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Phantasm Stage

man i really need to go through all the old threads for this one but uuuggghhh

Whoops, missed this thread! Sorry.

Hard - SakuyaB
ARF - 1,072,132,800 - C - 0.1% - Replay


Lunatic - SakuyaB
ARF - 959,841,940 - C - 0.1% - Replay

My second lunatic 1cc in this game (´・ω・`)
Such kusoplay (´；ω；`)

I have scores in this too. Extraordinairily mediocre ones :3

Lunatic - ReimuB
Zengeku - 1,028,554,110 - C - 0,124% - http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=8634

Phantasm - ReimuB
Zengeku - 937,596,690 - C - 0.107% - http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=8635

Hey everyone, what's going on?

So yeah, as of a few hours ago or so, I finally managed to beat Perfect Cherry Blossom in lunatic mode for the 1st time ever!

Lunatic - Marisa A
PurpleTheGuy - 628,459,090 - C - 0.132% - Replay - Video - Screenshot

This one I've been wanting for quite a while, like, since February. I've been on and off with this one, but now, finally, I have the 1st clear for Perfect Cherry Blossom, and with Marisa A to boot! (\^o^/)

Well, this run had a ton of mistakes, so to speak, but it actually worked out, to my great surprise! No doubt I'm going to have to improve on this one, that's for sure, haha! There's lots of things to do for PCB, so I'm going to see if I can improve on some things, and let's see what I can get! Or I can go get that LNB I've been talking about trying to get for GFW and whatnot. Anyhow...

Other than that, yeah.

Updated! Nice to see someone filling in those blanks...

Ahaha, well, I guess I am. ^^ Not too many people use Marisa A for PCB lunatic (Most use Reimu B), I noted, though I know there's plenty out there who have used her to beat PCB lunatic, many of whom I have no doubt, would beat my scores pretty easily, the way I am right now. Anyhow, I like using her a lot, and, well, I do feel like Marisa, with her A shot-type in PCB, has got to be one of the best in the Touhou games, imo haha. So...

With that said, I do have this improved run I did a little while ago, in the middle of the night:

Lunatic - Marisa A
PurpleTheGuy - 706,511,930 - C - 0.107% - Replay - Screenshot - [v1.00b]

I'm currently working on getting better and better at using Marisa A on PCB lunatic (I should do the other characters and their associated shot-types sometime soon), as well as eventually getting to that 1 billion+ scorepoint mark in PCB lunatic using Marisa A, which also works in me learning to clear PCB lunatic consistently (and maybe someday, an LNB off this game), and taking what I've learned from PCB to the other Touhou games (Like what I did with GFW, and me taking that with me to PCB. Yeah, learning things, one game at a time, sometimes two), and beyond. *Note - If anyone's curious, I have never used the vpatch in any of the Touhou games (and don't plan to anytime soon), or in my past replays so far.

Lunatic - ReimuB
Prinny - 803,778,060 - C - 0.160% [-v1.00b - http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=34156]

A lunatic clear focused mostly on survival. This score could have potentially been higher since I had deaths where I still had bombs in stock.

Phantasm - ReimuB
Prinny - 951,332,880 - C - 0.023% [-v1.00b - http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=34157]

I think this run I was just casually going through Phantasm just to see how much of Yukari's spellcards I can capture. I suppose I could have gotten a higher bonus if I wasn't hitting the focus button to the music on the last spellcard when I was grazing at the safespots. I really just go through phantasm just to see if I can capture Boundary of Life and Death.

Ah, great stuff to see, Prinny! Cool to see more playing this game around here! Could these be your 1st 1ccs, by any chance? Me, I know I'm working on clearing PCB lunatic consistently, and work to get 1 billion+ on that, along with the extra and phantasm stages, and then taking what I've learned from PCB to the other Touhou games, like I did with GFW.

Lunatic - MarisaA
Prinny - 718,320,520 - C - 0.115% [-v1.00b - http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=34163]

This run is pretty much something that came about from attempting a 1cc run the whole day. I wasn't used to Marisa's movement speed (she feels faster than Youmu in Imperishable Night] and due to her more narrow shot-type. In some cases, I think I got a little overconfident with her hitbox thinking it was Reimu's. If you've seen my ReimuB run, this is pretty similar since I follow a similar route.

In response to PurpleTheGuy, those are not my first clears. My first lunatic 1cc was about half a year ago. I just came back to PCB after playing a bit of IN and Crimzon Clover World Ignition (with the intention of posting some replays here). I also looked at the lunatic clear you posted and I say there were some close calls especially at Youmu's second to last spellcard. I don't blame you for bomb spamming Alice and Chen since their patterns can easily trap you in a bad position. Also, I kind of feel bad for beating your score since my brain was kind of dead until stage 6 just trying to get this clear. After comparing runs, I seem to be much more aggressive as far as item collecting in stage 1 goes than you are since its kind of how I learned stage 1 in lunatic. Most of the tricks I used in my run were from videos I saw on youtube, notably raak and jaimers.

Normal - Reimu B
CSF - 1,037,929,760 - C - .04%

I've wanted 1 billion for a long time. Playing this game for score is intense.

Score update on ReimuB and MarisaA

Lunatic - ReimuB
Prinny - 849,481,140 - C - 0.180% [-v1.00b - Replay]

Lunatic - MarisaA
Prinny - 787,511,350 - C - 0.127% [-v1.00b - Replay]

I seem to be getting better at scoring even if my approach to lunatic is more for survival. After watching PurpleTheGuy's recent Lunatic run, I decided to apply the trick that was used on Letty since I didn't know her mist (if I had to describe it) can be misdirected. I need to work on better ways to approach the red butterflies in resurrection butterfly.

Woah, that's some good improvement you're making, Prinny! At this rate, you'll be reaching 1 billion pretty soon!

As for me, I'm only learning to play Touhou on lunatic (I cleared 3 of them so far, including Perfect Cherry Blossom. I only started to get serious about this, as of earlier this year) and I'm currently focused on getting to eventually clear all of the Touhou games on lunatic (PC-98 & windows). That said, I've decided to give PCB a little break for now, and I've moved my energy to go clear Embodiment of Scarlet Devil on lunatic mode. But man, you're pretty good, Prinny, to where you even passed one of Zengeku's scores here! I'd like to see you get higher and higher! I'll come back to PCB after some time, and I'll eventually do the same as well, for this is one of my favourite games in the Touhou series (Perhaps the most favourite, but I'll hold off on that one until I played all of them extensively)! Good luck on your further improvements!

Also, good going on getting the 1 billion scorepoint mark, CStarFlare! I've kept track of you wanting this for some time now, and you've finally done it! One day, I'll also work to get 1 billion somewhere in PCB. Yeah, indeed, playing for score in PCB is intense, but a lot of fun! I'll come back to it, when I improve from now.

Thanks! I gave Lunatic some thought, but when Chen finished me off a few times I decided to shelve it. You guys who can clear it are on another level, that's for sure.

Ahaha, well shoot, I'm only a budding lunatic player myself, CStarFlare, so I think it'll be some time, before I do get to that point for real. (^^;) It really looks like you know how to score pretty well in the Touhou games, I'd say. You did better than I do for many of the Touhou games in normal mode, seeing your scores. I think you got what it takes to go up to lunatic, based on what you have done, Touhou-wise and other STG games-wise. You cleared two of the Touhou games on lunatic, even, so I'd say you have it.

Hmm, yeah, I know what you mean exactly. I remember Chen being a bit of a pain when I first started to give PCB lunatic a serious go (She still can be quite a pain, especially her last spell card. Beautiful, yet painful lol). Stage 3 and Alice, however, is the biggest pain to deal with, one that took me a while to get, and even then, yeah, I still got a lot to go in polishing her (Alice sure likes to take half of my lives). I could do my best to give you some pointers on how to approach them, though it could be hard for me to describe in words. I usually just watch replays, and try to copycat those, lol. I think you'll find hard mode to be quite doable, I'd say, especially since you got 1 billion+ scorepoints in PCB normal mode.

I also still consider myself new to Touhou Lunatic since its been a year since I got into Touhou. The only other Touhou game I have is Imperishable Night (and I have no idea how to get to my replays for upload. I'm currently blaming the english patch, but I can't read japanese to understand what the replayview in the IN folder does.). For the most part, PCB is where I built the foundation I have for other games. Kind of necessary to since I really wanted to fight Yukari and her requirements aren't easy.

CStarFlare, if you do try PCB again, I do suggest just bomb spamming Chen and Stage 3 until you figure out some way to deal with the mess present there. Chen just doesn't stay in one place, especially in her final spellcard. I do follow a general path in Stage 3, but I use bombs mostly for safety and to get the point items. Actually, I think the first part of stage 3 the patterns are aimed in respect to your position. Oddly enough, Midboss Alice isn't that bad for me. Usually when I do her Midboss non-spells, the path I follow sort of just opens up to me as I dodge mostly due to her patterns for the most part being static(though I think I need a better path since I die every now and then). Boss Alice is another story. I seem to make it a point to use a bomb on the first spellcard, which is likely the case since I die to her opener. Before and even after I figured out a rhythm to that part of PCB, I lose a lot of runs to Chen and Alice if I don't get unlucky with Letty.

I also suggest copying replays. I did mention before that I used runs on youtube to get a good idea on what to do. To add towards playing hard mode, you'll find that the patterns in hard are weaker versions of their lunatic patterns (I guess to be expected), so its a good way to learn what to expect. At least, mostly all the bosses and midbosses are like that except Letty. Letty's final spellcard in hard is an entirely different pattern to what you'll see in lunatic.

Edit to avoid double posting:
Managed a 900 million clear

Lunatic - ReimuB
Prinny - 916,274,330 - C - 0.113% [-v1.00b - Replay]

Sorry for double posting. This could get long as I do discuss what I did differently in this run compared to my 800 million runs that could help others with scoring as well as explain my replay a bit.

Lunatic - ReimuB
Prinny - 942,833,280 - C - 0.125% [-v1.00b - Replay]

Current progress in Perfect Cherry Blossom scoring wise. I decided to focus on grazing as opposed to item collecting while still maintaining a border after Cirno. The graze at the aimed bullets is probably one of the more intense dodges (even though its simple to execute) I've done in this run since it involves remaining still until the fairies shoot their bullets and hoping none of the green bullets from the previous wave of enemies aren't going to the hitbox. As scary as it looks, a simple tap to the left is all that is necessary. I pretty much had the idea when I took notice the first wave of aimed bullets were blue aimed bullets accompanied by the bullets that the fairies at the very start shoot.

I pretty much tried to keep my cherry value close to max by just staying alive and bombing (assuming I can get back the cherry I lost through bombing dense patterns). Also, I do try to hold off on finishing attacks until there are a lot of bullets to gain points from the star items (which I'm sure are more valuable when you graze, even if its not that much). Also, I pretty much decided to just focus on surviving resurrection butterfly since I thought I would get a better bonus from bombing and collecting the items from there rather than let my border finish on its own.

Also following my old route for stage 4 because I can time a second border for the graze I do with the suicide bullets better. I think with a border, I can increase the CherryMax value about 50,000 if I am reading it correctly before and after the graze. Only after reading up on scoring did I also realize I could get more bonuses from a pattern if I finish a boss's HP bar when there are a lot of bullets on screen.

Scoring in this game is pretty intense with all these variables to keep in mind, probably the most intense scoring compared to other shmups that I've done. I think I may need to look up replays if I go for a 1 billion clear since the routes I took (especially stage 1) were ideas I sort of brainstormed.

Normal - ReimuA
Waah - 1,803,765,510 - C - 0.352% - Replay

Normal - ReimuB
Waah - 1,923,023,580 - C - 0.339% - Replay

Both old runs.

Extra - ReimuB
Andrew - 1,063,880,980 - C - 0.174% - Replay

A scorerun I did awhile back. At the moment I'm working on clearing each of the Touhou games on Lunatic, but I would like to get back into scoring in this game eventually. It really depends on what categories I enjoy the most and what I'm able to achieve at my skill level, but I'm thinking I'll go for a better Extra score, and possibly 1.5 billion on Normal mode.

Normal - ReimuB
Prinny - 817,029,680 - C - 0.171% - v1.00b - Replay

Quite a bit of mistakes in this run. Getting back to PCB after about a month break.

Lunatic - ReimuB
Prinny - 976,704,090 - C - 0.435% - v1.00b - Replay

Getting closer to a billion. I just need to not die so much.

Lunatic - ReimuB
Prinny - 996,368,910 - C - 0.083% - v1.00b - Replay

Made a bunch of mistakes against Yuyuko. Was nervous.

Some sort of score milestone.

Normal - ReimuB
Erppo - 1,517,501,260 - C - 0.132% - Replay

E: Oh, apparently I never posted this here:

Extra - ReimuA
Erppo - 1,042,937,040 - C - 0.044% - Replay

Lunatic - ReimuB
Prinny - 1,008,148,030 - C - 0.123% - v1.00b - Screenshot - Replay - Video

Made plenty of mistakes in this run. Still managed to get a billion despite how rusty I still was in this run. Sorry if anyone doesn't like my music choice in the video. It literally was what I was listening to while doing this run (and I felt I should include it if I record the run). Also uploaded the run on royalflare mostly because I wanted to figure out how their uploading system works.

Lunatic - SakuyaB
Prinny - 1,164,920,790 - C - 0.225% - v1.00b - Replay - Video

Decided to do a run with SakuyaB this time. This run still has some potential, but I'm pretty satisfied with it since I tried to pull off more border grazes. I did look at a replay to get an idea of when I should trigger a border.

grabbed frenetic's score from the other thread. poor poor spadgy...

Was playing PCB during the weekend when I needed a break from IN easy. Managed to improve my Phantasm score quite a bit (at least I feel its a significant improvement).

Phantasm - ReimuB
Prinny - 993,749,300 - C - 0.020% - v1.00b - Screenshot - Replay

Compared to my run back in August, I placed more emphasis on getting more borders and trying to graze during a border (or at least I try to). Some silly mistakes in this run. I almost killed myself pre-Ran (as well as bombing her first spellcard) and died to Yukari's opener. I probably should look up more optimal scoring routes later.

Normal - ReimuB
Prinny - 1,098,751,590 - C - 0.143% - v1.00b - Replay

Something I got on the side. I don't know often I'll play PCB since there are other things I want to focus on at the moment. I'll learn proper border routes later. May try using the other shot types later if I get around to doing more runs in PCB.

Normal - ReimuB
Andrew - 1,115,896,600 - C - 0.246% - Replay

After some time, I decided to scorerun this game again. I had been planning to try scoring PCB Normal for awhile, and as of yesterday, I've finally gotten started, and I'm enjoying it so far. Did a few hours of stage practice to work on point item collection and unfocused movement. A few stage 1-3 restarts later, I got this run. Having never gotten the 1000 extend before, I managed to get over 1300 point items this time, which is still around 100 less than what the good players get, but it's good to see my practice pay off so far. Failed 2 Prismriver spells, but I did manage to NNN the other bosses at least. Still getting the hang of cherry control. Ended up collecting too many cherry items and got my border too early in the pre-midboss section of stage 5, so I had to bomb for the items there. On the bright side, by stage 6, I had learned from my mistake, so I was able to time my border correctly for the spam.

Well, I'm off to study some replays and practice the stages so I can go for a better score in the future. I didn't do very much grazing in this run so I'll be sure to work on that, particularly the Yuyuko grazes, since they're worth quite a bit. Not sure how far I'm going to take this yet. Maybe I'll go for 1.5bil, but it's too early for me to say at this point. I might also try Easy mode at some point. That Prismriver last spell graze looks like fun.

Hey everyone, it's been a while since the last time! Well, I've played Perfect Cherry Blossom again for a bit, and I got this little thing some time ago. Not yet 1 billion, but eh, it's a new PB, & it's the 1st time I 1cc'd Perfect Cherry Blossom w/ spare lives at the end. Going to post it, since I'm fixing to go learn Subterranean Animism Lunatic mode real soon (and lots of other games as well), meaning that it'll be a little bit before I get back to this game once again, and improve my score a bit, and more:

Lunatic - Marisa-A
VioletHatPurple - 885,640,960 - C - 0.393% - [v1.00b] - Replay - Video

This run could use plenty of improvements for sure, but that'll be for another time. Well, that'll be it, for now, at least, for PCB! I like coming back to this game, every now and then, alongside GFW!

Oh, yeah, hey Despatche, I should tell you this. From this point on, I would like to submit scores using the name VioletHatPurple, rather than PurpleTheGuy. Is that alright with you?