Touhou 12 ~ Undefined Fantastic Object - Lunatic 11 Miss No Bombs 1cc (MarisaA)
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2023
- I'm not sure how many people who watch know this, but I have a pretty poor mental when it comes to games with high pressure. I always overthink, making me underperform at points when it matters most. It's a glaring weakness that I felt I should take steps to rectify after becoming inspired by others doing the same. As such, I felt this game in particular was the perfect place to try and hone this skill and directly face one of the biggest demons I've yet to face in Touhou.
This game has a lot of things I don't play well against. It has back to back safespots in Kogasa's fight, something I've had a lot of issues with in the past. It has extremely backlogged difficulty, it has some of the most brutal routing so far forcing you to focus even early on and, most important, it has the worst power loss problem I've encountered so far, with only UM NC reasonably comparing to it.
The fear of dying to things like RTG or Vortex that could lead to me crumbling made UFO an exceptionally stressful game that would not accept a player that crumbled whenever things went bad. I had to be comfortable with the idea that I may need to recover from something bad, especially in the last 2 stages which each have a major trouble spot where power can fall as low as 1.
I learned a lot of red UFO routes in my first two attempts to take out this game in 2020 and 2021 respectively. Because it had been so long, I didn't remember them but felt like my dodging skill had improved enough to be able to brute force a clear using improvised red UFO routes outside of stages 1 and 3. I think this run makes very clear that some points in the game got next to no practice and I had no answer for them, trusting in my ability to brute force the bosses which I knew I could perform well in if I kept myself cool.
Sadly I actually did crumble in this run and I was at a point far in where I really wanted to game over or quit. I don't want to spoil the run too much since it's definitely not an average for this game, but I will say the way this run went really showed my progress in terms of mental grit. I would never have done a run like this 2 years ago, so this run is really special to me. I second guessed what happened as luck for a while after I cleared but no, I earned this victory.
I'm not one to play Touhou games to the extent of some LNNers and scorers. Around the 30 hour mark, I will start to feel that fatigue set in which is something else I need to improve on as these goals get harder. At the time of typing this, I have 64 hours clocked in on MarisaA and 9 on MarisaB which does indeed contain the entire grind. It's not an overly long grind and yes maybe it's faster than most, but I believe that the thing that should be focused on isn't how long it takes to get there but rather if you get there at all. I respect people fighting tooth and nail to EARN the runs they gets much more than people trying to rush to the finish line the fastest and then giving up. I hope people can maybe use that to focus on their own journey and not compare themselves to others. If you're proud of it, that's all that matters.
EDIT 29/06/2023 : It was 11 miss, not 10. My b
I know this is a lot to type out for what doesn't seem like much of a grind to some and is an achievement that isn't that noteworthy nowadays among Touhou's elite, but to me, this was a huge step mentally and to have it done nearly 3 years after I first set foot in Makai is a little surreal. This goal caused me to burn out and quit Touhou twice, so it's massive that I finally conquered it.
It's also inspiring to me because for the remainder of the all LNBs grind, it's downhill from here. None of the others are as hard unless I decide to do UM LNBNC. For now, I'm heavily leaning towards LoLK as my next target. Motivation is super high right now and I actually feel I can take on Junko and have at least a shot as LNNing stage 6. I'm sure Junko will shoot down the enthusiasm quickly but I'm sure it'll be fun regardless. - Hry
congrats my unovi!
Thanks very much! :D
I did not know you had attempted this that much before already. It is a very good accomplishment and don't let anyone including yourself make you think otherwise. Spoilers about run now, I do recommend watching this one 'blind' to whoever wants to see...
It's interesting how you opt for safespot on Kogasa as MariA, thats one of the 2 shots that can do it normally. If you are doing it to get better at this kind of thing I respect that of course.
Great job on the Ichirin and Murasa fights!
About the powerloss, it really is quite brutal as this shot, since her bugged damage trick only works on 4 power. Also for LNB and LNBNV I do think it's a good idea to make a 1 power Vajra route, s5 is difficult enough that it is somewhat likely to be needed.
Those red GT waves were very hard rng btw.
About Byakuren....
I was wondering how many lives you would get on that s6, maybe 1 or 2 I thought but I was not expecting this thats for sure...
Seeing you enter the fight with 0, I already know whats about to happen but that makes it no less amazing. I don't see NN Byakuren in people's first LNBNV often let alone LNB. Btw its harder as MariA compared to usual ReimuA, from hitbox on Omen and superhuman and LFS.
Your Good omen was hard rng there and very scary DR again, also ending of this superhuman with that terrible next wave approaching xD
If you do have nerves issues/chokes often, well then you can surely remember this as a great anti choke or clutch ending instead. That Byakuren was not easy, far from it. Huge congrats on the run! And good luck have fun with Lolk its a great game for LNB imo.
oh and also, nice thumbnail!
This really made me smile to read, seeing such an analysis of my run. Thanks so much. Yeah I'll remember this run whenever I feel like I don't have the mental power to pull something off in the future. That s6 death honestly destroyed me, I was so close to quitting which is why my dodging after that was so half-assed. I stopped caring but then when it came to Byakuren, I just felt like I'd take it one pattern at a time and see what happens.
And yeah the next wave of SH I only noticed when watching it back on a replay. Could've been really bad lmao.
Yeah LoLK is a game I've had a lot of fun with in the past.
And thanks about the thumbnail, felt like I should draw one for the occasion. It's something I've wanted to do for ages but was too lazy until recently.