Touhou Despair Thread - Endless 8

[ark]

For Yukari's first card you can time the streaming based on the sound.

Zenki and Goki is ridiculously easy; just stream very slowly to the left or right, while dodging the non-aimed bullets. If you're not using a terrible shot type, you can probably kill it within 3 waves as well, if you more or less stay under Ran.

[MTSranger]

For Yukari's first card, you watch the white bullets and tap once only when they are *about* to hit you.
This ensures that you dodge the whole stream, not part of it.
You also have to tap for every single wave, unlike Ran.
By following the above, you shouldn't hit any green waves, but you will have to stream faster if that somehow happens

Zenki and Goki, if you use Sakuya A, you don't even have to turn around.
Regardless, it's just streaming left to right, right to left, until Ran dies, and turning around is easy anyways.

[8lue Wizard]

stream
dodge shit
stay under Ran.

Pick 2. :V

besides, I'm not saying it's hard, just that it's harder than Chen's version. Any way you slice it, three waves is still three waves, and Red/Blue only takes one.

Look, I appreciate that y'all're trying to help. I do. But this's just something I gotta keep practicing 'til I get. If I wanted help, I would've posted in the Spellcard Help thread. Instead, I posted in the "retain your sanity in ways that don't involve bashing your head against a wall until you can no longer see straight" thread. 'Cuz if I couldn't see straight, then I couldn't read bullets. And then my chances at winning would go right out the window. (It's not as if I could ask my reflexes to pick up the slack. =P )

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Holy shit, new reply.

you shouldn't hit any green waves,

That is the problematic bit, isn't it? :V

if you use Sakuya A

(sidenote: holy shit is SakuyaA horrible)

:V

[HGR]

Reached Lunatic Yumemi with 4 lives.

She didn't get hit even once.

[Zengeku]

Spoiler:

She's not Marisa.

Yeah i like Marisa over Reimu as well but since IN she took a turn down the wrong alley when it came to shmup competence.
And i have a Marisa pillow cover. really, i do. And it cost me a fucking fortune.

[ark]

if you use Sakuya A

Stop right there. You don't use SakuyaA.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Was getting tired of getting owned by Kogasa and Stage 3 for a bit.

So I tried more MoF Stage 6.

Failed several Divining Crop timeouts with a few seconds left.
Failed several Yamato Torus timeouts with several seconds left.
Couldn't even get close to 2DNB VoWG timeout because my consistency on the card is nonexistant.

[MTSranger]

Stop right there. You don't use SakuyaA.

I'm not saying you should. In fact you probably shouldn't.

[orinrin]

I'm not saying you should. In fact you probably shouldn't.

SakuyaA is more challenging.   :V

[Inactive person]

Am I the only one that thinks SakuyaA is awesome :V?  (First Normal+ except Lunatic (because I'm not done yet) 1ccs were done with SakuyaA..)

[orinrin]

Am I the only one that thinks SakuyaA is awesome :V ?  (First Normal+ except Lunatic (because I'm not done yet) 1ccs were done with SakuyaA..)

She's not that bad, it's just everything else is better.

[MTSranger]

She's not that bad, it's just everything else is better.

Well, Reimu A has piss poor damage that is even worse than Sakuya A.
Sakuya A's problem is garbage cherry gain and her bomb gets very little cherry and is not good at clearing bullets.

I would take Sakuya A over Reimu A, especially in extra/phantasm,
cuz otherwise things take forever to die and I run into BoLad timeout phase :V (well, only sometimes, but...)

[orinrin]

BoLad timeout phase

Nothing wrong with that.   :V

[ark]

Well, Reimu A has piss poor damage that is even worse than Sakuya A.

False; even ReimuA is better. See comparison. The only advantage SakuyaA over ReimuA is an extra bomb.

I'm not suggesting that anyone should use ReimuA either, though.

[MTSranger]

False; even ReimuA is better. See comparison. The only advantage SakuyaA over ReimuA is an extra bomb.

I'm not suggesting that anyone should use ReimuA either, though.

I obviously looked at that page!

Sakuya A Focus > Reimu A in damage
Who uses Sakuya A unfocus in bosses anyways?

[The Greatest Dog]

Ah ah ah. *fingerwag*

The far distance tests don't account for the fact that ReimuA focus should do more damage while slightly offcenter. Those tests were done with no horizontal movement from the beginning.

[nintendonut888]

B1 lunatic. I had Fairy Overdrive on the ropes, and I just needed to get under the three fairies...and got run into. I captured Three Fairies after it, so that would have been a 1cc.

[ふねん1]

I just had a 1DNB Lunatic Aya run going, when I died a second time at the last moment of her last card. My "deathwave" ended the attack. It's particularly rage-worthy because I captured Peerless Wind God again.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Did a Hard 1cc with Marisa/Alice team on IN to get a replay to maybe help someone else out. i finished with 3 spare lives because I'm terrible at the team and I didn't remember there being a lot of stuff that was harder than on Lunatic.

I have 1cc'd Lunatic with them, I didn't expect to do that badly on Hard.

[LHCling]

When playing Fairy Wars, I turn my botched (score / survival survival for score) runs into Gold Medal / Mock runs.

This has already happened twice in a row.

[Reddyne]

Well! After 2 weeks of practice, I finally beat Great Fairy Wars!
While on my last continue. I don't think I'm ever 1cc'ing that one.

Of course, there's always my old fall-back, Imperishable Night. Thought I'd finally beat it with MariAri. Alright! Let's go!
Let's have 3 pathetic deaths on the way to a showdown with Kaguya with 3 lives remaining in which I get a game over screen before her second spell card!

I'M GOING OUTSIDE!

[チソウ タイゼン]

MARISSSAAAAA

What is the hitbox of her Master Spark, again...?

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I'm crying actual tears of despair
http://i34.tinypic.com/11izx9s.jpg

[ふねん1]

I died on VoWG because my finger missed the button.

[The Greatest Dog]

That Flaw of Forgiving Shrine game over...

Pffft. Keep going, bro.

although you'll need to learn how to not die on those attacks if you wanna get through the rest of Mokou.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Holy shit, Aya's exploding, I finally captured Terukuni

Crap, Double KO'd 

Capture DENIED

[nintendonut888]

Okay, I call freaking shenanigans on Fairy wars here. I failed C2 Sunny's second spell card even though I didn't die and didn't bomb. I failed because for some reason this game counts a bomb ending at the very beginning of a spell card as bombing during the card, even though it's automatically canceled before any shots are fired. >:| That's just stupid. That card ain't exactly trivial to capture (though I'm sure I'll do it again).

And as for the reason this event happened, C2 is going to be a tough finish. D:

[jc_foster]

OK, so the fact that there's one shottype I haven't cleared UFO easy with is still bugging me, so I figure I'll get it out of the way. First part is great -- no deaths until stage 4. Stage 5 was meh, but still came out with my best Shou fight even though I haven't played UFO in over two months. 4/4 going into stage 6.

..... guess how many times I died on Byakuren. -.-

[Jaimers]

orz

[Zengeku]

That spellcard is the embodiment of the word Despair.

[Formless God]

I used to play that card in a cafe. Everyone was like where the fuck is your player