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The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil (2002)

Duration: 24:37

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Run Made in 7/30, 2021

As you saw from the title, this is infact my first Touhou 1CC. The movements may look robotic and the + 2 extra lives added is noobish, but I’m still proud of it as I worked hard for this run in around 6 months.

First in line is the 1st stage, which I can’t count how many times I reset on it because of a minor mistake causing me to miss a P item or get hit somehow. Anyhow, this part is kinda easy for me now but I guess I had trouble as a beginner. Rumia’s midboss isn’t really too bad, cause it didn’t have the spell card you get on Hard mode and above. Simple dodging and then this trick I found in which you stand in the path of the fairies and you get full point reward and wont die. Rumia’s spellcards are very easy since it’s mostly just streaming, that is until the last spell Darkness Sign “Demarcation” which has extra bullets if you have a higher rank (fucking EoSD rank system zzz). Next stage is the ⑨ baka funny stage. The thing I do here is bomb for points since in this game score = extends so you have to somewhat optimize for score. Those fast white thingies (not the doves) after Daiyousei can be dangerous, which could result in a reset. The first non-spell is easy misdirection maneuvers, and then next is the fancy in your face fast “Icicle Fall” clear, also the funny spellcard. Even me today can’t replicate this technique as consistently as I could at the time of this run, have I became bad? At the skill level I was I can’t clear “Perfect Freeze” that cleanly so I have to bomb it one time. That is the 2nd stage time for the next stage. This stage has a lot of opportunities for making mad points. The midboss also gives you an extend which is neat. Meiling’s first non messed me up cause I didn’t understand the concept of aggressive positioning and just waited in the back for the bullets to pass. And the death at “Rainbow Wind Chime” was purely skill issue :P . I didn’t know how to clear the last two spells so I just bombed it. Then it is Patchouli’s stage, the 4th stage. The actual stage isn’t really too bad, if you memorized it at least. The only thing is my memory is bad so I often die to it. Time for the actual boss, Patchouli Knowledge, my beloved. Her first non-spell I didn’t get at first like how can you go past this. Then turns out you just have to stay on the left side, stream some bullet, then let the laser through, then run to the other side and repeat. Water Sign “Princess Undine”, the spell I never capped, too hard for me at the time. Even me nowadays I can’t do it consistently. Then the next non is the same as before but faster though I fucked it up somehow. Wood Sign “Sylphae Horn High Level”, I can’t read diagonal bullets well and it’s insignificant enough so I bombed it. Next spellcard is Water & Wood Sign “Water Elf” which is a spell that you must keep your eyes peeled because if you blink, the path to dodge will be gone and you will be pinned to the wall. Then the last spell is nothing much, simple dodging might do the trick. Now we are getting closer to the end, here is the 5th stage. Here I actually beat the stage with no cheese strats, unlike my future runs. I hoped that I stayed with Sakuya’s spellcard a bit longer since that would mean the bullet clusterfuck up next would be shorter in duration, but I didn’t so RIP. Then next immediately is the boss fight, with the first few seconds of it making me lose a life, whoops. The first spell card Illusion Existance “Clock Corpse” is supposed to be a breeze, but that slight touch of the dagger which had some nasty hitbox made me die. I bombed and died a lot in this stage, which I am not very proud of, it looks bad. This resulted in me having no resources at all when starting the last stage. Starting 6th stage with 2 lives what a pain, you know what is more painful? How about dying to a fairy by a pixel off. That almost killed the run so no more mistakes. I was bad so I wasted 3 bombs in the midboss, but at least I got one back plus a score extend. I didn’t know when to unfocus so clearing Remilia’s first non-spell was a pain so bomb I must. Now that I don’t have bombs I must survive for as long as possible with no room for error. There is this one part where I only have to go around Remilia to dodge it which was neat to have in this difficult situation. Next is Dark Sign “Scarlet Netherworld”, which I didn’t know how to clear but I know how to survive long enough so the respawn immunity could kill it. Unfortunate panic bomb there. Next is the triple cycle non. I somehow got through it despite using one bomb early because I dodged em rice bullets, fuck those seriously. After the next spellcard is the final spell “Red Magic”. I had to do it with no lives left which made me very nervous. This made me use my last 2 bombs too early forcing me to go on without any resources left. It was scary but eventually I did it. I actually 1CC’d a Touhou game. That 30 second of silence at the end was just me celebrating lol.

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