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[Anonymous No.]

Hey /jp/

How do you decide when it's time to move on to the next difficulty level in a shmup?

[Anonymous No.]

When I have 1CC'd it and I'm comfortable I won't die or use bombs (except maybe for one on an emergency) up to Stage 3.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8232289

That seems like a good guideline... probably time for me to move up to hard mode in PCB then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8232322
Just a reminder, don't get all comfortable, now you're starting from the beginning all over again, thus you'll start dieing again on Stage 3.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8232357

Ehhh, in all honesty, I've been thinking I should jump to hard mode for a while now. I've beaten IN hard with youmu solo and can do extra on IN and PCB consistently... I was only playing PCB normal today because I lost my old copies of the games and had to reinstall, so I wanted to open PCB's extra. I just... kinda blew threw it a little better than I'd expected.

[Anonymous No.]

I can't tell I haven't 1CC'd anything yet

when I started out playing easy and were almost at a point of 1CCing it I switched to normal and played normal since.
Recently I got better at that and almost 1CCd some.
Now I'm only playing hards for now.

I don't think I would feel good if I tried to 1CC normal or easy now

[Anonymous No.]

>>8232404
Go ahead then. Just a tip: Watch out for Chen's first bosscard

[Saegrimr !SHIELDM.mE No.]

If I can 1cc a difficulty twice (to make sure the first wasn't just luck), then I move on.
Won't get any better at Hard mode if you keep playing Normal.

Usually this isn't a problem, as most touhou stages I enjoy the 1-3 stage music more than 4-6. But all the good themes on Ten Desires are Stage 1 then 4+. Hate having to trudge through two mediocre stages just to get to good ones.

Ketsui, Gradius, Thunder Force, Einhander and shit like that.. i'm just happy to have cleared at all, I'm not sure i'll progress much with them. Especially the 3D modeled titles, it just seems so wrong compared to what i'm used to.

[Anonymous No.]

I usually jump straight into the deep end with the highest difficulty, just for the hell of it I actually 1cc'ed on UFO that way, with bombs. If that, as expected, fails, I'll move down to normal and learn the patterns a little better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8232437

Einhander was fun.

I wish I still had a copy of Ikaruga. I only ever 1cc'd that once.

[Anonymous No.]

Usually starting with hard, I play until I can no-miss no-bomb everything, then I'll move up to very hard. In touhou, same deal. Except I do Lunatic, then Ultra.