Satori Komeiji's Mental Education is a Touhou game

[peteyboo]

Hey look, Zelda.

[peteyboo]

Uploading late because I'm lazy on most weekends.

Hyper 6

[peteyboo]

Start of second half

The third through fifth rooms are insane. The fourth is much more manageable if you have a powerup. Good luck getting one past the third though... Fifth is all but impossible with a powerup, but you won't be getting there with one anyway. You'll see that tomorrow.

[raocow]

argh, dang still processing video!!

[peteyboo]

This will be the death of me.

[Marcaek]

When you consider that the special world is optional, it seems fitting that the last real level is this brutal hard. Unless of course I'm interpreting the difficulty cue wrong and there's more, as this is as far as I got.

Also raocow, for what it's worth I thought "sand forest theatre" was a fun level.

[peteyboo]

There is more after this level, according to the level list.

Also Zelda.

Also, how does this sound as a rule for tools:
Since Haimari was nice enough to rate his levels using coins, how about "I can use as many rewinds as there are coins denoting difficulty"? Of course, up to a limit (I'll say 20?) and also that I would obviously try without tools first. If I do run out of rewinds, I have to accept my next death.

So this level could get 20 rewinds, or I could just put a checkpoint after the 3rd and maybe 4th area. I would want to do the entire fifth area and boss in one go, so it wouldn't feel too cheap...

I just sorta want to get this done before I start classes again... <_<

[raocow]

I think that's fair. Or like, since earlier coin amounts weren't such a big deal, but you did sometimes checkpoint in the future, something like 'a checkpoint per five blue coins' or something.

It's your call, but something of that sort should be fine.

[Ometeotl]

Koloktos is such a fun boss to play.

[peteyboo]

Yeah that boss was quite fun. Too bad it had to be ruined by me playing like an idiot as usual. <_<

Boring after-dungeon stuff

Anyway, I guess I'll try to record Hyper 6 tonight. As I said, I'll give myself a checkpoint after stage 3 and 4. I'll then upload everything in one video when I finally get it.

[peteyboo]

The most innuendo-laden sidequest ever

[peteyboo]

Dun dun dunnnn

[Marcaek]

I'd say use saves at every new room. You might be able to do some of special world without saves though so give it a try if you're up to it.

[peteyboo]

Bowser is dead! And his little boy, too! (but that isn't saved)

[morsel/morceau]

Looking forward to the special world because I've already forgotten everything about it, except some of it is a lot easier than what you've already done and the last level is horrendous.

[peteyboo]

Looking forward to the special world because I've already forgotten everything about it, except some of it is a lot easier than what you've already done and the last level is horrendous.

Yeah, the first level is a lot easier than most other five coin levels (looking at you, Iceberg-that-I-don't-even-remember-how-many-coins-you-were level), but still kind of suffers from that "learn everything through death" thing that a lot of the levels have had, and also that "misplaced midpoint" thing that a few recent levels have had.

I also have that video edited, just waiting to finish my "harder-than-Nigel" ending picture. I guess I have more time now that my Japanese final has been taken (A+ btw *insert Captain Falcon "YESZ!"*) but with more school coming up soon, I think I'm just going to try to blast through the rest of it and do some easy games from here on out (like Skyward Sword... someone suggested Battletoads... I think Demon Souls might also work for that... <_<)

[morsel/morceau]

I read some of the comments on the latest Hyper 6 video, and I should simply mention even people on Japanese message boards complain about the bullshit difficulty of the Hyper series. I think the tolerance gap (between East/West hack players) in general is more imagined than real, honestly.

speaking of which, does anyone know if haimari has a website/way to contact him somewhere?

OK, Haimari fans can now stalk him on twitter. He's going to be finishing Hyper 7 and it's going to be somewhat easier, apparently.

[Marcaek]

Actually really looking forward to 7. Hopefully someone will translate it(Petey? )

I got the impression from the demo that it's going to merge the best attributes of 5 and 6, with a difficulty level somewhere in between.

[peteyboo]

Haha I doubt I could translate it very well. I've only had one class after all. Although I was able to translate one of the messages in the first castle of Hyper 1. <_<

[peteyboo]

Can you tell I'm running out of useful Japanese phrases yet?

Also, I was finally able to finish my new picture. Reused the Skyward Sword buttons because I'm lazy and they look good anyway. But I thought this picture was appropriate for the 6th game in a really tough series for SOME REASON.

Edit: Actually, Cup (or someone else with Japanese language knowledge), today's level is "soshite sayounara" instead of the normal "soushite sayonara"? Is that particularly different?

[Marcaek]

Man that is some frighteningly appropriate end pic you have there Petey.

...what exactly is it supposed to be?

[peteyboo]

Flandre Scarlet, Extra boss of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, aka Touhou 6. If you watch a video of the fight, you'll see why I chose it.

[DWebb32]

meant to say this yesterday, but regarding what you were talking about with speed and jumping, the max x-velocity that mario can have while still being able to jump is 63. typically when being shot out of things (like pipes in the normal games and dk barrels in hacks) his x-velocity is 64, making him unable to jump until his speed is lowered. the problem came when he made u do a nearly frame perfect jump and if u jump on the exact frame you land your x-velocity remains constant. kind of a dick move

[peteyboo]

To be (slightly) fair, dick moves are kind of a staple of hard hacks. I mean, just in this level we had a blind "jump" (only semi-blind if you do it the random/dangerous way), the requirement to duck if you want to keep your powerup (although you can always backtrack to a point where you CAN duck), an area that you almost need that powerup to get past (no parenthetical help for this one), and that trap with the final barrel before the midpoint.

This one was relatively easy to figure out. I need to reduce my speed, so hold left. If I'm big, it's even easier because I still need to be ducking or I'll hit my head when I jump (although the ease of holding both down and left while concentrating on everything is questionable). It's learning through death, which isn't exactly a good way to design your level, but I guess it's better than Execution Hell with Randomness AKA Bowser in the Dark Abyss.

[peteyboo]

Ummm... hi

I really probably should play Skyward Sword since I know I'll probably get very few videos out with all the crap I'm dealing with, but meh.