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You play them.

Lunatic mode only

>>4094307
Isn't that the point of Touhou?

If you can't get past the second stage, why are you trying to capture spell cards, exactly?

>>4094300
Play more. Don't push yourself too hard, maybe no bombs might be too much for you.

>>4094306

Use bombs, you idiot. Not using bombs is one of the mistakes beginning players make.

>>4094316

Nnnno, the point is to beat stage 6.

It's like every other type of game: Play forever until you stop sucking at them.

I tried lunatic for a few times and gave up, going back to normal mode.

Suddenly, normal mode was a breeze for me.

I started playing two months ago and used to be about as bad as you. Suggestions:

- DONT go down to easy mode. Seriously, it stops being a game and will do jack shit to make you improve.
- You are playing with a keyboard yes? Don't play it with a gamepad.
- For very precise movement make sure that you sit comfortably and that your arms/elbows are well supported. You will keep dieing unexpectedly otherwise.
- Bomb whenever you feel overwhelmed. New players don't bomb often enough.
- Start with Perfect Cherry Blossom, not Imperishable Night. The latter will teach you bad habits like the ridiculous death bomb window.

Have fun, keep playing (especially in practice mode) and you will improve.

Play Shoot the Bullet

Second question: why does she have such large thighs?

>>4094371
I can't 1CC any of the games on easy

>>4094298
We would highly appreciate it if you did not spam your shitty clones all over www.ànoñtálk.com. Thank you.

>>4094371

>- You are playing with a keyboard yes? Don't play it with a gamepad.

Not OP, but does a keyboard significantly improve performance? I've been playing on a gamepad for a while now, and it's been alright. Still not that great, but it's been comfortable. Would switching to a keyboard give any certain benefits I'm not aware of, or should I use what is comfortable? Same question for a stick; I play a lot of fighters and am confident with a stick, but never actually tried it. Are there any special sticks specifically for shooting games (To help with precise movement, I would assume)?

OP is as bad I was when I started. I remember Chen's spellcard where the bullets turn to falling white dots would kill me EVERY TIME no matter what.

Get as far as you can. Try to capture spell cards but use bombs if you think you're going to die (they're easier to get back than lives after all). Continue if you run out of lives and keep going - you can go on practice mode after you beat the boss and figure out how to capture the spell cards much more easily that way.

I don't know man, I made a pact with Satan and suddenly i became good at touhou.
I wish there was an easier way like practicing or something.

>>4094410

>>4094371

>- Start with Perfect Cherry Blossom, not Imperishable Night. The latter will teach you bad habits like the ridiculous death bomb window.

When will people learn that Last Word =/= Deathbomb?!

Imperishable Night has a normal .1 second deathbomb window. It THEN has a .11-.6 Last Word window. The counterbomb takes 1 bomb and activates a normal bomb attack. The Last Word takes 2 bombs and activates a considerably more powerful attack.

>>4094453
I don't think any type of controller is objectively better than another, so use what you're best at. You might as well try the keyboard to see how you do.

And yeah you can buy arcade sticks made for shooting games, or at least marketed to people who play them. I doubt they're better than any other good controller.

>>4094497
It's still deathbombing, and it doesn't encourage you to be fast on the X key.

>>4094506
You don't need a STG stick, standard arcade sticks made for fighters will do. They are the best controllers.

>>4094506

Ah, thanks. I give the other two a shot and see what's best.

Probably the only thing I can think of that's disadvantageous for a controller is that you have to use shoulder buttons. It's hard to hit Focus+Shoot+Bomb with just your thumb, so at least one or two of those buttons has to be mapped to a shoulder without causing some discomfort.

Honestly, though, after playing Mario and Mega Man for most of your childhood, you get used to holding down one button and tapping another. It's really just the "Bomb button" that throws me off at times.

Are you spending almost all of your time holding shift for focused movement? Don't, you need to learn how to dodge while moving at full speed or you'll get trapped a lot more/miss items, etc.

Dying with unused bombs? At this point, think of each as an extra life that gets wasted when you actually die. Don't forget you can use them to collect items too

Worrying about score? Score means absolutely nothing at all until you can consistently 1cc. Sure, more Cherry for borders, time for...continues, points for lives could help, but you may be getting yourself killed trying to squeeze a POC get in or trying to dodge a dense spray unfocused.

I'd recommend either Reimu or Sakuya-A for starting out in PCB. Don't forget bombs do different things when fired focused or unfocused.

In IN, Border Team is the easiest team to use, but will teach you bad habits (aforementioned HUEG deathbomb window, Yukari's shot, not dodging familiars). Magic Team will frustrate you because of how shitty Alice is in general (when not MALICE CANNON-ing), Scarlet Team requires a bit of practice and memorization to be useful, and Ghost Team will take a lot more to get used to Youmu's shot, though it and solo Youmu are probably my favorites to use.

EoSD is fine too if you prefer to play them in order. Not bad for training as the difficulty usually comes from bullet speed rather than density in this game, but you'll really feel a difference compared to any other game. Just remember your deathbomb window is near non-existent

I would suggest staying the fuck away from SA and UFO during the learning process too

>>4094410
She's a spider, that's why she looks to have such a large butt, search it on the wiki

>>4094410
Think of her like this, instead.

>>4094533
That's fine advice but I think OP just needs to play more to improve his coordination/awareness and not worry about beating anything or how well he's using bombs, yet.

Just memorize all attack patterns.

After that all you need to do is learn how to dodge random patterns.

>>4094300
Just play them and play other Shooters out there..

>>4095922
Why would you play other shooters? Shit genre.

>>4095928
Its like you are not even trying.

>>4095928
Hmmm troll or idiot that does not know that shooters and FPS is not the same genre.

if you can't complete any Touhou on normal difficulty on the first try, you suck

>>4094395
This actually works. Most people will take it as a joke, but I can actually 1CC Hard mode now.

>>4095982
I actually started with Shoot the Bullet.

STGfags will eat me now, but it's the best for newcomers simply because it's more fun. You don't have to repeat the parts you already passed over and over again, for starters. It's also even more of a puzzle game than an ordinary Touhou, and, well, puzzles have infinitely more appeal for most people.

EoSD is good training, and also for getting used to actually using your bombs. The two-life Practice mode makes you appreciate how to use all the resources at your disposal in order to beat the game.

Using EoSD Practice and grinding each stage until I could beat it with only the two starting lives and whatever others were available in the stage got me from being curbstomped by Cirno to 1CCing Normal in about a week,

>>4096003
Exactly. And it gets you into the rhythm of making plans for the stages of the rest of the Touhou games instead of just ad-libbing the whole thing, which greatly improves your survivability.

Speaking of Shoot The Bullet... the thread last night disappeared before I could properly thank the anon who provided me some replays and advice.
I've now beaten two of the three levels in question. Much appreciated, bro.

holy moly, i didn't expect my thread to still be here. thanks for the advice everyone.

>>4095960
Yeah, no.

The only way to get good is experience by constant playing, everything else will become automatic.