~Hakurei Shrine~ > High Score Entry!
東方妖々夢 ～ Perfect Cherry Blossom.
Mino ☆:
Lunatic - ReimuB
Mino - 2,205,569,310 - C - 0.172% - Replay
2.2bil reached.
Aight! It's another 100mil checkpoint so time to blog.
Stage 1: Okay. The only notable difference in this stage is that I time my border later on Letty so I can graze three lasers instead of two, getting a little bit more CherryMAX than I used to
Stage 2: Messed up the cancel on Letty's last spell, so I got my border late on this stage, missing CherryMAX. I started implementing bombs and suicides on Chen, which is used to milk an extra border for more CherryMAX. I managed to do it successfully, except that I didn't optimally graze when I got the borders, so I missed out on some CherryMAX. Still, I didn't pop the borders, so I got the automatic 10k cherryMAX from both borders.
Stage 3: Stupidly died to Alice's midboss non. Aaaargh. But I ended off the stage with over 300mil, which is a first for me.
Stage 4: I messed up the end of the stage 4 borders, resulting in an improvised "just in case" route I use to ensure I get enough Cherry+ for the red fairies. Post Lily section went average. Fortunately, I got to Prismrivers with 800k cherryMAX, which is the goal. Speaking of the Prismrivers, the fight was lame. I missed tons of graze opportunities during my borders, so I missed out of valuable CherryMAX. But I didn't pop any borders, thank god.
Stage 5: Average stage. I got too much Cherry+ during the stage (which is probably attributed to the fact that I'm not used to capturing as many spells as I did in this run), so I got the border too early for midboss Youmu. ;_;
But I managed to time the borders right to graze the post-Youmu section as well as her first nonspell, which kinda made up for it. Had to bomb during HGS, but what else could be expected?
Stage 6: I used the "suicide" route at the spam section, though I broke my border too late so I didn't get enough cherry+ for midboss youmu's nonspells. Unfortunate, but it could have been worse...
Yuyuko: I played Yuyuko very safely. I didn't graze the third spell optimally (still a coward), and I did Hirokawa the safe way (by going back into the center rather than staying where I am).
I failed Yuyuko's penultimate! Grrrrr! That caused me to lose 10mil I would have gained from that one border I popped. But I didn't die. Thank god, I didn't die... that would have messed up RB and caused me not to hit the 2.2bil mark.
Resurrection Butterfly went smoothly. I didn't have to bomb for the PoC on the first wave, so that added to my clear bonus. I still pop a border every wave, for safety reasons. I won't start doing PoC tricks on this spell until at least 2.5bil.
This run was notable for being very "safe" but missing out on some potential CherryMAX, so if I had played more aggressively I could have gotten 2.3bil. Still, the improvements were there. I got into stage 6 with 1.3bil for the first time, which marks some progress.
Mino ☆:
Lunatic - ReimuB
Mino - 2,343,004,570 - C - 0.161% - Replay
New PB. It's been almost exactly a month since the last one. How coincidental. I played Yuyuko in practice mode about 2 hours before starting the full runs today, and I owe the fact that I didn't fail any of her spells (except Resurrection Butterfly, intentionally) due to it. I can now do the third spell, but I kinda panicked in this run and fled to the left side of the screen oddly enough.
It felt like this run could have been better, but it just wasn't because I wasn't really getting much CherryMAX from the Prismrivers onward. My borders were weirdly timed at points and I didn't get much graze during them. (Though the Prismriver fight was okay, I didn't risk going for the border for the midboss spell, so I lost a lot of CherryMAX from that alone)
Stage 5 was really, really suboptimal. I didn't time the border right for the midboss well. At least I got the post-midboss border right. I got a LATE BORDER on Youmu's first non, preventing me from optimizing it.
And then I stupidly died on the penultimate spell of Youmu. Arrrghhhh! Arrrgh! That things like impossible to fail! I couldn't do the stage 6 suicide strat as a result.
At least the spam section went okay. I got all the items (I think). I played weirdly on Yuyuko. I got her second spell down fine, but I kinda did weird things on her third and fourth spells.
I managed to capture her penultimate and time both borders right! (Really happy about that!). I could have gone for the last spell cap, but I honestly didn't want to stain this run anymore than I did by potentially dying to it. (If I had died, I would have probably gotten down to 2.2bil again and would have been pretty frustrated, so I just decided to play it safe and suboptimally.)
I'm going to need to start getting into a "Go big or go home!" attitude once I get better. PCB is scary, especially for scoring.
In conclusion, I'm 157mil away from being able to take my first break from this game.
ZM:
Hard - MarisaA
ZM - 824,563,730 - C - 0.101% - Replay
LepLep:
Normal - ReimuB
L3PiK - 1,553,490,880 - C - 0.176% - Replay
Failing RB left a yucky taste in my mouth. ' ^ '
Sparkystream:
Normal - SakuyaB
Sparky - 354,167,940 - Clear - 0.230 - http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=37580
First 1cc, and on my birthday. :P