Touhou Accomplishment Thread 21: Time to go FULL SHMUP

[Mino ☆]

Subterranean Animism 3-Miss No Bomb!

Yaaaay!
I've been aiming for this for a looong time!
Misses were: DBDB, Stage 5 midboss Orin 1st non (orz), and a really dumb clipdeath on Utsuho's first spell!

Now the only game I don't have 3MNB or less in is EoSD!

[Jirachi]

Subterranean Animism 3-Miss No Bomb!

Yaaaay!
I've been aiming for this for a looong time!
Misses were: DBDB, Stage 5 midboss Orin 1st non (orz), and a really dumb clipdeath on Utsuho's first spell!

Now the only game I don't have 3MNB or less in is EoSD!

Congrats!

Plot-twist: you get SA LNN before PCB LNNN.

[LunarWingCloud]

1cc'd Fantastic Danmaku Festival with Reimu on Normal. Pretty fun game.

[Limian]

Holy crap, got my first ever Lunatic 1cc in Imperishable Night!
I had to bomb the hell out of the final card, but despite that I made it with one last bomb in stock. Whatever the case, I did it, and that's all that matters. ^^;

Congrats! Getting that first Lunatic 1cc is a really awesome feeling. Now I need to step up my own game again...

[CyberAngel]

Got my second Overdrive in TD, this time Yoshika's. But what's more awesome, I did it with Youmu unfocused!

[Arcengal]

Hey I haven't played SA in years, let's play Extra.

Get to Koishi with zero lives in stock due to derping. Somehow remember how to do Ancestors. Get an extra life.

Lose it on third non-spell.

Take a deep breath.

OH SHIT POLYGRAPH HOW DO I, WAIT I REMEMBER. *capture*
Bomb Embers twice.
CAPTURE GENETICS AT 2 POWER. \m/
Die on the last second of philosophy trololol but I picked up a life at some point.
Capture Rose.

Not bad for being out of practice.

[cactu]

Heck yeah, I cleared and got 647M!  Should be the second highest score on lunatic difficulty in the world now, with Ichizoku's runs being the only higher ones out there.

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=32912

[LunarWingCloud]

Nice job cactu. o.o

I just 1cc'd Mystical Power Plant on Normal with Utsuho/Reimu. Ended up capturing Mitama's last spellcard and had 5 spare lives at the end. :3 My score was like 29B or something like that. Nothing too high considering the game's scoring.

[Sakurei]

Heck yeah, I cleared and got 647M!  Should be the second highest score on lunatic difficulty in the world now, with Ichizoku's runs being the only higher ones out there.

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=32912

Congratulations on the 1cc, cactu.

[Szayelaporro Granz]

Wow, congrats! Speaking about WR, Do you have any plan to break the WR?

[cactu]

Thanks! Yes, I plan to beat the WR by this year, hopefully during the summer.

[chirpy13]

Magical Singular Day Absolution 1cc 

[KingofBaka]

I made it to stage 5 in SA without using a continue. It may not be a 1cc but it is still an accomplishment for me because I was stuck on Yuugi for the longest time.

I lost most of my lives and most of my bombs to Recollection " Border of Wave and Particle", So, I entered stage 5 with 1 life and 1 bomb.

I don't have a replay because I went through the menu too fast and I didn't see the save replay option.  :V

[Lepetit89]

I made it to stage 5 in SA without using a continue. It may not be a 1cc but it is still an accomplishment for me because I was stuck on Yuugi for the longest time.

I lost most of my lives and most of my bombs to Recollection " Border of Wave and Particle", So, I entered stage 5 with 1 life and 1 bomb.

I don't have a replay because I went through the menu too fast and I didn't see the save replay option.  :V

Ah, Stage 5, such a massive block, though you'll be surprised how easy it can be once you've unlocked it for Practice. Keep going!

And congratulations, Cactu, that is quite amazing, indeed. Best of luck with the world record!

[LunarWingCloud]

Yeah Stage 5 in SA is a huge roadblock. I use ReimuB in that game so thankfully I typically just bomb at the right points if I get stuck trying to stream, and use Suika's draw power to grab back everything I used for the bomb. I dunno what you're using for your shot-type though. Alternatively ReimuA can easily warp to the other side and continue from there.

So, I managed to prove to myself that my EoSD Hard 1cc wasn't a completely fluke and managed to do it a second time. This run sadly was not as good as the other one, I didn't capture Thousand Needle Mountain like I did originally and  Scarlet Gensokyo gave me a ton more trouble than it did before. Also the Sakuya fight was a lot sloppier. :V

But anyway, a replay (bear in mind since I never play for score I do not play the game with default 3 lives, although I _can_ 1cc EoSD on Normal with that setting.

[KingofBaka]

Well there were no other major accomplishments in SA since I posted that last post although I made it to stage 6 once, but then I got killed by Orin's midboss spell. Other then that, the hardest parts for me are Satori's Recollections ( I play as Reimu A, so I have to deal with Double Black Death Butterfly and Border of Wave and Particle) and the part of stage 5 after midboss Orin that you have to stream at.

Yeah Stage 5 in SA is a huge roadblock. I use ReimuB in that game so thankfully I typically just bomb at the right points if I get stuck trying to stream, and use Suika's draw power to grab back everything I used for the bomb. I dunno what you're using for your shot-type though. Alternatively ReimuA can easily warp to the other side and continue from there.

 :V
I actually did not think to use the warp ability at that section. I usually just bomb that section. I guess I will try to do that tomorrow as I played enough of SA for one day.

[LunarWingCloud]

Ah, midboss Orin on Stage 6? Best advice, stay at the bottom and do a figure 8 pattern. That's how I dodge Orin's spell and it works almost every time (unless I'm tired/exhausted and my timing is off). You could just try simple left-right dodging but the figure 8 leaves you with the room to avoid each line of bullets as it approaches you. Just make sure to give yourself about a centimeter or so of room from the bottom of the screen so that you have the room to move down. ^^ I hope that helps you.

If you want, here's my replay for SA. Despite it being my only 1cc, it isn't my personal best run for most of the game, I play _really_ sloppily and mess up a bunch. Also it is bugged, if you start it from Stage 6 or you skip parts of Stage 6 (even if you begin the replay earlier), it desyncs Reimu's movement once the Utsuho fight starts. But I hope this helps you regardless.

(came in here to originally post about 1cc'ing MoF with MarisaB without the power bug (VSync yay) and I ended up almost forgetting to mention that. :V It's notable since I ALWAYS use ReimuA in that game, and I derp died TWICE and didn't get the final score-based 1-up during the run.

[LunarWingCloud]

Thanks to the advice and experience-sharing of Pirated during a chat in the IRC last night (sorry man for taking my frustration out on you :V) I decided to give ReimuA a shot (*ba dum tish*) in SA instead of trying to do it again with ReimuB. After a little practice, and doing the entirety of Stage 6 without any practice with ReimuA, I managed to do it! I have to say when I drop the insecurity of "oh I won't be able to grab the life pieces with all the stuff in the way", ReimuA ended up a lot easier than ReimuB actually. In fact, watch the replay (please lemme know if there's any bugs! I haven't watched it myself yet!). I derp die not once, but TWICE before Stage 5 even begins and I still managed a pretty comfortable 1cc.

So yeah ReimuA is amazing in that game and I dunno why I was so worried. :V Especially if I switch between focused and unfocused at the right time, I can hit the things I need to in the middle of dense bullet patterns (you'll see me do this a few times actually, staying unfocused so my needles can reach something).

I might actually go for it again sometime, since that run could've ended with 2-3 more spare lives than I ended up with (which was 0). Last thing I wanna mention. I mess up on Stage 5 trying to do it, but I do demonstrate just how trivial the spirits in Stage 6 can be with proper warping to the other side. At least, until it got too dense for me. ^^;

[KingofBaka]

I was in school during my 6th period(One of the 2 periods that has computers) and I managed to get to Yuyuko even though there were about 2 times as many people in my class because of FCAT.  Here is a quick summery of how things went.
Perfect Stage 1
A derp death to Chens first nonspell.
Perfect Stage 3
An almost perfect Stage 4, I die once to the second to last spellcard for the Prismrivers.
Stage 5 was Horrible. :fail: :colonveeplusalpha: I went from 5 lives and 3 bombs to 2 lives and 1 bomb.
Stage 6 was also Horrible. I die to Youmus midboss spell, get past Yuyukos first nonspell, and then I game over to her first spell.
 I included the replay so you can see me do a less then average PCB run. :V

[☆ Hinalyte]

I cleared SA extra yesterday after like 1 retry, though I played it the other day on like 2+ hours for practice. I don't really like how it only gives life fragments only if you didn't die on the boss' nonspell/spell because I dunno you want to become a perfectionist if you want more lives. I was close on capturing Youkai Polygraph (I bombed on like 3 seconds before it ended). I hate the Genetics of the Subconscious spell because she moves everywhere, which means less time to shoot her.

My score was 442 million o.o. I didn't really captured a lot of Koishi's spellcards (adding that I only captured Sanae's second spellcard because derped on her first and wtf is her third).

[LunarWingCloud]

So I decided to give PCB Extra a shot. Made it to Ran's survival card twice tonight.

And before today I couldn't even make it past Ultimate Buddhist. :V Ran is pretty easy to survive thanks to Cherry Borders and SAKUYA HAVING FOUR BOMBS PER LIFE. :3

I sense another Extra Clear soon.

[Reiko]

Cleared PoDD Hard with Marisa.
I guess I'm slowly warming up to this game. Lunatic looks pretty fun and intense.

A bit late, but congrats on the sick score cactu ; good luck for the WR.  :3

[LunarWingCloud]

FFFFFFFFWHAT.

WHAT.

I wasn't even trying!! I wasn't even trying!! But no, here it is. Here it is. I beat Ran. Without even trying.

I really thought when I reached her last card, considering I had died several times without using bombs, that I would just lose.

No, Ran is the easiest Extra Boss in the series.

[Yookie]

Congrats. And yeah, Ran is kind of weird. I first beat her at 1am with a headache when I just wanted to do something at least. :V
Most of her spells just have some weird spin on them that just kills you if you don't know what you're doing so once you know the tricks it gets relatively easy.

[LunarWingCloud]

Thanks! And it's not really that she's just easier on her own (Mamizou is just as easy barring any helpful mechanics), since I did struggle with a few of her attacks. It's that unlike Flandre or Mamizou (the other 2 EX Bosses I have beaten), you have LOADS of chances to survive. Mamizou you can try to get into her fight with 4 spare lives through proper trance and bonus collecting, and you can possibly get a full trance bar filled at some point, but that's really all you get. And Flandre you get 2 spare lives during the stage and nothing else.

Ran you get:

-1-up during Chen fight and 1-up after her first spellcard
-2 1-ups through point item collecting
-2 bomb items dropped during fight with her
-Cherry Borders

And her attacks are no more difficult than Mamizou or Flandre's are, making her that much easier. I did TERRIBLE on that run, I didn't even go in with 4 spare lives, and due to all the survival help I just blitzed her anyway.

I even died several times when I had at least 1 bomb left. :V

Some of her cards are legitimately very easy though. Her first, third, and 7th spellcards I can capture reliably without needing to bomb at all or even use Cherry Borders (although I use a border during her first and 7th), and Spellcards 2 and 8 have a distinctive pattern that can easily be learned to move through. Her survival card isn't very hard, and her last attack takes FOREVER to actually become hard to dodge (and by that point it was too late for her, I beat her before it overwhelmed me).

You're right, though, it is weird how... easy she is compared to the others.

I think I'll take a break from Touhou or at least from seriously going after new achievements so I have time to work on my RPG Maker game, I've accomplished a lot lately. :V

Everything I've done just this year:
-1cc Mystic Square
-1cc Story of Eastern Wonderland
-1cc several games with shottypes other than my usual/1st 1cc
-1cc'd EoSD Hard
-Flandre clear
-Ran clear
-2 fangames 1cc'd, 1 of which also has an Extra cleared (MPP)

So yeah, pretty sure I've done enough for now.

[Karisa]

It could be that Yukari was intended to be PCB's actual Extra, difficulty-wise.

Though actually Yukari isn't much harder (it's mostly the stage portion), and you still get just as many lives. She does have an extra memorization-based spell at the very end, but it's also much more feasible to reach 800 point items, so you get an extra life for that.
(The 800 extend is actually possible against Ran too, but you need to die no more than once throughout the entire stage, so it's not very useful for survival.)

If you're looking for another fairly easy Extra clear, I'd recommend Suwako. Especially with MoF's bomb system. Though if you can 1cc EoSD Hard I think you could handle the dodging in most/all the Extras, actually. A lot of Extra patterns are mainly about learning tricks.

[ElvenRed]

Got my first Extra clear on DDC as SakuyaA today, thanks to the lovely folks at the gameplay help thread!

[Mr Jovial]

Not a massive achievement, but in a recent IN LNB I went perfect until Tewi. Was a fantastic run until then and it ended as an 8 miss run. 6 miss stage 6 because I flopped the opening of the stage and failed Kaguya's 1st, 2nd and 5th last spells. In a way, that run was very helpful because I've now bothered to practice Tewi's 1st more and found a decent strategy for it so I'll hopefully be perfecting stage 5 a lot more. Other 3 deaths were Mind Stopper, Brilliant Dragon Bullet and Life Spring Infinity.

[CyberAngel]

My first PCB Normal 1cc! I was pretty close last time I tried it, but this time I finished with resources to spare, even despite that stupid first death. It enraged me so much I almost restarted, but I decided to go on anyway, and that rage actually paid off in some awesome playing. Another example against needless restarting, I guess.

I somewhat doubt I will be able to do this with all shottypes, but I'll try. Let's see how far my skills will lead me.

[Reiko]

Got a perfect Stage 3 in PCB Lunatic recently (video).
LNB training is going quite well in this game, I guess. It still isn't something I could pull out today, but at least it doesn't seem out of reach given some practice.

Also cleared PoFV Lunatic Ultra (replay).
It's not much harder than the regular game, but still fun.