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Title: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Sapz on December 24, 2012, 03:10:36 PM

2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!

Alright Touhou players, it's the end of the year so it's a great time for a retrospective as well as a time for setting future goals. I don't think we've had one of these threads before but it seems like a nice idea, so here's how this is going to work!

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: As the name suggests, post the stuff you're the most proud of here, whether you're an Easy mode survival player or a Lunatic scorerunner. Anything that stands out to you is what you want here, no matter how silly it may be!

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: This is for those very special moments when you screw up a NMNB of PCB Phantasm right near the end by, say, ramming Yukari. Whatever comedies/tragedies pop up most clearly to mind go here!

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: Whether it's a long-time goal achieved by a close friend or a new WR set in one of your favourite games (or both at the same time!), you can post whatever stuff you enjoyed seeing other people do this year here!

Goals for 2013: What do you have your eyes set on achieving next year? List all the clears, scores, and crazy challenges you want to achieve next year here. Be ambitious!

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: The fun one. Throw down the gauntlet and challenge someone else to something! This might be to beat one of your scores, or a race to a certain clear, or whatever you like. Remember to keep it a little friendly, but on the other hand, go totally nuts!

Write as little or as much as you like, and this should become a nice thing to look back to in times to come. Merry Christmas, and have fun. :toot:

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Chuckolator on December 24, 2012, 03:18:25 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Perfect Byakuren no contest, but not sure on my 2nd favourite. Maybe Eirin?

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: First perfect UFO Extra run to make it to Grudge Bow, death to the very first wave of the very first phase. Can't think of one more stupid than that. <_<

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: Sakurei's 1DNB GFW Extra, because NDNB is one of my eventual goals and it's nice to see someone else try the same thing even if they don't pull it off flawlessly. Honorable mention to Zengeku's perfect Byakuren that only happened because I motivated him. <_<

Goals for 2013: Perfect EVERYTHING Whatever I feel like, really, as long as I keep knocking stages off my list I'll be happy.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: SirChaotick on December 24, 2012, 03:35:24 PM

Favourite Achievements: MoF Lunatic 1cc is my greatest one so far, but I expect another one (two?) to join it before the year's over, so I'm not certain.
Biggest Screw-ups: Eh, nothing really stands out. The closest I've ever been to succeeding at something without actually succeeding at it is certainly SA Hard 1cc, with Utsuho clipping me when her health bar wasn't actually visible anymore.
Favourite Achievements by Others: I'm not sure. I guess everyone who's done all of the lunatic 1cc's, like Nindella and Coreven? I'm not so involved here.
Goals for 2013: I want to have all of the lunatic 1cc's down by January, because (counting periods of total hiatus) that'll settle me at having cleared them all in five months time. After that... eh! Who knows!

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: I have no name on December 24, 2012, 03:44:00 PM

Personal Favorite Achievement of 2012: I can't really think of anything as awesome as perfecting MoF extra stage that I've done, and that was back last December I think...(checks date)...February 9th, 2012.  Yep, still that, even after all this time.  Though my GFW lunatic 1cc, done on 9/9/12, comes pretty close (if you haven't seen it, my first clear ended with over 800 motivation).

Personal Biggest Screw-up of 2012: Hands down getting completely walled off on Kagome Kagome, dying, continuing the run and perfecting the rest of Flandre, resulting in a very very painful 1DNB EoSD extra.  Also up there is dying 3 times to Subterranean Rose after perfecting Koishi outside of Rorschach, and blowing an MoF lunatic no bombs attempt on Sanae by getting hit 4 times.

Favorite Achievements by Others of 2012: I think Funen got his MoF lunatic no bombs this year?  I don't expect mine to be as awesome as that, but I'm hoping I get a certain stage perfect in mine that he missed  ;)  Seppo Hovi's IN ultra Stage 4 lunatic spellcard captures let me know they were all possible, otherwise I would have taken 1 look and gone "no".  SirChaotick's MoF lunatic 1cc, along with everyone else who got a first lunatic clear this year, because I remember what it was like to manage that for the first time.

Oh right, this section can't be done without an extra shoutout to EVERYONE who participated in Double Spoiler Done Quick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TGRj4zFCqA) and especially also ARF for singlehandedly doing/saving Shoot the Bullet Done Quick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4z2HEjF-as).   :toot: :dragonforce:

Goals for 2013: MoF lunatic no bombs, UFO lunatic, actually getting that perfect run of Youmu, beyond that we'll see what I end up doing.  Maybe PCB lunatic no focus?

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Hey Seiga, go get that perfect of Nitori, I think I remember you saying you don't have that one yet and I perfected Stage 3 in my last no bombs try so  :getdown:
Zengeku: play a credit of Ten Desires and enjoy it.  That should be a nice challenge  :getdown:
Nindella: go an entire stream session of your standard 5 hour length without mentioning Orin.  Or is that impossible?  :getdown:
Riz: Get those last 3 LNBNUFO runs before next year.  You can definitely do it and they're really awesome to see.  :getdown:
Everyone on MoTK: let's get that replay uploader to 50,000 replays by this time next year!

edit:
Hey Sapz what are your picks for each of those categories?  :V

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: chum on December 24, 2012, 03:58:00 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012:In PoFV, I got a 1cc with all characters without focus, charge or pacifism (on lunatic)
Don't think anything else I've done could even come close to that. I worked hard on it and it was extremely difficult. Shikieiki with those conditions and with a low-tier character is a goddamn nightmare.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Probably the off-screen amulet that ended a Lunatic run at LFS. I was too close to the bottom and an amulet sniped me from off screen. This was before I had an 1cc of the game, so it really ruined my day. Today I also did a live PCB Extra run, It's a stage I never play... Unless I forgot a border break somewhere, I believe the Ran fight was NMNBNBB until a very late death on her last card. Don't know how to safespot it. Not at all worked up about it, but since it happened today, It's easy to recall.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: My memory isn't the best, so I'm probably forgetting lots and lots of things, and since I didn't actually start using this forum until fairly recently anyhow, I must've missed a lot of stuff. I would say Seiga's Perfect Byakuren fight, since It's such an impressive feat and I didn't even know who the player was, and It's something I want to do as well in the future. I'm sure people have posted some harder things (Zil's PoDD videos spring to mind) but I don't know what I'd be most impressed by of those. Scoring in that game is a bit too abstract for me to fully comprehend how difficult it is. Also have to mention Namusan's work on StB ILs. Trust me when I say that those are fucking amazing.

Goals for 2013: 100 million in GFW A-2. Tough as hell, I think I could do it though. Also, 1 billion in UFO Lunatic, a VoWG capture (seriously... I never captured that damn thing), a decent-ish score in PCB and EoSD on lunatic (say, 1,5b and 300m respectively) and also possibly something on Normal (maybe in PCB or IN)
Also boss perfects: Remi and Sakuya since I've been so close already, and Byakuren as I mentioned. If I have most of these done by the end of 2013, I'll be content, but some of them might be too hard, such as the very ambitious GFW goal. We'll see.

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Any kind of score competition in the games mentioned above. I'm mostly feeling GFW at the moment.

The all characters without focus, charge and with constant shooting... I'd recommend people to not do that unless you value your sanity, or unless you're Zil.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Sapz on December 24, 2012, 04:11:17 PM

Haha, let's see... I sorta had a year off from shooting games this year for the most part to focus on learning Japanese, but let's do this anyway.

Personal Favorite Achievement of 2012: I guess tying in with the above, it's that I can now go ahead and know what's going on in Touhous without needing them translated. Also, not strictly Touhou, but I have to mention winning STGT 2012 with my Touhou is Harder teammates. You guys are the best!

Personal Biggest Screw-up of 2012: Not shooting up enough fairies/spaceships/dragons/aliens/other miscellaneous stuff. I got a little burnt-out after 2009-2011 and didn't really do much in the way of achieving my STG goals this year. I guess another one is always being late with the Touhou Tournaments. :V

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: Nereid achieving a WR in MoF! Now I get to kick a former WR-holder around in IRC. :getdown:

Goals for 2013: Play STGs again. The specifics are pretty much going to be my former goals from 2012; those are largely non-Touhou so far but I'm considering picking a Touhou up for score beyond those. And of course, post Touhou Tournaments on time!

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: I challenge all of you who enjoy shooting games to branch out from Touhou from time to time. There's a huge amount of great shooting games out there I'm sure you guys would enjoy, and Touhou is just the tip of the iceberg. Go explore! Feel free to PM me if you want some recommendations. :V

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Rei Scarlette on December 24, 2012, 04:14:34 PM

Personal favorite achievement 2012: It's hard to say, mostly because I don't really do anything special yet. No bomb runs, timeouts, no vert/hori captures, scoring even? None of that. Actually I can't even play on Lunatic yet even though I've been playing so long. :V I'm still a Hard Mode player~ If I could lump a few things together though, it's that I've been getting better at the games, which I consider an achievement. Now I've improved enough to capture Last Words as I unlock them, and I don't have to give up and try later anymore. Deflation World, Ancient Duper, and Phoenix Rebirth were the captures I was most happy about iirc, each taking less than 20 attempts which was a great surprise to me considering I don't think I'm that good of a player to be honest.

Looking back on when I first started out, when I couldn't beat easy mode with continues :V I'm happy that I've come this far and hope to keep improving. So I say my favorite achievement, though not related to one event in particular, is "Achievement of Higher Skill" I suppose~
2nd choice: The fact that after all these years I finally got off my butt and made myself an account here at MotK. Not sure why I didn't before really, and the fact that I know all of you yet you've no idea who I am is kinda... I dunno. Achievement get: lurk less

Personal biggest screw-up 2012: Oh that happened today. :V I've screwed up plenty of times in the past, but this year NOTHING I've done beats getting to Youmu (PCB, normal) with max lives/tons of bombs, then leaving the stage with nothing but 4 bombs. :getdown: I guess I just didn't feel like bombing at all ever that run, and got tired of dodging by the time I made it to her. :V

Favorite achievement by others 2012: Well now. This is a very hard decision to make, you guys have been doing crazy things, awesome things, and everything in between.

Instead of something crazy, awesome, or crazy-awesome, I think I'll go with MoteofDust who was just starting out, and was happy about beating Meiling (eosd, normal) only 5 days after starting. This one really got to me; it reminded me very much of when I first started out, and all the good times I've had since then, and I couldn't help but feel happy too after reading that. Nothing amazing, but this must be my favorite achievement by others, 2012.

Goals for 2013: Mostly I just try to go with the flow, and get better as it happens, but if by the end of '13 I could manage to start playing Lunatic successfully, I'd be happy with that. Beating PoFV Extra (shikieiki side) would be nice too but Reimu just isn't losing. Even when I somehow made it there with like 5 lives.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Sakurei on December 24, 2012, 04:17:07 PM

personal favorite achievement of 2012: my all clear of StB 90 fps. it looks badass as fuck and some scenes were crazy difficult. followed by my perfect MoF stage 4 and IN stage 6A.

personal screw up 2012: during my IN 6a perfect attempts, I died to hourai elixir at 00 seconds left. it's a common death time, but after flawlessly doing the whole other stage with all it's apollo 13 and astronomical entombing, it's really soulcrushing. and additionally there was the retard death in GFW extra. what seiga loved, I hated :V I will come back to it, eventually and do a perfect run of that stage.

favorite achievement of others: definitely cactu's NBNUFO run. that was a really really crazy run and I am amazed at it. kudos to you. on top of that seppo's WRs. I am amazed at how much dedication he can put into that game and I respect his WRs for that a LOT.

Goals for 2013: a few lunatic 1cc on 90 fps. I think I can pull off every game over the whole year, but it'll be tough. I also wanna finish the DS all clear, as well as perfect the remaining stages in the windows series I have left. extras are mokou, yukari, marisa and mamizou. as you all know marisa was pain, but I feel I can go back to her once I feel like I have played enough 90 fps. she will be the first extra. shou is probably the first regular stage. I also want to start doing no bomb lunatics.
SO MANY GOALS, SO LITTLE TIME :V. DS will fall quickly in early january. I can't imagine myself taking longer than the first week.

challenges to other players: I knw you're already at it, but I want to see more WRs from you, seppo. go get them!
zengeku go do a NBNUFO lunatic. I know you can if you gain some consistency on stage 5.
seiga: go back to touhou first, then good luck with the remaining stages you haven't done yet! a lot of them are real beasts and from what I have seen you're trying UFO stage 5 right now? nice! go do it.
and everyone who is trying to get some first clears: gogo. you can all do it and it's really great once you managed.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Zil on December 24, 2012, 04:23:44 PM

Myself: PoDD crap.

Screw-ups: The fact that it took me forever to focus all of my attention on PoDD. That one death to Remilia was pretty harsh too.

Everyone else: Seppo and Nereid's world records. And Seppo's SFN timeouts. K.B.'s PoDD clears. Malkyrian's VoWG timeout. ARF's DS/StB speedrunning. Chirpy and Karisa's PC-98 scoring. I'm probably forgetting a lot. That's all I can think of for now.

Goals: Play PoDD. Avoid everything else.

Challenges: I kind of want everyone to beat (or at least play) PoDD Lunatic at least once. I don't expect it though.

Quote from: chum on December 24, 2012, 03:58:00 PM

The all characters without focus, charge and with constant shooting... I'd recommend people to not do that unless you value your sanity, or unless you're Zil.

I'm all over it! Been meaning to try it anyway.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: redlakitu on December 24, 2012, 04:32:40 PM

I love this thread! 2012 was actually my first year as an active Touhou player. Let's see what I got.

Favourite personal achievement: a choice between clearing PCB and IN on Hard, and getting a two billion score in IN Easy. Because my PCB clear feels like a horrible letdown in a way, I'm inclined to choose the score. But my latest timeout of Mountain of Faith Easy deserves a special (if tiny) mention.

Personal biggest failure: YOUMU. Youmu in general. In PCB, I just kept getting humiliated by her, dying to spells and nonspells alike, all the time. What a runner of ruins... err, ruiner of runs. In Imperishable Night I couldn't even handle solo Youmu propely, which is why I achieved my two billion score using solo Reimu. I hate you, Youmu, you're a nice character, your theme is excellent, but stay away from me in-game.

Favourite achievement of others: Karisa's no focus Lunatic IN 1cc, I guess. Going no focus on Lunatic is extremely impressive. And Vee's Imperishable Night scoring spree is rather outstanding. Note that this is a very selective and incomplete list, though...

Goals for 2013: A Lunatic 1cc in any Touhou game. It really shouldn't take more than another full year, even if my progress is slower than average. Plus I should finally break my bad streak with games 11-13 and get at least a Normal 1cc of each one. And stop clinging to PCB and IN so desperately...

Challenges for others: Please do a perfect pacifist run of PCB Stage 5 Lunatic, anyone. I'm far too weak to exact my revenge, so all I can hope for is to watch someone else do it.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Reiko on December 24, 2012, 04:34:24 PM

Personal favorite achievement of 2012 : Well, it was my first (not even full) year playing Touhou, so I didn't do anything really fancy. I'm really happy with this 4-miss-no-bombs of EoSD normal, though.

Personal screw-up of 2012 : 250 attempts at UFO Extra before clearing it. Getting to Kaguya at the third ever attempt on Lunatic, and being unable to do it again since then.

Favorite achievement by others 2012 : Oh so much. Cactu's LNBNUFO, Nindel's LNBs, everything ARF has done in DS/StB, and possibly lots of others I can't remember. Also, watching the new UFO WR made me speechless.

Goals for 2013 : one word. Lunatic. For some silly reason, I'd like to complete everything (lunatic and extras) with Laser Marisa, so we'll see. Also, getting better at the other shmups I tried, at least 1cc some first loops or something...

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: marukyuu on December 24, 2012, 04:45:37 PM

Personal favorite achievement 2012: PoDD Easy Mode 1cc with all characters. My only achievement of 2012, to be honest, and I hardly think of it as a true achievement :V

Personal biggest screw-up 2012: Not playing Touhou at all for months. Now I'm constantly ramming fairies on TD Normal Mode Stage 1 :colonveeplusalpha:

Favorite achievement by others 2012: I'm at a loss here. I really don't know. I don't follow WR stuff and the likes, and nobody I know has played Touhou lately. Sorry.

Goals for 2013: Play more Touhou. 1cc Normal Mode SA and UFO, reclaim some Normal 1cc's I've done before, achieve my first Extra clear ever, 1cc Hard Mode MS.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Karisa on December 24, 2012, 05:01:51 PM

2012? Wow, it's still the same year as most of my first Lunatic 1ccs. It's been an interesting year.

Well, for my personal favorite achievements... I think I'll go with reaching the TD 20 and MS 600 extends. The reason being that they're actually something I've accomplished without seeing someone else do them first. TD Hard 1DNBNT comes very close though. And this may not be gameplay-related, but can't forget that I finally found a forum community that I feel like I'm a part of.

Biggest mistake: Failing Seiga's midboss card (and therefore a full-game Hard perfect run, though I didn't know it at the time) in that TD Hard 1DNBNT, definitely.

Favorite achievements by others of 2012: Wow, too many to choose...
You know what? Instead of repeating something that several others have already said, I'll go with Pirx/redlakitu's IN 2 billion Easy score. Seeing upcoming players take an interest in scoring instead of ignoring it like so many others do is nice.

Goals for 2013: Claim a record in every possible Mystic Square scoring category... oh wait, that's my goal for the next month or something. Improve my Lunatic scores, I guess, which would also involve learning how to capture more Lunatic patterns with reasonable consistency, something I'm currently lacking in. Succeed in at least one Lunatic no-bombs 1cc and at least one Lunatic 91fps 1cc. Also, get that TD Hard no-death 20 extend run that's been in my signature for months, or maybe even get a no-death and/or 20 extend run on TD Lunatic.

Challenges to other players: Score more in the PC-98 games. They seriously do need more competition.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Bang Jan on December 24, 2012, 05:08:39 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Me timing out SFN.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Failing TD extra when FMP had almost no HP left.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: Malky's VOWG timeout.

Goals for 2013: To timeout more spells and 1cc MSD -Absolution- on revelation mode.

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: For everyone to 1cc MSD.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: nintendonut888 on December 24, 2012, 05:14:23 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Perfecting MoF stage 4 lunatic. Out of all the things I had left to do, this was the last big one that was eating at my mind. Well, there's also the matter of being selected to work on a project that I have dreamed of being a part of for years now, but that's a secret for now~

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Letting my all-perfect victory go to my head Mmm, nothing really stands out. Though, I remember getting pretty steamed when I screwed up a perfect Eirin plus last spell on the last second on Hourai Elixir...and then dying again even earlier the next time I got that far.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: In general, watching the community rise up the way it has the past year has been a real treat. Accomplishments that used to be considered one-of-a-kind are now accessible to many, all because of the great shmup community that has formed. ^.^

Goals for 2013: I should really get around to finishing Uwabami Breakers. ;;

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Sapz I'm still waiting for that pinky clear of EoSD extra.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Validon98 on December 24, 2012, 05:55:05 PM

Achievements would have to really  be getting my first Hard 1ccs and Extra clears within months of picking up Touhou. I'm amazed at myself for what I've managed to accomplish so far, even if it is just stuff that other people have done millions of times/with challenges attached, like pacifist, perfect, 90 FPS, etc.

In terms of screw ups, doing pretty well on UFO Extra and then losing most of my lives to Danmaku Chimera is a major screw-up and a half.

In terms of other people's achievements, I'm pretty amazed at all of the 90 FPS stuff that has been done, along with all of the timeouts and such. Really, I'm glad anything anyone has done has been done.

My goal for next year is continue 1ccing games on Hard and clearing Extra stages. If I can get them all done, then I'd consider 2013 to be a pretty damn good year.

I don't want to challenge anyone with anything, mainly because I'm a pure survival runner, not a score runner. Plus I'm still not quite ready for challenge runs, though I might do some on Easy, just because I could do it.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: ふねん1 on December 24, 2012, 06:07:41 PM

- Getting my first Lunatic 1lc with MoF, and also winning Week 25 in for the Lunatic category just because of how much I went back and forth with Nyaaa~.
- Dying on Hell's Tokamak during an SA Lunatic 1lc attempt. I never did get that far again.
- Haven't been paying much attention lately, and those I do remember are pretty numerous and too long to list here.
- Still don't know when exactly I'll feel like playing Touhou extensively again, though when I do it'll be about time I got back to getting that SA Lunatic 1lc.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Lepetit89 on December 24, 2012, 06:54:09 PM

Personal Favourite Achievement
Probably my Lunatic 12.3 1CC, even if that's just because it was the last Lunatic Clear I needed to consider all games for Windows cleared. Aside from that, reaching 1000 captures of Wild Carpet, mainly because it defines me as the patient grinder that I am.

Personal Biggest Screw-Up
Hard to say, the biggest one I can remember was last year, but this year, maybe one of the really derped Normal runs where I lost six Extra Lives or more in Stage 6.

Favourite Achievements by Others
Again, hard to remember everything, but I still recall being very impressed by Zil's EoSD 90 FPS Clear and his Extra NDNBNF run as well as the World Records we saw, of course.

Goals for 2013
Finishing the second half of my goal to clear all games on all difficulties with all characters/shottypes and Finals, if applicable. Then again, it's hard to refer to Hard and Lunatic as the second "half", I'd rather refer to Lunatic as the second half. Reminds me of that famous line about the last kilometer of a marathon being the second half. Also, NDNBing as many stages as I can.

Challenges for Others
There aren't many challenges that suit my character that I could offer to others, but if everyone captured his favourite Spellcard 1000 times, that would be cool. Grind what you love, then you'll know if you truly love it.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: ARF on December 24, 2012, 07:01:25 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Winning the weekly low scoring special in the Extra category with the sub 6 million MoF extra clear, maybe not my most fought for or the hardest thing ever, but Suwako's fight is the reason I even play touhou and I put some effort into doing it in a cool way. I also spent around 250-300 hours of gameplay across StB (~50,000 photos) and DS but no single achievement in all that stands out from the others to me.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Spending 3-4 hours beating Reimu with a level 2 Marisa in Pesco's Diablo 2 mod. lol that was so retarded :V

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: First I want to say thanks to all of you who listed my DS and StB speedrunning in this ;~; That's very touching and nice!!!!!!! I l liked it when Shin broke 3  billions in lunatic UFO. Within the community Nereid and Vee, and you PC-98 lunatics who fought hard and achieved WR's really stand out to me, also Chum displayed amazing and consistent skill level by clearing PoFV without focus or charge on lunatic with all characters. But kudos to all of you who continue to work hard and wear out your keyboards/input device of your choice by destroying these games!

Goals for 2013: NMNB timeout of Suwako's opener (the nonspell) with ultra patch applied and wearing a blindfold, all while saving the world from a space-whale vampire apocalypse and multi-track drifting a roller coaster and reciting the whole old testament in the original language at the same time, bonus swag-points if I catch it on a livestream as well xDDDDD

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Get a triangle (third place) or better with a royalflare replay submission, any category.

Merry Christmas fellow Maidens!

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: BT on December 24, 2012, 07:53:01 PM

Instead of breaking bones trying to figure out what I'd list, I'm just gonna say that I have an immense admiration for all you people that consistently grind their hearts out for these games. Seiga for his perfection spree, Nindel for anything and everything SA-related, ARF for, well, everything he does, all of you who went out of their way to clear the photography games with them limitations, of course all of you scorerunners and your WRs. All things I'd never have the patience for.

As for me, I'm going to do much of the same - play what I like and see what happens, so I'll mostly be a bystander and cheer you folks on while you perfect entire games and shit in 2013.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Elysia on December 24, 2012, 08:12:24 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Probably the Virtue of Wind God timeout, though perfect running MB Normal and getting a 90FPS StB all clear both come pretty close, still.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: I'll go with this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1TY0WZimik) because it's funny.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: Good question. Saku's 90FPS StB all clear because I know from experience how hard that is to do, Bang Jan's SFN timeout, Zil's EoSD 90FPS Lunatic, Cactu's UFO NBNUFO Lunatic, PMW's Breaking Critical Point timeout, there's probably plenty more that I'm not thinking of at the moment.

Goals for 2013: A Fantasy's Transience timeout. Other than that, my biggest goal for 2013 would probably be finding goals for 2013 :yukkuri:

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Someone go perfect Mikoto Yaobi. :trollface:

Failing that, if you're reading this and you haven't played Marine Benefit, go do it.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: MoteofDust on December 24, 2012, 08:22:34 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012:Finding Touhou 2 weeks before it became 2013!!!

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Not finding Touhou earlier  :smokedcheese:

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: Still getting to know everyone sooooo >.>;;

Goals for 2013: 1cc both EoSD and PCB or ATLEAST normal. being so new to the game, not sure if this is really easy or not for a whole year. If so, switch it to hard mode :P

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: All of us artists on Shrinemaiden have to create a giant end of the year/Xmas picture for next year that we all contribute to. In fact I might make a thread for this.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Bang Jan on December 24, 2012, 08:34:03 PM

Quote from: Malkyrian on December 24, 2012, 08:12:24 PM

Someone go perfect Mikoto Yaobi. :trollface:

Persuade someone like Jaimers to do that. :trollface:

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: MTSranger on December 24, 2012, 08:44:35 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: UFO lunatic 1cc, SFN timeout!

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: AAAHHH Marine Benefit. I let the bubble close in and kill me in the last spell :derp:

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: kudos to DSDQ, StBDQ, and all the 90fps clears!

Goals for 2013: perfect a few extra stages  :getdown:

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: LadyScarlet on December 24, 2012, 09:42:31 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Umm, I don't know. Maybe clearing EoSD Stage 4 with no lives and one bomb left?

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: EVERYTHING.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: I don't know if this was 2012 or not, but some people in the high scores board 1cc'd IN Lunatic with Alice solo.

Goals for 2013: Finally 1cc'ing a game on normal.

By the way, I think posting Yuka's theme is appropriate right now. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44XWB99ts8E)

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Drake on December 24, 2012, 10:11:52 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: In March I toppled the UFO Lunatic 1cc and cleared the board. That was basically my only real accomplishment anyways lol.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Bombing early in VoWG when I didn't need to, and then proceeding to time the rest out. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=22842) Goddamn it.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: I haven't been following these threads much lately, but probably some of the various WRs achieved throughout the year.

Goals for 2013: Same as always.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Zengeku on December 24, 2012, 10:20:28 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: I haven't done much but I'm happy about finally knocking down Byakuren and Seiga Kaku is to thank for that since I didn't want to lose to a TD character.  :V I probably have some other small victories here and there but they are all just minor improvements of what I already have. Gaining better consistency on things and every time I score a NMNB on Shou it's of course quite dope even if it's never good enough before it's consistent.  :3

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: There are many. Too many gameplay related things. I guess my biggest failure this year is having been so damn lazy. I just haven't felt like playing much even though a state of unemployment has left me a lot of time to do so. Motivation has basically been throw out of the window. Too many personal issues bogging me down too and I'm sure that has affected my performance through the year since I play better when I feel happy.  :) Oh well... here's hoping for a nice 2013 with less misery and more actual shmup playing. :)

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:

I greatly admire many things done by users here. Especially those things that are outside my areas of operation like Sakurei's 90 FPS accomplishments, same thing applies for the others who've walked down that path. I also greatly admire the scoring folk's efforts, most particularly Nereid and Seppo's WR claimings. (even though they are both Iji-modo/Normalfags). The most important one must be Riz' work with UFO though. Very impressive with getting NBNUFO on 4 characters in the game. Especially given how I personally witnessed the SanaeB one in the very first of his streams I watched.  :V Given that UFO is the best game that would probably be my favorite accomplishment this year. Aside from Shin's crazy UFO scores of course.

Goals for 2013: I'll be a bit ambitious then. So here's a few things I'm hoping I can get myself into actually playing. I am thinking that I want 40 oku on IN Lunatic, 15 on MoF Lunatic and 10 on UFO Lunatic. I don't know how much work those things would require or if i can conjure up the motivation to get them rolling but it would be nice to enter some scoring in some of the games i like. Other than that, my goals would include a NBNUFO and possibly improved NB's runs of MoF and PCB since the runs I have of those are embarassing to a fault.

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:

Zil go back to UFO, I know you like the little girls so play a game with some good ones in it instead of PoDD. :V
Sakurei, do a NMNB Shou. On Lunatic or face holy justice. Do it at 90 FPS if you can't stand 60.
Sapz. Have UFO or MoF be your game of choice or I'll cross the sea and destroy you.
Chirpy: You know what you have to do.
The rest of you: Keep kicking ass. It can sometimes motivate me :3

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Kaze_Senshi on December 24, 2012, 10:38:47 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Beat Ran in PCB Extra, my first extra clear :)

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Maybe to die to Utsuho's first non spellcard attack :V

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: I don't follow this area news so maybe Malkyrian's Virtue of God timeout and Nereid's MoF WR I think.

Goals for 2013: Clear a game in Lunatic 1CC Beat SA in normal level  :V

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Hmmm how about timeout some spellcards that give me a lot of problems (without using safepoints):

• Eirin's Lunatic Curse of heavens: Apolo 13
• Kaguya's Divine Treasure "Brilliant Dragon Bullet"
• Nitori's last spellcard (lunatic)

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Goldom on December 24, 2012, 11:25:26 PM

This year saw most of my progress since I first started, so it could be all the various extras, whatever, but all that was bound to come with time. I'd have to say my most unexpected achievement was no death PCB extra. I really thought doing that well at any extra stage was simply beyond me.

Biggest mistake? Buying a mechanical keyboard. I got caught up in the hype about how great they were, and bought one at a store a couple hours away (wanted to try them in person first to pick a type, and there's nothing like that nearby). I simply could not stand the thing for playing, even after I got used to it for regular typing. Having keys activate part way down turned out to be a horrible match for my very clumsy fingers that shake if they aren't holding a key down firmly, and I couldn't make tiny jumps to save my life. Ended up having to drive all the way back and return the thing, happy to be back to my cheapo garbage keyboard.

My 2013 resolution is to get over my fear of Lunatic and actually play it enough to get a 1cc. I know I'm close on IN, but I keep just playing Hard practice because I'm too wimpy.

Everyone else, just keep being awesome.  :V

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: RNG on December 24, 2012, 11:31:52 PM

Personal Favorite Achievements: UFO Lunatic clear, no contest. Perfecting TD Stage 5 was not a huge accomplishment but it felt very good. Other minor things include my SA ReimuB Lunatic clear, impromptu Cat Walk timeout, and Double Black Death Butterfly capture.

Biggest Screw-ups: I would have to say failing every single one of Kaguya's Last Spells in a single run. That was truly humbling. 

Favorite Achievements by Others:
- All the crazy PoDD scoring Zil is doing. His videos are awe-inspiring to watch.
- Funen's MoF no-bomb clear. God damn, son.
- Seppo and Nereid setting WRs.
- Karisa's TD Hard 1DNBNT. Jesus, girl, talk about being in the groove.
- It doesn't count as Touhou but Azinth's S99 western record was one of the best plays of a video game I've seen. IDK how you did that, dude. (sapz, plz beat his score)

Goals for 2013: No-bomb clear all the windows games on Lunatic. TD is first, then MoF and SA. If I spend less of my time watching TAS videos I might actually accomplish some of these things within the year, who knows?

Also I need to score but for various reasons I don't like that as much as no-bomb runs. The idea of playing with 0 room for error frustrates me. I still will though (EoSD or PCB Lunatic probs because not that many Western players do EoSD, and PCB is just cool).

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Hoo boy.

Everyone: First of all, what Sapz said. Lots of arcade shmuppers don't play Touhou, and lots of Touhou players avoid arcade shmups. This is silly. Playing either style of game teaches you new things and makes you better at other shmups.

I'd also encourage everyone to play one difficulty higher than you can do. Or something that you think is just a bit too hard. It might be frustrating but the only limit is yourself. Don't say you can't play Lunatic or clear an Extra mode. Watch videos, practice, and the rest will follow. And you will feel great joy.

Malkyrian, BangJan and all the people who do a lot of timeouts: You're much better players than me. Some of you are younger, too :V Don't spend all your energy on things like timeouts. Show those RoyalFlare leaderboards who's boss. 

Karisa: Do TD NBNT, please. Charged Yahoo should not be a huge obstacle for you. If it is I'll send you a replay for it.

Seppo/Vee: Please stop beating yourself up about everything.

Zengeku: Do UFO NBNUFO. You know you have to.

Chum: draggin blayz

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Thanuris on December 24, 2012, 11:51:09 PM

Achievements: VoWG timeout, UFO lunatic 1ccs, and perfect TD stage 6 (and a timeout of wriggle's last word but that was not an achievement, it was a curse)

Screw-ups:Playing PoFV, Zil is right PoDD is a lot better on every aspect.

Favorite achievements by others: Seppo's SFN ultra timeout with Youmu no-focus, everything that Zil did this year,same for Jaimers (he discovered some pretty nice danmakufu scripts).

Goals:To become better at the fighting games, i don't really have any goals for the (current) danmaku games...

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Drake on December 25, 2012, 12:10:59 AM

Quote from: Kaze_Senshi on December 24, 2012, 10:38:47 PM

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Hmmm how about timeout some spellcards that give me a lot of problems (without using safepoints):

• Nitori's last spellcard (lunatic)

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=26028
It isn't technically perfect but the only mistake was playing too silly and running into a column which isn't really a problem lol.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Yatakarasu on December 25, 2012, 05:28:23 AM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Clearing SA's, TD's, and MoF's normals. Clearing SA's extra. I just started playing this May/June so anything I really do past easy I consider an awesome achievement for me. Since I do take considerable breaks after some harsh fails. :V

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Failing at Byakuren's last card on normal. I tend to get into a really bad rut after I fail that hard. The same thing had happened when I failed at Utsuho's last card. I could have been fighting (read: failing at) Nue by now.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: I don't know that many people here. :ohdear: But everyone that's been doing all these 90 fps challenges and completing them are pretty awesome.

Goals for 2013: Unlock UFO's extra. Clearing a few more extras. Maybe clearing hard on SA or MoF (that might be a on the back burner for a while though)

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Tsym on December 25, 2012, 08:00:37 AM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Clearing UFO, and thus all Windows games, on Lunatic. So much joy. Even better was that I went from Hard to Lunatic player in like 4 months or so, which made me really happy that I was actually a bit closer to the level of some of the better guys on the forums! And of course on a non-game related note, coming back onto this board was fantastic. You all are pretty damn great.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Ever hating UFO :V. Also, not stage practicing UFO stage 6 before my Lunatic clear. That was really, really dumb and cost me way too many runs.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: Oh boy. My favorite set of achievements are definitely Nindella's SA related ones. They drove me pretty hard to try my own hand at 1cc'ing SA Lunatic with all shot types, which I did and was a lot of fun actually. I think I like SA a bit more after doing those! My other favorite two achievements are Thanuris's and Malky's VoWG timeouts, which were absolutely amazing. I wasn't even close to being able to take on VoWG when Thanuris did it, but I have a much, much better appreciation for it after Malky did it (no offense Thanuris, I was just too noobish to really understand what a VoWG timeout meant when you did it!).
And of course I definitely love all the non-Lunatic players who posted in the achievements thread. I know that I was very, very intimidated by all the heavy-weights here when I wasn't a Lunatic player, so from my perspective, you guys are all amazing for keeping at it.

Goals for 2013: Hm... I think I'm aiming for no bombing every Lunatic Windows game. After that, my goal will definitely be a LNBUFO run of UFO Lunatic with at least SanaeB and ReimuA. During all that, I'm going to try my hand at a NDNB VoWG timeout, which I really hope I can get by the end of next year. All this seems very far off, but long term goals are definitely what I need right now. Aside from Touhou, I want to see about getting a DoDonPachi Daioujou Black Label 2 loop 1cc next year, though I will admit I'm not having the most fun of times attempting it. It's just not as pleasing aesthetically compared to Touhou, and it's somewhat of a clusterfuck information wise (everything's like the same exact color as the background! :(). I also want to explore other non-Touhou shmups as well.
And finally, I want to summon up the motivation to finish researching/typing up/recording of a Touhou LP. Personally I think my voice sucks and I'm going to miss a lot of stuff, but I really want to make a solid attempt at it.

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
To all lurkers who might read this: Register and come join us! We don't bite~
To non-Lunatic players: Get to Lunatic by the end of next year! You can definitely do it!
To Lunatic players: 1cc all Windows games by the end of next year!
To all Lunatic+ players: Either 1cc UFO Lunatic 90FPS by the end of next year, or NBNUFO UFO Lunatic by the end of next year.
To all Lunatic++ players: Keep on doing what you're doing!
To all "X is best game" people (mostly PoDD and UFO I think): Stop playing it for a week, then come back and absolutely wreck it in whatever way you think you can within a few tries.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Kaze_Senshi on December 25, 2012, 12:30:59 PM

Quote from: Drakums on December 25, 2012, 12:10:59 AM

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=26028
It isn't technically perfect but the only mistake was playing too silly and running into a column which isn't really a problem lol.

Ahh without dying is cooler, try again, you can do it ( and I can't :()

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Seppo Hovi on December 25, 2012, 05:15:23 PM

Quote from: Kaze_Senshi on December 24, 2012, 10:38:47 PM

Eirin's Lunatic Curse of heavens: Apolo 13

The safespot is harder. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=26048)

Quote

• Kaguya's Divine Treasure "Brilliant Dragon Bullet"

This card is gay. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=26049)

Quote

• Nitori's last spellcard (lunatic)

stage is too hard so I used bombs. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=26047)

Might make a post later about the things I've done. It will turn into a horrible blog though. Oh, well..

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: redlakitu on December 25, 2012, 06:19:27 PM

Quote from: Vee on December 25, 2012, 05:15:23 PM

Might make a post later about the things I've done. It will turn into a horrible blog though. Oh, well..

A blog about Touhou scoring and related topics is precisely the kind of blog I'd like to read.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Sakurei on December 25, 2012, 07:39:35 PM

I agree with redlakitu. your blogs are a nice read every time and I like your insight on the game.

I timed out apollo 13, too, but the replay's at home, so I don't have it just yet :V

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: RNG on December 25, 2012, 07:40:26 PM

Quote from: Kaze_Senshi on December 25, 2012, 12:30:59 PM

and I can't :(

Please don't say that. Like I've said, that's the only thing stopping you from being able to accomplish it. Just follow the general method Drake and Vee and I used in our timeouts.

Wait you're a mod, I shouldn't be talking to you like this :V

Seppo plz blog

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Oh on December 25, 2012, 08:03:11 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Probably my first normal 1cc of any windows Touhou (EoSD) way back in January. Or Lunatic NB of EoSD and PCB. Or Perfect IN Extra stage.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Getting to Scarlet Meister with 2 lives and still gamed over. I got to QED around 20 times before perfecting EoSD extra.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: Nindel's runs, Mikkey's runs, and everyone who's been perfecting stages and everyone who's playing at 90fps

Goals for 2013: MoF Lunatic NB, IN Lunatic NB, 1cc UFO, 1cc some PC98 games, try some new shmups. Oh yeah, and NFNB EoSD when I stop sucking.

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Try playing games you rarely play. You will see yourself improve quite a bit.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Zetzumarshen on December 25, 2012, 08:17:56 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: MarisaA UFO Extra, SanaeB UFO Lunatic.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Playing mahjong.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: T

Goals for 2013: Goals.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: T on December 25, 2012, 08:42:33 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012:  Quitting.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012:  Playing TD.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:  Heartbeam quitting.

Goals for 2013:  To don't want to die and very enjoy.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: ark on December 25, 2012, 08:54:38 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Getting a WR in MoF Normal ReimuC. Even though LYX destroyed my score a couple weeks later, I'm still extremely happy. It was a lot of work to get there, but it was pretty fun.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: I dunno, I haven't actually been playing a whole lot this year.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: T is still hanging onto his UFO Extra ReimuA WR. That is pretty cool.

Goals for 2013: Most of my goals are in other games but I'd probably go for UFO LNB. NBNUFO is probably out of reach but who knows.

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Everyone! Challenge yourself! Get better!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Kaze_Senshi on December 26, 2012, 12:15:02 AM

Quote from: RNG on December 25, 2012, 07:40:26 PM

Please don't say that. Like I've said, that's the only thing stopping you from being able to accomplish it. Just follow the general method Drake and Vee and I used in our timeouts.

Wait you're a mod, I shouldn't be talking to you like this :V

I was just being dramatic to convince Drake to try one more time, don't worry, I don't give up easily as a good Rocky Balboa fan :)
And I am not a mod :o



Thanks for the replays Seppo with awesome comments ;)
Go make a blog or train your skills to summarize texts.

PS:

Quote from: Vee on December 25, 2012, 05:15:23 PM

This card is gay.

/\ 2012's most awesome instructive description of a card

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Nindella on December 27, 2012, 05:35:12 AM

Quote from: I have no name on December 24, 2012, 03:44:00 PM

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
Nindella: go an entire stream session of your standard 5 hour length without mentioning Orin.  Or is that impossible?  :getdown:

I-I-IMPOSSIBLE!!!  :qq:


Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012:
- 1ccing all the windows games on Lunatic!  (Oh my gosh... UFO Lunatic, I swear.... nightmares!! Hehe)
- No Bomb SA Lunatic with ReimuA, ReimuB, MarisaA and MarisaB! (I really want that ReimuC No Bomb already!! GAAHH!!)
- No Death SA Lunatic with ReimuA (man.... just... man....!)
- Perfect Stage 5 and Stage 6 SA Lunatic.
- A lot of Ultra, 90fps and all-shottype things with SA and other games, it's nice~

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012:
- Failing Perfect Pacifist Orin with 0.57s left on the last spell card.   I will never forget that failure....
- Failing No Bomb SA Lunatic with several shottypes on things like Ten Evil Stars and Subterranean Sun... man, who does that!
- Failing my UFO Lunatic 1cc attempts before I actually got it on LFS dozens and dozens and dozens of times.  Nightmares.  Nightmares. Nightmares.
- Failing to break 2bil in SA Lunatic with MarisaB because haha two deaths on Sub Sun = final score 1.9something bil.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:
There are SO MANY!!
- All you crazy people here who've gotten all these Perfect stages (And Perfect Extras too!!) 
- Coreven's UFO Lunatic all shottype 1cc craziness!
- Mikkey and Steven's EoSD No-Bombs!
- A lot of wonderful 1ccs by guys here (UFO lunatics, people's 1st lunatic clears~  always lovely to see!)
- Riz's Lunatic No Bomb No UFO's 4/6!
- Waah's everything, but I don't think he visits here... 1.6bil (?) on Touhou 7 normal is awesome though!  As well as all windows games all shottypes Lunatic clears! (Jesus Christ, all... what? 24 IN Lunatic clears too?!)
- Seppo's WR, Nereid's WR, WR's WR, and other WRs, awesome stuff!!

Goals for 2013:
- Touhou 11 Lunatic No Bomb with all shottypes.
- Touhou 11 Lunatic No Death with all shottypes.
- Touhou 11 Lunatic 90fps with all shottypes.
- Touhou 11 Ultra Lunatic 90fps.
- Touhou 11 Lunatic No Focus with at least 1 shottype.
- Break 3 billion in Touhou 11 Lunatic with MarisaB.
- Perfect Pacifist Orin Lunatic.

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
- Anyone:  Timeout Orin mid-boss stage 5 SA Lunatic's 1st non-spell, and then perfect pacify the entire popcorn section afterwards until the Ying Yang orbs appear.
- Anyone:  Make at least 15 obvious circles around Orin during her final spell card on Lunatic AFTER the zombie fairies have started shooting bubbles, you cannot bomb or die.
- Anyone:  Capture or timeout Subterranean Sun on Lunatic No Focus with a Marisa shottype.
- Anyone:  Timeout Yuugi's "Wind Blowing Down from Mt. Ooe" on Lunatic with No Focus, Pacifist ReimuC.
- Anyone:  Don't beat yourself up, remember to have fun when playing, and take it easy!    :D

I'll be trying to do all of these goals too!   :derp:  Have fun!   :3

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Star King on December 27, 2012, 07:32:39 AM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: EoSD Hard No Bombs, I guess... oh, and capturing Saigyouji Flawless Nirvana with all 12 shot-types. Since I was self-proclaimed "worst in the world" at Resurrection Butterfly. 1209 total tries.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Can't think of anything...

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:
Nereid MoF WR
Seppo IN WR
Cactu UFO Lunatic NBNUFO 1CC
Perfect stages from Seiga Kaku, Sakurei, Karisa, Zengeku, Nindella, and others I'm surely forgetting!

Goals for 2013:
-Get the grindy part done already and get to the Lunatics. I'm doing Easy/Normal/Hard 1CCs with every shot-type, as capturing every spellcard in those modes with every shot-type. And that may take quite a while (especially IN  :wat:). I'm pretty sure I am already good enough to clear some Lunatic games, but I'm supposed to save it for last
-Go to #iamp at mizuumi.net and get good at that game competitively. I went there over the summer but only like twice. Weaksauce. I wanna get pro at the game ;P

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: BT on December 27, 2012, 11:27:38 AM

Quote from: Nindella on December 27, 2012, 05:35:12 AM

- Touhou 11 Ultra Lunatic 90fps.

This sounds absurd but okay, may God have mercy on your soul. :D

Quote from: Nindella on December 27, 2012, 05:35:12 AM

- Anyone:  Timeout Orin mid-boss stage 5 SA Lunatic's 1st non-spell, and then perfect pacify the entire popcorn section afterwards until the Ying Yang orbs appear.

Is this possible?

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Zengeku on December 27, 2012, 02:00:33 PM

Quote from: BT on December 27, 2012, 11:27:38 AM

Is this possible?

I have gotten very close within a few attempts but unfortunately failed it at the end. It's kinda like sewing but with death as the punishment for failure. Very high precision required and a bit of luck too perhabs. The one situation where I got close didn't offer up an impossible situation, i just fucked it up.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Seppo Hovi on December 29, 2012, 11:47:28 AM

Quote from: BT on December 27, 2012, 11:27:38 AM

Is this possible?

Why not. I've given it some idle attempts, but the end has always been rather, uh, anticlimatic for me. I was trying to keep it secret that I had done most of it, saving it for a whatever volume of Dodging like a Boss it could be in. Maybe the director of the videos decided to drop it out, though. Always seemed just poor-performance and lucking out with a bad end. I posted about it now, on a whim. I'll probably regret this later, but I'll regret the post anyway. Whatever. This had no reason, anything within this probably has no reason. For most of the forum, at least. There are several reasons for me, some which I prefer to keep hidden.
-

Decided to post after all. This will probably get rather terrible. You've been warned, I guess. Read if you're dumb enough.

-

Me. As selfish as I am, thinking of my own things has always made me feel bad, there always was something bad. I never found much pleasure in looking to the past, but it probably is good for my mental self. And maybe it can teach me things. All in all, this could be useful, and I can endure some minor pain, especially when I get to complain about it beforehand.

So. Start of the year. I had been doing IN easy for about half a year. First finished Yukari run (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=17812). It's rather funny, looking how totally different it's got while I've only made minor increasements in the score. And now I'm heading for AM's score. Had you told me that I'd be trying to stand against Konatan's score back when I did that run, I most likely would've laughed at your face. Yukari is a nice shot, though. I like her a lot, she is rather easy to pilot around. The unfocused speed is a tad faster than Yuyuko's, making it easier to manage movements on Yukari. The homing is odd and I'm still not sure about everything Ran has controlling her, and that has caused some, uh, restarts during stage 1. Nothing serious though. She's nice, I like how the dress looks in IN, even if I prefer the one she wears in PCB. Oh yeah and being the huge secondary I am (I ship - which is a funny word - Reimu and Yukari), I like to occasionally read the dialog or the endings. Border team doesn't have as good dialog as Magic team does, but I still like theirs as well. I like the game in overall. I like grazing, and Yukari as a character. I like Necrofantasia as well, but it's probably not related. Or maybe it is, I don't know.
Later in January, I was asked to time out this (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=17895). Or maybe I wasn't. I'm not overly sure of it anymore, but I also remember there being the possibility of adding nonvertical movements to the challenge, but I had decided that it was beyond my ability to read and would require too much luck for me to pull off. I've always been bad at planning dodges for nonvertical movement. I should learn things, I really should. The timeout wasn't too serious, it was a nice little relaxing break from whatever I was grinding back then. Youmu's IN sprite is really nice. I like how her headband wiggles in the wind. It's cute, one of the reasons I like her, I guess. It's saddening that she is too hard for me to play seriously, at least currently. I'll eventually get into learning proper control and timings for her, but that time has yet to come. I'll play on easier shots for now.
Soon after, I had started meddling in spell practice with Yukari. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=17963) Trying to figure things. Did some replays and was in contact with some people via the uploader. I wouldn't pull out thinking about 160, but I find it comedic, how st later formed a completely new tactic for this card.
Later, I was thinking of NFNBND run of IN Normal on Youmu, and practiced for it a bit. I never looked into it much, haven't returned ever since. I forced someone to do the same thing in TD though, rather awful thing from me now that I think of it. I should repay it by meeting their standards and completing the challenge, but I'm not touching normal Youmu for a while. Targets. Future.
Unfocused Youmu and easy lead me into this (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=18470). Then I planned about doing a NDNBNV (NV stands for Nonvertical. Always did for me and always will.)
Three Remilia scores (http://replays.gensokyou.org/index.php?u=Seppo+Hovi&g=8&p=Remilia&t=--&d=1&ch=0) followed soon after. I don't think I ever improved them. VgameT beat me rather fastly, but he never posted the score. I'm a lazy ass bastard, so I didn't bother improving my standings.
Long grind finally paid off (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=18508), and the first SFN timeout on Youmu no focus was done on 2.2.2012. After all of these days I've come to the conclusion, that the end was not the best part. Finally succeeding was  nice, yes, but all of the rush and thrill I had felt for countless times during the attempts at it was more of a major thing. Heartwarming, and keeping me playing. Making deaths and failures not mattering, since after every failure I knew that I'd get to feel the rush once again. All in all, I had a good time.
Soon after the SFN timeout, I started playing around with the new IN ultra patch. Hourai Elixir (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=18822) was really nice and it still is the most watched one of my Youtube videos. Odd, given how so many people seem to hate the card (I always liked it).
Beauty beyond measures. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=18955) The pattern was made to be timed out, I noticed it immediately. It altered, got more intense and thrilling. My heart lived along it and partially died when all of it reached the end. It was saddening and cheerful at the same time, doing this one. The person making the ultra patches had really hit it with this one. I was left almost speechless after being left to the pattern's mercy.
Then, I started capturing cards on Ultra. I did most of Extra, 6A, 6B and the entirety of 4A and 4B. Spent a few days doing things, annoyed Jaimers a bit by talking about it with him. Some of the patterns looked really nice, others were just a plain pain. Nevertheless, it was a funny, silly journey.
And then I found her. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/index.php?u=Seppo+Hovi&g=8&p=Yuyuko&t=--&d=1&ch=0) Yuyuko. IN easy Yuyuko. I started slowly climbing up the stairs, slowly learning new things. Slowly improving the score. It's still in the progress. Unfinished. I still haven't been able to make the comment I've had ready for ages, in the case I beat one of IN easy Yuyuko WR's. It is time to learn more things and execute correctly. Let's hope that I won't fall down all of the stairs, it's still a long way to the top. Always is, always will be. I see improving routes as an endless staircase; the further you get, the longer is the way you have to go. It's ... nice.
Sakuya. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=19431) Someone almost got a WR, it wasn't me. "Maybe you should switch shot-types for a while." It was a good advice, I never returned. I'll be looking into it one day, but having to maintain 24 (or 12) different routes takes time and commitment. Years might pass, I might never return. Or maybe I will, who knows.
A bit after that, I started running a tournament on the Finnish forums. Archives. (http://touhou.fi/forum/index.php/topic,466.0.html) Currently, I'm not hosting any more rounds unless specially asked for, since the amount of participation dropped way too low for active tournaments. It was nice as long as it lasted. Maybe 2013 will show us more of these, who knows.
Time flies. Soon it was already April, and I had been doing active grinding within IN easy for several months. First Border Team 2.3B (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=20009), in a rapid succession with 2.4B Netherworld Team (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=19951) and the eventual Magic Team run which broke 2.6B (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=20178), being my first run thus far to do so. Another Magic Team easy score popped in the uploader within two minutes, beating my score. It was not until lately that I made new effort in it, finally beating that one score. Took a bit longer than a few minutes though.
First time breaking 2B within IN extra. (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=20557) It was a silly survival run, but I was happy about it. It's bad all around, but I was pushed to the edge for the entirety of it. It still is the most intense IN extra clear of mine this far, which is rather silly.
IN easy nonvertical (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=20658), never made the NMNB. Too busy being bad at other things, I have loads of challenge runs unfinished.
Then I started UFO. The target was to counterstop it on Lunatic. I spent several hundreds of hours griding throughtout a few months, or maybe it was only weeks. I can't remember. I don't want to remember. I never made it to the end, the game crushed my soul into tiny bits. I even went as far as punishing myself physically, thus angering my partner and a few other people, getting very, very depressed in the long run by it. I have yet to return. I tried around a bit, but nothing more. I'm too scared to return.
Then I started playing PCB, during the summer.  I got hooked into it rather fast. Quite a few things were done, for example I got 1B on every shot for Extra and Phantasm. Maybe Easy as well, my mind might be deceiving me on this one. Then, normal. 1.5B broken on two shots, then I gave up and returned to other games. Both recent. ReimuA and SakuyaB were the shot-types. I like both of them. I'm too bad for the game, I'll be back... possibly. I will. One day I might come back and see into it, looking if I could force myself into learning all of the neat grazing and bomb-timing tricks. I did some condition runs of PCB, though. Most notably, no-focus ultra (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=24278) and no-focus/bombs clears (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=25663). They were silly, but I had relative fun doing them. I still like the game and all. Did some idle NB-runs on other shots whenever I was bored enough.
Then, I was forced to join STGT by .ASP, which took him quite a while of forcing me into it. I got very angry, depressed and lost a few friends due to being and idiot and openly getting into arguments with several people. All in all, however, I made some new friends via the tournament, and the team I was in turned out to consist of very awesome people. They made it overall a pleasurable experience.
I made a Twitter account (https://twitter.com/ILikeVacuuums) in May. I've been using it to blog about my Touhou runs and sometimes commenting to stuff  posted by others. I also sometimes communicate with the Finnish anime-fandom scene via it. I'm mainly using English (or Japanese if I'm tweeting about gameplay), but sometimes it's filled with Finnish nonsense. It's been nice to have a Twitter account. I was afraid what would come out of it in the first place, but it has been nice thus far. I also follow several people via it, so it's a rather useful tool for me.
I decided to snipe some older scores during the Autumn. Targets that I reached where 820M SA Normal ReimuA (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=24957) and 2.8B IN Normal (http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=25125), both being rather low, but I enjoyed doing both. I didn't spend too much time on either, SA took one week, IN took two runs.
Other things I sniped were some IN Extra scores. I mainly did it due to the fact that I wanted to play the stage, but becoming THE BEST IN THE WEST! with several shots was funny. All of the runs (http://replays.gensokyou.org/index.php?u=Vee-nee&g=8&p=&t=--&d=5&ch=0) are awful and unoptimal,  but I can smile at them. They're my little things.
Oh hey, I was playing IN. Lead into me rethinking Easy. November brought me several new scores (http://replays.gensokyou.org/index.php?u=Vee-nee&g=8&p=&t=--&d=1&ch=0). Magic Team, Border Team (http://score.royalflare.net/th08/score.cgi?type=score_nf&level=4&chara=1&route=0), Yukari FinalA (WR!), Alice FinalA (WR!), Reimu (http://score.royalflare.net/th08/score.cgi?type=score_nf&level=4&chara=5&route=0), and some other shots. It's nice to look how high I can get on this list (http://score.royalflare.net/th08/ranking8.html) without actually going for any cool and hard things. Picking the low-hanging fruits as always. I'll be punished for it eventually, I'm sure.

It has been a nice year.

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Other people. I hanged around #PoFV and #Ijiyatsu, causing lots of pain to several people, and becoming joyous myself. Those people were very nice for not banning me.
I enjoyed watching T and .ASP get their records and do high-end scoring. I don't have much insight for TD or UFO Extra, but all of the runs I watched (I don't think I watched all of T's runs though, ... I'm a bad friend. Too uninterested in TD Extra Sanae or something) were really nice all around. The execution seemed (especially in T's case) to be much better than mine. I do minor mistakes all around the place, and carry on while T remains confident all along. I also liked the lunatic runs of UFO .ASP did and beat me into the ground. I've eventually learned into liking being beaten into the ground since that happened so many times with that one person. Oh well. It might not be irreversible damage, since I don't know if it's irreversible, or damage, at all. Time will tell, I'm sure.
.ASP forced me to join STGT'12 as I earlier stated. The team of Which 2hu Wud u Fuk was very, very great. I'm in eternal gratitude for all of the people who were playing within the team. I had a good time. During STGT we (our team) joined an IRC channel of one of the, uh, less playing teams and the channel eventually developed into a friendly place of people who I grow fond of. All of them. Friends are a nice thing, even the ones over the Internet.
Thanuris, Shmoop, Zodiac and tomko were the mainly playing force of W2HUWUF. I'm still very emotionally charged about the everything, and I still feel like thanking all of them again and again. Also thanks for .ASP, without whom this would not have happened.
From HME, Zil. He was nice to follow and I remember chatting a bit with him. I've been lurking for a good while, and it's been fun to follow many of you. I'm giving one example here. I never understood much of the PoDD systems, but I enjoy watching runs of those nevertheless. I guess I also like Yumemi x Chiyuri, which is totally out of concept here.
Several other people of these forums were also nice to follow. As I said, I lurk most of the threads even if I don't post too often (I feel like I don't have too much to post about). All of the timeouts and scoring and clears and things you people have done has been fun to watch.
I enjoyed playing against Vanhaomena in the finnish weekly tournaments. I wish he'd return some day, and I could have a rematch or two. (the tournaments were mainly me losing)
Nereid got a WR of MoF. I told him that he'd be faster that I was and he'd get it within something much more important and played than FinalA easy. He didn't believe. I was right, for once.
I'd like to mention a lot of other things, but that'd feel like prolonging the post. Every run that st and shin did were great watches and inspirational. Zengeku was actually a nice guy when I got to speak with him. Lots of things. Lots of people. A year is a long, long time. I forget half of what happened, and the other half is foggy in my mind.
I had fun. I hope others did too.

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Challenges. I've got several irons left in the fire myself, things I should do like the SA Normal graze-run. People could always try those. Oh, and unless you're that one guy, I guess you could try beating some of my IN easy scores. Some of them are really bad and easily beatable by anyone of you, and I could use some motivation.  The IN normal and SA normal are also rather bad, and everything I have in PCB are rather bad. I'm unsure if I'd be able to dance with those, but we'll see. Some person-specific things, too.
T: Smile. I know you can do that.
Old_grumpie: You deserved this one for forcing me into STGT.
Zil: Start using IRC.
Nautie: Quit WoW it sucks.

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Targets. I don't really think ahead that much. I do  whatever I'm currently doing and see what future brings. It's usually no need to rush things, since I will not reach any deadlines anyway and making time-based assumptions of reaching things would just give me more pain. Currently I'm playing IN easy, and IN Extra, trying to push myself a bit higher on this list. (http://score.royalflare.net/th08/ranking8.html)

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That's all. Happy new years, don't drink too much, I'll do that for you.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Tao-Sensei on December 30, 2012, 04:03:37 AM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Beat PCB Phantasm on my second try. I felt QUITE proud of myself.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Ramming into everything possible (Ice rocks from stage 2 of EoSD, fairies, etc), Ramming into Patchouli trying to safespot her lasers, and dying on Wriggle Lunatic right as she was dying.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: A guy came to Soku at the beginning of the year completely terrible and had very low-confidence, but now is one of the better Soku players I've met.

Goals for 2013: Do a Lunatic 1cc of AT LEAST 3 Touhou games. I always get really close, but I've never been able to pull one off. Also, maybe get better at Soku and try to win a Soku Lobby tournament.

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Someone do a Lunatic 1cc of Great Fairy Wars no focus no freeze gogogogogo.
Someone do a Subterranean Animism Lunatic 1cc no focus pacifist with Reimu C gogogogogo.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: chirpy13 on December 30, 2012, 04:54:02 AM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012 - Anything to do with LLS.  ReimuB normal score is probably my favorite of what I've done.
Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012 - Where do I start?
Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012 - Was going to be Zil getting the legendary PoDD Lunatic Chiyuri clear, but apparently that was a couple days before the end of 2011...  So I'll give it to Shin's Lunatic UFO MarisaA WR instead.  Dude's a monster.
Goals for 2013 - To play LLS as much as possible and UFO as little as possible.
CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS - Jaimers, pick up LLS scoring and get 130m+ (D score) in Lunatic.  Are you a bad enough dude?

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Zil on December 30, 2012, 05:40:10 AM

Quote from: ♥♥♥東方Hugger♥♥♥ on December 30, 2012, 04:54:02 AM

but apparently that was a couple days before the end of 2011...

Where did you get that time? At first I thought you were thinking of the cheap-ass run that I did, but even that was in January.

But you should forget all about that and never think about it again. It's nothing to be proud of and I'll regret it forever. The run you're probably thinking of is this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=954AqfL_yUw&list=PL22028B576EF86B42&index=6), and that was in June. Not that it's anywhere near as cool as Shin's UFO score in the first place.

But I'll think about those challenges from Zengy and Seppo, though they are terrifying. And nuns aren't sexy.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: chirpy13 on December 30, 2012, 06:03:01 AM

Quote from: Zil on December 30, 2012, 05:40:10 AM

Where did you get that time? At first I thought you were thinking of the cheap-ass run that I did, but even that was in January.

Here. (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,8095.msg767834.html#msg767834)  But yeah, I guess I forgot to take edits into consideration.  In any case, while it may not compare to anything Shin did, Chiyuri clears are still pretty damn cool in their own right, and achievements from players I know stand out a bit more to me.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: SeasideCharizard on December 30, 2012, 08:26:02 AM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012:
1ccing games PCB to MoF on Normal and getting close to a PoFV Lunatic 1cc multiple times. As Reisen.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012:
Let's see...
Embodiment of Scarlet Clipdeath
Imperishable Clipdeath
Mountain of Clipdeaths
Subterranean Clipdeath
Ten Clipdeaths
Yeah.  :getdown:

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:
Out of all the insane and glorious achievements this year, I can't really pick. I doesn't help that I'm indecisive.

Goals for 2013:
Finally grab that Lunatic 1cc of PoFV and maybe IN or something as well. At the very least, complete Hard on TH7-TH10 and Normal on TH6/TH11-TH13. Also completing every Extra I've gotten so far at some point.

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:
A pacifist 1cc of Imperishable Night on Lunatic. It must be done eventually! ...If at all possible.  :derp:

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Makedounia on December 31, 2012, 07:02:36 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Beating EoSD extra stage. Easily. It took a really, really long time but I did it. I am extremely proud of this.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: I rammed into the bosses. A lot.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: ...

Goals for 2013: 1cc SA with remaining shot types. Beating U.F.O extra. Changing difficulty to hard (oh god)

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Shimatora on December 31, 2012, 07:17:53 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012:

Almost beating Heatbeam's TD Scores.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012:
This. (http://twitpic.com/asciea)
Ramming Seiga EVERY TIME I ENTER HER BOSS BATTLE.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:
T's UFO and TD World Records.
Nereid's MoF Normal WR.
shin getting that 3b+ score in UFO Hard and Lunatic.
UKT, 4.9b SA Lunatic.

Goals for 2013:
PCB Lunatic 1cc with ReimuA, TD Lunatic all characters.

Sanae doesn't count.

1.5b TD Normal with Reimu, 800m+ TD Easy with Marisa.
Maybe clear some extras too, I'm undecided.


[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS:

For you all to achieve your goals. You can do it!

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Alicirno on December 31, 2012, 07:47:06 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Hard mode PoFV with Mystia; Clearing IN and PCB extra for the first time. Beating all the AI on Lunatic and Lunatic Story clear with Meiling in Hisoutensoku.

I still suck

  :derp: Also clearing all of Mokou's cards with Remi Solo (excluding Imperishable Shooting) and capturing Rising World.
I also stopped the lurking habit.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Sitting on Ran's head during her second card will help me clear PCB Phantasm, obviously. And pretty much dying to every attack that Yuki and Mai throw at me on Normal.
Edit:
00 seconds on Hollow Giant Woo timeout
00 seconds on Midboss Nue's First Card
Pixel of health on Life Spring Infinity Lunatic
<insert long list of 00 seconds and no health here here>

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: Umm...

Goals for 2013: Beat PoFV, MoF, LLS and EoSD extra. 1cc MS Normal.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Maribel Hearn on January 01, 2013, 02:40:52 PM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Beating EoSD, PCB, IN and MoF Extra, 1ccing IN, PCB, EoSD and Seihou Banshiryuu on Hard, 1ccing PoFV on Lunatic, capturing Fantasy Heaven after 458 tries, Hourai Jewel after 478 tries and Seiga's Overdrive in TD after 966 tries. I did some of those long ago; I can do spells in way less tries these days.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC1cDCgXQvE  :colonveeplusalpha:

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: A friend's fantastic IN Lunatic 1cc and that same person's nearly perfect Phantasm run.

Goals for 2013: Beat all other Extras, 1cc more games on Hard (maybe even Lunatic!), capture 100% of the spells as the Border team in IN and a lot more of spell practice things.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Wriggle on January 02, 2013, 11:18:56 AM

Personal Favourite Achievements of 2012: Idk... everything I did was in 2012... maybe my first Lunatic which was PCB... or maybe my first SA Extra clear, which meant more than my Perfect Clear, really.

Personal Biggest Screw-ups of 2012: Every scorerunning attempt, really. Just having the idea of scoring cut 30% of my skill away. Otherwise, I'd say my NMNB1bb PCB Extra run which I borderbroke at Izuna Gongen, which could potentially be my first Perfect Extra even before my first Lunatic 1cc, and months before my actual first Perfect Extra, but yeah.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012:

Quote from: Shimatora on December 31, 2012, 07:17:53 PM

T's UFO and TD World Records.
Nereid's MoF Normal WR.
shin getting that 3b+ score in UFO Hard and Lunatic.
UKT, 4.9b SA Lunatic.

This. And Ichizoku's 698m as well. As for MoTK, I'd say all the people who perfected Koishi around the same time, that made me happy as I'd just perfected her back then.

Goals for 2013: Nothing really. I'm barely playing Touhou as I'm cured from its addiction and I've been playing other more-sane games, but I'll try to stay around and give some advice to other players, especially at the Spell Card topic. And maybe perfect/pacify some random stage, or a random spellcard under some heavy conditions. But I doubt another Lunatic 1cc or Perfect Extra will be coming.

[OPTIONAL] CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Timeout UBS no-focus with Youmu, similarly to how JC timed out SFN. That'll make my day.

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: Bang Jan on January 02, 2013, 11:43:25 AM

Quote from: Wriggle on January 02, 2013, 11:18:56 AM

Timeout UBS no-focus with Youmu, similarly to how JC timed out SFN. That'll make my day.

Or do it on ultra with no conditions (if possible).

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: cactu on January 03, 2013, 10:00:33 PM

Personal Favorite Achievement of 2012: LNBNUFO of Touhou 12 with a NMNB Stage 6. This took me too long to get, but it definitely felt awesome after I cleared it and reading all of the congratulation posts was a great feeling.

Personal Biggest Screw-up of 2012: Accidentally bombing once on Stage 3 during a LNB of Touhou 11, then proceeding to clear the game.

Favourite Achievements by Others of 2012: 稼符一族 getting a score of 698,078,330 in EoSD, Seppo Hovi getting 2 WR's in IN, and Rizlation's four LNBNUFO's.

Goals for 2013: LNBNT Touhou 13, Lunatic 1CC the rest of the games I haven't already done, 1-ALL some other shmups.

CHALLENGES TO OTHER PLAYERS: Riz, go get 6/6 LNBNUFO! And a WR and a NMNBNUFO while you're at it. :3

Title: Re: 2012 in Touhou, Past and Future!
Post by: BT on January 05, 2013, 03:40:07 PM

Quote from: Nindella on December 27, 2012, 05:35:12 AM

- Anyone:  Make at least 15 obvious circles around Orin during her final spell card on Lunatic AFTER the zombie fairies have started shooting bubbles, you cannot bomb or die.

Hahahahahahahah shit. I thought you were talking about the first spell for some reason. Got to 7-8 circles and was about to call 11+ impossible.