Touhou Accomplishments

[LHCling]

Good luck~ And good job. All I can say is that Gengetu is indeed <3 <3 <3.

And a protip: Neither of them actually have invincibility before the battle starts. You can shotgun them for extra damage at the very start of the battle.

I noted pre-shotgunning before. I've used it for a while.

Anyway, upon taking too long to do a certain phase (hmm, I wonder which one?), Gengetu unleased "Rape Time". That's fast. Ended up bombing at every instant where I wasn't invulnerable, else I would've been hit.

[Zengar Zombolt]

HELL YEAH
Captured Mountain of Faith using Reimu B!
I was so shocked that I forgot to save a replay!
...Mind you, I still have to capture Miracle of Otensui.

[Sodium]

Captured 4 of Yuyuko's six cards in Lunatic while getting the stages into Stage Practice. Yeah, I don't get how I did it either. Well, except for those two loleasy cards(third and fourth).

[Azinth]

I 1cced Banshiryuu stage 5 lunatic in practice mode!  Only 4 deaths and 8 bombs used!

Yes, that is a damn accomplishment.  Don't judge me.

[LHCling]

;_;

SA Stage 4 Hard. Perfect pacifist stage run. Satori.... 2 deaths on DBDB, both due to bad reading of the card. Then "Flying Insect's Nest" because of lack of focus.

That's if I recall the run correctly. However, my memory is quite horrible.

Also, LLS Extra cleared with all characters, all shot types.

[Drake]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVhLyM177ww&fmt=22

Scarlet Destiny Timeout without using the center. Mmm.

Also nearly beat EoSD Extra again.

[Ghaleon]

I 1CC'd pcb on normal today. Didn't feel very proud of it like with esod though. While I still feel like the game is "cheaper" than esod, it felt like less of an accomplishment because of how many more extra lives and bombs you seem to get. I just pretty much bomb spammed the last 2 bosses pretty hard. had 3 lives left too (though I started with 5). I got some replays of the extra stage for pcb just to see if it looked like a good challenge that wasn't cheap and it seemed to be. But it's hard to tell cuz the replay I got seems like a cheater. No bombs, no deaths, like 2000 grazes in the first minute.. grazing absolutely everything. Almost never in focus mode, zooms exactly where they want to go without ever EVER having to re-correct their positioning, etc.

anyway the extra stages in pcb seem cooler so far >=).

[Heartbeam]

Broke it!  Over one million in CherryMax with Sakuya B on Hard!  Total score is a landslide (relatively speaking)!  I could never forsee that sort of run coming this soon especially with a character that I've had problems controlling for a long time, but even if the past Lunatic runs were still bombfests Hard felt more like a walk in the park than ever before thanks to it.  I'm estatic!  I can't cool down!

[Zetzumarshen]

Oh wow, one million.

I need much more time to counter that.

[LHCling]

Entered Gengetu's final phase with 34 lives.

Decided for a "Why not?" and attempt to time it out...

...

...

I got video footage. I'll see if I can upload it. If not, a screenshot with a watermark should do.  >_>

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3 lives and a bomb at the point where the phase started. I survived for 30 seconds, using every bomb / death.

[nintendonut888]

Well to be honest, timing out Gengetu Rape Time isn't very difficult. It's all a matter of reaching it with enough resources and timing your bombs right. I'm all for the video, but It'd be much more impressive to actually survive the attack without bomb spam like Trancehime allegedly did (he claims he beat it with only one death...)

[LHCling]

Well to be honest, timing out Gengetu Rape Time isn't very difficult.

>_>

It's all a matter of reaching it with enough resources and timing your bombs right.

<_<

I'm all for the video, but It'd be much more impressive to actually survive the attack without bomb spam like Trancehime allegedly did (he claims he beat it with only one death...)

I don't see how it's possible with one death, even with the best case; 4 bombs + 1 death as a buffer. Also, to actually survive without bomb-spam is... out of my ability  ;_;

...it's not uploading. Either that, or it's moving WAAAAY too slow. Stupid University Proxy Server. Nope, returned an error.

Guess it will have to wait until I get home. On the other side of things, it does mean I can improve on it.

Until then, just lemme put up a screenshot (or 3).


They're all video stills. Watermark is obvious. All 3 of these screenshots were taken just before a bullet collided, forcing me to deathbomb (or just plain die).

It's by far, much, much worse than Mokou's "Rings of Death".

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And in other news, I did it again for the sake of practicing.




Unexpected things happened. I'm taking about that super-graze phase. Face full of bullets (didn't twitch far enough >_>). Also:



...does Gengetu seem to have some kind of vendetta against people who mass-graze? Those blue "twin-bullets" move as fast as the ones during "Rape Time". So I guess you could call this a slightly downed version. With 4x less bullets.

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While I'm on a spree, I present another 2cc tHRtP Normal.



This time, it's Hell. Did I mention that the stages are complete garbage? Final Boss is trivial. Mima is not.

[Zengeku]

Haha!! That was sure long time overdue. How does it sound when you have played for a year and haven't done an EoSD Extra clear before now? I finally got myself pulled together to get it done and i cleared it in three tries (only counting runs actually reaching Flandre). I did however fail apparently anything that wasn't Lavatain and Silent Selene. I guess it was due to the effect of just wanting things done.

After that i started practicing which handed me a capture of Cranberry Trap, Starbow Break and Counter Clock as well as Philosophers Stone. Pretty good. I'll play with her a little more some other day.

Feeling very happy about finally having that Flandre battle over and done with i decided that i would try my best at clearing IN Extra as well as i could. The result was 8 captured spells. Discounting Keines which i failed all three of in some ridiculous way. Let's just say i didn't want to restart.

[Noite]

After a couple of days of failure and one REALLY bad choke, I finally cleared EOSD extra.

The death on and then will there be none was just terrible yeah also panic bombed at the end of it, since I really didn't want to risk choking on yet another good attempt. On the plus side, finally captured cranberry trap and catadioptric!

Replay: http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3399

Guess next stop is MoF extra, which is considered to be pretty easy so I've heard.

[nintendonut888]

The Jigoku route is love. Mima's cheap, but dies quickly and is therefore easier than Yuugen Magan. The stages are better built to give you extra lives, and Konngara is the best boss fight in the game.

Plus I can't get anywhere near close to a lunatic 1cc in the Makai route.

[Zetzumarshen]

I love lag free PCB. Cleared Reimu B with maximum lives, scoring 1,6B.

[LHCling]

For the sake of curiosity I attempted to timeout Mugetu's first phase.

Nasty, yet somewhat expected surprise...

Spoiler:

Interesting, so it would be logical to conclude that all the phases seem to have an equivalent super-speedy phase. This means that it might actually be possible to do pre-practice before taking on the one and only. However, at this point, I have yet to find a phase that fits as an "in-between". So there's still a rather large gap between the said phase and "Gengetu Rape Time". Hoping to be able to find the "in-between" phase somewhere in one of Gengetu's phases.

Spoiler:

In the event that you haven't noted, I plan on doing "Gengetu Rape Time" to a somewhat proper degree that is not called bomb-spammanagement. And yes, I love bold-ing the phase because it's so awesome. That, and I absolutely love the two <3.

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Okay, enough of that.

I found the flaw of the majority of my scoring runs, which I don't submit because they're incomplete. The flaw lies in Stage 4 primarily. Except for SA. Stage 6 is complete garbage when it comes to Utsuho's Spell Cards.

Going for another MoF score-run once I'm back from the practical class.

[nintendonut888]

Wait, you say Mugetu has time out attacks too? WHAT?! brb, I have to see for myself...

[nintendonut888]

OH...MY...GOD.

Baity's right: Every single phase Mugetu and Gengetu have has a special time-out phase. Doing the whole fight pacifist, I got to Gengetu's second phase before losing my last life.

In all three of them, they add the "twin" bullets fired rapidly and randomly. Mugetu's first phase from what I recall has the bullets the fires increase in density, and her second I can't remember, but I think it just added the twin bullets.

Again, because of all the bombs used I didn't see much of Gengetu's first timeout phase, but I think she actually made the gaps wider in her tiny bullet spam to balance out the random twin bullets. I actually dodged a wave.

Oh Baity, you've hit upon GOLD! Now I have to see what her second, third, and fourth phases yield! BTW, her fifth phase doesn't have one; it goes directly to her sixth. Gengetu~ I love you so~

EDIT: ...I just came up with terrible names for every one of these phases. The only two names I like though are "Mugetu's Maiding Ritual" and "1000% Gengetu Sparking."

[Kanako Yasaka]

"1000% Gengetu Sparking."

Really? REALLY?


Gives me an idea.

[LHCling]

Wow, now I feel like I did something special.

Now to actually try to time out these other phases to see what's in them.

[Suikama]

This needs to be tested in every PC98 game lol

[LHCling]

This needs to be tested in every PC98 game lol

Timeout Evil Eye Sigma? Hell no.

I might run a timeout to see what happens against Alice. Though I doubt there will be anything.

brb

Nothing! As expected.

EDIT: I might've just found a way to deal with Yumeko's knife/laser spam. Going to test it... once I die. There's no way that this run is going to be a 1cc Hard.

EDIT 2: Oh, died on Stage 6. 382 Point items too  ;_;

EDIT 3: And Shinki takes off all of my continues. I survive on my last continue, and life.

[nintendonut888]

For the record, I don't think timing attacks out exists in SoEW. Either that, or the timers are REALLY long.

[LHCling]

For the record, I don't think timing attacks out exists in SoEW. Either that, or the timers are REALLY long.

Well, that's nice to know. Either way, I'm not going to experiment.

EDIT: I might've just found a way to deal with Yumeko's knife/laser spam. Going to test it... once I die. There's no way that this run is going to be a 1cc Hard.

Test failed. On the knife + laser phase that is. Back to the drawing board. So, running circles around Yumeko (even at the top of the screen) is ineffective. Except for some reason, it worked on her second phase. Going to look at it some more... after eye dissection.

[Zengar Zombolt]

HOLY-
I captured Hell's Artificial Sun on my first try!
...Still, I had to continue about 15 times to even reach that spellcard.

[nintendonut888]

To my disappointment, timing out Gengetu Spark doesn't give Gengetu a larger spark. It's amazing what super speedy random bullets can do when added on though~ By the time I realized to take a screenshot, it timed out, sorry. It seems that only Gengetu Rape Time differs significantly from its normal counterpart, or lasts for any substantial period of time.

[LHCling]

To my disappointment, timing out Gengetu Spark doesn't give Gengetu a larger spark. It's amazing what super speedy random bullets can do when added on though~ By the time I realized to take a screenshot, it timed out, sorry. It seems that only Gengetu Rape Time differs significantly from its normal counterpart, or lasts for any substantial period of time.

*insert empathy here* The phases themselves only last a good 10 seconds or so. Except for "Gengetu Rape Time".

Also, I'm quite sure I can witness it myself. And... if it's only "Gengetu Rape Time" that stands out, then there's no real practical way to practice (or develop) against it.

Now onto Yumeko again...  >_>
[rhetorical]
Why is there such a large gap in difficulty between Normal and Hard?
[/rhetorical]

Expect me to post something while you sleep.

EDIT: I might be onto something here. Let me run on Lunatic. Which will be my first time on Lunatic for LLS MS.

Hm. Well, Lunatic gave me a surprise. Due to the phase not lasting very long, it looks like I'll have to go through again. Oh, and I couldn't circle around the 2nd phase like Hard Mode.

Late Night EDIT: Looks like I actually have a chance against Yumeko. At Lunatic. However, because of the random nature of the laser spawn...  >_>

Also, those knife-things have huge hitboxes.

I order the difficulty of her phases like so (easiest first):

*First knife / kunai spam phase* < *Knife / kunai spam + lasers < *Knife / Kunai spam + more knives*

Excluding the other easier phases of course. And that's at Lunatic.

Hard Mode I can do perfectly.

[Ghaleon]

Played some normal pcb again with marissa instead of bombspam sakura after applying the input delay vsync patch. Did much better.. well actually I kinda blew on stage 5, and I did alot of really stupid bombs (after I beat a spellcard I'll bomb at the queue of the spellcard being defeated out of reflex, durka). But I really rocked on the final boss, no deaths, 1 bomb (on the rotating lazer with the popsickle bullets swimming like fishies >=P.. I don't really know how else to describe it). I felt so pro...of course I'm not but I'll get there eventually hopefully.

I can't wait to do the extra stage, I watched a video of it and it really looked pretty impressive.

[Garlyle]

Just sat down and decided to run at MoF without MarisaBugging my way through.  Me and MoF don't get along - I seem to find it unremarkable and boring, but for some reason I warmed up to it a bit.

I also captured Mountain of Faith (Normal).  That's huge for me... because I've never even CLEARED MoF as any character other than MarisaB before, nevermind capturing one of the most infuriating spells in the game.

Didn't 1cc though due to unfamiliarity with Kanako's spellcards D: