14.3 Impossible Spellcard

[Anonymous No.]

I looked, but couldn't find one.

What do people think about the new game so far?

I'm having a blast of a time, and I've already had to use my cheat tools on three cards. It's also resurrected my ridiculous celebratory dances from the good old days of StB.

I'm looking forwards to going back to tackle the harder ones no-item, and figuring out how to completely cheese the fuck out of others.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12112748

Okay I found it now
>>12109962

[Anonymous No.]

Old thread dead.

I really struggled with 10-8 and 10-9 until I discovered the mallet. Remilia in particular goes down in two hits (and you can land the first one at the beginning), it's ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12116998
How did you get the second hit? Mallet has way too much start up to use on 10-8. I managed beat it with umbrella

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>>12117008
The explosion doesn't activate when she's stopped, and the activation zone slightly lags after her when she's moving. It's just a matter of positioning yourself so that it won't cover you until she's stopped, and activating the mallet early enough to hit before she starts moving again.

[Anonymous No.]

Been trying to do a No-item run on it.
So far, I've done everything up to Day 4, Stage 3 successfully.
How on earth do you even No Item that one?

[Anonymous No.]

Does this one have dialogue or commentary?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117088
Dodge the bullets.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117094
Why don't you play it and find out?

A bit.

[Anonymous No.]

Just got it.

I guess my only complaint is how bad it takes me to figure out the way to beat the spell card without using the item. It took me way too long to see that gap at the top of the tutorial stage

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117088
It looks possible with luck. Maybe if I can ever get used to Yuyuko's fat hitboxes. It feels like there is no give at all, so I constantly cut into them.

[Anonymous No.]

This game teaches me to look for patterns

I can redo hard/lunatic level cards while seeing what is happening unlike in the main games

[Anonymous No.]

I cleared all scenes and have 23 left for no items. I don't know yet which are possible (for me, or at all). But it's fun. I like it more than DS for whatever reason.

[Anonymous No.]

It's fun for us casuals as well. I'm having a blast beating each spellcard in order with all the items.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm surprised with myself, I managed to do most of day 10 with items other than 10-3 which seems to be just pure chaotic dodging (even with the doll, there's no way I can manage through all those bullets to put a doll in a corner once the first one is gone). Pushed through Miko's and Yukari's bullshit by spamming lives and got Remilia's tag by zig-zagging and using the bomb every few times.
Any tip for 10-3 other than git gud?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117298
If you put the doll directly on tenshi's head close to her hurtbox, tenshi will block a huge number of bullets for you. Just make sure you are able to place the doll behind her head a second time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117298
I did that one by making a circle around her every time she's shooting the laser and placing the bomb midway through the circle to make it clear the bullet wave just before it hits.

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>>12117306
...Well, I didn't even noticed that she blocks bullets. Finally managed to do it this way, thank you.
>>12117316
Tried this way as well, but I kept messing up too much so I just gave up. Just a matter of timing, I guess

[Anonymous No.]

How the fuck did I miss this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117298
Tenshi's laser is actually one of the easier ones to do with no items, just don't try any fancy shit like directing the laser behind her.

[Anonymous No.]

Why does Sanae have a giant roundworm attack? Because that's clearly what these things are, she isn't fooling anyone by calling them green snakes.

Is she finally graduating from using Kanako's power and becoming an independent god of soil nematodes?

>>12117298
Use the umbrella sub to teleport back when she finishes shooting. You can place the doll with zero risk that way.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117298
>git gud

>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117483
At what point in the game are you able to equip a support item? I picked it up this morning and am on Day 4

Also, what is the first item you have supposed to be? It looks like Tater's Skirt

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117493
Secondary items are unlocked at day 6, I think.

The first item is some cloth that Seija probably uses as a matador's cape.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12112748
My game is crashing when going full screen, anyone know how to fix it?

[Anonymous No.]

seija's very lewd look at dat thigh

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117530
ZUN can't draw and he put extra little effort into the drawings in this game. That's why he just recycled everything he could.

[Anonymous No.]

is there a translation for the custom.exe? it's all question marks and even if it wasn't I don't speak moon

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117555
It should be translated with patch from Touhou Patch Center, do you use it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117710
the patch*

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117555
why do you need a translation for that, i think it's pretty obvious and it's always the same like in the previous games

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone have advice on Seiga's wall gaping spellcard? (Day 4-7 I believe)

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117802
Use the camera to erase her shots when she teleports.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117802
She will always pass through the screen edge closest to her. If you return to your initial position after her first pass, she'll just reappear from above, making the card trivial.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117530
It almost looks like that picture of a tree in winter.

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>>12117710
I'd use it if THPatch wasn't run by a fucking lunatic.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm not enjoying Touhou: Seija the Hedgehog edition

[Anonymous No.]

>>12118009
Deal with it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12118009

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117849
i dont see it

[Anonymous No.]

>>12118025
thats fucking awesome

[Anonymous No.]

>>12118025
pls stop misusing the sekibanki 2hu

[Anonymous No.]

What the hell is nickname 17? Nobody seems to have it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12118240
Play 10 hours.

[Anonymous No.]

it's just me or Mokou stop exploting when you use the doll?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117479
Perhaps they're slugs. It would nicely round up the trio.

[Anonymous No.]

Dudes, at what point can you start equiping sub-items?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12119107
day 6

[Anonymous No.]

>>12119114
Thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

Neat, looks like there are secret nicknames for clearing all scenes with an item (including no items).

[Anonymous No.]

On 2-1

The third screen, are the bullets increasing, the bounce on the screen decreasing, or am I just missing an obvious gap

[Anonymous No.]

>>12119474
What would you like to know?
I don't understand what you mean by "third screen" or "bounce".

[Anonymous No.]

>>12119199
ZUN didn't disappoint.

...why am I not surprised jizou is the one to be revealed first?

>>12119474
If by bounce you mean what you think you mean, then yes, they do one less.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12119474

Not sure if this is what you meant but there is a gap when she uses the reflecting screen for the 3rd time

[Anonymous No.]

>>12119710
and I did it the hard way, dodging through through the wall (top left).

[Anonymous No.]

>>12119722
Yeah.. I did it by going through the wall at the bottom left. Took me a while.

[Anonymous No.]

Well I despaired slightly the moment I got to day 3. I no itemed every stage previous(except for Sekibanki's laser barrage of many many lasers that continuously get faster as the card goes on) then found out the new items I got didn't get counted for those no item clears.

Is there something like this for subitems so I'll be better off just playing with items until I unlock everything or can I go back?

Also is there any practical way of no iteming that card besides being extremely good or extremely lucky?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12120029
Yes, it is better to clear everything with items first until you unlock all items.
You can use sub items, and will still get the no-item clear, so I suggest unlocking them. (yinyang for smaller hitbox, doll for spreadshot against suika and tenshi)

To do Sekibanki with many lasers, just get lucky once. I found that the more I move, the more likely I'm going to get hit.
First, I thought about circling around her, but that way I could get a timeout, which of course doesn't count.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12120035
Alright, thanks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12120029
using passive subitems like yingyang and doll still counts as no iteming. Have fun beating day 9 and on with no items

[Anonymous No.]

>Boundary of Life and Death remake
>oh boy oh boy!
>it is easy as fuck
What the hell ZUN

[Anonymous No.]

>>12120035
Assuming you guys are talking about 2-4, circling around works if you concentrate your shots on the heads. Once you destroy enough of them, you can stay safely under the body and finish it off, just barely in time.

The doll, of course, makes everything much easier.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12120126
You actually can destroy them? Whoa.
I did it without (main) items by equipping the camera in the sub slot, then circling around the cute heads with a decent enough timing. You should be able to beat her this way with just a few seconds left.

[Anonymous No.]

2-5 is really testing my patience right now

Restreaming it is hella difficult because of shit bouncing everywhere

[Anonymous No.]

>>12120447
Only a single restream needs to be done of that card. The rest is micro streaming.

For the single restream, make it as tiny as possible and do it fairly early.

After that it will be some RNG for if Kyouko follows you well enough before she goes completely out of your shot range.

[Anonymous No.]

What is this? A new KanColle event?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12120356
And if you time a mallet shot right when the heads spawn, you'll kill all of them but one (plus deal damage to Sekibanki).

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117802
Position her such that she warps from the bottom boundary and appears from the top. This can be a bit tricky to do at first, but it's the best way to do it no-items.

>>12120356
The heads use a wave patterned based off your position when they fire. In my experience if you start at the top left corner and go down under, and then repeat with the right corner going to the left. You can get a bit of time between waves to deal some damage, if done right you can finish with a good amount of time left.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12120595
>>12120356 again here, forgot to mention that I just started at the middle of the screen, then alternated clockwise and counterclockwise circles. Doing things that way you have a second or so between waves to shoot Sekibanki, unless you need to dodge or wait for a stray rice bullet, in which case you'll most likely need to start a new circle right away after getting to the middle of the screen.

It's probably far from the easiest solution, but it was the first one I found out so eh

[Anonymous No.]

>>12120497
woah, thanks dude

I also forgot the doll sub existed, that really helped too

let's see about Day 3 now

[Anonymous No.]

Doing day 6 no items and I literally have no idea how you're supposed to do Momiji's bite card with no items.

The most assholish part is she fucking shoots lightning everywhere right after the bite.

Like what the fuck does that have to do with biting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12122054
very shiny teeth?

[Anonymous No.]

So sakuya's card where she teleports you into all the knives, I know I have to use the yinyang, but even with hammer as sub, I run out of orbs before I can finally kill her.

Do items level up the more cards you clear with them or something? can I get more than 7 orbs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12122094
Items level up to 20 or something, the more you clear with them (or with no items).

You don't need items to clear that card. As long as she doesn't teleport you directly into a stray knife, you can wiggle your way out.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12122094
You can also use the doll for supa easy modo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12122098
she certainly loves to teleport me onto knives. I'm starting to feel like this card is just rng.

[Anonymous No.]

Huh, on Seija on stage 4 of day 4 has a stand still safespot simply by going down to the bottom of the screen and not moving left or right.

Also, it's possible to day 2 stage 3 by staying still in the exact middle of the screen with the Hakurei Orb.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12122114
just use the decoy doll lol

[Anonymous No.]

>>12122054
Saliva

[Anonymous No.]

>>12120094
It's ok at least it isn't as faggy and safespotable as the original.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12122157
Jesus I feel like an idiot. took me two tries.

Reimu's cards are really fun on the next day! I dont like mamizous much, but sukuna's were pretty simple.
To day 9 I go!

[Anonymous No.]

Damn this took a while. Why am I so bad?
Oh well all of day 9 done with no items time to move on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12119710
You can do it without having to dodge through the wall. If you hug around her in the beginning and keep shooting at her when you can when the boundary is on, you have just enough time to kill her.
On another note, I got the trick to Keine's amulet pillars spell, now time for the actual execution part.

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>>12122214
That's some dedication. How many tries did 9-2 take? I can't do it for shit.

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>>12122310
160 which is my second highest number of tries on day 9, after 9-1. Use doll sub and sit above Suwako. It deals more damage and you have more time to dodge the bullets from below. Suwako moves every time a big green bubble spawns so just move away for a second to avoid being headbutted. These big green bubbles also spawn the most bullets when they hit the bottom of the screen so watch out for that too.

[Anonymous No.]

>12122203
Haha, day 10, I think I'd rather drop myself off a bridge.

I think miko and byak might not be so bad, but remi is fucking scary and fuck was that bounded field and border of life and death I saw?

No thank you.

[Anonymous No.]

Welcome to 10-7. I'm here to ruin your day.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12122359
I have no bloody idea how you're supposed to no-item this.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117717
>>12117710

i've seen screenshots from previous games where people just write the translations down in paint or something
was kinda hoping someone did that for 14.3

[Anonymous No.]

The whole game can be done w/o items right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12122405
if you are god, yes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12122405
I have serious doubts about 9 and 10 being no-itemed. There is a nickname for it though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123052
Do you mean days? Because I managed to no-item both Futo's first and Yukari's second card.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123082
I assume the whole day. Each girl seems to have one that's a fucked up nightmare and one that's just hard. Yukari's is actually easy, but it makes me dizzy and I run into stuff.

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>>12123052
Welppp I was gonna say that all days except 8 and 10 had videos of no item clears on youtube, but now there's a video of the entire game done without items, though apparently he pause buffered some scenes.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm really liking it so far, I'm on Day 5, I think? Against the instrument sisters. Some of these really do seem impossible, I wonder how will people clear them without using the items?

[Anonymous No.]

A couple of Japanese/Chinese players have already done a full no-item clear.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123279
Just as expected.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123279
Is Remilia's spell card even possible to do without items? She covers the whole screen with knives for several seconds.

[Anonymous No.]

It's my theory that ZUN made this game extra easy with cheats for western players. I mean, he made it after AWA, he clearly saw how shit we are.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123355
what are you talking about, there's no difference between western of japanese STG players
and most touhou games have an easy mode
please stop posting nonsense

[Anonymous No.]

Is it just me being stupid or is there no option to increase the difficulty?

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>>12123419
This isn't a main 2hu game, you increase the difficulty by not using your items.
I'm still confused why ZUN choose this newhu as a character for a game that's obivously a successor of the tengu games. Aya would be more fitting since it's her series and she's a tengu - using magic items are a tengu's usual powers.
I'm looking forward for the first hack that edits the sprite to Aya's.

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>>12123444
Pls appreciate the Seija.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123444
It makes perfect sense why Seija is the MC. Read the plot. And fuck you, she's great.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123347
Pause buffering I would guess

it's still retarded though

[Anonymous No.]

Where is Mima in this game

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123347
When it starts, you get in a lane and circle around her. The problem is that you have to go through this twice until you can deal enough damage to kill her.

[Anonymous No.]

What does pause buffering mean?

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>>12123740
ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC ESC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssd1y32wKxM

[Anonymous No.]

Is there a trick to no iteming stage 4-3?

As far as I can tell, my only option is to repeatedly weave through the huge mass of extremely clippy butterfly bullets multiple times when I can barely do it once with a shit ton of luck and yin yang orb sub.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123773
no idea. Even when I can do it multiple times, I can't shoot Yuyuko at the same time.

[Anonymous No.]

Is there a source anywhere?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123444
So, let me get that straight, you get an option to play as a nonconformist rebel outlaw taking on the entire society, and you'd prefer a tabloid journalist instead?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123870
She tries her best.

[Anonymous No.]

Which item do you like the most?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124135
The camera is pretty cool, I can't figure out how the umbrella is useful at all but I'm only on the second day. It just makes you invisible, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124144
Umbrella wraps you around the screen, there's a reason for ReimuA being the best shot in SA and this is an upgraded version of that.

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>>12124158
I thought the reason was because she has solid damage potential and also has that amazing bomb that can net you insane graze in some places. She's also not as difficult to handle as Reimu C nor as overall bad as Reimu B.

[Anonymous No.]

Whoa

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEa3JiYselk

Sasuga ZUN!

[Anonymous No.]

It's seriously draining to try and capture Yuyuko's cards in Day 3

Is there really no trick to it except to get good

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124135
But that's all wro-Ohhh I get it. It's Seija's game so you reversed the tiers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124135
camera and teleportation of the first 6 items are the best gameplay-wise
the ghost latern is the most op yet but extremely boring since you just damage your enemy down to 50% life, take the latern and press down the shot button - that's it

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>>12124211
Are you saying that Substitute Jizo isn't the single best item in the game? It rewards dodging at the top of your ability and taking risks, basically rewarding skillful play, and it combos amazingly well in a similar fashion with the other items as a sub.

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>>12124219
Yeah, although you can easily just sit on most cards with the doll in your sub slot and take four hits with the substitute, making it so that most cards barely required dodging at all. It's basically the lantern, but that you can spread out over mutiple uses.

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>>12124219
>single best item in the game
If that tier list was about "which items make facerolling the game easier" then my bad, the tier list is correct. I'm just saying it's the most boring item in the game.

>rewarding skillful play
By allowing you to die 4-5 times to a single card? Might as well use no items at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124241
dying 4-5 times is nothing

[Anonymous No.]

I hate to be that guy, but anyone have a download link?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124269
literally two seconds on google.
Doujinstyle if you need any more of a pointer.

Are you an idiot?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124269
Search the archives for a mediafire link. Should give you one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124135
Main:
1. Jizou - a default item. You can play as you normally would, with the added ability to make several mistakes. And since there's no truly undodgeable danmaku in the game, there's no reason not to do that, unless another solution is really obvious and superior.
2. Doll - pretty much a free pass through most aimed cards, and there's a lot of those in the game.
3. Bomb - if you clear the screen, there's nothing there to hit you. Enough said.
4. Mallet - an extremely satisfying and surprisingly effective way to take down enemies. If you hit them first, they have no time to hit you back.
5. Camera - see bomb, but only useful for clustered danmaku coming from the direction of the opponent. Has its uses.
6. Fabric - only really useful for highly structured, patterned danmaku.
7. Ball - Teleporting is potentially extremely helpful, but it's too difficult to control efficiently.
8. Umbrella - See ball, but with a slightly different and somewhat more limited use. Ability to hide has no advantage in a game that requires you to shoot your opponents to submission. Maybe if there were more timeout cards...
9. Lantern - maxed out jizou gives three seconds of immunity more even if you do nothing and just let yourself get hit. Fucking useless.

Sub:
1. Doll - shoot enemies more efficiently. Yes, please. Literally a lifesaver.
2. Mallet - a default for structured danmaku (more efficient use of strategically chosen item).
3. Jizou - a default for spread out, chaotic danmaku (unless you also use it as a main item, in which case mallet gives you more of the same).
4. Ball - Makes dodging easier if you're already good at dodging.
5. Camera - you can use some speed in many of the cards.
6. Bomb - Limited in use, but does give you a potential new strategic option.
7. Umbrella - See above.
8. Fabric - I can't think of a situation in which it'd be needed, at least in this game.
9. Lantern - useless. Items for which it does something just don't work well as last resort.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124286
>Jizou - a default item. You can play as you normally would
But doesn't this bother you? We get a game with all these items and it's possible for anyone to think of a way to beat the game without ever using Jizou. And yet some people just decide to go through the game like it's every other shmup ever.

But I guess the beauty of this game is that you can play it however you want and I should deal with it.

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>>12124306
Not really. Jizou is not an ultimate cheat, it's a fallback option for when you can't think of a strategy, and it's useless if you can't dodge well in the first place. It only bothered me whenever it could have been used strategically in a way that made other items redundant (i.e. instead of hiding with a fabric or clearing danmaku in front of you with camera, just stay there and take a hit). Sure, it's too powerful and I think it should have at least been nerfed down to, say, make you unable to shoot in the invincibility period.

I think I'm more bothered by the doll, because of how fucking obvious it is. Though there's thankfully always some downside to using it later in the game that makes up for its extreme effectiveness earlier on.

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>>12124329
I'm not saying it's god mode, I just personally thought it was better to think of a strategy than play this game like it was any other.

As for the doll, yeah it breaks a lot of things but at least it felt different. I laughed when I used it on Remilia's second card though. ZUN knows how broken the doll is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124135
Best active item tier:
Umbrella

Items with useful passive abilities tier:
Orb, Camera, and Doll

The umbrella is the best active item because it is the hardest to use accidentally.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124589
How can you use something accidently? You have to press a certain button to activate it.
What do you mean with passive abilities? Is this something that will be added later in the game or did i miss something.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124600
I have death bomb twitches from years playing touhou that occasionally just makes the finger I keep over the X button randomly twitch and hit it.

While every other item would normally be used up if this happened, the umbrella requires a direction to be held while up against a screen making it near impossible to use in most situations. Which makes it ideal for no item clears.

For the second question, sub items. Unlocked day 6.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124612
That reminds me. Isn't it a funny feeling when your finger presses the key and you realize you are out of bombs?

[Anonymous No.]

What's the point of the doll, this item seems pretty useless since it only blocks sometimes projectiles in a very small hithox.

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>>12125004
Redirects all projectiles that targets you e.g. marisa laser

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124176
I don't get the 2nd part.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125027
so, clearing most spellcards with this is pretty much a no-item run

[Anonymous No.]

Cleared the game, 14 cards I haven't no itemed. Some of them I believe I can no item with some grinding. Other I have no fucking clue.

Items ranked by how well they served me on the cards I couldn't no item.

Doll(5):
5-2
8-6
8-7(I just need to get more consistent at restreaming this)
10-3(Found a decent pattern, but need to get better at weaving through vomit)
10-6(Need to get a clear idea of laser paths for horizontal movement opportunities)

Jizou(4):
9-1
10-1(lasers are fixed so copious memorizing might work here on finding safe places to dodge the yellow bullets)
10-2(Feels like I can no item this with gratuitous amounts of pause buffering)
10-4

Bomb(3):
4-3
6-5
10-7

Yin Yang Orb(1):
10-5

Mallet(1):
10-9(Entirely controllable so I either need to figure out a workable loop or watch a replay)

Cards without comments I pretty much have no idea how to no item. 10-5 for example actually legitimately seems impossible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12117874
Yeah, nmlgc is fucking insane.

[Anonymous No.]

I heard there's no extra stage in IS. Is that true?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125362
just play it to find it out, you can beat the game within a day

[Anonymous No.]

Why is Remilia better at exploding kamikaze charges than Mokou?

[Anonymous No.]

Finally killed that bitch after 1.5hours wiping ^___^

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125598
...have you cleared the first mission of day 5 yet?

If not you're going to need to do that again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125610
Not even opened day5 yet ._.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125598
>>12125623
Stop it with the emotes

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125598
how do you record your 2hus, pls respond

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125647
Not him, but Open Source Broadcaster is pretty good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125624
Sorry.
>>12125647
Record replay with MSI Afterburner (you can use fraps, bandicam or any other recorder). Then convert it to webm with avconv (ffmpeg).

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125677
That card. I literally had to replay it while doing it suboptimally just so the game would take a picture of it since it literally just keeps showing the question mark if you beat it too fast.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125677
If you're stuck on 4-3, I don't blame you. Trying to no item it is something best saved for later.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125585
Ability to Manipulate Fate. Now you know what it means.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125820
tasukete /jp/

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125820
Yes, stuck here :3 I googled tactics, but this shit is random like hell and still need 9000 attempts to kill fat bitch.
http://youtu.be/hkE93NdOAOI?t=1m

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125879
Try the umbrella.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125941
its really easy-mode to kill it with bomb

[Anonymous No.]

>>12125879
what you need is MORE POWAH! Use the doll as a secondary and get nice and close so you're hitting her with everything. Use the jizou life thing and power backwards through the wave

[Anonymous No.]

Which Impossible Spellcard was the best / most fun for you?
Mine was probably 3 - 6. Straightforward, no gimmicks, just pure, colourful curtain fire.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126195
3 - 6 to easy to be fun. For me 4-3 is a good challenge. 480 attempts and still no success.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126195
The one where you hug Hatate's legs and use her skirt (nimble fabric) to hide from her photos.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126304
4-3 would be so easy if you removed the butterfly wings and the white charge effect around Yuyuko.
Those 2 just obscure so much of your vision, and you can't dodge what you can't see.
So I don't like that card at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126195
From the first 4 days 3-4 was yet the most fun to play. It felt a bit like a copied&pasted Okuu spellcard from DS and Okuu was pretty much the pinnacle of funniness in DS.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126312
Its 4-2.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126400
I don't have the game open.
I would be helpful if people explained what spell they're talking about instead of writing numbers.

[Anonymous No.]

Tenshi's danmaku isn't elegant at all.
Looks like she's really just an unskilled celestial relying only on her sword.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126479
Tenshi relies on power, just like Marisa.

[Anonymous No.]

Seija and Ryuko are the same person I think...

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126491
At least Marisa has fancy circular familiar using spells (and yoyos).

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126496

[Anonymous No.]

>>12118025
Kantai Collection is the NEW Touhou!

[Anonymous No.]

Does this game actually imply that Miko is a very, very strong 2hu?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126502
Didn't we already know that? There's not much left to imply.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126504
People were confused since she was the easiest final boss in the main series. What they forget is that the danmaku in the games are balanced by the person who views it. It was stated in GFW that the fairies are shooting a crapload of bullets only because that's what Cirno sees. Obviously, TD Reimu is much stronger than EoSD Reimu, so Miko doesn't seem quite as terrifying as Remilia did back then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126519
You're overthinking it.
The reason Miko is the easiest boss is because ZUN accidentally made her easy.
He doesn't make bosses easier or harder based on some canon power relationship.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126502
She was prettymuch oblivious to danmaku in TD and thought they were just having a party, so that was her fucking around. now she's getting serious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126519
Miko is the easiest boss? By consensus?

I'd say that title goes to Kaguya or Eirin.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126628
Lunatic Hourai Jewel automatically rules Kaguya out of easiest final boss. Kanako is a lot easier, since only her opener and VoWG are actually hard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126195
10-1 (Byakuren straight lasers)

[Anonymous No.]

Has anybody ripped the OST yet?

[Anonymous No.]

Ok, wtf im supposed to do on remilia's first spellcard?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12126404
Pic related, this is 4-2.
Just get the doll sub item and sit right on her head in focused mode. You'll kill her stupidly quickly for a no-item victory. Alternatively you can just hit her twice with the hammer.

>>12127059
https://mega.co.nz/#!3JRQ0KIa!QkFwPr6O5fFOMgww5bZmJUKPpeJ1JajERFZRn7NBVuk

>>12127078
Graze like a Touhou pro, there are no tricks or gimmicks to it.

[Anonymous No.]

Easiest touhou game to date when using items. Took me less than a day to complete everything with items. Being allowed to miss 5 times (+3.00 sec invincibility at each miss) is just ridiculous.

No item run is fun however, yet I wonder how some spellcard can be cleared without using items. How the fuck are you supposed to clear 10-4?

Even DDP super players miss on hibachi when he uses a similar pattern.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12127140
eZ newhus

[Anonymous No.]

Nothing even comes close in the terms of bullshit tier than 4-4, though. All you have to do is to move to the bottom and stand still. I'm not kidding.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12127552
you're right, didn't see there was a save spot down there

[Anonymous No.]

>>12127552
But why would you need to?

[Anonymous No.]

Why Yatsuhashi so hard

[Anonymous No.]

Can you use sub-items in "no items" runs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12127937
The umbrella makes it consider you used your main item even if it's a sub sadly.

So yeah, only the camera, doll, and orb are useful sub items for no item runs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12124286
>9. Lantern - useless. Items for which it does something just don't work well as last resort.

It goes well with the fabric in several situations.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12123444
No disrespect to the tengu, but they've already had two separate games in this vein to themselves.

Perhaps ZUN was getting bored with that and wanted to try something different, or he was just anticipating cries of "ugh, not another spin-off with ZUN's wife!"

This is coming from someone who would pick the tabloid journalist (or the blogger) over >>12123870's rebel outlaw. To a certain extent, the rebel and the pushy paparazzo share similar territory.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12127987
Want to spank!

[Anonymous No.]

>>12127987
>or he was just anticipating cries of "ugh, not another spin-off with ZUN's wife!"
I don't think fan backlash has ever been a factor in ZUN's decision-making process.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12122405
>>12122407
god is real
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q97lHerm8-I

[Anonymous No.]

>>12128057
"Good job!

Now do it without cheating the hard ones."

[Anonymous No.]

>>12128057
This is the guy who playing in kvm with slow-mo?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12127937
it's a no-item-run if you don't use the ability of any items, so: no

I wonder if ZUN can do this game no-item. We've never seen any proper footage of him doing a playthrough of his own games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12128672
didn't he at some point mention the inability to beat (one of?) his own games on lunatic?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12128678
I thought he said he wouldn't be able to test for bugs if he couldn't beat them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12128682
When the game crashes after stage 4 if your score exceeds a point your average joe reaches easily, I have to wonder if he tests a full run of his games at all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12128687
Wasn't that only for Benben, though? Maybe ZUN got Tsukumo when he playtested the game and then forgot about them.

[Anonymous No.]

How the fuck are you supposed to do 5-2? It seems entirely hopeless.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12128057
And he's apparently a pause buffering cheater. That video seemed a lot less impressive than I expected.
>>12129067
Place a doll on a side of the screen, then shoot with no obstacle in your way. Keep an eye on the time left for the doll, though, as you will most likely need to place a second one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129065
Ending Benben's second spell crashed the game, as did capturing Mamizou's survival spell in TD, and exceeding 1 billion score in UFO. And even after the patch for UFO, it still crashes if you get more than 1 billion points from a single UFO.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129178
how is that even possible to program a game in such a way that the score counter is causing the game to crash, doesn't ZUN know how to use integers properly

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129313
Overflow the point total for once. I think it could also be connected to the display being unable to handle 10 digits.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129313
I don't know, could have been something like an assertion that the score never decreases, since the first one was a signed int overflow.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129330
>>12129321
with properly integers this can't happen since it will always save enough memory to not overflow

[Anonymous No.]

Are those beer tankards?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129430
Taiko drums, obviously, but I'm sure ZUN likes the way you think.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129430
Yeah, the personified taiko drum uses beer tankards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129430
Looks more like a keg to me

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129354
Or just a 64bit int, I mean UFO is not computing factorials.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129985
Just stick to one side of the screen, there's also a bit of space to squeeze through the knives and the edge of the screen provided you aren't hugging it the moment Sakuya timestops.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130043
I wrecked her with camera/camera after that hammer try. Felt way too easy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130063
Well of course using items makes it easy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130067
Of course items make everything easier.
But "easier" is not exactly the same as "brokenly easy".

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129148
I meant itemless, it looks pretty easy to do with the doll (I haven't tried)

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130090
That items are broken by standard shmup standards though.

IS is extremely easy with items. If you want to legitimately expect challenge then stop using items. Otherwise it's just a puzzle game with various tools.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130105
>If you want to legitimately expect challenge
First I need to finish the game at least once.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130100
Pick either the camera or doll as your sub-item, take an unfocused dash in order to restream when you get past the middle of the screen. You'll have to navigate through stray arrows and random notes, though. It's one of the most difficult scenes to no-item.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130116
You don't have to clear every single card with items just because first playthrough. It doesn't mean you can't try no iteming cards you think are possible without them.

I've already cleared the game and I beat more cards without items than with first completion wise.

If you don't find it particularly challenging or interesting when using items, try no iteming the card. It's not like you have to clear the game before trying to do any of the cards without the items.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130141
If you don't find it particularly challenging, then just clear the game with items already. If it's not a challenge for you, it should take you maybe an hour, because you won't be dying left and right to those non-challenging spellcards, right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130943
I have already. I said that in the middle line of the post you just replied too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130950
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you

It always happens. Always. If only the alternatives sounded any good.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130968
Why not just use "one" like the wikipedia article suggests? English classes actually made me pick up a habit of never using the word "you" since it was a no no in essays.

Also why did you reply to my post specifically if you weren't referring to me specifically?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130971
>If you don't find it particularly challenging or interesting when using items, try no iteming the card

Was the part I was specifically replying to, and it happens to be the conclusion of your post.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12119199
Yup

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130986
Ah, so you were trying to present an alternative viewpoint on what one could do when playing the game.

What reason is there to clear the game quickly over just taking one's time though?

I was advising taking the time to no item things since it might be more fun. What's the rush to clear the game?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130989
and that's all you get for it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130991
The more immediate point is there's no reason not to, since if you actually can do it quickly, it costs you next to nothing.

The less immediate point is that by not doing item runs, you're taking a huge part of the game away from yourself. I am actually guilty of this too (yeah, so I finished each stage with one item, but there are eight more - no, fuck that, let's try a no-item clear), and I'm pissed at ZUN for pretty much discouraging playing with items by making no-item clears count as all item clears, and by allowing the use of sub items in no-item runs. Now I don't even know if I could do the cards I no-itemed without the doll/orb/camera sub, or which items did I even try to finish them with.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12130989
That's actually pretty clever.

[Anonymous No.]

Nickname 19
>Passed 200 total deaths.
>Is this starting to feel good for you?
>Well, that's okay. You can still be reintegrated into society.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm liking this a lot more than the Aya games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12131251
StB was much more challenging and more fun in my opinion, i think i played it distributed over a whole year

[Anonymous No.]

>>12131356
Same here. And I actually cared about finising StB. This game doesn't seem to be intended to be finished.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12131356
How good were you when you played StB, and how good are you now?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12131371
I think StB was fairly more difficult as well, and whatever skill I might have has been stale from when I last played StB to when I played ISC.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12131371
i'm as bad as always, the point of the tengu games is that you don't need to be good at danmaku, you just have to find out a strategy to avoid the projectiles and finding out that strategy is the most fun part

[Anonymous No.]

How does one cheat through Youmu? The one after the knife teleporting Sakuya.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12131415
Jinzo + mallet

[Anonymous No.]

>>12131375
>from when I last played StB

No, compare to before you even played StB. Of course everything is going to seem easier after the danmaku crash course you got from it.

>>12131415
>>12131426
This, then stay below her at all times, dodge the bullets and don't worry about the "cuts".

[Anonymous No.]

>>12131457
StB wasn't the first bullet hell game he played.

[Anonymous No.]

What fuck man.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12131955
Lingering hitboxes are some of the biggest fucking pains.

The photojournalists were especially assholish about it. They have some fucking slow ass shutter speeds on their cameras.

[Anonymous No.]

Sanae is a slug.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12132381
Why is that card even in the game, much less on day 7? Did ZUN forget to finish it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12132381
She likes to slide like one in bed.

>>12132407
Looks that way. He could've diversified it a bit as well rather than just making this a simple follow the trail grazing challenge.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12132407
I like how UFO Nue also had a card with snakes like those and it was also absolutely trivial.
It's ZUN's way of showing us that snakes make bad bullets and we shouldn't throw them at each other.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129313
ZUN thinks that scoring is for fags (^:

[Anonymous No.]

>>12132407
that card represents Sanae's future in Touhou

[Anonymous No.]

>>12132381
>>12132407
Day 7 was rather disappointing.

It had some of the easiest cards to no item despite being so far in.

The only really difficult one was Sanae's random search snake laser card.

Marisa's spark cards are stupidly trivial to avoid. Sakuya's cards are middling, and for Youmu, one just needs to stay in the lower right corner of the screen in general.

Also tip for those who find Sakuya's switch places card annoying. Move up right next to her each time she freezes time. You'll both deal more damage and have an easier time with the knives once you get your mind past the initial hurdle of not running immediately into Sakuya trying to weave through the knives you were closest before the teleport.

[Anonymous No.]

>tfw gotten all the nicknames except #17

I guess I'm more or less done?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12132690
There are hidden ones.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12132690
Kill yourself greener.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12132693
Where can I find a list of the hidden ones?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12132704
Oh found it on the wiki.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12132693
>>12132700
The hidden nicknames are too difficult for me.

I'm not the sort of player that plays touhou games on lunatic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12132677
Yeah, day 7 is the only one I've completed of 4+. 3 of them were single digit tries. Why are the tsukumogami girls harder than the protagonists?

At least Youmu was fun, since I did them by circling.

[Anonymous No.]

I wasn't aware this game had been released.

Is Mima in it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12133333
Nice mimas.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12133333
The number of threes in your post tell me that Mima is definitely in it somewhere.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm really bad at this! I can't beat 2-1 with any item.

[Anonymous No.]

How to wreck 8-7?

Please respond.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12134408
Place doll, then run like fuck. Then carefully but quickly place another doll when the first one leaves.
If you're trying to no-item it though, you probably just need to be fast.

[Anonymous No.]

So anyways, considering that in this game everybody throws their very best spells at Seija, is Remi officially a top tier now?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12134794
I don't think they throw their best spells at Seija.

Just look at Yukaris final spell.
It's very traditional danmaku, and basicly the very essence of how spellcard battles are supposed to be.

Almost as if she wants to teach the true meaning of danmaku to Seija with it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12134794
Was she ever not top tier ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12134794
7-8 is nowhere near Sanae's best card. It's probably her worst, barring maybe something she uses on easy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12134794
>very best
nah.

they backstory says they're using special spellcards that are made to be impossible.

[Anonymous No.]

anyone else getting outbursts of fury because of these fucking random flying notes from the feethu

[Anonymous No.]

Day 9 is where the game ends for me.

Last Day is like a bonus stage anyway. An optional bonus stage.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12134809
Yukari is going easy on Seija.

>>12134408
>>12134499
There are two patterns - spread and aimed, both trivial in isolation. The trick is dodging both at the same time. (Or redirecting the latter with a doll if you're going for an item clear.)

I can't do a no-item because Shinmyoumaru decided to be funny and use the same kind bullets for both, and I never notice the static wave coming. Fuck you, gnome bitch.

[proREMIRIAt Elite Force Comman(...) !rSDMROXTB. No.]

>>12134941
Woah, I decided to rest at day 9 too, Kanako /ss/ is strong. But I almost get her with the camera.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12134408
It's nothing strange: creep across middle, dash to side and switch back. Watch the knife lanes carefully. It took me many tries because it takes a while to kill her that way and eventually I would bungle it up.

[Anonymous No.]

I think I have 46 spell cards no itemed, but I also don't see myself getting any of the hidden nicknames.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12129985
lel, noob, the miracle mallet isn't the ultimate weapon, you mortal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12133333
Mima is dead, like Chernobyl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12135976
>Mima is dead...
like this thread

[Anonymous No.]

The stage 6 & 7 spellcards seems mostly copied and pasted from the previous game. I'm kinda tired of Marisa's beam & star combination.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136138
Oh come on, most of her danmaku is stars, and Master Spark is WAY too iconic to ditch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136138
>>12136145
I just think the master spark this time around was really underwhelming and kinda ugly.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136138
But Marisa's whole schtick is hueg beams and stars.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136152
I liked her mode when she threw Yo-yos and astromony themed spells.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136165
>astromony themed spells
Like stars.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136230
It's not enough nowadays to just put some stars in your spells.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136230
they aren't even real stars, their hitbox is still a circle or rectangle

[Anonymous No.]

Is there anyway to beat 4-1 apart from git gud?
On occasions it even seems that surviving the initial few seconds is just based on luck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136427
If you're doing no items I don't know. If not then take pictures while the butterflies are still tightly clustered. You might have to dodge a wave or two of purples without photographing, I can't remember how well the film holds up on that one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136427
i don't know why people having so much trouble with 4-1, it's still hard but there is plenty of room to dodge stuff
on the other hand 4-6 is much more a pain in the butt and i still don't know if 4-5 is even possible within that time limit

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136436
Fuck 4-6. I just gave up on it.

But 4-5 is pretty straightforward, don't you mean 4-3 or 4-7? These are the ones that require you to take your shot off Yuyuko/Seiga all the time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136476
All those numbers! What do they mean?

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136476
4-5, the one with the lasers sandwiching you

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136489
seiga with laser walls? You just move left and right, and shoot all the time....
It's pretty much impossible NOT to kill her within the time limit if you just stay under her.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136489
Move over when they're about to spawn and there will be room between them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136487
They're stage numbers, as shown in the replay menu.

>>12136489
You don't need to move much to misdirect the lasers, I had Seiga in my shooting range (focused) pretty much for the entire duration of the spellcard, finished with 30+ seconds left.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12136436
>>12136476
Get into the curved bullets and move down slowly, adjusting as necessary.

[Anonymous No.]

eyecancer - the spellcard
feat. critterhu

[Anonymous No.]

>>12137605
Surely you must be jesting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12137640
I really wonder what the point of this card was.

It doesn't even have the cheap sucker punch screen danmaku the previous story quests did.

Like I could imagine it being rather difficult if she also spat out her random ass bullets while doing that trick, but no. Just easily dodgeable chaotic mess bullets.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12137640
>>12137605
Those are some boring-ass spellcards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12138967
Yeah Day 8 is by far the worst day.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12137640
How do you encode your webms that it's not gonna end in some blurry pixel mash?
If i encode with a bitrate about 3000K it looks better, but then the filesize is so much inflated that it's too big to upload.

[Anonymous No.]

>>12139069
Try the constant quality mode.

-qmin 4 -qmax 48 -crf 10 -b:v 2000K -quality good -cpu-used 0

-crf is the target quality, from 4 to 63, lower is better.
-qmin and -qmax are lower and upper bounds for -crf
-b:v is the maximum bitrate

For long 2hu webms you can reduce the framerate to 30 with "-r 30"

[Anonymous No.]

I may have reached my limit in this game.

[Anonymous No.]

I may have reached my limit in this game, with still 11 left.

[Anonymous No.]

Is the last day really the last one?
If yes i can finally start noitem everything. The last day will be probably tedious to noitem since there are some spellcards where it's not about danmaku - just retrying until you got a sequence of patterns that doesn't kill you without a chance.