Touhou Despair Thread - Endless 8

[Reddyne]

I've played Normal to death for pretty much all the games, so I figured I'd finally play on Hard for once in my favorite standby, IN. I mediocred my way to a game over at Tewi. Well, that's alright, I guess. I would've picked up 3 extra lives on the way to Kaguya, too.

[チソウ タイゼン]

Oh god!
The school's computers have enough firepower to run the post-PoFV games at full speed! (and mine does not- /sobs)

AND NOW YUUGI IS THE HARDEST BOSS EVER SOMEHOW

[Zengeku]

No, it was done by suiciding several times to lower the rank so Lyrica's opener wouldn't wall. BV

I would call you something (something adorable obviously) but i'll just refrain from doing so. I should go check if that opener is so damn difficult.

[Arcengal]

A GFW extra run sees me capture Big Crunch and Meteor Perseid. I'm so excited that I might clear the spells I hadn't cleared before in one run!

Then Blazing Star smashes me. Seriously, this is going to be Suwa War all over again.

[Jaimers]

And you thought UFO's curvy lasers were bad.

How about Banshiryuu's curly lasers!?  :ohdear:

[nintendonut888]

I would call you something (something adorable obviously) but i'll just refrain from doing so. I should go check if that opener is so damn difficult.

No, I'm curious what you wanted to call me. A cheater? If we are so petty that something isn't a perfect if it isn't at max rank...

Also, I think I'm going to stop actively going for perfects. I'm losing sight of what's fun in this series by trying to do these things, plus the challenges are just getting to be too much for my patience (why do I think I can perfect Remilia just because I came close once I have like a 1.5% success rate with Scarlet Meister aaaaah).

[Zengeku]

I went on the quest to become the strongest in GFW with the English patch. Pretty hilarious dialogue. I managed to capture Marisa's final spell in the run so i'm glad. I'm not too glad about the rest of the fight though. I really don't like many of those spellcards. Cirno's freezing is too slow. I had many occasions of death because that Ice couldn't be deployed when i wanted it to. That's why i wasn't bothered with stuff in StB/DS' not being possible to handle without the camera. The camera takes a photo the second you tap the button.

And what's up with the bombs? I had one occasion where my bomb didn't go off despite being at 120% Perfect Freeze. And its not just a case of slow reaction speed. I hit the bomb button expecting a bomb and got hit a couple seconds after.

No, I'm curious what you wanted to call me. A cheater? If we are so petty that something isn't a perfect if it isn't at max rank...

Also, I think I'm going to stop actively going for perfects. I'm losing sight of what's fun in this series by trying to do these things, plus the challenges are just getting to be too much for my patience (why do I think I can perfect Remilia just because I came close once I have like a 1.5% success rate with Scarlet Meister aaaaah).

No i wasn't gonna call you anything like that. If anything i'd call you out for jumping over where the fence is lowest for not doing it with ReimuB but that wouldn't be fair (as if i haven't done anything like that before). A perfect run with Marisa is also a nice feat. I just can't understand why you'd have to suicide to make that attack easier. It does not wall you off. It just gets a bit trickier.

[nintendonut888]

Well, I'm used to Marisa's version, and I really don't want to grind a 4:30 long stage for something like this.

On that note of me not wanting to perfect, here's what my day's playing at school (free time~) has given me:

1DNB Satori (Flying Insect's Nest)

2DNB Orin (third non-spell and Ghost Wheels)

2DNB Nue (Blue UFOs and Green UFOs)

orz

[Zengeku]

Well, I'm used to Marisa's version, and I really don't want to grind a 4:30 long stage for something like this.

On that note of me not wanting to perfect, here's what my day's playing at school (free time~) has given me:

Used to marisas version? No need to make excuses. Those two attacks don't take any getting used to. I am no better than you and i went in and destroyed Lyricas openers effortlessly. Playing Reimu exclusively. If you wanna see a tough opener go check out Merlin.

But there is really no point to that. You perfected them and thats good enough. The real accomplishment actually lies in capturing their final spellcard anyway. Thats the hardest thing they got because of how random it is.

And i can certainly understand you about the stage. Its basically 4 minutes of trivial gameplay. Not very exciting. Lily White at least helps keeping things interesting.

1DNB Satori (Flying Insect's Nest)

That sucks man. Having everything ruined by that card? Obligatory question: Was it your own mistake or was it one of those occasions where the card walls you off?

2DNB Nue (Blue UFOs and Green UFOs)

Really? That's like some of the easiest stuff she got. Who are you using?

[theshirn]

If you wanna see a tough opener go check out Merlin.

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[Zengeku]

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I tried it. Forget about Lyrica's opener. This is the real bitch.

[Arcengal]

2 seconds from a gold medal on Blazing Star.  Just panicked.

[Zengeku]

Argh, this is getting annoying. Losing to Byakuren all the time makes me feel like i suck at Touhou. I'm doing rather well on the rest of the bosses in the series.

She definitely receives my award for hardest Touhou boss ever. All the other Stage 6 bosses are pussies in comparison.

[Critz]

Oh god!
The school's computers have enough firepower to run the post-PoFV games at full speed! (and mine does not- /sobs)

AND NOW YUUGI IS THE HARDEST BOSS EVER SOMEHOW

Set the frameskip to 1/2 and 16bit color in config.exe to play at full speed on your computer then. That`s how I play post-IN games (bar IaMP and StB). And after I got the hang of Yuugi, Orin rapes me in every hole.

Also, tried StB and DS. Simultaneously  :V. And I`m sick of both already - Nitori and Reisen can go to hell. Yamame is a bitch in DS as well, but I somehow got all of her spells. I simply can`t fucking wait for meeting Shou and Orin  :colonveeplusalpha:.

[NEETori]

Is it sad that I can't 1cc any game on Easy that isn't IN?
Cuz -insert stage 5 here, 4 in PCB's case- rapes me hard. :ohdear:

[MTSranger]

GFW Extra. Stupid BS stage portion that has undodgeable shit and lasts 5 minutes.
In the lucky attempts that I reach the boss, the fight ended with Test Slave

[Wisp]

I was fighting Kanako on Normal mode and I was on her last spell. All my bombs were used up, my lives gone, and ten seconds left on the timer. I thought to myself, "Just time it out... time it out..."

At the second-to-last second, I heard a "pew" sound and the screen said "Game over!"

Tears of light stained the keyboard. I'm terrible at Touhou

[チソウ タイゼン]

I died when her last card was exploding once.




Anyway, so SA is so full of BS it's crazy
Really
Using anyone other than Yukari is madness and Alice's lasers are backwards. THEY SHOOT OUTWARDS WHEN YOU FOCUS.

And why is Yamame's first nonspell harder than her second?

[ark]

You think Yamame's first nonspell is hard? Wait until you see the Lunatic version :V

Reimu/Aya is fun (but hard) to use in SA.

[FreyasSpirit]

ugh.

going for my eosd extra unlock.  I get to remilia with 4 lives 0 bombs and think I can do it if I don't mess up.  Get to curse of vlad tepes with 3 lives left.  Then I run into a ball that appers.  Then again.  Then again.  All lives lost.

Kept going and nearly had my first red magic capture.  Then I die as she's exploding.

meh.

[チソウ タイゼン]

You think Yamame's first nonspell is hard? Wait until you see the Lunatic version :V

Reimu/Aya is fun (but hard) to use in SA.

I did. I died though because of pre-boss fuckery.

And once again:
Using anyone other than Yukari is madness.

Suika's homing shots suck arse
Aya's bullets are fricking dumb
Alice's lasers shoot outwards when you focus
Patchouli's is.... average.
And Nitori's missiles have that delay I can't seem to tweak to my advantage.
[/bitching]

SA is probably the weirdest Touhou game, as in, the only one I can't seem to Stage 3 on Normal.

[The Greatest Dog]

Nitori's missiles have a delay, so? So did Marisa's frost bolts back in the day of PCB and IN but nobody uses Marisa over Yukari.

Still, Alice would be the equivalent of the Netherworld Team in IN, except with weird shotgun potential and not more powerful than Needle Reimu.
Patchy is meant for destroying stages, but needs memorization.
Suika has horrible homing, so she's like the new MarisaLaser type. Except that she's still piss weak.
Aya is lulzy.
And Nitori is like Yukari, only suffering from Phantasm>Stage 3 Boss syndrome. But the bomb is great for extra.

[チソウ タイゼン]

I never used PCB-Marisa

I never used the Ghost Team (That's what I call them, it rolls off the tongue better )
Aya is no laughing matter. Letting go of the focus button somehow and running into Grandpa Hanasaka's Jealous of the Kind and Lovely's STATIC BULLLLLLETTTSS fills me with rage.

As for bombs, the lack of Master Laser Rape is saddening

[Zengeku]

I have used MarisaA in PCB as my main character once but i for some reason switched to Reimu at one point. Maybe because i felt i was doing bad with Marisas movement speed being too fast or something and decided to switch over to what i was used to from the rest of the series. I dunno. Marisa was a good choice though. Not like today. ZUN just keeps her around but she never gets any really good shottypes. Shame.

In other news, GFW Easy Route A2. Wasted my time with this. Still haven't gotten any closer to Gold Medalling that Orion spellcard thingy. Don't remember what its called. The fairies just come down to my position and wall me off. I'll experiment with something different later on.

[Alfred F. Jones]

Last night, I played Double Spoiler for the third time.

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate this game? Because I do. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

[nintendonut888]

Last night, I played Double Spoiler for the third time.

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate this game? Because I do. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.

I'm curious, can you say exactly what about it makes it worse than StB?

[ARF]

I died with 21 seconds left trying to no photo scene 7-6 in double spoiler Agghhh!

[Alfred F. Jones]

I'm curious, can you say exactly what about it makes it worse than StB?

I honestly don't know. The music is meh (except for Infinite Nightmare <333333), but so was StB's, and I didn't dislike it for that. Maybe the characters? But no, I care more for the cast of DS than I do StB's. The patterns themselves? They're more frustrating than StB's, I think, but I also have an adjustable shot alignment to make up for it.

Thinking about it more and more, I think it's just that I liked StB so damn much that anything after that would inevitably be a disappointment. I can't even judge DS on its own merits thanks to having such a high opinion of its predecessor. So really I dislike DS for no other reason than "it's not StB".

Which would explain why so many people who despised StB love DS, precisely because "it's not StB".

[nintendonut888]

Huh, I see. I always try to disspell that bias, so I see DS as an improvement in almost every way to StB. But, fine, I can accept that. Also it has Hatate. :*

[mikeKOSA]

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