Touhou Accomplishments

[Noite]

MoF extra cleared! Took me a lot less than I thought, I'm absolutely terrible at criss cross bullets but ended up not sucking so bad on suwako's last card.

PCB extra next, since it'll take me AGES to even unlock SA's :\

[Garlyle]

I went to see if my success at MoF would let me capture Virtue of Wine God in Uwabami Breakers.  I've mostly got "Disco Fro" figured out now, but the stage costs a lot of time by spawning enemies right at the bottom of the screen (ARGH), and his last non-spell basically forces a bomb.  The second-to-last Spellcard is much easier than expected though.

(If you don't know what Uwabami Breakers is, it's a danmaku about getting drunk, running on the MoF engine.  3 stages, unique lives system and bomb/power based off of comboing.  Also ZUN composes the final boss song and probably designed most of the patterns)

[dustyjo]

I got the good ending in one game. That's good enough for me.

[Yukkuri]

1CC IN Normal.

But the game died when I was watching the ending. D:  I have to do it again.

[Ghaleon]

Woot, pawnt Ran in the extra stage of PCB. I had some pretty stupid deaths caused by my unfamiliarity of the fight in general (plus I was getting nervous and panic-driven at that point too), which is funny cuz you can clearly see that I can unconsciously do the early half of the whole level as easily as blinking >=P..spent like 4 hours just doing the first half over and over again only to screw up on red oni blue oni or chen's other bomb.. But I decided to screw it and just bomb spam her so I could have fun with ran eventually. (which is funny cuz I don't think I really needed to bomb either time on chen. Thing with pcb is I can't deathbomb.. ever.. it's like it never registers when i'm going to die and bomb, I always have to do it ridiculously early).

[LHCling]

Thing with pcb is I can't deathbomb.. ever.. it's like it never registers when i'm going to die and bomb, I always have to do it ridiculously early.

You'd be surprised how often this happens with me. I ended up nearly clearing Extra for the first time, losing all lives, and using only 3 bombs. To this point, I'm still a bit lazy (or rather, having fun with PC-98 Touhou) to actually go for a clear.

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Time to upload a story!

MS Normal 1cc. To unlock Reimu for Extra. I was doing great, until Stage 5. Yumeko was a problem because I attempted to graze everything; which is a very bad idea. Even at Normal.

My Spirit Gauge is empty.

Oh wait, it isn't anymore...

Damn Shinki. Like really, see for yourself:

Yeah, losing that many lives and bombs is really, really frustrating. But it wasn't at the 3rd and 2nd last phases (surprisingly, I only needed to bomb once for the 2nd last phase). It's because I (once again) tried to score by grazing (2nd phase I believe), and the randomly deviating bullets (which are aimed around you) got to me.

Also, snake bullets. I can do the ones in Extra, but not here. Strange. And I'm trying to work out exactly how far they can bend. Which I seem to be able to estimate pretty well. It's just that the area given for the phase is tiny. Further, the snake bullets spawn close to each other during certain parts. I ran into them with full bombs in stock. Twice.

The final score is close to about double my other 1cc scores. So I feel kinda good about that.

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MS Extra! With Reimu! And not Mima! Actually, I cleared MS Extra first with Mima.


At this point, I was shocked. Even though the stage run was imperfect (see: Bombs gone), I made it past the final wave! (see: Spirit Gauge Maxed). Then I had to bomb die to Alice's first phase. BS walled right at the start. I didn't even move yet, and saw an incoming wall.

*did not take screenshots in between / record video*

...after the final phase (which looks really ridiculous as it speeds up; I even lost focus):

Not a bad score. I did die with bombs in stock a few times. Guess I might be inclined to do it again. Also, I bombed before the final phase started to get over 200 Point Items, resulting in Extend!

...and that's what I did today while the internet was down.

[nintendonut888]

Yuka's the ONLY way to play MS extra. Yuka is for pimps. 

Also, snake bullets are extremely overrated. Dump your spell card theory stuff, it's simple misdirection.

[LHCling]

Yuka's the ONLY way to play MS extra. Yuka is for pimps. 

Also, snake bullets are extremely overrated. Dump your spell card theory stuff, it's simple misdirection.

Never.

It may as well be simple misdirection, but there are certain times where I still end up being in the trajectory of the snake bullets against Shinki. The room you have to actually move during that phase against Shinki is less than Alice's.

EDIT: And it's a bloody trapezium zone.

Oh, and a fix in the previous post.

[nintendonut888]

Whilst hopelessly grinding HRtP hard, I figured one thing out that oughta save a life: Elis always starts with her laser spam. You know, the one where if you're not within 30 degrees of under her you get laser walled with no chance of dodging whatsoever? That's useful. Also, Sariel's once hateful second phase (in her first form) is now a lot easier. If you look at Sariel, you'll always be able to predict when she fires an exploding orb. It's actually...streaming.

I wish I remembered to keep Shadowbringer's list of levels to bomb in, because I forgot which ones they were. D:

[Garlyle]

Phantasmagoria of Flower View
Lunatic
All Clear
Reimu

...Not a 1cc but I think I need to go pass out now.  I feel AWESOME 8D

[LHCling]

Perfect run against the snake bullets this time. What's even weirder is that it was with Yuka. And I might just have the optimal solution* regarding the snake bullets. Going to test it tomorrow. I've had enough of Shinki / Alice.

Here's the 1cc result. Too bad I messed the rhythm in the 2nd last phase. Had to bomb twice.


I should do a video of one of these PC-98 runs sometime.

*_{dodging using the minimum amount of movement possible}

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Oh wow.



This beats my old score 1.5x over. It would seem that the Hell path can be easily score abused. Like how I got a 91-chain for Stage 19. Oh, and Stages 15 and 20 are much easier. Too bad Stage 10 isn't in the perfect zone for me.

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MS runs with full Spirit Gauge during Stage 1 is awesome. Also, I seem to be getting closer and closer to working out how to get past Yumeko's knife (+ laser) spam phases.

[Arcengal]

1cc IN Hard w/ Marisa and Alice, meaning I've beaten that game on Hard with a team other than Border Team.

[Sodium]

Captured Hell God Sword on Lunatic. I'd post a replay, but I failed all the other cards on that Practice run. =V Even her second last. >_>

[nintendonut888]

So you know when you have had trouble with a spell card since the time you first faced it, actually PRACTICED it for a bit, and quickly see the obvious solution and proceed to capture it 7 times in a row?

That just happened with me and event horizon. My problem has always been dodging the stars coming down and the ones coming up, as I completely suck at attacks that sandwich you. So I went into spell practice, noticed that the stars below you are visible before coming up, and thought "maybe I should position myself in between those stars before they come up, making it so I only have to worry about stars coming from one direction."

...

I'm a genius.

[Arcengal]

Beat MoF hard again, this time actually capturing some freaking spell cards. Some absolutely tragic deaths though, and I still don't get why I keep failing  Sanae's third card. It's STATIC, for heaven's sake.

[nintendonut888]

No it isn't. The star's trajectories are based upon your position when they spawn like all the others. If you move wrong you can screw yourself over, like I do 2/3 of the time.

BTW, I love to say the name of that spell card, "Takeminakata Invocation."

[DarkslimeZ]

HAHGGH *gasps for air*

Finally 1cc'ed PCB Hard mode, using Marisa A, since I'm too stubborn to use an easier character.

I don't think I actually died until Prismriver Sisters... or maybe it was Lily, I don't remember. Anyway, I did spectaculary(from a survival standpoint, anyway) on the Sisters and all of Stage 5, including Youmu <3

And I usually do a little better against Yuyuko, but whatever. I'm happy to finally have that out of the way.

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3452

[Arcengal]

No it isn't.

Ah! That explains a lot then.

[Reprosa]

EoSD Extra, and by extension, all Extra stages beaten. Cranberry Trap and Maze of Love were the only cards that had to be learned since Royal Flare, And Then There Were None and QED can be pretty much trivialized with a bomb (or death for QED).

It was a lot easier than I expected, honestly. Was this just because of the experience from the other Extras (PCB seems harder, SA probably the best mix of difficulty and fairness) or is it just considered harder than it really is because most fans weren't as good of players when they learned it than when the newer games came out?

[nintendonut888]

IMO, Flandre is the second hardest PC Touhou boss behind Yukari (danmaku-wise; the amount of lives you have to work with ruins her completion-wise). With one exception, none of the extra bosses are much trouble once you learn their patterns enough. The exception is Evil Eye Sigma from SoEW, who combines difficulty with unfairness in an evil way.

[Ghaleon]

Cleared PCB phantasm stage wewt.. ok well I did awhile ago, but it was my usual first fare with no lives and no bombs left, and I just KNEW I could do a helluva lot better.. so I tried again and did. Notice how Xandu just about owned me again with another omgwtfthatssolame laser attack AGAIN...too bad I had supernatural barrier SUCKER AHHHAHAHAHAHHA.

I could have had one less death if I also knew I would insta-die immediately after that spellcard where she turns invisible, appears on you, shoots, invisible etc... I kinda killed that spellcard while she was on me. so I died as soon as the next phase happened...ghey.

I also died on ran simply cuz I'm still not really sure how I'm supposed to do it.

Assuming I do it again without screwing up on ran, and know the teleport phase, I think my run would have made most of you long time touhouers proud.. Seriously I'm really proud of this one.

BTW thank you doughnut for showing me how to do the boss' last phase. I was nervous about the 2nd last wave, and you showed me to just camp it so her right eye is right between the black and white part of Marissa's shoulders >=).. saved me a bomb there I'm sure.

zomg I'm so proud, I have tears in my eyes *sniff* (ok not really).

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3457

[nintendonut888]

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3458

IN extra 12 spell cards captured. The only ones I fail are Woo and Possessed by Phoenix (god damn that second phase I always get crunched). Other than that though, this goes under "most embarrassing moments." You know why? While circling Mokou on Woo, she slide tackles me. This is my first mistake the whole fight, causing a death bomb. Then because she threw off my timing, I get hit again soon after. This ruins what could have been my first no deaths run of this stage, but Possessed by Phoenix also ruined that.

  I WILL GET YOU SOMEDAY!

[nintendonut888]

Whoa. ._. I just attempted HRtP lunatic Makai route, and 7cc'd it. After continuing, I died once to Yuugen Magan, NO DEATH'D Elis, and after 4 continues, cleared Sariel without bombing (and 3 spare lives). Is this...actually possible?

[SP]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

4088 TRIES

SAIGYOUJI
FLAWLESS
NIRVANA

YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES

edit:
www.spacedoutgame.com/th8_udSP13.rpy

Still shaking.  Those last 10 seconds lasted a year.

[LHCling]

Oh wow.

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And for today, perfect Yumeko battle at Hard.
Pray that my current strategy for Shinki works.

...and I survived 6 seconds of "Gengetu Rape Time" without bombing / dying / invulnerability time. Wish I video'd it, so I could make a 6 second .gif or something.

Even better if I could pull off the feat again.

[nintendonut888]

Baity, you're on your way to becoming crazy. Is there actually a pattern you can see for Gengetu Rape Time?

As for me, I finally perfected lunatic Yugi. Not the hardest stage 3 boss anymore.

[LHCling]

Baity, you're on your way to becoming crazy. Is there actually a pattern you can see for Gengetu Rape Time?

Thank you for the compliment. I don't see any pattern unfortunately. It would appear to be completely random bursts of spreading shots (circles).

Best way to actually practice against "GRT" is to... probably grind against Mokou's Rings of Death*. That's the closest thing I can find at this point that isn't in LLS**.

And due to the nature of the bullets, I would say to compensate, go unfocused.

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*_{Yumeko's first attack phase appears to be a close second.}

**_{Note that for almost every attack in the Touhou series, there is a semi-equivalent (if not fully equivalent) counterpart. An example is Alice (MS) in Extra, with her 100% Purple Phase (lasers and mini-lasers; not with the lock-on lasers), and Elis from HRtP with her opener. That's how I learnt to deal with Alice.}

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Partially suspending Shinki battle while I eat dinner. All seems so well so far.

EDIT: Cleared and going through again. It was a messy run  ;_;

Current status:


Oh F-

My worst. Oh, and that was a missed deathbomb, in addition to a bomb.
Queue perfect 2nd half of the battle.

Showtime.

First knife + laser spam was fine.
First and second knife spam was fine
Second knife + laser spam was... ugh. I bombed 2 times.
Then the side-knife phase got me. More than once too.
Why does it always happen when I try to record!?  ;_;


Snake bullet phase is down!
...and I would've had the 2nd last phase down as a perfect if it wasn't for me dying at the same time. Started Shinki with 5 lives, 0 bombs by the way (last bomb used for scoring, which doesn't make my score any better than the one I did for Normal).

[SP]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI-u7zCjquM&fmt=22

Saigyouji Flawless Nirvana, Phantom of the Grand Guignol, and Emperor of the East timed out.

Way, way, too awesome! 

I still can't believe I got that timeout.

[Phar]

4088 TRIES

Now that's devotion.

Awesome job. It's easily the most difficult last word to time out. Or IN card in general, for that matter.

[hiddenryuu]

here's my minuscule accomplishment compared to all the crazy people here .


I timed out Sakuya's first 2 cards without dying. (Lunatic)

Almost did her 2nd non spell again without dying or bombing but died at the last possible second.

Her first non spell and her last cards still pwn me with no cigar though D: