STG/Touhou thread

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STG/Touhou thread Anonymous Sun Apr 6 20:47:15 2014 No.12025150 [Reply] [Original]

Old thread: >>11962842

Please discuss the Touhou games and STGs at large here.

Thank you to everyone who participated in last thread's challenge, and congratulations to our winner
>>11973139

Thread challenge: IN spell 222 Time Orbs.
Play spell 222 and try to collect as many time orbs as you can. Most time orbs wins.
Hopefully I'm not excluding too many players by picking the last last spell. My humblest apologies if this is the case.

Links:
Replay uploader for 6-13: http://replays.gensokyo.org/
Replay uploader for 14: http://threplays.appspot.com/replays
STG/Touhou stream aggregator: http://stgrillz.appspot.com/

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 6 20:59:31 2014 No.12025172 >>12024417

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 6 21:06:15 2014 No.12025184 >>12025172 wow. thanks

Anonymous Sun Apr 6 21:08:45 2014 No.12025189

Two questions.
1. Does anyone have any problems with their keyboards freaking out when playing Touhou? I got a new mechanical keyboard, and it seems to get frozen only when enjoying danmaku.
2. Is it possible or worthwhile to use a controller to play Touhou?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 6 21:10:01 2014 No.12025195 >>12025189 1. some, see if your keyboard has driver updates. 2. Most of the time, no. Japanese players like the Saturn pad, and Arcade sticks are pretty good, but most Dpads won't be as precise as a keyboard.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 6 21:16:15 2014 No.12025207 I also have a question about keyboards. I use Red Cherry MX, is it considered bad for STG games?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 6 21:18:41 2014 No.12025211 >>12025207 I thought those were... fucking great for these games?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 6 21:19:05 2014 No.12025214 >>12025211 I wasn't sure, only tried Blue and Red switches so far.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 6 21:25:20 2014 No.12025228 >>12025214 Blues are pretty shitty for STGs. Reds are really good though.

Anonymous Sun Apr 6 21:31:50 2014 No.12025238

>>12025150
I've been struggling to get a 1cc hard on Mystic Square - the first three levels aren't too problematic, but the fourth level takes so much out of me that I usually screw up to the bosses more than I'd like. By the time I get through stage 5 I simply don't have enough bombs to survive the bossfight. Should I ditch Mima and try another character for this, or just practise the fight with savescumming or something?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 6 21:53:15 2014 No.12025268 any tips for a newcomer to the touhou games?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 6 22:01:15 2014 No.12025275 >>12025268 Hold shift for focused movement and best way to improve is copying others.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 6 23:57:09 2014 No.12025459 >>12025238 How much have you been trying?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 02:21:51 2014 No.12025710 >>12025189 When I play STGs The shift or Z keys release themselves automagically and I have to press again.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 22:06:29 2014 No.12027462 >>12025150 Anyone here playing in that PoFV tournament?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:04:46 2014 No.12027551 >>12027462 Yes, a couple of people.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:23:18 2014 No.12027594 File: 79 KB, 250x250, 1288615596987.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12025150 What a Touhou game is that in OPs picture?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 7 23:25:03 2014 No.12027608 >>12027594 東方幕華祭 Chinese fan-made 2hu game that does better than ZUN himself did with DDC.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:02:06 2014 No.12027676 File: 207 KB, 570x570, 1335537634773.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12027608 Holy shit! This looking really amazing! But why is Rumias design complete different?! First I was think it is a original character.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 00:04:36 2014 No.12027678 >>12027676 She is an original character. Looks really cute though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 02:09:45 2014 No.12027875 File: 80 KB, 512x384, patriotdark.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Anyone here ever play Patriot Dark? It is pretty fun.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 03:33:20 2014 No.12028002 >>12027462 i forgot it, wouldn't have time in between the week anyway

Anonymous Tue Apr 8 06:09:38 2014 No.12028167
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Thread challenge: 5854 time orbs total. Boy was that ever fun and frustrating at the same time. Spent a good hour doing this over and over again.

Glad to see this thread challenge was finally made, I love the last words, especially Yukari's, it's so pretty.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=32750

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 15:26:37 2014 No.12028995 File: 658 KB, 300x388, lel.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 17:04:44 2014 No.12029159 >>12028995 That reminds me, I'm behind on my tournament matches already. When I have time tonight I need to get some matches done.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 19:46:19 2014 No.12029444 Blog entry #387: Instead of looking for a job, I 1cced PCB. The resulting feeling of satisfaction is soured by falseness, artificiality.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 8 21:16:11 2014 No.12029556 >>12029444 I just found a job. It's checking your trips.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 10:17:41 2014 No.12030598 File: 523 KB, 1280x480, jajajajajajajaja.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Ehehe.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 17:15:54 2014 No.12031184 >>12030598 Well, at least you only lost one life.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 9 17:29:24 2014 No.12031219 >>12027875 I played it a long while ago. All I really remember is that it used Ketsui's music.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 10 05:38:56 2014 No.12032162 >>12027551 Oh, that's interesting. I didn't know anyone from /jp/ had entered that. I wonder who in particular is from /jp/.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 10 07:42:34 2014 No.12032301 File: 224 KB, 640x480, th075.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 10 22:52:28 2014 No.12033467 >>12032301 sugeeeeeeee

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 10 22:57:27 2014 No.12033472 File: 360 KB, 1000x1000, Avent11.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12032301 >you will never achieve a flawless run

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 11 17:00:02 2014 No.12034634 http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=32800 This was my first try with my new groundbreaking strategies that you subhumans would NEVER understand.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 11 17:07:32 2014 No.12034645 >>12033472 Please do not misuse the quoting function.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 11 17:10:47 2014 No.12034652 File: 6 KB, 250x166, jesus.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12034645 >He who abuse the quoting feature, shall be abused in return.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 11 17:14:17 2014 No.12034656 >>12034634 Holy shit, great potential in this run but I have no idea what the fuck just happened

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 11 17:26:38 2014 No.12034677 >>12034634 Really great run anon, close to 1cc! I can't get past Patchouli on Hard because I always get clipped by her non-directional laser patterns ;_;

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 11 19:14:00 2014 No.12034820 So who do you think the best Western players are? MaZe?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 11 19:21:30 2014 No.12034826 >>12033472 Are you french ? It looks a lot like the works of "Boulet" !

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 00:12:46 2014 No.12035140 >>12034820 Not this shit again.

Anonymous Sat Apr 12 01:06:26 2014 No.12035228

Hold on! This thread is heading towards the wrong direction in dangerous speed!

A warm reminder to everyone that the /jp/ STG thread is a Bully free zone™, a venerable label we have worked very hard for. It would be sad to lose it due to a petty argument, so calm down, shall we.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 04:07:55 2014 No.12035440 >>12034820 We've already established this. MaZe is without a doubt the best Western player, as he has proven time and time again.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 04:50:44 2014 No.12035481 File: 174 KB, 292x518, 1315481427154.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12034820 >knowing the names of other players 2normal4me

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 04:55:59 2014 No.12035485 >>12035481 agreed, we're not on some faggot web forum

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 08:46:28 2014 No.12035710 >>12035481 Please don't misuse the quotation function. Your new is showing if you don't know MaZe. He used to always post here.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 08:46:58 2014 No.12035712 >>12035485 right, totally, sure thing bro

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 09:43:13 2014 No.12035828 >>12034820 i will nominate cactu and sakurei. i would also mention some retired veteran players, but they dont really play anymore so they are irrelevant

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 10:03:48 2014 No.12035868 >>12034826 Yeah, that's his Christmas calendar.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 11:01:18 2014 No.12035982 >>12035710 I've been frequently on /jp/ since 2010 and i've never heard about your best namefriend. If your best namefriend only lived within these STG-forum-threads it's clear because i don't visit them often for obvious reasons.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 14:36:17 2014 No.12036385 Take your circle jerking somewhere else previous thread went to shit thanks to it.

Anonymous Sat Apr 12 14:39:32 2014 No.12036391

>>12025150
The shmup in this picture is complete shit.
Stage 1 and 2, and to a lesser extent, 3, started off quite good. A lot of random dodging which is good. Stage 4 and onwards however are awful. Absolutely fucking awful. Nothing but streaming of the worst kind and memo shit as far as the eye can see, and gimmicks everywhere.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 14:45:02 2014 No.12036405 >>12036391 So it's just like Touhou.

Anonymous Sat Apr 12 15:13:32 2014 No.12036449

>>12036391
>gimmicks everywhere
Like? I noticed next to none. The only thing I can think of would be the momentarily disappearing bullets on some later attacks, which were to give a puzzle-like feeling to the portion of the game. I don't personally like it either, but I'll take that over reversed controls on spell cards I'm supposed to speedkill for millions of points.
>memo shit
I agree on most boss attacks requiring you to figure them out before being captureable. But it was quite apparent that most attacks weren't completely static, but had some random elements in them. Which never quite made them a complete pushover. I won't adress the streaming, as the game is based on a chaining mechanic and enemy spawns go around the screen, with stage routes often being something else than pure streaming, just in order to gain some resources from the item chains.

It does have some bullet visibility issues, glow issues, pacing issues and such, which I think are the most common problem with fan-made games. It's not the worst game in existence, though. I'm sad you didn't like it (and you don't have to), but some of your insults seemed rather unfair, or based on a completely personal opinion. Or maybe it was just the amount of swearing that made your post seem angrier than it actually is.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 15:39:47 2014 No.12036485 >>12036391 >streaming >worst kind and memo shit >gimmicks everywhere Well, it is a 2hu game, after all.

Anonymous Sat Apr 12 16:04:17 2014 No.12036524

>>12036449
>Like?

Time stopping from Sakuya, Slowdown from Remilia, Disappearing bullets from Sakuya.
While not memo, there are other things that are just idiotic, like Remilia's survival which would be fine if the lasers from the fucking big round bullet that follows you were actually visible half way into the spell card.

>I agree on most boss attacks requiring you to figure them out before being captureable

And that is the problem. Having some patterns require a bit of memorization is fine, but having 3/4 of each boss fight being more of a memory based puzzle instead of actually requiring dodging is awful. I like fast paced random dodging in which you need to move around a fair bit. After Cirno, most of the bosses required micro dodging. As I said though, the third stage wasn't that bad but Meiling did you use a few too many micro dodge spellcards for my liking.
Sakuya is a complete chore to fight though because of all the gimmicks she uses. Why didn't the creator give her patterns that were similar to her EoSD non spells? They are actually fun unlike her spellcards.

>It's not the worst game in existence, though

No it isn't. Far from it but it is still a massive disappointment for what started off so well.

Oh well I'll have to keep playing the touhou clones I usually play. They have abysmal stages that this game puts to shame, but its bosses tend to favour firing off random dodging patterns.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 20:14:19 2014 No.12036911 >>12034820 MaZe and Riz are probably the most skilled Western players, but T has the most achievemnts.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 20:14:34 2014 No.12036914 >>12036391 No Japanese superplayer playing this game so you can't be spoodfeeded, cry on and back to vanilla 2hu looser.

Anonymous Sat Apr 12 21:03:56 2014 No.12036972

>>12036914
The fuck are you even talking about? Your broken English is laughable.
Are you trying to imply that the game is hard? Because it isn't at all. I beat the game on lunatic after a couple of tries. Now I'm just fucking about in stage practice pacifying stage 1-3.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 21:10:55 2014 No.12036989 >>12036972 I suggest you to read >>12035228

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 12 23:23:34 2014 No.12037123 >>12036972 >>12036524 Hi MaZe. Post a replay please of your 1cc of this game please. Thank you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 13 08:48:26 2014 No.12037679 File: 197 KB, 640x480, crows.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Opps.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 13 16:15:15 2014 No.12038447 Are there any other competitive based STG's like PoDD/PoFV/twinkle star sprites?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 03:24:29 2014 No.12039682 Are any of you scared of growing old?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 04:09:52 2014 No.12039737 File: 490 KB, 640x480, th671.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12039682 Yes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 11:16:59 2014 No.12040270 File: 185 KB, 640x480, th084.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 11:41:01 2014 No.12040322 >>12040270 おめ

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 11:44:32 2014 No.12040324 >>12040270 Congrats, nice score!

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 18:12:29 2014 No.12041093 File: 96 KB, 640x480, 49849E4A4B915D2EDD35133594F8EE52AD7A335.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I cleared lunatic for the first time today. Perfect Cherry Blossom 4 continues used. I know I'm bad, but I feel like I can do anything.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 18:13:44 2014 No.12041097 >>12041093 >You're bad I cant even beat PCB on Normal, I'm just in these threads to see people that are good

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 18:16:14 2014 No.12041102 >>12041097 Try playing Reimu A. Hold shift for focused movement. Practice deathbombing. That's the secret to getting sort of good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 18:24:14 2014 No.12041119 >>12041102 Reimu A in PCB? I thought the best was Sakuya A. The other ones I'm okay at, I'm just no good at 2hu no matter how much I practice.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 18:49:00 2014 No.12041150 >>12041119 I dunno man, the auto aim power made bosses and normal enemies a lot easier

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 19:18:21 2014 No.12041187 >>12041150 But SakuyaA has a stronger homing shot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 19:38:08 2014 No.12041230 >>12041187 Its quite a bit easier to hit things with Reimu A.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 20:11:38 2014 No.12041281 >>12041230 But Sakuya's is well enough where she only has trouble on Chen

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 20:15:39 2014 No.12041286 File: 164 KB, 994x994, 1396573404698.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12041281 Well, whatever floats your boat.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 20:24:23 2014 No.12041303 >>12041093 >I cleared lunatic for the first time today. congratu... >continues >player penalty never mind

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 22:53:18 2014 No.12041552 File: 484 KB, 640x480, th675.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Made some mistakes. I'm a bit unsure whether to pursue further improvements to the score or not. >>12040270 Great score. Good job!

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 14 22:57:18 2014 No.12041555 >>12041552 間もなくにもう一つ自己ベ更新やりましたかおめでたーっす（　＾ω＾）

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 15 00:03:02 2014 No.12041684 >>12038447 Change Air Blade, the best VS-STG

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 15 00:06:02 2014 No.12041687 >>>/vr/1530502 superiour shmup players over here why don't you try hard, /jp/?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 15 01:13:05 2014 No.12041797 >>12041687 This is /jp/. We take it easy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 15 02:02:05 2014 No.12041875 trying clear extra stage in EoSD. love maze is blowing me out. I'd love some advice.

Anonymous Tue Apr 15 03:37:25 2014 No.12042053

>>12041875
With Reimu, you can just sit at the bottom and dodge through the small gaps.
Otherwise, two bombs or one death should clear it if you time it so that the invincibility runs out just when she stops shooting for a while when changing directions of her shots.

Anonymous Tue Apr 15 08:51:32 2014 No.12042432
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I'm trying to clear DDC normal with Sakuya B. I get clipped often. Sakuya A required no practice to clear, but it's different with the other shot types.
I hate diagonal bullet patterns.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 15 08:58:47 2014 No.12042438 >>12042432 I hate lasers, something in my brain doesn't let me recognize them - i'm glad DDC isn't full of them like the other 2hu with Shou and the Muslim-hu.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 15 09:30:17 2014 No.12042484 >>12042438 I hate moving lasers that take time to form its hitboxes, like Kogasa's last spell in extra. I'm too slow for that one.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 15 23:48:12 2014 No.12044029 My third attempt at EosD on normal and I only just managed to get to patchy before running out of lives. Anyone here use flight sticks? I've got an old one I'm considering using, as my keyboard is killing my wrists.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 16 15:48:32 2014 No.12045423 File: 419 KB, 640x480, ZXhQruQ.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] One day I'll learn the early stages. But for now, this is fine.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 16 16:59:56 2014 No.12045571 >>12044029 A flight stick would probably make it more difficult. Try and have a better posture.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 16 20:14:27 2014 No.12046085 pls strm!

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 16 20:14:58 2014 No.12046086 pls strim

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 16 20:15:57 2014 No.12046087 File: 33 KB, 800x600, avy2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] yeah, pls strm!

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 16 20:41:12 2014 No.12046123 File: 549 KB, 1920x1042, Unbenannt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Good run, for those intersted, I'll upload the video later today. I'll hopefully PB with a clear next time. I'm happy

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 16 22:28:28 2014 No.12046313 >>12045423 >>12046123 Congratulations!

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 07:55:01 2014 No.12047070 >>12041093 >continues lolyou at least you tried I guess >>12044029 just use keyboard, literally best input method and input method doesn't matter for anything below scoring. take it easy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 08:19:01 2014 No.12047102 >>12046123 Fuck off Sakurei.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 08:47:00 2014 No.12047128 >>12047102 That is not very nice. He got a good score, you should congratulate him for it no matter how you felt towards him. Either that or just remain silent, these threads have seen enough hate.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 08:49:01 2014 No.12047131 >>12047070 >input method doesn't matter for anything below scoring. What. If input method did matter for scoring, how come it didn't matter for other play? You also have to make tight dodges and swift circular movements in survival play.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 11:38:11 2014 No.12047318 http://pastebin.com/deNZ6S1q

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 15:23:12 2014 No.12047727 File: 372 KB, 640x480, 622M(6)DESU.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Can someone teach me how to clear EoSD? I can't seem to do it anymore... It's been half a year since I last cleared! ;_;

Anonymous Thu Apr 17 15:23:27 2014 No.12047729

>>12047318
I still love this. Keep posting it.

What kills me is that, while the whole thing is true and obvious to anyone that matters, the entire post is motivated by his jealousy of the attention that some 2hu kids got on a forum from a bunch of idiots that he doesn't even like anyway.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 15:32:57 2014 No.12047753 >>12047727 If you did this run on stream, please highlight it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 15:37:12 2014 No.12047760 >>12047753 I didn't do it live but I did watch the replay on stream if you want to watch that. I highlighted it on my channel.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 15:42:43 2014 No.12047777 Whats up with these attempts to provoke circlejerking these last few threads?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 15:44:27 2014 No.12047782 >>12047777 Sorry.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 15:48:27 2014 No.12047789 Man DDP left such a bad taste I have not touched a stg in 4 weeks.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 15:55:58 2014 No.12047807 >>12047777 Nice quads.

Anonymous Thu Apr 17 21:14:28 2014 No.12048328
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>>12047318
What's so wrong about having fun? With the way I'm interpreting his words, superplayers are superior to those who simply play games for fun. If he's more talking in a broader sense, i.e. those who are passionate about something are superior to those who do things casually, then I guess I'll give it to him that being passionate about something certainly feels good. With the way he worded it though, it basically sounded like "go full shmup or go home", which I don't like. There's nothing wrong with someone else playing a game casually even though you play seriously. The more I read, the more elitist he sounded.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 17 22:37:30 2014 No.12048388 >>12048328 I find it hard to take seriously someone who thinks shmups are literally a way of life. I do agree with him that treating what you truly are interested in as a mere hobby will end up crippling your skills, though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 18 00:40:35 2014 No.12048484 >>12048328 welcome to gus

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 18 01:34:41 2014 No.12048522 >>12047318 >First, there are the collectors, the personfications of the phrase "You can't suck at a poster." What is that suppose to mean? I've never heard that phrase before. >>12048484 It sounds like something Icycalm would write.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 18 09:45:55 2014 No.12049088 >>12048522 You couldn't be any farther from the truth. http://imgur.com/a/q6BUr

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 18 13:30:22 2014 No.12049473 >>12048522 Icycalm and gus are the opposing extremes, like Nazis and commies. Both are fucking insane.

Anonymous Fri Apr 18 14:33:38 2014 No.12049633

>>12049473
But, as you can see, the gus side leads only to despair.
Imagine playing a touhou game with one life, no extends, no continues, and no practice modes whatsoever. There is only one difficulty setting. There are no items of any kind: grazing raises your shot power (which constantly decreases), you deal extra damage by getting up close, and you start with a full deck of spellcards that cannot be increased. Bombs also deal significantly less damage against bosses. Enemy health is significantly increased so you must graze like hell or you will become overwhelmed and lose.

Anonymous Sat Apr 19 12:21:32 2014 No.12051201

Stupid question, but I'm going to toss it out here because the thread does say STG...

Is there any particular pattern to the way Jamestown's scrap pickup thingies (the golden shit that you collect to fill the Vaunt meter) are generated, or is it just some loose relationship of greater point worth = more scrap released?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 12:30:32 2014 No.12051218 >>12049088 I hope this isn't an actual book.

Anonymous Sat Apr 19 12:46:32 2014 No.12051237

>>12051218
INSOMNIA ART THEORY SERIES

VIDEOGAME CULTURE: VOLUME 1

© Alex Kierkegaard 2007 - 2012
Cover Image: Integrated Circuit © Seth Richards

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher.

Published by Insomnia
http://culture.vg

ISBN:[redacted]

Printed in Greece

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 12:47:32 2014 No.12051238 File: 109 KB, 496x347, 28010daf7b2f29f421c7f90fc1c6e5b2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12051237

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 12:50:32 2014 No.12051245 >>12051237 You know what's even more autistic than scoring? Writing a book about it

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 15:05:32 2014 No.12051433 >>12051245 Icycalm only talks about scoring in that specific chapter though. Most of the book are really just updated versions of his old insomnia.ac essays.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 15:10:32 2014 No.12051449 Are there really human beings alive who will pay to read what Icycalm has to say?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 15:14:32 2014 No.12051456 >>12051433 A shame, he could've spent an entire book channeling Time Cube. I swear between now and the last time I ever had the misfortune of remembering that person exists he's gone absolute batshit bonkers.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 15:20:32 2014 No.12051469 I wish icy would pay back the debts.

Anonymous Sat Apr 19 15:52:32 2014 No.12051511
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>>12051449
I'm pretty sure most of the people who post on Icy's forum are contributors that got their accounts for free. I miss the days when it wasn't hidden behind a paywall.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 16:21:32 2014 No.12051558 daily reminder that backloggery is sony run i know because it gave me a sony.com cookie on the first days of the site

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 16:43:32 2014 No.12051592 Trying to one-life eosd extra with Reimu a. Is there a trick to getting through royal flare and philosopher's stone or is it pure dodging?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 19:29:45 2014 No.12052000 >>12051592 Royal Flare is completely static and is easy memo. Watch any good replay.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 19:35:15 2014 No.12052010 >>12047777 NICE quads

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 20:25:16 2014 No.12052069 >>12051456 Does anyone even like him at this point?

Anonymous Sat Apr 19 20:28:46 2014 No.12052073

>>12052069
Well I kinda like him more now because of how unintentionally hilarious his insanity comes off as.

He's gone from shock jock with the barest shred of a point to I can't even fucking tell if he's been taking us for a ride all this time or what.

You know what they say about trainwrecks? It's like that. There's a horrific majesty in witnessing it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 20:29:30 2014 No.12052074 >>12051456 You haven't seen anything yet. http://orgyofthewill.net/

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 20:31:15 2014 No.12052077 >>12052074 Nah I've already got that on bookmark, hence the whole "channeling Time Cube" throwaway.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 20:54:01 2014 No.12052117 File: 198 KB, 640x480, 647MCLEAR.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12047727 I did it!

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 21:09:30 2014 No.12052136 >>12052074 dat html >>12052117 Congratulations!

Anonymous Sat Apr 19 21:30:15 2014 No.12052154

>>12052074
> Misogyny, from Greek misos (μῖσος, hatred) and gynē (γυνή, woman), means "hatred of women". The idea here is that, because I call things as I see them, and recognize the fact that women are, on the whole, less intelligent than men, THAT I HATE THEM. This is the kind of inference that only sub-humans would make: i.e. one that DOES NOT MAKE ANY FUCKING SENSE. For there are billions of life-forms in the universe which, on the whole, are less intelligent than men in general, and me in particular, but from this fact it in no way follows that I hate them. Take my dog, for example. Does the fact that I realize he is much less intelligent than me mean that I hate him? Am I a "miscaninist" because I say that dogs are stupider than men? Am I not allowed then to love anything that is stupider than me? Is it necessary that I place everything I love on an equal basis with myself -- even if all signs point to the fact that they aren't?
I miss the days when Icy's forums were public.

Anonymous Sat Apr 19 21:43:15 2014 No.12052171

I'm trying to master IN but I absolutely suck at this game.

Any tips and tricks? I've only been playing for a couple of days, and I've been switching between 6, 8, and 13. I like 8 by far the most, so I guess I'll try to beat that without using any continues first.

The farthest I got on normal was about half-way through Reisen(I used all my continues+bombs, I wanted to get as far as possible to be able to use the practice mode)

I can get past Wriggle/Mystia without losing any lives(Entirely luck based, I always get hit by ONE stray bullet), but Keine always makes me lose 2-3 for some reason. I have a different problem with Keine every time--I never die to the same spellcard with her.

Then Marisa just completely bum rapes me; her spellcards seem easier than her normal danmaku

Any tips to get better fast besides spam-playing the game? I've been reading about streaming and crossover and all, as well as deathbomb.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 21:59:15 2014 No.12052193 >>12052154 I think he was arrested or died or something recently. It's been a week since he's posted anything on either of his sites. And people have been posting really stupid shit which he usually responds to.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 22:07:22 2014 No.12052198 >>12052193 He has gone weeks at a time without posting before.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 22:10:36 2014 No.12052204 I am trying to get a yuyuko themed gift for my friend her nine inch figure is good , or is it? I was thinking of getting that or the plush Also liking yuyuko does he have shit taste

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 22:12:21 2014 No.12052206 >>12052204 Wrong thread, but his taste is fine. As for the figure, it might be annoying to find for a decent price.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 19 22:14:36 2014 No.12052208 >>12052206 sorry, this was my first post on /jp/ this is my second, and thank you for telling me I just wanted to know how good the figure was but i will find the appropriate thread

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 00:38:35 2014 No.12052484 >>12052193 >>12052198 I've seen his name pop up in a few PUA and manosphere blogs such as Good Looking Loser and KrauserPUA.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 01:02:47 2014 No.12052511 >>12052117 Nice job!

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 01:52:36 2014 No.12052577 Could any kind anon lay out the pros and cons of stick, pad, and keyboard in terms of STGs?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 01:59:33 2014 No.12052587 >>12052577 http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,15853.30.html I think reply #40 got it pretty well.

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 02:12:43 2014 No.12052605

>>12052577
A pad is just generally clunky because of how STGs innate mechanics work. Thumbsticks deadzone makes moving just clunky. It takes more time to tap in directions, and there's not a whole lot of control you get with them compared to a stick or keyboard. You also don't have all your fingers resting on each individual action you can do (bomb, hyper etc). I have a 360 so using the d-pad is out of the question (because 360 d-pads are all horrible), so I can't answer on how fluid that is.

I would say arcade sticks and keyboards are equal to eachother (as long as the stick doesn't have a big deadzone). I don't think either is better than eachother mechanically, but using an arcade stick (for me) feels nicer. Though it takes some time getting used to after using the arrow keys for movement a long while.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 02:45:33 2014 No.12052651 File: 16 KB, 274x206, 1381688042874.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] how do we dodge bullets?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 03:04:17 2014 No.12052676 >>12052651 Go left, then right. DO NOT go right, then left.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 08:13:00 2014 No.12052997 Has anyone switched from keyboard to arcade stick? I plan on doing so and I wanted to hear some opinions from people who've done this before.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 10:29:08 2014 No.12053155 >>12052577 If you're not talented, you'll be shit at STGs regardless of which input method you use. There are superplayers that do way better with a "clunky" pad than any keyboard/stick user.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 11:01:45 2014 No.12053189 >>12053155 >>12047318

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 11:02:08 2014 No.12053190
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I'm that same anon who was stuck at super ego before, if anyone remembers. It's been a while and I managed to clear all the extra bosses, including Fairy Wars Marisa and pic related. Yay for persistence.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 12:44:26 2014 No.12053374 >>12052997 Nothing changes.

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 13:25:29 2014 No.12053421

>>12052997
you start out shit for a few hours and then you're back to the same level you were on keyboard. I have multiple sticks and I still really like playing on pads and keyboards instead.

I do like my newer generation Japanese silver dualshock2 I got when I imported my Japanese PS2, the d-pad feels a lot better than my USA transparent blue d-pad. The only problem is that I can feel it becoming more loose, it's slowly wearing down after two years of playing with it. ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 13:48:15 2014 No.12053443 >>12053190 Congratulations!

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 15:22:30 2014 No.12053577 File: 9 KB, 229x220, 1392612357236.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I wish I was better at touhou

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 15:26:13 2014 No.12053581 >>12052484 frankly i'm surprised he hasn't posted here yet. he tends to pop up at any mention of his name.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 15:34:24 2014 No.12053592 >>12053577 （´・ω・｀）

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 17:32:18 2014 No.12053796 File: 140 KB, 656x519, tdperfect-nr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Probably not as great as all the other achievements in this thread, but I finally got my first perfect clear. I think I'll fill up my Miko folder to celebrate.

Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:33:15 2014 No.12053884

>>12052997
For me the switch was pretty great. imo keyboards lack the directional feedback necessary for dodging bullets intuitively without looking at your character. Switching back to keyboard after stick makes me want to quit shmups out of frustration.

Most people can't tell the difference, though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 18:59:51 2014 No.12053935 This thread has had some pretty good scores, I'm proud, /jp/!

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 22:02:52 2014 No.12054251 I remember being able to play Mushihime-Sama Futari Black Label in MAME, but I cannot for the life of me work out how. Is anyone aware of the black magic required?

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 20 23:58:46 2014 No.12054438 File: 45 KB, 800x600, Screenshot 2014-04-21 06.55.36.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Oh yeah motherfuckers. Get on my level.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:06:08 2014 No.12054446 >>12035828 Is this the same cactu who needs to use 2 lives and all his bombs to get past Stage3 Meiling?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 00:10:21 2014 No.12054450 >>12054446 Dying intentionally for score is completely different than dying from running into a bullet because you can't dodge. I don't know if your post is supposed to be attention garnering or what, but that's a pretty silly remark to make.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 02:09:19 2014 No.12054609 File: 375 KB, 600x307, 15414988_m.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12053796 >>12054438 Congratulations!

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 04:01:50 2014 No.12054819 does grazing help you survive or is it done only for score?

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 04:05:32 2014 No.12054825 >>12054438 >A person with nothing+++++++++ You're a dick, ZUN.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 04:08:05 2014 No.12054832 >>12054819 Mostly for score, but getting good at it can get you out of a tight spot or two.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 04:46:49 2014 No.12054886

>>12054819

The only game in which I think knowing how to graze will help on survival is SA.

Since bombs are rechargable and there are lots of bullets on screen you could graze during the stages, fill the comunication meter and vacuum the power items and, that way, spam bomb more easily.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 06:51:02 2014 No.12055054

>>12054450
Those deaths were obviously unintentional because he couldn't dodge the pattern. He probably thinks there is a safespot for the first spell, haha. Meiling is so easy, how can you even nominate him to be a "good" player? I can perfect her and I don't even get a mention. Meanwhile this guy needs to use more than 1 bomb for the easy nonspells! Makes me laugh.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 06:56:32 2014 No.12055063 File: 83 KB, 400x400, Reiner is not amused.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12055054 Crivens, you are just unbelievably smug.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 07:02:10 2014 No.12055076 >>12055063 >Crivens >Reaction picture

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 08:23:18 2014 No.12055202 >>12055054 Stop this shit.

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 11:00:39 2014 No.12055418

>>12055054
I'm not cac2, but I die on purpose so I seem like I'm bad to the common person. What they don't know is that I'm actually a part of the secret underground scoreplaying community, I just can't show my full potential until we're ready to compete in a tournament.

I learned about this trick following news about SOF-WTN, he intentionally died as early as 1-3 and blamed it on a lack of sleep. He tried as hard as possible to make it seem like it was an accident, but the truth is, he didn't want anybody from the west returning with his super secret scoring techniques. He doesn't want any opposing clans to be able to surpass him until they've reached the full potential of the game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Apr 21 11:27:44 2014 No.12055493 >>12055418 Which is why WTN is playing dodonpachi in two weeks at stunfest?

Anonymous Mon Apr 21 17:13:27 2014 No.12056299

>>12055418
>I learned about this trick following news about SOF-WTN, he intentionally died as early as 1-3 and blamed it on a lack of sleep. He tried as hard as possible to make it seem like it was an acciden

You know I think Futobishi actually did that in his Progear run.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 07:03:35 2014 No.12057799 File: 479 KB, 640x480, th706.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I have no idea how do the homing amulets work.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 10:45:07 2014 No.12058260 >>12057799 Holy crap dat ZUN art

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 11:08:09 2014 No.12058313 >>12058260 Look at Reimu's face. No nose. Line nose. Nostrils.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 11:11:46 2014 No.12058324 >>12058313 thats marisa

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 12:51:53 2014 No.12058576 Who else agrees the scoring system in SA is unbalanced? Mainly feels like the spellcards lack in value and the lower difficulties feel less rewarding in regards to starting point value.

Anonymous Tue Apr 22 13:48:07 2014 No.12058709
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> doing a Phantasm run on Perfect Cherry Blossom
> eventually hit the spellcard on Yukari called Boundary of Life and Death that compared to everything else was always easy, so decided to see if there was anything else to it
> at 30 seconds left all hell breaks loose

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 16:14:26 2014 No.12059025 >>12058709 >at 30 seconds left >shows and image that clearly has 48 seconds left Also what do you mean, it was always easy compared to everything else ? She has much easier spell cards even if you don't try timing it out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 17:11:17 2014 No.12059111 >>12059025 The screenshots not mine I just remember it being at 30 seconds For me that one was always easiest simply because I rushed through it and didn't just let it run its course

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 17:26:39 2014 No.12059135 >>12059111 It's based off her health though, not the time passed. That's why there's timeout protection. You would still have faced the full waves, I think the only thing that changes is that the fast butterfly bullets are aimed when you time it out.

Anonymous Tue Apr 22 17:32:00 2014 No.12059147

>>12059135
>I think the only thing that changes is that the fast butterfly bullets are aimed when you time it out.
I'm pretty sure the velocity of all the bullets increases as well. This is actually a significant problem when scoring in Extra, since the increased speed means less bullets are present on the screen to cancel.

Anonymous Tue Apr 22 19:38:59 2014 No.12059428
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My stage 4 improvement from 4.3.2013 on the Stage 4 scoring challenge on these threads compared to this date. Later score would be 13.5M if I captured the two spellcards I failed, which were Water elf and Mercury poison.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 21:07:56 2014 No.12059602 I can't beat Keine in IN without dying on normal. Is it standard to be this bad when you first start playing?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 21:10:16 2014 No.12059607 >>12059602 Yes. Play more and you'll stop doing that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 21:38:55 2014 No.12059666 >>12059602 Touhou games rely heavily on experience. Keep playing and don't take extended brakes. I didn't play touhou for 18 months once and I went from being able to beat froggy and Ran to not being able to 1CC PCB or IN.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 22:16:00 2014 No.12059717 I reuploaded this. You can have it too.http://www.mediafire.com/download/wlx9l1s6ut4igx6/kouma_3D_ver0.62.7z

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 23:47:11 2014 No.12059915 For getting better at STGs, is it better to play a single part of a single game until you learn it, or is it better to play multiple games?

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 23:50:52 2014 No.12059933 >>12059915 Don't continue. Like, ever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 23:55:50 2014 No.12059944 >>12059933 I don't continue, but should I practice a single game or a bunch?

Anonymous Tue Apr 22 23:56:01 2014 No.12059945

>>12059915
If you're just starting out it's probably best to pick a few games and play through them to get a feel for their play styles. Credit feeding to unlock practice stages or just to play through the game is fine, just realize when you're in way over your head skill-wise. You don't learn much if you're just dying constantly.

If you're serious about learning one game you'll usually break it down into stage by stage chunks until you can do a consistent route through it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Apr 22 23:56:08 2014 No.12059947 >>12059915 Play single parts of multiple games until you learn them.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 23 00:17:28 2014 No.12060010 >>12059933 Problem with this is that you over-familiarize yourself with the easy shit and once you clear a difficult section you fuck up because you don't know what comes after.

Anonymous Wed Apr 23 00:26:54 2014 No.12060045

>>12059915
Play multiple games until you find one you really, really like and stick with that one. Focusing on one game at a time is the only way to build up a high degree of familiarity and skill with it. Once you reach the point where you're satisfied with that game(whether it be a 1cc, a good score or whatever) then you look for another.

Of course you could probably learn multiple Touhou games if you wanted to since most of them have a very similar feel.

Anonymous Wed Apr 23 01:05:58 2014 No.12060188

>>12059915
If you want to get better at STGs, you should play STGs. If you want to get better at a single part of a single game, you should play that single part of that single game.

>>12059933
This is good advice if you're playing at an arcade, but bad otherwise. There is no reason to not use continues unless the game is so beyond your skill level that it would be a waste of time to try the later portions of the game.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 23 04:18:06 2014 No.12060508 >>12059915 Read Sun Tzu's Art of War.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 23 08:00:09 2014 No.12060508,1 A report feature has been added to stgrillz in order to remove unwanted streamers from the site.

Anonymous Wed Apr 23 23:43:32 2014 No.12062933

I just came up with an interesting little challenge, pacifying Miko's last spellcard in TD while remaining on the left or right half of the screen at all times (no sitting in the middle in other words). I'm having quite a bit of fun doing this, hard as shit even on normal.

I feel like that spellcard would be more interesting if separate bullets were spawned from Miko that may end up forcing you to move away from the middle. Or something like that. And also make it so she gains invisibility during bombs. I fucking hate seeing that spellcard get bomb-rushed. I feel like this spellcard has a lot of potential but ends up being too easy for a last spellcard.

>>12060188
I choose to not continue simply because it's more exciting when I reach parts of the game that I don't have much experience with (or none at all), feels nice and new. I know it's not at all a practical method of getting better at the game, but I think it's fun.

Anonymous Thu Apr 24 05:53:42 2014 No.12063830

>>12062933
Took me around five tries to get into the timeout phase, which killed me off right away. It could be possible, especially if the transition to the phase was handled better. I'm not going to bother, though.

http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=32996

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 10:56:43 2014 No.12064361 pew pew pew

Anonymous Thu Apr 24 10:56:58 2014 No.12064362
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Wasn't sure whether I should post it, but I was encourages to do so. My first all spellcard capture Kaguya, but I died on the 2nd non because I'm dumb. I think stage 2 was okay. The rest of the run was bad. I started crying during Reisen for failing 3 easy spells. Was tempted to reset. I should work on not being so shit at cancelling everything. Stage 4 was really gross, even if survival was good there.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 12:35:31 2014 No.12064672 Can I discuss the fighting games here? Why is Hopeless Masquerade not popular? It is fun (I never have played online though) and the game mechanics are fun for the most part. Why drag Hisoutensoku's corpse around?

Anonymous Thu Apr 24 12:56:29 2014 No.12064752

>>12064362
All-spell Kaguya isn't very common on Normal, especially on a shot that requires unfocusing through most attacks. A good stage 2 in terms of scoring is also very difficult. No matter how bad your 4-5 were, you should feel good.

I'll look forward to hearing of your 4 billion scores soon.

Anonymous Thu Apr 24 13:01:08 2014 No.12064772

>>12064672
>Can I discuss the fighting games here?
Traditionally they have had their own threads, but I'll reply to you anyway.

>Why is Hopeless Masquerade not popular?
The system is bad for versus netplay, since it promotes passive turtling and gathering popularity, which are not strategies most adequate fighting-game players are fond of. There are also some serious imbalance issues (Reimu).

Hisoutensoku, in contrast to HM, is fairly more traditional game without the same issues HM netplay has.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 13:17:24 2014 No.12064835 >>12064772 But the weather system is too random to take seriously. I like the popularity mechanics. Maybe if the make guard breaking easier? I didn't see a fighting thread, sorry.

Anonymous Thu Apr 24 13:28:47 2014 No.12064862

Guys, why do I suck at Touhou?

I've only been playing for around 6 months, but since I began I don't think I've improved at all. I started off with IN (I still can't clear it ;-;) and then I played PCB, EoSD and MoF. In PCB, on normal I couldn't get past stage 4 without having to use a continue.
Should I just stop playing because I suck? I enjoy it, but it feels like I'm never going to get better.

Anonymous Thu Apr 24 13:31:44 2014 No.12064871
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>>12064862
be aware of your resources. See if you can manage to get past easier sections without bombs, the rest you bomb out of the way. SA for example gives you at least 40 bombs during the whole run.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 13:32:48 2014 No.12064875 >>12064871 Thank you, anon. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 13:33:20 2014 No.12064876 >>12064862 I'm pretty new too. All I did was do everyone's spell cards over and over and over until I nail them. I 1cc'd IN with no bombs last week and that was a awesome feeling.

Anonymous Thu Apr 24 13:34:12 2014 No.12064880

>>12064862
>continue
There's your problem. You probably lose lives with bombs in stock, too. If you think you have even a one percent chance of getting hit, bomb. Use Reimu.

Touhou games are incredibly easy to clear. If you have enough lives after finishing stage three or four, you can bomb your way past everything for a guaranteed clear.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 13:37:18 2014 No.12064888 >>12064876 >>12064880 Thanks, anons.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 13:44:09 2014 No.12064911 >>12064880 Why do you say for him to use Reimu? Not criticizing, I'm just wondering.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 13:57:11 2014 No.12064937 File: 2.13 MB, 3264x2448, 2014-04-19 19.02.03.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] found this in akihabara not that it's rare or anything but still pretty cool

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 14:06:53 2014 No.12064971 >>12064911 Slower speed for easier micrododging; homing amulets for easier stages and more horizontal freedom during bosses.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 14:07:55 2014 No.12064977 >>12064937 For 1k yen it is.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 14:08:25 2014 No.12064979 >>12064937 what is that, about 10 USD?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 14:09:14 2014 No.12064981 >>12064977 sarcasm? eh? >>12064979 yeah pretty much they had "all" the touhous

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 14:11:04 2014 No.12064988 >>12064977 That's a normal price

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 16:59:21 2014 No.12065497 >>12064981 How much did 12.3 and 9 cost?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 17:05:21 2014 No.12065516 >>12065497 all were around 1k-2k iirc

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 17:07:15 2014 No.12065521 >>12065516 Does that include the pc-98 games?

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 17:12:08 2014 No.12065542 >>12065521 they didn't have those, only the modern ones

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 17:42:28 2014 No.12065662 >>12065521 The PC-98 games cost a fortune.

Anonymous Thu Apr 24 20:57:15 2014 No.12066747

>>12025150
God, this game is so boring. Just to practice one spell on stage 4 I have to go through the most boring, easy mode stage ever. It doesn't even have good music to make it at least somewhat bearable. Actually, after stage 3 the music quality plummets almost as much as the games quality in general.
The guy who did this should have stuck with the same music style he used in the first 3 stages.

Like seriously, here's everything that went wrong in stages 4, 5 and 6.

The game becomes less about raw dodging and more about gimmicky attacks that will kill you outright every single time unless you learn how they work. Put short, memoshit. Having a few memo attacks scattered around is fine, but the problem arises when a boss has 3/4 of its attack pool consisting of these types of attacks.
There was hardly any of this in stage 1-3. Stage 1-3 had dodging. Not very hard dodging but still, hard enough for those stages. I expected that trend to cross over into the later stages.

As I said before, the music. I can't think of a single track I like after stage 3, which is quite funny considering I like EVERY track before stage 4.

Stage 4 boss sucks. Her nons are easy and memoable. No actual dodging required.
Her first, third and fifth spells are easy. Her fourth is probably easy too since I think I've figured it out now but I'll need to practice it a little bit more.
Her second spell though is ridiculous, and I know how it's supposed to be done too. It's a prime example of a poorly designed spell card.

Sakuya isn't fun to fight at all. All of her attacks rely on gimmicks. I haven't even bothered practicing against her since I can think of much better ways to spend my time than playing that boring stage and learning her gimmicky attacks.

Remilia is an insult to her EoSD version. All of the pure dodging spells she has are gone. Now replaced by the worst thing ever, Lasers.
Lasers are shit. They're not at all fun to dodge, and that's what 90% of her attacks have become.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 21:08:24 2014 No.12066820 >>12066747 You seem upset.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 21:15:39 2014 No.12066865 >>12066820 I am upset. A potentially good game turned out to be shit.

Anonymous Thu Apr 24 21:38:53 2014 No.12066962

>>12066747

>I'm not good enough to capture a spell card
>It must be broken

So uh...you just start curtain fire shooting games a few weeks ago? Welcome to the club bro.

Once you become an experienced player, you might look back at this moment and laugh, along with the rest of us.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 21:43:36 2014 No.12066986 >>12066962 I've captured every spell in the game on lunatic. Don't bother replying back you filthy secondary, you clearly don't know what you're talking about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 22:12:49 2014 No.12067115 >>12066747 >Lasers are shit. Take that back you inbred. More shmups should have lasers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 23:07:58 2014 No.12067276 >>12067115 Lasers are shit and you're a pleb for liking them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 23:10:25 2014 No.12067286 >>12067276 I'm not complete shit at shmups, unlike you.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 23:12:46 2014 No.12067298 >>12066986 >>12067286 Woah, since when did we get such cool pros?

Anonymous Thu Apr 24 23:23:13 2014 No.12067326
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>>12067286
Show me your best achievement. I guarantee I'm much better than a pleb like you.

>>12067298
I've always been the best around here. If you weren't so new you would know that my skills are truly legendary.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 23:34:22 2014 No.12067347 File: 316 KB, 640x480, th033.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] tfw can barely clear the easiest 2hu game on Lunatic Why do I even bother living

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 23:47:23 2014 No.12067379 >>12067326 >Show me your best achievement. Being able to dodge lasers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Apr 24 23:55:31 2014 No.12067394 >>12067326 >Show me your best achievement no focus SoEW normal clear

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 00:01:16 2014 No.12067404 >>12067379 Yeah that's what I thought. You have no achievements to speak of. What a faggot. >>12067394 ...

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 00:18:02 2014 No.12067446

>>12067404
>You have no achievements to speak of.
I didn't post a blank post. What is this "no achievements to speak of" thing you are talking about? Are you dyslexic or just projecting? I'm going to go with the latter. You shouldn't feel offended by your inability to play shooting games, though. Everyone in their early days find lasers hard to deal with and it's perfectly okay. A lot of entry level players try to hide the fact that they are shit at video games, that is also okay. Just cool down, practice more and come back after a couple more years and maybe try to act less like a juvenile.
Love.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 00:48:22 2014 No.12067510
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>>12067446
There's no need to project anything. Your post made it blatantly clear that you're shit at shmups.
Tell you what, since I'm in the mood to wreck somebody, let's play a game. See that game in OP's picture? Let's see if you can beat me on any of the first 4 stages, since stage 5 and 6 are so awful.
If you choose one of the first 3 stages, then we'll see who can get the least deaths while pacifying the stages, since they're so pathetically easy.
Or we can just see who can get through stage 4 without dying a single time.
I'll give you an hour after your next brain dead post to show me a replay. If you don't do that, then I'll know for sure that you're a faggot that more than likely hasn't even been able to clear a game on lunatic (I already know that is the case, but this way is a much more fun way of finding out for sure)

Since I know you it wouldn't be fair for an elite player like myself to pressure you into making a fool out of yourself, I've made a replay just for you, to give you a taster of how easy I find this game. I didn't want to finish the stage off or that would have no doubt scared you away.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/7vrhw8pwpl555q7/thmhj_08.rpy

Oh and I bomb the midboss spell because it's gimmicky shit. I don't waste time learning gimmicky shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 00:59:23 2014 No.12067543 >>12067510 >gimmicky shit >he can't better himself through gimmicky shit THIS ENTIRE GENRE IS FOUNDED ON GIMMICKY SHIT

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 01:06:27 2014 No.12067559 >>12067543 I don't practice things that I don't find fun. I just want to dodge random patterns all day. That's what shmups are all about. Not timestop, slowdown, and disappearing and reappearing bullets.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 01:19:04 2014 No.12067586 File: 54 KB, 590x178, lc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12067510 >I already know that is the case You're right. I didn't clear a game. I just cleared the whole library. Take away some of that edge and maybe I'll bother with you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 01:22:08 2014 No.12067589 File: 90 KB, 360x360, doyouevenscore.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12067586 >295M

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 01:23:05 2014 No.12067590 >>12067589 No, not at the time.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 01:25:22 2014 No.12067598
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>>12067586
There we go. Your time starts now. You've got an hour to show me that you aren't all talk.
Also I'm genuinely laughing that you think a vanilla Touhou run is something to brag about.
Post the replay that belongs to that screenshot. I want to laugh at how you scrape through the game by spamming bombs all day.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 02:07:20 2014 No.12067655

>>12067598
The replay was gone from a hard drive failure. I wasn't even bragging about it. You said I couldn't clear a game on Lunatic, I posted a screenshot of a Lunatic clear. And despite that you simply proceeded to backpedal into "lel then where's ur no bombs clear fgt"? If you showed a little more sportsmanship maybe I'd spend the next hour playing that little game with you, but nobody wants to compete against someone that bitter and toxic, sorry.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 02:12:19 2014 No.12067665 >>12067510 I'll never be as good as MaZe ojou-sama ;;

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 02:23:07 2014 No.12067690
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>>12067655
>"lel then where's ur no bombs clear fgt"
Does this retard actually think he's on /v/ or something?

>If you showed a little more sportsmanship maybe I'd spend the next hour playing that little game with you, but nobody wants to compete against someone that bitter and toxic, sorry.

Aww what's the matter. Don't tell me I upset you by showing that I'm better than you. A replay of me streaming some easy bullet patterns in an easy stage turned you off that much?
Is that really all it took to shake you up?

You see, the difference here is, I can actually make a replay on the fly since I'm legitimately good at these games. Your little hard drive failure shouldn't be a problem. Go 1cc the game again.
The only way I can actually see that being a problem is if you couldn't 1cc the games on demand, and if that's the case then you have no business talking to me you secondary faggot.
Now either show me a replay of you doing anything of significance, or be quiet.
It's that simple.

I can't believe this guy actually tried to lecture me on lasers being good for shmups. That is hilarious.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 06:18:06 2014 No.12068147

>>/jp/image/EaVMdtsyVOKc90AmC8Oj0w
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>>/jp/image/lZUNgbPrXAx8sGTudi2h9w
>>/jp/image/TJL0LO6_d9Ghauk2hsNR4A
You're replying to the same avatarfagging troll again. Just report and ignore guys.

>>12067347
Nice. It's a bit sad that your score got hidden by a flood of arguing. IN Lunatic on Youmu isn't the easiest thing around, by the way. Stage 2 scares a lot of people away. But I'm sure you knew that already.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 06:49:56 2014 No.12068191 >>12068147 MaZe is hardly a troll. He's the best player in the West and he's been in these STG threads for years. How didn't you know that?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 06:56:27 2014 No.12068202 >>12068191 He certainly needs to stop with the "this game had shitty lasers so no lasers should be allowed in STGs" shit then. Does he even play anything aside from Touhou?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 06:59:32 2014 No.12068208 >>12068202 Pretty sure he doesn't like any other STGs besides Touhou like games

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 07:26:10 2014 No.12068253
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>>12068202
>He certainly needs to stop with the "this game had shitty lasers so no lasers should be allowed in STGs" shit then.

I don't need to stop with anything. Lasers are awful. Anybody that isn't terrible at shmups will tell you that they're bad.
Maybe one day you'll reach my level and you'll be able to see what I see, through the eyes of an expert instead of an amateur.
Who am I kidding, that will never happen.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 07:28:58 2014 No.12068258 >>12067347 Congratulations. I agree with >>12068147. It's a shame it was drowned in this arguing here. I'll look forward to seeing you improve further!

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 07:54:39 2014 No.12068292 >>12068253 Why are lasers bad? Can you come up with anything more resembling of a real argument than "everybody knows they are bad :)"? Go, explain why lasers do not work from a game design standpoint. Fuck, even Sakurei can do this.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 08:06:39 2014 No.12068307
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>>12068292
They're bad because they're bad. What more of an explanation do you need?
When have lasers ever been used well? Answer : Never.
I am so kind that I answered one of my own questions for you.

What's with this influx of new posters anyway. No wonder the post quality has significantly decreased.
People don't even realize lasers are shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 08:07:08 2014 No.12068309 >>12068292 Stop calling names, even if it is your own.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 08:13:37 2014 No.12068317

>>12068307
>When have lasers ever been used well?
Yuyuko's third spell, Yuyuko's first spell, Yuyuko's final spell, Kaguya's fourth spell, Keine's two final spells, Patchouli's nonspells, Eirin's finale, LW and first spell and Kaguya's second spell and Flandre's second spell. Some people also like the laser wheels in DFK's fifth stage. (I don't)

I'm not familiar enough with the photo games to comment on them, and I didn't like with how ZUN handled lasers in the later games.

I never liked the Chinese fangame too much either, but come on, you were better than this.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 08:23:33 2014 No.12068329 >>12068317 That is actually a nice list of cards that are example of how lasers should be used. Really, it's curvy lasers that are bad. Stuff like Shou should be avoided, but all those examples were fine.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 08:26:11 2014 No.12068335
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>>12068317
Most of them attacks you mentioned aren't even the type of laser that I'm talking about. The ones you have mentioned are of the non directional laser type variety.
I'm talking about Yuugi/Shou type lasers. The ones that you actually have to dodge instead of the ones that are there to restrict your movement.
They're the lasers that I can't stand.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 08:33:02 2014 No.12068347

>>12068307
>When have lasers ever been used well?
Anything from UFO to TD, Sukuna's final non-spell, Crimzon Clover, Pink Sweets, Akai Katana.

>What more of an explanation do you need?
The one with some trace of brain in it. Like this post >>12068335. That's really fucking hard.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 08:44:58 2014 No.12068367
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>>12068347
>Anything from UFO to TD
No, not really. There's not a single note worthy laser attack that uses those types of lasers in those games.
Miko's second to last spellcard is good but that uses the non directional type lasers.

All of Ichirins laser attacks are easily the worst she has. Compare her midboss and 3rd spellcard to something as glorious as KKS and whatever the fuck her 2nd spellcard is called.
Shou as a whole is a terrible boss. Byakurens Magic Milky Way is also a poor spellcard.
All of Seiga's attacks that use lasers are bad too, especially when compared to her nons that use the jellybean + kunai combination.

>Sukuna's final non-spell
Is the only correct answer, and also is the only way those types of lasers would ever work in a fun way.

>The one with some trace of brain in it. Like this post >>12068335. That's really fucking hard.

It should have been obvious which lasers I was referring too, since that chinese game doesn't have any of the "acceptable" lasers.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 08:49:07 2014 No.12068375

>40 shitposts later
Now these are the threads I remember.
Global Rules 3. Do not post the following outside of /b/: Trolls, flames, racism, off-topic replies, uncalled for catchphrases, macro image replies, indecipherable text (example: "lol u tk him 2da bar|?"), anthropomorphic ("furry"), grotesque ("guro"), post number GETs ("dubs"), or loli/shota pornography. Keep /pol/ in /pol/. In essence: Don't shitpost.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 09:06:29 2014 No.12068399 [DELETED]

>>12068309
As disappointing as it may be to you, I'm not >> 12068292 . I don't really care if people use my name in that way, but I suggest people stop assuming it's me talking shit about myself every time. I've seen this happen several times in these threads now, which is ridiculous considering how rarely I actually post in here.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 09:06:42 2014 No.12068401

>>12068367
>Miko's second to last spellcard is good
It's only good because of the amulets. Radiant Treasure Gun is a much harder version of it.

>Shou as a whole is a terrible boss
The second and third non-spells are all of the "dodge" type. Vajra is one of the few attacks that requires you to move away from the bottom half of the screen.

And let's not forget about Double Spoiler.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 09:09:06 2014 No.12068408

>>12068309
As disappointing as it may be to you, I'm not >>12068292 . I don't really care if people use my name in that way, but I suggest people stop assuming it's me talking shit about myself every time. I've seen this happen several times in these threads now, which is ridiculous considering how rarely I actually post in here.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 09:18:09 2014 No.12068421

>>12068401
>It's only good because of the amulets. Radiant Treasure Gun is a much harder version of it.

Radiant Treasure Gun is easier, and it has the bad lasers in it too. Just move to the right after the first wave and the spell becomes trivial.

>The second and third non-spells are all of the "dodge" type.
Doesn't matter. Despite me being all about attacks that actually require you to dodge shit and not memo them, I don't like them lasers, regardless of how they're used.

>Vajra is one of the few attacks that requires you to move away from the bottom half of the screen.

Vajra sucks ass. Worst spell in the game.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 09:20:14 2014 No.12068421,1 >>12068399 Did janny seriously only delete this post in the midst of all this shit?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 09:29:05 2014 No.12068421,2 What's going on here why is this thread moving so fast?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 09:31:17 2014 No.12068421,3 >>12068421,2 The troll from last year is flaming the thread again. see: >>12068147

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 09:32:40 2014 No.12068421,4 >>12068421,1 I reckon getting this stupid took you a lot of practice.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 10:54:39 2014 No.12068595

>One non shit spell from each game from Touhou 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 will be picked (When I say non shit, I mean some random non memoshit pure dodging spell). Then you and your opponent will go on stream (stgrillz) and use SpoilerAL to stop the spell timer. You'll both then simply dodge until one of you dies first. The one who survives the longest wins that round, and thus you will move onto the next games chosen spell. Rinse and repeat until all of the spells are done. The person who won the most, wins.

Did this ever happen?

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 10:59:49 2014 No.12068606

>>12068595
If it did happen like that, it wouldn't have been very well executed. A better way would to have both people survive the spell card for a certain amount of time, and the one with the least deaths wins (and if they both haven't died yet, sudden death mode, where the first to die loses). Like that you don't need to worry about bad RNG screwing you over in the first few seconds, so less impact from luck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 14:49:11 2014 No.12069157 for touhou, is it better to work your way up the difficulty or just stick and train with one?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 14:52:46 2014 No.12069165 >>12069157 I think it depends on the person. For me, I found it easier to work my way up the difficulty. But it's entirely dependent on how you like to do things.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 15:26:05 2014 No.12069254

>>12069157
Pick whichever difficulty is not too easy and not too hard, then move to another game when you clear it. Playing different games is better than playing the same one over and over, and starting a brand new game on lunatic is the most excitement you can get.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 15:30:04 2014 No.12069267 Too much retards as of lately trying shitting up these threads with their circle jerking.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 15:53:36 2014 No.12069328 Why does DDC have that godawful x + y axis flip? The part where she flips just the x-axis is fine but flipping both is retarded.

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 16:01:19 2014 No.12069356 >>12069328 The last spellcard? But it's the easiest one. Just vertical flip is so much harder.

Anonymous Fri Apr 25 19:50:36 2014 No.12069871

>>12052171
sorry for the late response. Hopefully you've figured some things out since then, but here would be my general tips:
1. Stop switching between games until you can 1cc one of them (1 credit clear, i.e. beat it with no continues)
2. If you're not already playing on Lunatic, consider grinding on a higher difficulty. It will make the game on normal or whatever seem much slower, and you will not have as much of a problem running into random stray bullets.
3. Consistency can be grinded, and not just by spamming full runs. Try to capture each of Keine and Marisa's spellcards in spellcard practice about 10 times per day, or however much you have time to do. Eventually, you will have a better sense of which ones are hard and which ones are easy. Once you've identified the hard ones, you can up it to 5 caps in a row per day on the hard ones only or somethng like that. Or, if you find certain spellcards absolutely impossible (keine's 1st boss spell and marisa's 1st midboss spell come to mind, at least on lunatic), you can also just plan to bomb them. If you're consistent on the spellcards, you will definitely have enough resources to just bomb your way through the nonspells, which I would recommend on Marisa personally. Or, you can take the time to grind stage practice as well, which takes longer but also trains a different kind of consistency. Focused practice is the surest way to improve.

>>	proREMIRIAt Elite Force Comman(...) !rSDMROXTB. Fri Apr 25 20:12:08 2014 No.12069944 Why did this guy upload this Vampirish Night video?, didn't that get cancelled? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMEwrCSlERk

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 22:58:10 2014 No.12070319 >>12069944 He will release it at reitaisai?

>>	Anonymous Fri Apr 25 23:53:44 2014 No.12070479 Anyone here use an arcade stick? How am I supposed to hold the handle? I feel so clumsy using it right now, have always used a keyboard.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 01:09:42 2014 No.12070654 File: 387 KB, 640x480, th036.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Thread challenge. I'll try to get a little more out of it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 05:35:09 2014 No.12071199 what game of the series would you recommend someone new to the genre of bullet hell?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 05:38:21 2014 No.12071207 >>12071199 EoSD, PoFV, DS, UFO or DDC.

Anonymous Sat Apr 26 05:48:29 2014 No.12071229

>>12070654
FINALLY, someone does the thread challenge. I don't know why more people haven't tried it, I thought it was super fun. but jesus christ you did a hell of a lot better than me (I was the first one to post results in this thread with 5824 time orbs). I'd like to see a replay of that, unless you manage to improve that score, either way. Maybe I'll give this another go, play more risky, though I dunno if I can do much better than my current score.

>>12067559
I like the gimmicks, they're fun and interesting, stirs things up a little. Bullet hell doesn't have to be purely about bullet dodging skill for it to be fun. I like how Seija's horizontal mirror spellcard forces you to reverse your left and right movements, but then the vertical mirror spellcard comes around shortly after and your muscles become conflicted. Happens to me anyway.

I wish Reisen's spellcards were made a bit more difficult though. Only one I have real difficulty with is her third one (feel free to go elitist on my ass). Her gimmick coulda been really fun if it were a bit harder, maybe with more randomness in it, because her first and last spellcards are super easy because of how static the reappearing bullets are. Second one is sorta hard and third one I just haven't committed myself enough to find an effective route to take yet.

Youmu's time slowing is great, allows for some intense tight bullet dodging. Sakuya's time stopping doesn't really change much to be honest. Woulda been neat if the knives just appeared instantly instead of showing the time stop process (an all-star touhou game did that)

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 05:48:50 2014 No.12071230 >>12071207 only one of them

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 06:05:12 2014 No.12071260 >>12071199 Are you experienced with any STGs or are you new to all of them?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 06:07:09 2014 No.12071266 >>12071260 >>12071260 I'm new to the genre of bullet hell itself, anon most I've played is Gun Nac and Nemesis on the NES

Anonymous Sat Apr 26 06:12:47 2014 No.12071278

>>12071266
Touhou is a reasonably slow shooter compared to others made by Treasure and Cave. I would recommend just picking a game and sticking with it until you can play it well, but if you really can't decide then start with Imperishable Night. It's easy enough that a beginner can enjoy it and has some playful bosses. PCB and ESOD are similar games but harder.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 06:15:25 2014 No.12071285 >>12071230 UFO. Standard player speed, deathbomb window and a visible hitbox. Resources are not handed out as generously, the player needs to learn to be mobile, read fast bullets and deal with additive blending and lasers.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 06:24:21 2014 No.12071305 >>12071278 >imperisable night I think I'm going to start with this, thanks anon

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 06:33:20 2014 No.12071325 >>12071305 There a shit ton of bullets on the screen but they move slow and the patterns are easier than most games. Imperishable Night actually looks pretty formidable if you took random screen shots of it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 06:36:17 2014 No.12071330 >>12071325 Already downloading it, I hope I don't get too fucked, as I said I'm new to this kind of games, how is the music?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 06:38:09 2014 No.12071335 >>12071330 Some of the best in the series. MoF is the best followed by SA but IN is a good 3rd. Just be consistent in you effort and watch your own replays. There is more to it than what you see while playing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 06:41:15 2014 No.12071340 >>12071335 >watch your own replays this is interesting, thanks for your help anon, maybe I'll come later to tell how it has been

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Having a perfect run be ruined by a slip-up on the same goddamn card thrice is really demoralizing.

On that note, does anyone know how to fix the replay desync when starting to watch on Stage 6 skipping through it on SA? Any kind of patch?

Anonymous Sat Apr 26 07:27:34 2014 No.12071418

>>12071335
>>12071340
OKAY SO

I started the game and since I'm new of course I chose easy mode, but after seeing that perhaps it was too easy (but more than anything the pic of "eeeh? easy mode? only kids play on easy mode!") I decided to re start on normal and hey, I'm having a lot of fun

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 07:29:05 2014 No.12071420 >>12071418 Good on you, dude. Try not to die to Stage 4 too much.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 07:37:41 2014 No.12071440 >>12071420 however, don't you guys get annoyed by the fact that you cannot multitask touhou?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 07:50:45 2014 No.12071467 >>12071415 Start from stage 5 and don't speed up the replay during the transition from stage 5 to 6.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 07:51:51 2014 No.12071469 >>12071440 What? No. When I play Touhou, I don't have a need to do anything else.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 08:02:44 2014 No.12071486 >>12071469 uh... post on this thread? yeah, you are right

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 08:51:49 2014 No.12071569 >>12071440 But you can, I often multitask touhou. Just do something audio-only like a video on youtube that doesn't need you to really be watching it, or listen to audiobooks to improve you literary knowledge whilst you play.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 10:41:59 2014 No.12071833 File: 395 KB, 640x480, th038.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12071229 Yeah, this spell card is fun as HELL. I'm pretty timid for the last few waves, so there's some improvement to be done. I'll post a replay once (if) I can get 9k.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 11:33:37 2014 No.12071954 I want to upload my IN replay to royalflare but it says my replay version is too old (though it's 1.00d). What gives?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 13:01:26 2014 No.12072205 File: 40 KB, 192x224, 192px-Th08SC222.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Profound Danmaku Barrier or what? I thought it was boring, trial and error stuff. Cool looking, though. Fantasy Heaven is way more fun

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 13:13:19 2014 No.12072249 >>12071954 Did you use the English patch? IN's English patch is banned on Royalflare.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 13:14:59 2014 No.12072253 >>12072249 Why would they do that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 13:25:51 2014 No.12072271 >>12072249 That's weird because replays from other games (also in english) upload just fine.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 14:00:11 2014 No.12072339 >>12072253 >>12072271 The patch apparently makes changes to the game or something, and the Japanese are rather strict about that. What is the replay you wanted to upload, by the way. A good score?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 14:05:52 2014 No.12072358 >>12072339 Nah, I'm just trying to convince myself that someday I'll upload something of value there.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 14:11:23 2014 No.12072379 >>12072358 Better get rid of the English patch, then.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 14:13:37 2014 No.12072386 >>12072379 I'll try it, thanks. Might as well ditch vpatch while I'm at it.

Anonymous Sat Apr 26 14:24:53 2014 No.12072438

>>12072386
Some players don't like uploading replays with the vpatch to Royalflare, while others just upload play with Vpatch to Royalflare. Legit replays with vpatch aren't removed from there.

It's more of a personal decision, whether to use that or not, while using the English patch is straight-out forbidden.

Anonymous Sat Apr 26 14:28:23 2014 No.12072448

>>12072438
Yeah, I read somewhere on the wiki that one of the top scorers posted a vpatch replay and then took it down and even apologized on his blog.
Personally I'm not sure if it actually makes a difference for IN, I can tell it does for EoSD, but MoF feels the same either way.

Anonymous Sat Apr 26 15:06:43 2014 No.12072565

>>12071569
Maybe I'm just shit at multitasking, but usually when I listen to a video while doing another thing, especially touhou which requires a lot of attention, the words just come in one ear and out the other. I prefer to put all of my attention into the task I'm doing, unless it's something relaxing like Minecraft.

>>12071833
Looking forward to seeing that. I'm gonna give this another spin too.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 15:55:01 2014 No.12072677 File: 408 KB, 640x480, poop.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12072565 The last wave is just evil. ;_;

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 16:39:39 2014 No.12072852 >>12072448 EoSD and MoF aren't playable in fullscreen without vpatch.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 16:45:29 2014 No.12072871 File: 183 KB, 787x783, 4479453030_9525128b86_o.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>12072852

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 17:14:58 2014 No.12072977 Trail attacks are the bane of my existence. What's your secret, /jp/?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 17:28:41 2014 No.12073007 >>12072977 I pacify a pattern forever in practice until I get better at it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 19:49:09 2014 No.12073383 >>12071285 >Resources are not handed out as generously What? UFO is extremely generous with resources.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 26 20:14:40 2014 No.12073465 >>12073383 You can earn a lot of resources in UFO, but generous would be giving them away like MoF or SA do.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 08:40:25 2014 No.12074819 File: 328 KB, 640x480, th6_ss01.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] /jp/! i finally cleared EoSD extra fo a 1st time. moving up in the world.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 09:14:55 2014 No.12074866 >>12074819 Nice one.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 15:18:59 2014 No.12075747 >>12074819 Congratulations!

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 17:55:47 2014 No.12076119 >>12074819 good job dude

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 18:17:38 2014 No.12076173 >>12074866 epic one

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 27 18:39:10 2014 No.12076213 >>12076212 new thread

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