#1cc run

[50kvolt]

My first 1CCs!1!!11!

[silvercat-the-daydreamer]

now here's the post about today's touhou experience!! it's a long one wow. tldr thoughts on touhou10-normal and 15-easy.

I FINALLY BEAT TOUHOU10 ON NORMAL. FUCK YOU KANAKO. you will be my eternal enemy.

well, beating her with just the 2 lives you get from the continue in that game was not something i managed to do. didn't quite have the skill for a whole 1cc run of it either like i did with easy just to collect all the lives i would need. 5 would be enough tho, so i game-over'd and continued on sanae's stage just to get the 3 extra lives from that (2 from the score and the one she drops). also meant that every time i got hit even once on stage 5, i'd promptly run into some fairies or the snae herself to Die and try again (marisa+sanae hugs happening now...), so, actually, most of my time for that was spent on stage 5. and every time i game-over'd on the final stage, i would restart the whole run just to get back to stage 5. so that's an experience for sure.

well on the maybe like 5th try today (that is, the 5th time i even got to kanako... also, i didn't really count. it was something like that.), i did it!! hell yeah!!

(i did also, on my last life, yell something like "i won't die to you again!!" like some sort of character.)

and that was the first part of today's experience because, all of that, was only preparation. because i watched my friend play fuckin touhou15 some day and decided if i couldn't beat normal touhou10, i sure as fuck couldn't beat touhou15 (on easy yes). so now that that was done, i moved on to touhou15 promptly.

...AND WELL AFTER ABOUT 3 HOURS--

I DID FUCKIN DO IT??? I DID NOT EXPECT THAT AT ALL??? WHAT AM I. 3 hours but other games took longer than that. but then i guess it's just how quickly you can retry things here huh.

also can i just say something. JUNKO MY GIRL YOU NEED TO HURRY UP WITH YOUR LAST ATTACK. PLEASE JUST GET TO THE PART THAT KILLS ME ALRIGHT THE FIRST PART IS KIND OF NOTHING. (in fact, "this is kind of nothing" was definitely a thought i had somewhat often while playing this game. so this sure feels like easy mode. specially after seeing my friend play it on normal.) well it's an interesting attack, it's just not that great to do that 20 times in a row and then have to wait for the interesting part to happen. although i guess that's less annoying than having to retry the whole stage over and over again huh...

interestingly, while trying to get through that attack, out of the corner of my eye the "disabled" text kind of started to look like a pair of eyes looking at me through a tear in the screen.

ALSO: holy fuck that stage theme?? actually playing the stage with that? that shit gave me some sort of strange emotion. the fuckin wisp-things just hanging out and mostly not trying to shoot me?? i left most of them alone, i was like "this stage doesn't need any violence" and just vibed with the music instead bc i didn't want to ruin it. the fuckin rain stuff too. holy shittt the vibe is fuckin beautiful man.

anyways uhh i got out of "here child have fuckthousand bombs to smite your enemies" touhou10 to "if you use a bomb that is a Permanent Decision you Will regret later (in pointdevice mode anyway)" touhou15 and i ended up using exactly 1 bomb early in the run which was kind of accidental too and just because of the reflex... then at the end as you can see there i had all these fuckin bombs, and, after i found out that junko does not try to protect herself from the bombs on her last attack unlike byakuren and kanako (at least on easy?? i should hope she starts doing that on the other difficulties tbh what are you doing girl...), i decided it would be terribly boring to use them and just skip a large part of that attack like that. so to completely avoid using a bomb on that accidentally, i unbound the bomb key from my controller. so that was also an interesting experience.

(speaking of the controller, i figured there'd be some sort of issue with that where on an attack that has you move left and right very quickly, like some of junko's, you don't have enough fingers on the dpad to do that very well unlike with a keyboard. well it worked out for me anyways, somehow.)

hey, also the irony of beating this as sanae after she's given me so much trouble in the other game. despite all that i don't hate her at all and after seeing her dialogue in this, i think she's kinda cute. also, when playing as her in touhou12, i was deeply confused by how strangely she moved (really i just wasn't used to that particular movement speed at all) but i did get used to it here.

well hey that's 3 of the windows-touhous beaten!! i'm starting to believe i'm getting good at this. yay :D

i'm not sure what else to do now... maybe try normal of this but that sounds like a true pain.

(oh yeah i wanted to get through touhou12 normal too i guess since that game was really fun. seriously.)

[systemrestart]

[WARNING: FLASHING LIGHTS]

:^) Lotus Land Story, Lunatic 1cc, with ReimuA!! This is my second ever Lunatic 1cc

This one's been a long time in the making. LLS was my first Hard 1cc ever, way back in 2010. I felt so sure that a Lunatic 1cc was on the horizon….. but, well. LLS is a bit special when it comes to Lunatics ;;

LLS and MS don't just bump up the difficulty of the patterns/enemies. They also have nearly every enemy shoot tiny, white, aimed bullets at you…… constantly. Including the enemies that come up from the bottom of the screen or that surround you. That, combined with LLS's notorious "choke points" (Stage 4 midboss, Rings of Doom, Yuuka's finale), makes LLS Lunatic a lot more frustrating than it should be ;; But, with the extremely generous extra lives and free bombs, it's (thankfully) still doable!!

I'm not gonna lie, this run was Sloppy. But, I'm really glad I decided to record "just in case", and that I managed to pull out a win in the end :) Maybe someday I'll come back for a cleaner run, or try to clear with Marisa instead, but for now, I'm satisfied.

[reimu-enjoyer]

my special interests are very specific sometimes which comes as a shock to someone when they reference one of them, say LLS, and i just don't shut up about it for like the next 4 hours .

[castleinthemist]

whew...trying to shake off the zeroranger rust...playing around in other shmups seems to have had a positive effect on this though 'cause i was having less trouble with my usual suspects this time (i did eat all my continues for the first loop though, we're playing casual style here now)

[ouroborosorder]

as a game dev, one of the hardest ideas i've ever had to grapple with was something someone said to me when i first started out. I said I wanted to make a game in ___ genre, and he said "If you are working in a genre, you need to know it. You need to be effectively a scholar in that particular thing."

and you know what? fuck that. that shit was wrong as hell and it's taken me this long to unlearn that idea. that one guy is the reason i've been crying myself to sleep about not being able to make my shmup because i can't even 1CC Zeroranger and how can i dare think of making a game i'm passionate about because i'm a poser loser who doesn't know anything about what i love

because like. there's no responsibility or no obligation to be The Truest Understander before you start. that's not true in anything I've ever done ever in my life. You learn by the process of doing, ya know? If you want to understand a genre, nothing helps you understand it more than trying to make one yourself, running into every pitfall and then going "okay how did the others solve this," then doing your research. if you wanna become a scholar, deconstructing specific elements is the best way to do it, and lemme tell you. there's NOTHING that makes you deconstruct specific elements quite like trying to make a game and having to ask yourself shit like "does 3.75 movespeed feel better than "3.725?"

obviously, know the genre decently, do your research eventually. otherwise you're just gonna be the asshole making Funny Ironic Dating Sim Visual Novel #5023712 and if you use my argument to defend yourself for doing so i'm going to seal your soul in a garfield rotary phone and throw it into a volcano

all i'm saying is that if you also feel the same way then i officially give you permission to start making a game even if you don't know shit. become a scholar through the act of doing it anyway

[sealed-valkyria]

Every time I don't do anything for an extended period of time, I always feel the need to give an update on myself even though it's probably not necessary.

Anyway, I got fixated onto Danmaku Unlimited again, a bullet hell I got attached to (particularly DU2) back in middle school. Therefore, I've been trying to 1CC DU3 True Graze to finally get it off my list of all the things I've ever wanted to complete. Between playing this rigorous game of a bullet hell and working a busy full-time job, I haven't really been drawing full pieces. Brain just feels too full and runs too much and always feel exhausted. But it won't let go of this goal, no matter what. It keeps lingering in my mind.

I really want to draw full pieces. But now this extends across Madness Combat and Danmaku Unlimited. It's a lot. But I cannot pry away from DU3 until I finally win.

So that's been what's happening.

[jmickle]

Why don't you take this ask as an excuse to rant a little bit about the game you're making?

i put all the graphics in one texture so it uses less memory to like draw the game or whatever and also because it looks cool to have an image with all the graphics in the entire game in it.

this image and everything else it uses it just in a folder next to the exe. u can go change it to make the game look different. give the protagonist top surgery or bottom surgery or both. turn the spear into like a bardiche or hwatever. fuck around; find out

its not limited to images either; im writing it in a tiny custom engine im calling Blast! engine which compiles the entire thing from scratch every time u run it but like you dont notice at all. it means u can just go in and change the game code and run the game again and it works.

its also less than 3mb when zipped up. u could download this fine on the worst internet connections anywhere. its only 240x160 pixels resolution so it shouldn't rly take up much room on ur cpu. it barely shows up on my task manager when im running the game.

there's no platforming in the game bc i wanted to explore controlling your vertical height similar how you would in a fighting game. the enemies are all designed for you to be jumping/in the air most of the game, since thats the most fun part of moving around here.

im also putting in like a 1cc mode for the Gamers

[silverwarewolf]

after debating whether to attempt a normal run with reimuB or either of the marisa types, i instead decided to play eosd on hard difficulty. that would make it... technically the third game i play above normal. although, technically speaking, the lunatic runs i did of hsifs and lolk were a dare so they weren't particularly serious (although i did get to mai/satono and sagume, respectively, so who's winning)

and, well, i guess i did play aocf overdrive for a bit but we all know fighters have a very different sense of difficulty.

regardless, i found it quite enjoyable! many things stay the same and honestly rather too easy (cough, rumia, cough), but once the challenge picks up, you will feel it in your bones why it's hard mode. and i love it! the spellcards feel more complete, in a way - it's as though you reach the true version that was intended.

somehow, mesmerizing misderection is far easier than misdirection, much the same goes for killing doll vs manipulating doll. and, again, they feel more complete. the same goes for young demon lord and mountain of a thousand needles feeling way more enjoyable than star of david and scarlet netherword, respectively.

i guess it's that in harder difficulties you have to lock in and find the way to capture the spellcards, whereas on easier difficulties you have so much space to fuck up and get blasted in the face. quote seija, i looooove running sideways into a stray small bullet (sarcastic)

at least sakuya knifing your ass with a random backwards knife makes sense. and, speaking of sakuya: a personal note. the pause of her spellcards is not long enough to grab a handful of chips.

needless to say i did not 1cc it on hard, but it was still quite enjoyable nonetheless. i think i'm determiend to get hard and lunatic before giving a serious attempt at reimuB or marisa

also, even though i love patchouli's spellcards, her damned nonspells are a nightmare and i know there's likely a stupidly easy way to capture them.

until then, her nonspells, remilia's first nonspell, and colorful rainbow wind chime can kiss my ass and die in a ditch. that is all.

PS: is it just me or is eternal meek awfully similar to halo of the guze kannon?

[originspeed]

Wanna learn how to play Touhou like an expert? Here’s a pro tip, start your day off with by consuming a banan and illegal amounts of caffeine

(fumo is optional but great for support, especially during 1CC runs)

[aaronkraten]

Thunderforce 2 - 1cc

Running of a Jamma Genesis

[silvercat-the-daydreamer]

"nyoomu"

(wait that can also imply reimu. SORRY there's no reimu involved in this it's just youmu. nyoom youmu. reimu's like the opposite of nyoom i think)

SO YOU KNOW. i was just playing touhou13 as usual, just practicing miko's stage bc i wanted to get it hitless. yeah on easy bc like i'm actually a human. also with youmu, Because I Like Her.

slight tangent: some of you may know that when i played touhou4 and 5 for the first time, i didn't focus at all because i, for some reason, assumed that just wasn't a thing in those games. (and then later i went back and did touhou5 with focusing and i thought, what the fuck was i on to play all that without focusing. ??) now i believe that thing may have kinda influenced my behavior in other games as well cause now i keep unfocusing to get through some stuff where i probably really shouldn't, for literally no reason. i could probably just focus and do those things like a fucking normal person (like one of my friends who almost never unfocuses). anyways i've called this behavior "nyooming" (cause like. well. you're really fast when you unfocus)… so because of this and other stuff, basically i often just really kinda refuse to fucking play these games like a normal person. that's how it is.

That Is Actually why i've been enjoying youmu so much lately, i saw her batshit insane shot type in touhou13 and i thought: well now i have to play as her. she's a certified Not A Normal Person. and well now i just like her, she's really cute. of the regular playable characters i've seen so far, probably my fave. <3

sooooo just for the lulz i tried to do miko's stage without focusing and like, it went pretty well. of course i did get hit tho but it's pretty neat anyway.

then i remembered the one time another one of my friends attempted an entire run of touhou16 without focusing, using reimu, also just for the lulz. n he did do it! used a few continues i think. but that's pretty cool.

and well because of that i thought. well. let's do an entire run of touhou13 without focusing why don't we. of course, with my girl youmu, that's got the issue that now i can't use her sword slash charge-up thing at all which was really damn useful but oh well i'll deal with that. the bigger issue, of course, is that she's fucking fast. she seriously is nyooming. and well i actually did get through all of it, first try, 1cc'd it even. i'm not sure if that's really impressive tbh but it is pretty cool. (even with the one time i somehow accidentally clicked out of the game window and seiga fucking shot me while i scrambled to return to the game like girl do you fucking mind)

i also did not quite expect to make it through all of yoshika's attacks unscathed, with how many really tiny knives she yeets at you for which you might seriously want to consider focusing. but i did do it

now uh. this sort of thing is probably really good to practice staying the fuck put or something like that (?) bc like. any unnecessary movement can be real risky if you're so fast it might just send you straight into a bullet when you could've just stood still instead y'know. and also of course, practicing getting the tiniest fucking movement possible, because, well, even that's a lot. soo that was really interesting. can recommend---

--- so i made this post and because it was fuck o clock i sent it to my drafts to post later. this addition is here because then after that i went to do some actual regular touhou gaming and tried to get the damn normal mode 1cc of this game too, and i fuckin got it man! i did. thank you youmu for your cooperation. but also my fuckin hands hurt so bad after that i swear to god. ...and now there's the extra stage. i am full of Fear (<- guy who hasn't done any extra stages and actually doesn't even have them unlocked in most games they played). surely this will be fine

well that's it for this post so goodbye you sweet sunflower petals

[funbil]

well, that was two of the best days of my life

i was closing up a 1cc run of LLS when i heard someone watching over my shoulder remind me of some strats to help me stay cool. i wound up beefing it right before the true final boss but in that moment i realized this was the only place on earth i could have an interaction like that with a perfect stranger. the panels were phenomenal, the performances were other worldly, and i met some excellent people. communities are beautiful. people are awesome. touhoufest forever and i'll see you suckers in 2025

[moonsinkfoxgirl]

Haven't gotten to prime numbers you in a while so get prime numbersed

_2. How old are you?

28^^

_3. When is your birthday?

秘密です

_5. What is your favorite color?

already answered^^

_7. Do you have any pets?

tragically no u_u

_11. How many pairs of shoes do you own?

uhm hmmm. 3 that still fit me, not sure how many old shoes I can no longer wear my parents have in a closet somewhere

_13. What talents do you have?

uhm idk I'm pretty okayish at solving computer troubles on linux, I can 1cc a bunch of touhou games on normal, I can clean really well if you give me some good music,

_17. Who would be your ideal partner?

already have my beloved girlfriend^^ a second girlfriend who has grand amounts of money without being an asshole would not be unwanted though

_19. Do you want a church wedding?

lol no

_23. Have you ever met any celebrities?

I think I've seen one of our annoying politicians across the street once, don't remember his name though

_29. Have you ever been skinny dipping?

nope, maybe if I got my bottom surgery and somehow there was an extremely deserted pool of water I'd consider it

_31. What position do you usually sleep in?

on one of my sides^^

_37. Favorite swear word?

don't have one

_41. Are you a good liar?

depends, but usually yeah

_43. Can you do any other accents other than your own?

I don't think so

_47. What is your most expensive piece of clothing?

hmm probably my what's it called in English, Dufflecoat, i don't know how much it cost exactly but my parents paid a good amount of money for it. very nice though^^

_53. Favorite foreign food?

fried rice!!!

_59. Do you suck or bite lollipops?

both obviously

_61. Do you sing to yourself?

yeah, all the time, though not as much as I did back when I put on all the MLP songs on shuffle while cooking

_67. Can you name all 50 states of America?

lmao no, and if I could delete the ones I do know from my memory I would consider doing so

_71. What makes you nervous?

job interviews, job related emails, talking to people who have power over me in some way, and a bunch of other things

_73. Do you correct people when they make mistakes?

very rarely

_79. Who was your first real crush?

childhood friend, she lives in the apartment above with her boyfriend now, so a bullet dodged lol

_83. How fast can you run?

I have no idea

_89. Do you like your age?

I'm looking forward to being in my 30s already tbh

_97. Were your ancestors royalty?

no clue

[castleinthemist]

i did resart on easy and decided to play as kachi to see what's different (majority of cutscenes are the same due to 2-player option, which is great - her shots are very different from isa's) and because learning the game on easy will be easier for me than starting on normal (stage 5 boss was a big difficulty spike....learn game rythym & fundimentals first)

but i'm soooooooooooooooo curious as to what's kachi's deal in this game....doesn't seem like it's the same person as the first one but kachi also seemed to hid herself well in the first game so who knows! I love how non-chalant the main two are about a lot of stuff, isa is fun but i want to know more of his deal, makes sense he'd be in this one

feels kinda weird to go 'oh hey the story the characters!' for this type of game but sin & punishment felt like it was shooting for the stars (and reached them) with what it was doing so i'm expecting some fun surprises in successor of the skies

aww your score resets if you have to save and quit out :(

[ouroborosorder]

managed to get my Zeroranger runs consistently to Grapefruit without using a continue. it has been 6 months now trying to actually beat it 1CC. I think i might suck as this. But holy shit i can get to the fucking Grapefruit fight without using a single continue i'm so fucking proud of myself