Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
~Hakurei Shrine~ => Help Me, Eirin! => Topic started by: チソウ タイゼン on April 09, 2012, 10:56:48 PM
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Me and a couple of people on 64digits are talking about shmups, and I remembered this:
Back when I first played the games, I was so. bad. at. them.
I didn't know squat about slowdown rates (if you look you can see first day me submitting replays with 50.5% slowdown :V ), so I had to beat all the games at half speed.
On Easy.
And Kanako still gave me a horrible time.
At half speed.
This was in March of 2010.
(I actually have that half speed Kanako video on YouTube, so if you ever wanted to know :getdown: )
I started playing in July of 2009.
Yup! That's right! :V
I've only been playing for three years and now I've only gotten as far as PCB Hard clears!
So what about you?
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I started on July 2010. I wasn't that great at them. I could only clear IN on Easy a few weeks I started. It took me a while to be able to clear PCB on Easy, so I could unlock Extra. I kept playing PCB Extra for a while and I managed to clear it for the first time on November 2010 with Reimu B. Cleared Phantasm for the first time with Sakuya B on February 2011. My first Hard was with Reimu B (PCB) last July (Not counting MarisaBug). Then I cleared IN Hard a few days after.
I'm trying to break 1 billion on UFO Easy and improve my TD scores. I'd like to work on my IN Easy solo Youmu runs but I'm not a fan of IN
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Man, where do I begin?
I started in 2007. The first game I got was Mountain of Faith, and I understood little about the gameplay. I didn't know how to focus, for example. Bombing was something I did by default when encountering any spell card.
Over time, though, I did learn the mechanics and some strategies better. I was able to 1cc Imperishable Night and, overjoyed by how enjoyable the ending was, gave MoF my all - on Easy Mode - eventually 1ccing the game ... only to get the message "next time try Normal or harder lol".
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This was my first shmup series. Started playing EoSD on 11/11/11, so in five months I've cleared all extras, 1cced IN Lunatic and everything else except UFO on Hard. Pretty good, I'd say.
Honestly, this was the type of game I've probably been looking for my whole life. I've always been good at dodging things, so no wonder I'm naturally good at it.
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Ahahaha, I remember about nine months ago (a pregnancy!?) when I found Touhou and started playing Perfect Cherry Blossom, I turned on max lives and the Slow Mode options, playing Easy Mode, and spent about a week getting my first 1CC Easy. I wish I still had the replay of 10% Reflowering. I bombed / broke a border on EVERY red butterfly wave. Nowadays, I only bomb about every other one. :V Some things don't change.
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I first played SA on November 7, 2009. Although I had experimented a bit with Raiden Fighters Jet shortly before this, I usually describe SA as my first real bullet hell game. From what I remember, I 1cc'd Easy the day after I started (November 8th), and Normal less than two weeks later. I would soon branch out to other Touhou games over the coming months, first MoF, then PCB, though the exact order in which I first played EoSD, IN, and UFO is hazy at this point. A basic milestone would be my first Lunatic 1cc, which was PCB on March 27, 2010, though interestingly I got my second, MoF, the very next day.
I don't think there were any major discoveries from a technical standpoint that I made over my early Touhou experiences - sure, I would still need to improve resource management, but I knew I had that stuff at my disposal regardless, and all other aspects of controls were simple enough. The hurdles I faced were more mental than anything else, and I would only get "good" after overcoming them.
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Gameplay performance aspect... of my Touhou past. Alright.
I started playing in 2011, on January 27th, if you want the exact day. My first game was SA, which I 1cced on Easy the day I got it, and Normal the day after. I was addicted instantly. As I recall, some early diffculty was confusing the controls, like letting go of the shot button when I meant to unfocus and that kind of thing. I was also very reluctant to bomb for a while, despite playing SA where you just get the bombs back anyway. I started playing the other games and clearing Normal and Extra, going chronologicaly for the most part, though I played PoFV all the time because I liked it a lot. EoSD was the hardest 1cc for me, which took a day or two, and Flandre and Yukari both gave me a lot of trouble. After playing them all I thought I could try Hard mode, which I did in SA because I was most familiar with it. Some time after ~6 months I did Lunatic in SA and EoSD, again mostly because I was familiar with them, and then just did the rest in random order. In January (2012 of course) I did SA at 90fps, which really tought me how to bomb properly, and where to look on the screen to read the bullets better, which also helped with my inability to deal with diagonal bullets.
I've never done anything in the realm of scoring. :V
Kind of a monologue, sorry about that.
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Started September 9, 2009. I was so obsessed with Cirno, so I ended up finding a Touhou wiki page and under listed games I saw "Embodiment of Scarlet Devil" (After looking it up it was the game she appeared in, so of course I got the trial and bought the game once I was sick of Meiling on Easy). Also, the first day that I experienced the trauma of Midboss Kicking (When you're sitting at the top of the screen, a midboss comes in and murders you unfairly). I think I recieved the game in the mail the day that I got an annoying head lice problem resolved, about two weeks later because of shipping problems (Saying this because that's how I remember it).
I did not 1cc anything until late July 2011 when I 1cc'd UFO on Easy with ReimuA (And I deleted the replay :qq:), most of the reason being I wanted to play at 60FPS, which my old computer couldn't (1GB RAM, 75GB HDD, I think 64MB Video Card) even run when in 16-bit mode. For my birthday, I got this computer which was leagues ahead of the old one. I loved UFO to death and played virtually nothing but that until late July. If you're wondering how I got the games yet barely played one of them before, it's because one of my uncles decided to give me more money than I deserved one year for my birthday (I think around 700 dollars :V, and I am NOT kidding about this. He seriously gave an 11-year-old 700 dollars), which I used to buy all of the freaking games. I think I still have some money saved up for simply buying the games when they come out.
If you look all the way to the back of my YouTube page, you'll see I was a major Imperishable Night fan, clearing Last Words and Lunatic spells. I actually can't play Lunatic for shit right now. If I die to Wriggle (Unless it's her last card *SHUDDER*), I wouldn't accept it, ALT+F4 BITCH.
My first Normal clear was Ten Desires, a game that I now hate, and I cleared it on Halloween and made the video a month later because I'm lazy.
I think that the last Normal clear that I did was UFO with ReimuB and I did that I think in January.
The first Extra clear was PCB, on December 23, 2011.
My first Hard clear was Imperishable Night with the Border Team.
My first Lunatic clear was May 32, 9027 because I suck at these games.
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I started playing on August 19, 2011, having never played any bullet hells before. My first game was EoSD. I was pretty bad at first, being unable to get past stage 3 on Normal mode. It took me about a month to 1cc the game on Normal mode. After that I moved on to PCB, then IN, and then PoFV, where I am now (as you can see, I'm going through them in order). I have 1cc'd EoSD on Hard mode, and though I haven't for PCB or IN I haven't really tried for those two either - I consider myself a Hard mode level player. That's pretty much it.
Also the people who get to Lunatic level in like half a year make me sadface
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I started sometime during June of 2010. The only bullet hell experience I really had was some Raiden arcade game I played when I was in third grade, and I used like 2 continues on stage 1. IN Extra was the first stage I played on a friend's computer. And he wanted me to play it at ~600 FPS.
I died to the first bullet, then I got to Keine. My friend was amazed.
I was completely addicted. The summer of 2010 was basically me in front of the computer while trying to finish homework for preview classes for next year. I managed to 1cc EoSD's, PCB's, and IN's Normals in about a month. I never really got into playing anything after PoFV until around July. My first Lunatic 1cc was sometime in August in IN. Yeah, it only took ~3 months of very long playing sessions to get a Lunatic 1cc. I played for about 6-8 hours a day, mind you.
Then I decided to unlock every spell card I didn't have in IN yet. One of the ones that was still locked was Marisa's Last Word. which requires you to beat Hard/Lunatic with Reimu Solo. I did a run on Hard, and I 1cc'd it with 7 lives left. I look at the score, and, woah, I passed 3 billion for the first time! I checked the Royalflare scoreboards and, what, I got into the top 10?! Freaking impossible, I could have sworn I was just capturing cards and getting point items like any other vanilla 1cc...
That was when I thought "Scorerunning might be fun for the other games!" During October, I made a few attempts at EoSD Extra, getting around 250 million with a perfect run. I thought to myself "What. He somehow got over 600 million?" That day was when I realized that life hoarding won't get you anywhere if you're trying to scorerun some of the games :V For the next year and a half, I just stuck to 1ccing every other Lunatic I didn't do yet, then attempting to scorerun the Extras and full runs of IN and UFO.
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So I first found the game series with Imperishable Night, just before UFO was announced.
I got my hands on the game and cheatily snubbed my way to the Extra stage because of that one video of Mokou's fight (and later Kefit's perfect run) and it looked just plain awesome.
And while I was only capable of 2+cc'ing Easy mode, I made every attempt to beat Mokou.
I made my first Fujiyama Volcano capture on my 118th Spellcard Practice attempt.
And then Mokou went down like... Whelp, I can't think of a witty comparison.
Then, UFO came about. And I loved everything about it, except for one thing: I still sucked.
Cue me trying everything in my power to beat Byakuren, who was instantly my favorite character, on Normal (spamming continues enough to make my score XXX,XX9).
Then stuff happened in those two years from then to now AND AWWWW YEAAAH IN, PCB, AND MOF LUNATIC 1CC's or something like that. Also, 90FPS shenanigans.
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I encountered Touhou originally from one of those youtube videos showing the boss from Mushihimesama and it was on the linked videos. I watched videos for a while thinking "These people are insane, I wish I could do that" then realized they were playing on Lunatic and that I might stand a chance on Normal.
So I managed to find all the games in various places and started playing around November of 2010 (I think I played IN first, can't remember). It took me a coupel weeks to get a Normal clear (IN Border Team) then I worked on Normal for the other games. Then one day I decided to try IN Hard for the first time and pretty much bombed all the spells I was even remotely scared of on normal. Somehow I actually cleared it that time, and began to play Hard on PCB and EoSD, while still attempting Normal for MoF, SA and UFO since they were much harder for me. Eventually i did clear all the games on Normal and most on Hard now as well. I have yet to get SA or UFO on hard, but also haven't spent much time on them.
As far as Extras go, I originally played them for the lulz because I never though I had a chance. I started gaining a ton of confidence when I could actually capture some of the spellcards in MoF and kept grinding out to beat Suwako (many runs ending at Suwa War or Red Frog). Then one day I finally managed to get past Suwa War with something like 3.xx power to attack her final card (no, not using MarisaB) and captured it on my first try (lolwut?). I eventually managed to clear all the extra stages, capturing three or four of the final spells on my first try (capturing last spells in games is somewhat of a theme for me in 1ccs and such). I also managed to clear PCB phantasm after a long while mostly due to Yukari's damn survival (which I still haven't captured, or Ran's version T.T).
Overall, I think my gameplay level has gone up tremendously even due to my lack of playing consistently. Now if I can just get myself to use stage practice, maybe I'll get even better lol.
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Started playing EoSD on August 18th 2011, as my first STG, ever. Saw some videos and wanted to see for myself. Yeah, I actually got into Touhou for the games. !_!
Then I started getting the games in chronological order because I had plenty of fun with EoSD. I bet if I hadn't started with EoSD I would have been stuck on Easy mode for a while, but since EoSD basically makes fun of you by not letting you see Remilia on easy, I went back up to Normal almost immediately. So, yeah, thank God for that. :V
It took me 2.5 months to get all the Normal 1ccs, another month and a half to get all the Extra clears and another two months to get all the Hard 1ccs. A month and a half later and I have 4 Lunatic 1ccs under my belt.
Something tells me SA and UFO will take a while, though. :l
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Can't remember when i started so best assumption is at around Novermber/2011 (when i joined MotK). I first started playing IN, then got got bored of it and started trying seriously with PCB on easy, which was easy. But normal, on the other hand, i had so much trouble with, learning to bomb when its right, and dodging, focusing was a tad easier than the rest.
Since then, it progressively got better, and now i'm a lazy lunatic player :V like don't play touhou till i feel motivated enough to practice and 1cc it.
So 2 years of gameplay, finally took me up, though not playing all the time, like taking massive breaks. I feel like a loser spending so much time on a game :ohdear:. But fuck that carry on and play!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSYUM_OLgsY
This answers a lot of things.
Although since then I've gone back and started doing some of the challenges I've already done to see how much I've improved, and am also starting to clear all the hard modes with all the shot types, having finished all the extras with all of them.
no focus UFO normal with 16 captures clearing 5/0 is a lot better than ~8 captures clearing 0/0.
900,000,000 on PCB hard while just playing the game is also pretty good.
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no focus UFO normal with 16 captures clearing 5/0 is a lot better than ~8 captures clearing 0/0.
Was that supposed to be an insult?
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Started in 2009 with IN. Being overconfident after mastering IWBTG on very hard, I thought to myself that I would start on Lunatic.
My ego took a heavy bruised in 2 hours after countless defeats by Wiggles. Took me about two weeks to clear the game on easy mode, then I decided to jump skip all the other difficulties and jump into Extra. Took me a bit less than 200 tries to finally beat Mokou. After that I played on and off, and have not made any significant progress. I have trouble 1ccing PCB on easy, the main problem being I can't deathbomb as easily. IN's deathbomb was a bit of a crutch, added to the fact that I am unable to hold shift, z and x at the same time (bomb won't go off unless I release shift and z), which makes it so much harder to react to the small timeframe. Though recently I did capture Yukari's lastword in IN. Holy hell that took a lot of tries.
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added to the fact that I am unable to hold shift, z and x at the same time (bomb won't go off unless I release shift and z),
I think that's why fail so hard at deathbombing as well
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Was that supposed to be an insult?
no, I was comparing to my old run.
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Oh man. I put my hands on gamepad at december 2010, starting with EoSD normal. I was already familar with touhou universe by that time, being addicted to fanart and music, and getting more and more interest in the games themeselves. At first i played like super badly. Bombed Icicle Fall on every attempt and was super happy finally reaching stage 4, where Patchouli raped me hard :] 2,5 months later after countless assaults full of rage and despair (along with hard persistance) i've got my first normal 1CC
and jizzed in my pants!
In next several months i've cleared normal a couple more times with other characters, and unsuccessfully tried to do the extra stage wich was out of my skill. At the same time Ten Desires demo happened wich took my attention for a long time and was the first game that encouraged me to go hard mode (mostly because of normal being too easy). In summer 2011 i suddenly discovered that vpatch for EoSD exists and it makes things much better. About ten more tries and i've got Flandre beaten \^_^/ In august TD full was released and i've 1CCd it on normal on 4th try, and on hard 2 months later. Things developed rapidly, but i was mostly addicted to TD, although i've discovered MoF and after a lot of tries cleared it on Hard. In January 2012 i've cleared TD hard no-bombs and in february i did my first touhou lunatic 1CC. By the same time i've discovered SA, but wasnt interested in it much, 1CCing it only once on normal. In past two months i was also busy with some ultra, 90 fps and scoring shenanigans.
At the present time i play touhou like ocasionally, and still have no temptaton in trying other games. Though i'm awaiting warmly new ZUN's project whatever it will be :3
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Started playing in August of 2010. Partly because I was always so busy and never could give the games the attention they need to play well, it took me a few months to beat IN on Easy. I wanted to start it on Normal in hopes of moving up after I played another game or two, but spent months and months of failing to beat PCB (I have too much trouble with Youmu and Yuyuko...I swear I need to spend a day just stage practicing the last three stages over and over again before my next attempt). I did beat Ten Desires in a week, though I did spend a lot of time on the demo so I didn't have much to work out with the first three stages.
I have vacation later this month and I hope to do some major work in hopes of bettering myself to possibly move off of Easy in the games I've beat and beat some of the ones I haven't.
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no, I was comparing to my old run.
Oh, I thought you were comparing to MY run, seeing as I ended with 0/0.
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Started playing somewhere around summer 2010, first lunatic clear which was EoSD was in september 2010, finished all windows lunatic 1cc's december 2011. I still suck though.
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Started playing somewhere around summer 2010, first lunatic clear which was EoSD was in september 2010, finished all windows lunatic 1cc's december 2011. I still suck though.
>all windows lunatic 1cc
>i still suck
I started playing in July of 2009.
Yup! That's right!
I've only been playing for three years and now I've only gotten as far as PCB Hard clears!
:I
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Started playing somewhere around summer 2010, first lunatic clear which was EoSD was in september 2010
:I
Was it your first time playing STGs?
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Was it your first time playing STGs?
Yes. Also since December I have done NDNB Extra's of 6-12 and NB Lunatic's of 6-11, but that's bad.
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and jizzed in my pants!
I don't think it's possible to experience orgasm over completing a game.
Unless if it's strictly for adults.
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Started playing around July ~ August 2011 .
first lunatic 1cc : pcb around August ~ September .
Most proud accomplishments : First touhou 1cc (pcb) Normal mode with max lives
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=20162 (replay from 9/8/2011) took me 2-3days of practicing to get it ~
but It's my first no continues touhou 1cc ! (I play normal mode before I try easy mode.)
I still a baby at touhou .
ps. Sorry about my English ~
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I can only gawk at some people's abilities, but anyway...
I started about 5 years ago and gameplay in general was very intimidating. I wouldn't focus on the bullets I should be looking out for, but would instead follow the entire sea of lethal projectiles that appeared onscreen. I recently watched a friend plow through PCB on Normal and mistook it for Hard. In addition, bombing was a frequent must and I would often do so through entire boss fights in order to guarantee some form of progression. It took me a full two years to 1cc any of the games, and I was elated. I'm pretty sure I did so by the skin of my teeth, too. Now, I practically expect myself to 1cc a game anytime I play it. It also took me a full 3 plus years before I could clear an extra stage, and the only thing preventing me from beating my 7th or 8th extra stage bosses are my own laziness. I played MoF's extra stage for the first time in about 10 months the other day and still beat it on my first try. I might not have the raw skill necessary to excel, but practice has carried me a long way.
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Started playing somewhere around summer 2010, first lunatic clear which was EoSD was in september 2010, finished all windows lunatic 1cc's december 2011. I still suck though.
The hell? I see a load of contradictions there, and let me assure you, I'm not doubting your credibility. Christ, that's awfully fast.
I was, uh, slow. I started playing in January 2009, pretty much getting into contact with the game first (well, it was a transition of two songs upon first contact, then EoSD).
I bought all games and 1CCed EoSD for the first time in March or April 2010, I think. Don't even know if that was with max lives or not, but I know that I definitely did do it with standard amounts sometime later. On Normal, SA was my greatest achievement, took me ages to clear compared to UFO, which I cleared in maybe a week, second time I got to Byakuren. Aside from finally 1CCing SA, I think that I had the best moment on the evening I 1CCed PCB on. Most notably, Lily White's barrage. It had always been a guaranteed Bomb there, but on that evening, for the first time, I could actually read and dodge it. I think that was the first time I had one of those "I'm improving!"-moments, and it's definitely the one I have the most fun recalling, makes me all fuzzy inside.
On Hard, I probably had the most trouble with PCB (though I didn't realize how to properly use Borders for survival until I was about 2 months into clearing it on Lunatic). My first Hard Mode clear was IN Final A in November 2009, my last one was UFO in July 2010.
On Lunatic, UFO was, by far, the most difficult game I've faced, followed closely by EoSD. Lunatic took me a long time, though, cleared the first game (IN again) in November 2010, Final B in December, TD, the last one, in March 2012.
The first Extra Stage I cleared was IN in December 2010, sometime after clearing Hard Final B. I recall that evening quite clearly because I was late for our graduation party because of it. I could have made it in time, but I flat out refused to clear the stage without facing Mokou's Last Word. In the end, I still made it in time to have some fun, as usual, avoided drinking at all and even found 2? on the floor, so I actually made profit going to a party, which was the perfect icing for the cake that day had been.
In between, I cleared DS and the likes. Now I'm working on GFW, which I'll follow with the Beat'em Ups, hopefully before the next game is released.
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Sadly I don't remember my Touhou history that well, so my timeline is fairly messed up. Also excuse the wall of text :ohdear:.
I started in July of 09 with EoSD, and then tried the other games when I felt like I needed a change. When I started, I just pretended that Easy mode didn't exist - I came to Touhou for a challenge, so I mostly played Normal/Hard with some Lunatic thrown in for kicks. IN was my first 1cc, though at the time I didn't really know that 5 starting lives was frowned upon, so in that sense MoF was my first true 1cc. The same can be said of my Hard 1ccs. UFO was always quite nasty to me, and so I cleared UFO Normal sometime after I already had all of my Hards of the main games (maybe excluding SA, I don't remember). I'm not sure where my first Extra came in, I believe it was after I had some Hards done though. Ran Yakumo. Still my favorite Ex boss. The other Extra bosses have been spread out since then, with Nue being just recently (still missing SoEW's and FW's). Lunatics... My first were LLS and MS, though they both had max lives, so I don't count them. MS had enough lives remaining to make it count had I started with 3 though :V. There was a long break between then and my next Lunatic, maybe a year or so. I really got out of shmups in that time - played some Cave games and Touhou casually, but nothing much. Then I got my IN Lunatic 1cc and man that felt good... SA came a couple days later, with MoF/PCB another couple days later. And from there you pretty much have where I am now, give or take a few small accomplishments in-between.
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Yeah I don't really remember it either anymore.
Can't remember the exact dates, so this is coming from memory, my old posts and guesswork.
April 09, saw someone LP the PCB demo and it looked like a fun game. I got it myself not too long since then. I had never played a shmup before Touhou.
I remember going through the games from the oldest to the newest (pc98 aside), so I spend most time on EoSD in the beginning.
1cc'd normal in about a week? I Do remember I had beaten Flan after a month.
Don't remember having much problems with any extra stage after Flandre.
July 09, beat PCB lunatic somewhere during this time.
July 09 - Okt 09, beat a bunch of games on lunatic.
October 22, 2009, 01:47:03 pm - PoDD lunatic 1cc
October 27, 2009, 07:58:13 pm - all spellcards in the series captured.
December 05, 2009, 03:00:02 pm - Every lunatic in the series beaten.
December 10, 2009, 02:53:59 pm - VoWG timeout.
February 06, 2010, 08:02:07 pm - SA perfect stage 5 lunatic
So yeah, all that in 10 months. :V
I think I played the games a lot back then though. And playing StB and PoFV lunatic that early really helped to improve a lot faster. StB brute forces you to learn advanced techniques and PoFV helps you develop raw dodging.
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I started Touhou in mid September of 2011~
First game was EoSD, and I have to say that it's still my favorite game in the series to date :3
I remember how I used to die a lot on Cirno in stage 2 Normal, then give up, go to Easy, and only make it to stage 4 or 5. But now, I've got EoSD, PCB, and IN with both Normal Clears and an Extra Stage Clear, as well as Normal Clears for MoF, SA, UFO, and one for TD. I'm working on PCB Hard now, so let's see how that goes ^^
And I actually spent longer with my EoSD Normal Clear than I did with Flandre . _ ."
IMO, I've gotten quite a bit better since I started~
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IMO, I've gotten quite a bit better since I started~
It'd be shocking if the opposite were true :getdown:
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I started playing in September last year with MoF, and had NO idea what the games were all about.
MoF has a rather different feel to the other games, too, and I remember my moment of triumph when I beat Stage 1 in Easy after 19 attempts :v
I then spent 25 hours trying to clear SA Easy, and after about 356743685 continues, I managed it with Marialice :VVV
I don't play Touhou regularly or in any measured amount, which doesn't help: I spent a week spamming PoFV and then played GFW for three days, then quit for eight more.
I think I 1cced all the Easy modes as follows:
IN
SA
SWR (:V) and PoFV (this was fun)
MoF
EoSD
UFO
GFW
TD
PCB
I still have yet to 1cc 1-5 on Easy :v
At about January this year, I stopped playing Easy after realising I needed to jump a skill level and had been stuck in a rut of fear.
With amazingly few attempts, I proceeded to (just) clear IN, then clear TD, some PoFV, MoF and yesterday, PCB (2nd attempt using SakuyaB, including 2 deaths at Chen :VVV). UFO is within my grasp, and I can get to Byakuren and identify my errors (though sometimes I have bad days and die to Ichirin :V) but SA...
Yeah, SA.
EoSD I got to 2 seconds before clearing Remi's final spell in January.
I keep getting too demotivated to play EoSD, though ;w;
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July 4th of this year will mark my 1-year anniversary of scoring my first Windows-era Normal 1CC. For about a year, a year and a half before that, I had been struggling some on most games, and the only game I'd actually cleared was, in fact, Lotus Land Story. I had a couple of Easy clears - Imperishable Night FinalB, and Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream, but...
It took until near the end of the 2011 - half a year - to complete every danmaku game on Normal. Including Highly Responsive to Prayers. And remember that, when I first started playing, Hisoutensoku was the new game. That should at least give some basis as to where I fall on the timeline.
I struggled. I bitched. I would regularly curse Remilia's name, because I had gotten to a point, especially in June, where I'd get as far as Red Magic and finally peter out. When I beat Remilia for the first time on a 1CC, it was at 0/0.
By the end of the 2011, the only bosses I had not beaten, on Normal, were the Three Fairies, and Suika. And starting this year, I have started on Hard, where Virtue of the Wind God is my new bane. Shinki, Remilia, Yuyuko, and Eirin have all already fallen before me, on Hard. Amazing, how time flies.
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Started summer-ish of 2010, with the UFO demo. Failed Easy pretty badly for a few runs, then I started picking up pace from there.
Today, EoSD/PCB Hard get. Probably would have done UFO/SA Hard by now had my old keyboard still actually worked. (New laptop now, but the direction keys have signal ghost issues)
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Started playing around mid-January with IN. It took me a good two weeks to get my first 1cc on Normal FinalB and that should probably tell you I didn't have any previous shmup experience. Now about three months later I've cleared all the Windows games on Hard (excluding pofv, gfw and the fighters), MoF on lunatic, a few extras and silly things like nobomb MoF extra with ReimuC.
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Started playing August 2011, about 8 months ago. Tried EoSD first, because I wanted to play the games in chronological order.
As a complete shmup-newbie I thought "Why not try Normal Mode?" and was raped HARD. After about 2 painful weeks of futile attempts trying to REACH Remilia with max lives , I decided to take it easy :yukkuri:
Then I was busy with clearing all Windows Games on Easy Modo for the next 3 months to get used to Touhou. Exactly 4 months after I started playing Touhou I 1cc'd EoSD Normal for the first time(default lives, of course).
Then I 1cc'd PCB Normal with all shottypes on a single day and am still busy with IN Normal since that. To be fair, I rarely did play Touhou since last month, and am currently trying to get used to Scarlet team.
Still no EoSD Extra clear because I somehow screw up everything after Kagome,Kagome everytime...More Practice needed!
I want to play MOF/SA/TD, but I also want to get IN done finally...
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Started sometime around fall 2009, with my first clear being EoSD Easy. ...haven't progressed very far at all since then; still working on a UFO Normal clear, although I have beaten PCB Extra/Phantasm, IN Extra, and MoF Extra, for what those last-life clears are worth.
Current priority of clears to work on is Mystic Square Extra, UFO Normal, and 10D Hard.
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I started playing around two months ago, kicking off with TH13 Ten Desires. There was a discussion regarding it going on in a chat I frequent and since I had Subterranean Animism imported a good year prior to that (and have only touched once since then because I couldn't really get into the series and the controls with my laptop keyboard were beyond atrocious), I figured I might as well give it another go and am since then addicted to the series.
Back then when I started out, I sucked big time, instantly jumping into Hard mode of TD and getting my rear handed to me several times until I lowered the difficulty to Normal and finally stood a chance against the game.
I came a long way in these two months, having 1CC'd TD, SA (which I incidentally managed today) and both routes of IN on Hard, 1CC'd the other games on Normal and cleared all Extras and PCB's Phantasm (TH6-13 not counting the spin-offs). The Extras each took me a good day to beat, consistently retrying for hours until I got them down.
I'm still far from being a great player - and still make a lot of silly mistakes which should *never* ever happen - but I wouldn't classify myself as a bad player either. I have a Youtube Channel right here (http://www.youtube.com/user/Buuhuu19/videos) where I upload small achievements of mine to so if anybody's interested, go nuts. Due to my slow connection though, I haven't gotten to upload all my Extra runs yet, hence the rather short videos. (Sorry if this sort of advertising is prohibited, please let me know if I should remove the link)
Well yeah, 'tis a fine first post for a newbie isn't it? :P
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Don't worry, people shamelessly advertise their Youtube channels all the time. ;)
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I've said this before, but first Normal 1CCs or whatever are exciting for the very same reason High School American Football or lower is exciting - I want to see men (or women) doing manly stuff, and pushing yourself to your limit against overwhelming odds and succeeding (possibly while sweat runs down your muscular torso, dropping down from the very peaks of your manly nipples), yes, that's exactly what I want to see. Do not downplay your own achievements, never, that's not manly (though you shouldn't act like the total crack either, balance, you know!).
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I started playing Touhou around July 2010 or so, after hearing some Touhou music (specifically, Reach for the Moon Immortal Smoke) somewhere else, asking what it was, finding a video of the game it originated from, watching like 10 or 20 other videos of games in the series, and deciding it seemed interesting enough to try. I'm normally pretty good at video games and a fast learner, so I was rather surprised to have trouble completing the games on Normal (it took me 4 months to get a Normal 1cc of any game, which I later found out was fairly typical). It was still pretty enjoyable though, since I like games with good music and high difficulty (as long as they don't have 1 hit forced restart).
If I recall correctly, each time I tried a game, I tested out each of the shot types on Normal, decided on one, then switched to Easy and aimed for a 1cc there (which gave me some trouble until I learned to bomb in advance). I've been alternating between the various Touhou games (and plenty of unrelated games) since then. My first 1ccs have tended to come in groups; that is, I got several Normal 1ccs right after each other, and same with Extra clears, Hard 1ccs, and in the last month or so, a few Lunatic 1ccs. (I've been uploading my first 1ccs of each game/difficulty on YouTube ever since my second Normal 1cc, except for a few PC-98 clears that were unrecorded or had recording issues, and lower-difficulty 1ccs of games I didn't try until I was already decent at a higher difficulty. Not that I get many viewers.)
I've also noticed I seem to care more about score than a lot of players I've seen, judging from my scores on my first 1ccs compared to other first 1ccs I've seen. (I even remember being told at one point when I was new to the series that the reason I was having trouble was because I was bombing for point items and/or trying to auto-collect way too often, especially in MoF which was one of the first games I tried. Of course, then I responded by getting into a habit of staying at the very bottom of the screen like a lot of new players, which took a while for me to get out of...)
So I guess in the last 21 months I've progressed from having trouble on Easy to having several Lunatic 1ccs. Not sure if that's fast or slow or completely and utterly average or what. (I didn't really feel like I actually knew how to play Touhou until I was down to my last few Hard 1ccs, actually.)
Oh and recently I decided to try posting on this site, though I created this account a while ago for the purpose of more easily keeping track of new posts. Not that this is in any way related to Touhou gameplay, but just thought I'd get that out there.
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I've had nothing but a terrible time trying to get better at Touhou. It was a miracle at all that I 1cc'd IN and cleared PCB on normal. It's like I've reached a block I can't surpass, and it's infuriating. I was so impressed with myself when I could start making it to stage 3 or even 4 without dying on normal, but now I cease to get better. I could probably play more, so I don't exactly have an excuse. Still irks me though.
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I started playing Touhou at November 2011, my first playing is EoSD, and my first thought playing normal EoSD "Meh, I'm gonna beat this game".
Then, in middle of play "WTF is this?? So much wall bullet! Oh no my continue depleted!" (I can't past Patchy, seriously) and, yes, I'm ragequitting EoSD (FYI, I haven't 1cc EoSD for 5 months).
Moving on, after ragequit EoSD, I'm play PCB. and success complete normal mode but not 1cc. I'm training and training but I can't 1cc PCB :V
Next, at December 2011 I'm playing IN and addicting play it because deathbomb delay system :derp: , and success 1cc normal and hard. I skip th9 (I can't play separated screen) and MoF (too damn hard)
January 2012, I'm not play any danmaku at all, but playing touhou fangame (Touhou Pocket Wars Evo+, Labyrinth of Touhou, Genius of Sappheiros, Touhoumon) until Feb 2012. Beginning of Feb 2012 start playing SA (ragequit, too hard), UFO (ragequit too), TD (success 1cc normal). For 1 month, I'm playing TD Extra mode, but I can't clear it, then to cool my anger, back playing IN Extra Mode. About 10+ trying, I success conquer IN EX mode with 2 lives remaining. Then I'm back playing TD EX mode, and clear it with zero live.
Mid March 2012, I'm playing ctc and unlock Phantasm mode (but haven't play it), then I'm search youtube some danmakufu script and found Phantasmagoria Trues, very interesting stage script. It's EX Mode difficult beyond all Touhou game I've play so far (yes, I'm not kidding), 2 mid-boss and ridiculous amount of bullet flying toward you.
Sadly, at beginning April 2012, my down arrow keyboard broken, and I can't play Danmaku anymore, and for 3 weeks I haven't touch Danmaku :ohdear:
Buy new keyboard? Well as long as that keyboard still function, I won't change it (such a waste only one arrow broken I threw it), so I decide buying PC controller, but still searching it.
EDIT : Remove any bullshit I made, sorry for inconvinent (I spell that right?)
And that's conclude my history, if anything missing, blame Keine for eating my history (lol jk)
Last, sorry for my bad grammar, English is not my main language :V (but fully understand English)
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Bwuh
What is it with some people and elevating to Lunatic mode clears in less than a year
please remove the implications that you downloaded the games it's against the rules
I'm JUST GETTING to where I'm reaching Fifth Stages on Lunatic mode, right now :getdown:
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That's some seriously impressive learning speed there, I hope we'll see some elegant replays from you. As long as nothing but the down arrow key is out of order, may I suggest you some non-vertical Touhou? :V It's a pretty popular special handicap. At least PCB Extras and EoSD everything are confirmed to be clearable, I haven't tried anything else.
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EDIT : forgot to mention, before my down keyboard totally broken, I manage to clear 180 fps Danmakufu Iku Nagae Script at hard mode.
WAT
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BTW, You can play Danmaku with the numberpad keys.
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WAT
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BTW, You can play Danmaku with the numberpad keys.
yes, if my keyboard is normal (I'm using slim keyboard, that almost looks like notebook)
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At least PCB Extras and EoSD everything are confirmed to be clearable, I haven't tried anything else.
Basically anything without too much forced vertical dodging should be doable. SA/UFO and their extras are probably all impossible. My memory isn't kicking in well enough to say what else would be though. Probably just extras.
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Basically anything without too much forced vertical dodging should be doable. SA/UFO and their extras are probably all impossible. My memory isn't kicking in well enough to say what else would be though. Probably just extras.
IBUKI did SA Extra no vert about a year and a half ago with the Marisa shottypes.
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Really? That's pretty surprising. Between genetics, the timeout, polygraph, and rose, I wouldn't have thought there to be enough resources to get through it all.
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Really? That's pretty surprising. Between genetics, the timeout, polygraph, and rose, I wouldn't have thought there to be enough resources to get through it all.
The first 3 are basically what ate all of his resources :V
He timed out the first phase of Rose. Basically, he stayed at one side of the screen, dodged two rings, went to the other side of the screen, dodged another two more rings, and went back to the same side. For a whole 192 seconds.
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I started playing Touhou in February 2010. I 1CC'd my first Touhou game, EoSD, on Normal approximately two months later, and defeated Flandre for the first time on July 2nd. Some time shortly after that (I can't remember exactly, but it was at least a week), I defeated Mokou. I then proceeded to beat Ran not long after, but Yukari took a little longer. (I remember it was near the end of August when I beat her...I think it took me about two weeks to defeat her).
I defeated Suwako in early September when I was hanging out with one of my newly-made college friends as a freshman, and I was showing her the Touhou games. She challenged me to give the Extra Stage a try, and I was like "but I'm gonna get raaaaped!" but she was like "do it!" And so I did, but I actually managed to beat Suwako. (Now she won't let me hear the end of it about how she was right xD)
I don't exactly remember when I 1CC'd my next game, which was SA, but I do recall that I defeated Koishi in mid-November that year. I remember being in the middle of my winning run when my friends were texting me telling me to meet up with them for dinner, but I was like "hang on, just a little longer!" When I finally beat her, I was ecstatic and went on to tell my friends over dinner, but they didn't really care. :ohdear: About a month later, I think, was when I managed to defeat Nue...actually I'm sure it was about a month later, because I think I remember being on winter break when the victory came.
Anyway, those are most of the major milestones I remember, aside from my biggest one in recent history--beating my first Touhou game (IN) on Lunatic--which happened a little less than a month ago.
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IBUKI did SA Extra no vert about a year and a half ago with the Marisa shottypes.
Have the replay?
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Excuse me, but I could have sworn that Youkai Polygraph existed.
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Excuse me, but I could have sworn that Youkai Polygraph existed.
I'm pretty sure that bombs exist too.
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Excuse me, but I could have sworn that Youkai Polygraph existed.
Philosophy of a Hated Person exists too but that doesn't stop him from kicking Koishi's ass :V
Have the replay?
Here's one for MarisaB.
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I'm pretty sure that bombs exist too.
This response deserves a thumbs up
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Four four second bombs across five lives against 110 (+99 maybe) seconds of survival card
And Subterranean Rose
Yeah, okay