin, why are you so difficult?

Because you are playing at 5 AM. Missing out on sleep can make you suck you know?...
which is why I miss out on sleep everyday yeah. :colonveeplusalpha:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on September 20, 2011, 11:51:15 PM
Everyone thinks Orin is hard.
Then they fight Shou and realise that Orin, in comparison, is nothing. Apart from her 3rd nonspell and Ghost Wheels obv.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on September 21, 2011, 12:23:49 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/Gmp2S.png) (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=16011)

FUCK

(the image is a link to the replay ~ witness my two deaths to Terrible Souvenir, and more)

On the bright side, I captured more post-Satori cards than I might have thought I would.

I guess now that "game overing to the last second of the final" now makes me a member of some club somewhere.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on September 21, 2011, 12:49:56 AM
Everyone thinks Orin is hard.
Then they fight Shou and realise that Orin, in comparison, is nothing. Apart from her 3rd nonspell and Ghost Wheels obv.
Exactly. Even Orin's third nonspell isn't too threatening when you know the pattern.

More on-topic, I played through all of Koishi for the first time in forever. I got to Release of the Id and proceeded to instantly die. Man I'm rusty at reading that attack's startup.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 21, 2011, 02:38:14 AM
My most recent UFO hard attempt session went like so:
1: death to Gold Detector
2: UFO screwup
3: High Sensitivity Nazrin Pendulum death
4: High Sensitivity Nazrin Pendulum death
5: UFO screwup
6: Busy Rod mistake
7: High Sensitivity Nazrin Pendulum death
8: UFO screwup
9: midboss Nazrin's second nonspell hit me???
10: StickyKeys death
11: High Sensitivity Nazrin Pendulum death
12: High Sensitivity Nazrin Pendulum death
13: High Sensitivity Nazrin Pendulum death
14: Kogasa's second nonspell clipdeath+death to Kogasa's last spell.  ragequit.

EDIT: CHOKE ON MoF EXTRA (NO FOCUS) ON MISHAGUJI-SAMA ANOTHER COUPLE SECONDS/IF I'D USED MY BOMB RAAAAAAAGE

EDIT #2: Ichirin is the bane of my Touhou playing.  The attacks of hers I can do clip me way too much, and the ones I can't do hit me before I can bomb half the time.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on September 21, 2011, 02:52:39 PM
Exactly. Even Orin's third nonspell isn't too threatening when you know the pattern.

I haven't played either SA or UFO so I'm probably in no position to judge here, but from what I've seen Orin looks harder than Shou. It's probably because curvy lasers don't look all that hard to dodge when you're watching someone play, but when you'e playing through them yourself they're hell. (coughMerlincough)
Shou's second to last card (the one with the green rotating lasers) looks like complete bullshit though.
-
Okay, why do I keep screwing up all these EoSD extra runs with Marisa B? Dying twice to ATWTBN is just dumb when you have bombs in stock.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Thanuris on September 21, 2011, 03:21:20 PM
Orin has two non-spell that can be trivialized if you know how to handle them and her two first spellcard aren't that hard (last one isn't either). She is just hard because of ghost wheels and the non-spell

Shou has her non-spells and Radiant Treasure Gun (and that one with the spinning lasers, and Complete Clarification), only thing that is really easy is Aura of Justice
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Vanhaomena on September 21, 2011, 06:05:23 PM
I was doing a pacifist attempt at Shizuha when Marisa showed up, then THIS happened :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbJx9vfTuMM

I find your montages awesome :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on September 22, 2011, 02:16:03 AM
"We meet again, Remilia!"
"I think not! Ass Sign: Expand Hitboxes!"
"What are you talking about?!"
>Dies in the white part of a bubble bullet
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on September 23, 2011, 04:00:52 AM
Koishi, please stop clipping me with your fucking heart danmaku KTHNX.

I have captured Rorschach in Danmaku. I have not captured Release of the Id or Superego. I think there is something wrong with this picture.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 23, 2011, 05:13:43 AM
Koishi, please stop clipping me with your fucking heart danmaku KTHNX.

I have captured Rorschach in Danmaku. I have not captured Release of the Id or Superego. I think there is something wrong with this picture.
When I cleared I had a 0/3 on Rorschach, a 3/4 on Id and a 1/4 on Superego I think.  There is definitely something wrong with that.

WHY DO I KEEP SCREWING UP THE EASY STUFF (e.g., MoF extra stage portion/UFO hard stage 1)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on September 23, 2011, 01:15:58 PM
lol why am I pacifisting

MoF extra to Omiwatari God Crosses

I'll get to Suwako eventually ~
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on September 23, 2011, 03:30:59 PM
> Play SA Hard with Reimu A
> No death first two stages
> Lose everything to Yuugi
> Try again with Marisa C
> Same thing happens

Yuugi diaf
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 23, 2011, 04:36:40 PM
> Play SA Hard with Reimu A
> No death first two stages
> Lose everything to Yuugi
> Try again with Marisa C
> Same thing happens

Yuugi diaf
But Yuugi is easy!  It's a certain OTHER Stage 3 boss that eats my lives *cough*Ichirin*cough*
Well, I guess Yuugi is hard at 120 FPS since she kept killing me, but at 120 FPS all deaths are either caused because the required movements are too precise or due to stupidity.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zil on September 23, 2011, 05:22:12 PM
So I get to Mamizou's final spellcard with no deaths so far, go into trance mode... and the game crashes.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 23, 2011, 08:02:46 PM
You do have the patch right?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zil on September 24, 2011, 12:08:06 AM
You do have the patch right?

Ah! No I don't. I didn't realize there was one. I take it the crashing thing is a common problem, and the patch fixes it? Well then... I thought it was just my computer.  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 24, 2011, 07:42:49 AM
120 FPS Shou...either you bomb, die or get lucky.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 24, 2011, 10:21:07 AM
Ah! No I don't. I didn't realize there was one. I take it the crashing thing is a common problem, and the patch fixes it? Well then... I thought it was just my computer.  :V

No, its not your computer but some weird bug in the vanilla version of the game. Patch found here (http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th13dl.html)
The patch fixes the crashing in the extra stages along with a bug that makes Seiga and Tojiko's midboss non-spells appear instead of their mid-boss spellcards in spell practice.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Xyden on September 24, 2011, 02:15:10 PM
MOF Stage 4

why must you exist

you always ruin my schemes runs
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on September 24, 2011, 09:03:39 PM
Aah...10D extra no deaths attempt, I made it all the way to the survival card, and had a smidgeon of trance left to go. I tried to leech some off the side clones, and got ganked. Ah well, live and learn. Thanks to trance mode this shouldn't be too difficult if I get serious about it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Derpface on September 24, 2011, 09:27:51 PM
I hate you Yoshika, always messing up my glorious runs.
I even have a better time with Futo than you.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on September 24, 2011, 10:36:03 PM
Grrrrrrr. Now I'm actually mad. I decided I would give IN Marisa an honest try at perfecting, since for some reason I've never gotten around to it. Several times I've 1DNB'd her, but it's always something...and this one time, when I get past all of that, I die on fucking Shoot the Moon. You know, the throwaway card that 8/10 times will never give you any trouble as long as you move right? Why is this 2/10 chance always on the run it counts? >:(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on September 25, 2011, 01:42:40 AM
Those Ultra patches are such BS. I pretty much just deleted the Ultra patched games except for IN Ultra which is actually pretty decent.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: psyfaqs111 on September 25, 2011, 02:46:03 AM
for some odd reason, my EoSD keeps lagging when i get to meiling.......
prevents me from trying to 1cc EoSD normal
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on September 25, 2011, 06:43:35 AM
I try to perfect Ten Desires stage 6 normal, die to the last 2 spells once each.
Try to perfect MoF Stage 4 normal, die 3 times to Momiji.  I CAN USUALLY TIME OUT MOMIJI PERFECTLY FINE
Try to perfect UFO Stage 4 normal, ram the first bullet after the intro sequence, then fail to Sinker Ghost, AGAIN
Try to perfect Ten Desires Stage 4 normal, ram a bullet on Seiga's second nonspell.
Try to perfect UFO Stage 3 normal, die to Ichirin's first spell because a bullet hid behind another one.
Try to perfect SA Stage 6 normal, get clipped by a blue bullet as I'm about to capture Utsuho's first spell.
Try to perfect IN Stage 3 lunatic, die to Keine's midboss nonspell...

and after a great Stage 3 and as solid Stage 4 of UFO hard, I die TWICE to the stage prtion of Stage 5. with full bombs.  before Nazrin shows up.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 25, 2011, 11:46:08 AM
Goddammit what the hell is wrong with my head? Why can't it stay focused on the fucking game instead of everything else goddammit! Mamizous overdrive. I got it down to 7 fucking seconds left and then I get hit. Why couldn't I just keep it going those few seconds more? My brain sucks.

Also. Fuck. Futo's. Overdrive. Its easy to capture, its easy to time out. Timing out the phase that appears when trying to capture it though... I'm not complaining about the amulet hell. Its hard as fuck and bullets hide under other bullets to cause rather infuriating failures but that's not the point. The point is that you get to do some horribufuckus pixel perfect fitting through gaps. A situation where the gap is piss easy to figure out where is because the bullets are so slow but the issue being properly alligning yourself.

Okay, I'm finished now. I want to time out Mamizou's overdrive. I've gotten it close and its an issue of bad dodging skills but the other one is just an issue of how the fuck do I get Reimu to move little enough. Not fucking fun.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on September 26, 2011, 06:21:52 AM
Why can't I ever seem to learn how to dodge Release of the Id or Superego. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.

Last run went as follows:

>No deaths in stage
>All spells up to Release of the Id captured (except Rice Shower which was timed out)
>Three bombs and a death during Release of the Id
>Two deaths during Superego and I lost count of the bomb use
>One bomb during Rorschach, one derp death during Embers of Love, Polygraph capped
>Game over at Genetics

AAAAAGH.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Cykyrios on September 26, 2011, 05:29:49 PM
Dear Kaguya,
Would you mind NOT killing me on your very last spell card please? T_T
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on September 27, 2011, 12:38:21 PM
SA is terribufuckus. I died to Catwalk three times row. As in, once at each of the three waves. Really infuriating since part of me just wants to restart and try it again but then comes the revelation that the first half of the stage is hell-a-boring, so much in fact that it makes Danish poems sound fascinating. Oh well... still holding up pretty well against Orin at least. Only one miss on the third spellcard which was pretty annoying since the card was almost beaten but it was my own mistake so whatever...

Okay. Btw, SA is not terribufuckus but the idea of not including spell practice is, when you have boring stages. (Which turns into a fun stage after the midboss though where dodging is implemented). Really though, I don't have too much to complain about. Have a good day everyone.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: jc_foster on September 29, 2011, 05:25:51 AM
I'm pretty convinced now that stages 3, 5, and 6 of Mystic Square hate me. Especially the last boss.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on September 30, 2011, 09:50:16 PM
Resurrection "Game of Life": Why do you hate me?

That is the second straight no focus perfect of IN Easy shot to hell by that card. And this one was with SAKUYA.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GuppyForce on October 01, 2011, 04:32:23 AM
Restarted SA Extra countless times due to the part before the midboss where they fire circle spreads. Finally get to Koishi (lost one life to Miracle Fruit). LOSE EVERYTHING ON ANCESTORS. Today is not a good day for SA.

IN Extra, fail to capture Mokou's first three cards AND Honest Man's death. -_-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 01, 2011, 12:02:26 PM
Random attempt at IN extra at 90 FPS, completely win at both the stage portion AND Keine, with my best battle with her in a LONG time, and I proceed to die once each to Mokou's first 3 cards.  Then I capture Honest Man's Death.  What.  The run ended up failing at Hourai Doll, so I know I can do it...but, ouch.

and now I decide to start trying to capture VoWG (hard) andf the 2 spells prior...I've 1DNBed them all at least once, VoWG on ALL 4 TRIES so far, and Kuzui Clear Water, the first wave walled me, I died, then timed out the rest.  and Source of Rains would have been a capture if the arrow didn't clip me.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on October 01, 2011, 02:15:32 PM
fuck you youmu in 10D your charge attack is useful but don't make me rely on hearing and looking at your "flames" just give me a charge-up bar!!!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on October 02, 2011, 04:20:21 AM
Touhoumon Nuzlocke run.
Double Battle out of nowhere.
Opponents were a Daichan and an ECirno, and I have my Jehuty (FAya) and a newly caught Shizuha in front. Fearing for Shizuha's imminent death, I switch her out for my Gundam (Kanako).
Jehuty Brick Breaks ECirno's head like a boss, Shizuha swaps for Gundam, then Daichan uses Metronome.
Then Metronome turns into Explosion.
Jehuty, being Jehuty, tanks it like a pro.
Gundam suffers a critical hit.  :colonveeplusalpha:

Later, my starter fails to OH a Satori.
"Satori used Counter!"
 >:(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 02, 2011, 05:07:13 AM
failing hard 1CCs to suizome perfect blossom
yea sure why not
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on October 03, 2011, 10:29:47 AM
Holy hell I suck at Touhou today. First of all, I've been completely unable to no-miss no-bomb Stage 4 in UFO. Not even just the stage portion. The boss... has consistently been killing me at least once on three of her attacks. Sinkable Vortex - predict Murasa's movement right, as in - guess where she'll go - or face bullets from all directions.

And to make the irritations of failing at playing the framerate is crap on the third card. Urgh. Murasa being the easiest is a lie. Marisa and the Prismrivers are complete jokes in comparison man.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on October 04, 2011, 12:03:48 AM
FFFFFF U Mamizou
stop killing me with your 8th nonspell while it lags as I bombed the 7th spell as it cleared.
also WHY WON'T YOU DIE in 8th spell. Seriously. Does going in with 2 power vs. 4 power really matter that much?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 04, 2011, 12:52:11 AM
LOSING TO KOISHI

ON HER OPENER
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: jc_foster on October 04, 2011, 04:53:23 AM
"Hey, this is turning in a decent MS run .....

..... let's lose all five lives to Yumeko!" :derp:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on October 04, 2011, 06:54:01 AM
I have been trying to perfect IN Easy with Sakuya no focus. For a slight reminder, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUqjhn6vziE#t=1m25s) is what Reimu's nonspell opener looks like. Ever tried doing that with Sakuya? Where those yin-yangs don't just go through you and where you usually don't have enough power to destroy them? And let's not forget how Sakuya makes everything take twice as long to kill.

And then I get clipped twice at Fantasy Seal -Spread- after actually getting through that piece of shit nonspell.

AAAAAAAARGH FUCK YOU REIMU GO DIE IN A FIRE
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chaotic Phoenixma on October 04, 2011, 05:59:45 PM
Sounds like when I was trying to 1cc Lunatic with all shottypes. Unfortunately, Sakuya and Alice were completely useless.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 04, 2011, 06:32:20 PM
DAMNIT YUKARI I MAY BE PLAYING AT 90 FPS BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN GO KILLING ME WITH BOMBS IN STOCK WHEN I PUSH "X" FOUR TIMES IN THE SAME RUN
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on October 04, 2011, 09:44:16 PM
Murasa being the easiest is a lie.

You must have been on crack to even think this was true. Prismrivers and Satori are way easier. Marisa probably is too if you can be arsed practising enough to get good.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on October 04, 2011, 10:24:52 PM
Yeah and Murasa is just the tip of the iceberg.

The Prismrivers, Marisa, Satori, Youmu, Orin. They are all just... so easy. Shou and Byakuren though... scary motherfuckers. And the art of getting even decent at these bosses is of course all the more fun due to some nauseatingly bad stages before them. After two years I haven't been able to achieve anything that even resembles a decent capture rate on basically any card in the game. I am 20/300 on Greatest Treasure, 30/150 on VoPB and I have no idea why I keep running into bullets.

There is almost no bullets there and a lot of her other cards are also very short on bullets. She is still harder than any other Stage 5 boss though. And I think that's because these attacks are actually hard unlike the bosses in most of the other games that just pretends to be hard by spamming a lot of bullets.

Now, I know there are examples of legitimately challenging parts in any of the Touhou games but none of them gets even close to UFO. Which is also sorta the reason I'm still playing MoF and SA. I need something to make me feel like I don't suck too much...

In case you are wondering about the point of that whole speech up there, Yes I've just gotten my ass kicked very hard in UFO and I'm irritated as all hell about my own fucking incompetence at anything that isn't simple micrododging...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 05, 2011, 03:35:20 AM
Nine Syllable Stabs 00 / 20
Miracle Fruit 05 / 11
Bumper Crop Rice Shower 03 / 10

wat
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jaimers on October 05, 2011, 01:23:08 PM
(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2144/watif.th.png) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32/watif.png/)

I don't see anything wrong with this spellcard in Marine Benefit.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: DgBarca on October 05, 2011, 02:15:51 PM
I don't see anything wrong with this spellcard in Marine Benefit.
I don't see anything too.

Also, I tried to play in Lunatic a bit. :fail:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on October 05, 2011, 10:01:27 PM
I don't see this spellcard in Marine Benefit.

Fixed.

Also, I just missed a perfect Mamizou fight to her 7th nonspell (and Wild Deserted Island as a result lol trance). Got everything else.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: qno2 on October 05, 2011, 11:03:09 PM
First post and already raging? It's more likely than one would think.

StB 9-6, Kinkaku-ji, with the ultra patch.
Seems that I already took more shots at this one card than the whole normal StB, though oddly enough it doesn't even feel like I've been playing (and failing) for so long at it. Fun spellcard is still fun I guess.

... even got to the last picture, even had enough time to recharge; just too far away. *sigh* So close and yet far away.  When will I finally feel this pleasure of actually not sucking at Touhou again? Oh Kaguya, you torment me so.

Zengeku, you've been meddling with StB Ultra yourself, right? Ever dealt with this one?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 05, 2011, 11:26:27 PM
> Captures Nine Syllable Stabs for the first time
> Dies to Miracle Fruit

> Dies to Ancestors
> Captures Paranoia
> Captures Release of the Id
> Almost Captures Embers of Love



wat
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on October 06, 2011, 04:30:43 AM
(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2144/watif.th.png) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32/watif.png/)

I don't see anything wrong with this spellcard in Marine Benefit.

From the picture, looks kind of like the Sanae B bomb card in DS Extra lol.
While we are on it, I can't seem to get Marine Benefits to work - it always crash on startup for some reason.

Also, derp derp derp 1cc 10D hard, with lolzy deaths everywhere, including dying to Miko's piss easy 2nd spell and the lol 3rd spell.
At least now I can go unlock the overdrive cards.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: J.O.B on October 06, 2011, 05:43:00 AM
(http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/2144/watif.th.png) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32/watif.png/)

I don't see anything wrong with this spellcard in Marine Benefit.
The spellcard before it is really annoying too.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on October 06, 2011, 06:56:54 AM
Grr, almost had a perfect Miko fight! I got all the parts I usually fail at right, but on Miko's third spell card I accidentally moved a bit too quickly and clipped one of the harpoon bullets (dunno what they are but I like that name). Still, that's my first 1DNB Miko fight, and I'm certain I'm capable of this. JUST YOU WAIT TOYOSATOMIMI NO MIKO! o/\o
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on October 06, 2011, 07:12:39 AM
Don't feel too bad. That card is trash anyway.  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: OmegaFlonne on October 06, 2011, 10:59:22 AM
Stupid rank system.

Playing LLS with Marisa on normal. Fighting Reimu. Dodge the Fantasy Heaven style following bullets the first (and usually only) time they fly to me. Didn't know my rank increased. Die when the bullets suddenly change course and hit me.

Also, why do I find IN harder than PCB and MoF? Keine causes me to bomb most of the time, Reimu/Marisa cause me to bomb almost every card, and, despite common opinion, I find Reisen to be almost more difficult than Sakuya.
Also Parsee. Fffffffffffffff.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Desu_Cake on October 06, 2011, 01:09:35 PM
Lasers shouldn't curve dammit! I lose a life at least once every time anyone uses them!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 06, 2011, 02:50:45 PM
Also, derp derp derp 1cc 10D hard, with lolzy deaths everywhere, including dying to Miko's piss easy 2nd spell and the lol 3rd spell.
haha, sounds like my 1cc of that hard.
I died to the second spell,  and also to the third spell before 2 bombing the rest of the battle to the final spell, where I got the 15 point life AND another bomb exactly.
Of course, I'm here to rage about the most luck based of Touhou games, PoFV.  I gave the extra a few ton more tries last night, and ended up reaching Shikieiki twice.  Of course, I HAD TO DIE THREE TIMES TO REIMU THE FIRST TIME (the second 2 were within the first 5 seconds -_-;), AND 2 THE SECOND TIME!
It's only a matter of time, patience and tolerance for rage.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 06, 2011, 03:11:33 PM
Jesus God this is the best run ever
Five lives, eight bombs, and I just beat Ichirin's midboss appearance.

>100 Point blue UFO escapes
>Dies three times

:I
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Milkyway64 on October 06, 2011, 08:16:17 PM
Phantasmagoria Trues

Y U NO LET ME INTO STAGE 6?!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on October 07, 2011, 12:41:17 AM
Someone posted the way to unlock that, some time ago. Where was it, now?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 07, 2011, 03:30:21 PM
I am getting way too good at failing with less than 5 seconds left on something.
In the past week alone, I lost the following with less than 5 seconds to go:
3 PoFV extra attempts
2 IN 90 FPS extra attempts (around 1 more second on one of them...)
1 no focus MoF extra attempt
1 first round normal Komachi (as far as I could tell, Lily had shown up there and I had just sent a Level 4 off spell points)

and on top of that, I have failed UFO hard with 5 lives going into Byakuren due to  derping the second nonspell (game over with ...you guessed it, LESS THAN 5 SECONDS TO GO)
Thankfully I've never experienced the RAAAAGE that is a double KO...outside of TD spell practice.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 08, 2011, 05:00:28 AM
GRRRRR. ESTOY ANGRY.

Nothing quite like a perfect Extra stage run with 210,000,000+ points crashing down in Koishi's first two lives >:(

Also the last two frames of that smiley is ass

>:(

The smirk ruins the last two seconds of visual angry
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: AxiamWolfe on October 08, 2011, 08:04:10 AM
I can't for the life of me clear UFO normal with MarisaB! And this is after coming out of a MoF and SA 1cc.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 08, 2011, 09:35:42 AM
I can't for the life of me clear UFO normal with MarisaB! And this is after coming out of a MoF and SA 1cc.
Been there, done that, best of luck getting it.
MarisaB gave me an inordinate amount of trouble in UFO.
RAAAAGE at adding a third 90 FPS IN extra fail at Hourai Doll, and also a double death to Mokou's first card...and also me being unable to do Keine all of a sudden...
and now a fourth Hourai Doll failure: this one has me faceplanting a yellow...with about 5 seconds left!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on October 09, 2011, 02:10:52 AM
and now a fourth Hourai Doll failure: this one has me faceplanting a yellow...with about 5 seconds left!
Use more Remilia.  :3
Bomb every noncard and grind spells in practice.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on October 09, 2011, 10:04:00 AM
Okay, I seriously think SA Extra on Ultra is impossible. Apparently the ultra patches have a sense of irony by turning the easiest Ex boss into the hardest. :)
I managed to get to Embers of Love where she turns the entire screen into a death zone. Not to speak of her non-spells... at least there are some attacks that have been made cooler and more challenging but apparently they are mostly just impossible. What a shame.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: J.O.B on October 09, 2011, 10:48:40 AM
Ultra Subterranean Rose is fucking impossible. If you can actually get up to Embers of Love without cheating, you are a god.
Also I think it's possible to do her nonspells. You just have to follow a path created by the faster bullets while avoiding the slower ones. Keep in mind that this involves circling around Koishi.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on October 09, 2011, 10:53:10 AM
Yeah, I guess perhabs the non-spells are possible. Just not with the conventional approach... even then it might be possible for those that doesn't use the jellybeans but just very unplausible.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: J.O.B on October 09, 2011, 11:09:18 AM
I can give you a replay of me trying (and failing) the method I said earlier. Though I suck so you need infinite lives to see it :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: mikeKOSA on October 09, 2011, 11:13:33 AM
Did a blind run and got to embers of love. Most of the spellcards up to that point seem doable though the nonspells....

I think I'll take a few more stabs to it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on October 09, 2011, 01:30:47 PM
Ugh, WHY is "Protection of Zenki and Goki" so impossible without a homing type? I'll never get to Yukari with more than 2 lives if I continue to die twice to that card.
IMO Ran is harder than Chen when you're not using Sakuya A or Reimu A. Half the time I don't even see what kills me on her first card. Chen's is easier because you can stream down and she actually takes damage from your bombs. 
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on October 09, 2011, 04:05:47 PM
Ugh, WHY is "Protection of Zenki and Goki" so impossible without a homing type? I'll never get to Yukari with more than 2 lives if I continue to die twice to that card.
IMO Ran is harder than Chen when you're not using Sakuya A or Reimu A. Half the time I don't even see what kills me on her first card. Chen's is easier because you can stream down and she actually takes damage from your bombs.
It shouldn't be hard at all. Just stream left and right until the card ends. Do you have a replay to show how you're doing it with a non-homing shot?

EDIT: Died twice on Resurrection Butterfly. Ugh, I hate being rusty.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on October 09, 2011, 08:40:55 PM
I'm streaming it from left to right but I always end up screwing up somehow. I think it's just showing how much I suck at this game because I can't dodge the random stuff and stream at the same time.
I would post a replay but for some reason I can't find the replay folder in my PCB folder.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 09, 2011, 09:34:29 PM
I'm streaming it from left to right but I always end up screwing up somehow. I think it's just showing how much I suck at this game because I can't dodge the random stuff and stream at the same time.
I would post a replay but for some reason I can't find the replay folder in my PCB folder.

Well, it isn't exactly 'streaming,' more like 'slow herding movement...'
You have to be far enough to dodge the bubbles, yes, but also be far enough to not be nicked by the bullets that decide to change direction too late.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 09, 2011, 09:43:20 PM
Use more Remilia.  :3
Bomb every noncard and grind spells in practice.
But I don't like using Remilia...
Also at 60 FPS, I finished with 1 life left with Scarlet and Magic teams, and I've finished with 3 lives left with each Ghost and Border teams (Ghost team had a bomb left too)
Also, with Border team I can dodge the first couple nonspells, allowing me to save my bombs for where I'm more likely to need them0like Fujiyama Volcano.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 09, 2011, 10:40:09 PM
How to Play like Taizen Chisou:

1 > Have the best stage portion.
2 > Have the worst Koishi fight.

[replay] (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=16307)

someone please tell me what is going on

on the bright side, 208m when koishi begins
good or not, discuss
didn't think so
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on October 10, 2011, 11:57:49 AM
I used to have skills at Apollo 13...

... they are gone now.

---- As most of my posts in this thread in recent time, its not as much rage but a recording of my own personal failures. And failing at Apollo 13 three times in a row at the first wave of bullets and only managing 7 captures out of 30 attempts is not good enough for me. Its a good card though. I can only blame my own lack of shmupping skills and lack of attention.

Furthermore, my Eirin performance is really really bad. Not as bad as Kaguya but I'm messing up in places I shouldn't. I'd call that pretty natural though seeing as I've never really played Eirin that much. Except in spell practice. I didn't expect her to spawn bullets on my hitbox... and Omoikane's Brain is really fucking lame. However, 1 lame and 3 good ones and 1 throw-away one is still better than 3 lame ones and 1 good (BDB and 1 that rolls dice (Buddha)

I will be playing some more to develop my performance!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on October 10, 2011, 01:41:14 PM
I'm reminded why I don't play IN anymore. All the stuff left that I haven't perfected is no fun to go through.

EDIT: What? My SA score data was deleted? What is this magic?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: mikeKOSA on October 11, 2011, 12:01:58 PM
What? My SA score data was deleted? What is this magic?
Same thing happened to my MoF score data just now, wtf happened?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on October 11, 2011, 12:31:03 PM
Miko's knife-spam non-spell in TD Ultra.

Why.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 11, 2011, 02:03:05 PM
Same thing happened to my MoF score data just now, wtf happened?
That happened to mine a couple weeks back.
Motivated me to go through extra with all shot types and play hard some more.
Ended up 1LCing normal as a result of it.

WHY is lunatic Stage 4 in MoF so annoying, I can do it 1 death but usually end up 4 deathing.  Something about that stage will usually make me derp the first fifteen seconds in actual runs on any difficulty, but in stage practice I get it every time.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Black Phoenix on October 11, 2011, 08:28:06 PM
I'm really, really wishing EoSD had a spell practice mode. Listen game, I can already do stage 3, it's Meiling's spell cards that are doing me in. Heck, if I can do Masakado Crisis without taking down familiars, I should not be having this much trouble with Gorgeous Sweet Flower, it's the same damn thing minus the big round bullets. Also, Extreme Color Typhoon can go die. The only card I have any sort of consistency on is Wind Chime of Colorful Rainbow of all things.


That being said, once I get that far (a few continues later), I'm actually enjoying fighting Sakuya in stage 5, even if her midboss section is just brutal. I hate Misdirection with a passion...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _cf on October 11, 2011, 09:09:12 PM
I'm really, really wishing EoSD had a spell practice mode. Listen game, I can already do stage 3, it's Meiling's spell cards that are doing me in. Heck, if I can do Masakado Crisis without taking down familiars, I should not be having this much trouble with Gorgeous Sweet Flower, it's the same damn thing minus the big round bullets. Also, Extreme Color Typhoon can go die. The only card I have any sort of consistency on is Wind Chime of Colorful Rainbow of all things.

That being said, once I get that far (a few continues later), I'm actually enjoying fighting Sakuya in stage 5, even if her midboss section is just brutal. I hate Misdirection with a passion...
Is this normal? If so, dodge Gorgeous Sweet Flower at the bottom of the screen and bomb without a single regret if you need (sometimes I do this with Marisa if I'm unsure she'll fit between the bullets). Extreme Color Typhoon requires you to keep your character on the bottom but look to about the middle of screen (I can only dodge accelerating bullets like this).

Misdirection is a trap. Remain stopped at the initial burst and then start tapping away from the direction Sakuya moves (she'll teleport to the other end). This card was an autobomb for me until I read advice here and watched replays. Today that card is an autocapture :P
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on October 11, 2011, 09:18:33 PM
You didn't mention Flower Dream Vine.

You're going to LOVE Flower Dream Vine.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Black Phoenix on October 11, 2011, 09:27:29 PM
Is this normal? If so, dodge Gorgeous Sweet Flower at the bottom of the screen and bomb without a single regret if you need (sometimes I do this with Marisa if I'm unsure she'll fit between the bullets). Extreme Color Typhoon requires you to keep your character on the bottom but look to about the middle of screen (I can only dodge accelerating bullets like this).

Misdirection is a trap. Remain stopped at the initial burst and then start tapping away from the direction Sakuya moves (she'll teleport to the other end). This card was an autobomb for me until I read advice here and watched replays. Today that card is an autocapture :P

Yeah, it's normal. I'm too rubbish to play on anything harder :P I dislike bombing Gorgeous Sweet Flower because on the face of it, it isn't a difficult card. Without trying to make excuses, I can't help feeling that the lack of a visible hitbox isn't helping me either. That said, the most recent run I did I managed not to die on it. I just died on the preceding non-spell instead...

I'll have to try your advice on Extreme Color Typhoon though. I keep trying it about 1/4 to 1/3 off the bottom, and invariably get boxed or just plain confused. I'm assuming the same tactic will work for Colorful Rain as well.

I'd figured out enough to move away from Sakuya for Misdirection, I think I'm just doing it too early and getting trapped between her little red knives and the bigger blue knives (oh look, just like the non-spell before it). Overall though I do need to get back in the habit of bombing stuff. I either panic bomb when I probably shouldn't, or go into a spell card determined to beta it and end up dying with bombs in stock, not helped by the fact that I suck at deathbombing.

I guess it all comes down to 'practice more', which is fair enough, except I'm already sick of the sight of stage 3...

You didn't mention Flower Dream Vine.

You're going to LOVE Flower Dream Vine.

I really don't like the sound of that... :S Though you have now intrigued me enough to go digging on Youtube for a replay of it...

EDIT: Just checked it know (when the internet decided to behave), and unless I've got the wrong spell card, it just looks like a faster version of Diamond Blizzard with bigger bullets. That said, a lot of things look far easier on videos than they do when trying to capture them...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on October 11, 2011, 11:27:58 PM
when I was 1cc'ing normal, I pretty much auto bombed Extreme Color Typhoon.
Also, for misdirection, you can just sit near the right side of the screen and just tap left or right for each wave (multiple times if necessary).

EDIT: Just checked it know (when the internet decided to behave), and unless I've got the wrong spell card, it just looks like a faster version of Diamond Blizzard with bigger bullets. That said, a lot of things look far easier on videos than they do when trying to capture them...
It is nothing like Diamond Blizzard, where bullets basically move down, cuz the bullets are moving in all kinds of directions,
and it's sometimes hard to tell which way they are going and then get boxed in.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on October 12, 2011, 02:24:21 AM
I'm really getting closer to perfecting Miko. I understand (more or less) her third spell card, I've learned why I keep dying on her sixth and how to avoid it, even her final I've learned how to cheap out, so maybe this time I'll finally-

Oh wait Guse Flash has no trick.

(http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrdvexpcch1qd2mamo1_400.png)

EDIT: Two hours of blind screaming later, I think I'm done with Miko...for now. I'm closer...closer than ever before. I just have to pull myself together. -_-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Esper on October 12, 2011, 07:27:35 PM
I freaking hate Toyosatomimi no Miko. You wanna know what spell I die on constantly with her? Those stupid effing falling stars. (The last spellcard is Falling Stars of something or other)
THAT SPELL ENDED MY TD RUNS FIVE TIMES IN A ROW. I WASTED AN HOUR OF MY LIFE SCREWING UP.

(http://alafista.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/images/september09/115.jpg)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 12, 2011, 08:14:08 PM
What the hell were the people who made the ultra patches thinking with MoF stage 4.  It's impossible.
You know what else is impossible? Half of Kanako and half of Sanae.  Both of their last spells are impossible (Sanae's only on hard+).
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on October 13, 2011, 12:38:01 AM
Oh come on, PCB. I was this close to capturing Suzomine Perfect Blossom Lunatic when I hadn't captured any of the other modes yet. Do you know how freaking awesome that would have been? But noooooo, you decided to kill me as Yuyuko was exploding. Thanks for that. 
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 13, 2011, 12:59:59 AM
*sigh

Subterranean

RRRROOOOOOSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GuppyForce on October 13, 2011, 07:29:50 AM
Game over at Tojiko

On normal

Seriously!?! I can never seem to do a deathbomb in TD. And the amount of stupid deaths, ugh
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on October 14, 2011, 07:35:22 AM
Scarlet Gensokyo (Hard) ended my run :<
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 14, 2011, 11:31:43 PM
Been a while since I seriously tried UFO hard, and now I remember why.
Start with a ReimuA for a change of pace, grab a green UFO before Nazrin by mistake, die to her last spell.
Switch to SanaeB, die repeatedly to Stage 1, and end up resetting on Stage 2 after dying with 2 bombs in stock on my best try.
Try randomly with MarisaA once, ragequit after derp death to PSM+double KO on Kogasa last spell.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: qno2 on October 14, 2011, 11:49:45 PM
PoFV Lunatic, Youmu.

So close, so close... finally managed to actually have two extra lives as I reach Shikeiki but couldn't get her down in three rounds (... well she was teasing me, as always, and got down twice to her last health).
Now if only I would stop dying to those ridiculously close matches against Sakuya & Aya in Stages 6 and 7 (though they are also the most exciting).
*sigh* Aya, Medicine, this was so much easier with you two.

Heart, calm down. It's alright; calm down. Nothing happened, just a glimpse of what could have been.
At least my performance didn't massively disappoint me as it did the last few times I tried some Touhou.

@I have no name: The best thing about UFO hard is that the stageportion of Stage 5 seems to be nearly the same as Lunatic, or at least I couldn't see much of a difference. Maybe the bullet-spam at the end has two more bullets in total.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 15, 2011, 01:25:32 AM
@I have no name: The best thing about UFO hard is that the stageportion of Stage 5 seems to be nearly the same as Lunatic, or at least I couldn't see much of a difference. Maybe the bullet-spam at the end has two more bullets in total.
So I'm basically playing a lunatic stage.  That doesn't sound like a good thing.
If I can even get that far any more.  I keep resetting pre-Stage 3, and the one run that gets through stage 2 derps Nue.

Couldn't even get to midboss Kogasa before ragequitting now...5 runs, 1 gets through Stage 1 but I get killed BY A BULLET SPAWNING ON TOP OF ME

Edit: got past Stage 2 deathless, proceeded to have the best Ichirin and Murasa battle, bombed through Stage 5, got to Byakuren with 4 lives and 4 bombs... and proceeded to fail with TWO SECONDS LEFT until the 1cc.  DAMMIT I HAD IT THAT TIME BUT NOOOOOOOOOOO I HAD TO DIE TO DEVIL'S RECITATION WITH A BOMB IN STOCK AND I HAD TO USE MY BOMBS EARLIER THAN I SHOULD HAVE
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Thanuris on October 16, 2011, 10:51:17 AM
at least you didn't gameover to byakuren first nonspell after reaching shou with max lives and 3 bombs
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 17, 2011, 06:30:24 PM
Well darn. My first time making it past Four of a Kind, and I lose to Counter Clock. -_-
Never again, I can tell you.
It will take me months to get that far again.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Schezo on October 17, 2011, 08:46:27 PM
(http://i52.tinypic.com/258wftk.jpg)

Whyyyyy?  I mean I can't stop looking at that bomb and that health left.
  I'm just going to blame Murasa's bitchass for this.  I had a 2 death Shou after her.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 18, 2011, 05:35:26 PM
I must be having an off day when it comes to dodging things.......
MoF lunatic, I had died to the first 2 stages maybe once prior to today's session.
about a dozen resets, usually before Shizuha!
UFO hard, a couple Stage 2 failures, a couple Stage 1 mistakes, and to cap it all off, a death to BUSY ROD of all things.  I want to know how I have a 30/33 on that, namely, why it's taken that many tries to come close to clearing twice and how I failed it 3 times.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on October 19, 2011, 03:53:42 PM
Fudge. Damn Kanako i absolutely hate her non spell, in which she becomes invincible for a time being -.- and cold fingers, decreasing my performance!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Jq1790 on October 19, 2011, 05:58:31 PM
Fudge. Damn Kanako i absolutely hate her non spell, in which she becomes invincible for a time being -.- and cold fingers, decreasing my performance!
I can definitely relate to the cold fingers thing.  I find it hard to do almost anything when my digits are less than warm.  Probably better for your sanity to just wait til they're not feeling so frozen then try again.

Also, upon that nonspell...From the replays I've seen, no matter what you do it'll probably take a LONG time to take down due to said invulnerability, so just keep at it!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: BT on October 19, 2011, 06:03:03 PM
Sweaty fingers are much, much worse than cold fingers.

Oh and I got really mad yesterday from having a great Normal SA run before dying twice on Stage 6 Orin. Yeah, that sucked. And I ended up really close to 1cc'ing too.

At least I made up for it by 1cc'ing today!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 19, 2011, 06:26:54 PM
Why can I no longer do MoF lunatic Stage 1, I was consistently getting through it using one bomb, and now I'm dying to literally EVERYTHING.
My 12/12 record on Shizuha's spell is now 16/19, and only about half my runs are getting to her.
and when I DO survive the stage, the opening of Stage 2 usually kills me, and should I survive that, a double derp awaits me in Stage 3.
I haven't gotten to Stage 4 in a couple of days.
Also, same applies to UFO hard stages 1 and 2.  I used to be consistent at getting through them without dying, now EVERYTHING has a chance of killing me, and in a session, it usually does.  Nothing kills your mood likes THREE straight deaths to Busy Rod when you had somewhere around a 95% capture rate on it before.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 19, 2011, 06:28:18 PM
I can relate to cold fingers.

But what about nervous twitches?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _jade on October 21, 2011, 08:18:25 AM
I need 8 more posts, so i'll write here probably.

Aya's storm day -- raaaaaeg.!!1111.

Okay.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 21, 2011, 02:42:41 PM
Aya's storm day -- raaaaaeg.!!1111.
Agreed on that, it was the only thing of Aya's I died to in my clear.
I failed SA normal 90 FPS due to a series of derps on Orin...but mostly because BoWaP double death:safespot derp and then RAMMED by Satori AFTER the spell ends.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _jade on October 21, 2011, 02:56:29 PM
Well i never get raged on derps, i wrote that just for fun :)
But that card is, like, pretty hard for me now, for example here i had 3 deaths on it http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=16492
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 21, 2011, 03:00:21 PM
Storm Day is lunatic, hard version is Tengu's Fall Wind. (I'm just nitpicky about stuff like that)
Use more ReimuB, it makes bosses much much easier at the cost of slightly harder stages (work out a path for each and you'll rarely die to them though)
Honestly, Saruta Cross is probably Aya's hardest spell on hard mode.

Why is the difficulty gap between hard and lunatic so huge for Ten Desires?  Hard gave me no trouble, but I have trouble with the stage 1 midboss on lnuatic!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _jade on October 21, 2011, 03:15:33 PM
>Storm Day is lunatic, hard version is Tengu's Fall Wind. (I'm just nit[icky about stuff like that)
Oh okay, i'll remember that.
Changing a character isn't really an option, so maybe i'll just practice later; moreover, i've seen earlier (don't remember where though) that there can be some kind of safespot on this card, so i'll probably look into that either.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Vanhaomena on October 21, 2011, 03:47:04 PM
Yuyu confirmed for not a good girl.

(http://666kb.com/i/bxzl0tncz25s28b4q.jpg)

Excuse me for not submitting the 1.26 run in the highscores, I want to break 1.3  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: _jade on October 21, 2011, 05:01:34 PM
>moreover, i've seen earlier (don't remember where though) that there can be some kind of safespot on this card, so i'll probably look into that either.

Well yeah, i found the video ? http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm951282 ? just not sure if this can be used.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on October 21, 2011, 05:04:26 PM
簡単 my ass. Why would the player be dying so many times, then?
But, yeah. I think it's because the bullets are too fast. Like SUPER SPEED SA REIMUC.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on October 21, 2011, 05:57:14 PM
Why is the difficulty gap between hard and lunatic so huge for Ten Desires?  Hard gave me no trouble, but I have trouble with the stage 1 midboss on lnuatic!

Its always huge. Its nothing exclusive to TD.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 21, 2011, 06:08:29 PM
Its always huge. Its nothing exclusive to TD.
I didn't notice a huge gap for TH 6-9, I did notice one for MoF though, but I bombed pretty much the same placed I bombed on hard and died about the same places as well.
TD hard was easy, TD lunatic is "no just no".
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on October 21, 2011, 07:58:54 PM
I think it's because TD is supposedly easier all around, but Lunatic probably touches closer to the rest of the series' Lunatic or something.

I wouldn't know, I don't have it >_>

Then again, didn't Jaimers perfect S6 after like, a week?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on October 21, 2011, 08:51:26 PM
I think many of the difficulties of TD just simply come from the fewer lives given, so you can't rly derp.
Otherwise, I don't see such a huge difficulty jump. If anything, it's much easier than SA/UFO.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on October 21, 2011, 09:21:54 PM
I didn't notice a huge gap for TH 6-9, I did notice one for MoF though, but I bombed pretty much the same placed I bombed on hard and died about the same places as well.
TD hard was easy, TD lunatic is "no just no".

Back when I got into Lunatic i felt a serious increase in difficulty with the earlier games. If nothing else, the jump has been there since SA though. Especially UFO. In that game I can really feel the difference between Hard and Lunatic while not at all in TD.

But Lunatic probably touches closer to the rest of the series' Lunatic or something.

Unfortunately not.

Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Formless God on October 22, 2011, 02:28:14 AM
Nonsense. Even if TD is an overall easier game, the jump from TD Hard to TD Lunatic is still comparable to the jump in the previous games.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on October 23, 2011, 03:17:37 AM
Yuyuko's being annoying again....(fffffff)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on October 23, 2011, 04:40:00 PM
Failed a perfect Mamizou fight with 25% of her health left on last spellcard.

Really pissed off, I was so sure I had it after Ten Transformations went by flawlessly. Fuck. Got a replay but no-one wants to see an *almost* perfect run.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Reddyne on October 23, 2011, 09:06:24 PM
I have died on Miko's last spellcard with less than a quarter of her health remaining five out of the last five times when I've used Sanae. Five straight! It always comes down to a couple of bad deaths that easily could've been avoided. Typically, I get greedy during Yoshika's fight (that health restoration stuff is a lot tougher when you deal less damage) and earlier on in Miko's. I'm just perplexed that I could manage to swing the same exact time and type of game over FIVE TIMES IN A ROW.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 23, 2011, 11:26:02 PM
I've used Sanae in Ten Desires once.
I 1LCed  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on October 24, 2011, 06:54:20 AM
[2011-10-23 23:34:00] <Naut> WHY DO I NOT HAVE SUPERHUMAN REFLEXES AND PRECISION
[2011-10-23 23:34:04] <Naut> FUCK

It's been a while since I've gotten so pissed at my poor playing, so I guess I'll post in this thread about it for once.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on October 24, 2011, 06:42:15 PM
I seriously need to stop bombing right as nonspells come to an end.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Magepigeon on October 24, 2011, 11:02:26 PM
>mfw Byakuren's nonspells are harder than her spellcards (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=16574)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on October 25, 2011, 04:36:54 AM
I've been dying to stuff on 10D Normal more than I do to the same patterns on Hard.

???
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on October 25, 2011, 05:51:32 AM
first EoSD run after quite a while...
In a ploy of trying to graze Meiling's opener, I messed up and got killed before any bullet was fired.
Then, I proceed to forget that I shouldn't do Rainbow Windchime the way I do it in normal mode.
After that, I forgot ReimuA's bomb doesn't work for collecting star items...
The whole run just went down hill from then.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 27, 2011, 05:19:39 AM
Ultra VoWG.

Anyone who's seen it KNOWS what I'm talking about.
I got to it with 2 lives on hard, but barely got her below half health.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: qno2 on October 27, 2011, 07:18:27 AM
Finally trying my luck with EoSD Extra after avoiding it for a few months.

So close, Q.E.D.

This wave and that would've been it. Might be  great idea to arrive with one or two lives and maybe a bomb, me. Just for correspondence, me.

Thanks to GFW for preparing me for this card though. Now if only I'd stop dying at 'Maze of Love' *sigh*.

Edit: One try later, did it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Esper on October 29, 2011, 01:19:29 AM
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

LIGHT OF THE GUZE KANNON. STOP KILLING ME.

I keep dying to that damn card because when I see multiple colours moving at a rate higher than 400 pixels per second, I lock up. I can't focus and use a really easy way so I have to use the pattern to my advantage, and get a 1-in-16 rate of success.

My success rate is literally 5:81
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: psyfaqs111 on October 29, 2011, 05:59:10 AM
GODDIT
I'm usually able to get tho patchouli without dying, and getting to remilia with 1 life......
however, for the last week, ive been dying at cirno, meiling, and only saw remilia twice during the last week....
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on October 29, 2011, 02:36:53 PM
UFO Lunatic 90fps! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p-NKrKEF9g)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on October 29, 2011, 03:27:39 PM
I love you. You somehow manage to turn an epic failure into an epic win!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on October 29, 2011, 05:57:48 PM
UFO Lunatic 90fps! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p-NKrKEF9g)
I love you.
(All joking aside... Whenever I do an Extra 90fps, it's a little  :ohdear: compared to your 90fps Lunatic stuff.)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on October 29, 2011, 07:15:23 PM
UFO Lunatic 90fps! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p-NKrKEF9g)
Oh come on.
I've been debated trying to do normal at this speed...but since UFO is annoying I haven't yet.  HOW did you get 6 3/4 going into Kogasa, I always have 5 3/4, except once on hard (my clear) where I somehow got 1 extra red UFO.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on October 30, 2011, 10:55:52 AM
HOW did you get 6 3/4 going into Kogasa, I always have 5 3/4, except once on hard (my clear) where I somehow got 1 extra red UFO.

Just do the same as in Naut's video.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on October 31, 2011, 05:49:40 PM
Fuck, forgot about Remilia's super fast needle non-spell and game over'd lunatic level, close to clearing though.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Thanuris on November 01, 2011, 06:40:45 PM
The one run that i capture VoWG i fail everything else (and the one run that i capture everything else i fail VoWG)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 03, 2011, 12:05:11 AM
I almost 1cced Ultra UFO normal.
Except I derped the first wave of Flying Fantastica.
This makes me more mad than it should, but considering almost everything is BS from Kogasa onwards most of my hits were unavoidable.
The one BS tier spell I captured is Devil's Recitation.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on November 03, 2011, 12:21:48 AM
If I ever get a Hard/Lunatic clear on PCB, it's not going to be with Sakuya.
Because I just discovered that I'm only bad at Yuyuko when I use her. I'm using Reimu from now on. I don't know why I'm so bad at using Sakuya while fighting Yuyuko but it's horrible and I'm never going to 1cc any difficulty higher than Normal at this rate.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Thanuris on November 03, 2011, 02:42:04 PM
Me:okay let's perfect yukari
*reaches BoLaD*
Yukari:nope
*die on the very last second of the card* (i get the spellcard bonus but i die anyway)
after that i failed her second survival but i was not really paying attention to it since the perfect run was already ruined
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GuppyForce on November 04, 2011, 01:40:28 PM
Fudging hell.

My laptop charger stopped working last week, leaving my desktop as the backup computer.

I suck at Touhou on a screen several times bigger. Really bad.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: lumber_of_the_beast on November 05, 2011, 09:02:33 PM
Oh hey, now that the translation patch is out, I'm reminded of why I stopped fucking playing Ten Desires.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Drake on November 06, 2011, 07:10:58 AM
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=16782

So. Close. End of LFS. I had it. Man, this is really upsetting.

orz
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on November 06, 2011, 07:15:47 AM
fuck fuck fuck
Marisa's bomb can actually earn trance.
Or Youmu who can clear patterns more easily.

But nothing matters when the game drops to 70FPS mid-Mamizou.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 06, 2011, 09:26:28 AM
MoF ultra hard mode.
3 power going into Nitori's last spell, proceed to derp everything until Aya.  Get to endboss Sanae with 5 lives, proceed to capture  her third spell (!?!?), enter Stage 6 4/2.
derp the stage, get to VoWG 1/5.
Fail with 40% health left.
I SHOULD HAVE HAD 3 LIVES AT VoWG
THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CLEAR
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on November 06, 2011, 10:32:57 AM
Jesus christ, now I can't even get Astronomical Entombing down to 50 seconds, why the heck am I so useless? Better stop now before i get hurt.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: qno2 on November 06, 2011, 01:32:57 PM
Trying to time out Seiga's overdrive. 6 seconds were left.

Time to put my game face on.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on November 07, 2011, 06:39:41 AM
Aah...

The sweet bitter taste of defeat...

Of reaching Scarlet Gensokyo in a perfect...and failing.

/me quietly sobs

Well, maybe there will be a fourth time that happens...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 07, 2011, 07:27:37 AM
Why is it so hard to capture Extreme Color Typhoon?  That's 2 perfect Stage 3 (normal) runs RUINED there.

...and now perfect Patchy, aside from a death to Agni Shrine High Level.  Which I always get in actual runs.

AND NOW REMILIA WITH A PANIC BOMB ON RED MAGIC WHOOP-DE-DOO EOSD HATES ME
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: SuperParadox on November 07, 2011, 07:31:23 AM
I can't even play 10D on normal for some reason. My game ended on stage 4. I ran straight into Yoshika..... and before that I kept running into Yoshika's bullets in stage 3.
I have no idea whats happening to me.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on November 07, 2011, 08:49:50 PM
Why is it so hard to capture Extreme Color Typhoon?  That's 2 perfect Stage 3 (normal) runs RUINED there.

This. I hate that card so much on any difficulty, even Easy even though on that mode it just makes me panic.
I haven't even perfected Meiling on Easy. I always panic-bomb somewhere.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 07, 2011, 09:35:33 PM
Okuu.  normal.  1 death.
Guess where.
THE SECOND NONSPELL, THAT'S WHERE  at least it was to something legtitimately challenging and not, say, the 3rd nonspell.

I guess I should mention that of the 11 normal bosses I am yet to perfect, I have a run with 1 mistake to 8 of them, 4 of these 1 mistake runs were in the past 24 hours.

EDIT: Add another 1 mistake Patchy and Remilia run (To Forest Blaze and Remilia's second spell)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Byaaakuren on November 08, 2011, 05:42:39 AM
I come back from a con and see that I can't beat Yuugi on Normal without dying at least five times
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 08, 2011, 10:52:00 PM
NONONONONONONO
WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY

THIS close to no focus EoSD extra clear.
I would have HAD it if Catadioptrics hadn't played cheap and bounced a bubble off the bottom right corner STRAIGHT INTO MY HITBOX (with 3 bombs in stock no less).
I one-bombed Flandre until Starbow Break and capped Counter Clock too...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zil on November 11, 2011, 06:06:42 AM
I have failed Ten Evil Stars for the first time. Not gonna lie, it felt pretty strange.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 11, 2011, 11:19:51 PM
Okuu's first spell is pissing me off.
I have failed it 4 times in a row, when I had a 50% capture rate on it (when I tried to capture it and didn't bomb) before this.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on November 12, 2011, 12:23:55 AM
UUUUUAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!! I was pretty close at an EoSD Lunatic 1cc, but Remilia was insane as usual. I derped on her easiest non-spell. (and clip death on opener) That was not a bad run either, that's the best run I've had at lunatic, and highest score by far! I'm so very close.
Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=16892)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on November 12, 2011, 12:47:04 AM
Why cats are bad luck:

Today has been yet another bad Cat Walk day.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zil on November 12, 2011, 01:35:55 AM
UUUUUAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!! I was pretty close at an EoSD Lunatic 1cc, but Remilia was insane as usual. I derped on her easiest non-spell. (and clip death on opener) That was not a bad run either, that's the best run I've had at lunatic, and highest score by far! I'm so very close.
I checked out that replay and saw that Cirno's opener ate two of your bombs. If I may offer some advice, and maybe you alreay know this, but you can just micro-dodge those walls of bullets. The first one is a little tight, so I usually direct that one towards the edge, avoid it completely, then move to the center for the other two.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Agent of the BSoD on November 12, 2011, 04:02:21 AM
Yeah, I usually do that, but didn't feel lucky in that run for some reason. And I really hate Cirno's random movements during her non-spells. She (almost) always moves to wherever I'm not, usually during her second non-spell, making me almost time it out, even though it's just simple streaming.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 12, 2011, 05:23:28 AM
Okuu's first spell is pissing me off.
I have failed it 4 times in a row, when I had a 50% capture rate on it (when I tried to capture it and didn't bomb) before this.
Make that 5 times.  What is wrong with me.
On stuff that's not even in my control, 5 attempts at Kaguya.  They went as follows:
1: walled by first nonspell
2: walled by Dragon's Necklace
3: walled by Dragon's Necklace
4: walled by Dragon's Necklace
5: walled by Dragon's Necklace
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Drake on November 13, 2011, 09:02:19 AM
Yet another game over at Red LFS. Sighhhhh.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on November 13, 2011, 09:05:11 PM
Scarlet Gensokyo is currently the last card on Hard mode that I haven't captured.
I came close the other day. I got the full power item to clear the first wave, everything went as planned.
And then I got a double K.O.
RAAAAGE.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 14, 2011, 02:38:57 AM
Scarlet Gensokyo is currently the last card on Hard mode that I haven't captured.
I came close the other day. I got the full power item to clear the first wave, everything went as planned.
And then I got a double K.O.
RAAAAGE.
trolololol I got that spell captured in a no focus run of hard mode.

So I decide to try a literally blind run of IN easy, and I get killed 3 times by fairies that had more spread than I thought in Stage 2.  oops.


GOD DAMMIT OKUU I FINALLY CAPTURE YOUR FIRST SPELL AND THEN THE FIRST 5 SECONDS OF MEGA FLARE WALL ME
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on November 17, 2011, 08:41:09 PM
So I decided to work on timing out Overdrive cards. Obviously resulting in some rage:

- What the fuck is up with taking 11 attempts at clearing Miko's? Seriously, wtf? I kept reading those fucking balls as metal fatigue bullets.
- Soga's card then turned into something thoroughly annoying and not fun at all although it wasn't that bad once I got into how it was supposed to be dodged.
- Seiga's... Ooh, i bothered with 50 attempts never really getting that far.  Its the same deal as capturing it actually. Get lucky enough not to be screwed over by the balls. Sure they are aimed in some manner but with that amount of bullets it really just feels like its Hourai Jewel all over again. Its like, move at the wrong moment and the bullets all flock around you leaving you no chance to avoid them.

There. I've done my whining. Now back to some more constructive posting. Game blows, so why am I wasting time on it? Idk, back to UFO. There, feels a lot better now. ;)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 18, 2011, 12:18:36 AM
THE FIRST 5 SECONDS OF MEGA FLARE WALL ME
Got through Mega Flare, then got walled by the last nonspell.  Twice.  Then I choked Hell and Heaven Meltdown before ragequitting.
Why can't I get this perfect, I should have had it by now.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on November 18, 2011, 12:28:19 AM
Got through Mega Flare, then got walled by the last nonspell.  Twice.  Then I choked Hell and Heaven Meltdown before ragequitting.
Why can't I get this perfect, I should have had it by now.
How are you doing the last nonspell? You got a replay?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zil on November 18, 2011, 12:45:24 AM
Got through Mega Flare, then got walled by the last nonspell.  Twice.  Then I choked Hell and Heaven Meltdown before ragequitting.
Why can't I get this perfect, I should have had it by now.
Yeah, that nonspell should never be able to wall you if do it right. I believe the idea is to be on the side that Okuu moves away from. If you watch your own replay you'd probobly see one side of the screen is really open while the other is really dense. I generally move over while streaming the bubbles.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 18, 2011, 02:09:10 AM
I know one side of the screen is open, I just went to the wrong side and was walled as a result.  I never remember which side I need to go to, and it's usually not a problem.  The annoying part is messing up the last thing I have a decent chance of screwing up in an otherwise perfect attempt.
I tried again, failed there again, and incidentally failed Blazing Wheel in both of these.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Gc on November 18, 2011, 03:43:11 AM
This is all I have to say. (http://i.imgur.com/3DSqY.png)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 18, 2011, 10:12:29 AM
Test tomorrow-->can't sleep-->play UFO at 90 FPS-->fail Stage 1 a dozen times --> perfect stage 1-->fail to get any UFOs during Stages 2 and 3-->die horrible deaths to Murasa and Shou-->don't even get to Stage 6 --> get sufficiently pissed off at UFO to never play it again...until I decide it's a good idea to try for a 120 FPS easy or 90 FPS normal again.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on November 18, 2011, 10:55:58 AM
This is all I have to say. (http://i.imgur.com/3DSqY.png)
All the freaking time.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 18, 2011, 01:46:28 PM
This is all I have to say. (http://i.imgur.com/3DSqY.png)
I don't get it.
To take a break from studying for a test I'm woefully unprepared for (and not getting the material doesn't help either) I went to play some IN, maybe time out a couple 'easy' (and by easy of course I mean lunatic spells on the easy side) spells.  Nothing to show for it.  I couldn't even get Firefly Phenomenon.  Or Ill Starred Dive. Or Invisible Full Moon.  and when I got desperate and when to go try Wriggle Last Spell the non-fun way (just a capture): I fail that too!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Gc on November 18, 2011, 02:11:09 PM
I don't get it.
Hint: 2909.83 fps
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 18, 2011, 02:44:29 PM
Hint: 2909.83 fps
I saw that, but assumed it was a replay glitch or something.

Why is GFW at any FPS higher than 60 so impossible?  I have no trouble with anything on normal at 60, but 90... (- insert death sound loop here -)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on November 18, 2011, 03:24:22 PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Marisa is too fat.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Schezo on November 18, 2011, 03:29:02 PM
Hint: 2909.83 fps
Maybe. I was confused by the 60 in the screen.

I swear UFO has got to be the most rage inducing game I've played in a while.  UFO's running so I can't get them is just argh.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on November 18, 2011, 05:26:05 PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Marisa is too fat.

Reimu spoils you.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on November 18, 2011, 06:55:02 PM
Keep in mind, this is SA Marisa I'm talking about. ;)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on November 18, 2011, 07:13:56 PM
She got plumper in UFO and it's still fine.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on November 18, 2011, 07:41:05 PM
Thing is, I've been dying to find out actual stats for hitbox sizes in SA, so that I can judge Marisa's more fairly. I think you provided the ones for UFO way back when, but do you have SA's?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on November 18, 2011, 08:15:01 PM
fuck sake so many issues going on with college that pisses me of that is causing me to make stupid mistakes in touhou -.-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on November 18, 2011, 10:18:13 PM
Thing is, I've been dying to find out actual stats for hitbox sizes in SA, so that I can judge Marisa's more fairly. I think you provided the ones for UFO way back when, but do you have SA's?

It wasn't me who found them in the first place, it was jisakujien (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,4404.msg217054.html#msg217054).

I'm nearly 100% certain Marisa's hitbox in SA is smaller than in UFO, though I'm only gathering that from experience, I have no data to back it up. Stop trying to skirt along hitbox boundaries and just dodge the bullets.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on November 18, 2011, 10:36:19 PM
Stop trying to skirt along hitbox boundaries and just dodge the bullets.

As if that isn't one and the same thing in SA.

Playing SA with Marisa is like playing Mushi Futari with one of those dragons from Dragon Blaze.  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on November 19, 2011, 01:46:37 AM
Playing SA with Marisa is like playing Mushi Futari with one of those dragons from Dragon Blaze.  :V

I think you mean "playing SA with anybody other than Reimu A is like..."

3/5 of the other shot types just happen to be Marisa, is all :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on November 19, 2011, 04:49:06 PM
Well, yeah that's kind of correct. However, I'd still call the other Reimu types being better, way better, than any of Marisa's shots in SA. That doesn't make them good though. I mean, one of them is a seriously underpowered kinda homing but then not type that characterizes itself by shooting mist at enemies while the other one is decent and has good bombs which can actually make cheesing your way through to a 1cc easier.

The Marisa types though are bad except MarisaB which is decent but really, none of all that matters since the only character that goes to DBDB is ReimuA so that's the shot you use.  ;)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: qno2 on November 19, 2011, 09:47:46 PM
Timing out Seiga's overdrive.

4 seconds left... *sigh*  Guess it's an improvement over "6 seconds left".
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on November 19, 2011, 10:03:55 PM
ReimuC is the only good character for ramming into heart bullets in Embers of Love, and Subterranean Rose.
During a bomb, of course.

I always thought that Marisa's hitbox from 10-12 was the same, and everyone got smaller slightly in 13.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: qno2 on November 19, 2011, 10:19:32 PM
I am sorry for posting this much in such a short amount of time but...
Quote from: qno2
Timing out Seiga's overdrive.
1 second, I couldn't describe my current emotions without getting banned for my use of words.

   ... seems to cause a spontaneous headache too.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on November 19, 2011, 10:20:40 PM
ReimuC is the only good character for ramming into heart bullets in Embers of Love, and Subterranean Rose.
During a bomb, of course.
I don't get it. Why are you trying to ram bullets at all during those two cards?

And regarding hitboxes to follow up on Naut, an initial look at Marisa's hitbox in SA makes me think it's the same as in UFO. Well, the visual looks the same at least, I don't know if the actual hitbox is different.

And to stay on-topic: Damn, maybe I was being too aggressive supergrazing Satori's nonspells. Tons of deaths in a practice run - all correctable at some point, but still, I'd think I wouldn't derp that much.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: The Greatest Dog on November 20, 2011, 01:09:30 AM
I don't get it. Why are you trying to ram bullets at all during those two cards?
You try using ReimuA's bomb to clear bullets via ramming.
It's also a matter of 90FPS clearing, but that's probably the sole reason that I picked ReimuC over ReimuA.

Anyways...
asdfagsdgadsfh Mystic Square, Extra. WHY SO CRUEL.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on November 20, 2011, 01:16:17 AM
And regarding hitboxes to follow up on Naut, an initial look at Marisa's hitbox in SA makes me think it's the same as in UFO. Well, the visual looks the same at least, I don't know if the actual hitbox is different.

If you're going by visuals, every player hitbox from 10, 11, 12, 12.8 and 13 is exactly the same. It's all math.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on November 20, 2011, 03:33:12 AM
Hint: 2909.83 fps
Oh, I thought it was you having a full stock of lives when the point bonus was near.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 20, 2011, 07:28:25 AM
Oh, I thought it was you having a full stock of lives when the point bonus was near.
Stage practice, because the max possible lives at that point with that point item count would be 6.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on November 20, 2011, 07:33:56 AM
Video demonstration actually, doesn't that bug also make the cursor move at the speed of light? If so, I guess he wouldn't have been able to make it to Stage Practice, or anywhere else for that matter. Might be an entirely different bug, though.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on November 20, 2011, 03:08:31 PM
Fuck the TD extra survival bug, and fuck my inability to figure out how to work the fucking patch.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: fsvgm777 on November 20, 2011, 07:14:24 PM
(http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab84/fsvgm777/th001.png)

Why, just why.

Worst part?

I had 3 lives remaining at the beginning of that spellcard.

Replay (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=17051) (note: I use some bombs, especially during later stages)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on November 21, 2011, 03:14:50 AM
I've been attempting a few MoF Lunatic no-bomb runs lately.

From now on I'm calling Aya "the Great Filter". I'll let you figure out why.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: SuperParadox on November 21, 2011, 04:10:19 AM
I recently (Last Week) just started playing DS  and I was doing good till about Stage 6 when I got it in the ass.     
Went back to playing it after a 3 day haitus and managed to capture 6-2 and 6-7 today though.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on November 21, 2011, 04:43:35 PM
Meh. Quite a bunch of attempts put into Kyouko's overdrive now. None of them getting anywhere. I hate this card already. The design here is about as lazy as it gets. ZUN probably just went, 'crap, i have no good ideas so let's fire bubbles from four directions making perfectly sure that figuring out what can kill you and what can't is impossible'.

I normally don't mind bubbles too much if they are just coming from one direction but once they mix themselves up like this, it turns into guesswork because of their huge sprites and relatively small hitboxes. I never really thought about this since it was never really a problem but now that it has become a problem I start to lose my tolerance for bullets whose hitbox are what 40% of the sprite? They really don't serve any meaningful purpose either compared to just having a smaller bullet sprite with the same hitbox. Most deaths to bubbles are because of deceptive hitboxes instead of reading errors anyway.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Formless God on November 21, 2011, 06:36:43 PM
Weren't you the one who said that was the most fun card ever or something ? :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on November 21, 2011, 07:49:28 PM
Nay, to my recollection, i never said such a thing. It looked cool on Lunatic, that's what i said. Overdrive however still looks pretty cool but I don't like how the challenge comes from the fact that the bullets have needlessly large sprites turning it into a visual clusterfuck.

Of course, it might easily just be me who just sucks or something but for all its worth, this is why I don't like the attack.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on November 21, 2011, 08:32:14 PM
Damnit why does Marisa have to have such a big hitbox.

Went to clear MoF Extra with MarisaB[ugged] just for laughs, only to die to Suwako's second spellcard while at 4.xx power TWICE IN THE SAME RUN because I'm so used to Reimu. That's Suwako's easiest attack are you fucking serious.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zil on November 21, 2011, 11:45:29 PM
Of course, it might easily just be me who just sucks or something but for all its worth, this is why I don't like the attack.
It's not just you. That's a god-awful spell, and your complaints are well founded. Personally I find myself despising bubble bullets more and more. They just cover up everything else with their giant sprites and make you wonder where the stupid hitboxes actually are.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on November 22, 2011, 03:22:14 AM
I captured that spell by sitting in the bottom right area and praying.
Can't imagine timing it out... In addition to the omnidirectional bubbles, there is also that stupid ring of arrows, where if I try to dodge it, I get hit, and if I don't pay attention, they often just slip by magically.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on November 22, 2011, 11:25:57 AM
In addition to the omnidirectional bubbles, there is also that stupid ring of arrows, where if I try to dodge it, I get hit, and if I don't pay attention, they often just slip by magically.

The arrowheads only serve to distract your attention from the real threat. I had only 1 of 20 or so failures due to being hit by the arrowheads but I can't really help not getting distracted when there is something fast coming at me no matter how hard i try to stay focused on the bubbles. Its just something i instinctively react to.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 22, 2011, 11:52:15 AM
I captured that spell by sitting in the bottom right area and praying.
Can't imagine timing it out... In addition to the omnidirectional bubbles, there is also that stupid ring of arrows, where if I try to dodge it, I get hit, and if I don't pay attention, they often just slip by magically.
My 6 attempts had 2 arrow ring hits, 3 bubble hits (1 hitbox misread, 1 bullet misread, and 1 derp) and 1 capture.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on November 23, 2011, 06:07:05 PM
Fuck you Crossroads of Heaven.

Fuck you Illusionary Dominance.

Why is there a boss where the best strategy is praying to the RNG.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on November 23, 2011, 07:21:33 PM
Boundary between Youkai and something in PCB Phantasm.

Because of you i lost about 7 bombs and a life fuck me.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 23, 2011, 10:32:02 PM
GO DAMN IT OKUU
Failed a perfect Utsuho fight on the 4th nonspell after finally getting a perfect through Mega Flare.
At least I found a better strategy for Nuclear Fusion involving redirecting the suns to the sides so I have more fire time on Utsuho.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Schezo on November 24, 2011, 07:10:51 PM
Well that was special.
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Even if 1/3 of the failures was getting kicked in the teeth for milking her blue orbs. :derp:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: qno2 on November 25, 2011, 11:31:50 AM
Saigyouji Flawless Nirvana, still 30 seconds to go. Getting the hang of it though.


Edit: down to the last seven seconds, damn.

Edit 2: and now I'm utterly useless, just beautiful. Break time.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Thanuris on November 25, 2011, 12:28:00 PM
that feeling (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=17131)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on November 25, 2011, 08:09:35 PM
Screw Yukari.

That is all.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: BT on November 25, 2011, 08:16:03 PM
Got to Mamizou's surivival card for the first time.

Died on the first carnivore wave.




What?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Raikaria on November 25, 2011, 08:51:54 PM
I swear Marisa, if you were not so outright cheap for a Stage 4 Boss [Seriously, I find her attacks harder to dodge than Stage 6 bosses!], I'd use the Border Team and have cleared IN by now.

But no, you have to send literal walls of stars at me in your nonspells, , hide small stars behind big ones on Milky Way, force me to rely on luck 90% of the time with NDL, obliterate me with Master Spark, and just swamp me while penning me into an inescapable fate with Light Ray.

Seriously. The number of times I'm boxed in, with a solid wall of stars flying at me is absurd.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: qno2 on November 25, 2011, 09:05:15 PM
Quote from: Allosawyou
hide small stars behind big ones on Milky Way

Yuyuko likes doing that too. Just hiding some red butterfly-bullets in the WALL of violet and blue, just to piss off the player.

The last phase of this card is just plain weird, all of a sudden a part of the pattern vanishes, making it seemingly easier, just to sneak cheap deaths (three by now ... ) upon the player via the above method.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I can't think of any other way apart from sitting in the wall and praying for the best.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 25, 2011, 10:00:11 PM
I swear Marisa, if you were not so outright cheap for a Stage 4 Boss [Seriously, I find her attacks harder to dodge than Stage 6 bosses!], I'd use the Border Team and have cleared IN by now.
Marisa isn't as cheap as a certain other Stage 4 boss (Aya and her clipdeath rings of nonspells), and SOME parts of Marisa (first midboss card) are harder than SOME parts of final bosses, but as a whole final bosses are harder IMO
But no, you have to send literal walls of stars at me in your nonspells, , hide small stars behind big ones on Milky Way, force me to rely on luck 90% of the time with NDL, obliterate me with Master Spark, and just swamp me while penning me into an inescapable fate with Light Ray.
The nonspells are annoying, I usually bomb all of them on my difficulty of choice (since you didn't specify one and you're using the easy/normal names, and you're complaining about Earth Light Ray, I'm assuming normal difficulty), Milky Way is random and annoying (also, Touhou has a Z-sort making the larger bullets lower down just to prevent that complaint-you're just missing the small star over the larger sprite), NDL has no luck at all, use large movements to redirect the smaller stars, Master Spark is easily redirectable, but the screen-shaking is a complication until it doesn't affect you, Earth Light Ray can be dodged with big movements every other aimed barrage of stars (i.e., move left, to the center, right, reverse back to the center, back to the left, repeat).  Earth Light Ray is definitely the harder part of Marisa on normal though.
Seriously. The number of times I'm boxed in, with a solid wall of stars flying at me is absurd.
Hitboxes: very rarely is the 'solid' wall actually solid.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on November 26, 2011, 09:28:45 PM
SA lunatic, why you hate me so much.
Stage 1 - restart X number of times due to: get hit when trying to graze DNA-shooting fairies to collect some power items, get killed by Kisume, get killed by Yamame (1st nonspell = big wall, 2nd nonspell can wall ???)
Stage 2 - die to the beginning of the part before midboss (stupid STUPID jelly beans), die to Parsee's opener
Stage 3 - oh man, no matter how many bombs I have, I always have to lose 2 lives (or more!)
Stage 4 - cross my fingers and bomb every part possible and hope that I make it through with 2 deaths or less
Stage 5 - WHAT, how do I pass the part with many orbs shooting metal fatigue bullets. Also, midboss opener ???. At least I figured out how to abuse safespot and bombs to bulldoze my way through Orin.
Stage 6 - Okuu's first spell, 2nd nonspell, 3rd spell, and especially 4th spell = bomb bomb bomb death death death
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 27, 2011, 12:17:59 AM
What could have been a 750-800 million MoF extra run ended up being only 550 million because Suwa War clipped me twice.
What a choke.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: qno2 on November 29, 2011, 09:23:05 PM
Edit: Replay deleted, there are newer versions of this.

... *sigh* I'll take a break. Best thing is: it's not the first time this kinda stuff happened. Sorry, I still can't accept this as a good design (I know, I know, this spellcard wasn't made for this, my own fault, etc.; just let me put all the blame on the card for now instead of facing my own inability).

edit: last 3 seconds. And yes, it was one of those "invisible" bullets. Up until that point 16 seconds was my best try and I destroyed that one myself ("oh lol let's move into a bullet"), I was at least able to blame myself entirely. Not so much anymore. *sigh*
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on November 30, 2011, 04:34:56 AM
Subterranean Animism lunatic at 90fps...

(http://i39.tinypic.com/33e55s1.jpg)

I'm retarded and didn't save a replay, but I did record it on livestream. You can watch it here if you want (http://livestre.am/19C2e). Run starts at about 20:20.
Also the thing I said at the end was directed at one of the guys watching who made a silly comment and was meant to be sarcastic
:V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 30, 2011, 05:53:49 AM
Subterranean Animism lunatic at 90fps...
Naut Sign: bomb everything
Looks like that's how to go far in SA.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on November 30, 2011, 05:54:25 AM
I see you're familiar with Touhou.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: J.O.B on November 30, 2011, 05:59:41 AM
Naut, I wonder if you would be able to do either MoF or IN Easy at 180 fps.
I've managed to get to Mountain of Faith on my first try at MoF, and after a couple tries I managed to make it to Eirin's second last nonspell in IN.
I seriously think you would be able to do it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Naut on November 30, 2011, 07:05:13 AM
Naut, I wonder if you would be able to do either MoF or IN Easy at 180 fps.
I've managed to get to Mountain of Faith on my first try at MoF, and after a couple tries I managed to make it to Eirin's second last nonspell in IN.
I seriously think you would be able to do it.

Maybe. But I probably won't try it.



Tried SA lunatic 90 again, had a spare life and 3 power entering sub sun, died once and then immediately after before even half her health was gone. Fuck this game.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: J.O.B on November 30, 2011, 07:08:30 AM
C'mon Naut. I believe in you!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on November 30, 2011, 07:11:08 AM
Dude, I can't do lunatic 30.
Hush :V

On an SA note,

KOISHI KOMEIJI YOU SUCK
I should be able to beat you by now.
But I cannot.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Seppo Hovi on November 30, 2011, 02:59:19 PM
edit: last 3 seconds. And yes, it was one of those "invisible" bullets. Up until that point 16 seconds was my best try and I destroyed that one myself ("oh lol let's move into a bullet"), I was at least able to blame myself entirely. Not so much anymore. *sigh*
I'm making progress aswell. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=17197)

Let's race.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: qno2 on November 30, 2011, 03:22:47 PM
You'll laugh, I got down to 3 seconds again. And got hit by an "invisible" bullet. Again. Here an example on how this feels. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=17198)
Ah, sorry, that might've implied that this only happened once more. It did a few more times. Funny that, hahaha... haha... ... ha(te)...

... *sigh* ... don't know if I can continue this race Seppo. This card is draining any kind of motvation or fun I had. It's great and fun as long as one is under the misconception that the fast-red-bullets are the biggest threat. I long for those innocent days.

In any case: our runs can't be compared. You use Youmu, bigger hitbox, faster. You've got it way harder than I do with Reimu. I admire your efforts but just thinking about doing this with Youmu sends me in a metaphorical fit of undying rage.

Looking at your replay:  ... and the ninja bullet strikes again (indirectly). I feel your pain.
Fancy graze at the start.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Seppo Hovi on November 30, 2011, 03:43:59 PM
In any case: our runs can't be compared. You use Youmu, bigger hitbox, faster. You've got it way harder than I do with Reimu. I admire your efforts but just thinking about doing this with Youmu sends me in a metaphorical fit of undying rage.

Looking at your replay:  ... and the ninja bullet strikes again (indirectly). I feel your pain.
I've most likely wasted more runs into this card than you have, and I'm rather used to Youmu's unfocused speed, since I've done a lot of stuff on her. I quess I like playing her more than I do border team. Also, Youmu's speed actually gives you a couple of possible dodgin' options you don't have on Reimu (or at least I didn't have when I did my first timeout of the card on border team, focusing almost all the way). However, Youmu does make me want to swear when I have to micrododge stuff.

I also find SFN really fun card, or, if not fun, (6th death in a row to the "ninja bullet" (<- nice way to call those things) cuts a big load of the fun off for a second, I do admit that.)  at least beautiful. And I like playing the card, it's not like I'd be getting tired of doing it anywhere soon, so I think we have a bit different views on the matter. As I seriously gotta give you some respect when you're continuing with this even without all the additional urges striving you to try the card over and over again. And those deaths at 3sec. Uhhh, they hurt.

Good luck, in any case.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: qno2 on November 30, 2011, 04:17:30 PM
Quote from: Seppo Hovi
Also, Youmu's speed actually gives you a couple of possible dodgin' options you don't have on Reimu
I agree, when I did a normal timeout with Yuyuko I was rather limited in my options of dodging due to low speed. But great power speed comes with great responsibility as well. One attempt of mine, ended at 16 seconds left, is more or less perfect to portray that responsibility:
I just got through a wave of blue and violet and a single red bullet was approaching (though dead set on aiming straight for me... as always). What did I do? I dodged INTO the butterfly-bullets that were innocently traveling back to Yuyuko for the next wave.
Good job me, have a facepalm.  :V

Quote from: Seppo Hovi
I've most likely wasted more runs into this card than you have,
No you haven't, I'm at 600 too (add the 1000 I needed with Yuyuko if you want). Though my first close try was at about 100 attempts in (the one described above). After that, every time I got close - a ninja appears.

Quote from: Seppo Hovi
However, Youmu does make me want to swear when I have to micrododge stuff.
And therein lies the true power of the ninja bullets when going for a no focus. If you can't evade it by going up/down, you're screwed. ... well and if you can't even see them coming... ... let's not talk about this.

Regarding what I think about this card: yes, it's beautiful, but I personally don't care for that when I'm starting my 600th run. There are more pressing matters to attend to.

Keep in mind that I 'just' did a Yuyuko timeout before this, so it's my own fault for jumping into this without any break. I don't hate this card but it's enough right now, the close attempts that are destroyed by (imo) absolute bullshit don't make me like the card more and the sheer amount of mistakes on my part doesn't help reduce my annoyance. Yet I'm so close - I just want it to be done. 
If I had no fun at all I wouldn't do this, but I also want to move on. There is so much stuff in Touhou I haven't done yet, still suck at and yet I'm holding myself back, trying to finish this card for good.

I'll take a break for today and tomorrow though, being annoyed at both the card and myself doesn't help in reducing mistakes.

Good luck to you as well.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on November 30, 2011, 05:46:09 PM
SA normal 90 FPS attempt:
perfect Stage 1
deathless 2 and 3
1 death stage 4
Enter Stage 5 with 7 lives
Exit with 1
Die to Utsuho's first spell and 2nd nonspell, game over

Worst part is I BOMBED ON HALF MY DEATHS
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on December 01, 2011, 09:32:17 AM
Urrgh that Astronomical Entombing keeps throwing a wall in my face at 50 seconds left. Sometimes before that too. Makes me displeased.
Its annoying how I keep getting myself walled.

EDIT: 36 seconds... Fuck that, why does my head insist on being retarded? I know I can dodge this if I could just keep focused on the card and not on anything else!

EDIT 2: This performance is several kinds of unacceptable. Two attempts ruined at 9 and 7 seconds left on that timer, infinite amounts of attempts lost at 40-50 seconds and over 300 as a whole. Why the fuck can't I do this attack? I feel so worthless now. I need a break from this attack.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on December 01, 2011, 04:09:32 PM
SA 90 FPS normal: can't get to Stage 3 without a death any more
UFO 120 FPS easy: can't get anything to go right
UFO 90 FPS normal: Why can't I finish Stage 2 with 5+ lives any more?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on December 01, 2011, 05:18:37 PM
UFO Stage 5 Lunatic, though it's mainly because it's the only stage where I cannot figure out a way that will let me get through without losing a life (if everything goes well, that is). The stage portion alone won't let me do much more than break even with my bombs, and that's if nothing goes wrong. Unexpected trouble, though I can totally see why simply timing out Shou's second Spellcard is a better option than trying to capture it. Aside from that, I can read at least her first NS-Pattern somewhat reliably, third one might be possible, too, but this stage is bad news, no matter how you look at it.

Edit: Geesh, now I feel kind of stupid. There was a perfectly viable path right there in the first half of the stage, one that would allow me to make use of the fact that, in an average run, I can afford to destroy one red UFO before feeding it while also allowing me to get a green UFO at the exact moment that will cause the resulting big green UFO to be destroyed by Nazrin's appearance which will then allow me to collect a green UFO to go with into the second half. I must have been blind, I don't know why, but I just love going through strategies when I'm in my bed, unable to sleep, I come up with some real nuggets there.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Nekomata-chan on December 03, 2011, 02:30:38 PM
Kanako's final spellcard of rainbow murder. Got down to no lives, it was pretty much neck and neck. Then I saw her begin to disintegrate at the end of the battle, but... I got distracted and ran into a bullet. Underneath the GAME OVER screen... I saw Kanako in a sort of limbo. I don't even think that was even legal.
It was Normal, too, my first ever 1CC because Sanae whittles me down with her snakey-bullet-edges-with-knife-rows-firing-at-you spellcard, also known as: Sea Opening "The Day the Sea Split". Gah.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on December 03, 2011, 04:22:37 PM
Why am I playing on Easy mode....

Oh yeah. To get to unlock the TD characters' Overdrives.

How silly.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on December 03, 2011, 05:33:39 PM
Sea Opening "The Day the Sea Split". Gah.
Ah, I remember struggling with that spell for the longest time.  I'll link you to my ancient no focus clear (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zsVrKfvK2Y) of the game, that spell is 16:57 in.
Hope this helps, sucks about the double KO.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on December 03, 2011, 07:09:42 PM
fuck you MoF! Not a good day to play MoF, in a scoring-risk-taking mentality! on normal -.- too many BS deaths
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Piranha on December 03, 2011, 08:34:37 PM
Why can't I 1cc TD in Easy? :getdown:
I keep dying in Stage 4. Not even Stage 5 or 6, no, I lose (almost) all my lifes in stage 4.

Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zil on December 03, 2011, 10:53:13 PM
I tried to timeout Mokou's last nonspell, the so-called "Rings of Death." I got it down to 8 seconds left and died stupidly. Well that was only my second attempt, so I'm still proud of myself I guess. That attack used to scare the crap out of me.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on December 03, 2011, 11:07:40 PM
You lucked out. Seriously, what no? How can you survive for that long? I am impressed though. Its an attack I've always wanted to do but haven't because Mokou is boring.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zil on December 04, 2011, 02:11:55 AM
Ugh... Tried a few more times and managed one other 1 miss timeout. Yeah the stage gets old fast, and this attack is right near the end. I wish there were other spells I could do as practice for this one, but it's actually kind of unique (which is a tragedy).
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: mikeKOSA on December 04, 2011, 03:57:53 AM
A no focus timeout attempt of astronomical emtombing failed at 3 seconds left. Blah, I shouldn't have been so careless.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on December 04, 2011, 11:47:05 AM
I'm glad I failed Descent of Izuna because otherwise a not-even-attempted perfect of Ran would have been foiled by her 5th non-spell.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: GuppyForce on December 04, 2011, 04:02:12 PM
I'm not sure if this is an achievement or a rage.

ONE SECOND AWAY FROM BEATING NUE! (fudge you survival spell, mainly the 2nd phase due to speed increase and this being my first time)

but also...

SECOND TRY ON UNDEFINED DARKNESS

CAPTURE

(But Fudgecakes, I forgot to save a replay...GAH)

EDIT: WAIT A MINUTE I THINK I CAPTURED ALL BUT HER LAST 3 SPELLS
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zil on December 04, 2011, 04:58:36 PM
Well I tried to time out Nue's last spell. I wasn't expecting the speed boost near the end...
It may still be doable, but, as with Mokou's nonspell, it's at the end of a very long stage.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on December 04, 2011, 09:22:42 PM
Alice, why do you always insist on killing me with your midboss card?
I've captured that thing before but I NEVER SEE WHAT KILLS ME.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Esper on December 04, 2011, 11:27:15 PM
[This is after losing to Touhou 12 Stage 6's Second Spell on Normal, using a continue]
No.
No.
I FUCKING BOMBED YOU STUPID FUCKING GAME. I HIT <Bomb Button on Controller> HALF A SECOND BEFORE THE LASER SPAWNED.
BYAKUREEEEENNNNNNNNNNN
YOU FUCKING CHEATEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[This is right after restarting]
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA THIS IS SO FUN
STARTING THE GAME OVER AGAIN AFTER ALL THAT BULLSHIT
I LOVE PLAYING THE SAME GAME OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN JUST TO GET IT RIGHT
*dies to midboss Nazrin* FUCK IT! *hits escape, goes to menu, and closes game*
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: BT on December 05, 2011, 05:00:35 PM
GOD DAMMIT BYAK. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=17260)

tl;dw: Tried a perfect Normal Byakuren on a whim and almost got it. Damn chokes. :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: zeruna on December 05, 2011, 09:38:56 PM
always dies on parsee on hard mode.
i feel like a noob. >_<
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on December 06, 2011, 06:09:41 AM
Improvements allowed me to now reach the end of stage 5 (almost passed the last spell!).
I still don't see a clear way to 1cc though, due to the large amount of resources I have to burn through to pass Okuu <- damn you.
Stage 1 - no death
Stage 2 - no death
Stage 3 - 2 stupid deaths
Stage 4 - 4 deaths !! (the first 2 could prob have been avoided...)
Stage 5 - 3 deaths --> game over

To get to Okuu with reasonable amount of resource (> 2 lives), I would have to no death stage 3 and 1 death stage 4...
Sounds quite difficult!!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on December 06, 2011, 12:09:34 PM
I hate Reimu's Last Spell. Why do I even bother trying to get that full stage perfect run anymore...
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on December 06, 2011, 04:05:19 PM
Wild.

Deserted.

IISSSLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on December 06, 2011, 06:37:30 PM
How the hell did I just fail Suwako's 3rd nonspell.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MMX on December 06, 2011, 07:36:28 PM
One more attempt at TD hard no bombs with Marisa... Death on 2nd Yoshika spell (the easiest one) and 3 deaths on Seiga fight wich i actually trained to pass deathless (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9ccLiZjRB0). Game over at 2nd Miko nonspell. I need to pass first 4 stages without deaths to be sure i may 1CC it.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on December 06, 2011, 10:43:28 PM
Lingering Cold, you are annoyingly wall-happy for a stage 1 card.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on December 07, 2011, 02:39:36 AM
MoF Extra no-focus run
I lost because I focused by accident on Red Frog. Though I cleared the stage.




... So it's just a regular run.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Puffy on December 07, 2011, 05:06:26 PM
On the verge of punching the computer because of hourai jewel on lunatic level. Fuck sake, it is making me give up on a lunatic 1cc.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on December 07, 2011, 06:07:49 PM
On the verge of punching the computer because of hourai jewel on lunatic level. Fuck sake, it is making me give up on a lunatic 1cc.
2 lives going into it is plenty though if you bomb every stream turn.

Screw you Demarcation, that's twice I perfect pacifist lunatic EoSD Stage 1 lunatic only to fail the first wave.  Now I remember why I decided to bomb you in my 1cc.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on December 07, 2011, 09:05:58 PM
On the verge of punching the computer because of hourai jewel on lunatic level. Fuck sake, it is making me give up on a lunatic 1cc.

Alternatives:

1) Fight Eirin instead.
2) Get so good at the rest of the game apart from the Stage 4 boss that you get to Kaguya with near infinite resources and can't possibly lose.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on December 08, 2011, 12:46:58 PM
Okay, what the hell is the deal with UFO's going into completely different directions during actual runs than during practice? Seriously, why the fuck do I even bother figuring out optimal routes if they completely fuck up my run by straying off from their usual paths for no goddamn reason?

Edit: Of course, I contributed my fair share, too, less time raging and more time concentrating would have done me good in more than one situation. Still, I don't know what influences whether a UFO is going to go left or right. 100+ runs in practice in which the UFO always goes left and in the actual run it suddenly goes right, which is bad if I need to misdirect a lot of stuff and move in circles and what not.

Edit 2: Okay, that went a little better, now that I wasn't expecting things to go 100% according to plan - Game Over during Byakuren's penultimate Spellcard, as opposed to Shou's third Spellcard. Finally got all the info on Byakuren I wanted, but damn, she moves fast during that Spellcard, though I'm very, very sure I can use that to my advantage, maybe even more so than on Hard.

Either way, at least Stage 6 has not suddenly turned into a giant death trap, which is good.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zetzumarshen on December 08, 2011, 03:58:21 PM
Fuck King Kraken's Strike. I'm going to autobomb that card in every of my run.

Though that 10M spell bonus...  :ohdear:
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: チソウ タイゼン on December 08, 2011, 04:48:15 PM
Though that 10M spell bonus...

...is nothing when compared to the zillions of blue UFOs found elsewhere
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on December 08, 2011, 05:05:46 PM
If the mighty .ASP is losing to that spell then what hope does the rest of us have.  :V
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on December 08, 2011, 05:40:10 PM
Lost another perfect MoF extra stage to Froggy Braves the Elements.
WHY is all the hard stuff at the end of of a mostly trivial boss fight, after an exceedingly annoying stage which always makes me restart some half dozen times.

Oh fun 158M stage then double KO Suwako's opener.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zetzumarshen on December 09, 2011, 12:37:49 AM
If the mighty .ASP is losing to that spell then what hope does the rest of us have.  :V

Naut can capture that card at 100% success rate. You should look up to him.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on December 09, 2011, 06:31:29 AM
GAH, after no death stages 1-3, I proceed to derp Satori's 2nd nonspell by having my eyes wander away to the opposite corner of where my character was, and die twice to border of waves and particles (death right on the first wave, and then right before Satori dies!! *smacks myself for not staying calm*), not to mention moving horizontally into a vertical laser when it was passing by safely (??? srsly).
Then, stage 5, everything was going well, but then.... why did I die twice to Orin's 3rd nonspell? That was sooo BAD.
I could have entered Stage 6 with 4 lives and actually get a good chance at fighting Okuu...

Stage 4 - 4 deaths (2 were stupid STUPID derps)
Stage 5 - 5 deaths (2 of the deaths were inexcusable)
Stage 6 - Game Over by dying stupidly to the place with lots of metal fatigue bullets.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on December 09, 2011, 08:31:55 AM
Naut can capture that card at 100% success rate. You should look up to him.

Yeah, i suppose all that 90FPS nonsense paid off. :)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on December 09, 2011, 09:01:16 AM
NO, Windows Update. No one told you that it was okay to restart my computer in the middle of a really great run. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.

And as I type this I see a little balloon telling me new updates are available. DON'T FUCKING MOCK ME.

GAH I'm really pissed now.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on December 09, 2011, 04:35:34 PM
Forget what I said about grazing SA Stage 1's first two helix great-fairies from the left side being easier. Switching sides doesn't change the fact that the smaller fairies can still shotgun me at ranges no human could possibly react to. For crying out loud, when it's not one thing holding me back from a complete-game scorerun, it's another. And it's been like this for a fucking year now.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Koakkuri on December 09, 2011, 05:20:37 PM
1. ORIIIIIINNNN!!!

2, KIKURIIIIIIH!!!!one

I swear, these two have caused me more failed 1cc runs this week  than I can even count.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on December 09, 2011, 05:34:57 PM
My hand hurts, my nose, too, didn't know fists could just rebound off of wooden tables.
I swear, once I'm done with this 1CC, I'll figure out what determines a UFO's path, but until then, backup plans will have to do.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: jc_foster on December 10, 2011, 02:19:22 AM
If not for a derp death on Aya's last card, I'd have had a 1LC of MoF normal.

..... I blame the cat who was napping in front of my monitor. -.-
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on December 10, 2011, 02:22:25 AM
3 1cc attempts died in stage 5, again... X_x, one of them even entered stage 5 with 4 extra lives - just to piss them all away.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Vael on December 10, 2011, 01:38:49 PM
Ten Desires, oh how I love that game with its new zany characters and making Yuyuko of all beings a Stage 1 boss...but there's just one lit~tle thing:

MIYAKO, KAKU!? Y U DO THIS? t(TATt)

=======================

Caps lock aside, in Stage 3, I've figured that I need to get to the Spirits before Miyako chows on 'em (I wonder if she can out-eat Yuyuko?) , but Stage 4? Beyond spamming my Bombs to  knock out Miyako while concentrating my full attack on to Kaku (I'm using ReimuA as per my usual style) I just don't get it...even in Practice Modo I get my behind pichun'd so much that I think Reimu's just about to call it quits and enjoy a cup of tea at Yuyu's.

Gonna keep trying this until I get it right.

*puts on his hachimaki*

Time to enjoy this festival.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on December 10, 2011, 05:25:45 PM
Three deaths in Stage 3, another unnecessary one in Stage 4 combined with me tossing my UFO path straight into the bin so I wound up without bombs against Minamitsu's last Spellcard, captured it and kicked serious ass in Stage 5. One unnecessary death but a really nice performance otherwise. Stage 6 was the most fun, though, started with 1 Extra Live and 1 Bomb, Game Over during the fourth NS-Pattern with two bombs in stock, but I got to test a lot of stuff that I wanted to know. Also, easily the most fun I've had during any run in the past few weeks. I was sooo about to call it a day after the third death in Stage 3 (all of which occured in the timeframe up until Ichirin's Midboss Spellcard), then again in Stage 4, but figured what the hell. Didn't really think I'd get that far, but I'm most certainly fired up now.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on December 10, 2011, 10:18:50 PM
WHY CAN EVERYONE EXCEPT ME SURVIVE THE EOSD EXTRA DEATH FAIRY
gah
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: SuperParadox on December 11, 2011, 05:07:36 AM
Just doing a nice run of UFO, Die on Murasa's time out spell at 0 seconds.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on December 11, 2011, 05:22:11 AM
Why does Pseudo-Exorcism of the Stupid Shrine Maiden taunt me so much? I figured out where to go long ago, but I've yet to capture it in a full run, always finding some way to die other than simply messing up my path. Doesn't help that in order to retry it I have to sit through the single most boring Extra Stage in existence. That seems to be the story for practically every TD stage really, one or two hard attacks amidst a whole bunch of easy stuff, some of it ridiculously so.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Critz on December 11, 2011, 04:25:17 PM
I've had it with this bullshit. I'm dropping Mamizou before I'll lose my remaining bits of sanity or break my monitor.  I can somehow manage till Scroll, but after that, it's hell on earth. The nonspells are pretty much all pure BS until the last one. Scroll is insane with three different types of attacks and having to move all the time, Monstrous school is easy on paper, but it's way too easy to slip up or get walled, and I have to bomb / die anyway because it lasts so obscenely long. WDI is even longer, and is an evil twist on a typical dodging card, as the trolldogs and birds both have ambigious hitboxes, goddamn curve to fuck up your reading and force you to fight the momentum if you don't want to get raped from 2 sides. Getting a trance on either is a god fucking send and can instantly save my run if I get it... or doom it if I don't. And the motherfucking survival. "Hurr durr. Make a gap in the dog wall? How about nah? Get to that damn last life already." Pompokolin, while nasty, is a good deal easier until the end phase clip hell and wouldn't be a problem if I wasn't bleeding to death at this point of the fight already. My best run had me reach it 1/0, and I obviously panicbombed anyway. It doesn't matter how easy a card is if it's so long that a single wrong step kills me dead due to no resources. It would have been 2/0 if that stupid bitch at least rewarded me with a single purple spirit after getting out of survival card in a single piece. Oh, and if she ever dares to kick me again right after I capture the second card, I swear I'll rip her goddamn legs off myself.

Yes I'm taking this way too personally. Sorry, had to rant.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on December 11, 2011, 04:30:35 PM
Game Over during the last part of Byakuren's last Spellcard is somehow worse than I had imagined. Worst part is, I'm fairly sure I could have pulled this off, started with two bombs, but burned both of them on the easier waves because I was unfamiliar with the speed. Oh, well, still good to know that I can manage that card, wish I could have started with 1 Extra Life and 0 Bombs.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MMX on December 11, 2011, 10:38:41 PM
Ten Desires hard no master spark mode. 1st 3 stages went perfectly untill 1st Yoshika nonspell where i made a stupid herp derp and then died on second one and Poison Murder and ragequited it. Fuck you zombie! I'm going back to danmakufu >:(
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: MTSranger on December 12, 2011, 05:51:20 AM
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=17359
DAMN IT DAMN IT WHY DID I NOT BOMB SO FREAKING CLOSE
I had 4 power too!! I'm sure 4 bombs would be enough to kill that stupidly little amount of health.

(http://i40.tinypic.com/23ih2xu.jpg)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on December 12, 2011, 07:00:16 AM
Okay, look, EoSD.

Just because I am happy that I got you to work does not give you the right to blatantly ignore my pressing the X button twice on the same spell, costing me five bombs on what was to that point a run I thought had a legitimate shot at actually beating Flandre on only my third try.

In other words, fuck you.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on December 14, 2011, 12:17:57 AM
Death on Mamizou's first card, instant ragequit.

Seriously, this has not been that good a day for Touhou. Why can't I drill it into my head to just not play when I'm in this state of mind? And Metroid Prime 2 beckons anyway. You'd think a choice that simple would convince even a stubborn person like me more easily than that. ::)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: jc_foster on December 14, 2011, 06:30:23 AM
Failed Kaguya's last two Last Spells because one of my kittens thought that'd be a good time to jump into my lap.

(Yes, I can still rage over something so cute. :V)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Piranha on December 15, 2011, 12:30:43 AM
EoSD Normal 1cc attempt. Best one so far( got to Sakuya with 6 lifes, left with 4).
During Scarlet Shoot: BSoD.
RAAAAAAGE :getdown:
*waits for new hardware to arrive finally*
(It's more of a stability issue rather than a performance issue, to be clear :V)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: KLH on December 15, 2011, 01:04:47 AM
NO, Windows Update. No one told you that it was okay to restart my computer in the middle of a really great run. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.

And as I type this I see a little balloon telling me new updates are available. DON'T FUCKING MOCK ME.

GAH I'm really pissed now.

OH YES

RAGE

RRRAAAAAAAAAAGGGEEEE

This happened to me about 4 years ago, when I was well on my way to my first AAA in StepMania. Rage is the only possible description.
Solution? Disable all forms of automatic updating and perform all update operations manually. It sounds like a pain, but it's worth not getting your best achievements smashed by poor user interface design.

EoSD Normal 1cc attempt. Best one so far( got to Sakuya with 6 lifes, left with 4).
During Scarlet Shoot: BSoD.
RAAAAAAGE :getdown:
*waits for new hardware to arrive finally*
(It's more of a stability issue rather than a performance issue, to be clear :V)

I had a BSoD interrupt a Touhou run once. Luckily it was a shit run (and therefore forgettable, I don't even remember the game I was playing anymore).
But yeah, BSoDs are usually the result of bad drivers or defective/faulty, failing, or overstressed (i.e. overclocked/overvolted) hardware rather than performance demands, unless you're using FUCKING WINDOWS 98
(BTW how old is your computer and what new hardware did you get? It would be awesome if you got something like a HD 6970 or GTX 580 or some badass CPU.)
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Piranha on December 15, 2011, 03:25:06 AM
My PC is only 3 years old and constantly putting out BSoD, even during the PC98-Touhous.
Defective and/ or failing hardware seems to be the problem, therefore I ordered a new Mainboard(ASUS, at the moment I have an ASRock one) + new prozessor + upgrading from 2GB to 8GB RAM. My good old GeForce 9400 never disappointed me.(Though I plan to buy a new one as soon as possible...) I'm on XP btw.

Windows Update keeps bugging me to restart the computer right now too , haha:P
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: KLH on December 15, 2011, 06:00:25 AM
Well, these aren't RAGE moments (I don't have these unless real bullshit happens like bad keyboard response or glitches), but they did quite annoy me because they're still BS:


I generally don't get angry if I fail because of an actual mistake or lack of skill. When that happens, I just try again; if something's not working, I try something different.

My PC is only 3 years old and constantly putting out BSoD, even during the PC98-Touhous.
Defective and/ or failing hardware seems to be the problem, therefore I ordered a new Mainboard(ASUS, at the moment I have an ASRock one) + new prozessor + upgrading from 2GB to 8GB RAM. My good old GeForce 9400 never disappointed me.(Though I plan to buy a new one as soon as possible...) I'm on XP btw.

Windows Update keeps bugging me to restart the computer right now too , haha:P

If it's failing during the PC-98 games, then yeah, it's probably hardware failure.
Congratulations on that hardware upgrade, especially the memory! Sounds like you're set to kick some loli ass. Which parts did you get in particular?
If you're going to upgrade your video card and are concerned mostly about gaming, then I would immediately recommend a NVIDIA card. These are well designed for gaming requirements.
DO NOT, however, get a NVIDIA product if you plan to do any sort of scientific/high-level math computing or supercomputing, unless you have enough of money (i.e. thousands of dollars) for a Tesla model. The double-precision performance of the GeForce line is capped at one-fourth the original capacity. AMD's cards are much more suited for supercomputing (and, indeed, they have far better raw computational performance than any NVIDIA card), but the rest of AMD's video microarchitectures lack parallelism in other functions required by gaming.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on December 15, 2011, 07:30:13 AM
Failed my 2nd attempt at a Touhou 12 Normal Difficulty 1CC. Failed on Byakuren's second spellcard by running into a bullet because of not paying attention.
That's Byakuren's only spell I have a perfect capture record of with ReimuA.  In fact, it's the only spell I have a perfect capture record of (on normal) with ReimuA.

Also, ND1B IN easy, and the bomb was for score.
WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME I HAD THE PERFECT SCREW IT I THINK I'LL COUNT THAT
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zil on December 15, 2011, 07:34:32 AM
I learned that timing out Nazrin's nonspell in stage 5 does not allow you to bypass her spell. >=O
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on December 15, 2011, 09:46:14 AM
Byakuren's last Spellcard, 2 Extra Lives, 0 Bombs, Game Over despite using all bombs. Fuck me for letting her pressure like that, fuck me for being the worthless piece of shit that I am.

Edit: Oh, well, that loss may have broken my heart, but I should be looking at the bright side - getting there with two Extra Lives is somewhat good, so at the very least I've managed to become stronger. I only need to practice that Spellcard, time to retreat.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on December 15, 2011, 09:51:13 AM
I learned that timing out Nazrin's nonspell in stage 5 does not allow you to bypass her spell. >=O

Bomb the hell out of that spell for more UFO's.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Lepetit89 on December 15, 2011, 10:18:13 AM
Bomb the hell out of that spell for more UFO's.

Indeed, assuming you enter the battle with 1 or two green UFOs you can get two green UFOs and a red one after the battle, without any use of bombs if you're good. I've never even considered trying that Spellcard, I captured it once for the heck of it and once by chance when I got there without any bombs.

Another tip: Timing is crucial there. After Nazrin, you'll get teams of two huge fairies. Assuming you spam-click through the dialogue, the first fairies with UFOs appear around the time the second harder beat in the music can be heard after the longer part with violins or whatever (no, I don't know anything about music instruments and I sure as hell can't describe a tune with words). You'll want to avoid all fairies before that. If you entered with two green UFOs, the best time to collect the last one is around the same time the green-UFO fairies launch their first wave. Shoot down that UFO after the red-UFO fairies have shot theirs, then absorb the bullets of the blue-UFO fairies by collecting the green UFOs in time. I really recommend building your strategy around that. Only tricky part is collecting the red UFOs once the smaller fairies start bumrushing you, but if your timing is right, the UFOs should be right in front of you.

Edit: Geesh, ten minutes of practice and I can already see what's wrong with my approach as well as my attitude in general. It was my own fault to begin with (granted, I never blamed anyone but myself, even though it was rather my incompetence than my stupidity) - most of my runs ended at Byakuren's last Spellcard. If I go in there hoping I'll somehow get through it's only natural that I'll wind up dead and disappointed. Just this morning I thought that I should maybe practice that Spellcard, be it on Hard Mode or in DS (though Zil actually suggested the latter), then opted against it because I wanted to get this 1CC. Figures that this approach leaves me completely crushed despite getting to that blasted Spellcard in the best shape ever. Which reminds me, life is cool, but the way it teaches me is cruel. Whatever, my fault, time to practice some more and then kick some ass, this package with the Byakuren plushy I finally found is waiting to be opened!
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Elysia on December 15, 2011, 11:17:06 AM
>enters Byakuren with a ridiculous number of lives

Hmm, maybe I'll try perfecting her, just for the hell of it

>dies to third nonspell

Ah well, no big deal, I've got three bombs and six lives left

>five consecutive deaths with bombs in stock despite pressing the X button on four of them

...

UNDEFINED FANTASTIC OBJECT WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, I SHOULD NOT ENTER BYAKUREN WITH SEVEN LIVES AND END WITH NOTHING IN STOCK. THAT JUST DOES NOT FUCKING HAPPEN.

And now I'm really wishing I saved the replay instead of rage closing, because I swear to Cthulhu there was nothing even fucking there during that death on Air Scroll. I dodge a wave, pichuun just as the next wave starts spreading. HOW.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: KLH on December 15, 2011, 11:43:22 AM
That's Byakuren's only spell I have a perfect capture record of with ReimuA.  In fact, it's the only spell I have a perfect capture record of (on normal) with ReimuA.
You can always count on me to fail on the most trivial things, because my mental focus is about as steady as the stock market (bad analogy lol).

Also, ND1B IN easy, and the bomb was for score.
WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME I HAD THE PERFECT SCREW IT I THINK I'LL COUNT THAT
This sounds like it belongs in the Accomplishments thread. :)
If you're bombing for score, I would personally still consider it a perfect run. Score can be strange, sometimes, because it's not always an accurate indicator of a player's skill. When I was going through the Touhou Extra Stages, some of my failed runs had higher scores than some completed runs on YouTube by players who are clearly more skilled than I am, and I had absolute disregard for the intricacies of the scoring systems aside from basic PoC usage.


Geesh, ten minutes of practice and I can already see what's wrong with my approach as well as my attitude in general.
Damn, that's pretty harsh on yourself.
There's nothing wrong with being analytical. In fact, when used properly, it can get better results more quickly than raw practice alone.


...I thought had a legitimate shot at actually beating Flandre on only my third try.
Wow, you almost beat Flandre on only your third attempt? Doesn't sound too much like a rage moment other than the fact that your keyboard BS'd you.

>five consecutive deaths with bombs in stock despite pressing the X button on four of them
It does sound like your keyboard has serious issues. Of all things, it's this sort of problem that makes me RAGE. What kind of keyboard do you use?
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zengeku on December 15, 2011, 02:12:20 PM
How to not cock up and lose all your lives on Byakuren?

I did win this time and it was with SanaeB. I got to Byakuren with 6 lives again and I wonder why I can't even with bombs avoid losing all my lives. I seem to have lost my consistency at Superhuman which i used to find pretty easy.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: nintendonut888 on December 15, 2011, 05:13:21 PM
Well, it has begun...

Hour and a half of constant attempts on Byakuren. Not a single one captured both her first spell card and second non-spell. -_- I swear, there must still be something I'm missing here.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: I have no name on December 15, 2011, 05:53:23 PM
This sounds like it belongs in the Accomplishments thread. :)
It would if I hadn't bombed for score.  On Stage 1.  Sort of like a reverse choke only for scoring.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Arcengal on December 15, 2011, 06:02:58 PM
Hour and a half of constant attempts on Byakuren. Not a single one captured both her first spell card and second non-spell. -_- I swear, there must still be something I'm missing here.

Yeah, it's that those attacks are bullshit. I have a replay somewhere of me perfecting Byakuren apart from those two attacks, which I autobomb.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: ふねん1 on December 15, 2011, 06:16:26 PM
I wouldn't quite call Good Omen bullshit. It's an exercise in precision, albeit one that's arguably greater than anything SA has to offer, which is saying something. Donut, you might want to consider dodging stuff a bit higher than the bottom of the screen, even if just for a moment in each wave, if you aren't doing that already.

As for the second nonspell, it's bullshit only if you try to do it "normally" because you have to contend with those lasers that randomly activate far away from the others. When I try to capture it, I always do the large back-and-forth streaming motions (I usually call it "Krim-style" since he was the first one I saw perform it like that). Not that that method is easy in and of itself, but I prefer just not dealing with the lasers at all.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Skyler on December 15, 2011, 07:51:34 PM
So far my attempts at PCB Hard are failing in the first couple of stages.


First: die to Letty's final card
Second: forget that yin-yangs shoot things on stage 2
Third: die to Cirno's card
Fourth: walled by blue bullets after Chen
Fifth: run into a bullet on Lingering Cold after my computer decides to make me unfocus for a couple of seconds


Go me.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Zil on December 15, 2011, 10:28:38 PM
As for the second nonspell, it's bullshit only if you try to do it "normally" because you have to contend with those lasers that randomly activate far away from the others. When I try to capture it, I always do the large back-and-forth streaming motions (I usually call it "Krim-style" since he was the first one I saw perform it like that). Not that that method is easy in and of itself, but I prefer just not dealing with the lasers at all.
So there are other people who do it that way. I thought I may have been imagining that it's easier that way.

As for something to rage about... SanaeA.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: KLH on December 15, 2011, 10:41:58 PM
I wouldn't quite call Good Omen bullshit. It's an exercise in precision, albeit one that's arguably greater than anything SA has to offer, which is saying something. Donut, you might want to consider dodging stuff a bit higher than the bottom of the screen, even if just for a moment in each wave, if you aren't doing that already.

Yeah, Good Omen isn't really bullshit, it's just really challenging because it combines high density, high parallelism, high read precision and relatively high bullet speed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's one of the most difficult things I've ever seen in Touhou.

As for the second nonspell, it's bullshit only if you try to do it "normally" because you have to contend with those lasers that randomly activate far away from the others. When I try to capture it, I always do the large back-and-forth streaming motions (I usually call it "Krim-style" since he was the first one I saw perform it like that). Not that that method is easy in and of itself, but I prefer just not dealing with the lasers at all.
Macro-streaming? That's the best way I can think of to describe it. So that would mean that the "normal" method is just tap-streaming? If so, then I see why it might seem like BS.
Title: Re: Touhou RAGE Thread X-Mode
Post by: Chronojet ⚙ Dragon on December 15, 2011, 11:00:23 PM
Scarlet Gensokyo.

Why wall me in at the last moment. *bomb*