Touhou 8 - Imperishable Night - Ghost Team Scoring [5,513,579,410] - Lunatic

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Published on February 8, 2020 8:18:46 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiQ1QjF4p1M

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Imperishable Night (2004)

Duration: 35:52

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A video of me beating Imperishable Night on lunatic, attaining a final score of 5,513,579,410. This is an old PB I did years ago (2015/09/30), which someone requested that I upload. Note that the replay desyncs on Wriggle's first non. Wriggle isn't too notable for scoring, so it's not the worst place to have a desync though.

Survival wise, this was a solid run. No miss and no failed last spells. 16 bombs, but only 3 for survival (Stage 4 post-midboss enemies, Double Spark and Salamander Shield). I can't say much about scoring quality though, it's been too long. A few things I do remember though:

- I was avoiding Mystia's midboss spell supergraze because of how inconsistent I was at it. It's very difficult and it doesn't help that Mystia is able to move high enough to block you. This was probably the biggest thing holding my score back.

- My method for Hourai Jewel was mostly just the survival route but I was missing a lot of easy points because of that. It's actually very easy to graze since it can be routed. I did have a scoring route that I learnt and began using, but it never made it into a PB.

Also, the reason I gave up on this (and Touhou in general) was because of Kaguya's 4th last spell. It's worth a ton (~90m capture bonus, 60m time bonus, etc) but I was having an infuriating issue where I could capture it more than 90% of the time in practice but had failed it in a lot of consecutive runs. Since practice wouldn't help, I couldn't figure out what to do and in the end, it demotivated me enough to stop playing.

I won't rule out going back to scoring this game. Familiars and time points honestly make it a ton of fun and watching this run back makes me feel a bit nostalgic. Might also do some other LNNs.

Replay: http://replay.lunarcast.net/replay/th8_ud0738.rpy

Stage 1: 0:00
Stage 2: 2:28
Stage 3: 7:45
Stage 4: 13:10
Stage 5: 19:49
Stage 6: 27:05

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