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I... respectfully disagree megamario. The system really isn't that great in the end, largely because of the whole "Trance at specific points or you lose so many resources" thing.You really can't afford to use the Trance at just about any other time than what Robin did during his run if you...

To be honest though this game isn't that hard to beat, even on Lunatic. It took me all of three days to do so from scratch (without even 1cc'ing Hard first), and I'm not even really a Lunatic player on the whole (I'm getting there but I haven't reached a level of remote consistency yet). When you st...

Watching that run, it seems to me that your biggest problem is that you scare way too easily. I saw so many times where you had no less than 2-3 bullet-wide gaps that you bombed for no reason other than panic. This is particularly apparent in the non-spells. I mean, I get that you don't want to die ...

I didn't say wait, I said don't clear it in diagonals. There's a difference. I'm saying concentrate on dodging in one dimension at a time, and completely dodge it in said dimension before moving onto the next. Waiting after the tone is only going to cause murder.

The only memorisation I consciously did for that card was working out how many rows/columns I had to move to not get killed by the circle at each turn, but to be completely honest that was more through repetition than actively trying to learn it. To add to Robin's tip, try to clear all horizontal/ve...

I broke this one by getting on top of the maze and throwing the roof to just under the floor of the level, getting the item, bringing it up with the switch next to the item, then sending it so far left with the first switch that it despawned off the side of the level. Took about 8 or 9 presses to ma...

It's all good man, I (almost) finally put my stigma regarding her to bed last night by successfully doing a pacifist run of the fight. I still really hate Rorschach (I THOUGHT I was onto something by moving away from the middle to time it out but the witch moved right up to the edge of the wall and ...

So the thing I'm getting from all these replays is: Be Aggressive as hell Always be trancing! Always be bombing! Get all up in the bosses face and go to town Fuck you spell card bonuses! edit: Actually, in this context, it kind of makes sense that some later spells seem to use the clutter/walling m...

Second easiest? Seriously? Lol opinions and junk. But really, there is no way she is easier than only one from Suwako, Yukari and Nue. Even arguably Mamizou or w/e the tanuki is called is easier to do (but maybe harder to do consistently?). Koishi's stage is also among the harder of the stages due t...

Of course you did. We always scrap our fail records ;P Not strictly true actually! You did show that one Marisa A fail of Suwako. I would've shown my Marisa C fail too but it was so bad that even as a fail run it was below my standards of remotely acceptable. I MAY fail Koishi though when I get to p...

Fun fact: The circle moves in different directions depending on which corner you are in to start the spell off at the first move. Therefore, to make it consistent you should always reside in the same corner each time. Personally I've always found the top right easiest to work with, but obviously it ...

The main "trick" to the stars is that they are actually aimed. So if you start in the same place, you can make the same movements every time and it works out. I can't really say exactly WHAT those movements are since it is difficulty-dependant (on higher difficulties she adds extra stars/f...

Oh no! Now I won't be able to watch an awesome TD LP before I start my PhD! D:

Yeah I noticed the fixed nature of the non-spells too, I just never bothered actually learning them extensively because it is one of those things that I am liable to make mistakes on. I think I killed Yoshika on that before, and yikes. It wasn't even on purpose either, she just would not get out of ...

That's because Youmu actually gets both human and youkai scoring options for some reason, and since she is a human-side she always get to kill familiars. Which I guess helps. But the point is she can get super amounts of time (and therefore score bonus) by getting both graze time and unfocus time. W...

IN LUNATIC SOLO MARISA ROUTE B 1cc GET! (Incoming rant!) Man I hate this game so much. Perhaps almost as much as Robin hates TD, but for entirely different reasons. For me it is just so lame in almost every way. Most of the music is less great than the other games (I still love a few tracks, but mos...

It'll all be over soon Robin. Just remember that.

(Also you should totally use Marisa to compliment your original playthrough!)

Incase you were wondering raocow, that glitch jump CAN get you onto those ice blocks from the middle level of the staircase, but without that key I don't know how much of a difference it would make. Maybe you could do the room actually, but it would be breaking the puzzle so to speak.

Does this convert flv files as well? I could use something like this for converting stream recordings into something manageable by WMM if that is the case... I'll take a look at it later anyhow, see what I think. It sounds pretty useful though!

He's trying to convert you to his "I always find the shottypes which are scientifically proving to me good to be actually really bad" fanclub. I can see that with PCB SakuyaA. :V No, that shot type just actually sucks. It's not "scientifically proven to be good" either, it just ...

Hey hey, what are you talking about man? There's only one attack where the damage on that bomb sucks and that is Orin's last card. For some reason (I never quite worked that out). Otherwise it does far more than Reimu A's bomb like every time I use it... Though I did note that it is difficulty-depen...

Oh, it'll be "fun", alright...

I won't bother spoiling anything, but yeah. Fun being the keyword there.

I wouldn't say it's useless, although it's the least useful of the three for sure. Tricky to use, but it does have its benefits for dashing to the POC when graze-collecting is too risky. I don't like the shot type though, the aiming is much too awkward for me. I'd go with either Reimu A or B, depend...

Oh man, he didn't farm for the max HP beforehand... yikes. Rao, this is gonna be tough D:

Well, I guess be glad you have JUST enough to tank that first part!

I guess that card in particular reinforces something that is good basic practice, but many starting players don't even consider. (I don't know about you, I'm just talking in general here) That is dodging in two dimensions. Things become much easier when you are prepared to move around the bullets in...