Touhou Accomplishments V3

[Seian Verian]

Yes! Managed to capture Mystia's Last Word! It wasn't even as tough as a lot of stage 6 (either route) spellcards on Normal...

Anyway, replay: http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=4838

[Sapz]

After many many Stage 5 runs, I've capped Needles, Possessed Fairy, Small Demon's Revival and, mostly through some random luck, Erratic Step. Which is cool stuff, because I thought those were going to take me forever.

For some reason, though, I can't for the life of me capture Cannibal Spirit. :V

Until a few hours ago I was sure it was Orin's easiest card by quite a lot... now I'm thinking it's Needles, but Cannibal Spirit still seems like one of the easier cards. I always make some kind of stupid mistake, though... I tend to keep flying too far away from the centre of the circles and end up walling myself, or going at the wrong speed. Blagh.

[Seian Verian]

YES! UFO Easy no deaths clear! It's amazing how useful those green UFOs can be... I'm not sure just how MUCH of an accomplishment this is, but it's still pretty cool~ I'd say I dealt with Byakuren's final pretty well too, only one bomb used there.

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=4840

[LHCling]

"Greatest Treausre" No Focus capture. Replay when I'm done.

EDIT: http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=4843

[nintendonut888]

UFO normal 1cc Marisa A. As I suspected, Marisa A doesn't suit my tastes either. She's pretty much the reason I don't like using Reimu in EoSD and PCB except inverted. She's too FAST, even though her shot has some utility uses it's not terribly strong, and the bomb is too weak (whatever happened to THE Master Spark, not this cheap imitation from IN?). I mean, when it has less range than Reimu A yet a lot less power, something's wrong...and of course lol large hitbox.

I'm also confused at what the canon fate of the flying ship is. In some endings it's transformed into a temple, while in others it continues to fly through the air.

And the fact that neither Reimu nor Marisa seem to remember going to Makai in MS tells me only one thing...

YUKA'S SCENARIO IN MYSTIC SQUARE IS CANON!

Anyways, just need to 1cc with Marisa B (ugh) and I'll have done all the endings and will have no excuse not to start on hard modo. Even if I do it today, I'm feeling all out of sorts from school, so it's a wonder I cleared this as well as I did (four deaths total).

And, am I just slow for not noticing that the bullets on Flying Fantastica/Legendary Flying Object or on a rail so you can see their odd trajectory? I've noticed the lines before, but I thought it was somehow a fancy bomb immunity effect. Augh, now they're distracting because there are so many bullets on the last phases it's harder to read the rails than the bullets. Make me unsee~

[Sodium]

UFO normal 1cc Marisa A. As I suspected, Marisa A doesn't suit my tastes either. She's pretty much the reason I don't like using Reimu in EoSD and PCB except inverted. She's too FAST, even though her shot has some utility uses it's not terribly strong, and the bomb is too weak (whatever happened to THE Master Spark, not this cheap imitation from IN?). I mean, when it has less range than Reimu A yet a lot less power, something's wrong...and of course lol large hitbox.

I'm also confused at what the canon fate of the flying ship is. In some endings it's transformed into a temple, while in others it continues to fly through the air.

Donut, are you hitting Master Spark without the normal lasers? Because if you are, you're doing it wrong. This is the first game that allows you to shoot while Master Spark is active. =V

And MarisaA isn't "terribly weak". It's just that ReimuA is stupidly powerful compared to pretty much every other shot.

Oh, and the Temple is a Flying Temple Ship. Seriously.

[Azinth]

UFO normal 1cc Marisa A. As I suspected, Marisa A doesn't suit my tastes either. She's pretty much the reason I don't like using Reimu in EoSD and PCB except inverted. She's too FAST, even though her shot has some utility uses it's not terribly strong, and the bomb is too weak (whatever happened to THE Master Spark, not this cheap imitation from IN?). I mean, when it has less range than Reimu A yet a lot less power, something's wrong...and of course lol large hitbox.

High bomb damage in Touhou games is completely unnecessary 90% of the time (well, except for maybe IN and SA).  Really, I've said this before, why does no one believe me?  Do people like, not know how to shoot/shotgun enemies while invincible or something?  :V

[nintendonut888]

It's quite hard to keep your MINISCULE range centered when the bomb slows you down to a crawl. Seriously, Reimu A is faster with her bomb active AND it does more damage AND it lasts longer.

Also, Reimu A's bomb is such that on certain attacks if you end up having to bomb at the end of the spell card it will take out over half the next non-card's health. Really, the only thing Reimu A needs to be perfect is no slowdown during her bomb so you can UFO chain properly, but alas one can't have everything...

Well, range would help to make the blue bullet spams in stage 3 much less agonizing. >_<

EDIT: Well, you think SG is a decent game, so your opinions are null and void. Damn game doesn't even WANT to be played on this computer.

EDIT 2: Anyway~ So how are YOU doing with UFO Azinth? Seriously, you guys can't do this to me. I'm not ready to be the second person outside Japan to 1cc UFO lunatic. D:

[LHCling]

EDIT 2: Anyway~ So how are YOU doing with UFO Azinth? Seriously, you guys can't do this to me. I'm not ready to be the second person outside Japan to 1cc UFO lunatic. D:

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Quite a few 1cc's running around for the record. (along with other unsubmitted ones; note that I stuck mine there for the sake of being in the records)

There might be a few scores lying around in the royalflare list that aren't Japanese; who knows.

[nintendonut888]

Ooh, Zetsumarshen 1cc'd it. That makes me feel better. I can totally work with third person. 8D

Really, it's not so much that I'm confident in my skills (collecting UFOs is NOT my specialty) as it is that I see very few other people trying.

[Azinth]

EDIT: Well, you think SG is a decent game, so your opinions are null and void. Damn game doesn't even WANT to be played on this computer.

It's not just a decent game, it's an excellent game.  Stop wasting your time on that PoS UFO and do SG lunatic plz.  It's kind of lonely being the only high-level Seihou player in the west y'know... ;_;  I mean, you PC-98 players at least have a handful of people to discuss the games with.

EDIT 2: Anyway~ So how are YOU doing with UFO Azinth? Seriously, you guys can't do this to me. I'm not ready to be the second person outside Japan to 1cc UFO lunatic. D:

I'm currently finding no-bombs EoSD lunatic to be far more enjoyable than UFO lunatic, if that answers your question.   I'll get to it eventually though, I'm just somewhat busy with school and thus am relegating myself to shooters that I already know well and can play casually (i.e. I don't have to grind them).

[LHCling]

Ooh, Zetsumarshen 1cc'd it. That makes me feel better. I can totally work with third person. 8D

Really, it's not so much that I'm confident in my skills (collecting UFOs is NOT my specialty) as it is that I see very few other people trying.

You forgot Phar  :V

[nintendonut888]

Phar got around to it too? Well then!

But yeah, really...I don't get why everyone hates UFO so much. Other than some really unfair sections like the blue bullet spams in stage 3 or the post-Nazrin section, the danmaku's not really any tougher than usual...is the UFO system THAT much of a killer? o_O Sure it's annoying, but success still comes down to your dodging skill.

It's not just a decent game, it's an excellent game.  Stop wasting your time on that PoS UFO and do SG lunatic plz.  It's kind of lonely being the only high-level Seihou player in the west y'know... ;_;

Make the music not messed up on this computer and I'll at least do you a favor and record my SG extra run. I think the MIDI sound system the game needs isn't installed on this computer...or whatever is causing the music to sound absolutely terrible.

[Krimmydoodle]

I see very few other people trying.

Eh, I might be ready to go for it. 

*cue RAGE thread

The only other thing I've been trying for is SA No-Bombs, and I'm in permanent rage mode when I try that because of Yamame's opener.  If I'm already in permanent rage mode, I may as well be learning UFO rather than failing at the same damn attack pattern for an hour.  My history for Kisume's spell is x/180.  My history for Yamame's first spell is x/45.  Yamame's opener is the only reason I ever quit between those two cards.  I'm fairly certain my capture rate for it is worse than Catwalk at this point.

[LHCling]

You... may not want to ask about my UFO S1 History then  :V

In other news I'm going for a 2nd Lunatic 1cc. This time, with ReimuA. Wish me luck.

[nintendonut888]

'Luck. I'd really appreciate a reference replay for Reimu A.

I'm feeling more tuned in with reality now, so I may go off to 1cc UFO normal with Marisa B and finish this off. When I actually get around to 1ccing UFO hard (I'm more confident in my ability to do THAT, once I play around a bit and get used to the differences between lunatic and hard) and start lunatic, I'll just start a thread like old times to keep other threads from being clogged up...like this one is right now. :V

[Krimmydoodle]

Hm, random run of UFO Reimu B, perfected the S3 aimed fairy rush spam with impromptu dodging.  Maybe this game isn't as bad as it seemed (or maybe homing is just useful).

In fact, this run is going a lot better than I expected.  No deaths so far.  Although I still have to bomb quite a bit, at least no bombs have been completely wasted in death.

And now that I've said "this run is going a lot better than I expected", I fully expect this run to turn to absolute shit and end me before S4.


Edit: Got to Syou, died twice (once without bombs, once with) and ended there.  After some practice for eliminating some unnecessary bombing in stages and learnable cards, regaining my bomb reflex in those shitty moments (losing the bomb reflex is the bad part of grinding no-bomb runs of SA), and refining my UFO strategy, this may actually be possible.

*commence the continue spam to unlock S5 and S6 for Reimu B practice.

[Drake]

Nearly 1cc'ed UFO Normal No Focus. Ended at Syou's last card because when I don't hold shift I magically forget how to bomb.

Also, almost captured Flying Fantastica No Focus. Seriously what was that.

[ebarrett]

when I don't hold shift I magically forget how to bomb

doesn't everyone?

[nintendonut888]

There you go. UFO normal 1cc with Marisa B, 4 deaths total. NOW I will start working on hard. But not tonight. *yawn*

[?lice Bl?ckb?rn]

It's not just a decent game, it's an excellent game.  Stop wasting your time on that PoS UFO and do SG lunatic plz.  It's kind of lonely being the only high-level Seihou player in the west y'know... ;_;  I mean, you PC-98 players at least have a handful of people to discuss the games with.

Nyeh, I know of at least two other people who have 1cc'd SSG Luni on these forums.

Personally, I'm at the point where I'm quite decent at both Gates and VIVIT, but the combination of only getting 6 lives + anti-deathbombing means that you basically can't make a stupid mistake along the lines of accidentally plowing into a bullet or zoning out midway through a stage only to have your attention return by noticing the fact that you just died, during an actual run, which requires grinding, and school kicking in fairly hardcore now means I lack the time for grinding Touhou/Seihou stages.

[Sapz]

All SA Lunatic Stage 5 cards captured. :V

[lmagus]

And, am I just slow for not noticing that the bullets on Flying Fantastica/Legendary Flying Object or on a rail so you can see their odd trajectory? I've noticed the lines before, but I thought it was somehow a fancy bomb immunity effect. Augh, now they're distracting because there are so many bullets on the last phases it's harder to read the rails than the bullets. Make me unsee~

I laughed at this hehehehe

You're supposed to see the lines, they are there all the time


And for an accomplishment, I reached Remilia and Yuyuko on Hard again.
I think EoSD is the easiest of the two simply because of Youmu. She's my worst nightmare right now.

[Bananamatic]

Tried Koishi again.....
....and only 2 deaths.

First one against Genetics(stupid clip), second one againt Philosophy.....which was stupid again. Could of been 1 death easily.

Subterranean Rose only 1 bomb. My previous clear took 2 lives.

Still, this is my best Extra run overall so far. :V

[Sapz]

Capped all SA Stage 6 Lunatic spell cards. For SA, that just leaves all the non-ReimuA Satori cards until I've capped everything.

[Azinth]

It's not just a decent game, it's an excellent game.  Stop wasting your time on that PoS UFO and do SG lunatic plz.  It's kind of lonely being the only high-level Seihou player in the west y'know... ;_;  I mean, you PC-98 players at least have a handful of people to discuss the games with.

Nyeh, I know of at least two other people who have 1cc'd SSG Luni on these forums.

Oh really now?  Out of curiosity, who are they and where the hell were they when I was slaving over it for nearly three weeks back in March?   I could have definitely used some pointers.  I'm also kind of curios if anyone also has experience with Banshiryuu(67), since I've been trying to beat that game on and off too.

[?lice Bl?ckb?rn]

Oh really now?  Out of curiosity, who are they and where the hell were they when I was slaving over it for nearly three weeks back in March?   I could have definitely used some pointers.  I'm also kind of curios if anyone also has experience with Banshiryuu(67), since I've been trying to beat that game on and off too.

Kefit was one of them, iirc, and the other's someone who doesn't post on this forum. As for BSR-C67, I don't think anyone in the West has 1cc'd that game on Luni yet (as for BSR-C74, we don't talk about BSR-C74. wtf guize. way2make your game impossible.).

[Arcengal]

SA extra ALL CHARACTERS CLEAR.

FINALLY.

I hate playing as Marisa in any game, and SA is probably the worst.

[Generalguy]

Failed IN Hard again with Reimu Solo, because I sucked ass at Hourai Jewel. So I went to practice it, and captured it after a few tries.
It's pretty much a timeout too, because there was only 1 second remaining.

I know Kaguya is invincible until the 48 seconds mark, but what about her familiars? Do they get the armor too, can you shoot them out at the start, or are they completely invincible for the whole spellcard? I don't feel like timing out the spellcard everytime I'm going for a 1cc.

[Hawk]

Failed IN Hard again with Reimu Solo, because I sucked ass at Hourai Jewel. So I went to practice it, and captured it after a few tries.
It's pretty much a timeout too, because there was only 1 second remaining.

I know Kaguya is invincible until the 48 seconds mark, but what about her familiars? Do they get the armor too, can you shoot them out at the start, or are they completely invincible for the whole spellcard? I don't feel like timing out the spellcard everytime I'm going for a 1cc.

You can kill the familiars early.  They don't all have the same health, either.  If I recall correctly, the inner two die the fastest, so go for those first.