Touhou Accomplishments 14 - Easy Mode Edition

[チソウ タイゼン]

actually, i am completely capable of perfecting shou now :V

in the live run i'm currently uploading to youtube

*checks

part 1: 88%
part 2: 40%

i actually perfect the fight up to the last nonspell where i bomb (that was incredibly derpy as i've capped that non before)
and on Demon of Purification, where I glance away and die because i am a tard

but 1d1b is still achievement because i suck at touhou :toot:

[Esper]

actually, i am completely capable of perfecting shou now :V

in the live run i'm currently uploading to youtube

*checks

i actually perfect the fight up to the last nonspell where i bomb (that was incredibly derpy as i've capped that non before)
and on Demon of Purification, where I glance away and die because i am a tard

but 1d1b is still achievement because i suck at touhou :toot:

>Captures Most Valuable Vajra
>Fails one of Shou's nonspells on the same difficulty

Humans scare me.

[チソウ タイゼン]

I've got a better one:

> captures froggy braves the elements
> fails party start

[Esper]

I've got a better one:

> captures froggy braves the elements
> fails party start

...*tilts head*

I swear I'm a youkai of some sort because I would NEVER end up doing that. Sometimes I will do the earlier part and continue, just to prove my point being possibly valid.

[chirpy13]

UFO Normal no red/green summons get (0/2)!  I actually had a much better run survival-wise (one miss the first 5 stages) but it went to shit when I hit that annoying bug that makes you move when you aren't pressing any keys.  I don't mind much though, since my redo had a much better score .

One day I will clear this game on Lunatic... Someday...

[I have no name]

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=20011
Mountain of Faith no bombs hard 1cc?
Yes, that's what this is.
I'm starting work on all hards all shot types...so I go to Mountain of Faith to get that out of the way first.  Of course, this was just a 1cc run until after I died to Minoriko.  I perfected Stages 2 and 3, yay, then died to each waterfall section, the triple popcorn fairy (missed the kill on the first one), and Aya's survival.
Then I die right before midboss Sanae (1 life left).
Then I double KO her nonspell (0 lives left).
Then I capture her spell wihtout frostthrowers on her (1 life left now).

Then I perfect her.

Then I almost perfect the Stage part of 6, but end up dying to the last fairy's last wave.

Then I go into Kanako thinking I already lost, having to perfect her to get the no bomb clear.
So I dodge the opener.
and then the second nonspell without frostthrowers because I moved them early for the second spell.
then I dodge the second spell.
then I capture the 4th spell, and all that stands between me and the clear is VoWG.

I captured it.

So, since my score.dat got corrupted, this re-re-unlocks extra for this shot type.  Low score attack GO

[SuccinctAndPunchy]

Lotus Land Story Normal 1cc.

Stage 4's main trick for killing me seems to be fucking my eyes up with that scrolling background and frankly I think that's shit design when the main difficulty comes from not being able to see what you're doing. Also, Yuuka's Master Spark, how the actual fuck is anyone supposed to dodge that on their first try. I knew it was there and I still conceeded a life to it for not moving before the line came down.

Lotus Land Story is really generous with the extra lives and bombs and stuff, so this one was honestly quite easy to do.

Feels good to have  PC-98 clear under my belt, if only because it makes me feel like less of a graphics whore since I generally don't like the PC-98 games for being really rough on the eyes.

Still, 3-5 are the only PC-98 games I'm really going to even try and get good at, I think SoEW is a horribly flawed game by comparison to the later PC-98 stuff, wonky as fuck hitboxes and very strange bomb delay contribute to this, as well as the fact that (the PC98 games in general have this problem) your own bullets don't fall into the background as easily, meaning I often get confused, not as a result of not reacting quick enough or sheer density but just not being able to see what the hell I'm doing.

[MMX]

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=20011
Mountain of Faith no bombs hard 1cc?
. . .
then I capture the 4th spell, and all that stands between me and the clear is VoWG.

I captured it.

Congratulations! That reminded me again of my first EoSD normal no-bombs run, where i've started with 5 lives, but played so badly that i've got to Remilia with one life and the only death was to Scarlet Shoot :derp:

[I have no name]

Congratulations! That reminded me again of my first EoSD normal no-bombs run, where i've started with 5 lives, but played so badly that i've got to Remilia with one life and the only death was to Scarlet Shoot :derp:

Yeah, the craziest things happen when you don't give up.  I took perfecting Kanako as a challenge at the end (not 'oh I lose'), just like my low-score MoF extra run does everything from Jade of the Horrid River onwards with no lives in stock.

[BT]

Same thing happened to me with [Hard] Devil's Recitation and [Hard] LFS.

Both are still 1/1. :getdown:

[Chuckolator]

Tried TD Lunatic for the first time to unlock the stages in practice (just 1cced Hard not too long ago), and it's a lot harder than Hard. I did manage to capture at least one card from every boss, a few highlights being Heal by Desire (must have been with .2 seconds left, honestly) as well as Mononobe's Eighty Sake Cups and Newborn Divine Spirit.

lol 7 continues though >_>

[Chalros22]

Still, 3-5 are the only PC-98 games I'm really going to even try and get good at, I think SoEW is a horribly flawed game by comparison to the later PC-98 stuff, wonky as fuck hitboxes and very strange bomb delay contribute to this, as well as the fact that (the PC98 games in general have this problem) your own bullets don't fall into the background as easily, meaning I often get confused, not as a result of not reacting quick enough or sheer density but just not being able to see what the hell I'm doing.

Yea, I've never really been a fan of SoEW even though I tried it a few times. Go for Mystic Square now, especially since it's not too bad until the stage 4 boss fight at least for me, and the stage 6 boss theme is EPIC considering the technology used to make it.

[Zil]

Oh yeah, Mystic Sqaure is a thousand times better, so don't let LLS ruin your opinion of PC-98. PoDD's still the best though, so that's the one I'd recommend.

HRtP is also pretty fun for what it is.

[Elysia]

So I just no-deathed SA Extra.

 :]

[Chuckolator]

That was fun, actually, I'm still not sick of it since it actually uses a bit of strategy. More fun than Yoshika's random knife spam and Kyouko's charming siege from all sides.

[Zengeku]

HRtP is also pretty fun for what it is.

See this is exactly why everything Zil says should be disregarded because clearly he's outta his mind.  Though I guess he's right about MS being better than LLS. Because of Yumeko if nothing else.

[Esper]

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How the fuck did I do this when the last run lost all but one life to Yuki and Mai then derped against Yumeko's laser spam, resulting in a game over?

I'm not kidding, this is the first time I've even GOTTEN TO SHINKI without continuing. I won with THREE LIVES IN STOCK. Compared to CONTINUING THREE TIMES, TWICE TO HER FUCKING CHEETO LASERS, this is a pretty massive win and the score seems pretty high. Is it?

Oh and I've tried Extra. I got pretty far for my first try but then on the second try I game over'd to the Jack of an Unknown Face (My nickname for the MS Extra Midboss because he has no suit shown on his card, though you can clearly see a "J".). I need to bomb more.

[チソウ タイゼン]

Oh, hooray.

First try 1CCs are always worthy of celebration.

The game in question?

Marine Benefit.

I got AppLocale running properly, finally
So happy~ I can finally start tinkering with Danmakufu~


Next time: Taizen Chisou Fails to Otohime Kanpukugu

[Makai Butterfly]

Next time: Taizen Chisou Fails to Otohime Kanpukugu

Otohime's actually not all that difficult considering that I got all the way to her "Ten Stars"-like card with the pink rotating bubbles on my first attempt at the stage.  I attribute most of that success to the generous life and bomb system and the fact that I auto-bombed every nonspell.  Those conveyor-belt patterns screw my eyes up still.  Good luck!

[Esper]

YAY I CAPTURED SHINKI'S GOD DAMN CHEETO LASERS ON NORMAL

[ARF]

Nailed sub 8 million on the special challenge in extra. Replay uploaded when I can.

[Zengeku]

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How the fuck did I do this when the last run lost all but one life to Yuki and Mai then derped against Yumeko's laser spam, resulting in a game over?

I guess it's because you dodged well. Only 5 miss and 7 bombs. Go for Hard mode next!! - And once you feel up to it, you can go for a Lunatic that I've never cleared.  :V

[I have no name]

So I just captured Emerald Megalith on lunatic.

In a 1cc run, with a bomb in stock.  Seriously guys, what's so hard about this spell  :V

[Zengeku]

Iirc, it's something a lot harder when rank is maxed out. It's either that or something related to bubbles. It doesn't look hard but it probably has it's reputation for a reason.

[I have no name]

and after capturing Emerald Megalith I went on to manage the lunatic 1cc, with MarisaB, and default lives.

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=20026

Iirc, it's something a lot harder when rank is maxed out. It's either that or something related to bubbles. It doesn't look hard but it probably has it's reputation for a reason.

I died to the book, bombed right before Patchy and then bombed again on the second non-directional laser.  Emerald Megalith is third, so after the last bomb I captured a spell, so it must have been close to, if not at, max rank.

[Zengeku]

Okay. Then you probably either underestimate your capabilities and are better at Touhou than you think or it's simply not that hard. The second option actually being quite plausible now that I think about it.

[BT]

PCB Lunatic 1cc

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Story time!

I hate PCB. Considering there are two groups: one that claims that PCB is the easiest Lunatic and the other that... doesn't, I'm definitely with the latter, and not because it's not the easiest Lunatic. I can't explain it -- it has interesting patterns, it has challenging, random spells, and still I do not enjoy them at all. I see the bullets but die to them anyway. Something about the game is way too sloppy: the hitboxes, the animated bullets, something. It's gotten to the point that I felt like I could 1cc it easy but just didn't feel like it. And when I DID try some serious attempts just to get it over with, my motivation to keep going drains insanely fast due to how easy it is to derp to Chen.

In fact, I can count the number of runs that got past Stage 2, be it due to a lack of restarting or due to having 'survived' Stage 2, with one hand.

This is an attempt in which I decided to not give a damn and bomb everything in sight. It's funny, because earlier attempts with the very same method STILL died on Stage 2. However, this attempt made it to Alice, which was new.

What followed was an attempt in which I grit my teeth and literally went on and fought my way through stages until I died. Of course, I didn't die, because I was so concentrated on survival I was actually surviving! By that, I mean none of my infamous, untimely, consecutive derps with full bombs. By that, I mean full exploitation of border breaks. By that, I mean nervous dodging that actually gets the job done.

Of course, all this lasted until I reached a certain stage of panic, which was during the Stage 6 spam. To which I died TWICE, losing 3 bombs. I was crushed, since I actually thought I'd never have to see this game again with a fluke attempt that reached Yuyuko with 4 lives. Of course, now I'd reach her with 2, which wasn't enough.

Yeah, screw you Yuyuko. Breakdown or not, I'm not derping to you.

I SUPER NERVOUSLY reached RB with 1L1B.

Fighting and getting that final extend in the middle of the card was quite the triumph.

And it was over.

I don't care if this run is bad. All I can think of is how I don't have to beat this game ever again and I am currently overjoyed thinking that.

 

[ふねん1]

I can sort of see a basis for what BT's talking about. I can't be the only one here who thinks the newer Windows games (MoF onward) are in general much better than the older ones. Though since I got into Touhou shortly after UFO came out, my thinking on the matter is admittedly skewed, but considering how much more time ZUN has had to polish the engine, bullet pattern designs, etc. it's kind of expected to see improvement in later installments.

Regardless, congrats on the 1cc!

Okay. Then you probably either underestimate your capabilities and are better at Touhou than you think or it's simply not that hard. The second option actually being quite plausible now that I think about it.

So I'm not the only one who thought that. I'm not crazy after all. :V

I may not play EoSD anymore, but back when I did I would usually try to go through Stage 4 bombing only once or twice at worst before Emerald Megalith. I had heard about people calling it bullshit before, but I never really saw it that way. Those people need to learn to read farther in advance, if you ask me. Keep yourself in good position to dodge stuff and the card's not bad at all.

[Zengeku]

Congrats on that PCB clear. Bombing everything in sight is exactly the way to do it. 

I can't be the only one here who thinks the newer Windows games (MoF onward) are in general much better than the older ones.

Nope, there are a lot of people who feel that way.

[I have no name]

PCB Lunatic 1cc

Nice!
Now to edit your wall of text to fit a different game and my opinions.

I hate TD. Considering there are two groups: one that claims that TD is the easiest Lunatic and the other that... doesn't, I'm definitely with the latter, and not because it's not the easiest Lunatic. I see the bullets but die to them anyway.  It's gotten to the point that I felt like I could 1cc it easy but just didn't feel like it. And when I DID try some serious attempts just to get it over with, my motivation to keep going drains insanely fast due to how easy it is to derp to Kyouko.

In fact, I can count the number of runs that got past Stage 2, be it due to a lack of restarting or due to having 'survived' Stage 2, with one hand.

On a more serious note, PCB isn't the easiest lunatic either-Mountain of Faith is, as long as you can dodge VoWG at least somewhat.