Whoops, my bad i didn't see this thread and accidentally bumped the old one :ohdear:There you go, fixed.
[2016-10-01 23:57:48] <Karisa> 729m, getting there...Reviewing Lollipop's replay seems to have prompted me to improve my own score. I haven't succeeded yet, though. So many close runs with a single major mistake.
[2016-10-02 00:41:46] <Karisa> Another 8/7 clear, 731m this time
[2016-10-02 00:42:08] <Karisa> I keep missing a set or two of stage point items-- this time I died to the fairies after midboss Seija, losing her items
[2016-10-02 13:09:09] <Karisa> Just lost a potential ~743m to a death to Shinmyoumaru's 1st...
[2016-10-02 14:28:25] <Karisa> So close... this time I had a very good run up to the start of Seija, and somehow died by not moving out of the way of a lone bullet during her first spell
[2016-10-02 14:29:44] <Karisa> I played played out the rest and finished with 734m, meaning with that spell bonus, and higher spell bonuses from being at 4 power for the next two spells, it could've been ~747m
[2016-10-02 14:32:48] <Karisa> ...wait I forgot to mention that I somehow forgot to ram an orb right before Seija, and missed that 2.0 as a result
[2016-10-02 14:33:08] <Karisa> Which is probably why I wasn't concentrating enough on her first spell
I've been trying to get back to Touhou lately, I'm mostly playing just SA and throwing random LNB credits, going back to stage practice to try whatever I failed again.
im getting close to an lnbDoing pretty good, certain you will get it soon. A few days ago I tried EoSD LNB and got to stage 5 midboss Sakuya, I should focus a bit more on attempting that.
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Ok I need someones opinion on this:
Lets say there are two PCB Lunatic runs;
The first of them is a Lunatic No Bombs No Border Breaks... but it features 10 misses, half of them are incredibly stupid... (Like, dying on easy stuff like Stage 2, for starters...)
The second of them is a Lunatic No Bombs... with 1 Border Break (Gah!) so it loses that condition... however, it only has 4-5 misses, which were, for the most of the part, expected.
What one do you think its the better run? The No Bombs & No Border Breaks, despise the fact it technically has more mistakes on it, or the plain No Bombs one because it actually has less mistakes on it, despise the loss of the Border Break condition...
Sometimes I do wonder if I am doing myself any harm by completely skipping Hard difficulty in all games...(I go from 1ccing Normal to straight into trying a Lunatic 1cc).IMO it really does not matter, as long as you put in the effort to practice whatever you want to do.
So far it has worked out just fine, but thinking on future projects, I wonder if this will be a good idea (UFO...).
Maybe for UFO I will make an exception, and actually go for Hard 1cc first.
I decided to succumb to my masochism again and play Double Spoiler.But you can reach the gold requirement for any scene in just one photo... you should be able to automatically gold any scene upon clearing it. :V
It's still really hard. I managed to gold 6-8, but not 6-3, yet.
I also notice that the wiki's strategy gets very sparse or nonexistent once you get to 9+ -x, despite the fact it's been literal years since I've looked at those pages. Can a more skilled player than me make some guides for the levels past 9-x?
I beat MPP Lunatic the other day, but my replay desynced... on the final spell. Quite a shame, really.Nice. I did the same thing too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNIifidDe9k) but it was a replay recording. Not sure why your first replay desynced, my first extra clear which was my second ever replay saved also desynced.
So naturally I did it again. It was irritating, but it's nice to see that I don't suck as much at the game as I did when I first started out and had to make sense of everything.
MPP Lunatic 1cc (recorded live) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1FJchofNdo)
Expanding this beyond PCB to just general LNNs, the main reason I would ever consider a challenge like an LNN is because I'm familiar enough with a game and generally find it fun enough that grinding through the inevitable one or two "really hard attacks" doesn't feel like a chore. Keeping anything that could become a mental block (like restarts or repeated near-misses in this case) in check is important to reduce the amount of stress I might put on myself - basically it's a matter of making sure my mindset is in the right place in the first place. I don't know much about your history with PCB, so I defer to you on how well you think you know the game, and I assume you like it enough to go for a LNNN. But if all the restarts are becoming grating, I'd definitely try something to mix it up a little, like a different goal (perhaps briefly, so you don't get too absorbed into that instead), or even just not restarting a failed run so you can get more comfortable playing through the whole game. Variety is the spice of life, as they say. But yeah, these challenges are hard for a reason, and they usually take a while to get "the one run", but that doesn't have to be a bad thing if you approach it well.
6. Number affecting lvl 2 and 3 spells
7. Number affecting lvl 4 spells
Is there anyone among the English-speaking players who knows StB/DS well enough to document those? Hard to tell if anyone plays them beyond clearing scenes, with no scene-based scoreboard, and rarely accomplishment thread posts about them.I don't know if you've heard of him but chum is an english-speaking player right? Last I checked he dominates the DS royalflare scoreboard and has very good scores in STB aswell. I don't think it's right to say no one plays scenegames for score in the west.
Touhou Replay Showcase is always disrupted by various things, every single stream. I may have uttered the occasional meme at some point or said something flippant, but what are you holding against me here for exactly...? Do you even know what's happened or what I've done? Is this just something you heard somewhere? If you ask me, the commentators themselves are disruptive and even incredibly hostile sometimes. There was one time where a few people got themsleves banned from TRS, but I wasn't and you'd have to be actively looking to be offended if you'd say I disrupted the stream that time. I've submitted quite a few photo game replays and with rough explanations of the scene. Noone's told me I'm doing anything wrong other than an exploding ZigZagWolf who has been by far the worst presence on TRS (I'm assuming he had a bad day that time) Absolutely tearing apart anyone who he deemed to have contributed to a small mess of the stream that day, including myself for unknown reasons. Compared to him or Sakurei, I'd say whatever remarks I may have made are very light and hardly disruptive. If I was really a problem then it doesn't seem like anyone really thinks so, for so far I've refrained from starting arguments in the stream chat, like about how more people should try to score for instance (more than 90% of runs submitted are survival runs)
...I love how I have 170+ hours of gameplay time on PCB and I STILL cant LNNN it.170 hours isnt average for any lnnn at all, even pcb, it should be much higher
170 hours isn't average for any lnnn at all, even pcb, it should be much higher
i got around 90 hours in UFO (with some very close lnb attempts) but i doubt i'd be able to get a LNN before 170. Maybe LNBNV......
I have 160 on MoF and I'm just getting towards starting to think that, maybe, getting a Lunatic 1cc isn't a completely unreasonable ambition..... :)
TD is probably the easiest option, comparable to the difficulty of IN (it's less generous with resources and deathbombs, but the patterns are even easier). EoSD is a good next step - I'd recommend practicing the spam segments in stages 4 and 5, and Sakuya has a few tricks that can be rather nasty if you're not prepared, but the game is fairly manageable overall.
The general consensus is that SA and UFO are much harder, though for some reason I actually didn't have much trouble with SA Normal. For a first clear, I'd strongly recommend Reimu/Yukari, or maybe Marisa/Alice if you like having lots of bombs available for a last-second panic button. UFO is the harder of the two, and will require some memorization and routing, as well as a decent amount of practice against Shou and Byakuren.
You might also want to try some of the PC-98 games. They're rather archaic, but they're also a lot of fun. LLS is the easiest of the bunch, but all except PoDD are fairly reasonable in terms of difficulty balance (and PoDD isn't exactly a standard Touhou game anyway).
Thanks. If I were to try getting a PC-98 game, would I need some kind of emulator? I don't exactly have a PC-98 sitting around.You'll have to, yes. Every single PC-98 player uses an emulator. Ask Zig or Kirby about what they use.