Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (&general Touhou Topic)

[Emma]

WHY IS THIS GAME SO DIFFICULT?
AND WHY DO I HAVE TO KO PEOPLE ABOUT FOUR TIMES BEFORE I WIN?

[DarkOverord]

WHY IS THIS GAME SO DIFFICULT?
AND WHY DO I HAVE TO KO PEOPLE ABOUT FOUR TIMES BEFORE I WIN?

Story mode is like that. Arcade mode is your typical fighting.

[Emma]

...but whyyyyyyyyy ;o;

i don't get it.

[Geo the Fox]

If you're really interested, I'll go ahead and explain it.

In the touhouverse, fights are carried out under a set of rules called the Spell Card rules. It's a way to fight and sort/cause problems without actually killing anyone. It's basically a game. To play it, you need to use spell cards to place you in a trance where you can only use that one spell the card listed. This is the basis of the Windows Touhou shooters. You fight bosses who go through several spell card stages that have a set pattern. When you run out of time or empty their health bar for that spell card, they're broken out of the trance and that spell card is defeated. When all your cards are defeated, you lose. This is carried over somewhat into SWR and IaMP for the story modes, where the bosses use spell cards that you have to beat.

It's all for story and canon purposes, basically.

[Emma]

OH. I get it. =]

...But your opponents have like, five spell cards. And you only get three lives. TOTAL.

[Geo the Fox]

Well, it wouldn't be much of a game if you had to pretend to play like a boss, right? Besides, you at least have spell cards too.

[DarkOverord]

fsssssssss Reimu

On another not. Only one spell to do till I unlock Reimu's Last Word. I just can't unlock Marisa's last Spell yet =D

[Geo the Fox]

Ah, sweet. I haven't unlocked that many last words myself. Just the easier ones and Sakuya's, which is oddly incredibly easy when you figure out what she's doing.

[DarkOverord]

How easy Sakuya's is makes me sad >:

EDIT: GOD DAMMIT MARISA. I CAN GET 8000/8500 TIME POINTS ON YOUR STAGE BUT CAN GET 10000+ WITH REIMU!? HAAAAAAAAAAATE

This isn't too bad

This still isn't bad

Huh, red bullets that turn, still not bad

Oh some streamed Blue bullets

This is still not too bad

Oh some red ones....

GREEN IS THE COLOUR OF DEATH! But not this time

Uh-oh. Everythings slowed down double time. There's not much room to dodge either oh god.

Oh god. Oh god you can do this DO

.........fSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSFUCK ;-;

DO cried, only 10 seconds left ;-;

[Lotos]

It took me long enough, but I finally figured out which file to open in the RAR. Scarlet Embodiment's icon looks too similar to a system file, so I kept opening up the configuration files, then went "whoops. this can't be it". I just barely got passed the mist fairy last night, but I had a blast

[Geo the Fox]

I see you're enjoying EoSD. Kinda hard, isn't it?

[DarkOverord]

I see you're enjoying EoSD. Kinda hard, isn't it?

PATCHOULI FSSSS. And Sakuya but she's pretty awesome.

[Random Talking Bush]

Double victory!


ReimuB PCB Replay (Normal, no continues)
(RTB's note: I'm somewhere in the bottom-middle of the screenshot, just barely dodging those butterflies. Anyway, this happened about an hour ago -- I haven't been able to get to sleep yet. I always thought that being tired made it harder to concentrate... I think I might've proven myself wrong. I also used my last bomb at the very end, for some stupid reason. XP)


MarisaB EoSD Replay (Normal, no continues)
(RTB's note: This one was back in September, though. There's also a few clumsy deaths. I'm surprised that I managed to make it through to the end...)

And, here's a random replay from Imperishable Night.
Making a mockery out of Mystia Lorelei

...and no, I still don't even stand a chance in the Extra stages.

[Lotos]

I see you're enjoying EoSD. Kinda hard, isn't it?

Yeah. The farthest I've gotten was the third boss.

[DarkOverord]

I'm gonna try fighting Yukari and EoSD Hard

Oh god. Good luck O: