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~Hakurei Shrine~ => Help Me, Eirin! => Topic started by: Sen on March 02, 2010, 02:14:02 PM

Title: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Sen on March 02, 2010, 02:14:02 PM
The spellcards that you know you can do, but just barely. You're a pixel away from clipdeath the entire time, your heart is racing, and your finger hovers over the bomb button.


For me, Kogasa's midboss spellcard in Stage 2 (Hard/Lunatic). The bullets are so tightly packed, and since I never use Reimu, I'm always afraid of sudden clipping (which then leads to clipping, of course :V). Sakuya's Eternal Meek on Lunatic also does this, as well as (surprise!) Kogasa's first EX midboss spellcard.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: COPIRIGHTO on March 02, 2010, 02:17:20 PM
Anything that involves fists and anchors
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Tengukami on March 02, 2010, 02:17:38 PM
Marisa in Stage 4 of IN. I use Magic Team in part to avoid her. Stars, stars, everywhere stars oh gawd make it stop aaaaahh
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Tapsa on March 02, 2010, 02:17:45 PM
all of Utsuho's cards

if I am not temporary blinded then I am temporarily on the edge of angina pectoris
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Bananamatic on March 02, 2010, 02:18:46 PM
UFO
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: orinrin on March 02, 2010, 02:31:29 PM
Byakuren's yellow curvy laser card.

Actually make that any card involving lasers.  loldecayinghitboxes.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Formless God on March 02, 2010, 02:34:19 PM
- EoSD. Everything.
- IN. Every-goddamn-thing.
- Orin.
- Okuu's non-spells, Hell's Tokamak, SubSun.
- UFO, especially Nue and Byakuren.
- Lazors.
- And heck, Vajra. Never actually captured it, but my heart did race.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Iryan on March 02, 2010, 02:35:19 PM
VoWG
Seamless Ceiling (although I can't really bomb that one)
Mishaguji-sama used to be like this for me about one and a half years ago....

But really, anything in the last two stages during a serious 1cc run.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Doomsday on March 02, 2010, 03:33:19 PM
Pretty much any survival card, bar Murasa's

And Fujiyama Volcano
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Serela on March 02, 2010, 03:36:07 PM
Things I tend to fail in general, especially if I'm trying to beat something for the first time.

And definitely cards like Kogasa's "Bone-Dry Water-Repelling Monster" or whatever that was called. It can be hard to tell when you're about to get hit, especially if its going to be a clipdeath...
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Bananamatic on March 02, 2010, 03:38:52 PM
And definitely cards like Kogasa's "Bone-Dry Water-Repelling Monster" or whatever that was called. It can be hard to tell when you're about to get hit, especially if its going to be a clipdeath...
can't see shit captain

seriously how do you do that one
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Formless God on March 02, 2010, 03:42:13 PM
1. Move away from the center, then move away from the bottom.
2. Bomb. As you do with everything Kogasa has in stock.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Bananamatic on March 02, 2010, 03:43:10 PM
1. Move away from the center, then move away from the bottom.
wait so where should I be
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Serela on March 02, 2010, 03:46:16 PM
wait so where should I be
if you move up to the top to avoid most of the bullets then Kogasa will bodyslam you

move up there and then activate FROG NUKE for REAL SANAE DAMAGE

...or just stay at the bottom and smash the numpad like a lunatic while praying to god that you won't get hit
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Tengukami on March 02, 2010, 03:51:34 PM
Real men use Marisa B.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Formless God on March 02, 2010, 03:55:50 PM
Kogasa moves during that spell ? :<

wait so where should I be

The attack starts off as a pretty solid stream down the center (move to the side), then bullets start to assault the entire central area from the sides (move back to the center and get off the bottom).

Here. Pre-midboss!Kogasa will make you laugh your ass off. Guaranteed. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=7510)
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Formless God on March 02, 2010, 04:48:27 PM
Real men use Marisa B.

I decided to be stupid and captured Parasol Star Memories on my second try.

WHAT

EDIT: I wasn't even going for it.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Tengukami on March 02, 2010, 05:21:35 PM
Now you know. :D
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Alice★f on March 02, 2010, 08:31:21 PM
All of UFO after stage 2

Scarlet Gensokyo (Status: No lives, no bombs, only 15 seconds left) EEEEEK!!!

& Most of Orin's cards.

& Border of Wave and Particle because my eyes bleed.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Kinzo the Astro Curious on March 02, 2010, 09:02:54 PM
Marisa in Stage 4 of IN. I use Magic Team in part to avoid her. Stars, stars, everywhere stars oh gawd make it stop aaaaahh

Your kidding me, I'd much rather fight marisa over reimu and her evil borders and nasty nonspells. Also marisa's theme and danmaku patterns are more awesome.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Ghaleon on March 02, 2010, 09:34:58 PM
Kanako's opener..and Nitori's Extending aaaaaaaaarm.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Sen on March 02, 2010, 09:35:14 PM
Oh, forgot, everything boss!Meiling throws at you on Lunatic. Colorful Light Chaos Dance in particular has killed me so many times that I basically have no confidence on it, even though I know how to do it :ohdear:
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Ghaleon on March 02, 2010, 09:54:01 PM
Oh I forgot to mention, but patchy's silphae horn or whatever its' called. That very first one she casts on Marisa A on lunatic. Seriously, I always have more trouble with that than emerald megalith, by far. I don't think I've capped it on lunatic once actually. It's scarlet meister hard for me >=P.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Jaimers on March 02, 2010, 09:56:16 PM
Really fast attacks.
Things like Kanako's opener and Evil Eye Sigma's second phase because you have to really pay attention and react fast.

PoFV and PoDD.
My first lunatic 1cc of PoFV is still one of the most intense shit I've ever gone through.
I had to take five after beating it because apparently I had forgotten to breath.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Furienify on March 02, 2010, 09:57:18 PM
Utsuho's never fail to make me tense and shaking from concentration.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: CK Crash on March 02, 2010, 10:32:31 PM
Border of Life and Death, Virtue of Wind God, Suwako's final, and the last phase of Hourai Elixir. Basically, really dense or really fast stuff, especially if a clear depends on that card.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Azinth on March 02, 2010, 10:54:45 PM
Attacks with bullets that come from the sides or from the bottom, and attacks that force you to move horizontally through the pattern instead of just normally getting through gaps (Scarlet Meister, SA pelletspam, etc.).

Also, Kaguya's night spells.  "oh lol hi you've got a pretty nice score there, but if you don't ace all five of these spells right now then you get completely screwed, kthxbai"
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: theshirn on March 02, 2010, 11:17:00 PM
Sakuya's Lunatic Max Rank opener.

Aagh.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Kefit on March 03, 2010, 12:31:13 AM
10 Evil Stars without lol no-vert nonsense.
The last 20 (or is it 30?) seconds of a Subterranean Sun timeout.
The last ten seconds of Suwako's second timeout card.
The last five seconds of Rising World.
THE FUCKING TIMER COUNTDOWN SFX DURING A VOWG TIMEOUT.
Boundary of Wave and Particle, StB edition (SA edition is a pansy).

These aren't the hardest things out there, but rather those that require constant movement on the part of the player or naturally build up tension during the course of the attack.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Arcengal on March 03, 2010, 12:42:04 AM
Resurrection Butterfly.
Ghost Wheels.
Practically everything in UFO except Murasa.

Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: ebarrett on March 03, 2010, 03:04:26 AM
Horizontal bullets. Fortunately these are very rare. Not-quite-horizontal bullets are fine, though.

Also, Subterranean Sun, because of the X-axis pull when you move away from the exact center. It throws me completely off, most of the time I don't even know what hit me. It's the only card in the series where that still happens.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: MysTeariousYukari on March 03, 2010, 03:10:41 AM
Um... Seven Signs of the Deva, that card of Youmu is one I can barly capture, but still can, and it definatly scares me.
Doumen Seimen, kinda... I haven't captured it yet, but I can tell I am close. Stupid bullet-course changing thingie D:<
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Tengukami on March 03, 2010, 09:31:04 AM
Your kidding me, I'd much rather fight marisa over reimu and her evil borders and nasty nonspells. Also marisa's theme and danmaku patterns are more awesome.

This comes up quite a bit. The difference between Marisa and Reimu in Stage 4 of Imperishable Night is the difference between micrododging and streaming. I can stream like it's an Olympic event, but micrododging just murders me. I'll take Reimu every time over Marisa's ridiculous cascade of tiny tiny spinning stars.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Bananamatic on March 03, 2010, 03:03:29 PM
BoWaP
BoWaP
BoWaP
I HATE BoWaP
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: Kinzo the Astro Curious on March 03, 2010, 03:06:12 PM
This comes up quite a bit. The difference between Marisa and Reimu in Stage 4 of Imperishable Night is the difference between micrododging and streaming. I can stream like it's an Olympic event, but micrododging just murders me. I'll take Reimu every time over Marisa's ridiculous cascade of tiny tiny spinning stars.

I have wondered what these definitions mean, so streaming would be run away from the evil thing coming at you, and micrododging as it suggests just slowly nudging around through gaps, right? (this is probably on the wiki, isn't it?)
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: fatfree on March 03, 2010, 03:45:22 PM
Almost any attack in which there are bullets coming from left and right at the same time. Like Suwako's lilypads or Youmu's opener.
Title: Re: What attacks make you the most tense?
Post by: MysTeariousYukari on March 03, 2010, 03:52:46 PM
I have wondered what these definitions mean, so streaming would be run away from the evil thing coming at you, and micrododging as it suggests just slowly nudging around through gaps, right? (this is probably on the wiki, isn't it?)

Something like that, but for what I have seen and heard, Streaming is slowly moving from 1 side of the screen to the other, slowly enough that your grazing, but fast enough that your not dying. This is used on attacks where the enemy fires at your current location, such as Kaguya's Fire Rats Robe.

Micrododging is slight left and right movements, going through the gaps. That 1st Yuyuko non-spell that has the fan-thingie out would be a time to micrododge, I think.