Touhou Despair Thread - Endless 8

[ark]

Damn this terrible laptop keyboard. I can barely capture any of Kanako's spellcards (except Medoteko). I guess that VoWG timeout will have to wait until I get home.

On the other hand, I found a tactic that I think will make VoWG easier.

[Jiju]

I play in a laptop so don't know if it harder than a computer,
PoDD, really, even on normal Yumeni rape me and ex attacks start flying from one side to another, and i lost all my lives 
Fukyu Yumeni...

[Arcengal]

I'm guessing that when you start kicking your printer in frustration at dying to a bullet that you didn't see/wasn't there that you should be taking a break.

[チソウ タイゼン]

OH MY GOD GUYS
YOU KNOW THAT OLD HISTORY CARD
LIKE YEAH
I GOT TO KEINE FIVE TIMES THIS ONE DAY
and I kept dying to the SAME BULLET EVERY TIME
It's one of the last blue ones and it's a little to the left and up of the initial red stream
THE FUNNY THING IS THAT IF I WOULDN'T DO THAT I WOULD CAPTURE IT


it's so depressing
:colonveeplusalpha:

[The Greatest Dog]

it's so depressing
:colonveeplusalpha:

Human, youkai, or team?

[theshirn]

arrrrrrrgh Marisaaaaaaaaaaaa

[チソウ タイゼン]

Human, youkai, or team?

Magic Team.

[MTSranger]

fuck

who thought dying three times in stage three was a good idea?

The highlights though:
1. capturing 2 of Patchy's cards and 2 of Sakuya's cards
2. successfully safespotted Eternal Meek

[Critz]

I got killed just as the boss was exploding twice today, on Border of Wave and Particle and Eternal Meek. And all of my tries to 1cc Normal SA went to hell on Stage 5, after stupid deaths on S4. I came to conclusion that I have no business with other shottypes than Reimu A. Furthermore I failed to beat Remilia on lunatic 3 times (my usual warmup) and fucked up a PCB Extra clear which was one bomb away (stupid Marisa B).

Summary: Today, I accomplished nothing. Seriously, if 1% of the horrible curses I`ve been uttering today would come true, then there would be a black hole in place of Gensokyo right now.

[The Greatest Dog]

Magic Team.

Have fun.

EDIT: GOOOOOD WHY AM I TRYING EOSD EXTRA AT 90 FPS?

screw Maze of Love. In other news, I made my first Silent Silene capture, ever, at 1.5 speed.

[Chaotic Phoenixma]

Die with 4 bombs in stock on Undefined Darkness(costing me a no death run)
Die with 4 bombs in stock on Rainbow UFO
Die with 5 bombs in stock on the survival
Die with 5 bombs in stock on Grudge Bow(admittedly I was going for a capture)
Bomb a lot more than expected to avoid a game over.

[Zengeku]

Die with 4 bombs in stock on Undefined Darkness(costing me a no death run)
Die with 4 bombs in stock on Rainbow UFO
Die with 5 bombs in stock on the survival
Die with 5 bombs in stock on Grudge Bow(admittedly I was going for a capture)
Bomb a lot more than expected to avoid a game over.

Bomb the survival. Always. Shit card. Undefined Darkness, either follow Banana's tactic or do it like a man/like me by just luring her around and dodging whatever happens (kills me sometimes but more fun) and always try to capture Grudge Bow because its awesome.

[チソウ タイゼン]

I actually almost timed out Nightmare, except one, the game was lagging, and two, it was lagging at 50% speed D:

There were about ten game seconds left, methinks
(At that lag 10 timer seconds took like 40 actual seconds)

[Janitor Morgan]

In an attempt to improve, I decided to tackle each of the extra stages I'd already unlocked:

EoSD: Laevateinn and Maze of Love tear me apart. Haven't made it to Starbow Break yet, and I'm not exactly optimistic.
PCB: How is Charming Siege from All Sides even possible? I'm not too much better at Soaring Guardian God or Banquet of 12 General Gods...
IN: Ha ha, old chap! EX-Keine and the death fairy -- and yet I somehow still made it to Xu Fu's Dimension. Hmm.
MoF: I've gotten to Mishaguji-sama before, but no such luck recently. I am also incapable of capturing Moriya's Iron Ring for some reason.

ugh

[The Greatest Dog]

IN: Ha ha, old chap! EX-Keine and the death fairy -- and yet I somehow still made it to Xu Fu's Dimension. Hmm.

EX-Keine

You better not be complainin' about that first card of hers.

And that death fairy just involves left right right left right right left right right left right right dead.

[MTSranger]

EoSD: Laevateinn and Maze of Love tear me apart.

Laevatein is easy: after first laser, go right and then above her and then to top left of screen, after 3rd laser, move down and right to center of screen, and then after 4th laser go right, up to the top, a bit left, and down, around the bullets, and then it's her first laser again. Repeat until she is dead.

IN: Ha ha, old chap! EX-Keine and the death fairy -- and yet I somehow still made it to Xu Fu's Dimension. Hmm.

if you are border team, safespot the deathfairy at bottom left corner after locking Ran on it

MoF: I've gotten to Mishaguji-sama before, but no such luck recently. I am also incapable of capturing Moriya's Iron Ring for some reason.

Shoot at the bottom, when a ring almost get you, move as quick as you can around and to the top of screen, when she pauses firing, move back below her. Repeat until dead.

[The Greatest Dog]

tbh Laevatein is the only card I can capture consistently at 90FPS.

[Janitor Morgan]

You better not be complainin' about that first card of hers.

The third one, actually, though Returning-Bridge Ichijo, more often than not, causes a deathbomb. And to be fair, I'm only a Normal Mode player.

I'll try to put those tips into practice. Thanks, you two!

[The Greatest Dog]

so I timed out the death fairy...

Proceeded to perfect the stage up to Flaw of Forgiving Shrine, where I deathbomb twice, losing three bombs.

Proceed to perfect the rest of Mokou, use a Youmu regular bomb and a Yuyuko deathbomb (two bombs spent total) on RROD.

I even capture Possessed by Phoenix's second phase with the uber graze method.

So, no deaths, right?

Died with 2% of Hourai Doll's life remaining. T_T


Btw, have the deathfairy timeout/ALMOSTFUCKINGNODEATHEDMOKOU replay.

[LHCling]

words cannot explain

[theshirn]

one bullet

one goddamn tiny start bullet which somehow didn't freeze = game over on Marisa's last card

[CK Crash]

So I've captured everything on MoF stage 6 'cept VoWG now. I still keep dying to the first 10-20 seconds then perfecting the rest  :derp:

I'M SO BACKWARDS WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME

[MTSranger]

StB - 58 scenes, 8 away from unlocking extra
DS - 48 scenes, 4 away from unlocking extra

God damn it so close, and yet so far away!
Spent 10 hours today, to clear... 4 scenes? FUCK
Do I need to like 1cc lunatic before even trying these scenes?
I can't even clear ONE scene in StB level 10 while I probably need to clear like 5.
In DS, I can't beat Ichirin's fists :ohdear:
and for that fact, most of everything that comes after.

[The Greatest Dog]

DS...

You're still not quite 4 away from unlocking it. You need to clear at least one scene from every level (although there's at least one easy one on each stage)

[MTSranger]

DS...

You're still not quite 4 away from unlocking it. You need to clear at least one scene from every level (although there's at least one easy one on each stage)

I have cleared at least one from each of the 12 levels, or else how did you think I got my 48 scenes?
It's not like I could beat all of Orin's zombie fest or Utsuho's HUGE suns or Iku's curvy lazers

EDIT: cleared one more scene, so now it's 49 for DS! 3 more to go :V
Suwako's rings are lolsy and fun, but whenever I made it to the last shot, I somehow always die stupidly.
Kanako's pillars have walled me way too many times, just as I get to the last shot,
and her snakes are just :V :V :V how?

[ark]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Not once, but twice with 1 second left.

[Zengeku]

Huh? What the heck is up with me? I have been spending 4 hours over the course of this week on clearing through StB again (now only missing a few level 10 scenes and most extras). Much to my surprise i didn't have to spend an age to clear The Ceiling or Mysterium (got both in about 5 attempts) but Shikieiki's bubble spell, Guilty or Not Guilty i think...

Is that supposed to be hard? I found it very annoying this time around. Constantly clipping bubbles. And what's up with the hitbox on that blasted laser?

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Apply this technique to timeout within 5 tries

[ark]

But that's no fun if it's easier.

What part does moving to the corner make easier? The lasers, or the bullets? I have no trouble at all with the lasers; it's just me running into stupid bullets all the time on this awful laptop.

[Zengeku]

But that's no fun if it's easier.

What part does moving to the corner make easier? The lasers, or the bullets? I have no trouble at all with the lasers; it's just me running into stupid bullets all the time on this awful laptop.

The lasers are what usually gets me if i take it in the middle. Because i'm concentrated on the bullets.

[MTSranger]

but Shikieiki's bubble spell, Guilty or Not Guilty i think...

Is that supposed to be hard? I found it very annoying this time around. Constantly clipping bubbles. And what's up with the hitbox on that blasted laser?

dunno, but I have the exact same problem.
I eventually figured out that the laser hitbox is the white plus the PURPLE area, so don't go anywhere near it.
Those bubbles, I think the hitboxes aren't that bad, it's just that I constantly misread them since they are fast,
and as a result, either moved to the wrong place or tried to go through them too early.