~Hakurei Shrine~ > Help Me, Eirin!
Help me pick a new lunatic to 1cc
nintendonut888:
Oh, you didn't 1cc with default lives? That really does invalidate your run unless you cleared with two lives remaining. See, two extra lives gives you essentially 8 extra chances, since three bombs per life plus the two hits you'd get from dying without bombs adds up to eight. I could 1cc EoSD lunatic in my sleep if I still played on max lives. The only game where it doesn't REALLY matter is SoEW, because lol playing on max lives puts you one below maximum (maximum is 6 lives, and max starts you with 5), so you have to start suiciding anyway to get all the lives (you even have to do this with default lives actually...).
And you've seen lunatic videos. Well, check out replays, and you'll notice most of them are default lives.
Ghaleon:
--- Quote from: nintendere888 on June 22, 2009, 06:55:06 PM ---Oh, you didn't 1cc with default lives? That really does invalidate your run unless you cleared with two lives remaining. See, two extra lives gives you essentially 8 extra chances, since three bombs per life plus the two hits you'd get from dying without bombs adds up to eight. I could 1cc EoSD lunatic in my sleep if I still played on max lives. The only game where it doesn't REALLY matter is SoEW, because lol playing on max lives puts you one below maximum (maximum is 6 lives, and max starts you with 5), so you have to start suiciding anyway to get all the lives (you even have to do this with default lives actually...).
And you've seen lunatic videos. Well, check out replays, and you'll notice most of them are default lives.
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I'm talking about replays. I got "halbrad"'s first 1cc, description something like "can't...breath". he had 5 lives.. I have "laggy''s first 1cc, again 5 lives. have 2 others (forget their names, I remember those 2 since I picked them for every touhou game pretty much), only one that had 3 was kefit's no focus run. (which I got mostly because I wanted to see reimuA in action more than no focus).
I'm pretty sure I can do it with default lives anyway after several frusterating attempts, which I think I'll do simply because I'm still having loads of fun with eosd.
Pretty sure my lunatic clear had 2 stupid stupid deaths on stage 5 with full bombs too. Plus I died as remi had like 1 hp left, doh.
nintendonut888:
Well, that was back in the old days when Kefit was apparently regarded as a god for 1ccing EoSD lunatic on default lives and it was previously thought to be impossible. These days it's more common, though IIRC it's still the least beaten lunatic for the Windows games.
Nuclear Fusion:
:parsee: Ghaleon, I hate you.
Also, how many times a day do you play?
Schpwuette:
Essentially those 2 extra lives give you breathing space.
With them, you can die once in stages 1-3 and still hit max lives during stage 4. And you have one safe death during Patchy, too.
Without them, every life is important, because the most you can get is 9 (i.e. max).
It doesn't make toooo much of a difference though. Just a matter of making less silly mistakes.