Touhou Despair Thread - Endless 8

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Virtue of Wind God 1 Death No Bomb Timeout. So close, not in terms of time, but in numbers of deaths.

Death was lame.

[Zengeku]

Virtue of Wind God 1 Death No Bomb Timeout. So close, not in terms of time, but in numbers of deaths.

Death was lame.

When you get good at reading VoWG your deaths will always be lame. 

[Autumn]

After Utsuho's 3rd non-spell, I rushed toward the life star thing that appeared...

And that's when she summoned "Fixed Star".

CRASH

Dammit and I could have beaten normal too...   :ohdear:

[Arcengal]

I just failed Flaw of Forgiving Shrine.
Then I captured Volcano in the same run.

Seriously, what the hell.

[Kauhava]

Kanako's last survival card won't let me clear MoF on Normal. This one and the homing knives one have been denying me victory for half a year.
I promised myself that I'd clear it during the summer holidays; my failure will be complete the day after tomorrow.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Tried MoF Hard no bombs because Lunatic is way too hard for me like that.

Deaths:

Hina's midboss card
Nitori's Extending Arm card(Not a surprise, also don't remember how long the actual name is)
Saruta Cross
Aya's second nonspell
Game over on Sanae's midboss card, so you can guess how well(bad) stage 5 went.

[Zengeku]

Hina's midboss card

Why didn't you restart then?

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Because I'm comfortable with almost everything in the game on Hard and figured dying there was a nonissue. Though I forgot how much faster Nitori's midboss card was, but it wasn't an issue.

[Iryan]

Why didn't you restart then?

Why should he?

[Zengeku]

Why should he?

Because a death in Stage 2 isn't desirable when going for a No-bombs run.

[Iryan]

Because a death in Stage 2 isn't desirable when going for a No-bombs run.

Neither is a death anywhere else. It depends on wether or not you are content that you can get consistently significantly farther than the place where you died. Many first time accomplishments like 1ccs or even no-bomb-runs will upon retrospection show that there was at least one death that was quite early and/or plain stupid and avoidable.

My perfect lunatic Kanako battle is preceded by dying twice to the stage. Anything is possible.  :derp:

[Zengeku]

My perfect lunatic Kanako battle is preceded by dying twice to the stage. Anything is possible.  :derp:

I just meant that its wise to avoid any easily avoidable deaths to give greater room for error later on. When i made a No-Bombs Hard 1cc a while back i got through the first three stages NDNB but still managed to almost lose my run in the end because of things like, well, Stage 5. And some stupid mistakes. There is also mistakes that are quite hard to see coming. Like mistapping and generally failing at something you are normally 100% consistent at. And it is at those points its nice to not have died during the easiest part of the game.

[HGR]

Beat Yumemi first try, too. Whoops.

[Arcengal]

Why didn't you restart then?

Because restarting every time you don't perfect the game up till stage X gets very old, very fast, and you still have a bunch of resources. My PCB lunatic 1cc came after fighting the most powerful urge imaginable to restart after dying twice with full bombs to Spring Kyoto dolls.

[MTSranger]

Because restarting every time you don't perfect the game up till stage X gets very old, very fast,

Agreed. I only restart if I actually die like 4 times before stage 4.
It still bugs me a lot though, in a run where I could've 1cced EoSD lunatic if not for a death in Rumia.

[The Greatest Dog]

I died twice to Hina in my Lunatic 1cc.

And I still ended 2/4.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

I hate Reimu's fight. Let's die 6 times because Sakuya completely sucks.

A Sakuya solo 1cc wouldn't even be that hard if she didn't have to fight Reimu.

[Iryan]

So apparently freezing too many bullets, as in, say, the yellow-green streaming part during Extra, causes me slowdown.

... 

[Arcengal]

I just failed Wizards Fox Thoughts.

[Jiju]

My last lunatic 1cc attemp ended by GameOvering in Cephalic Plate  :V
I blame myself for not bombing.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

I almost didn't clear this

I need to play UFO Extra more often because I barely ever do so every run I do completely fails.

[SegaSaturnGal]

SWR's story mode is H-A-R-D for me...I obviously need to play as other characters besides Remilia.

[Udongein]

IaMP/SWR/Soku is H-A-R-D for me

^How I feel about the fighters in general.

Pretty sure I (barely) managed a 1cc with Reisen on Normal, though I can't really bring myself to care enough to find out how broken she is/isn't.
Anyway, from my somewhat limited experience with SWR, Remilia isn't that bad. Though if someone else wants to correct me feel free.

[theshirn]

SWR's story mode is H-A-R-D for me...I obviously need to play as other characters besides Remilia.

Took me quiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite a while to Lunatic 1cc that one.  Master Spark's invincibility frames were the only way I could beat Scarlet Weather Rapture of All Mankind.

[nintendonut888]

I really would not recommend trying anything big with Remilia's story mode unless you're really confident in her, since it's so much longer than everyone but Tenshi's.

[Esoterica]

While I know the fighters (or used to know them, it's been awhile) inside and out, I couldn't get into story mode outside of IaMP.  Opponents with super armor = combos become impossible = screw this.

Basically what I'm saying is, I can't really help with story mode, because characters that are good outside of it could be useless in it, and vice versa.  Generally speaking, I remember Reimu's, Marisa's, and Sakuya's scenarios all being beatable with 236C abuse, and remember Reisen's being easiest due to it only being three stages long.

[ebarrett]

Story mode: find something abuseable, abuse it,  you don't even need to learn to play the game

I did IaMP and SWR with Alice, IaMP by kicking everyone in the shins and SWR by lolsemirandomdollspam. And Hisoutensoku has Cirno's 6C.

[Esoterica]

Story mode: find something abuseable, abuse it,  you don't even need to learn to play the game

I did IaMP and SWR with Alice, IaMP by kicking everyone in the shins and SWR by lolsemirandomdollspam. And Hisoutensoku has Cirno's 6C.

See, this is exactly what I'm talking about.  It's like an entirely different game; instead of learning combos, mixups, etc. you just find something that works and abuse it.  Characters with powerful one-shot moves suddenly become god tier.

[Chainsaw Guitar]

The same goes for pretty much every other fighting game. You'll always be in for a nasty surprise when you play against an actual person for the first time no matter how good the AI may seem at first.

[Zengeku]

Because restarting every time you don't perfect the game up till stage X gets very old, very fast, and you still have a bunch of resources. My PCB lunatic 1cc came after fighting the most powerful urge imaginable to restart after dying twice with full bombs to Spring Kyoto dolls.

Alright i guess.