Mino's Ordinary Challenges - Round 4

[Mino ☆]

Hello, everyone! I think it's time that I finally brought this back!

Mino's Challenges - Round 4

Survival Challenge

Game: Double Dealing Character

Condition: Capture as many spellcards as you can!
Difficulty: Only Normal and Lunatic modes allowed.
Shottype: You may only use a B-shot.
Rank: This will be ranked by spells capped, and then by score.
Format:
Challenge - Difficulty - Spells Capped
Name - Shot - Score - Stage - Replay
Example:
Survival - Lunatic - 20
Mino - ReimuB - 100,000,000 - C - Replay

Rankings:

Normal:
1. dxk - ReimuB - 21 Spells Captured - 515,067,690 - C - Replay
2. Karisa - MarisaB - 19 Spells Captured - 746,973,330 - C - Replay
3. Emerald - MarisaB - 18 Spells Captured - 572,372,690 - C - Replay
4. L3PiK - ReimuB - 18 Spells Captured - 541,651,180 - C - Replay
5.

Lunatic:
1.
2.
3.


Scoring Challenge

Game: Subterranean Animism

Condition: Score as high as you can!
Difficulty: All difficulties, including Extra, are allowed.
Shottype: You may only use ReimuA
Rank: This will be ranked by score.
Format:
Challenge - Difficulty
Name - Score - Stage - Replay
Example:
Scoring - Lunatic
Mino - 100,000,000 - C - Replay

Rankings:

Easy:
1.
2.
3.

Normal:
1.
2.
3.

Hard:
1. L3PiK - 932,207,740 - Replay
2.
3.

Lunatic:
1. Mero - 2,610,398,780 - Replay
2.
3.

Extra:
1.
2.
3.

Short Challenge

Game: Perfect Cherry Blossom

Condition: Score as high as you can in Stage 4
Difficulty: All difficulties allowed.
Shottype: You may only use ReimuB.
Rank: This will be ranked by score.
Format:
Challenge - Difficulty
Name - Score - Replay
Example:
Short - Lunatic
Mino - 10,000,000 - Replay

Rankings:

Easy:
1. Inadequate - 362,006,130 - Replay
2. ElD - 350,358,750 - Replay
3.

Normal:
1. L3PiK - 278,797,680 - Replay
2. Duh - 91,838,260 - Replay
3.

Hard:
1.
2.
3.

Lunatic:
1. Inadequate - 476,232,350 - Replay
2.
3.

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And that's all! I hope you participate and enjoy!

Deadline: January 11, 2014 at 12:00 PM GMT

[LepLep]

Short - Normal
L3PiK - 278,797,680 - Replay

[Oh]

Survival - Normal - 18
dxk - ReimuB - 470,967,490 - C - Replay

[ElDestructoe]

Short - Easy
ElD - 332,703,690 - Replay

Short and easy, apparently.

[Zil]

Long - Hard
Zil

[Raekuul]

Short - Normal
Duh - 91838260 - Replay

[Inadequate]

Too long, too hard.

Short - Lunatic
Inadequate - 476,232,350 - Replay

- Brain freeze at the stage opener had me play with a slightly different route, which lead to item collection below the PoC.
- Improvised most of the post-Lily spam-section stuff.
- Another brain freeze with unfocusing in the later stage, causing a border activate early.
- Dropped a bunch of items, grayed even more items.
- I couldn't dodge a single wave of the second nonspell.
- Died to the first card.
- Former causes an alteration in the route; I have more bombs now and can prolong the border from the nonspell into the card. Almost failed to break the border on the nonspell.
- Didn't remember how to properly graze the Lyrica card so I just did something.
- No milking for graze anywhere, spell bonuses and overall graze suffer.

Quality: low

[LepLep]

Scoring - Hard
L3PiK - 932,207,740 - Replay

[Emerald Mint]

Survival - Normal - 15/23
Emerald - SakuyaB - 752,203,440 - 6 - Replay(Attached)

[Karisa]

Survival - Normal - 19/23
Karisa - MarisaB - 733,522,210 - C - Replay

Rather silly spell failures here-- panic-bombing Yatsuhashi's 2nd, dashing in a different direction than I intended on Yatsuhashi's 3rd, double KO on Seija's semifinal, and ramming a bullet at the start of Shinmyoumaru's final...

Also this is a survival challenge, so I'm sure to miss the point by bombing nearly every nonspell in the game for score.

Survival - Normal - 19/23
Karisa - MarisaB - 746,973,330 - C - Replay

Lost a potentially better run up to Shinmyoumaru's first spell (which I had unusually good luck on) by failing the next 3 spells in a row.

[Oh]

Survival - Normal - 21
dxk - ReimuB - 515,067,690 - C - Replay

[LepLep]

Survival - Normal - 18
L3PiK - ReimuB - 541,651,180 - C - Replay

[Emerald Mint]

Survival - Normal - 18/23
Emerald - MarisaB - 572,372,690 - C - Replay

Wanted to opt for Marisa's better shots this time.
Stages 1-3 were a walk in the park. S4 was still taxing, though I had better luck this time.
The reversal spells on S5 still bother me, though the first isn't so harmful.
Lost #2-4 on Shinmyoumaru; #3 was likely bad timing and #4 killed me on the first set of knives ;_;

[Mero]

Scoring - Lunatic
Mero - 2,610,398,780 - 0.1% - Replay

three deaths on Utsuho, very stupid too...  except on her first spell, that was more bullshit than me being stupid

[ElDestructoe]

Short - Easy
ElD -  350,358,750 - Replay

[BT]

Short - Easy
ElD -  350,358,750 - Replay

This sounds like a lot.

[Inadequate]

I'm sorry.


Short - Easy
Inadequate - 362,006,130 - Replay

- A lot of idle grazes dropped during the stage.
- A few thousands worth of CherryMAX dropped while grazing during borders.
- Main focus was to attempt not graying items, but I still grayed them a bit. Let's say at least a few millions of worth. (I didn't go and calculate, just noticed gray numbers while playing.)
- Two fairies missed purposefully, the full PoC for the stage without bombs eludes me.
- Very sloppy performance with the first spell.
- I like keyboards over trumpet so I picked Lyrica.
- Mistimed the border on the final nonspell, I don't know how much it cost (a few thousand CherryMAX at most)
- Didn't try to graze the second spell.
- Didn't try to graze the third spell either.
- Dropped a bit of graze during the final spell.

I'm not going to do any actual calculation (so this could be false), but from the aforementioned, it seems that 370M would most likely be attainable. Maybe even more, if you were able to graze the second spell a lot (I'm unsure of the potential it has; you can technically run unfocused along the waves for the entire duration of it, but it's rather easy to collide with a bullet when doing that, and it leaves you less time to manage the dodge through the initial wave and into the next one) and/or gain an extra border for it with some bombing on the nonspell before. I didn't do any testing and it seems unlikely.


Quality: mediocre