Touhou Blogging Thread

[Failure McFailFace]

I found out last night that OBS as a button that auto-changes the resolution to the game window. It was very helpful for that MS run.

And an IN Extra clear attempt last night.

[MTSranger]

Well, out of all of those, IMO 10-3 is the easiest one. (Still fairly hard), so if your focusing on it as you said you will get it in no time. Shotgunning Tenshi a few times is pretty much mandatory, she has absurd HP (Highest in the game!) for some unexplained reason...

Sigh, I've sunk in 865 attempts at it already, and I have never managed to survive more than 3 waves nor kill more than half of her HP; not even a SINGLE time. It just feel SO difficult trying to shot gun her and then swim through the red bullets. I just... can't do it. Almost every time I will get killed by one thing or another, be it red bullets that come behind other red bullets, large clump of red bullets standing in my way when I make a dash to escape the laser, or just having inaccurate movement/reading leading to crashing into a lone bullet in the middle of empty space, not to mention I also die fairly often trying to sit on top of the boss.

Do you mind providing a replay? Maybe you route is more newbie friendly than the videos I've seen, all of which require insane skills in dodging red bullets that I feel are just beyond me. I'm just bad at unfocused dashing in the rain.

[ILikeBulletZ]

Yeah no worries, I will try to upload my replay when I return to my PC...


Which will be late tomorrow... Sorry for The wait.


Also don't expect some sort of full-on route... Its actually just me getting lucky, for The most of The part xD. I will still upload it, maybe it helps somehow.

[Pakken11]

Hi everyone,

I'm Pakken, and I just registered here today. Douzo yoroshiku!

I'm actually migrating from a different community, though - the Facebook fanpage with 60k-something likes. Ever since I got to know about the series, I have pretty much always been a fan of the main games chiefly, and although there still seem to be a scarce number of people who seem to care about them over there, things seem to have shifted almost entirely to fan material and such since about a year ago. I mean, the page was always fanart heavy and such, come to think of it - even more so in the past in some ways - but at least back then there was a small group that did discuss the game regularly.

Anyways, so since this is an entirely game-based sub-forum (albeit fangames included), I am hoping to have a more... abundant(?) experience here
So once again, douzo yoroshiku!!

With that said, a little bit about my "progress" so far - I have been playing since April 2011:
-EoSD: Lunatic 1cc except Reimu-B, 3 Lives on Marisa-A; Extra with All Chars; All spell cards caught (according to Result Screen - e.g. Scarlet Gensokyo Lunatic not caught lol)
-PCB: Lunatic 1cc with Marisa-A, 3 Lives; Extra and Phantasm with All Chars; All spell cards caught
-IaMP: Normal Story 1cc with Marisa (barely lol)
-IN: Lunatic 1cc with Scarlet Team (6A & 6B) and Ghost Team (6B), 3 Lives; Extra with All Chars; All spell cards caught (Spell Practice)
-PoFV: Extra with Enma and her servant
-StB: 100% Cleared (don't get me started on 9-6)
-MoF: Lunatic 1cc with Reimu-A and Reimu-C and Marisa-B; Extra with All Chars
-SA: Lunatic 1cc with Marisa-A (bomb spam ftw); Extra with All Chars
-UFO: Hard 1cc with All Chars (my least favourite danmaku game in the series so far - I'd rather not chase slot-machines while weaving through needle holes lol); Extra with All Chars

Thanks for reading!
Pakken

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I have just posted a run I'm fairly happy about - an IN Easy Marisa run scoring over 2.4 billion. It's hardly remarkable on its own, but it's of special interest for me, given the following context:

1. I play very little Touhou, and even then more PCB than IN. I still don't have a Lunatic clear of any game. Indeed, I've never even tried.
2. I don't really have a route past Stage 1. I play partially based on instinct, partially on memories, and often make ad hoc decisions. There's no certain set of movements that I try to execute every run.
3. I still haven't bothered to read the scoring information on the wiki. As a result, my Time/PIV are very low.

Moreover, the run has one failed last spell, one Stage 4 spell, many missed point items and very low graze. I can only conclude that it's possible to get at least 2.5 billion (Easy Marisa) based solely on perfect survival and some memories of past runs -- with hardly any attempt to understand the game's scoring mechanics.

...guess I really should try reading the wiki one day.

[Mr Jovial]

Oh wow, Mystia's Vocal Sign "Howl of the Horned Owl" is actually such a fun attack to score on. Not simple though, and it's so fast I can't keep up in a lot of cases. Oh well, I'll get better slowly. Also, Song of the Night Sparrow is actually a really good theme and it's taken me this long to realise because I didn't pay it much attention :O

[Failure McFailFace]

Damn, 5 Lunatic clears!? You are definitely skilled.

Also remember, if you're posting accomplishments, post in the Achievement Thread.

Have you played TD and/or DDC at all? Those are easy(-ier) to 1cc, if you would like to try (although I haven't yet).

[ILikeBulletZ]

Ok so I am finally on my PC...

So...

How to upload replay? xD (No seriously, I have no clue- I know where my replays are, and that's where my knowledge ends).

[Mero]

-UFO: (my least favourite danmaku game in the series so far - I'd rather not chase slot-machines while weaving through needle holes lol)

I think this is the best description of the game I've ever seen :V

Anyway, welcome to HME!

[MTSranger]

Ok so I am finally on my PC...

So...

How to upload replay? xD (No seriously, I have no clue- I know where my replays are, and that's where my knowledge ends).

You can attach them to the post. When you are creating/editing a post, there is attachment option like this (click "Attachments and other options" to expand it):



You can also upload to Royalflare I suppose.

[ILikeBulletZ]

OK, provided I didn't screwed anything up, the replay should be right there...

Looking at it again, it seems I did had a "route" of sorts after all... somewhat... but as always, skill + luck play a big role!...

Well, anyway just take a look and see if it helps you somehow!

[Pakken11]

Damn, 5 Lunatic clears!? You are definitely skilled.

Also remember, if you're posting accomplishments, post in the Achievement Thread.

Have you played TD and/or DDC at all? Those are easy(-ier) to 1cc, if you would like to try (although I haven't yet).

Thanks They definitely aren't regular clears, though, so yeah - a lot of luck and good condition involved

I'll definitely post to the achievement thread whenever I get that SA Lunatic 1cc with Marisa-B - Satori is trolling me currently QQQQ
Also, is there a complaint(?) thread somewhere? You know, like raging about spell cards and such lolol

I haven't gotten beyond 12 yet. I've been playing stuff in order, and I might try out 10.5 next, or continue with IaMP - been skipping the fighting games cause, you know, I'm just completely pathetic at them  :blush: :blush:

I think this is the best description of the game I've ever seen :V

Anyway, welcome to HME!

I know right? People didn't get it apparently when I was in that other community lol
So yeah, I might not even bother with UFO Lunatic anymore and just move onto the Cirno game or Double Spoiler - after catching up with the fighting games, of course

Thanks for the welcome

[Failure McFailFace]

Also, is there a complaint(?) thread somewhere? You know, like raging about spell cards and such lolol

Right here

[ILikeBulletZ]

Attempting to do something that's moderately easy today, went to unlock some Last Word in IN because why not?

Decided to go for the "Use Solo Reimu, 1cc Final B on Hard/Lunatic" unlock one.

I cheated and put all 7 starting lives instead of default (It didn't said anything about starting lives, all I needed was a 1cc under these conditions ).

In my defense, I put it in Lunatic when I could have gone on Hard... I don't even know why. Whatever.


Even with these lives, it was a close call: Only 1 life renaming at the very end. But it was a cool and different way to play (Never tried Solo Reimu), and got my last world unlocked- and I ALSO got ANOTHER random Last world unlocked, for no apparent reason (?), so 2 Last Worlds unlocked in 1 run... that's cool, I guess xD.

[Ranko Hoshino]

The other Last Word was probably unlocked just because you cleared Lunatic, though continue count doesn't matter for that one.

[ILikeBulletZ]

The other Last Word was probably unlocked just because you cleared Lunatic, though continue count doesn't matter for that one.

Except I already 1cc Lunatic Final B before doing this, and had the respective Last World attached to it Unlocked already...


So no idea what unlocked the other one :/ Oh well not gonna complain LOL.

[Ranko Hoshino]

Oh, so which one was unlocked then?

[ILikeBulletZ]

Oh, so which one was unlocked then?

Youmu?s Last World.

BTW that spell was a bit...

Underwhelming. Certainly not the kind of stuff I expected from Youmu. Took me only 2 attempts, and that was only because lol Suprise death the first time...Too easy :/



The other one was Marisa?s. That one is actually challenging though.

[Mr Jovial]

Youmu?s Last World.

That one is unlocked by clearing Final B with 6 characters/teams regardless of difficulty. And yeah, a lot of last words are underwhelming, only a select few are actually horribly difficult  (Wriggle, Reimu and Yuyuko are the main ones though stuff like EX-Keine's aren't too far behind) but Marisa's isn't normally one of them. I guess it depends on how well you can move unfocused without hesitating. There are tricks to the attack but I guess I won't ruin what they are :V

[ILikeBulletZ]

OK so that's why I unlocked 2 LW in 1 run, cool!

And yeah TBH I barely attempted Marisa Last World (around 30 attempts), But compared to Youmu Last World it is at least semi challenging!...


I could help But notice the spellcard seems to be semi-static. The stars aren't completely random, they always seem to go to roughly The same place in most of my attempts, WTF. Or I am just seeing things...

[Pakken11]

(Dunno if something like this belongs in this topic, but oh well)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOjad7YOZ-Y

I think Yukari just broke the border... lololol

[Baron_Blade]

PT's Advanced Unseen route is killing me inside. I've gotten to one Alice's last three attacks on three separate occasions, and I've been having a terrible time getting past stage 3 since. I usually end up losing a bunch of lives during Unseen 2 and 3 simply because the game's been dragging out and it takes me from 8 lives to nothing in some cases. Hopefully I can get past this soon so I can do Terminus.

EDIT: I just did another run because why not and I had another game over to Alice's final spell. It had about 1/15 of its life left. I am kinda dead inside.

[Pakken11]

So, I find I need about 2 and 3 lives in stock to safely do Shou and Byakuren, respectively, and I can barely milk 1 extra in stage 6. So as long as I can get to Shou with about 4~5 lives I think I could (FINALLY) manage a 1cc somehow - and that's without memorizing Byakuren's 2nd spell and whatnot.
The problem is, Murasa and Stage 5 hate me as much as I hate them, and while I could maybe get used to Murasa's ridiculously fast non-spells through Practice runs, Stage 5 is just ridiculous period lol (Oh, and this isn't even considering the slot-chasing.)
I did manage to start Stage 4 with 4 lives after an amaxingly lucky 0-0 (M-B) Ichirin, though, and there were some bad slotting in stages 2 and 3 iirc.
So perhaps if I can milk the first 3 stages, get to stage 4 with like 6 lives, do 1-bomb<=>1-Green-UFO trades for the latter half, and SOMEHOW survive stage 5(...), then maybe, just maybe I could get the 1cc? Like, if the UFOs don't troll me AT ALL, in LUNATIC? Yeah, I think it's easier to hit the jackpot at the casino lol
Ugh, I hate this game even more now. *cries in corner*

[ふねん1]

So back at Christmas I received a new desktop computer (not a "surprise present" though, it was arranged well beforehand) to replace my old, run-down laptop that can't stop overheating. I wasn't able to start using the new one until about a week ago due to real life reasons, but one thing I am happy about is that I can finally play DDC again. I had about a week's worth in real time to play it two summers ago, and I ended up enjoying how insanely difficult the danmaku was. I've been getting back into the game over the past few days, and I'm having just as much fun as before. Lots of stuff to learn and in some cases relearn, but I'm making progress in just about everything, which is exactly what I wanted to happen. Even Yatsuhashi's final card, which really threw me for a loop during that first week, has gotten easier now that I'm more comfortable with how it works. Plenty of the remaining challenges in the game may not come for a while, but I truly feel like I'll still have fun along the way.

[shockdude]

Well I beat TD Extra. That took way too long.
TD Extra is a huge grind. You have to play the stage a multitude of times in order to figure out an adequate trance route, and then you need to execute the route perfectly or else you miss out on getting lives and bombs. The sheer amount of randomness in that stage didn't help at all. But at least I'm now pretty decent at reading those arrow-bullets.

[LunaWillow]

Several days ago I 1cc'd MoF (it wasn't to hard. It took like three tries), so right now I'm trying to beat extra. This game has fairly easy stage, same goes with midboss.

First three Suwako's cards are pretty easy if done correctly, her fourth card is hard, her fifth and sixth cards are hellish. I went to Froggy Brave Element only twice, so I can't really tell.
I cleared Croaking Frog Eaten by a Snake once with zero power. No idea how lol
I managed to get to her first timeout spell once, but died soon after it began.
I'll still try to beat it. MoF extra seems pretty easy compering to IN (Fujiyama Volcano is just unfair) or TD (I hate the stage portion).

[Nameschonvergeben]

Gameover at Scarlet Gensokyo

[Uruwi]

I'm trying to 1CC SA on Normal, and chose MarisaA (instead of ReimuB) this time for her 8.00 power. I started a lot of times until I finally reached Stage 5 with only two deaths, then died on Orin's second-to-last spell. My fingers hurt.

P. S. I wish all of the games had Spell Practice. But Satori has two embarrassingly easy cards against MarisaA, which I both failed due to having close to no power.

P. P. S. Oh froop MarisaA's doll options are wiggling!

[Sakurei]

I beat ASL by 300 time in the first half of the extra stage.



Too bad it doesn't mean anything if I can't finish the run strong.

[Pakken11]

then died on Orin's second-to-last spell. My fingers hurt.

Welcome to Needle Mountain, where bomb-spamming is usually recommended for a stable 1cc  :V