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How to get to grips with Touhou - general hints, tips and advice!
Sakurei:
Graze is when you get close to a bullet without actually hitting it. It's a major factor is almost all scoring system of the regular shooters, with the exceptions of Touhou 2 (which had no graze yet), Touhou 10 (which has no graze) and to an extent Touhou 13 (where graze is fairly obsolete). Touhou 1, 3 and 9 aren't regular shooters so there's no graze in them either, but for every other main game, graze is very important if you want to play for score. It doesn't really have any survival purposes.
Cream Soda:
--- Quote from: Brocolli123 on December 16, 2014, 04:13:55 PM ---Ok I am new and I started on Touhou 6 and I was wondering. How do I tell which ones I can dodge, and what is graze. Because sometimes I walk through the smaller pro]ectiles and even sometimes some of the larger ones. also on the config it says x is block and the power or bombs but I only end up using the power
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The hitboxes are smaller than the sprites, especially on the player character. X is the "bomb" button and makes you temporarily invincible. Bombing is the only way to block bullets.
Maple:
Lasers. How do they work? In technical aspects, are they multiple sprites one after other or a single, elongated sprite? Now more on-topic, does getting close to the laser give me 1 graze point or multiple graze points? I think that was the case with the orb's six lasers in SA stage 4, my mind is nebulous about Kaguya's Dragon Jewel (i'm sure that one are elongated triangles), Shou's lasers (curvy and not), and Alice's Bunraku.
Cream Soda:
In the older games, lasers give you 1 graze each second or something like that (someone correct me if I'm wrong). In the newer games (SA onward), lasers give you graze very quickly and constantly.
anthonyshu01:
How come sometimes my bombs hit super high on a boss but sometimes deal almost no damage at all. Do you need to position yourself somewhere to get the maximum damage out of a bomb or something?