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First to offer vague complaints regarding the difficulty of PoFV

>>37853899
I’ve never played PoFV and I’m never going to because it deviates from the standard formula.

>>37854225
I played it for a day or two. It was fun at first but the novelty quickly wore off and it became very tedious. What kills it for me is that I don't actually feel like there's proper player interaction with the game, mainly due to being restricted to half a screen and not being able to see the opponent clearly. All I'm doing boils down to dodging bullets while holding the shot key and occassionally bombing to clear more bullets. It's not a danmaku duel where I'm consciously dodging an enemy barrage while returning my own fire at a clear enemy, it basically feels like a glorified series of survival spells where I just dodge around until the AI decides to give me the win. After I had 2 runs where I lost on Eiki with her down to half a heart I decided that was enough and dropped it. From what I later read in the threads the AI is rigged to survive until some time passes so I don't feel like I made the wrong decision.

It's not a bad game, but you really need a different mindset to enjoy it and I don't have it. I won't deny that I don't have a great grasp on the mechanics and how to dodge the later bosses, but the game didn't manage to keep my interest long enough for me to care about learning it properly.

I accepted your autist challenges and will redo my extra lives 1CC, and today I 1CCd PoFV. Dont even need Medicine, but luck is a huge factor considering I got pass Stage 6-8 without losing a live.

Make sure ot play Shoot the Bullet anons

>>37853384
we could go back to the old days where the OP was a no focus clear of some hard spell

>>37855943
I've been thinking about doing No Focus on SA Extra

>>37855912
I will, I just want to focus on the other games first. I think I got around 43 scenes done
>chart
I hate it when somebody does ExNB but they only do it with one shot type

>>37855912
I played until level 3 and got bored of it.

>>37855912
Amazing game, but ballbusting. Barely managed to unlock extra.

i have beaten pofv with like 4 characters and never saw yuuka<span class="fortune" style="color:#d001aa">

Your fortune: Feliz Navidad!</span>

>>37859555
She only shows up for Cirno, Mystia, Lyrica and Medicine.

>>37859555
She only shows up for Cirno, Mystia, Lyrica, Medicine and Komachi.

>>37855912
I have.<span class="fortune" style="color:#11ec7f">

Your fortune: Your heart is two sizes too small.</span>

>>37854892
>I accepted your autist challenges and will redo my extra lives 1CC
You mean the basic rules everyone except (you) follows when going for a 1cc? Yeah alright good luck with that.

>>37854892
>autist challenges
I mean, from Touhou 10 onwards you can't change your max lives from the options anymore. So you can either git gud now or eat shit later and be forced to git gud while also having to adapt to all the gameplay changes that come with the new engine.

>>37854225
>>37854720
I actually really like PoDD and PoFV.
But lately I mostly play human vs youkai matches, they're good for practice since there is a lot of dodging of random bullets.
I love dueling with Yuuka and Komachi.
>until the AI decides to give me the win
That is probably the biggest problem, most times particularly at lunatic is seems very random when you win.
I would really like to see a similar game but improved.

>>37860887
Well I did 1 CC MoF with Marisa B glitch and almost 1CCd DDC before. But I'm gonna try PCB again before doing any of these. Also I'll probably buy UM.

I don't feel like to play UFO now. So I will start grinding hards and extras instead. How hard is Mokou, because obviously she's harder than Ran, but in her fight I can't reach as far as I do with Yukari.<span class="fortune" style="color:#7f11ec">

Your fortune: You're getting a lump of coal in your stocking!</span>

>>37861955
Some people say she's easy but I certainly don't think so. Fuck her last non spell and fuck Fujiyama Volcano

>>37861955
>How hard is Mokou
Some of her nonspells are pretty busted, specially near the end, but her spellcards are pretty easy once you figure them out, except maybe Fujiyama Volcano or Imperishable Shooting for me.

>>37861955
>>37861977
>>37862014
Moukou is the easiest extra, she was my first ExClear.

>>37861955
A few of her spellcards require a route (some more loosely than others) and her last two nonspells are kind of ridiculous but overall she isn’t too hard.

>>37862043
I’d say 6, 7, and 16 are easier.

>>37861955
She's not that hard overall. I'd say she's easier than Yukari, IN has the huge advantage of spell practice so you can figure out how to handle all the cards at your own leisure and the rest is just getting good at the stage and nons through actual runs. You also have plenty of lives and the last spell deathbombs to make getting hit less of an issue. She starts off fairly simple but ramps up at the middle. Like the other anon said, the 8th nonspell and spell are notoriously difficult. Hollow Giant Woo and Hourai Doll can also be somewhat troublesome even with practice.

>>37862130
even with spell practice some of her cards are difficult to figure out

>>37862115
Flan took me 1 year after Mokou...
Bombs are much easier with border team, the whole stage is very easy, so you can get there with a lot of resources and bomb all the stupid hard nons.
A lot of her late spells are memorization, like the one where you spin around her or the survival or the final where you go in circle.

>>37862230
Flan is pretty barebones by modern standards… although I guess more of her attacks come down to straight dodging so if you’re better with memorization you might struggle a bit more.

>>37862673
>so if you’re better with memorization you might struggle a bit more
but aren't most of flan's attacks memorization? aren't most of them static or aimed?

>>37862711
Every extra stage takes more memorization than the standard game (on normal and maybe hard) so it’s kind of hard to measure. I do think Flan has more RNG though, even if her attacks are simpler than Mokou’s imo.

>>37862988
op here fucked up the comment somehow, currently working on hecatia and fuck lunatic impact

Not expected to do it today. Oh well.

That was rather easy, only Marisa B and Marisa C left and I'll have clared it with every shot type.

Please treat me kindly

Crap, wrong file...

>>37868976
Very nice. Saving the best for last with MariC?

I fucking did it properly this time, don't you dare disqualify me again, let me have my first 1cc.
>>37783333
>>37783335
>>37785041

>>37869792
You're a real human bean, congrats.

>>37869792
Well done

>>37869792
Nice job, instead of plugging your ears like other anons often do, you went and did it like a man.

>>37869792
Damn it should have screenshotted my run with PoFV 1CC with Aya yesterday

>>37870842
Samefagging, but when do you fags move to the next game? As soon as you 1CC or further?

>>37870856
99% of players either:
-move on instantly after 1cc
-get a clear with all shottypes
-get a clear with all shottypes + finish extra with their favorite
pick your poison

>>37870911
I'm gonna go with the first two since I'm too shit for extra

>>37869792
Great job, king.

>>37870856
When I get at least 1 lunatic 1cc.

>>37853384
which 2hu fighter is the one people actually still play? antimony is on sale on ps4 but is that because there's a newer one?

>>37873102
Soku. I can't give you any advice on how to improve though. I don't like Soku at all and I don't really understands the game's mechanic

>>37869792
well done

I havent play EoSD and PCB for a while so I'm rusty asf and bombs a lot. Is Youmu's non spells worth dodging? What else you guys think worth learning/worth bombing?

>>37876010
Might as well give it a go in stage practice

>>37869792
Great job anon!
Now try lunatic.

Did TD today, didn't really like it. Guess I'll go back and start doing the extra stages now.

>>37877800
what's the bug abuse on PCB?

I just did an IN Hard 1CC and I thought I saw the framerate drop on Reisen's third non spell but I checked the replay and it didn't look like it was there

>>37878135
Only the overall framerate drop of the run is recorded on the replay, and replays run in real time so they can have different drops.

what should i play anons?

>>37878101
I was fighting Prismriver sisters and it played Reimu spellcard phases instead of Sakuya's. I thought it was a bug, but I'm not sure. Either way it made the game easier for me.

>>37880091
No. The next Prismriver you are fighting is the one you harmed the most in the previous spell card when the three attack together.

>>37880338
That's my mistake. I thought it was based on which character you were playing. Thanks.

>>37880051
IAMP

>>37880848
>>37880338
To be fair, the first one is based on your character, so that's an easy mistake to make.

>>37880051
Beat Flan.

Is it better to pop your cherry when the screen is full of bullets even though you can dodge them or spare them for border bonus score?

>>37881515
I only burst it if I think I’m going to get hit, otherwise I let it run out for score.

>>37881515
I don't know anything about scoring strategy, but the survival strategy is to always pop the borders before they run out, since you get them more often that way.

>>37881515
Score is completely useless for survival so just keep it until last second. Screen goes dark a little bit shortly before Border collapses, I use it as an indicator that it's time to pop it.

>>37881564
>Score is completely useless for survival
This is wrong, you get lives as your score raises.

>>37881621
Feel free to share with us the score thresholds which result in extends in PCB.

>>37881661
Do it yourself.

Any newfriends reading this, be sure to double-check anything you're unsure about on the wiki.

>>37881823
Alright. thanks for the PSA reddit

This place has been a blind leading the blind hellhole since like 2012.

>>37881940
Damn bro that’s deep but this is a video game general.

Just got Antinomy of Common Flowers for the Switch. How is the netplay community? Any general suggestions?

>>37881621
Anon..

>>37886727
Use your big boy words.

>>37891767
Score does not give extends for PCB

>>37891892
I’m glad you found the balls to write a full sentence, unfortunately it’s incorrect so I’m going to kill you now. Goodbye.

If someone is asking: EoSD gives you a life if you reach certain high score (i.e. 2 million of points). PCB (and IN) gives you a life if you collect certain number of point items (点) (i.e. 200 items). Collecting "points" is need to get lives in PCB, but the hi-score itself is useless regarding that.

>>37869792
Congrats anon!! Feels much better doesn't it?
>>37881515
Yes but don't do this during spell cards.
Keeping the border during spells will raise the value of the cherry items, meaning they will help you get more borders for less cherry items.
>>37881621
The score itself only gives you extends on EoSD, MoF and HSiFS. In PCB and IN, it is the amount of point items what gives you extends like collecting 50 of them.

PoFV down, PCB down, without cheating! I thought I'm ngmi though, zero lives with only two bombs left at Resurrection Butterfly

>>37891938
point items gives extends in pcb, not score

And done with all teams.
Hourai Doll is a pain. Very hard pain.

>>37911547
Good job, anon!

>>37911547
Hey, at least you weren't completely retarded like me and thought that Hourai Doll was a survival spell at first and spent an hour trying to time it out.

Retarded question but is there any easier method to record touhou gameplays than using OBS?

>>37917282
ffmpeg
https://linux.die.net/man/1/ffmpeg

>parsee's midboss spellcard changes name from green eyed monster to invisible green eyed monster on hard
>is visible
fucking unplayable

>>37917540
imagine the anger if the bullets were invisible

>>37882302
I know I'm late as shit but in case you're still here, do yourself a favor and don't ever play the console versions online. Vanilla AoCF netcode is an abomination of fighting game netcode which in itself isn't a very high standard (especially just a few years ago when the game first released). PC AoCF has a fanmade patch that makes the game somewhat playable, but last I checked that's not available in consoles so it's not worth trying.

Is there anyone out there who has a copy of CtC that has the complete english patch? Not the one from Moriya, which doesn't have endings and a bunch of extra stuff. That was patched with an earlier version and later patches were complete but the original drive host is dead now.

Got my UM 1cc today. I've seen players use 3 starter cards, but I could only have 2 max. Did something get changed?

And with that, Imperishable Night Normal is CONQUERED. Solo shots turned out better than I expected except a couple stinkers. While some patterns are tougher without human/youkai, I really appreciated the consistency of solo shots. Especially during Reimu fight with her balls flashing in an out of existence when you use team shots. I wish ZUN made another game with such shots variety instead of stupid modular shots we've been getting for three games in a row.

>>37922751
Buy Chimata card at the end of stage 5, beat the game with it and you'll unlock 3rd card slot. I'm not sure if it has to be a 1cc.

>>37922783
What the hell, how did anyone figure this out?

>>37922877
By being literate enough to read the endings, maybe?

>>37923026
I can't read Japanese!

>>37923060
but learning japanese is the actual last boss of the games

Touhou

>>37924395
If only ZUN upgraded the games with proper voice acting so you got used to listening to Japanese.

>>37923026
Stop being a rude faggot, none of the endings spelled that out for you.

>>37922751
Which cards do I need to turn UM into a piece of cake?
I'm so bad at this game, I didn't get to the extra boss once.

>>37933976
I started with pipe and fang, you get free spell caps if you bomb before the nonspell ends and go up and use fang during the bomb.

>>37933976
Raiko's drum lets you erase most minor nuisances that would usually waste you a bomb. Byakuren's scroll lowers its cooldown and also boosts your bombs.

>>37922764
>I wish ZUN made another game with such shots variety instead of stupid modular shots we've been getting for three games in a row.
I love these shottypes though. I just wish he adds another playable characters which he didn't use yet.

>>37933957
Reimu's ending hints at that.
>>37933976
Wolf and jizo feels like a safe loadout. Beaver in 3rd slot to never get fully cucked out of power.
More cheesy strategies like tobacco vampire or immortal centipede actually require some effort beyond your standard Touhou gameplay.
For extra stage Sun + Drum + Wolf.

>>37933957
Here's your hint. Ending spoilers in image for anyone who cares.

I tried doing IN again because last time I 1CCd it by cheating, and I forgot how unfair Marisa and Reimu are. At least Aya's non spells are easy.

>>37936107
>Aya
>IN
huh?

>>37936083
I just tried and it's unironically harder to beat Chimata on normal without crutches than it was to 1cc lunatic. I didn't even clear, all her cards are impossible puzzles.

>>37936512
What the fuck, are you doing no bomb runs only?

>>37936853
Not him, but UM is pretty hard for 2hu standards all in all.
Smoking Dragon's spells require better reaction speed than most stage 4-5 bosses in previous games.

>>37936853
No I just have no plan and used up a lot of resources even on the stage. I'm only able to do lunatic when the game hands them out without needing to dodge anything.

Cranked out two 1CCs today, EoSD Reimu A and B Normal. My first legit 1CCs I had already done LLS but with the extra starting lifes, in the end i didn't need them, might go back to do a legit run
Sadly my PC shat itself and I only managed to screenshot the ReimuA clear screen

>>37936512
>all her cards are impossible puzzles
Is this your first Touhou game? Sure, they surprise you the first time, but once you've seen how they work, they're incredibly easy for final boss cards. The exception being her penultimate one that's just a big mess of bullets, but that's static anyway IIRC.

>>37937434
If you ended up with two lives to spare, you should try Hard.

Why does everyone say TD is easy? I only missed around three or four life pieces, didn't die, and I still only entered the final boss with 6 lives. Any other game I would be maxed out. The game has to be routed like UFO but doesn't give you even close to the amount of lives UFO gives. Is there something I'm missing?

>>37942792
The danmaku just isn't that hard, so you don't need that many resources. You hardly have to route at all for a 1cc.

>>37942792
Who needs lives when you don't have to dodge anything.

>>37923026
I've never even read any of the dialogue or endings desu

>>37942792
It has the easiest patterns in the series and only balances that by giving you less resources. UFO gives you a shit ton of resources but also just as easily takes them away.

>>37917282
You can try with sharex, which uses ffmpeg under the hood but makes it simpler to use.

I'm redoing IN without cheating, and I managed to reach Rainbow Danmaku before dying so I'm gonna ask again. Which spells, non spells, or stages that you recommend skipping or learning? I kinda hate Tewi's non spells honestly. Also which characters do guys recommend?

>>37947038
>Tewi
Fuck that little shit. She's a lot harder not to fuck up than anything else that entire stage.

>>37947038
Border Team, solo Marisa, Scarlet Team and solo Remilia are pretty good. I'd recommend skipping Reisen's spell with circles expanding from corners because fuck this shit.

>>37947038
Why were you cheating to begin with?

>>37947218
Really need those extra lives in my noob days, back then I can't capture even one Stage 6 non spells.

>>37947038
>Which spells, non spells, or stages that you recommend skipping or learning?
Only you can answer that, different players find different parts of games difficult. Think about what kills you the most in runs. Experiment around in practice mode without bombing and you'll realise which sections you have trouble with. The better you get, the less such sections there'll be. As you play the games more you'll start to naturally see which sections are worth learning, and which are too risky that even with practice it's better to bomb just to be safe.
>Also which characters do guys recommend?
Anything that isn't solo Reimu, solo Alice or solo Sakuya is fun to play.

at which game were you stuck the longest before 1ccing? i did 6-7-8 in a couple of days and 10 in around a week, but have been battling SA for around two months now with over 100 attempts and double the total playtime compared to any other game after looking it through in player stats
also wanted to ask this several times before but always backed off since it feels lame not to figure it out myself, but what am i "supposed to do" with rekindling of dead ashes? every single time that spellcard is just a disaster that doesn't work well with my retard brain


>>37942792
like the others have said the patterns are easier and slower, just compare midboss kogasa when she appears in stage 3 of TD to herself when she's first seen in stage 2 of UFO. hell, she's still slower on hard of TD than on normal of UFO.

>>37947724
My very first 1cc (EoSD) took me 2 weeks. Every first 1cc in another game since then has gone by faster, varying between a few days to over a week.

>>37947724
Similar to you, 2 months for a Hard 1cc in SA.
>rekindling of dead ashes
Once the fairies start to move towards you, you need to move upwards, close to Orin and shoot her a bit before having to go around her to gain some space again. Once the fairies close on you, go around her again. You can also redirect the fairies to the top, as shown in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXll7w5F8lQ (2:08). Don't worry about touching Orin.

I just saw that Fantastic Danmaku Festival 1 and 2 are on sale in Steam. If anyone played them, would you recommend them?

>>37948365
They are good, especially 2, although aesthetically they are gaudy as fuck. Yuyuko has one gimmicky spell near the end and I couldn't figure out what the fuck is going on because of all the anime shit floating around.

Time for lunatic, I guess.

>>37942845
>>37944662
Easy patterns on the first 5 stages doesn't mean shit when the final boss has tough patterns, and you have to play all 5 stages perfectly to stand a chance. She fucked me over so often that I'm not even sure if she's hard or I suck. But I will admit I might be out of line talking about this.

>>37953559
I think you just need to practice a bit. Her non-spells are awful and I always bombed/tranced the third and fourth ones, but the rest isn't too bad. Rising Sun and Guse Kannon are basically free, Chaotic Dance just requires you to stay on target, and Falling Stars is one the easiest final cards, at least on Normal. Of the others, Twelve Levels and Seventeen Articles have a lot of room for RNG bullshit, and Armillary Sphere is fast and can be deceptive, but I think three "tough cards" out of seven is very fair for a final boss.
As for the rest of the game, when I was going for a 1cc I would reset on a death anywhere before stage 5, but budget at least one death to either Futo or some of those stage parts if I was out of bombs. You definitely don't have to be perfect. But since you already are, six lives should be way more than enough for Miko, just don't panic.

>>37947984
thank you anon, thank you very very much

>>37953559
guessing its less that you suck and that there's something about her fight that doesnt gel well with you. i think everyone has a few of those

>>37953559
http://replay.lunarcast.net/replay/th13_ud3368.rpy

>>37953559
http://replay.lunarcast.net/replay/th13_ud3368.rpy

>>37948365
Super recommendable!

>>37956690
So um...
I didn't know you could manually activate trance, I thought you only got it on death. I feel so stupid now.
>>37942792
>Is there something I'm missing?
Yeah there was...

I did a 1cc after with no manual trance activation, is that a unique game specific limitation? Also if it's not obvious I revoke everything I said previously. TD seems about 1000 times easier with this information alone.

>>37958565
Having a hearty giggle. Thanks anon.

Anyone here 1CCd Eirin before? Is the ending any diffrent from a mere clear?

>>37958952
Sam ending

>>37958565
>is that a unique game specific limitation?
Yes, you did a no trance (NT) run

Redoed my 1CC IN without extra lives with two bombs left on last spell. I wanna redo EoSD too but I havent 1CC TD, HSiF and DDC yet and I just bought UM.

>>37853384
I'm trying to record/upload all of my first clear replays, but for some reason I cannot play the replays from the fighting games... Especially HM, ULiL, and AoCF (for the last one, the option to save replay upon first clearing wasn't there either!)

The reason apparently is because of the patch version. I completed the games on launch version, but now those games are all patched and up-to-date.
Is there a way to get the older versions of the games so that I can play the replays?

>>37947038
As the other guy said, everyone has different opinions (for example, I had Tewi as a free mid-boss)
However I strongly recommend figuring out how to solve Reisen's spells before giving up on them.

>>37953559
What character? Youmu has a lot of speedkill potential for her non spells, even though you have ot unfocus fire for a little at the bottom of the screen. Marisa is also great for her 'XXC' mechanic, where hugging a boss, using 2 bombs (1 for a each new attack), will give you enough to trance another attack. If you enter stage 6 with around 2 lives and 1 bomb, you don't have to dodge a thing with Marisa. Reimu is also good if you don't want to cheese the everliving fuck out of Miko.
I'm not sure what difficulty level you're playing, so I'll give you some general tips for Miko. You can start the first spell hugging Miko for trance gauge, you can spend a lot of the third spell hugging Miko for trance if you're going for a speedkill route. The washing machine spell is also great for getting some gauge, just remember to spin with the bullets. Miko's final should also give enough for a full trance if you play aggresively. When you get to the rage phase of final, pop a trance, hug her, then slowly stream down when your trance ends. You should kill her before you reach the bottom of the screen. If you find that you can't do that, you can do quick dashes from the bottom of the screeen to right below her and back to avoid the bullets.
Bomb Miko's penult, it's RNG bullshit. Bomb it twice if you need to. Getting through her penult should mean the clear.
Also, for stage 6 itself, bomb spirits appear at the end the fairy's tails, so you usually want to slowly stream, wait until they appear, trance and kill the spirits (but not the fairies, because the spirits dissapear when the fairies die)

>>37973748
Thank you anon but I managed to 1CC it yesterday!

>>37974877
Sorry for replying a year later but congrats

The "King of Touhou" is weak. My arrow key broke so no more Touhou for me.
http://replay.lunarcast.net/replay/th11_ud3373.rpy

>>37982344
You could always remap the key

>>37983487
Hmmm, you're right.

>>37982344
What's up with the blue and red squares?

every day i cum to 2hu
every day i tell myself i play 2hu game
i never do

any good 2hu gamu on steam
i liked the metroidvania 1

>>37987558
Answer these and we'll know what to recommend you:
Do you like bullet hell games or are you at least willing to try playing some?
If not, do you like fighting games?

>>37987641
i like bullet hell
i dont like fighting games, really

>>37987652
>i like bullet hell
That's good enough. If you don't mind starting with a retro game, a strongly recommended one is the fourth game, LLS.
You can get it easily from here, with no setting up needed. This is a pack with the first five games and a ready to use emulator. You can choose between dosbox-x and neko project 21, but I'd recommend the former.
https://spaztron64.github.io/th98tuc_site/index.html
The keys are Z to shoot, X to bomb and Shift to move slowly for more accuracy.
If you have fun with it you can try the other four games or move to the windows games by searching for the all-in-one pack on nyaa, but try getting a 1cc first.

>>37987652
>>37987713
Forgot to say that the pack I've linked doesn't come with translations for the dialogue. Give it a try anyway, but if you like it and want to know what they're saying you can get the first five games translated from the all-in-one pack.

>>37982344
Use numpad

Holy shit, what a run

>>37989102
is that a NM clear?

>>37989253
Kinda close but nope, on this game if you reach the 1.2k points threshold you can die four times and still reach the end with capped lives.
Here's the replay, by the way.
https://files.catbox.moe/xgu6z0.rpy

>>37989294
play on Lunatic already

>>37989669
I'm flustered, anon, but I'm still playing through the games in order and normal is the best way to avoid spending more a month on each.

>>37990029
you finish a Normal 1CC with only three misses but you're not playing on Lunatic or at least Hard or even Extra?
>spending more a month on each
that's a bad thing?

>>37990406
I get why he wouldn't want to bother with the higher difficulties yet since, for me at least, it always made more sense to rather play a different shot type/game/extra instead of taking the time to essentially play the same game with a few new gimmicks, harder patterns and more bullets. Until I can easily beat games on normal I would rather stick with that.

>>37990406
I'd play lunatic or hard if this were my usual skill level, but I'm still very inconsistent. This was my second 1cc on this game after beating it yesterday with reimuB with 9 misses and doing four failed runs with reimuA today, after which I go from one extreme to the other and nail almost everything.
I could probably play and beat the games on hard but I prefer running through all of them on normal first so I can read the stories, before coming back for the harder difficulties.

>>37987520
Since you asked.
Dreamt I scaled a mountain covered in dragons and came down with a couple of blue and red dragon orbs, I kept one of each because I was "Lord of Destruction."
D. me and Medilia(Eirin) were crowned King and Queen of Touhou by Mickey Mouse.
D. I? was a white dragon with blue and red eyes, Flan destroyed me to pacify me after which I shouted "I know what you all want! To hug the Touhous!"
D. I had twin Touhou daughters that were blue and red zombie devils.
D. I had a blue and red tumour on the upper left arm, someone laughingly asked "what's that?" to which I smiled and said "Sun and Moon".
D. Yukari sealed me inside a window in Irithyl and I had to pray blue and red roses of eternal love and respect to make her forgive me.
D. I left Yukari beaten and collapsed behind me while the street was coloured blue and red.
D. of "Flandre's Buddhist Streetwalk" which was me walking up and down a street coloured blue and red.
D. Yukari was siphoning blue and red energies off of me while I was restlessly sleeping.
D. of "Flandre's Left and Right Bedtossing" which was me in bed, turning right I see an image of Flan and SDM characters coloured blue and red, then a normal coloured image of them all facing head on, then turning left I see an image of them coloured blue and red, then a normal coloured image of them all facing head on again.
D. I told some guy I was going to kill him, destroy him, crush him, when I said "crush him" it triggered a flag that was a good sign, and the guy's eyes turned blue and red.
D. tripfag "Yukarina" posted in response to a question "every single Touhou masturbated to an image of Nue while praying Touhou becomes powerful and humble."

>>37994066
The SDM characters were first facing left when I faced left, and right when I faced right.
Also wouldn't like to forget, once dreamt I had a spellcard called "Ultimate Blue and Red Destruction" and Hecatia also had her own slightly different version of the same card.

>>37982344
numpad

>>37994066
>>37994298
That's kinda interesting.
Also, that spell reminds me of the second half of Lily White's non-spell on PCB, maybe that served unconsciously as inspiration.

>>37995409
>>37988127
I'll rebind.
>>37996293
Same circular danmaku and colours, UB&RD seemed something more like Guze Flash but from three points, just bullet spam, denser than what I painted.

Oh well...

test

Year of the Tiger!

Cards recommendations for UM?

>>38014395
Wolf Jizo Drum
Or Centipede + Hourai/Yama Bribe.

RIP score.royalflare.net.

>Touhou Project Scoreboard has suspended the function of uploading replays since January 3rd, 2022. Currently all scoreboards are only available for reference.
>The reasons for the suspension are below:

>Some malicious users posted a number of fake replays with other player's name. Additionally, they posted other player's personal information on the comment text. (These posts have already been deleted)
>Due to the evolution of cheating tools, the online scoreboards based on the replay files only have become meaningless in recent situation.
>From various reasons above, we think that this site has reached the end of its life. So we have decided to close our site down at the end of January 2022.
>During this month, the site will remain available for read-only. But all contents will be deleted at the last day of January 2022.

>We would like to thank the many players who have contributed to the site over the years since its founded in 2007.

>>38019697
Their reasons for not accepting new entries make sense, though I think it's a bit much to just delete the whole thing so soon instead of leaving it up as an archive. At least they are giving people a chance to scrape it. Sad to see, either way.

>>38012381
Woah, that end was breathtaking. Very nice.

>>38019697
>waiting 15 years to admit that you're irresponsible fag and not up to the task

>>38019697
I always wondered how much we can rely on replays and if its possible to alter the code in a replay file to change the outcome

I 1cc'd SA with MarisaC!

>>38041675
don't forget to play her stage! also, what difficulty setting?

OHHHHH, so that is why MoF ends with an alcoholism PSA, because Reimu invites everyone to get shitfaced at the shrine in the A ending

>>38041685
I did play her stage (and died) it was normal difficulty

I was worried that the dumb curving danmakus from Back up Dancers are going to be a thing, and I was right when they gave it to that fucker yamawaro in TH 18. Also fuck those danmakus in boss of Stage 4.

>>38043136
Do not post endings kudasai

>>38045181
Not him but I didnt know even 4chan is autistic with ZUN's request

>>38041675
Congratulations, anon!

New. Are there any games (Touhou or otherwise) that go fast like SA? I'm usually too tired or bored of playing after one level in these games because they feel like they take forever but SA feels like it's going at blazing speeds. I always play these games on normal if that makes any difference

>>38061161
Crimzon clover feels decently fast. It's got a demo you can try on steam although it only features the slightly boring first level (which you should play on arcade or unlimited models to get an idea of the actual difficulty).

>>38061339
Pretty good, thanks

My laptop is all fucked up.
I miss playing Tohou so much.

>>38063347
Stop fucking your laptop then anon.

EIoS is better than BDiB. I have no fucking idea how the dye gimmick works though.
Also I'm getting tired of seeing Lily White's dumb face everywhere.

New player here. I have a theory in that you should avoid moving diagonally as it adds an additional displacement vector which makes it too hard for your brain to calculate the relative motion between your character and a projectile. How true is this?

>>38078927
>How true is this?
Maybe 1% true, and only if you're really bad.

>>38078927
There's higher risk of sausage fingers incident because you need to press/release 2 keys at the same time. I probably rarely move diagonally just because I'm trying to keep my sausages under control.

>>38078927
>>38079651
Sometime you have to move both in a vertical direction and in an horizontal direction, so you should learn.
When I have to move diagonally I move in microsteps, like up and right in rapid succession or like holding up and pressing right in rapid succession.

>IN normal description
>"ONLY PLAY IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH 2HU!"
>its banal easy
>SA normal
>"What are you, a pussy? Don't screw this up or eternal shame on your bloodline"
>It is far harder than anything that came before
wew

>>37861529
>new and improved
online multiplayer? or should it remain a solitary experience?

YES, finally got my MOF lunatic clear.

>>38079945
Who are you quoting?

>>38069214
They just really like Lily White anon, and so do I.
EIoS is better than BDIB I agree, but BDIB is still really good.
>>38079651
>you need to press/release 2 keys at the same time
Joystick gang

>>37853899
and here's a vague answer about PoFV

>>38078927
Since you mentioned this, I tried to think about it, and realized that I have no conscious idea how much I move diagonally. But I think purposely trying to avoid it is definitely wrong.

MS Marisa Extra clear.

>>38080231
Very nice.

>>38078927
What are you playing on? I play on a keyboard and I can move diagonally just fine

I tried playing Touhou, got PCB. Never touched a shmup before. Got to stage 5 before having to use a continue. Is this good or should I just play on Easy first? Don't really have any reference point, the stuff from after I continued seemed pretty obnoxious

>>38089423
It's pretty good for a beginner. You managed to clear 2/3 of the game without using a continue, though stage 5 and 6 are usually longer in terms of boss battles since they have more spell cards. Your next goal should be practicing the game so you can do the early stages consistently. If you can reach stage 5 with 4-5 extra lives, you should have enough of a buffer to get through the rest of the game, assuming you're not dying with bombs in stock.

>>38089607
I think I used all bombs before dying for the most part, except when I got caught off-guard thinking I was gonna dodge. The fact that it lets me "save" a life after being hit feels pretty weird, one of the things that made me wonder if I was actually doing any good or just having the illusion of it

>>38089423
>got to stage 5 already first time playing inexperience
Anon most people got filtered by Prismrivers, that really good

>>38089625
Feel free to treat bombs as you get out of jail free cards. Bombs are resources and resources exist to be used. Getting a 1cc is an accomplishment enough for a new player, and there's no shame in using bombs to achieve that. Obviously, the better you get at dodging the less you'll need to use them. If you want to get a feel for your skill, play stages in practice mode and refrain from bombing. Basically the same advice as >>37947669

>>38089423
Easy: it is your first video game ever or you are handicapped in some way.
Normal: for people who have played video games but aren't experienced with shmups.
Hard: for people who have played bullet hells before.
Lunatic: for autists.

>>38089423
I had a little experience with shmups before starting Touhou, mainly random flash games I played as a kid. Bullet Heaven is the only actual bullet hell game I've played before. I had enough knowledge to not get overwhelmed by EoSD, but it still took me days to stop losing continues to Meiling (stage 3 boss). So yes, you're doing very good.

>>38088352
Did you cheese Alice's last spell?

took me probably like ~6 hours across a week to 2cc PCB (first shmup i've played before) on easy. just 2cc'd IN first try on normal. is IN easier or did i just get better? some boss stage 3 and 5 were ball aches, other than that though, it was fairly easy.

>>38092142
>some boss stage 3 and 5 were ball aches
bosses of stage 3 and 5 were ball aches

>>38092142
>is IN easier
IN is a joke on easy, unlike PCB which is one of the harder games on easy.

>>38092197
i played IN on normal though.

>>38092201
Is also a joke on normal due to its 3 hours long deathbomb window.

>>38088352
Very nice anon, what other clears do you have on MS?

That's PoFV down. There's still so much I don't understand about how the game works but I managed to wing it.
The music in this game is so good.

How does 1ccing the fighting games work? Is it just clearing story mode with no continues? I beat AoCF with Reimu/Kasen but I assume that's just the tutorial, and later beat it with Marisa/Koishi but I got a pretty downer ending so I don't know if there's multiple endings or not.

>>38092142
Most of the boss aren't that bad except the Stage 4 bosses. If you prefer bosses with dense asf bullets with RNG, but slow bullets and immobile boss, go for team Border or team Ghost. If you prefer fast moving bullets and agile boss but nothing RNG with less dense bullet use team Scarlet. Team Magician is kinda hard but Malice cannon can carry you hard if abused.

>>37853384
I bought super 2hu wars on DLsite and for some reason I cannot get any of them playing now. They go into 1fps and I have my region set to Japan. pls help!

Finally! my first 1cc on SOEW, with ReimuB
I'm going to grind to get the Extra clear, i will celebrate this accomplishment with a drawing.

Is there anything more beautiful,
Than a cherry blossom blooming full?
Though more transient than even petals in the wind,
I will treasure this moment forevermore.

>>38091931
>>38095027
Bombed the last spell twice and somehow survived the last three seconds.

>>38113473
I want to try SOEW extra as well, good luck.

Newfag here, what is the usual like, decent clear?
Do the amount of bombs you use matter for if it's seen as a good clear or not?
Trying to clear PCB on Hard at the moment, Lunatic is still a bit too cluttered for me

>>38115928
A clear is a clear. Level of "goodness" doesn't really enter into it unless you manage a NM/NB or something.

what's the best touhou in terms of scoring? by 'best' i guess i mean something like most active community, most scoring players who agree it's a good system, richest history in terms of strategy development etc. but i guess also how fun it is to score when you aren't really trying for hyper-autism WR ultra optimization (and more like a middle ground between average 1cc scores and proper elite scores)

>>38080974
mine own self

learn the difference, it can save your run

>>38115846
>Bombed the last spell twice and somehow survived the last three seconds.
What I meant was that if you stop shooting during her last spell, her bullet speed never increases, it's almost a free "capture".

what's a good alternative to fang+wolf+pipe combo for um lunatic? fang is a pain in the ass to use. everytime i use either one of the following happens
1) deals damage but boss is left with 20% health. while it isn't so bad for stage 1 and 2 spell cards is certainly is bad for the following
2) bullets materialize way quickly and i'm trapped before i can back to the bottom of the screen
i managed to reach chimata with wolf+jizo+patchouli but i don't think it's good enoguh

>>38117140
I'm only aware of games that are garbage for scoring.
MoF scoring is dead because route too optimized.
TD scoring is utter shitshow consisting of suicidal bosshugging.
UM was counterstopped shortly after release with mallet spam.

Is it good that I start with Patchouli's card? If its okay what other cards combos well with it? Also how the fuck do I play against Misumaru?

>>38117140
PCB has a simple but surprisingly vibrant risk/reward gameplay that's incredibly satisfying. It's probably ZUN's greatest accidental masterpiece.

>>38120811
Wish I knew about this beforehand.

Has anyone here tried saving their 1ccs on a m disc?

>>38128680
Onegai...

>>38128680
Jizo card is better than Fatchouli's.
>how the fuck do I play against Misumaru
Suffer.

>>38128680
Kaguya's box is twice as good as Patchouli's one. Massive value if you get it early.

>>38136159
>Suffer
Hehe, Ying Yang Suffercation....

how the fuck does anyone do lunatic, everything is so fast, this shit's impossible

>>38142964
Yes. Even the best players fail to keep up with lunatic patterns if they get handed too rough RNG or have a bad day.

>>38142964
Most people think the same thing whenever they hit a new difficulty, just keep playing and you'll get used to it, it just requires new routing and practice.

I 1cc'd! had max lives when beating stage 5 midboss so I might have wasted an extra life there sort of

>>38147280
Cleared extra, but this seems like it might be the easiest extra out of all touhou games.

>>38149049
She's up there, Saki might be easier. Reimu does make Okina a joke though, try her with Marisa or Aya if you want a better challenge.

>>38149722
I'll have to try Saki next

>>38150035
First tries end around second and third spell. It seems much harder! The stage is much harder too. I guess I have to use otter hypers a lot to make this work.

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>>38152676
Hey buddy, I think you got the wrong door.

All of okuu's spellcards are all annoying, especially those in those in ISC!

>>38161162
>ISC
Woops, I mean DS. All annoying!

>>38161214
Okuu is easy in DS

>>37853384
assuming that i'm autistic but not a tranny yet, what's the "goal" of touhou? because to fill the chart in the op you literally have to dedicate your whole life to it.

is there a standard? like normal 1cc? do "normal" people do the extra stage? pls redpill me

>>38171156
The goal isn't to fill out a chart, it's to have fun playing the games and accomplishing what you can. If you want something to work towards, you can start with getting a 1cc in every game and go from there. Some Extras are pretty doable, others are hopelessly difficult IMO.
My goal has been to see all the endings and Extra dialogues, but that's proven to be impossible, so I satisfy myself with just the endings.

And don't try to become a little girl outside of Gensoukyou.

>>38171156
you can probably go from not playing shmups much if at all to a normal 1cc of an easy touhou game in 50 hours top and noticeably less, the better you are. that's not much different from the time people spend in RPG games let alone multiplayer games. The main difference is that in these games with arcade design philosophy all of that time is spent getting good at a relatively "short" game and figuring it out, so you naturally might feel like it's too repetitive and you aren't going anywhere.

>>38161637
I mean, I did beat them with satisfying scores. But I find her patterns oddly annoying.

Maybe it just because her bird mentality or her giant sun balls.

>>38171156
It's a game. You play games until you stop having fun. It's not rocket science. What is considered fun varies from person to person. Some are satisfied with normal clears, while others want to push themselves for LNN clears.

>>38171156
>you literally have to dedicate your whole life to it
Don't mind if I do.

>>38172165
>The goal isn't to fill out a chart, it's to have fun playing the games and accomplishing what you can.
i can do anything (teoretically speaking) and for me personally there's nothing more fun than filling out a chart, that's why i'm asking

>you can start with getting a 1cc in every game and go from there.
why about the lives/bombs settings? are there some standard rules for what's a "normal" 1cc?

>>38173716
>you can probably go from not playing shmups much if at all to a normal 1cc of an easy touhou game in 50 hours top
50 hours per game is a lot, that's the problem, especially considering that there are 20+ games. i really enjoyed the first 1 touhou but mostly because once i beat a stage perfectly i simply quicksaved and then tryharder the next one, but i don't think i can do that with the windows games

>>38175421
i like filling out checklists, but the one in the op is way too long

>>38176259
based, but i also want to play other games :(

>>38184546
>50 hours per game is a lot
No, once you've done one, others will take much less time, since you'll have built up experience and transferable skills.
As for settings, just leave everything default. If you're unsure, you can delete the config files.
And if you really like filling out checklists that much, make your own. That's what most people do.

>>38045181
thank you, average citizen

>>38184546
>i can do anything (teoretically speaking) and for me personally there's nothing more fun than filling out a chart, that's why i'm asking
Then do the entire chart
Each box is only like 30 minutes

Can you share a save file of IN with last words unlocked? Lost mine when my HD died and I don't want to grind to unlock them.

>>38171156
There's no goal, the games are virtually worthless if you're not having fun or feeling accomplished as you clear them and improve.

You won't receive and validation IRL for playing them and online validation comes in the form of a worthless tepid circlejerk , if you played the games for some time and this realization hasn't come naturally to you it's time to drop them and just be a secondary.

>>38186995
"In Touhou 8 on the Score Ranking menu, hold either Shift or Ctrl and press Right five times, Left one time, D two times, and Q three times. If done correctly, you’ll hear the 1up sound, and the Extra Stage, all solo characters, and all practice stages and spell cards (including Last Word spell cards) will be unlocked for all characters and difficulty levels."

I took a break from touhou after moving and decided to try LoLK today. I never knew true pain until now.

>>38187352
thanks anon

>>38184546
>i like filling out checklists, but the one in the op is way too long
If you want a mostly complete experience that won't take extremely long, just fill every Normal box from every game with all the shot types, and try to do the same with the Extra boxes eventually, maybe after you've done with the rest if you can't clear them right away. This way you'll get to read all the story dialogue.
Always keep the lives and bombs on their default setting, there's even a button for that.

For Extras aside from IN, is a NMNB still valid if one spell card is timed out as long as it wasn't timed out with missing or bombing?

>>38194985
Just time out every spell instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3OpfAm1FGE

>>38195365
Pacifist runs are different. Of course you are going to be capping anything other than survival spells because you can't deal damage. What if it's a NMNB that times out one spell but caps everything else?

>>38195443
*you aren't going to be

>>38194985
>is a NMNB still valid if you don't miss or bomb
The distinction from ノーミスノーボム that you're looking for is フルスペカ.

>>38195552
So my SA ExNMNB with a time out on Genetics is valid, it just doesn't qualify for Full Spell?

>>38195932
As terminology, NMNB is as literal as it gets. If you didn't miss or bomb then you have a NMNB. It's not always the same as Perfect because the latter implies any other game specific restriction also applies to your run. Not really relevant in SA because there are no mechanics like that in the game, but in something like PCB, TD or HSiFS saying NMNB is not the same as NMNBNBB, NMNBNT or NMNBNR respectively.

That said, I've seen quite a few people include FS as part of the requirements for a Perfect. That usually isn't a problem since most people who can NMNB a stage can do so by capturing every card (which is usually the optimal way of doing it), but in a game like IN for example getting hit during Imperishable Shooting doesn't count as a miss, and yet failing to capture it would make a Perfect run invalid even though it's still a NMNB. Under those requirements you would have an ExNN but maybe not a Perfect yet. I don't know if that's agreed upon universally though, I've only seen people use that but not sure if there are more official rules for the category.

Good evening lads! I decided to try again to 1CC PoFV with Cirno, but I got shot down by Eiki in 2:26. I was so damn close, she was at her last life.

>>38189218
>just fill every Normal box from every game with all the shot types, and try to do the same with the Extra boxes eventually
this makes sense. is there a reason for keeping lives and bombs on default in terms of story? also is this valid for all the touhou games?

thanks for the replies from everybody else too, i played only the first 5 but i already know that i could tryhard touhou games forever, but i also want to experience other stuff

>>38198494
>is there a reason for keeping lives and bombs on default in terms of story?
Its just this place's autism towards a 'legit 1CC attempt' which I kinda agree, any noobs can 1CC IN with five lives

>>38198494
>is there a reason for keeping lives and bombs on default in terms of story?
It changes nothing in terms of story. It's simply the way the game is meant to be played cause adding bombs or lives makes the challenge quite a bit easier than what people normally deal with at that level of difficulty, so it makes the 1cc runs "not legit" even though you will get the good endings anyway. Also, starting from th10 you can't even increase the number of lives so you shouldn't get used to it to begin with.

>>38198813
>>38198758
ok thanks, so i guess that to experience all the story (and get a legit 1cc on the way), normal with all characters and with default settings is the way to go. is there a chart for this, or do i have to edit manually the one in the op?

>>38098264
MoF didn't take very long, as expected. I doubt SA will be the same.

>>38198844
Seconding this, would love to make a custom chart but too shy to just ask how

>>38198844
Use the one in the OP, you're free to add fangames, expand certain charts and modify it however you see fit, which is why there's a link for the font used.

>>38198940
Good job, MOF is pretty easy once you get the route down.

>>38198844
>>38200962
Yeah, the whole point of that one is that it has a limited number of colors and no anti-aliasing, so you can fill and edit it with anything, even MS Paint.
Or, you don't even have to use it; people used to post screencaps of spreadsheets, that works too.

>>38198940
Nice. Good luck on Koishi, that's where I met my match.

Playing 17.5 for the first time and so far my feelings are mixed to say the least. Done Reimu and Marisa so far and Marisa was infuriating to control at times.

A game all about using iframes in an unorthodox platformer-like system sounds interesting to me but playing actually playing it…it just isnt coming together for me so far. And most of the hard spells are just a puzzle where you find a loop of moves that can you invulnerable.

It also just feels unpolished in general, though it’s hard for me to say why exactly.

Hoping it’ll grow on me over time.

What do people here think of it?

>>38201716
Oh god how the fuck am I supposed to use kanako what the hell is this moveset

Im firing big fucking stone pillars at the opponent why is this attack low damage

Finally got it, UM Marisa extra stage no cards, took me months to get it.Now i'm worthy of being a Marisa main and fapping to Momoyo

What is wrong with MoF, it's like ZUN took everything he learnt from the previous games and threw it out the window.

>>38202733
explain what you don't like about it
the bomb system is great, it was just a bit too overpowered because you get a maximum of 5 power instead of 4. SA made it more balanced. the continue system is fine. you shouldn't be beating the game with continues anyways. if you're complaining about the lack of content compared to IN, then that's fair

>>38202733
It's meant to be a fresh start. ZUN was even considering moving on from Touhou.

>>38202162
What the fuck is wrong with that size and aspect ratio?

>>38202803
The bomb system is awful, besides being OP there's no downside to bombing most of the time, it takes out the resource management aspect of traditional bombs and aesthetically they look the same.

The hitboxes feel weird if you've played the previous games for a long time, and it relies to much on pellet bullets and spellcards that simply throw a bunch of stuff your way for pure mechanical skill dodge rather than reading.

Also lots of stuff is hard to see with the new HD textures.

idk, feel like from EoSD to IN it got EXPONENTIALLY better, no joke, IN is a 10/10 game with absurd amounts of content and replayability, and then ZUN hits you with MoF.

>>38201817
Nevermind the down attack kills everything.

>>38203041
MoF is solid on its own, but compared to IN just 'bout every other touhou game can seem lackluster

>>38203041
>The hitboxes feel weird if you've played the previous games for a long time, and it relies to much on pellet bullets and spellcards that simply throw a bunch of stuff your way for pure mechanical skill dodge rather than reading.
I disagree, there aren't that many sections with pellet bullets, and it's only tedious during stage 4. Also, previous games had those kind of spellcards too.
I can agree with the rest though.

>>38203041
>The hitboxes feel weird
I think ZUN makes bullet hitboxes bigger with each new game.

>>38203041
So it wasn't just me who had issues with the hitboxes, nice. There were a lot of times where I expected to comfortably dodge something but got hit regardless. It did feel like something changed with the new engine.

>>38206771
I honestly never noticed that, but maybe that's because I'm still somewhat new to Touhou and I played all the games at once

>>38202826
Source? I'd like to know ZUN's thoughts on his own 2hu burnout.

>>38206798
I had 50 hours into both PCB and IN before I moved on to MoF, so I was rather used to the 1st gen windows games. That might have something to do with it.

>>38206838
His thoughts are in the omakes integrated into the game files, inside the story folder.
There's one for every game.

Would somebody be kind enough to boot up SA and try ramming into the little red fairies at the beginning of the Extra stage and stage 1? I keep hovering over them but I'm not getting hit, it's as if they don't have hitboxes. The Touhou wiki doesn't say anything about it so I need to make sure this isn't a bug exclusive to my copy of the game

>>38206903
He doesn't say anything about moving on from Touhou though.

>>38207308
My bad, I was probably misremembering.
There's also an interview in which he says he wouldn't have made a game in the year PoFV came out if it hadn't been the 10th anniversary of Touhou.

>>38207006
Not sure about SA, but ZUN did say once that he intentionally makes some enemies not kill you when you touch them, cause it's lame to get killed by an enemy instead of a bullet.

>>38207006
Chen doesn't have a hitbox during her midboss spell card for me, neither does any small fairy in GFW

>>38207006
That's normal.

>>38208970
>neither does any small fairy in GFW
That one is explicitly stated in the manual. The other examples, yeah, you just have to find out by trial and error.

>>37920940
Thank you. I know I'm even later, but I'll keep that in mind. I'm having enough fun with the story mode right now anyhow.

What's the key to scoring in HSiFS? I'm trying to do Hard with Reimu Winter. The highest I got so far was 250mil+ but I didn't get the 1CC because I died on Okina's final

>>38211767
Yeah no problem. Not like I want to deter you from playing the game online either, though. For what it's worth, I actually like the game quite a bit and the couple times I got to play it online with people I had fun with it. It's just that you really, really want to use the PC patch if you intend to play the game online.
Doesn't help that it's kinda hard to find games here and even the main community seems rather small, although apparently not totally dead. And when you don't have the privilege of choosing people that have very good connections with you then netcode becomes an even bigger factor.

>>38212202
Save up for max level release, don't hesitate to use bombs to safely graze build up release gauge faster. Use the max level releases on patterns with tons of bullets to get high PiV. If you manage to max out PiV then just release as often as possible on the boss to cancel bullets. Cancelled bullets give score based on PiV too I think.

>>38211767
>>38212474
There’s the thread on /vm/, you can try asking for games there. I’m not sure where else you can look though.

Anyone else have this issue with some thpatched games? Dialog just gets cutoff at the end cause the font is too large. Happens sometimes with EoSD too, which is really annoying cause an older version didn't have that problem.

Stop playing games at the wrong aspect ratio.

>>38214019
If you mean >>38213124 then that’s not the aspect ratio I use, it just got stretched out after putting the screenshot in paint and saving at a weird aspect cause that was the default setting.

>>38214457
Jesus Christ.
Anyway, for 9, with the old hardpatch, you need to install Cirno.ttf to your system fonts directory, not just leave it in the game directory. But if you're using thcrap, that's completely unrelated, so unless you're doing something else stupid like running thcrap on the hardpatched executable instead of the vanilla one, I don't know why it would do that.

>>38212570
Alright, I finally got the 1CC
https://files.catbox.moe/z43g0m.rpy
I'm disappointed that I couldn't reach 300mil despite getting it on a failed run, but a clear is still a clear. Man, I can't believe I never thought of Releasing on both of Aunn's last two spells. That probably played a huge part in this 1CC but I think I also got better a routing. Thanks anon

SA is so tiresome, it's like it wasn't designed with normal difficulty in mind, too many times I've rushed to the item collection line to be snipped by an enemy that appears from the sides at the speed of fuck, the thing is that there's not enough bullets either to trigger item collection or you have to do absurd movement gymnastics to trigger it, really it's a game that doesn't open itself until you've given a fair share of memorization.

>>38215163
Use "homing" Reimu my man

>>38214987
>But if you're using thcrap, that's completely unrelated,
Okay.

>so unless you're doing something else stupid like running thcrap on the hardpatched executable instead of the vanilla one
I’m running it on the original unpatched jap version.

>I don't know why it would do that.
Well, thanks anyway.

>can do every stage well enough in practice mode
>can't put it together into a complete run

>Friend plays Touhou
>Says it's not for him because he couldn't 1CC PCB after trying for hours
>Tell him he has to invest some time to learn the games and practice
>"Why would you invest time and effort when you can play something else that you can straight up enjoy "

How I'm supposed to answer.

>>38217964
he's right. if he doesn't enjoy the process then there's not point in wasting time on it

>>38217964
Tell him to stop playing on autopilot and git gud.

>>38218708
this. it's the reason i stopped playing soku

>>38217964
there are sights you can only see from the top

>>38217964
If he did enjoy playing during the first couple runs just tell him to play all the games and try to beat them with continues, that way he'll get to experience the stages at the very least.

>>38217964
why would you need to answer? some people just get filtered like that, not much you can do about it

>>38217964
>"Why would you invest time and effort when you can play something else that you can straight up enjoy "
The answer is simply "Some people find investing time and effort enjoyable"

>>38217964
He's a casual of the type ZUN talked about in the omake of 10, who doesn't get the basic concept of traditional video games. Just leave him be.

>>38217964
The harder something is to do, the more satisfying it is to finally do it.