Author Topic: Touhou Accomplishments (Read 262981 times)

LHCling · « **Reply #900 on:** June 23, 2009, 11:57:06 PM »

Stage 4 MoF: All Spell Cards captured, 90% perfect scoring run.

Arguably, Aya is now nothing more than a bump. Even the stage itself is more difficult. There are some very noticeable flaws in my current scoring scheme, but it's too difficult to iron out. Especially when I already have enough trouble trying to actually survive some of the waves.

Guess I should go revise for my exam which is on tomorrow, and then when I get back "home" (finally!), I should finish this run once and for all.

nintendonut888 · « **Reply #901 on:** June 24, 2009, 06:09:46 AM »

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3692

POSSESSED FAIRY CAPTURE. OMG. You may be wondering why I saved the replay if it's just that (and it is just that mind you; the rest of the run was pretty awful), but I ask that if you have spare time to watch that capture. That capture...it's the most beautiful thing I've ever done. It has been a LONG time since a capture has been so intense, so hopeless, yet still happened. Every single step of the way I SHOULD have died, but but lived through sheer luck.

Ionasal kkll Solciel · « **Reply #902 on:** June 24, 2009, 07:01:45 AM »

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3693

I fail a few attacks I really have no business missing at all, but at least it's a 1LC.

Ghaleon · « **Reply #903 on:** June 24, 2009, 08:01:10 AM »

So I decide I should try IN's extra stage finally (never got around to it)...While I had to give up and retry the stage itself a few times (dying on the trash before the mid-boss isn't really cool, I just reset). The very first run where I actually got to the boss I beat her. lawl.

Is she the easiest extra boss in the series or am I just that much better all of a sudden? Some of her spellcards completely owned me because I didn't know what to expect, and hence, how to survive (the one where she shoots phoenix bullets that spawn more bullets sucks if you don't know what to do.. same with the one where she shoots these things that explode, and explode again.. the possesion one's aimed bullets owned me too..blah.

I don't know if I should be proud or not
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3695

Edit: I 1cc'd normal LLS too. Seemed pretty easy. Reimu was hard though (or maybe I just didn't know what to do), and I got killed by master spark like 3 times before I figured out OH CRAP MOVE when she was charging up..

I dunno but playing that game was hard on the eyes.. and I don't mean the graphics were bad. I mean the screen flickering and the choppy animation due to emulation was icky...gonna take some getting used to.

LHCling · « **Reply #904 on:** June 24, 2009, 08:36:09 AM »

Quote from: Ghaleon on June 24, 2009, 08:01:10 AM

So I decide I should try IN's extra stage finally (never got around to it)...While I had to give up and retry the stage itself a few times (dying on the trash before the mid-boss isn't really cool, I just reset). The very first run where I actually got to the boss I beat her. lawl.

Is she the easiest extra boss in the series or am I just that much better all of a sudden? Some of her spellcards completely owned me because I didn't know what to expect, and hence, how to survive (the one where she shoots phoenix bullets that spawn more bullets sucks if you don't know what to do.. same with the one where she shoots these things that explode, and explode again.. the possesion one's aimed bullets owned me too..blah.

I don't know if I should be proud or not
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3695

Edit: I 1cc'd normal LLS too. Seemed pretty easy. Reimu was hard though (or maybe I just didn't know what to do), and I got killed by master spark like 3 times before I figured out OH CRAP MOVE when she was charging up..

I dunno but playing that game was hard on the eyes.. and I don't mean the graphics were bad. I mean the screen flickering and the choppy animation due to emulation was icky...gonna take some getting used to.

People argue IN Extra as being one of the easiest. I say to them, try to "1-2LC it", and all of a sudden, it becomes difficult. MoF is easier in that regard, due to constant bomb replenishment. Regardless, IN Extra is easier than other Extra's. Actually, if it weren't for "Border Team" deathbomb windows (~2 seconds on Spell Cards, what?), you'll find yourself dying a lot more often.

According to donut, LLS Reimu is one of the most difficult bosses on Lunatic. From my (and donut's?) experience, at both Normal and Hard, Reimu is nothing compared to Lunatic's. There might be something you might be doing wrong, but I wouldn't have a clue.

Being Sparked is a (very common) newbie's mistake. We've all done it before, regardless of difficulty and skill level. Newbie in regards of being introduced to the game.

Screen flickering + choppy animation...? I don't seem to have that sort of problem. You will want that problem fixed ASAP. There might be a setting that you're leaving too high though. It should look like what I have in my videos (but more smoother, since I record at 30 FPS).

Probably, state the emulator, and I'll see if I can get a working combination going.

EDIT: stuff.

...ridiculous. I can do "Normal" Match Modes, and not "Hard". Maybe I should focus more of survival?

Not much of an accomplishment, but I can get maximum Spell Counter pretty easily these days.

nintendonut888 · « **Reply #905 on:** June 24, 2009, 06:18:53 PM »

I just fought Kanako, capturing every attack except for her opener and VoWG. Of course, my stupid insistence on ALWAYS trying to capture VoWG caused me to die three times on it, but oh well.

Sodium · « **Reply #906 on:** June 24, 2009, 07:13:30 PM »

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3696

EoSD Lunatic 1cc. PCB is next.

Sapz · « **Reply #907 on:** June 24, 2009, 08:39:58 PM »

Quote from: EX Sodium on June 24, 2009, 07:13:30 PM

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3696

EoSD Lunatic 1cc. PCB is next.

Congrats Sodium!

I think I have a pretty long way to go before I can manage that... my first serious attempt just now didn't even get me halfway through Patchy. >_<

Zengeku · « **Reply #908 on:** June 24, 2009, 09:33:18 PM »

Quote from: BaitySM on June 24, 2009, 08:36:09 AM

People argue IN Extra as being one of the easiest. I say to them, try to "1-2LC it", and all of a sudden, it becomes difficult. MoF is easier in that regard, due to constant bomb replenishment. Regardless, IN Extra is easier than other Extra's. Actually, if it weren't for "Border Team" deathbomb windows (~2 seconds on Spell Cards, what?), you'll find yourself dying a lot more often.

Getting a 2LC of IN Extra is no sweat. I have done that several times. It is getting a 1LC that's the real challenge. You have to be almost perfect in order to accomplish such. The closest i have ever got to a 1LC was a run which was destroyed by downright embarrasing performance at Keine and Hollow Giant Woo. It pretty much went like this. Get to Keine. Deathbomb at the first spellcard (yes, that actually happened.), then beat the rest of her. Then deathbombing to a later and very easy part of the stage. Then i get another bomb and deathbomb at Hollow Giant Woo. And die to it afterwards. I only used one bomb at Mokou's final attack and i'm pretty sure i death-bombed her second-final attack. If i had restarted the run when i made those fuck-ups in the stage i would most likely have gotten a 1LC.

So, if you are going for a 1LC of the stage you can't afford any mess-ups mainly due to the Rings of Doom and partly Possesed by Phoenix. Aside from that there isn't much to worry about other than doing things fucking perfect.

That's why MoF is so much easier in that regard. You will have access to many more bombs than you will in IN Extra constantly replenishing them with power. As soon as you learn the more simple of Suwako's spells it wouldn't take much to 1LC her through bombing. I haven't done that yet though. I was stubborn, refused to bomb and died twice to Froggy Braves the Elements. Aside from that i didn't die.

Sapz · « **Reply #909 on:** June 24, 2009, 10:52:55 PM »

Hard 1cc'd LLS on my first attempt with three lives to spare. I know it's got a reputation for being easy but damn, it's an absolute joke compared to the hard mode of, say, SA. Either that or I just suck at SA which is probably true as well. Ah well, one more hard 1cc ticked off the list... only MS and SoEW to go.

And my last attempt at EoSD lunatic got me up to just before midboss Sakuya. I think I could make it to stage 6 if I cut out on the really stupid deaths, though - I died twice to CIRNO. <_< Those and at least two other deaths had at least two bombs remaining, so in theory I could be doing much better than I am, but in practice... it's, y'know, Lunatic.

DarkslimeZ · « **Reply #910 on:** June 25, 2009, 01:58:50 AM »

Cleared Hard 1cc on Touhou 8 finally <333

I ended with 0 lives and 0 bombs. I think that's how most of my hard mode runs these days end(if I actually beat it). As a bonus, I even captured Kaguya's second final spell - why is that easier than on normal mode? They made the diamond spaces longer.

Also, I can't seem to pick final A. In this run I actually picked that choice, but either one sends me to Kaguya no matter what. I think my game is glitched. As such, I hope the replay is fine...

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3700

nintendonut888 · « **Reply #911 on:** June 25, 2009, 09:02:48 AM »

Playing with my love Gengetu tonight, I perfected the stage again. It turns out that the problem this WHOLE TIME was me not collecting the power at the start. When you do that, the section becomes trivial. >_>

When I reached Mugetu, I realized something: Since I've been perfecting the stage, it's become feasible to try beating the extra without dying. However, considering you get two bombs to work with, this is no easy task. Since I was also using Reimu A (homing one), this was even less feasible. So I thought a bit, and realized "wait, 8 lives? That's MUCH easier than no deaths!" So I went to see if I could beat the twin demons without bombing.

What do ya know. I REALLY sucked, especially on Gengetu's second phase for some reason, but I won with a life to spare all the same.

LHCling · « **Reply #912 on:** June 25, 2009, 12:02:04 PM »

Stage 6 MoF: All Spell Cards captured (Hard). Further details on the page. No-bombing the stage is trivial enough, but I needed to touch up on scoring. Timing is very crucial it would seem.

Score-wise, it's horrendous. If I played like that during a normal scoring run, then I would've lost at least 20 million points... Maybe I should study a few more replays to find the perfect windows for bombing. Seeing as there is minimal risk here in comparison to Stage 4 that is.

Also, I seem to be able to consistently capture (~80%) "VoWG" at this difficulty... Which makes the History look better than... certain other Spell Cards at this difficulty.

And I won't be on for a while after this post. Reason is, I'm heading home! ...once I wake up, and check out that is...

Sodium · « **Reply #913 on:** June 25, 2009, 01:59:46 PM »

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3702

PCB Lunatic 1cc. IN or MoF is next.

And I 1cc'd two Lunatics in 24 hours. >_> I did start attempting PCB Lunatic before EoSD Lunatic though.

nintendonut888 · « **Reply #914 on:** June 25, 2009, 08:05:43 PM »

So I just somehow captured Emerald Megalith on lunatic...max rank. :O It didn't go easy on me either; I dodged through no less than two of its infamous walls.

Sapz · « **Reply #915 on:** June 25, 2009, 09:31:11 PM »

Well I can now officially say I've captured every easy/normal spell card. I'd already done the vast majority but today I got around to playing through easy/normal SA with the non-Reimu A characters and facing all the other Satori cards (some are pretty fun, Deep Mist Labyrinth is not one of the fun ones <_<), so yeah. Also, I timed out Mountain of Faith.

Krimmydoodle · « **Reply #916 on:** June 25, 2009, 11:52:24 PM »

There, people can stop bugging me about this now. Meister and Gensokyo can still die in a fire created from a shattered bottle of holy water, but with very liberal bombing throughout the run, I reached the end with enough lives to turn those last two cards into a war of attrition. Entered Meister 2/2, used both bombs. 2/0 on Gensokyo, died, 1/3. Without a second thought, bombed every giant wave, then managed to successfully dodge what remained of the fight. Ended 1/0.

And the best part of the run: managed to ram Patchy at the PoC before Emerald Megalith, and still bombed it twice despite the drop in rank.

nintendonut888 · « **Reply #917 on:** June 25, 2009, 11:54:08 PM »

Good, now start playing the PC-98 games. :O

Nah, good job. Now there's no excuse for you to say you're worse than me. *stares at blood covered wrists in disdain*

Kanako Yasaka · « **Reply #918 on:** June 26, 2009, 12:14:16 AM »

Beat PCB extra and stuff.

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3703

Krimmydoodle · « **Reply #919 on:** June 26, 2009, 12:51:48 AM »

Quote from: nintendonut888 on June 25, 2009, 11:54:08 PM

Good, now start playing the PC-98 games. :O

Why not. Interestingly enough, it's the same amount of deaths and bombs as the EoSD 1cc I just did (if I'm reading the stats right, anyway). Sure, it's really easy, but I don't have all that much experience with LLS, and it's far from being ground out to the extent that I've ground out some of the Windows stuff. This was the first time I'd touched LLS in about 2 weeks, and 2 weeks ago was the first time I'd touched LLS at all, clearing Normal and Extra, and reaching Reimu on Lunatic. Since I'd only played it so much, I may as well have been flying blind for a lot of the game. The only part of the game I really remembered was when Reimu's bullets follow a Fantasy Heaven motion pattern, because you never forget it when an attack blindsides you and causes a game over. My memory of the rest of the game was so bad, I managed to get Sparked in Stage 5 despite how -painfully FUCKING obvious- it is, deathbombing the attack, then dying to it anyway because I'm still sitting in the center of the screen just as it fades away.

Edit: Haha, it's been a while since there's been an epic Krim choke. Not touching this again until someone tells me why I keep getting utterly destroyed by Alice's Paint Smudges of Death.

Zengar Zombolt · « **Reply #920 on:** June 26, 2009, 02:00:57 AM »

Is it me, or Youmu solo is the best thing ever? On that single run, I managed to capture the first four Last Spells, almost reached Reisen's (200 time points short) and wiped Kaguya's face out of the earth easily.

Nuclear Fusion · « **Reply #921 on:** June 26, 2009, 02:28:30 AM »

Finally!

I got a Yukari No bomb or border clear. With Reimu B.

nintendonut888 · « **Reply #922 on:** June 26, 2009, 02:31:55 AM »

Hey Krim, what shot type did you use to do that? I'm jealous. D:

Krimmydoodle · « **Reply #923 on:** June 26, 2009, 03:53:34 AM »

Mima

What's there to be jealous about? I suck at fighting Ex Alice.

Edit: I realized it's a bit ambiguous what you're asking since I posted about two different games. I used MarisA in LLS and Mima in MS. Either way though, I'm not sure what there is to be jealous about.

nintendonut888 · « **Reply #924 on:** June 26, 2009, 04:16:32 AM »

Ah, that makes sense. See, as I have discovered, Marisa A is akin to Sakuya A in PCB in that they are both completely broken. Marisa A does an obscene amount of damage with almost no drawbacks, destroying phases three times as fast as Reimu A. Not that your run isn't legit, it's just a much easier game with her.

I'm jealous because I've never beaten LLS lunatic with more than a life to spare, and you can do that less than a month after first touching the game.

fallensoul · « **Reply #925 on:** June 26, 2009, 04:44:51 AM »

A life to spare?
I guess I did it before....

Azinth · « **Reply #926 on:** June 26, 2009, 05:13:01 AM »

Hm? SakuyA isn't broken. She's got craptastic damage, the worst cherry rate in the game (which makes up for her extra bomb), and her homing isn't nearly as useful as ReimuA in EoSD, because of less random boss movement. She might be easier to use and has a few parts where she shines (lolst6fairyspam), but with practice most of what she does can be replicated just as well or better with the other characters.

Now, Sakuya B on the other hand... she just rapes everything.

Drake · « **Reply #927 on:** June 26, 2009, 05:16:10 AM »

Except her excellent damage is offset by her WHY AM I DYING speed.

nintendonut888 · « **Reply #928 on:** June 26, 2009, 05:18:21 AM »

I did a cold lunatic run with Sakuya A a few months ago, the first one I did in months. No restarts, I died with bombs in stock 4 times, but I could STILL bomb spam so many times I still 1cc'd. And I've seen runs where someone cleared phantasm bombing almost every spell card, spamming bombs to time out BoLaD, and still having enough left over to bomb spam Danmaku Bounded Field. THAT'S broken.

Azinth · « **Reply #929 on:** June 26, 2009, 06:18:05 AM »

Well, she's really good at basic survival (thus the comment that she's easy to use), but basic survival is just about all she's good at. For card capturing, stage perfecting, playing for score etc. etc., there are far better choices out there. That's why very few Lunatic players use her as their main; aside from getting an easy 1cc, she's inferior to most everybody else. It's not like, say, SA ReimuA where she's far and away the absolute best at absolutely everything. She's got tons of flaws.

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Kanako Yasaka