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2018 in Touhou Past and Future
CyberAngel:
Seriously, this topic isn't here yet? I know this place isn't nearly as active as it used to be, but doing nothing won't help it! Anyway, it's 2019 already, so go on and reflect on your Touhou experiences over the past year! Here's the usual template:
Personal Favorite Achievements of 2018: Post about your favorite achievement(s). Your own, that is.
Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2018: Well, biggest screw-up(s) are just that.
Favorite Achievements by Others of 2018: Other players do cool achievements as well. Post your favorites.
Goals for 2019: What are your goals for 2019? If you have anything planned.
[OPTIONAL] Challenges to Other Players: Give other people some ideas of what you think is cool. Challenge them into a race, some silly competition. Anything works.
CyberAngel:
Personal Favorite Achievements of 2018: Actually got back into playing games and repeated most of my old achievements with surprising ease. Plus got 10D Normal clears out of the blue.
Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2018: Got VERY close near-clears in SA, UFO and HSiFS
Favorite Achievements by Others of 2018: Yats finishing LNN(N)s for all main games. And recording them all in one convenient video. I'm still using it for quick reference now and then. (It's useful about 50% of the time :P )
Goals for 2019: Well, I'm gonna concentrate on IN from now on. Need to get the remaining Hard 1ccs. Should grab an Extra clear or a few. Hopefully will reach a Lunatic 1cc.
[OPTIONAL] Challenges to Other Players: SCOAR MOAR. And a more specific ongoing challenge to everyone from this point on to beat all of my IN scores.
Mikuru:
Personal Favorite Achievements of 2018: Reaching Kanako on Lunatic.
Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2018: Losing what would have been my first ExNM to a double KO. And then forgetting to save the replay for TRS.
Favorite Achievements by Others of 2018: I love the way the HSIFS WR keeps going up. Will it ever reach 10b? Who knows?
Goals for 2019: Reach Kanako again... and this time defeat her. If it's before my anniversary, that will be even sweeter. Come to think of it, I said almost exactly the same thing last year!
[OPTIONAL] Challenges to Other Players: CyberAngel: Beat my IN Easy and Normal scores! I'm above you in every category except Easy Y/Y. :P
Karisa:
A bit short, but I've only been active again for a little over 2 months. Still, partial posts are better for keeping the thread going than not posting, right?
Personal Favorite Achievements of 2018: Reconnecting with Touhou players and the community? Does that count?
All I've played since then is DDC Easy SakuyaA, but I've been enjoying scoring again.
Goals for 2019: Retake at least one DDC Easy WR, possibly several shot types.
Also I'd like to revive two old goals I was never satisfied with, SA Easy MarisaA 640m, and LoLK Normal Sanae 2b. If I can manage to run Shining Shooting Star again, I'd also like to improve my score there.
Oh, and probably score in Touhou 17, if ZUN's on schedule. It's fun to score when a game's still being newly explored.
jaxter0987:
Personal Favorite Achievements of 2018: Got back into Touhou in general. At some point, I just lost touch with the series and stopped paying attention. Around the time HM came out was when Touhou was just out of sight, out of mind for me, to give you guys a frame of reference of how long its been. I can thank Touhou Genso Wanderer Reloaded on the Nintendo Switch for this.
Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2018: The only thing I have for this is something very specific to that fan game I mentioned: I screwed up the melding process on my weapon and had to take extra time to prepare to meld again in Genso Wanderer.
Favorite Achievements by Others of 2018: Don't really have a response for this.
Goals for 2019: Maybe I'll finally actually finish a bullet hell game on Normal or higher without any continues. I know I used to try EoSD and IN in the past but I never quite had the drive to practice even though I wanted to get a clear.
[OPTIONAL] Challenges to Other Players: Not really a challenge so much as a suggestion: If you own a Nintendo Switch or a PS4, I implore you to play Genso Wanderer Reloaded. It's Pokemon Mystery Dungeon but with Touhou characters, references, etc. The art's great, the soundtrack and voice acting is great, and the story while nothing to write home about, enables plenty of character interactions and I love how some of the interpersonal relationships are portrayed here. It has characters from EoSD all the way to Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom (I've been gone so long I don't even know the accepted abbreviation for this. LoLK? LLK?) and I kind of learned about characters past HM from this.