Glaceon Mage
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Post by Glaceon Mage on May 15, 2015 10:11:16 GMT
Just in terms of how enjoyable they are~
I've only tried 4 or so Extras, and only cleared one of them, so here's my list...
1. Subterranean Animism Extra ~ I just really enjoy this stage. The music is gorgeous and correlates well with the place in the stage, though I'm still trying to figure out Ancestor beside your bed.
2. Imperishable Night Extra ~ The one I've actually cleared, this has a really fun stage portion and a creative boss
3. Perfect Cherry Blossom Extra ~ RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
4. DDC Extra ~ Not sure how to approach the second fairy section, or the Tsukumo's second card. Oh well, still fun.
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Royalty of House Scarlet
Daughter of Coldharbour
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Post by Royalty of House Scarlet on May 15, 2015 10:33:10 GMT
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil's. The stage theme, Centennial Festival for Magical Girls, is amongst my most cherished themes ZUN has composed. It's my interpretation of the most iconic stage rendition, and basically the embodiment and ultimate demonstration of what makes Touhou so fantastically engaging.
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ZM
Kochiyaist
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Arahitogami~
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Post by ZM on May 15, 2015 10:37:15 GMT
MoF Extra is the only one I remotely care about.
I had to prove my worth to Suwako-sama, after all.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 17:21:37 GMT
IN Extra is pretty cool, besides Keine's 2nd spellcard and Honest Mans Death for scoring. Fuck those spells.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 17:29:06 GMT
I've only played IN extra, but I've watched videos of the others.
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LNN Keeper
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Post by LNN Keeper on May 19, 2015 3:45:11 GMT
Phantasm of course~
It has the best character. Also, patterns are beautiful, fun, and the music is great.
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relick
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Post by relick on May 31, 2015 21:06:29 GMT
Now that I've actually played some extras:
1) DDC EX - Raiko is just really fun, and the stage is great (although the Tsukumos not so much).
2) EoSD EX - This is also very fun, while the stage is a bit lame, Patchy makes up for it and Flan is awesome (it's a shame the nons suck)
3) MoF EX - Suwako is kind of a lame boss. The stage is pretty cool though, but Kanako is also super lame. It's still fairly fun as an EX.
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Syaro
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Post by Syaro on Jun 8, 2015 21:09:00 GMT
Probably Imperishable Night's extra stage. Keine's second spell looks really cool in scoring runs! Even if I don't really understand what's exactly happening, haha. Honest Man's Death really blows my mind. How difficult is it really to stay up that high and make those small taps for that long? I've tried, but I'm really bad so I haven't had any success.
I really enjoy those cool grazes that you see a lot in PCB, IN and UFO too. EoSD has them as well. Some of the games are just super impressive to watch, imo!
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Post by jpsuperplayer on Jun 8, 2015 21:56:53 GMT
LLS is my favorite Ex stage. Probably because it's so short. EoSD looks fun too but too hard for me. I never learned the bomb timings, and I can never seem to get down the timing for the red shot fairies at the start of the stage on the odd times I feel like trying to learn it, so i never really got that into the stage. PCB is fun too, but the bomb timings and positioning on stages seem ridiculously strict, so I could never really get into it.
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Glaceon Mage
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Post by Glaceon Mage on Jun 9, 2015 1:39:09 GMT
Probably Imperishable Night's extra stage. Keine's second spell looks really cool in scoring runs! Even if I don't really understand what's exactly happening, haha. Honest Man's Death really blows my mind. How difficult is it really to stay up that high and make those small taps for that long? I've tried, but I'm really bad so I haven't had any success. I really enjoy those cool grazes that you see a lot in PCB, IN and UFO too. EoSD has them as well. Some of the games are just super impressive to watch, imo! How high are you staying during Honest Man's Death, exactly? It's easier near the bottom of the screen. Unless you're using Sakuya solo or Yuyuko solo, which I HIGHLY doubt, you're going to have 90% less trouble at absolute bottom near the center horizontally. Gaps are larger that way. |
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nameschonvergeben
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Post by nameschonvergeben on Jun 9, 2015 4:50:55 GMT
Probably Imperishable Night's extra stage. Keine's second spell looks really cool in scoring runs! Even if I don't really understand what's exactly happening, haha. Honest Man's Death really blows my mind. How difficult is it really to stay up that high and make those small taps for that long? I've tried, but I'm really bad so I haven't had any success. I really enjoy those cool grazes that you see a lot in PCB, IN and UFO too. EoSD has them as well. Some of the games are just super impressive to watch, imo! About HMD, I think it's generally considered the hardest thing in the run, Sakurei seems pretty consistent at it though, so once you learned it really well, maybe other attacks are harder. How high are you staying during Honest Man's Death, exactly? It's easier near the bottom of the screen. Unless you're using Sakuya solo or Yuyuko solo, which I HIGHLY doubt, you're going to have 90% less trouble at absolute bottom near the center horizontally. Gaps are larger that way. She was talking about scoring, where you have to be really high up on the screen if you want to get a good amount of time. For survival staying at the bottom is obviously easier |
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Syaro
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Post by Syaro on Jun 9, 2015 12:50:42 GMT
Probably Imperishable Night's extra stage. Keine's second spell looks really cool in scoring runs! Even if I don't really understand what's exactly happening, haha. Honest Man's Death really blows my mind. How difficult is it really to stay up that high and make those small taps for that long? I've tried, but I'm really bad so I haven't had any success. I really enjoy those cool grazes that you see a lot in PCB, IN and UFO too. EoSD has them as well. Some of the games are just super impressive to watch, imo! About HMD, I think it's generally considered the hardest thing in the run, Sakurei seems pretty consistent at it though, so once you learned it really well, maybe other attacks are harder. So it IS the most difficult attack then. If you think that Honest Man's Death might not be the toughest when you become better at it, can you ask Sakurei what they think? I don't think there are that many people who can speak English and played that stage for score, so it would be a shame to pass up on asking things like these, imo. Hourai Doll looks very tough too. You have less and less space to move around while trying to graze as many bullets as possible. I would ask myself, but I don't know where to contact them; and you seem like you do. Yes, that is true. But like nameschonvergeben said, I wasn't talking about just capturing the attack, but timing it out for extra time and graze, like you see in scoring runs. I'm also pretty sure that sitting at the bottom with both Sakyua and Yuyuko would still be easier, even if it takes longer to finish the attack. My bad for being ambiguous! |
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nameschonvergeben
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Post by nameschonvergeben on Jun 9, 2015 13:42:31 GMT
About HMD, I think it's generally considered the hardest thing in the run, Sakurei seems pretty consistent at it though, so once you learned it really well, maybe other attacks are harder. So it IS the most difficult attack then. If you think that Honest Man's Death might not be the toughest when you become better at it, can you ask Sakurei what they think? I don't think there are that many people who can speak English and played that stage for score, so it would be a shame to pass up on asking things like these, imo. Hourai Doll looks very tough too. You have less and less space to move around while trying to graze as many bullets as possible. I would ask myself, but I don't know where to contact them; and you seem like you do. 15:38 Sakurei Eh 15:38 Sakurei HMD is probably the hardest in a real life situation 15:38 Sakurei But if you were to always keep your cool under all circumstances 15:38 Sakurei And play at your best at all times 15:39 Sakurei Then IS would be harder, since that would translate into a 40-41 IS 15:39 Sakurei But in a run where you get that far, you're gonna play it safe 15:39 Sakurei Highest IS I've seen in a good run was 35m 15:39 Sakurei Which is mine xd (note: this is a joke, sakurei does not actually consider his run good) 15:39 Sakurei Hourai Doll in a run is pretty tough too, but I don't know if I would go so far and say it's as hard or even harder than HMD 15:40 Sakurei And of course, everything depends on how optimized you are with your grazing |
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MauserZGK
娜兹琳的男朋友
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Post by MauserZGK on Jun 9, 2015 13:58:42 GMT
Not fond of Extra stages in general myself. They are too easy to beat for survival and the harder extra bosses tend to be in games in not very mechanically fond of. Although I've never played an extra stage very seriously, I'll still give a few thoughts as to personal favorites.
UFO Extra is cool. I've played a bit around with this stage for a few hours but never really managed scores beyond around the 500 million, but it was interesting for as long as it lasted. Just had to stop because learning the post-Kogasa routes was tedious with no ability to skip straight to it. Top lazy i know but fuck it, unless it means getting a physical Nazrin to move in with me i'm not in the mood for effort! The stage will have you sacrifice basically all your resources for points but the boss is a bit underwhelming as the scoring on her is not very demanding compared to other bosses but at least Sanae's shotgunning speedkills are fairly cool. Nue could do with being harder really. Perhabs a sort of hardness to match my own. Actually UFO should've had a Phantasm Stage with Nazrin as the boss who'd kick your ass and stuff which is practically what she does.
GFW Extra is pretty dank for straight survival purposes. Lots of awesome attacks in here. I don't know much about the scoring in this stage so no comment but really tho, Marisa's non-spells are reason enough to give some points here. And GFW is cool. All puns intended.
Ten Desires Extra is an awesome feast to watch. I haven't given this stage any effort whatsoever but I think it looks very cool and maybe I should try it one day. What makes it cool is essentially that it's the TD system working as it was probably intended to. You will want to capture basically all of Mamizou's spells and all of Nue's cards too and you will want to do it while shotgunning the bosses as much as you can for spirits. Its a very tricky stage from the looks of it but in a different and interesting way unique in a series of games that usually is all about the graze. (which again is totally only a problem because I'm a pretty bad at moving my character accurately xD)
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Syaro
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Post by Syaro on Jun 9, 2015 14:54:57 GMT
So it IS the most difficult attack then. If you think that Honest Man's Death might not be the toughest when you become better at it, can you ask Sakurei what they think? I don't think there are that many people who can speak English and played that stage for score, so it would be a shame to pass up on asking things like these, imo. Hourai Doll looks very tough too. You have less and less space to move around while trying to graze as many bullets as possible. I would ask myself, but I don't know where to contact them; and you seem like you do. 15:38 Sakurei Eh 15:38 Sakurei HMD is probably the hardest in a real life situation 15:38 Sakurei But if you were to always keep your cool under all circumstances 15:38 Sakurei And play at your best at all times 15:39 Sakurei Then IS would be harder, since that would translate into a 40-41 IS 15:39 Sakurei But in a run where you get that far, you're gonna play it safe 15:39 Sakurei Highest IS I've seen in a good run was 35m 15:39 Sakurei Which is mine xd (note: this is a joke, sakurei does not actually consider his run good) 15:39 Sakurei Hourai Doll in a run is pretty tough too, but I don't know if I would go so far and say it's as hard or even harder than HMD 15:40 Sakurei And of course, everything depends on how optimized you are with your grazing Thank you very much for asking! It's always nice to see the insight of an expert. It can be very interesting to see what someone who excels at the thing thinks about the thing. But frankly, Sakurei seems a bit crazy. Their run isn't good? 3 billion is an amazing score and they even got as much as 3.04 billion! I don't know what they are thinking, but it's really good and that many people can only dream of having such a score (like myself). Tell them that for me too, please. And thanks again for asking |
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