Many are saying how much Shou's curvy lasers are a bitch. I guess I'm one of those few that don't find problems with it.
That thing goes spin-spin-spin and then it heads at an awkward angle. No problem if I'm already at an area I won't be hit, but sometimes I forget to release focus and can't avoid it fast enough :/
Also liking Marisa A's option shot, but I always crash into a bullet due to her speed.
...Stage 2 and 3 fairies. IMO their bullet patterns are more of annoying rather than challenging. I seriously don't think this is how Stage 2 and Stage 3 fairies should behave.
Once I get past Stage 3 I feel like I'm playing normally again though. Yeah, it usually also means I lose more lives in Stage 3 rather than Stage 4.
Green UFOs FTW! EAT SHORTWAVE, BITCHES. Now if only that spell lasted a liiiiiiiiiiitle bit longer...
green laser from Shou is stupid :3 here a timeout of this spell XD
Marisa's speed helps a LOT in this card. Too bad that speed kinda makes her a really bad choice to battle Murasa with.
Marisa-B's area-shot also helps A LOT in capturing this card. Given that you won't be on focus too much on this one, Marisa-B will be shooting in 4 directions behind her and 6 directions (?) in front of her. If you come in almost melee contact with Shou, then you're pretty much eating up her life. Too bad that cross moves its origin unlike Ran's laser.
Now I've tried the other characters this time. Taking a break from Marisa.
Reimu A Comment: "...still slow as ever I see. I can't take this. I don't care how high your attack power is too." Reimu B Comment: "Flying cards everywhere yet again. Too bad you just can't get your ass fast enough for me to like you." Sanae A Comment: "Snakes on a Ship lol. Interesting shot type, and this speed is kinda OK. Too bad your focused speed is kinda a bit too fast..." Sanae B Comment: "Frog explosions! Kinda PoFV like, and I like it. Let's mess around with this more... ...Wait what, I seriously farmed 2 lives in Stage 1? ...2 more in Stage 2? Not even dying yet?! ...Oh god, I didn't die in Stage 3! O_O ...Stage 4! BOMB TIME HAHAHAHA BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM Stage 5! ...oh shit how am I going to fuck Shou >_> Stage 6! ...no Byakuren NO I'm not as fast as Marisa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" *dies*
For some odd reason, I feel most comfortable playing as Sanae B instead of Marisa-A/B at the moment. Mainly because at least this time Stage 3 isn't such a threat anymore and I can actually get to Stage 6 comfortably with at least 3 lives remaining. If only there was a way I could use SanaeB on Stage 1-3 and Marisa-B on 4-6, I'd probably be a happy UFO player right now.
Actually, I kinda didn't expect SanaeB's bomb to be so powerful. First I casted it, I was like "...uh, is this going to be as useless as Patchouli's Five Seasons Bomb?", then later when it went BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM, I was like "OH FUCK THIS IS THE FOURTH MOST AWESOME SPELL CARD I HAVE EVER SEEN"
@Zekira: I'm really worse with a fast character ^^" Because I always hit the red bullets :/ But I can do this too with Marisa *g*
Actually Nazrin and Shou are not my Problem at loosing lives, the Problem is more the Stage D: BUT Stage 5 is one of the best Stage for Scoreing xP Btw Shou's hardest Spell is her first Spellcard o_O
SanaeB is the best character in UFO, because when she Bombs, you can Supergraze ^^
EDIT: a tip for Shou's Laser: "be relaxed, don't think you can't do it" x)
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Seriously, sometimes I find that the stages are harder than the bosses, since you can get attacked from many angles while the boss only attacks from at most 4 angles.
Oh god, not again. Domino Death effect ate me up and made me rage.
I was going in Stage 4 with 8 lives. Yes, 8 lives. I was farming reds like crazy, letting them spill their bonuses before making them explode, and you know the jist. I was able to keep myself safe for the entire Stage 3, and only lost 1 life in Stage 4 fairies...
...and suddenly Murasa wants to crash the party by eating up the rest of my lives.
Shit the fuck, I have never had such a more outrageous run than this. Starting with the max lives, and at Murasa's timeout card I was already running at 0 lives.
The problem with Marisa-B is that her bomb pretty much does not do much damage on bosses. Furthermore, Marisa-B's singleshot power below max is insanely low, and Marisa-B's general power below 3.00 is so insignificant. Once my power goes down to less than 3, I think that's pretty much the end of my run then? That's what happened here, apparetly... >_<
Come on damn it I wanna at least 1CC Th12 a second time >_<
@ zekira. i was one of them. i had a misconception of kinema kan being an anime. a bit disappointed but after i watch the videos i am still impressed of it even though its only music videos.
Crap, I can't get on anymore - I managed most of the Scarlet Library, but I have nothing in the Art Atelier. PM me either here or through YouTube if you want to see if I managed to archive the story you want.
EDIT: I don't think this is a joke. CMPC is gone, all the mods are back down to normal (though all the snowballs, bans, etc remain), and even the former mods are hard at work archiving everything.
My eyes freaking hurt from trying Phantasm 20 times in a row at the moment.
But at least I'm proud to say that I've reached until Border of Life and Death! Just some more patience and I can feel the finish finally coming.
But Boundary of Humans and Youkai was a bitchy card though... just like when I first went into Kokkuri-san's Contract; deliberately lost 3 lives in a span of 20 seconds without my thumb being at Button3 to bomb, and then later when I'm stuck in the middle that's the time I actually don't die.
But after BoLaD though, I see there's still one more HP Bar. I'm kinda curious as to what Yukari will pull off at that last one. I thought BoLaD was her strongest card (aside from her IN Last Word)...?
EDIT: Oh and also, this probably also happened to me in that run:
I seriously cannot read Ran's pattern at that time. I got used to looking for where the white circle was...
The expression on Marisa's face was probably the same expression as I had and she had when I was doing the run a while ago. I seriously sweatdropped, remembering about the pic and EXACTLY this is what flashed in my mind the time I died on that card
If you want to know, the last one past BoLaD is a survival card - in fact, it's most of her IN Last Word "Phantasm, Foam, Shadow". Just take out the waves not made of amulets and you have your card.
・・・妖怪が鍛えたこの楼観剣に 斬れぬものなど、あんまり無い! The things that cannot be cut by my Roukanken, forged by youkai, are next to none!
Yeah, maybe. No notice (his last dump gave us at least a week), April 1, etc is suspicious, but we just can't take that chance, yanno?
If it turns out to be a fake, even if he didn't dump everything anyway, there'll be a lot of people pissed off. Either way, I'll check it out later today and tomorrow just in case.
・・・妖怪が鍛えたこの楼観剣に 斬れぬものなど、あんまり無い! The things that cannot be cut by my Roukanken, forged by youkai, are next to none!
If you want to know, the last one past BoLaD is a survival card - in fact, it's most of her IN Last Word "Phantasm, Foam, Shadow". Just take out the waves not made of amulets and you have your card.
...ah, good, I just captured that card last week lol
EDIT: And now it looks like Gap locked the alt site down. Damn it.
EDIT2: And now from lurking #touhou-meido, I don't know what's going on at all.
EDIT3: Sigh. Crisis over. Get into shrinemaiden through alternate channels, history if possible. If there's anything good about this joke, at least TSO reskinned the whole thing.
EDIT4: And now it seems that TSO is leaving, due to the massive backlash of people complaining everywhere.
・・・妖怪が鍛えたこの楼観剣に 斬れぬものなど、あんまり無い! The things that cannot be cut by my Roukanken, forged by youkai, are next to none!
by the way, does anyone know, how to get a good connection for PoFV? Cause when i played with some friends in my own country and in Germany, i always get a FPS of 5~20. But i need at least 45 fps? Does anyone knows the problem or something like this? D:
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So I tried out Extra... and I kinda thought it was really easy because of the really basic fairies (I mean really, they only fire straight )... then Patchouli came and ate my sparks as I was forced to take them out. Flandre slapped me hard on the first 2 HP Bars and bllllllllllllllllllll.
In DS news, Stage 12 is kicking my ass seven ways to Sunday. Not to mention the requirements to unlock the EX Stage is almost half of the 108 available stages - and I'll need to do even more to unlock Spoiler. I am so screwed.
I'm putting up replays of the DS scenes after I complete them (assuming I actually remember to save them), so look for them at my channel.
・・・妖怪が鍛えたこの楼観剣に 斬れぬものなど、あんまり無い! The things that cannot be cut by my Roukanken, forged by youkai, are next to none!
So Siki decided to WoDhax me at the exact moment when I was sure she was gonna get hit already. I mean, I already had both Fairy and Witch spells thrown at her, boss attack was there and I just got an EX Item and I looked at the other screen and she was hugging the bottom wall, and she's pretty much surrounded by millions of stars up front.
...then wall of death comes in and fucks me instead.
So I unlocked Hatate about a week ago in DS. She makes some spell cards incredibly easy compared to playing with Aya, but on the flip side spells easy for Aya can get frustrating with Hatate.
Camera Shy Rose makes me rage with either. Seriously, how is that possible???
Again, try Lunatic. One of Remilia's Lunatic spells (Scarlet Meister) is pretty much considered the most difficult in the series.
so i tried Remilia on Lunatic... and ... holy sh** o_O Her spell's are sooo hard omg. (I don't wanna know, how much i died <.<) But... Scarlet Meister is easier consider to Scarlet Gensokyo o.o"
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...or in any difficulty below Hard in any game (barring PoFV, since Siki is probably the strongest Stage 6 Boss, being as haxy as Yukari), the Stage 5 boss is ALWAYS harder than the Stage 6 boss? Youmu just keeps raping me intensively, Sakuya abuses my un-memorization of the hitbox, Reisen just doesn't want you to go above hugging the bottom wall (which I really don't like doing), Sanae's stars are just a bit too big for Marisa's taste, Orin will deplete your patience and of course Shou will wrape you with curvy lasers. Stage 6 bosses on the other hand are too gentle >_>
EDIT: First time I used Reimu today. First 3 runs, I kept raging at how I'm missing 2136089512875 items on Stage 1, but eventually I was able to accept the fact that I'll NEVER going to be getting max power by the end of Stage 1, and proceeded. And thus:
I never expected to be getting a shitload of points compared to using Marisa. Maybe it's because of added memory this time as compared to my Marisa-A run where I had no idea what Yuyuko was going to throw at me. I'm also surprised that I got a sizable amount of Point Items; I was kinda expecting only bordering 1000 Point Items, given how Reimu has invisible chubbiness that refrains her from moving fast. That said, I only need 3 more endings to finish my collection of TH07 endings. Now I need to go through the painful process of 1CC'ing using Reimu again.
On another note, some cards just seem to be really annoying to capture, and is turning out harder than comapred to if I use Marisa. Guarneri Gel Desu and Prism Concerto being the most annoying; I could swear these cards were way easier when I tried it... but then I remembered Reimu's invisible fat. Great.
Another thing to note is that I probably was using Focus less than 50% of the time I was using focus on Marisa. End result then is that I'm getting Borders quicker than Hatate can say Hatatatatatatate, contributing to even more points...
Do it again. This time use Reimu B. Notice how much stronger she is, and notice how many MORE borders you'll get than with reimu A. Unfocused shooting with Reimu B is 2nd best in terms of how much cherry you can get. Marisa A has the best. I also believe unfocused shooting with Reimu B is the strongest shot in the game. (assuming you're practically touching the boss)
Do it again. This time use Reimu B. Notice how much stronger she is,
Just looking at the shot kinda gives it away, yes?
Cyclone wrote:
and notice how many MORE borders you'll get than with reimu A. Unfocused shooting with Reimu B is 2nd best in terms of how much cherry you can get. Marisa A has the best.
Out of curiosity, does it follow that stronger shot = more cherry? I find Marisa-A's melee unfocused power to be really really insanely high, but I don't know about Reimu-B yet (since I never obviously used it yet), but judging from the shot I think the boss also needs to be large enough to get all the shots in? (...is it just me or Stage 2 Chen is actually smaller than Extra Chen in terms of hitbox? Marisa-A's green shots at melee range never completely enclose Stage 2 Chen while it does on Extra Chen)
Cyclone wrote:
I also believe unfocused shooting with Reimu B is the strongest shot in the game. (assuming you're practically touching the boss)
I dodge bullets for the sake of getting in line with the boss
Other than that, I found some quick parts on some games that have improved my dodging greatly. For one, the time that I felt that I was FINALLY improving was through IN's Spell Practice. In particular, I grinded Kaguya's cards on Normal until I was sure I could clear them in a row, but most notably trying to capture Impossible Request 「Dragon's Necklace」 was the card that trained me so much (I think I still have less than 5% capture rate on that card).
Also, you probably already know, but you really have to be a master of the hit box. Effective and efficient dodging is done by looking at the bullets, not at the character. In Phantasm, I normally look on the top-half of the screen even if I'm hugging the bottom wall except for certain spellcards. One card that kinda requires you to do this is Nitori's first card. The bullets are so bright that it's kinda painful having to look at one spot, plus you have to look at Nitori for where she's shooting those balls anyway.
well i do look at the top half of the screen. trying to look at the bullet patterns and then i quickly look back on my character. slowly dodging those bullets.
one thing more annoying than fast bullets are slow bullets. those bullets took me off guard and i can't even deathbomb through it
If you can't deathbomb through it then just bomb through it lol. I learned not to be bombshy and then that was the time I finally was able to 1CC some stuff.
Also, IMO fast bullets and slow bullets don't make a difference much, but rather, it's how they combine to form WTFWALLS just like Lyrica does.
Oh and another thing. I don't know if it will help, but watch the replay of others. It might just boost your confidence when you know ways to dodge some other patterns. Not to be bragging or anything but here's my latest Normal run on PCB lol: http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=8286
I could swear, she's by far the Stage 5 boss which makes me rage all the time.
Three deaths were because Youmu had to just be a bitch again. It's no surprise that it's actually the first death I got (not including unintentional border breaks). I swear I could've scored way higher if I didn't keep chain-deathing on Stage 5 and Stage 6... >_>
Youmu's Spellcards are okay, but her attacks sucks extermly <.< i was able to get from every spell at least 1 spellbonus. in Stage 6 Youmu's Spellcards is stupid -_- attack is easier.
Yuyuko! The first spell is not hard, but starts getting confusing, if she didn't die over 20~30 secs. Her second spell starts to sucks. Even the bullets are big, which is aiming at you, it sucks really x_x Her Third spell is hard too, but only if you went up. Her fourth spell is really the easiest spell from her o_o I mean... lol? xD The long spell... omg, it kicks me always when she dies at the same time <.< Surviving spell? Easy with Reimu. With the others? not really...
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also. is there a new retexture pack for EoSD? i've seen some of you guys taking screenshots in EoSD and it looks good. could it possibly be a new retexture pack?
I don't know by 'new', but I do have the retexture pack, but I'm not using it since it's making Marisa seem too fast and the movement just seems too weird...
Sniffing around for something to do and I came across Touhou DotA.
Yes you heard me right. Some Chinese dudes made it.
Imma put some screenshots here.
Momiji... she has skills you wish that one DotA hero to have. She has Summon Wolves for a first skill, a reveal spell for a second skill, a spell similar to Dragon's Tail for a third skill, and her ulti... ENDURANCE AURA. And a really big boost too. 12-24-36% for the 3 levels respectively. Paired with just Power Treads, Momiji is one hell of a melee user...
Then... I randomed again on a restart game to see who I would want to try out next. So I got Ran. Her first skill's icon... ooh... I think I know what this does...
YES! I WAS RIGHT!
I HAVE A CHEN, BITCHES!
Now if only I could figure out how I could put Bashers on her...
...oh wait ooh BOTH of them have a slow spell! Oh joy! *eats the Mystia AI*
...lol wait the AI doesn't know how to buy items yet... rofl.
omg!!! I only though it's possible to make PV's on Wacraft III (Bad Apple!!), but Touhou Chara's as Units...?? O_O AWESOME XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Okay but, what happens, when one of them dies? o.o Brutal or ... something like this? :/
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