Iceflare

You haven't gotten SA LNB...? Then what makes you think I of all people can get that?

Whee.

Yay, Ran~

Eh. For the sake of people who can't be bothered to watch replays, I've started uploading of my clears, complete with sarcastic annotations.

Does it matter? Well, I wasn't talking about difficulty...

Meh.

Cumulative update on not-so-recent things:

What am I doing

Stuff and things.

I would if my internet isn't trash. We'll see.

Ugh. I know that feeling. Did you have any dumb deaths? For Hell's Tokamak, I just bombed every time the bullets leave the red circle. They take a while to come out again, so if you have a decent amount of power, you should be able to finish it off. Also, you do know that on Lunatic, Okuu's 3rd nonspell has a safespot directly below her, dead bottom of the screen, right? It's very scary, but I've never failed it before. There was this one run where I got past Orin with three extra lives, proceeded to mess up without bombing multiple times and game over'd just as Subterranean Sun started...

I bomb the shit out of Yuugi's lasers and stage 4. I'm honestly impressed you can consistently get the BoWaP safespot without having to bomb, but if you want to play safely... that might not be the best idea.

Eh... that's not really the case... Most of the time, my bombs are planned, or at least semi-planned. I can give you an example of what I do mentally, for this stage, for example. [spoiler=EoSD Extra resource planning]Stage (Bomb death fairy?) (Bomb Silent Selene?) Bomb Royal Flare just as second wave spawns Bomb Philosopher's Stone at halfway point (Bomb final wave of books if I have bombs) Flandre (Ideal: 4/0) Die to Cranberry Trap Bomb Four of a Kind (Bomb Kagome Kagome?) Abuse invincibility to defeat Maze of Love (hence my death with bombs in stock here; I was at a loss because things went better than expected and I didn't know what to do) Bomb Starbow Break Bomb Catadioptric Bomb Clock that Ticks Away the Past Die to survival, bomb at 3-5s remaining So yeah, imo it's just glorified resource management. I don't really have ninja-like deathbomb reflexes or anything, it's probably just the 90fps. You can do something like that if you want more resource micromanagement, but try not to end up like me and ragequit if you miss a power item or something like that. ...sorry, I went off on a rant.

...... ...well, LNBs aren't particularly appealing to me right now, but maybe someday. I want to improve my general dodging skills first, I don't think I'm particularly up to snuff. For what it's worth I think you're much better at these games than I am. I feel like most of my 1ccs are resource management.

In my experience at least, stage 1-3 is the most irritating part of grinding for just about anything. So you're not the only one there. Also: