So, let's discuss Touhou. What games have you cleared? And on what difficulty/amount of lives/number of continues?

This game is freakin` epic. I died in level one because of one bullet ;_;

I still haven't quite got used to the gameplay, I keep thinking "SHOOT THE MIKO!!" instead of "RUN AWAY FROM THE CIRCLES!!!!" and I can't get past one level without continuing, but I'll get it eventually.
can you use the mouse for movement? I can't understand the config thingy at all, so I use a gamepad.

Finally. Cleared. It. ._. Did it on Easy, 5 stock, used 2 continues.
Also, got a bad ending. Clear the game without continues? SCREW THIS I'M OUTTA HERE O_O"

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Must be, since I'm currently grabbing the rest of the games.

I can't say I'm that good, but I can just barely manage Phantasmgoria of Flower View on Normal (Cleared with two characters, oddly enough NOT Marisa or Reimu, and I emphasize "barely"), and I can do Imperishable Night on Normal with the Border team (their homing abilities work the best) without continues (although there are a lot of deaths and deathbombs). Embodiment of Scarlet Devil keeps kicking my ass on the last two stages (damn you, Sakuya!) and I've never actually completed Perfect Cherry Blossom (my keys keep sticking there for some reason). Immaterial and Missing Power... can't even beat the first round without having to use a continue. It's too hard to shoot and dodge in Shoot the Bullet. I've only gotten a few scenes clear at the moment. I managed to 2cc clear Mountain of Faith... on Easy, Reimu B. Now I'm damn glad that bombs are dependent on your Power instead of being independent. Especially on that last normal attack by the final boss...

Oddly enough, I swear a similar bullet pattern to that pic in the first post was the Easy mode Last Spell card for Kaguya in Imperishable Night.

I wonder what a Touhou would be like in 3D... o_o
O.o
O___O"
Never mind. ;_;

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Ouch. EoSD was really short compared to PCB. And the music wasn't as good, overall. And a lot of small details are missing. Guess that's what I get for not playing them in order. :/

Loginer wrote:

Ouch. EoSD was really short compared to PCB. And the music wasn't as good, overall. And a lot of small details are missing. Guess that's what I get for not playing them in order. :/

Could be worse. Now I'm too used to going into Phantom mode from Imperishable Night, so I oft run right into enemies while trying to figure out why focusing does nothing to gather those Power tokens.

Also, even on Normal, PoFV is hell. The enemies must have Lunatic dodging algorithms, as the last two or three enemies more often than not continue grazing the same projectile over and over as it passes, dodges by the smallest of margins, and just bombard you with L4 spells not even four seconds after you unleash just one.

Addendum: I just got Mountain of Faith, and I got surprised by the patterns that even the normal enemies take to crush you under hundreds of bullets. I miss my Master Spark though (there's no Spell Cards for you, just the enemies' - you use your familiars to bomb).

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So my dad got in here after playing WoW, and saw me playing Touhou. He insulted it. If a cuss word represented a bullet, then the police would be here by now, trying to find the source of the explosion that blew up the building.

Loginer wrote:

So my dad got in here after playing WoW, and saw me playing Touhou. He insulted it. If a cuss word represented a bullet, then the police would be here by now, trying to find the source of the explosion that blew up the building.

I'm not sure weather to lol or not....

I think I've finally got the movement thing down, and I got some more endings that suck.
I'm torrenting PCB, and that wierd marisa/mario/megaman game.

Ooh... Touhou Project! Made in Japan! It's very fast! *lol around*

pokedigi wrote:

Ooh... Touhou Project! Made in Japan! It's very fast! *lol around*

Nope, it's quite slow. The lack of an HP bar and the evil bullet curtains are the reasons it's so hard. And "lol around"? <.<

A normal day in the life of Reimu Hakurei (the main character) during one of these events:

Sleep.
Wake up.
Notice something odd.
Go out (without Spell Cards) toward the source of the event (or just wander around, whatever floats her boat at the time).
(Usually) meet with Marisa or other allies.
Shoot at stuff, and moan about the conditions.
Dodge billions of bullets the size of her hitbox that she could do herself if she had her freakin' Spell Cards. Shoot at the source of the bullets with tiny amulets and seals which hit around three at a time - which somehow work. Smile at "killing" the enemy, and rejoice that she can be shot in the head, just not in her ribbon.
Repeat last two steps five or six times.
Return to the shrine and whine some more.

Downloaded it using torent and all i got was mp3s, No TOUHOU!!

Alieax wrote:

Downloaded it using torent and all i got was mp3s, No TOUHOU!!

link removed
This is the one I used to get most of them. Check other sites for Shoot The Bullet/Mountain of Faith/Immaterial and Missing Power.

Loginer wrote:

pokedigi wrote:

Ooh... Touhou Project! Made in Japan! It's very fast! *lol around*

Nope, it's quite slow. The lack of an HP bar and the evil bullet curtains are the reasons it's so hard. And "lol around"? <.<

...you don't know what *lol around* means? It's fairly obvious.
aaaand I just got PCB from a certain black rectangle, I found it MUCHLY easier than IN.
I still can't get over how incredible the music is, Invisable Full Moon FTfile:\\C:\users\neo@lex\music!

neo@lex wrote:

Loginer wrote:

pokedigi wrote:

Ooh... Touhou Project! Made in Japan! It's very fast! *lol around*

Nope, it's quite slow. The lack of an HP bar and the evil bullet curtains are the reasons it's so hard. And "lol around"? <.<

...you don't know what *lol around* means? It's fairly obvious.
aaaand I just got PCB from a certain black rectangle, I found it MUCHLY easier than IN.
I still can't get over how incredible the music is, Invisable Full Moon FTfile:\\C:\users\neo@lex\music!

Excellent. I now have all the information I need to STEAL YOUR MUSIC! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHcough. ._.

Loginer wrote:

neo@lex wrote:

...you don't know what *lol around* means? It's fairly obvious.
aaaand I just got PCB from a certain black rectangle, I found it MUCHLY easier than IN.
I still can't get over how incredible the music is, Invisable Full Moon FTfile:\\C:\users\neo@lex\music!

Excellent. I now have all the information I need to STEAL YOUR MUSIC! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHcough. ._.

O noez(insert exclamation marks and ones here)


And now for something completely different.
I ALMOST beat POFV with Reisen(INABA INABA INABA INABA INABA INABA INABA INABA).
Damn, it would be so much easier with a mouse...

neo@lex wrote:

Loginer wrote:

neo@lex wrote:

...you don't know what *lol around* means? It's fairly obvious.
aaaand I just got PCB from a certain black rectangle, I found it MUCHLY easier than IN.
I still can't get over how incredible the music is, Invisable Full Moon FTfile:\\C:\users\neo@lex\music!

Excellent. I now have all the information I need to STEAL YOUR MUSIC! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHcough. ._.

O noez(insert exclamation marks and ones here)


And now for something completely different.
I ALMOST beat POFV with Reisen(INABA INABA INABA INABA INABA INABA INABA INABA).
Damn, it would be so much easier with a mouse...

If only Shikeki would stop with the insanely large danmaku barrages (and having Lily Black use those same attacks too), I'd clear it with any character.

Also, it's odd that you find PCB easier than IN, it's the complete reverse for me. But then again, I try to keep the Cherry count high a bit too much, and it more often than not leads to death and loss of all that Cherry.

I beat IN, I think.
I got normal ending #6 on easy.
now for PCB and POFV...

STB sucked IMO.

EDIT: I beat POFV with Reisen, and PCB with Marisa......I can't be bothered with the earlier ones, or STB...I wonder if there are any torrents for mountain of faith...

After struggling so hard against Sakuya and Medicine, and wasting a whole Continue on that ferrywoman, this happens - the game takes pity on me and screws up her dodging algorithms. I don't know whether to be happy that I could dodge so well or be insulted that it had to take this to do it.



Also: neo@lex: If you want, I can send you a .rar of MoF. I should still have it lying around somewhere.

A journal of my first foray into Lunatic Mode in PoFV:

Round 1: 0:20 - This doesn't seem so hard.
Round 1: 1:00 - Is it just more bullets?
Round 1: Cirno defeated - Okay, a little more damage than I'd hoped for, but still have all my lives.
Round 2: 0:10 - I'm going to be saying "Oh god, I was wrong!" sometime soon, aren't I?
Round 2: 1:23 - Is it just me, or are they just not dodging?
Round 2: Mystia defeated - What. The. Hell.
Round 3: 0:00 - I was right! All that changed was the number of bullets!
Round 3: Youmu defeated (or was it Tei?) - That wasn't so hard.
Round 4: Tei defeated (or was it Youmu?) - ...Ow.
Round 5: Self defeated - Why is it always just a half left!?
Round 5: Marisa defeated - Okay, so I lost a life. ...
Round 6: 0:50 - What?! I dodged that attack!
Round 6: Self defeated - Just as hard as last time.
Round 6: 0:30 - What?! I used the bomb!
Round 6: 0:10 - Note to self - DON'T BACK INTO THE FREAKIN' KNIVES!!
Round 6: 0:50 - Why is it always things go downhill after she gets to the last half?
Round 6: 1:00 - Damn you, Dragon spells!
Round 6: Self defeated (Continue) - ...****.
Round 6: 0:10 - Knives aren't supposed to go at that angle!
Round 6: Sakuya defeated - Thank God... oh ****. It's Medicine up next.
Round 7: 0:20 - Damn lag.
Round 7: Self defeated (Continue) - Why do I keep dodging INTO crap?!
Round 7: 0:55 - How the hell do I dodge BETTER in POISON?!
Round 7: Medicine defeated - ...Not again...
Round 8: 0:30 - ...Holy ****ing shitstorm!
Round 8: Self defeated - C'mon Ouendan! Don't fail me!
Round 8: 0:27 - Talk about deathbombing...
Round 8: 0:30 - Damnit, don't dodge INTO the shitstorm!
Round 8: 1:00 - Holy shit. I DODGED the shitstorm?!
Round 8: 1:30 - I DODGED IT AGAIN?!
Round 8: Self defeated (Continue) - Last chance. I have to kill her NOW.
Round 8: Self defeated - WHY IS IT ALWAYS WHEN THEY'RE ALMOST DEAD?!?!?!?
Round 8: (that ferrygirl) defeated - It happened again... And I'm completely and utterly screwed.
Round F: 0:00 - Persevere... Don't wander into enemy attacks and you'll be fine.
Round F: ?:?? - Holy **** I dodged a maelstrom in the freakin' maelstrom only to hit a random bullet.
Round F: ?:?? - Where's this lag coming from?!
Round F: ?:?? - WTF?!?!? How does she keep getting these EX attack maelstroms from?!?!?!
Round F: Self defeated (Game Over) - ...Well, at least it isn't as bad as an "almost got her" death.

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I still don't know how that happened.

Slain087 wrote:

Also: neo@lex: If you want, I can send you a .rar of MoF. I should still have it lying around somewhere.

Already(almost) got it.
URL removed so I don't get banned.
I've been reading a few of the script translations, and they're full of moe and lol, especially marisa's, medacine's and reimu's paths on PoFV. I've also tried to get netplay working, but my router has a strict firewall...

neo@lex wrote:

Slain087 wrote:

Also: neo@lex: If you want, I can send you a .rar of MoF. I should still have it lying around somewhere.

Already(almost) got it.
http://www.datorrents.com/torrent/24944-touhou-10-fuujinroku-mountain-of-faith-bin-cue-/
I've been reading a few of the script translations, and they're full of moe and lol, especially marisa's, medacine's and reimu's paths on PoFV. I've also tried to get netplay working, but my router has a strict firewall...

The link is orange, you know... <_<
Edit: Never mind, that was Linkification's deed. :>

I've just played through easy on MoF with Reimu#1, and it seems harder than IN and PoFV.
Everything other than the gameplay seems to have downgraded, you can only move in 8 directions, and the art is like EOSD.
I didn't make it to the final stage, and I have yet to see any returning characters other than aya, who uses spell cards nearly identical to those of Tewi/Tei.

It seems the amount of playable characters is decreasing, I heard that you can only play as Reimu in SA, but the graphics look insane.

neo@lex wrote:

I've just played through easy on MoF with Reimu#1, and it seems harder than IN and PoFV.
Everything other than the gameplay seems to have downgraded, you can only move in 8 directions, and the art is like EOSD.
I didn't make it to the final stage, and I have yet to see any returning characters other than aya, who uses spell cards nearly identical to those of Tewi/Tei.

It seems the amount of playable characters is decreasing, I heard that you can only play as Reimu in SA, but the graphics look insane.

You won't be seeing any other recurring characters - aside from Aya, Marisa, and Reimu, all of them are new characters.

The amount of playable characters seems to fluctuate usually between 2 and 3 - although, the eight PCs in IN was a bit much.

I LUZ REIMU HAKUREI!! .....or most any miko for that matter. XD

What actually happens when they fight?
I mean, Reimu and Marisa are supposed to be friends, but they fight all the time, and no one ever dies!
Same with the Inabas, and the Onis, and that girl with the scythe.

And what's with the Hakurei shrine? It's supposed to be the only gateway between Gensokyo and "this" world, but I don't think any Non-Gensokyo humans have ever featured in a touhou game.

Damn, it's so confusing, and I thought the English patches would simplify stuff...

neo@lex wrote:

What actually happens when they fight?
I mean, Reimu and Marisa are supposed to be friends, but they fight all the time, and no one ever dies!
Same with the Inabas, and the Onis, and that girl with the scythe.

And what's with the Hakurei shrine? It's supposed to be the only gateway between Gensokyo and "this" world, but I don't think any Non-Gensokyo humans have ever featured in a touhou game.

Damn, it's so confusing, and I thought the English patches would simplify stuff...

The Spell Cards are non-lethal ways of proving one's power, apparently. After all, should Reimu die, Gensyokyo goes with her. So, to allow youkai a chance at keeping her out of their business, as well as help humans defend themselves against youkai, apparently Reimu (and maybe Yukari) made the Spell Cards.

Slain087 wrote:

neo@lex wrote:

What actually happens when they fight?
I mean, Reimu and Marisa are supposed to be friends, but they fight all the time, and no one ever dies!
Same with the Inabas, and the Onis, and that girl with the scythe.

And what's with the Hakurei shrine? It's supposed to be the only gateway between Gensokyo and "this" world, but I don't think any Non-Gensokyo humans have ever featured in a touhou game.

Damn, it's so confusing, and I thought the English patches would simplify stuff...

The Spell Cards are non-lethal ways of proving one's power, apparently. After all, should Reimu die, Gensyokyo goes with her. So, to allow youkai a chance at keeping her out of their business, as well as help humans defend themselves against youkai, apparently Reimu (and maybe Yukari) made the Spell Cards.

-_-' so basically, they all just fight for fun...

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Loginer wrote:

neo@lex wrote:

Slain087 wrote:

The Spell Cards are non-lethal ways of proving one's power, apparently. After all, should Reimu die, Gensyokyo goes with her. So, to allow youkai a chance at keeping her out of their business, as well as help humans defend themselves against youkai, apparently Reimu (and maybe Yukari) made the Spell Cards.

-_-' so basically, they all just fight for fun...

Fun. Serious business.

Curse you and your non-sexual punchlines.

ANFSCD.
I've had a sudden change of faith, mainly because of the EPIC MUSIC.

ANFSCD.
I CANNOT beat MoF, AT ALL, ON ANY DIFFICULTY. damn aya leaving me with one life and no continues EVERY GOD DAMN TIME.

ANFSCD.

Sarumaru wrote:

I LUZ REIMU HAKUREI!! .....or most any miko for that matter. XD

SHE MUST .

neo@lex wrote:

Loginer wrote:

Fun. Serious business.

Curse you and your non-sexual punchlines.

Now that I read it again... XD

Aya might be hard, but she's nothing compared to the last spell card of the Stage 6 boss. Your bombs are reduced to a quarter their normal size and movement, and damn, it's hard to dodge more than a few waves before being forced to use a bomb.

Touhou with a pad seems a lot more imprecise (although I do admit, it's helped me beat PoFV w/Aya and Medicine; I normally dodge slightly, but that usually leads me getting hit - my pad's a little more loose, so I can dodge the annoying stuff easily). It's awesome for IaMP, though. Spell Cards set up on the triggers, D-dashes on the left stick, techniques on the right stick.

Slain087 wrote:

Touhou with a pad seems a lot more imprecise. It's awesome for IaMP, though.

speak for yourself, I suck with the keyboard.

I do better with my Yaypad. Dunno, I just feel like "OK, so I know where is the hitbox, and now I DODGE THE SHIT AND FIRE MY SHIT OMG DODGE IT." And I win then. NOW! Poll time.

Best Touhou game is:

Vic wrote:

I do better with my Yaypad. Dunno, I just feel like "OK, so I know where is the hitbox, and now I DODGE THE SHIT AND FIRE MY SHIT OMG DODGE IT." And I win then. NOW! Poll time.

Best Touhou game is:

IMO,
StB<PC98 games<EoSD<PCB<MoF<IN<PoFV
I've never played any of the platformers/fighters.

PCB >>>>>> EoSD
Haven't played the other ones yet. ;_;

A few days ago, when I was at the london expo, there was a Cirno cosplayer no one recognized, later on she was with a Marisa cosplayer, and there were loads of people taking pictures, also, they staged a fight against Pikachu and Mudkipz.
In other news, I beat Hard on PoFV with Reisen.

On a different note, anyone play Shoot the Bullet? It feels like I'm stuck on Lunatic difficulty in there... Damn Sakuya and her millions of knives surrounding me...

Slain087 wrote:

On a different note, anyone play Shoot the Bullet? It feels like I'm stuck on Lunatic difficulty in there... Damn Sakuya and her millions of knives surrounding me...

...I can't get past Wriggle Nightbug...

Even nine-ball kills me on a regular basis in Shoot the Bullet, so it's alright. Just... when you get to one of these cards... 10 quota, dodge-fest... This isn't even [Miss Dreamcasts'] strongest card...

Slain087 wrote:

stuff.

...that's why I don't play StB.
also, nice sig.

SWR's out. Comes with suppositories and drunken Suika.

URL removed. Didn't peppy say he'd got rid of all the illegalz?

[s]It's a lot harder than IaMP, at first glance. Since Spell Cards aren't as powerful anymore, you can't just go and pound on the enemy like before. Sad to say, right now I can only kill a few characters in the lineup on Normal. Just haven't gotten used to the controls yet. Hitting a whole different button to execute cards is... odd.
[/s]
Strike the above. I'd do it myself, but the code isn't working for some reason.

Although I can't kill many enemies on Normal, I finished the Story Mode with Reimu and Marisa. I can't resist lolling at Reimu, her shrine keeps getting annhiliated in doujins, and it finally gets destroyed canonically (despite Sanae threatening it back in MoF) here.

Also, Alice owns against Spell Cards which rend the opponent immobile (hint: spam standing C), Patchouli's remix is awesome, and Reisen is an idiot for facing the haxxor mistress of the Scarlet Devil Mansion for her first opponent.

So how is SWR? Never got to play IaMP. Better? Worse? Worth trying out? Are the IaMP players jumping boat to this?

I personally prefer SWR to IaMP, simply because the final boss doesn't just ass-rape you with her last spell card like Suika does. Also, the new Spell Card system is very novel, although having only twenty cards to play around with for six or so stages is pretty rough on a player (like me) who used to spam them whenever they had a chance in the last game.

On another note, does anyone notice that the framerate for the other Touhou games drops to single digits after playing SWR or IaMP? Or is it just my computer?

Slain087 wrote:

On another note, does anyone notice that the framerate for the other Touhou games drops to single digits after playing SWR or IaMP? Or is it just my computer?

nope, I guess you got something gone wrong...

I haven't cleared story mode at all yet, but I've only attempted once, due to lag when burning stuff.
I guess it's only a matter of time until the characters are ported to MUGEN, I'll get some lolshots when Reisen or Suika are released.

Who didn't expect this for Suika's ending?

Slain087 wrote:

Who didn't expect this for Suika's ending?

Anyone who started with SWR.

Suika is without a doubt the strangest character in Touhou, probably the most lulzy too.

Slain087 wrote:

Who didn't expect this for Suika's ending?
[attachment=0:3f97e]drunk.jpg[/attachment:3f97e]

What the hell IS that? <.<

Longiner: The girl on her side is Suika, an oni with a penchant for getting drunk every chance she gets. Case in point - her blocking animation is her taking a swig from that bottle of hers.

Yet another subject: Touhou 11. It's going to be similar to 10, as in two characters (Reimu and Marisa) with three different styles. The thing about it, though, is that each style corresponds to a certain youkai from previous games. While I get Reimu's partners and two of Marisa's partners, I don't get her third partner. Why the heck would Marisa choose that kappa, of all people? I mean, sure, the two other slots are fine with Alice and Patchouli, as they're all magicians (and Alice was her partner in 8, as well, so one of Reimu's is Yukari), but couldn't she have found a better partner than Nitori?

Slain087 wrote:

Longiner: The girl on her side is Suika, an oni with a penchant for getting drunk every chance she gets. Case in point - her blocking animation is her taking a swig from that bottle of hers.

Yet another subject: Touhou 11. It's going to be similar to 10, as in two characters (Reimu and Marisa) with three different styles. The thing about it, though, is that each style corresponds to a certain youkai from previous games. While I get Reimu's partners and two of Marisa's partners, I don't get her third partner. Why the heck would Marisa choose that kappa, of all people? I mean, sure, the two other slots are fine with Alice and Patchouli, as they're all magicians (and Alice was her partner in 8, as well, so one of Reimu's is Yukari), but couldn't she have found a better partner than Nitori?

You'd understand if you drank cucumber flavored beer.
Nitori is, imo, the 5th epic win character.

On the subject of SA, I'd be much happier if it had more playables, like IN. I think what's made the series good so far is the varying styles between the games, and how older ones are revisited now and then. I think it's about time for an engaging, large-scale story.
*hopes for more moonwarz in th12.

heh, I've actually cleared a few of those IN ones...

In other news, due to my training in Touhou, I was FINALLY able to beat Zero Wing.

ZERO WING wrote:

CONGRATULATION !!
A.D. 2111
ALL BASES OF CATS WERE
DESTROYED.
IT SEEMS TO BE PEACEFUL.
BUT IT IS INCORRECT.
CATS IS STILL ALIVE.
ZIG-01 MUST FIGHT
AGAINST CATS AGAIN.
AND DOWN WITH THEM
COMPLETELY! GOOD LUCK.

neo@lex wrote:

heh, I've actually cleared a few of those IN ones...

In other news, due to my training in Touhou, I was FINALLY able to beat Zero Wing.
CONGRATULATION !!
A.D. 2111
ALL BASES OF CATS WERE
DESTROYED.
IT SEEMS TO BE PEACEFUL.
BUT IT IS INCORRECT.
CATS IS STILL ALIVE.
ZIG-01 MUST FIGHT
AGAINST CATS AGAIN.
AND DOWN WITH THEM
COMPLETELY! GOOD LUCK.

You have to beat it 3 times. :[
[quote="Slain087"] 10 compelling reasons why I'll never pass Lunatic difficulty in any other game than PoFV. [/quote] <--- WHAT THE HELL <.<
I want to beat ANY Touhou game with a good ending, but I'm too lazy to train. ;____;

Easy and Lunatic are the only difficulties that really count.
I always clear easy entirely before attempting anything else.

So I returned to Perfect Cherry Blossom after some training in Mountain of Faith. I passed the first three stages without a death, then got promptly killed by the Prismrivers, obliterated Youmu, and managed to survive until Yuyuko's second-to-last Spell Card without using a Continue. I had to burn off two Continues in the end, and I had to sacrifice all twelve of my bombs that the Continue gave me (I was using Sakuya) just to survive to the end. And then I got hit by the absolutely last bullet that was sent out. Still, if I can just get past the Prismrivers without losing a life, I might be able to 1cc PCB.

A bit earlier this week, I also retried Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, because it's the only game so far I haven't cleared at all yet (again, damn you Sakuya and your knives!). I got hit... by Icicle Fall...

After forty-five tries, I finally, finally, cleared a Last Word (Lunatic Red Eyes). Twenty of the attempts were me running into the exact same blue bullet. Ten were me being unable to reach the edge of the bullets before they returned. The other fourteen were stupid as hell mistakes, such as me actually backing into a suppository, smashing against the walls of red balls, etc.

Cleared the second one after just six tries (Blind Nightbird); of course, only counting the ones I did this session (if you add them all, it comes out to about twenty-something, so eh). Youmu focused pwns bosses in the blink of an eye.

Unseasonable Butterfly Storm is hard. Remind me next time to not use Alice, Marisa, or Youmu. Maybe Reimu or Yukari.

SA could also be good training... I've heard it's pretty much the hardest of the Windows games so far.

Aya's speed, and Suika's auto-collect anywhere will be very useful to me (assuming, that is, I actually want to stop firing for a few seconds in that maelstrom). Patchouli's formation change should also work nicely.

Loginer wrote:

Slain087 wrote:

10 compelling reasons why I'll never pass Lunatic difficulty in any other game than PoFV.

<--- WHAT THE HELL <.<
I want to beat ANY Touhou game with a good ending, but I'm too lazy to train. ;____;

There's always IaMP or SWR. Marisa is a pretty good beginner character.

The fighting games don't count. :[

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Yes, but they're not danmaku shooters. <_<"

Phantasmagoria of Flower View should be your choice then, since there are no bad endings. Just go and kill the Judge of Paradise and get your ending. Or if you want a whole number installment, I'd say Mountain of Faith - although if you do have to Continue, you'll have to start the stage all over again, and the Spell Card Mountain of Faith is killer even on Easy. Maybe Imperishable Night, because as long as the time doesn't go past 5 AM, you'll get a normal ending - and if you manage to get to the Last Spell segment of the FinalB boss, you'll get the good ending.

So at first I was like "Imperishable Night is zetta easy"
But then
*insert shutdown here*
I ;_;'d

so...it shut down?

Also, has anyone seen those Mcdonalds Touhou remixes? I'll post linkage to some soon.
Edit:
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=shCK0onGBb8
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhizo7KrZrw
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=dRFsku9opAs

I beatmapped one of them, complete with an HP bar. Search for McWTF. And yes, my computer is randomly turning itself off these days. I think it's due to overheating. <_<
Also, Ronald Mcdonald offering a cheeseburger to a woman telling him to remove his shoes.

I've moved from hating my inability to dodge to hating my BT keyboard for not letting me dodge. I tap the button to move twice, I have a 5% chance that neither are registered, and a 15% chance that only one is. I died twice to Cirno and Hong Meiling because of it.

Loginer wrote:

I beatmapped one of them, complete with an HP bar. Search for McWTF. And yes, my computer is randomly turning itself off these days. I think it's due to overheating. <_<
Also, Ronald Mcdonald offering a cheeseburger to a woman telling him to remove his shoes.

Oh, so that's what McWTF is....
*adds to list of beatmaps that require SSing.
Edit: SCREW. THAT. (D on taiko mode...)

Slain087 wrote:

I've moved from hating my inability to dodge to hating my BT keyboard for not letting me dodge. I tap the button to move twice, I have a 5% chance that neither are registered, and a 15% chance that only one is. I died twice to Cirno and Hong Meiling because of it.

I ALWAYS have slow on, otherwise I can't avoid ANYTHING. You should try GP mouse movement maybe?

vwoot. Finally cleared Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Remilia's last Spell Card is disturbingly easy, compared to her last normal attack and Sakuya. I cleared her with only one life used... Sakuya took off three. Damn Misdirection. Still, I was left at the end with no Continues, no lives in reserve, and a single bomb.

I'm not going to do the PC-98 games, though. The Windows games give me enough of a headache.

Ugh. Give me a bunch of tiny bullets in a random pattern, and it's likely I'll pass through them. But give me slightly larger bullets in a predetermined pattern, and I totally freeze up.

Curse you, Lily White, and the devil you made a deal with to eternally revive. Curse you Sakuya, and your formations that have huge hitboxes.

In other news, I seem to be getting better at Mountain of Faith. I don't die until the crows start coming. Then I just hemorrhage lives. Also, LaserMari is essentially a condensed Final Spark at 3 options.

usually i can clear the normal level with no continue
but i use bombs----a lot

neo@lex wrote:

Loginer wrote:

I beatmapped one of them, complete with an HP bar. Search for McWTF. And yes, my computer is randomly turning itself off these days. I think it's due to overheating. <_<
Also, Ronald Mcdonald offering a cheeseburger to a woman telling him to remove his shoes.

Oh, so that's what McWTF is....
*adds to list of beatmaps that require SSing.
Edit: SCREW. THAT. (D on taiko mode...)

I have succeeded.
In other news, 3 days left until I might get those damn computer parts. <____<

A random thought - if they do teams in the future (like Imperishable Night), I wonder if they aren't going to do a team of Sanae and Reimu. Granted, Sanae isn't a youkai, but still, it would be interesting if they have the two shrine maidens together.

That would be interesting, although I insta-main anyone who uses LAZORZ(Unless there's a moonrabbit present).

Also, It appears as though SA lets you warp from one side of the screen to the other, like Mario Bros and Pacman, and the ball thing works differently.

neo@lex wrote:

That would be interesting, although I insta-main anyone who uses LAZORZ(Unless there's a moonrabbit present).

Also, It appears as though SA lets you warp from one side of the screen to the other, like Mario Bros and Pacman, and the ball thing works differently.

I bet you use MarisaB a lot in MoF, especially with her WTF major damage potential.

That warp thing is an attribute of ReimuA. IIRC, ReimuB has auto-collect anywhere, and ReimuC has WTF speed. MarisaA has 8 options instead of 4, MarisaB has formation changes, and I don't remember what MarisaC has.

Oh, and I recall a small glitch in the demo. You could hide in the bottom corner, off the screen, and just ignore every attack. Granted, you'll have a pitifully low score, but it's a way to get a clear. ZUN will probably fix it though for the full version.

Also, read this doujin and laugh. You may need to watch this vid afterwards to learn about number 5 in the doujin.

I read that doujin. It's not funny. D:

Out of pure boredom, I was surfing YouTube, and found a parody video involving Suika and Dyson vacuums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9utIhYvQM8o&feature=related

And another one involving China getting her ass owned... again. Might not be funny, but it's internet memes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLiyglcRcCA&feature=related

I saw all of those parody videos before I started touhou, I guess it was pretty damn pointless, since I had no clue what a spell card was, or what they mean by hitboxes.

Slain087 wrote:

Out of pure boredom, I was surfing YouTube, and found a parody video involving Suika and Dyson vacuums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9utIhYvQM8o&feature=related

00:12 to 00:16 was priceless. X'D

When an IaMP battle takes four and a half minutes just to win the first round (at 60FPS by the way), one of two things could have happened. One, they utterly suck, or two, they so utterly rule that they can't get any good hits on each other.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXbVW0KQTkw I kinda pity the guy who played as Meiling. Literally flying around everywhere must have broke his fingers.


And I thought osu! was the only game to be able to drain my arm's power. Trying not to die too much in my first IN Hard run has my left arm (my shooting/bombing arm) aching like mad. I made it to the Reisen battle, but got game over'd during her last Spell Card. And somehow, I managed to cap Shoot the Moon ingame with Youmu, but can't do so with Marisa in Spell Practice.

I downloaded the SA demo, and I made it through the first stage (and title menu) just tapping shoot the whole time, then it crashed. (it might have been because I had osu and portal minimized....)
Imo, It looks more like MoF2 rather than a completely new game, although I like the satellites.


Edit: Oh wow, this is my 200th post.
In which case:

This map has been deleted on the request of its creator. It is no longer available.

neo@lex wrote:

I downloaded the SA demo, and I made it through the first stage (and title menu) just tapping shoot the whole time, then it crashed. (it might have been because I had osu and portal minimized....)
Imo, It looks more like MoF2 rather than a completely new game, although I like the satellites.


Edit: Oh wow, this is my 200th post.
In which case:

My post count >>>>> Your post count.

Slain087 wrote:

Mind telling where you got that demo from?

Yes, because I can't remember.
Found a better torrent though.
peppyedit: no torrents thanks.

Loginer wrote:

My post count >>>>> Your post count.

But as of now, I'll never have another 200th osu post.