Author Topic: Touhou Blogging Thread (Read 209437 times)

Mikuru · « **Reply #750 on:** March 15, 2015, 01:07:58 AM »

I have to say (speaking as another newcomer) I was put off posting in the other introduction thread, as I'm not comfortable beginning a conversation with people I'm meeting for the first time by talking about my religious and political views. It would be awesome if we had a Touhou introduction thread where we were encouraged to list our favourite games, songs and characters like Electric Tengu did

As for me, I've gone quiet again since I succeeded in the 1cc I was attempting, but I'm still playing Touhou. I just haven't decided yet what my next "main" goal is going to be. I might try and do a scorerun on Easy mode. We'll see.

ふねん1 · « **Reply #751 on:** March 15, 2015, 02:50:08 AM »

It's been so long since I've cleared any of my personal challenges that I almost lost track of how many I even got in the first place. With a perfect Eirin fight now under my belt, I've completed half of my challenges for IN, which had the most of any game by far (6 total). I'll have to see where I can take this in the near future, but I certainly feel like I got a little bit of momentum from this one.

Quote from: Mikuru on March 15, 2015, 01:07:58 AM

I have to say (speaking as another newcomer) I was put off posting in the other introduction thread, as I'm not comfortable beginning a conversation with people I'm meeting for the first time by talking about my religious and political views. It would be awesome if we had a Touhou introduction thread where we were encouraged to list our favourite games, songs and characters like Electric Tengu did

Well, you don't have to post your views if you don't want to, just say you don't feel comfortable sharing them. Anyway, welcome to MotK!

Pakken11 · « **Reply #752 on:** March 16, 2015, 11:44:55 AM »

Dunno where to put this, so I'll just put it here .w.
Saw this a while ago, but still hilarious: Black☀Sun Shooter

Failure McFailFace · « **Reply #753 on:** March 16, 2015, 07:43:35 PM »

Quote from: Pakken11 on March 16, 2015, 11:44:55 AM

Saw this a while ago, but still hilarious: Black☀Sun Shooter

DRAKE

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE

Pakken11 · « **Reply #754 on:** March 18, 2015, 06:06:37 AM »

Drake?

Failure McFailFace · « **Reply #755 on:** March 18, 2015, 01:21:45 PM »

Quote from: Pakken11 on March 18, 2015, 06:06:37 AM

Drake?

He's the guy with the blue name and the Nazrin avatar. Drake made a few patches for some games, like the black-square bullets patch for SA and UFO, and a few utilities, like an input tracker.

Pakken11 · « **Reply #756 on:** March 18, 2015, 03:11:24 PM »

I see. Still, them black suns 0_____0;;

ふねん1 · « **Reply #757 on:** March 19, 2015, 08:52:57 PM »

With most of my other goals for IN out of the way, I've decided to move on to what might end up being my hardest challenge yet: an IN Lunatic 1-life clear. Now, the longer deathbomb timer and emphasis on memorizing attacks arguably helps compared to when I was going for that PCB Lunatic 1lc a while ago, but practicing for a 1lc reminds me just how prevalent not messing up randomly can be. I've yet to get past Marisa, and it's only been this afternoon since I've started getting past Keine more consistently. Probably because I'm being a little hardheaded and trying not to use any bombs, especially not death-bombs, until Marisa. Having much fewer resources (13 bombs compared to 10 + lots of borders in PCB) will do that to ya, I guess. I'm making steady progress if anything, just like with PCB. We'll see how long this takes me. Might be longer than a week, but you never know.

ILikeBulletZ · « **Reply #758 on:** March 24, 2015, 12:00:28 AM »

First REAL attempt at Lunatic MoF...

First 3 stages went fairly good.
Stage 4 was a mess, first time I got up to that point with ReimuB (I had a Lunatic run up to stage 5 with ReimuA previously)
Same with stage 5... no homing shot really messed my route there...

Enter stage 6 with 2 lives, completely blind Lunatic wise.

Attempt ended at Kanakos 2nd nonspell...yeah...

After continuing 2 times I managed to get the the final spell and got it up to around 1/10 HP bar left before I died and called it quits for today- Still, considering I got up there with only the 2 lives the continue lets you start with (The same amount I had in my actual run), means I should have this 1cc if I reach Kanako with 3 lives, on a good day... probably...

For what its worth, I THINK I managed my resources fairly nicely- I did not die with bombs/power left at all, not even once. That means I just have to get good at the last stages.

Mino ☆ · « **Reply #759 on:** March 26, 2015, 05:26:55 AM »

So today I decided to boot up PCB again to practice scoring and had a bit of fun with it.

I'm not sure if I will go through with it, but I am in the process of routing and practicing. This is my current route. Not sure what it will yield.

Plan:
Stage 1: Bomb before cirno for power items. Bomb cirno?s first non at the 23 second mark in order to get a border for her first spell. Get the border for the first spell, graze madly. Grab all power items at the end of the stage manually.
Graze 5 of Letty?s first spell waves (six if you learn it well)
Bomb right before Letty fires her blue needles and green bullets to get enough Cherry + for a quick border on the last spell. Graze lasers on last spell. Must end stage 1 with at least 27k cherry+
Stage 2: Get a border and graze the streaming green things. Get a border during chen?s midboss spell and graze the rings. Grab a border at the end of the stage and sit still while all the bullets pass you. Then sidestep at the end.
Stage 3: graze alice?s first midboss non. Maybe graze her second midboss non. Bomb it for cherry+. Grab a border at the beginning of her midboss spell. Milk it for point and cherry items. Get a border at the end stage.
Alice?s Fight: Suicide on first non. Grab a border during first spell. Stop shooting and graze unfocused during it. Use full power trick to get cherry+ for a border during the second spell. Graze like mad on the second spell. PoC and milk it for cherry items and point items. Get a border for the third non. Stop shooting and try to get another border for spring Kyoto dolls. Make sure that you have around 34-35k Cherry+ when you finish off Alice?s last spell so you can enter stage 4 with around 49K cherry+.
Stage 4: Graze the opener. Bomb focused after POC?ing to stall the border until the fairies appear. Graze around the fairies to maximize PIV gain. Get a border and graze the red waves at the top of the screen. Use PoC tricks to ensure around 46k+ cherry+ at Lily. Get a border as Lily?s second red aimed wave starts coming toward you. Stay elevated and slightly tap for graze. Break your border at the right time so you can shotgun Lily for a quick kill.
Post Lily section: Bomb first. Graze the ending blue bullets and most of the red bullets. Go to the bottom of the screen and sidestep the red needles and blue bullets. Break the border as soon as the purple bullets fill the screen. PoC again and graze red bullets. Move back down. Tap left to avoid the blue bullets, but tap back right to avoid the second wave so you can get lots of graze. Break the border again. Graze the red bullets and some of the green bullets when the next section starts. PoC the items while killing the fairies coming down.
Stage 4 crazy section:
Immediately kill one fairy in the left side, PoC, and then move down, kill the second fairy, and finish off a third fairy on the right side. Bomb the third wave to kill all fairies. On the last wave. Stay on the left, and only kill the two on the left after they have fired. Sidestep the purple blasts. Quickly move under the end stage death fairy for free graze. Move back down and finish the stage.
Prismrivers: Kill the first non at 35 seconds. Graze the second non rings before they unfold. Bomb at 49 seconds left and move to the corner to get cherry+. Suicide the crazy third wave. End the nonspell at 22 seconds left. Start the first spell under Lyrica. Graze unfocused the streams of red arrows. Damage Lyrica the most to ensure you fight her.
Lyrica solo: Get the full power clear as Lyrica shoots her first wave. Don?t grab the border until after the second red wave of the next wave starts. Stream graze the red things. Don?t be too high on the screen to avoid accidental hit. Make sure to graze some waves before they unfold.
After this, you want to bomb in order to get cherry+. On her second spell, grab a border and graze. Then time it out for spell bonus. Grab another border on the penultimate. Then try to get a border at the end stage clear. The goal is to grab a border on every attack except the first non.
Stage 5: Work in progress
Stage 6: Work in progress

-

At this point in time, I've kinda dulled out on survival play. It's not really fun to play LNN(N) anymore because of how boring the beginning stages are. I am aware that scoring grinding is more brutal. But I might have a bit of fun with this.

...I make no promises though. We all remember what happened last time I went through a "Scoring phase". I took a break and never went back to it.

Mero · « **Reply #760 on:** March 31, 2015, 06:14:45 AM »

I got to Kaguya on a full run for the first time today. I should be clearing on this week if I play for more than 2 hours a day, but I've given up on getting this by tomorrow; if I do, well that's nice, but it'll be with normal stock, so I won't submit it to Shimatora's thread.

As for how the run actually went (gonna start on stage 2, because >dying on stage 1):
-stage 2 was a bit messy, but it always is, so I'm not worried
-stage 3 was okay, I died to Keine's last normal spell
-I guess stage 4 was okay too, I died twice, to both of Marisa's midboss spells, Asteroid Belt just bad luck, while Event horizon was actually me screwing up my strategy (which seems to work now)
-stage 5 was actually bad, I don't expect to NMNB it, but I shouldn't be dying twice, it's a really simple stage
-on stage 6, I died to Eirin's non, then I moved too soon on Kaguya's first spell, messing up her aiming, and Buddhist Diamond was just Kaguya saying "nope, you're not clearing"

Three lives should have been enough to clear, I just messed up the parts I had control of, and then Buddhist Diamond was its usual self. Then again, I've just tried full runs for the grand total of 10 times, it's just a matter of keep trying now

Mr Jovial · « **Reply #761 on:** April 03, 2015, 02:49:59 PM »

Finally learned how to score all 6 stages of IN lunatic with Netherworld Team so I started trying to do full runs. It's been an hour and I haven't successfully scored stage 1 yet. What is this.... ;-;

ILikeBulletZ · « **Reply #762 on:** April 03, 2015, 08:43:33 PM »

Just got a MoF Lunatic BAD! Ending with Reimu B...While that obviously means I didn't actually clear, it also means I AM able to clear the ENTIRE Stage 6 with just 2 lives, on an extremely good day, so... Yay?

Mr Jovial · « **Reply #763 on:** April 11, 2015, 12:22:16 PM »

So I just realised that a little bit of my scoring route is wrong. Previously I thought you're supposed to bomb 4 times on Mystia's last nonspell then bomb 4 times on Keine's 3rd spell. It's taken me this long to realise that isn't possible without a death :V. Without that death you can only bomb Keine's 3rd twice, I never noticed because something would always kill me between the two. Whoops.

Andrew · « **Reply #764 on:** April 18, 2015, 08:06:17 AM »

Been working on UFO Lunatic for the past week. Man, people weren't kidding when they said this game was hard. I'm struggling to clear it WITH bombs, though I'm getting pretty close at least. Had 3 runs make it past Devil's Recitation now, and the most recent one reached the red phase of LFS. It's looking a lot more doable now that I got all the stages routed for the most part. If I can just get to stage 6 with 3 or more lives, I've got this. This is the last Windows 1cc I need.

I'm enjoying this game a lot more than TD despite the frustrations with the UFOs and all that. Gives me an adrenaline rush.

Uruwi · « **Reply #765 on:** April 18, 2015, 07:02:40 PM »

Got my first DDC Extra clear with MarisaB. 0/12 spells.

Pakken11 · « **Reply #766 on:** April 18, 2015, 08:36:05 PM »

https://youtu.be/M08PaxeaD7w?t=8m19s

I just... I don't know - I needed to share this SOMEwhere and decided to risk the ban hammer lol *hides and puts head between knees*

It's a game and it's Touhou, so I'm guessing it can go on this board? Or should I still make a new thread..

Nolegs the Cat · « **Reply #767 on:** April 19, 2015, 10:37:04 AM »

Sooo... I'm going for an Imperishable Night lunatic 1cc!

I've decided on going for stage 6A since I like Eirin's fight better, I can actually practice her stage ~~and she's easier.~~

So... furthest I've gotten is Genealogy of the Skyborn (would've got further if I didn't horribly derp in stage 6 =_=) which is pretty good.

Mero · « **Reply #768 on:** April 20, 2015, 03:35:44 AM »

Pretty cute patch you got there chirps :V

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Sakurei · « **Reply #769 on:** April 20, 2015, 12:12:59 PM »

I PB'd for IN normal today and I stand at 4.05b now.

4.1b when I can stop failing all of Kaguya's spells. 4.2b when I can stop dying along with it. 4.3 if I stop being bad.

Mikuru · « **Reply #770 on:** April 21, 2015, 12:44:45 AM »

Very pleased with today's PCB run. Didn't clear, but I got deeper into the final boss than before, and with a score over 100m higher than my previous best. All that practice on Stage 4 really helped. Unfortunately I made a ton of mistakes on really easy stuff in Stage 5, so I need to go practise that some more before making another full run attempt

Nolegs the Cat · « **Reply #771 on:** April 22, 2015, 10:03:04 AM »

Sooo.
I got my IN wonatic 1cc!

Now my next aim is, predictably, more lunatic 1ccs.

Oh, and that normal perfect MoF I forgot about during my hiatus. :V

Pakken11 · « **Reply #772 on:** April 22, 2015, 01:32:53 PM »

Wonatic? Is that full of more WIN than Lunatic? :V

LunaWillow · « **Reply #773 on:** April 22, 2015, 07:47:45 PM »

Today was a good day for me as a Touhou player.

I defeated both routes with MariAri team in IN. Both runs were ok, but not very good, though it doesn't matters anyways, as I'm doing it only to unlock single characters. I'm probably going to do that with SakuRemi later.

I also 1cc'd PoFV with Reisen! Finally! Died once to Sakuya, Medicine and Komachi and twice to Shiki. Very close run, but hey, I did it~!

On the other hand, I unlocked and defeated "Emperor of the East". Took me nine attempts, but it doesn't seem to be very hard last word. I also have "Tree-Ocean of Hourai" unlocked and I tried to beat it, but haven't yet. Beating the game with MariAri made me have Wriggle's last word ulocked too, but I haven't tried it too much yet.

EDIT: SakuRemi Final A clear, yay! Now only three more runs and I have single characters unlocked~

EDIT2: Reisen extra PoFV clear! Let's all celebrate Reisen joining playable crew, shall we?

Nolegs the Cat · « **Reply #774 on:** April 26, 2015, 11:30:26 PM »

Is it weird I find Chen as a boss harder then Alice as a boss on lunatic? :V
(Though midboss Alices + walls for days stage portion means stage 3 is harder overall)

Nameschonvergeben · « **Reply #775 on:** April 27, 2015, 06:33:59 AM »

Quote from: Nolegs the Cat on April 26, 2015, 11:30:26 PM

Is it weird I find Chen as a boss harder then Alice as a boss on lunatic? :V

Yes

Nolegs the Cat · « **Reply #776 on:** April 29, 2015, 09:49:14 AM »

Quote from: Nameschonvergeben on April 27, 2015, 06:33:59 AM

Yes

Well I no longer find Chen that hard :V

But I find Kimontonkou to be Chen's EASIEST attack.

Failure McFailFace · « **Reply #777 on:** April 30, 2015, 09:51:10 PM »

Can we post about fangames in this thread?

So I've been playing a lot of Mystical Power Plant recently. I managed to 1cc Normal with Reimu and lol bomb spam, and I got to Riko's last spell card.

Not bad, actually.

EDIT: I also 1cc Normal The Last Comer on the first try today. neat

Reiko · « **Reply #778 on:** May 04, 2015, 08:41:19 PM »

I'm having fun doing stage practice in PCB.
Getting a LNB is still a long-term goal, and since I don't like MoF all that much after all, maybe PCB would be more enjoyable.
Not doing any really focused practice, just trying to get some consistency and figure out some patterns. Yuyuko seems relatively easy now (although the last two spells are still hard), so I guess stage 5 is the next big target.

Andrew · « **Reply #779 on:** May 05, 2015, 02:26:37 AM »

Been going for an LNB myself, this time in SA. Some of the stuff that I used to have trouble with in this game is easier now thanks to the mechanical keyboard I recently bought. My goal is to get this LNB before the LoLK demo comes out. I've been grinding the stages, and so far, most of them are looking pretty doable. Okuu's not that hard, and stages 3 and 4 just need a bit more practice. Stage 5 on the other hand is easily the biggest roadblock for me at the moment. It looks like I'm gonna need quite a bit of practice there before I'm ready to start doing runs. Hopefully I can get consistent enough to bring my average down to 3 miss or better once I've got Orin learned.