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>>17465151
Why does it feel like the only fucking way to get a reasonable amount of score is to bomb like mad and then kill yourself so you can get more bombs
Why did ZUN design this game this way I just want to see Stage 4 but I can't accept a subpar run because if the later stages are as hard as people say I'm going to need every life I can get

I've hit the point of complete stagnation where I just keep resetting practice runs after the first mistake despite them being practice runs. I feel like the blame goes to everyone calling PCB Alice an easy boss. I don't want to let anyone see I've repeatedly lost to an easy boss so I just keep resetting every time I get touched by her. I'm really thankful that PCB doesn't save spellcard statistics from runs in which you reset or I'd be so embarrassed that I'd have to delete my scorefile and start over.

How do I win in embodiment of scarlet devil I'm extremely new to touhou

>>17080699
Of course not. She sleeps almost everyday.

I took a week-long break because of finals and now I'm back and I'm dying to Mamizou's fucking nonspells now. Not even the later ones whose patterns are kind of obscured, the early ones that are just "move to the left/right in set intervals."

I just realized I spent the last five and a half hours playing Touhou without a break longer than five minutes. How do I get over my addiction?

Taking a break from EoSD Extra has made me worse, I feel. I realized today I never posted a replay for anons to try and help with because I was holding out on getting a NMNB stage portion first so I don't look like a complete fucking loser for failing to capture all three of Patchi's spellcards in one run (I've done them all individually, but never all three in one run), so I'm ready to just let myself look like a scrub and post a shitty replay with 1MNBs the stage portion.

https://mega.nz/#!JZBmkYiR!KCy_hxNKxjsVZub-Lk-xibXZ6-O7DxxNqP6Xvo5hgSg

I have no clue what the fuck killed me during Laveteinn, this is the first time it has ever happened to me. I died instantly to Maze of Love as usual, and Four of a Kind is a crapshoot because of how RNG-heavy it is. I think I just gave up internally after dying to Maze of Love again which is why I died to some random nonspell.

Any advice would be good, except for advice telling me to bomb more, because I'm not going to start bombing something until I can clear it with at least some regularity, unless it's one of Flan's last two spells, I will gladly spam bombs to try to win if I'm that far.

>>16735232
We must have the opposite skillsets, I suppose. Stages are never an issue for me relative to bosses, and I think on average four out of five lives lost during any given run in any given game are from bosses instead of stages.

I actually have to step away from the game for a few minutes whenever I'm doing too well, rather than doing poorly. I have an abnormally fast heartbeat (regularly 100-110 BPM at rest, and I have a habit of making it worse by hypo-ventilating even when nothing is going on around me because I start becoming aware of my heartbeat and start trying to "correct" my breathing which actually fucks it up and fuck I had to take a break from writing this post to take a walk because typing about it made me inadvertently start doing it), and when I'm entering late game with a big surplus of lives I sometimes hit 150+ BPM or get palpitations.

During some of my first 1ccs of particularly hard games, UFO being the worst offender even though I don't consider it the hardest (on Normal), I had to pause the game repeatedly because my heartbeat was skyrocketing.

Because of the above, I only ever do one "real" run of practice where I get far into Yukari's fight each play session, which happens to usually take 1-2 hours to reach because I'm really fucking bad at Ran's midboss fight.

I never do get into the "HAVE TO WIN" mental stance until I get to the final boss's final card, because at that point I'm just so close to victory that not lasting through that one card crushes me.


I really don't know how I do as good as I do, even if what I do isn't that good—despite all the practice I've put in the series in general (probably more than 300 hours; I can confirm at least 150 hours looking at the recorded playtime in all the danmaku games from MoF to LoLK) I can't read paths very well and I have terrible accuracy at actually navigating those paths anyway. I have a horrible habit of hoarding bombs and dying because of it, and whenever I do get a 1cc I feel it's a fluke, despite having more than 25 1ccs at this point. I am definitely a lot better at these things than when I first started and couldn't beat Stage 4 of EoSD without continues, but I don't feel like I'm nearly as good as I should be or as good as most other people with comparable hours of practice. If that shitposting anon who talks about how natural talent is the only thing determining skill, I must be on the lower bound regarding talent.

>>16017115
B-But I did!

Guys I don't want to go to /jp/, /jp/ scares me and I don't know anything about the etiquette. I just wanted to talk about video games.

>>12979557
What if they start making fun of me?