Touhou Blogging Thread

[Mr Jovial]

Kay so I've tried Stage 6B once now (going for a perfect stage) and somehow managed to fail every regular attack of Kaguya's (her 4 nons and 5 impossible requests) then manage to capture 4 of her last spells and failed the last one with 2 seconds on the timer. Am I a superleetpro yet?

[Sakurei]

I decided to refresh myself with something else. I didn't want to switch categories in terms of scoring, so now I'm playing survival. More specifically, I'm playing TD of all things. Shame on me. But I'm still playing with Youmu, so that's something, right? LNBNT is the goal right now. Because I've played easy/normal for so long, I can't dodge for shit, so I actually have to practice for LNBs now. Terrible, I hate when that happens. This may or may not take some time. Depending on how long this takes me (i.e, if I'm quick), I'll look into some hard mode scoring I guess. Nothing grand. Low-effort 2.5b or some shit. I was considering normal-mode, but then remembered it's meticulous spirit juggling shit and forfeited the idea. It's probably the same for hard and lunatic, but I'll keep myself deluded for just a while longer. I'll become the new laughing stock of #kusoplay with this. Just the way it should be.

[Espadas]

.....dunno whether to be happy or angry.....

i was practicing EoSD Extra (specifically Royal Flare).... at one point i needed to shut down the audio because of my parents, so i thought "welp, i'll play without sound, it's not like i'm trying to clear it...."

as usual i die in the last 3 seconds of Royal Flare (and get angry) but i decide to go on on a whim. I reach Flandre and.....

Cranberry Trap: captured FOR THE FIRST TIME
Leavatein: captured
Four of a Kind: captured
Kagome, Kagome: captured

at this point i was half incredulous/half exalted and almost began to hope to surpass my best try (game over on "Clock that Ticks Away the Past")..... but of course the very second i though so Maze of Love devastated me and Starbow Break finished the job.....

[Mesarthim]

Note to self, even DDC hard mode can trip me up sometimes when my face gets obnoxious itches that I scratch at without pausing. Used like 2-3 bombs in the first two stages because I scratched at them with my movement hand.

[Oh]

Irritated with MoF Hard, also feeling very tired. I keep on dying to stupid things, always. After grinding for several hours with no progress, I did some casual LNBs. MoF RB 2m (twice), MoF ReimuC I got a 4 miss, died to very silly things, NMNB stage 4 (3rd time in a full run). And I played a credit into SA, died 11 times, 7 to stage 5, but still cleared. I hope tomorrow I will finish a run ;;
Some stuff I die/mess up to (a lot):
-Minoriko 1st spell, 2nd non
-bombing the big fairy
-Hina last spell
-Stage 3 opener
-Nitori last spell
-stage 4 ball streaming

[I have no name]

Well, I streamed Touhou again today.  I was absolutely 100% correct that it would mitigate my biggest weakness in playing Touhou: actually working up the motivation to play Touhou and keep playing and 1 good try.  I still need to work on this more, since I could only grind IN extra (attempting to perfect) for 1:40, but it's still a lot better than the 20-30 I would have put in before.

Also, I kept going after being 'warmed up' and as a result got an almost first try perfect of IN 4B.  I say almost because I died to the blue arrows at the start once and restarted, and just like with my VoWG timeout, I wasn't trying to get it perfect-I was just trying to practice the stage.  I'm shifting my focus to IN LNB, since I can't stream MoF onwards at the moment.  Streaming my attempts will definitely help me get it since I'll actually have the motivation to get past Stage 3 more than once per session.

[Mr Jovial]

Been practicing Rising World a bit since its the attack of Kaguya's that I struggle with the most. After no captures in 22 attempts, I pull of 3 consecutive captures and then another 2 captures by the 34th attempt. Seriously, what is this attack 

[Oh]

I hope tomorrow I will finish a run ;;

And I did. 

[Ranko Hoshino]

I lost a TD Youmu ENMNBNT to Futo's final spell!  :derp:

[Mesarthim]

What's that? You (referring to me) can't do Social Upheaval Requiem at all on Lunatic? Kick it down to Hard mode, maybe you'll stand a chance!

http://i.imgur.com/YFwiKmn.jpg

 :colonveeplusalpha:

[Szayelaporro Granz]

I'm having fun with Last Words lately. I've cleared 12 out of 17 and Total Purification or Tree-Ocean of Hourai is the hardest LW so far. I will try to unlock more this evening. I wish ZUN will make more Last Words one day in his main games :ohdear:

[AngelG No. 55]

Meanwhile, in another player's reality, one far away from the reaches of Lunatic difficulty, and even somewhat far from Normal, lies an inexperienced player who has taken his first major steps in Touhou - and began seriously enjoying it.

Most games are still a tall order for me, but I have managed to:

• Conquer IN Easy FinalA and FinalB in one try with the Border Team and scored almost 1 billion on FinalB
• Beat IN Easy FinalA and FinalB in one try with the Netherworld Team, whose FinalB was also a 1LC
• In PoFV, beat Eiki with Reimu on Easy and with Mystia on Normal (with the aid of another's score file for the sake of showing characters to a friend who's even newer to Touhou)
• Reach Kanako in MoF Easy having earned all score-based Extends (even the 150m one)

This wouldn't have been possible without the dilligent motivation and cheering on of a friend who's gotten into Touhou due to the characters and music. While I show him the games, he help me remain motivatedby reassuring me of how good a job I am doing. The conclusion here is that the more reassured, motivated and confident I am, the higher I can fly. If anybody else feels up to the task of serving as a motivator, I will truly appreciate it; with your help I can show my true colors, those of a caring, selfless friend who's nonetheless a fast learner.

[CyberAngel]

• Reach Kanako in MoF Easy having earned all score-based Extends (even the 150m one)

Keep in mind that her last two Easy spellcards are considered unfairly hard. Try to save as many lives as you can until the final stage so you can just bombspam through the hard places.

That said, do feel free to post your achievements/thoughts around here. I still remember the time when I was struggling with my first Easy clears, so I'm interested to see how well can you fare.

[AngelG No. 55]

And so I've gotten into the streaming business. Streamed EoSD Easy for two close friends of mine and earned compliments on bombing and longevity from the Touhou veteran of the two. The stream is now over, but the video has been recorded.

[Szayelaporro Granz]

Meanwhile, in another player's reality, one far away from the reaches of Lunatic difficulty, and even somewhat far from Normal, lies an inexperienced player who has taken his first major steps in Touhou - and began seriously enjoying it.

Most games are still a tall order for me, but I have managed to:

• Conquer IN Easy FinalA and FinalB in one try with the Border Team and scored almost 1 billion on FinalB
• Beat IN Easy FinalA and FinalB in one try with the Netherworld Team, whose FinalB was also a 1LC
• In PoFV, beat Eiki with Reimu on Easy and with Mystia on Normal (with the aid of another's score file for the sake of showing characters to a friend who's even newer to Touhou)
• Reach Kanako in MoF Easy having earned all score-based Extends (even the 150m one)

This wouldn't have been possible without the dilligent motivation and cheering on of a friend who's gotten into Touhou due to the characters and music. While I show him the games, he help me remain motivatedby reassuring me of how good a job I am doing. The conclusion here is that the more reassured, motivated and confident I am, the higher I can fly. If anybody else feels up to the task of serving as a motivator, I will truly appreciate it; with your help I can show my true colors, those of a caring, selfless friend who's nonetheless a fast learner.

Welcome to Touhou. I recommend you to try other (official) Touhou shmups as well, although I can't say they're as easy as the ones you're playing right now. Now, play SA and you'll become a superman!

[?q]

The good news is that I took chirpy's words to heart and didn't give up on the final spell I need to capture for my next video.

The bad news... well... look at the top left corner.

I hate posting anything but achievements because I know there are people who aren't as good as me ready to chide me for my #goodplayerproblems and there are people who are much (much) better than me available to publicly compare myself to, and yet.

Now, play SA and you'll become a superman!

Superman is in Shoot the Bullet, though.

[Emerald Mint]

First Hard clear obtained on DDC with ReimuB. Haven't been playing too actively lately and this is something to smile about.

[Mesarthim]

I hate you Benben.

http://i.imgur.com/629WQXL.jpg

[CyberAngel]

I finally realized how to do Apollo 13 properly. You have to concentrate on red bullets first and foremost. Whites may get in the way sometimes, but they're not as dense, and finding an opening in the red pattern is way more important. I can't believe it took me THIS long to understand that. We REALLY need that gameplay wiki.

[Mero]

I just got another SA LNB, ten misses again, but I somehow feel more content with this one, a lot of the deaths were to near-captured attacks (Orin and Utsuho's penultimate spells were cleared by the deathwave even :V), and the rest were just really silly mistakes.

I guess it just feels nice to do something "real" in Touhou, specially now that I spend almost all day at uni

[Andrew]

I've always wanted to play a Touhou game for score at some point, so I decided to try PCB Extra scoring, since it's my favourite Extra stage, and the first and only Extra that I've NMNBed so far. Since world records are way out of my league, I decided that 1 billion points would be a more realistic goal for me. I've looked up how to do the bombing at the beginning, but other than that, I'm coming up with my own route, since I find that more fun than trying (and inevitably failing, because I suck) to copy superplays.

Progress so far: Current stage route gets me around 230m points and 525k cherry coming into Ran. Recently finished a 872m run that had 2 deaths, 3 failed spells, and missed the last extend, costing me around 120m in clear bonus alone ( 20 x 3 lives x 2 (Extra multiplier) if my calculations are correct). So it looks like I'll be able to reach my goal if I don't die and allow one or two failed spells. Perhaps I could aim higher, but I don't know if I'm good enough to reach 1.1bil.

So far, I've enjoyed experimenting with different strategies, and I like the concept of grazing for piv while in border mode (Even though I suck at the supergrazes). I get frustrated over my failures occasionally, but that will potentially happen when I do anything I find challenging in video games, so overall, I'm having fun so far.

Edit: After some more practice, got a score of 1.06B. Target achieved. I'll probably get around to attempting some of my other goals, like 1ccing PCB Lunatic, before I try to improve this.

[Mesarthim]

Ahahahahahahahahah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARHMsxH7tZM

Ha... ha... *facedesk*

Never again. That was hell. Took 79 tries (shows 80 because I accidentally did the spell again not the replay). ZUN like... what the hell man? Dodging the upstreams is hard enough but the bullets curving back around just kills it even more.

[Szayelaporro Granz]

15/17 LWs (Youmu's is in my dat file in my broken laptop) captured. I still need to unlock Marisa's and Yukari's and hopefully capture them as well. 1cc Hard with Reimu solo AND choosing FinalB sounds very difficult for someone who barely 1cc Hard mode like me :ohdear:

[CyberAngel]

As useful as hugging the bottom (as in, holding down when at the bottom edge to slow down even more) is, now I'm learning when NOT to use it. Sometimes you need both precision and high enough speed, even at the very bottom. And yet other times you need that high precision, so it's still very useful.

[Oh]

I haven't played Touhou in a week to revisit my old hobby of playing

Spoiler:

H-RPGs

, feels good.
And then I'll spend a week catching up on anime.
I guess I'm too lazy to learn stage 1, maybe laaaater. And fix Parsee bomb timings, maybe change stage 3 route, etc.
I don't know if I want to suicide on Parsee's last, stage 3 opener, or before midboss Yuugi. (But I die to Parsee's last most times anyway)

[Blue]

I finally decided to attempt PCB Hard, and I still am not good at Youmu. At all. I think I went from four or five lives to a game over in Stage 5, all of which were to Youmu. It was my first time doing Hard Mode, but I managed to sight-read the Prismrivers, so it's probably just my horribleness at that stage carrying over from Normal Mode.

...The last death was at the very end of the last spell, right as it was exploding. I was so mad.

[Szayelaporro Granz]

I tried UFO Normal again today, attempting another Normal 1cc. I died twice to Shou without using a single bomb, what <_<

[Mr Jovial]

Struggling to improve my IN LNB. My best run was 7MNB (5 deaths, 2 failed last spells) and that had a perfect stage 4 and perfect stage 5. That was on the 25th of February and since then I've got 3-4 10MNB runs and a very messy 7MNB. The run I did had potential since I perfected the first 3 stages but then I had deaths on all the easy stuff (Event Horizon, Starlight Typhoon, Illusion Seeker, Kaguya's 3rd non) and hen managed a 6 miss stage 6 ;-; Kaguya has so many luck based attacks (her first 4 attacks all fit this description). Still, there's no better way to improve than to make mistakes and see if they can be prevented in future so I guess it's better to die foolishly now than on a 1MNB run that's just made it to Kaguya's last spells...

EDIT: Improved to a 6MNB run a few days ago.

[Szayelaporro Granz]

My very first attempt on perfect Extra clear. I decided to give it a shot after mastering Hourai Doll (this turns out to be easier than I thought) and other spellcards. Result? I end up with 4 misses and 10 bombs. The many death bombs are deliberate since I tried not to bomb as much as I could. Phoenix Tail is fully RNG-based and Fujiyama Volcano is still hard no matter how much I practice for it, this's going to be though... Mokou's non-spells are quite brutal and capturing Imperishable Shooting outside spellcard practice seems to be out of question for now. I wonder if this's an achievable goal for someone of my level.

[Mew seeker]

The 1st Touhou Labyrinth seems to have died so...
Anyway, I have played the game a bit, without using a translation patch because I am an idiot way cool.
I have cleared the first floor so far and learned the hard way that you should beat Meiling first before beating Chen.
I am not sure if I am switching properly in battle but time will be telling that.
Also realized that "hit all" spell hit the "front row" harder. Ok, it's mentioned in the manual but I saw it in practice and saw what it meant.
Also, I noticed that you don't need to recruit anyone to go to the second floor. Not necessarily a good idea but it can be done. : P
Also, a mysterious character *cough* Rumia *cough* is hidden in the first floor.
Let's see if I can figure the recruitment process.