[TAS replay] Touhou 6 EoSD 1,363,755,110 (Lunatic, ReimuB) by ISM

Not my run. I thought it was worth uploading a UA-cam video of this for people who don't have a Nicovideo account, and don't feel like setting up the cheat to disable the 999,999,990 counterstop that would otherwise occur at 25:00.
Retexture patch used because I didn't feel like reverting it just for one video. Some people might prefer it anyway.
Replay available here:
ism.harisen.jp/...
It's the link labeled "東方紅魔郷Lunaticスコア(夢符)" (the site doesn't allow direct linking). The downloaded file should be called th6_11.rpy.
Nicovideo link:
www.nicovideo.j...
How to prevent the score from stopping at 999,999,990:
www.shrinemaide...

[@LaidbackLost]

You all thought this was a TAS but it’s actually just ZUN playing touhou casually

[@IkaraPopsicle]

Yes

[@seronymus]

While drunk! 🍻

[@kentguiller]

@@seronymus I swear that man is a barrel of beer that has legs.

[@Kelleck]

*cough* tewi *cough*

[@mavi3348]

Touhou player: *Dodges rain*
Touhou tas: *Dodges air molecules*

[@FluffiFoxi]

Videos like this make me realize I have played one of my favorite games wrong the entire time and make me question my own life.

[@seronymus]

How is it going 7 years later +

[@FluffiFoxi]

@@seronymus 1cc lunatic. Improvements have been made.

[@axelling_atk]

@@FluffiFoxi let’s go!! pog

[@oceanman2011]

​@@FluffiFoxiproud of you

[@thettbd]

Now imagine TAS-ing Touhou 15, where you have to graze to get lives.
Hilarity ensues.

[@KarisaMirisame]

The life requirement is only 200 graze. Not that hard to meet in most patterns on Lunatic.
There is already a TAS of LoLK Extra (www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm27943915 ) but no TAS of the main game yet. I wonder if it's even determined if Reisen or Sanae is better-- I'd suspect Reisen for the giant hitbox from bombing, but then again that hitbox might interfere with TAS phasing through bullets (which relies on being on opposite sides of the bullet in two consecutive frames)...
I suggest you try watching non-TAS Lunatic scoreruns if you enjoy seeing absurdly high graze counts in the main game, though:
score.royalflare.net/th15/level15.html#L3

[@smurfton94]

For future people: Looks like there is the use of Hourglass for save-states so that Reimu can be in the randomly placed bullet spawns and at least some of this was done frame by frame for that TAS bullet trick that was mentioned. Doesn't look like there's any luck manipulation present though. Probably took the person 6 months?
Thanks for sharing this video with us.

[@KarisaMirisame]

I'm pretty sure there is luck manipulation, actually. Boss movement in EoSD is random, and if the boss is in the middle it's better for bullet cancels (since the bullets take longer to leave the screen).

[@cactu]

KarisaMirisame there is none, almost no cancel in this entire run is optimal

[@smurfton94]

cactu I have no way to tell the difference, but I guess I'll believe you. Sure.

[@cactu]

smurfton94 is that sarcasm lol

[@smurfton94]

cactu A little bit, but you agreed with me and sound more sure so I'm actually going with that.

[@Vanhaomena]

Who would've thought it's possible to stop the graze counter in stage 1

[@Tsouki67]

I wonder if one could dodge rain by TAS-ing the world
sorry

[@Poggle566]

Probably not, our hitboxes are too big.

[@Poggle566]

Tehninza Umbrella Assisted Speedrun

[@1i1x]

UAS Around Earth no H2O hit no skips 126:23 WR RTA

[@Dexuz]

@@Poggle566 y u do dis

[@firnenlegacy]

Do it with rain, then do it with radiation particles.

[@marioandsonicnotsuck]

Lunatic difficulty? Reimu gives no shit

[@ashtonleach9866]

She can get 9,999 Graze in Stage 1!

[@Bravidunno]

Ashton Leach Though she has a small graze hitbox.
Didn't know in EoSD the Graze counter is reset at the end of a stage.

[@redead-ita]

Yup for reimu its just tuesday

[@KarisaMirisame]

Tool-assisted scorerun. Or tool-assisted superplay, a more general term.
And many of the places this TAS uses aren't safespots. There's a TAS trick where you can pass over a bullet if your hitbox is on one side one frame and on the other side the next frame.

[@tetraphobie]

You can always write that one off to the particle-wave duality. Perhaps Renko taught Reimu that concept in one of her dreams.

[@GengarTheTroll14]

What does the scouter say about the graze counter!? ITT'SS OVVERRR 9000!!!

[@sacthequeen4295]

Three minutes in and the graze counter is maxed... Guess the producers didn't see a TAS coming any time soon, lol.

[@vavada8288]

...Producers?
Everything in this game was done by a single guy.

[@pzmarzly]

@Vavada sorry for reviving 3-years old thread, but you're wrong on this one - EoSD was made by ZUN and pbg (+ beta-testers), and there is a chance it was pbg who made that counter. See credits ua-cam.com/video/txh0_jdYzgw/v-deo.htmlm22s

[@Ihavenoname248]

It's unknown, but presumably Hourglass was used to have savestates and varying degrees of slowdown.

[@Arrcival]

when it break your best normal score in stage 2 :/

[@unovi8141]

Congratulations, you just won the Touhou series.

[@Optiplexations]

Reimu with Hourai Elixir be like.

[@meliaxdolly]

She would turn into mokou lol

[@JMANTHEGERMAN]

Gonna tell my kids a real human played this

[@alwayrember193]

At 0:00 you can see the first to use the spell comment system, as they scramble for first but can't see the keyboard so they type
Fries

[@SUPAREALcutechickdGaming]

18:13 the graze counter couldn’t take it anymore ;_;

[@AMaplestoryFan]

It doesn't necessarily have to be a speedrun. TAS is used as more a a general term for all things.

[@HouraisanShijuunana]

TAS error in stage 3 bruh

[@nicedewd7176]

TAS=super sayan Reimu.

[@LaysergSyrus]

What is TAS

[@KarisaMirisame]

Tool-assisted superplay. This run was created using savestates and slowdown to create movements that are humanly impossible in real time-- this allows for every frame (1/60 second) to be manually adjusted at the TAS-er's own pace, to optimize grazing etc.
See tasvideos.org/ for more about TAS-ing in general (as well as TAS speedruns of a wide variety of console games), or en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/User:Arcorann/High_Score_Almanac for more Touhou TAS scoreruns.

[@Suwawako]

25:00
1 BILLION

[@josephyoo7863]

I would want ex stage more than any other stages

[@mehmetoruch]

I played Touhou 6 when i was 4 back in 2012!

[@ashtonleach9866]

Is the retexture patch make EoSD more HD?

[@Bravidunno]

7:35 Game of Safespots.

[@okuu_utsuho]

Cirno may be “smart” but she can’t outsmart the TAS.

[@yandeloid471]

How can I get the retwxtjre patch used in this video?

[@abarette_]

So much score that the game menu isn't made for it lmfao (25:00)

[@Xilore25]

So much Graze wow.

[@Crimson-qo4ii]

Too much graze? In stage 3 in normal mode I got a graze level of 3000 and I was not TASing or nothing.

[@alexanderskladovski]

remilia scarlet on her portrait looks like armenian

[@dorukayhanwastaken]

atleast that dude could force tas to move in more curvy patterns with irregular speed

[@deegobooster]

It would have taken him months. At that point all I would have cared about was doing the most amount of damage possible (which is what he did)

[@KarisaMirisame]

+Deego the Great
Don't you mean maximizing the graze and bullet cancels? I don't think this TAS ever finished a boss pattern as early as possible.

[@deegobooster]

KarisaMirisame You are right. I think the TASer was going for highest score.

[@TheShootingStarKing]

+Deego the Great "I think" lmao oh my god

[@deegobooster]

Star King gr8 b8

[@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668]

This is a TAS? I just thought it was otaku who spent 3 years of his life in ig time.

[@Psx806]

Well this game being played this well could only be done by someone who was put into solitary confinement for a illicit act. I guess.

[@Mokou_fan4837]

If touhou was played with a mouse

[@shinyakurai72]

TAS IS THE BEST GOD EVER !

[@raymariopokenic1561]

do you know what TAS is?

[@IkaraPopsicle]

Touhoun't

[@korelore8841]

H o w ?

[@hanslangsdorff1512]

Hack ?? =))

[@raymariopokenic1561]

no hacks were used. look up what a TAS is.