Periodic Touhou Tournament (Discussion Thread)!

[K.B.]

Disclaimer: danmaku-free post.

For some reason PCB suddenly became twice as hard as EoSD for me (whereas they're normally not too far apart in difficulty [and are the only main-series games I can remotely play]) so I'm not feeling this round as it would require much wailing and gnashing of teeth.  Granted, that was lunatic, but going to an easier difficulty at this juncture would be admitting defeat.  No comment on the special challenge.

I'm very mehhhhhed about the limiting of difficulties in scoring for this round.  I think both options - best score overall and best score per difficulty - can coexist just finely.  Then again, coming from the person who basically only plays for the special challenges, this shouldn't carry much weight.

But!  I love the two-week thing.  Said it in irc but I think it's worth stating here as well.  I'm going to be able to and motivated to participate more with this setup.

[ARF]

Can we have another single stage max score as the next special challenge? I really enjoyed that stage 5 UFO challenge we had ages ago.

[ふねん1]

I believe we haven't had a GFW challenge in a while. Might I suggest a scoring challenge for a route of Sapz's choice in the coming weeks?

[Zengeku]

I believe we haven't had a GFW challenge in a while. Might I suggest a scoring challenge for a route of Sapz's choice in the coming weeks?

Might I suggest that is a bad idea? No, not really. That GFW No Ice was fun. I wouldn't mind one for the special challenge.

[Sapz]

Week 22 will be up soon. Sorry for the lack of scoreboard updates lately, I'll try and get them all done this week.

[I have no name]

My thoughts on Week 22,  in order:
YEAH GHOST TEAM
Wait, no hard mode?  ok then, norm...darn.
Alright, what about special.
Score in UFO...well that's no fun.  Well, maybe if SanaeB
Sanae...A.  Crap.  Not doing that then.
Wait, all difficulties ranked together?  THAT'S STUPID LUNATIC WILL ALWAYS WIN AND I CAN'T EVEN PLAY THAT STAGE ON LUNATIC THIS IS BS
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I'll probably not be participating this round, but maybe I'll throw something together for the scoring.

[Апатия]

currently first tournament without any extra/phantasm stage  :X

[Zengeku]

I'm bad with Ghost Team. I don't know how the heck you're supposed to shoot things and pick up items at the top of the screen as human without memorizing entirely new routes through the stages so expect a rubbish score.  :V

As for the UFO challenge, I expect you to get to work Zil. 

[mikeKOSA]

Hold on, we already did Nether team scoring challenge on Week 10. Why do it again?

[Zengeku]

Because Overlord Sapz is a mean spirited hater. :V

[Seppo Hovi]

I'm actually quite happy with the IN scoring challenge, since I like to score in the game for a bit. And I'm actually able to do it on easymode without having to focus on survival. On lunatic I'd have to focus on survival too much, so I think I'll be leaving that one for Aizo, _jade and .ASP.

And, now I finally have to learn a proper way to supergraze Kaguya's penultimate Last Spell. With that I (and not failing before it) could aim for... 2.25B? :V


Oh, and I would love to see stage 6A in any short of challenge, as I like Eirin's patterns over Kaguya's and I find it sad not getting an excuse to do the Final A too often.

[Zil]

As for the UFO challenge, I expect you to get to work Zil. 

Hmm. I'll have to unlock the stage first. :derp: Should be fun.
Final exams are nearly over with though, so I'll be all over this.

[Zengeku]

Turns out that I'm missing mine too. Is there anyone who'd mind sharing theirs? I want to parcipate but I don't have much motivation for 1cc attempt atm and I just lost the last bit I had. So... if someone would upload theirs to somewhere I'd love them for it forever.

[Zil]

I think there's a link to one in the tournament thread, actually.

[Zengeku]

I have so far only been able to get 200M. It includes captures of Good Omen, Butterfly, Milky Way and LFO. How to not screw up Devils Recitation? Those bullets elude my vision depressingly well. Oh and two cringe worthy deaths on Superhuman I don't even want to talk about.

[Sapz]

Sorry for the delays, I got overloaded with stuff to do today. The next one will be up in a little while.

[I have no name]

This weeks scoring challenge:maybe, because it's Mountain of Faith.  but I'm not touching extra with a ten-foot pole.
This weeks special challenge:nice idea, but I'm not going to be participating because lunatic only (basically for 3 special challenges in a row) is really getting annoying-and I can't even 1cc that lunatic, let alone clear with decent resources left.
EDIT: the challenge doesn't specify '1cc' anywhere...with some careful strategic continues/life/bomb fragment collection and a capture of the last spell I could potentially 'clear' 3/3-but 3/2 is more likely.  Ruling on continuing on the special?

[Sapz]

I thought that was in the rules at the top... I guess not. I'll add it in. At any rate, one credit should go without saying, so no. :V Remember, clearing isn't essential; if you can't, you should attempt to get as far as possible. You may be surprised how far you get, though.

[Zetzumarshen]

Coincidence or conspiracy.

Nereid pointed that forum first.

[Zil]

I haven't tried it yet, but the idea of a "resource hoarding" challenge sounds interesting. Should be purely survival oriented, so there's no need to learn a bunch of freaky scoring strategies.
Also I'm glad to see MoF, since I missed the previous MoF challenge.

@No Name: You should try to view the Lunatic requirement as a reason to improve at TD, rather a reason not to participate.

[MMX]

Jaimers could do perfect TD Lunatic 1CC, but if lives number counts - it's trance time! :flamingv: As for me, i cant get past stage 4 on lunatic. If there were any challenge on hard - i'd participated.
As for MoF i maybe try normal with Reimu A, cause it's easy :V

I thought that was in the rules at the top... I guess not. I'll add it in. At any rate, one credit should go without saying, so no. :V Remember, clearing isn't essential; if you can't, you should attempt to get as far as possible. You may be surprised how far you get, though.

Wat? How can one gain lots of lives if he'll spend them all while getting as far as he can? :wat:

[Zengeku]

You can't. Those who cannot clear are ranked by how far they got and by score.

[I have no name]

@No Name: You should try to view the Lunatic requirement as a reason to improve at TD, rather a reason not to participate.

It's also Marisa and I'm terrible with Marisa.

How can one gain lots of lives if he'll spend them all while getting as far as he can?

continue to Miko, continue immediately before clearing and 'clear'.  Instant 2/2 finish.

[MMX]

It's also Marisa and I'm terrible with Marisa.

Marisa is my favourite playable character in TD :3 She's fast and powerfull (especially at trance) and has MASTA SPAAAAK!

continue to Miko, continue immediately before clearing and 'clear'.  Instant 2/2 finish.

That's how i "cleared" lunatic but it doesnt make much sense in terms of competition. Also no replay can proof continued try.

P.S.: My current personal goal i'm very close to is to 1CC hard no bombs with Marisa, so i'm pretty good at these conditions, but dont have enough lunatic practice. Though... It encourages me to go lunatic 1CC (no matter of the lives) :3

[Formless God]

Resource hoarding doesn't occur until the last two stages, so just play the first four casually, one life on Seiga, three bombs on Futo, then

Spoiler:

perfect

Miko and that's it :V

[Erppo]

I suggested the 10D resource challenge, but my idea was to rank it based on the highest number of lives you have at any one point in your run. I still think that might have been a bit more interesting.

[ark]

MoF Normal: if I hadn't died twice I would have had 1.47 billion. Still lower than I would like, and I've barely used ReimuA (most of my playtime is with ReimuB), so I don't quite know how best to handle everything. Pretty terrible stage 4 route.

I don't know if I'll try again before the deadline, but if I do, I definitely want at least 1.55B. Even 1.60B should be doable if I actually learn how to do stage 4 properly.

ReimuA sure does make a lot of stuff easier compared to ReimuB though, especially in stage 4 and 5.

[ark]

Well, I improve my stage 4 route a bit after all, and I reached my 1.60B target with a run that still had some mistakes. I know that more is possible with this route, as I had an earlier run that was on track for 1.62B until I messed it up at the end.

It took several days of suffering before I finally got that no-miss run. Relief.

[MMX]

Congratulations to all participants of 23rd contest Pity i havent joined. Hope for more Ten Desires contests nex time.

[Zil]

The deadline for submissions is 1PM (GMT) on Monday, January 20th!

I sense a discrepancy.