Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
~Hakurei Shrine~ => Help Me, Eirin! => Topic started by: SupahVee1234 on March 23, 2010, 07:35:28 PM
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I started playing on Hard difficulty, with UFO if I'm not mistaken. Then after 1CCing some games in Hard, I 1CC'd IN and MoF on Lunatic.
But now I have a question. Since I didn't 1CC UFO yet, is it better for me to focus on the Lunatic difficulty (where I can hardly reach Murasa) or to focus on Hard (where I once reached Byakuren) then pass to Lunatic?
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so, what difficulty did you start playing at?
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Easy
duh
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Normal!
'cause I'm average!
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I play them on Lunatic when I first get them to see how silly the Lunatic danmaku is. Then I go back to Normal :S
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Easy
duh
Like, seriously.
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Normal.
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I play on "Let's TAS this at 5 fps" difficulty.
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Normal
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I start on normal, which I expect to 1shot now (UFO was a 2shot for me, would have been my first attempt if them damn UFOS weren't more dangerous than the final boss), was pretty challenging when I first started, but doable after several attempts.
Personally I think everyone should start on the easiest difficulty that isn't too easy for them, provided you like Touhou, if you don't like it wtf you playing at all. There's just some kind of cool-factor to seeing how each spellcard or whatever changes per difficulty. Sometimes it's pretty boring like faster or more dense bullets, sometimes you deal with "options" that didn't exist before (like SA first boss' final spellcard on hard is kinda cool compared to normal IMO), or sometimes the card changes completely (redmagic/scarlet gensokyo). Generally not trying normal is almost cheating yourself out of part of the game.
Because of that I try easy afterwards too, I know when I tried PCB on easy, I felt some of the cards were actually harder than they were on normal. (Phantom ensemble on easy has more bullets than on lunatic ffs!...Of course they are slow as a snail).
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Easy, since I was new to bullet hells. I didn't stay there for long though (no more than a few days), SA Easy really is quite easy. Spent more time on SA Normal as I officially got myself used to Touhou.
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easy, after I figured out how to focus I found it stupidly easy so I moved onto normal
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I didn't even know how to focus at first, and I still started on Normal.
At the time I accidentally pressed shift and found out about Focus, I had gotten to PCB Stage 4 without continuing.
Edit: Maybe I should go try a No Focus 1cc now that I'm a lot better, but considering much I fail at PCB, I'd probably fail that.
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I started at "3 continues to clear IN easy".
Now I'm normal/hard-ish difficulty for the main stages, and I'm pretty awesome at the extra stages in general.
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Easy.
You ~mutants~.
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Normal, even though this is the only bullet hell series I've ever played. Still haven't even tried easy for fun to this day. :V
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Easy
duh
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EHHHHH MAJI? IJI MODO?
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More than Easy Modo
EOSD EASY MODO
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Surprised by the ammount of normals and up.
Started on easy myself, didn't find out what focus was for at least 2 weeks.
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I play them on Lunatic when I first get them to see how silly the Lunatic danmaku is. Then I go back to Normal :S
Same
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First day was PCB Easy using up all continues, then quickly became Normal using a few continues within a matter of like a week or two.
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Normal.
I saw Overdrive before playing. >_>
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I started with Easy to get used to the series, even though I've had prior bullet hell experience (Castle Shikigami 3 mostly. It still takes a while to adjust to a new series' mechanics though), but moved on to Normal after one run. I haven't really moved on from there much... I can do individual spellcards on Hard and even Lunatic no problem, but I can't string together an entire run on those difficulties without screwing up at some point. (That's probably why I like StB so much.)
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PCB Normal.
The music was disabled and I got quickly bored :V It wasn't until I came back two months later that I was like WHOAAAAAAA. In the downtime my friend had thoroughly brainwashed me with music and fanworks.
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UFO Hard was the one I started with. It made me want to hang myself, but it started me off with decent skills. Now I need the concentration for an endurance round or, as it's more commonly called, a 1cc.
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I started on Normal I believe. Its been a long time since then though, so I can't remember it too clearly.
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEH UFO IJI
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I started on Hard. Why? Cause Easy Modo and I don't want to start on Normal for once, but Lunatic is Insane. xD
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Normal.
I saw Overdrive before playing. >_>
This
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I think I started on normal, and then when It got difficult, I played easy, then got to sakuya and it wouldn't let me get to remila on that level and I was like :<
Still haven't beaten the damn bat bitch either. maybe I should make that a pirority (in my touhou pirorities anyway, disseration should come first :V)
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Started out with Imperishable Night on Easy. It was a new game at the time and I didn't have much experience with shmups before that, so yeah.. Nowadays when a new Touhou game comes out I start on Normal for a few quick runs to unlock things and to get a feel for the game, and then I move on to Extra, or Hard/Lunatic if I'm not bored with the main game by then.
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Normal. As a normal person would.
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Easy mode, because the only shmup experience I had before Touhou is level 1 of Space Invaders.
Almost a year later I can consistently 1cc most of the games on Normal (</3 SA) and have cleared multiple EX stages.
Maybe I should move up to Hard soon...
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Easy
duh
This.
Took forever to work my way up to a 1cc of EoSD Normal...
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My first time playing ever was on PCB Hard, in spite of the fact that I had next to no prior shmup experience. Captured Cirno's midboss spell card, and nothing else, then made it to stage 2 before I ran out of lives and declined to continue. Then I went to look up why the "Extra Start" was disabled, found out the requirement to unlock it was to 1cc on any difficulty, and switched to Easy solely to unlock Extra.
I still like to make a runthrough on Easy whenever a new installment comes out, for the same reason I like to score attack a song on Normal on Beatmania IIDX before I play it on Hyper, and play Hyper at least once before I try Another, even if I'm pretty confident I can sightread clear it on Another.
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I tend to do easy and normal...I try hard and lunatic every once in a while just to see how far I get. I'm still not that good.
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Only kids play in easy mode!!!
I started with normal. I now play hard and lunatic, I'm not good, but I'm getting damn good really damn fast.
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IN Ijji Modo. It took a few runs for me to learn that I didn't have to concentrate on each individual bullet in my immediate vicinity. Things then improved from there.
I haven't really been in a rush to get better, what with other things taking up my time and having to develop senses for how to play this kind of game. That's why I'm only barely a lunatic after being here for three years...
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I started with IN Normal during Zun's break before PoFV.
I still can't 1CC Hard :(
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Normal.
I saw Overdrive before playing. >_>
This, on EoSD (and slightly PCB) for months. Got to the point where I wouldn't load the game for weeks because I was so annoyed with it. Finally decided I'd rather not study a video game more than school, flipped Overdrive and that god-damned mindset the bird, and went Easy.
Still there for now, though I do play Normal and Hard to see how far I get.
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Imperishable Night Easy because i suck.
When UFO came out i played it on easy first too and i also think that i'll be playing any upcoming Touhou games on Easy first. Immediately normal thereafter obviously. Then Hard and Lunatic if the game is fun enough.
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Normal, then Easy but when I found out that I cannot unlock Extra on Easy, I went back to Normal. But when a new game comes out, I always try it on Easy first, then moving to Normal. I never play on a harder difficulty than Normal.
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Imperishable Night on Easy, since I was, and still am, new to these types of games, I currently play on Normal, but I still play Easy every now and then.
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I started with hard, but after failing to clear any of the pre MoF games, I switched to normal and 1CC all of them.
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I started by playing IN on Normal. I don't stray far from it because 3 years later I'm still bad at these things.
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EoSD Normal. Took me... a week? Something like that. :V
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I think on easy for like... a day. Then working my way up from normal.
Later though, when I was doing that all games lunatic clear thing, I never even bothered with hard and just went straight to lunatic. :V
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Oh ... that's exactly the same for me :V . UFO Easy for a few hours, then Normal right after I got a clear. I dropped it mid-way and went for Lunatic with infinite (ry though. After a while I came back to 1cc them Normals again and wow, loleasy. Cheating to practice is actually helpful.
I also skipped Hard almost entirely. It's just a slower Lunatic, good for 1cc purposes and nothing else :V
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IN Normal, then went to hard two weeks later, after I bet Mokou. Tried easy once, almost fell asleep.
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EoSD easy mode is where I started.
I had never touched a shooting game before, so I couldn't get past rumia without using a continue (sometimes 2)
Now I play everything normal or extra mode.
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No, you play Flanchan.zip :V
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Easy
duh
Three more UFO Easy 1CCs, and I'll finally be ready for Normal
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EoSD Normal.
I breezed through the game until I met Pachu. Then I cried. Hard.
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Normal, so that in the event I actually manage to beat Sakuya, my sense of accomplishment wouldn't be cut short by her telling me to go home. Still hasn't happened yet though.
I blame the shitty music on cracking my concentration.
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PCB Easy, then UFO Easy.
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I played Touhou games on Easy by default until I got SA, which I figured I could try at Normal since I was a hard mode player by this time.
Got SMASHED by Orin, so went down to easy, 1cc'd on my first attempt, went back to Normal and managed it the second time.
UFO came out, tried it on Normal, got to Shou and got violated. Couldn't win after about 6 continues. Restarted next day, got past Shou, got to Byakuren, was destroyed. 6 continues, can't beat her. Next day, restart, get to Byakuren with 7 lives in stock, finish 0/1 blind capturing Fantasia. To this day, I have no idea how that happened.
When TH13 comes out, I'll be starting that on Normal too.
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PCB Easy, oh man that was the greatest run of PCB I've ever had, because all of the music was new and exciting and <3
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I started at Normal, although bjw constantly reminded me not to be ashamed if I felt I needed to drop down to Easy. I still remember playing with max lives, getting game overs to Alice, and not being able to continuespam past Youmu, but I stuck with it and pushed on. To this day, the only Easy playing I've done other than for lulz (usually with silly no focus/no bomb/pacifist restrictions, or with heavily unconventional control schemes like using a Rock Band drum kit... totally should have kept the video of that) was to unlock all of IN's spellcards so I could eventually go for 222/222 completion in Spell Practice. I started clearing Extras and moved up to Hard after 1ccing EoSD through SA (minus PoFV) on Normal. Sometime during my Hard career, I temporarily jumped up and bomb/continuespammed my way through some Lunatics, returned to Hard to roflstomp EoSD through SA (everything on Hard feels so slow when you spend a couple days on Lunatic), and have been a Lunatic ever since.
That said, UFO (being the first game to release since I started) taught me that just because I'm a Lunatic doesn't mean I can start there for a new game. When a new game comes out, I start on Normal and work my way back up so I can at least pick up basic stage layout and spellcard concepts. Starting on Lunatic and having absolutely no idea about what's to come is a big nono.
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No, you play Flanchan.zip :V
Offtopic: the link for that is dead. Mind to upload it? I want to try it :)
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Jaimers will be doing that.
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tried eosd easy... i got so bored, so i did pcb lunatic, been a lunatic player ever since
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I started with UFO normal, but I dabbled in UFO lunatic probably from my first day. My thinking was that I was trying these games for the challenge in the first place, so why not skip straight to it? Not that I was exactly getting too far. I remember that it felt like an accomplishment to just make it to stage 2 lunatic. But a little later, when I got to stage 4 normal, I realized that normal was challenging enough to be fun after the first couple stages (considering I couldn't beat stage 4 at all for a while), and then I mostly stuck to normal, and tried the various other games.
Actually took me a while to beat my first game (partially because I unintentionally picked the hardest two games to play the most, first). Then I set it as a goal to 1cc everything on normal. And pretty much as soon as I did that, I started playing everything on hard. I've 1cc'd everything on hard, now, too, although I kind of alternate between playing hard and lunatic, now. I can still polish my performance on hard quite a bit.
I don't play normal much, anymore, unless I just want to see a 1cc ending with a shot type that I'm not good enough to 1cc hard with. I'm worried it will make me complacent. It's interesting, though, to have hard feel like normal did a couple months ago, now.
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Normal, at 30fps, which I had not realized was not a good fps to have.
Then Normal at 60fps. It turned out to be too hard.
So I switched to Easy. Which just so happened to be a bit too easy.
And now I'm back at Normal, although I still fail.
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Easy, then normal, then back to easy, and passed PCB at normal (not 1cc) I suck so much. Bwaha
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StB difficulty.
That is all.
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i start at easy then play normal then switch to the next game, thought i usually completed easy on the first day, normal takes quite some time
since i now have everything normal clear i am trying everything hard, lunatic is a bit WOW, too difficult
extra dunno how hard
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Easy. Still On easy.
Just recently 1cc'd my first game about two days ago.
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It took me a week to 1cc PCB Easy back when I first started playing. Then I cleared Phantasm within the next week or two. Then I 1cc'd EoSD Lunatic a month after that.
Really an odd progression, now that I think of it. These days I honestly have no idea what anything besides Lunatic looks like in any game, and in fact have not even played anything but Lunatic since the release of MoF.
Oh, and speaking of rofltastic Easy 1cc conditions, my favorite was the one finger IN Easy 1cc I did a few years ago.
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Extra Stages
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The first game I ever played was Shoot the Bullet.
Technically I started with IN's Extra Stage because the first copy of IN I found had unlock data for it, with all characters. I've never beaten it, though.
So I guess I started at Easy, or something.
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Normal. Didn't think easy would help me improve.
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Easy because I am the world's worst Touhou player :ohdear:
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Lunatic EoSD. Died
EZ modo EoSD. Won
And then Normal mode, where I still am.. However I do try hard mode sometimes (except I suck at it)
I started playing 3 months ago, yes I'm a noob, stop crushing my heart just because I'm late to the party..
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Well, I *first* tried Touhou at Lunatic, then I died instantly. I moved down to around Easy and Normal.
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Well, I *first* tried Touhou at Lunatic, then I died instantly. I moved down to around Easy and Normal.
Me 2 :D
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I tried EoSD first on Normal and managed to 2CC it.
Then I went to Easy and 3CC'd it.
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What? I think this might a small case of beginner's luck.
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Easy EoSD beat it with continues played normal got killed by icicle fall.
Haven't played easy since than
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Started with EOSD Lunatic.
Hells yeah.
I got rusty, I play mostly on hard now though...
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Mostly normal, though I do try hard and occasionally lunatic when I'm feeling masochistic. These feelings swiftly pass.
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Started SA on Hard... Holy Wowzaz, "Hard" doesn't even begin to describe!
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That's sort of like what i thought when I tried touhou in the first place.
Now not so much,...
I still can only play consistently on normal and easy.
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First go play hard, and then switch to normal.
After 1CCing normal with every character I'll come back to hard, but that's another story.
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Usually either normal or easy.
The difference between the two has been negligible for me. I sometimes get further on normal than I do on easy.
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Started on easy, couldn't beat easy, so I stayed on easy. :ohdear:
Unless I have a cup of caffeine, then my playing level "magically" goes up to hard (sometimes) :V
So please give me the most simplest advice on how to... not suck? ???
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Started on easy, couldn't beat easy, so I stayed on easy. :ohdear:
Unless I have a cup of caffeine, then my playing level "magically" goes up to hard (sometimes) :V
So please give me the most simplest advice on how to... not suck? ???
My own advice:
Practice and A LOT of patience. I'm still trying to beat SA Extra, and I have over 140 failures, not one of them have been success. My patience is nowhere near finished though lol
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I'm still on Easy. Let the rabbits laugh, but Touhou is insanely difficult.
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I'm still on Easy. Let the rabbits laugh, but Touhou is insanely difficult.
lol, that's because Touhou easy is Nintendo hard
people still go "how do you even dodge those bullets?" even though I'm only playing on Normal
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My own advice:
Practice and A LOT of patience. I'm still trying to beat SA Extra, and I have over 140 failures, not one of them have been success. My patience is nowhere near finished though lol
I can give a protip that might cause a lot of "ewww" again. Basically after clearing SA Extra for ~50 times with HaxEngine, I was able to nail Koishi after two tries (this was probably due to being able to tackle each and every spell cards without fear of losing, thus getting me used to the patterns fairly quickly). I think you might want to try that ? :ohdear: Just don't turn it on in the real run.
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lol, that's because Touhou easy is Nintendo hard
people still go "how do you even dodge those bullets?" even though I'm only playing on Normal
or just plain holy crap.
which is what's going through my mind as I fight youmu...
I could probably 10CC PCB if I had the chance but it only lets me continue 5 times.
I did 10CC MoF though so I'm happy.
Note. 8 of those continues were for kanako
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PCB easy. I play on normal or hard for everything these days, and just laugh at stuff I used to find hard. :B My only successful 1CC has been SA Easy, much to my chagrin.
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PCB easy.
This too. PCB is not too hard or not too easy, which makes it for a really good introduction to Touhou. It took me months to 1cc, however.
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Normal, albeit briefly. The only shmup I can remember playing on easy was Ikaruga, because of that [redacted] return fire mechanic.
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I can give a protip that might cause a lot of "ew-----
EWWWWWWWWWWW
What's HaxEngine?
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The trainers :ohdear:
You don't have to, but they helped me immensely.
6am typo >_>
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PCB Hard. I actually managed to make it to stage 2 (nearly 3!) before having to use a continue. I went down to Normal after that and miraculously 1CC'd it (using most of my life/bomb supply at Prismrivers). Then I figured that normal for the other games would also be fairly normal and went back to easy after playing SA Normal for about thirty seconds.
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Easy's still the only difficulty I can clear, except for UFO, there I can't even clear easy.
Yeah, I'm really bad at danmaku.
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Easy's still the only difficulty I can clear, except for UFO, there I can't even clear easy.
Yeah, I'm really bad at danmaku.
Everyone knows UFO's difficulty is BS anyway
/lolijustsuckatresourcemanagement
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PCB Easy Slow. Beat all of them on Easy, then moved to normal with almost no hassle. But that doesn't matter anymore, right?
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I played Lunatic and epically failed several times on the second stage to get myself ready for Normal mode.
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Everyone knows UFO's difficulty is BS anyway
/lolijustsuckatresourcemanagement
It's all over the place. At times it's lots of fun (see a good part of Murasa), at times it's borderline possible (see Kogasa) and at times it's either easy mode or total bullshit (see Shou).
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Easy...
Which is still too hard for me, for I am fail at Touhou : D
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Easy...
Which is still too hard for me, for I am fail at Touhou : D
I was fail at Touhou in the beginning too, but as I got better I grew into a perfect cherry blossom!
...That was the worst pun I've ever attempted to make.
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I jumped into normal because of poeple on youtube going "Easy modo is for blah blah blah..." Which I was intimidated at first and I got over it.
My Sis on the other hand jumped ino EoSD Lunatic and got to the Stage 3 Midboss :X
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I was fail at Touhou in the beginning too, but as I got better I grew into a perfect cherry blossom!
...That was the worst pun I've ever attempted to make.
How long did it take you to get better, out of curiosity...? XD
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How long did it take you to get better, out of curiosity...? XD
It took me some practice dodging bullets(and dying to Rumia) on Lunatic, but after getting used to that insanity, Easy's a breeze. I can't really say how long it took me to get decent at Touhou, but if you can get to Koakuma(Stage 3 midboss) on Lunatic, or Sakuya or Patchouli in anything below Lunatic. then you'll do pretty good. Just don't expect beating it with 1 continue yet, 'cause Patchouli cheats on every difficulty.