Extra - ReimuB
Andrew - 1,063,880,980 - C - 0.174% -
ReplayFor the first time in my Touhou career, I decided to try playing for score. After a few days of practice, I got my first scorerun that I'm happy with, beating my initial target of 1 billion by a decent margin.
I looked up how to do the bombing at the beginning (I found getting the two borders using the world record method to be a lot easier than trying to follow the wiki strategy), but other than that, I made up my own route. Had 546K cherry and 238m points coming into Ran, which is better than I usually do. I did make some mistakes, such as greying and dropping a few point items, ending Ultimate Buddhist and Fox Laser too early, missing some graze on the survival card due to nervousness, and missing a border bonus because I didn't shoot unfocused enough during Izuna Gongen, even though I was safespotting it, but other than that, I'm satisfied with this run. No deaths, NMNBNBB Ran, and got the 800 point extend.
I'm glad I tried scoring in this game. Once I got the hang of it I found it to be quite fun. I guess I'll study some replays and try to graze more if I want to improve this at some point. Of all the Touhou stages in the series, I find myself coming back to PCB Extra the most.