Touhou 5: Mystic Square Yuuka Lunatic Perfect 1CC [LNN No Miss No Bombs]
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The beautiful artwork in the thumbnail was done by Barudo! It was commissioned specifically for this video. I couldn't think of anyone better for the job, than a fellow mega enjoyer of all things Mystic Square.
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After grinding for months, I got the run and I couldn't be happier. An LNN in my favorite Touhou game as one of my favorite Touhou characters. And it's apparently a world's first, so this is also for any fellow Yuuka enjoyers.
On a related note, being a Yuuka fan is the sole reason why I picked her. The world's first is a nice bonus, but I was mainly after the Yuuka LNN. Yuuka being the worst shot in the game did little to deter me, she sucks but it's not comparable to the bad shots you see in windows era (DDC especially). Yuuka has a couple redeeming factors, the most notable is a lot of RNG spam sections are made much easier if not free. The ice shard enemy things at the end of stage 2, the stage 5 opener, and stage 5 ending spam are all much easier as Yuuka. Due to her being able to hit most enemies on screen, and low health enemies you typically see during spam negating her terrible DPS, you could argue she's more consistent of a shot than Mima due to being less influenced by bad RNG.
But alas, she's the worst shot in the game for a reason. The biggest by far is her god awful performance against Yumeko red and blue spam. Shot range is thrown out the window because you time these patterns out. All that's left is Yuuka's sluggish movement speed to make her easily the worst performing shot against Yumeko. Stage 4 also becomes needlessly annoying, as her damage output struggles to deal with the abundant "pinwheel" enemies as I call them. Pinwheels often spawn on opposite sides of the screen, too, which Yuuka struggles to reach thanks to her move speed. In particular, I've dubbed the section at 13:58-14:17 "The Pinwheel Massacre". This is thanks to Yuuka needing to make a really stupid dodge at the end of it to avoid the pinwheels that spawn from the bottom of the screen, while also lining yourself up somewhat precisely to make sure the ones on your side are unalived before they can shoot. Having to survive every boss pattern for longer also does not help at all.
TL;DR: Yuuka is really terrible.
I should also make it clear that I am fully aware of Mystic Square being an easier Touhou game, as well as the fact that I am not a very great Touhou player. A lot of my dodges were terrible to be frank, and given the amount of close calls during the Shinki fight, I wouldn't argue if you claimed this was nothing more than a fluke. I do not want to pass this off as anything more, or pretend this run is more impressive than it is. I am proud of myself but I've got a long way before I'm worthy of sitting at the same lunch table as actual supes.
My previous PB was from just over a week ago, and it was a 1 miss to Shinki's final. That run was really heartbreaking and caused a ton of motivation issues. Someone likened it to a lunatic 1MNBNT in Ten Desires to NDS, which seems pretty accurate.
I think that's all I have to say. I'd like to make a video going in depth on actual gameplay strategies, but for now if you have any questions just leave a comment. I'm sure I'll get a grand total of zero comments so it won't be hard to keep up with them all.
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It's nice to finally see another player getting Mystic Square LNN, and with Yuuka which makes this run even more epic. Congratulations! That was an amazing performance. Also it's weird that Yuuka struggles with "The Pinwheel Massacre", in theory her shotgun should be perfect for this section, but somehow she can't kill them in time
Amazing run, I'm not familiar with pc-98 that much but LNN is always cool to see, so congrats!
when genocide is just a game
Congratulations on your awesome run! Your rank management and strategies for the patterns show a good knowledge of the run. I was pretty busy today but I'm happy I was able to make some time to watch this since I was really curious to see an LNN with Yuuka but you did play really well!
@yepmulti
10 ай бұрын
thank you for the kind words, I will say though that rank doesn't make a huge difference in mystic square. but by the time I learned this rank reducing strats were already habit. but I did ease up and not avoid point items like my life depends on it. plus my practice savestates had low rank so it'd be more accurate to what I was practicing. it also helps for the sake of superstition, i.e. "what if that 0.1% bullet speed increase costs the run?"
@ZigzagwolfSTG
10 ай бұрын
@@yepmulti yeah it's true rank doesn't matter too much for MS though I find the speed increase on Yumeko to make her quite a bit harder in a variety of ways (think she spawns more swords as she throws bullet waves a bit quicker; it is a tad harder to plan streamturns. Though you did pretty well there.) I can understand the strategies being a habitual thing and still worrying about the slightest of potential differences. All in all you did great! c:
GG! Very good run. Yuuka's honestly a very underrated shot in this game, she's hard to use but pretty rewarding (and definitely better than Marisa imo) Was wondering how consistent you'd say Yuuka's Stage 4 trains section is? Ik it's pretty bad for her but idk how consistent or inconsistent it is at this level
@yepmulti
10 ай бұрын
I'm not sure what you mean by the trains section, so I'll just go over every stage 4 hard part. Overall stage 4 feels very consistent yet nerve racking. Both of Yuuka's weaknesses in both DPS and movement speed really show here. The opener is quite annoying as a pinwheel left alive can move into a really bad spot and give you some terrible waves. This part can likely be routed to be 100% consistent but I never figured one out. Then it's smooth sailing until the midboss, who has the RNG pattern, but theres no strats here that are specific to Yuuka. Post-midboss you have the section I pointed out in the description, which I've already said my piece on. A strat I use is aligning myself with an exe on my taskbar to always be in the right spot to kill the pinwheels that spawn from the bottom. After "The Pinwheel Massacre" there's streaming with fairies, and then "The Pinwheel Massacre 2" as I very creatively called it. And this part lasts until the end of the stage. This section was a huge problem for a while, because for every time two pinwheels in the center showed up there was a chance I'd just get a really bad wave. I learned that I can once again use taskbar icons to align myself properly to make sure this doesn't happen. There's a range of 3 different icons I want to stay within, and as long as I'm there, pinwheels on the left and center will be dealt with and they wont spawn any overlapping waves. Then I die to bad movement RNG on Yuki+Mai
Cool thumbnail badass
GG epic sauce
This is epic
GG!
We need Yuuka to return again someday. ❤
Yoooo GG
Yuuka Rember GG
meanwhile I struggled with Marisa on just Normal 1cc for like week or two, and then manage to get Reimu and Yuuka clears on the same day. how do you not suffer with Marisa in Mystic Square
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Congrats on your LNN bro, it's hard to see a pc-98 LNN run nowadays
Congratulations! For Yumeko's red and blue spam attacks, would you say it's easier to learn how to time it out as opposed to simply dealing with it the normal way?
@yepmulti
10 ай бұрын
yes, it makes the run significantly easier. i could see an argument in favor of doing red normally, as it already has a big RNG factor in timeouts. phase 2 increasing the speed and quanity of swords will require more of both luck and skill but maybe you'd be willing to do that in the name of ending the pattern nearly twice as fast. blue on the other hand isnt all that difficult to timeout once you learn the restream timing, as there arent nearly as many swords as red. letting it go to phase 2 would make it exclusively harder and more luck based for next to no benefit
GG
Big congrats on your run! Any chance you will join nrook's exclusive Yuuka scoring club?
@yepmulti
10 ай бұрын
Im yet to do any scoring in any touhou games, but if I give it a try it'll definitely be this category
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@yepmulti
10 ай бұрын
there are no spell cards in pc98 touhou, therefore this run is actually full spell as fuck
holy fuck you’re good