Overview & Guide to Touhou 7 Lunatic (PCB)

Like the EoSD Lunatic video but for PCB and with slightly better (?) editing.
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Asset Credits:
Eastern Ghostly Dream ~ Ancient Temple Arrange #1 by goth
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Eastern Ghostly Dream ~ Ancient Temple Arrange #2 by Kamio Rei ( reece9005)
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Diao Ye Zong (withered leaf) Arrange by Shinizakai Michisa ( Michisa_S)
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Ghostly Dream ~ Snow or Cherry Petal Arrange by Tatarabi Koukyou (www.nicovideo.jp/user/91355007)
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Imitation Bullet Assets by salada (commons.nicovideo.jp/users/278519)
Touhou Character Portraits by dairi ( dairi155)
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SFX from freesound (freesound.org/)
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:20 - Shot Type Breakdown
00:10:06 - Bomb Breakdown
00:14:16 - Shot Type Recommendations
00:16:29 - Stage 1 First Half
00:18:27 - Cirno Intro
00:19:40 - Cirno Midboss Nonspell
00:20:28 - Frost Sign "Frost Columns"
00:22:16 - Stage 1 Second Half
00:23:41 - Letty Intro
00:24:19 - Letty Nonspell #1
00:25:19 - Cold Sign "Lingering Cold"
00:26:32 - Letty Nonspell #2
00:27:32 - Mystic Sign "Table Turning"
00:28:55 - Stage 1 Closing Thoughts
00:29:13 - Stage 2 First Half
00:31:32 - Chen Intro
00:31:55 - Chen Midboss Nonspell
00:32:22 - Hermit Sign "Fenghuang's Spread Wings"
00:33:17 - Stage 2 Second Half
00:34:12 - Chen Nonspell #1
00:35:36 - Yin Yang "Seiman-Daimon"
00:37:15 - Chen Nonspell #2
00:37:52 - Servant Sign "Gohou-Tendou's Wild Dance"
00:39:15 - Direction Sign "Kimontonkou"
00:40:52 - Stage 2 Closing Thoughts
00:41:25 - Stage 3 Section #1
00:41:53 - Alice Intro
00:42:22 - Alice Midboss Nonspell #1
00:43:56 - Stage 3 Section #2
00:44:32 - Alice Midboss Nonspell #2
00:45:41 - Puppeteer Sign "Maiden's Bunraku"
00:46:40 - Stage 3 Section #3
00:48:26 - Alice Nonspell #1
00:49:53 - Blue Sign "Fraternal Orleans Dolls"
00:52:51 - Alice Nonspell #2
00:53:26 - White Sign "Chalk-White Russian Dolls"
00:54:22 - Alice Nonspell #3
00:55:02 - Elegant Sign "Spring Kyoto Dolls"
00:55:38 - Malediction "Hanged Hourai Dolls"
00:56:53 - Stage 3 Closing Thoughts
00:57:14 - Stage 4 First Half
01:04:41 - Lily Intro
01:04:54 - Lily Nonspell
01:07:11 - Stage 4 Second Half
01:11:48 - Prismrivers Intro
01:13:35 - Lunasa Nonspell #1
01:15:10 - Lunasa Nonspell #2
01:16:20 - Lyrica Nonspell #1
01:16:56 - Lyrica Nonspell #2
01:17:42 - Merlin Nonspell #1
01:18:52 - Merlin Nonspell #2
01:19:12 - Noisy Sign "Live Poltergeist"
01:20:28 - Lunasa Nonspell #3
01:20:46 - Fake Strings "Pseudo Stradivarius"
01:21:52 - Lyrica Nonspell #3
01:22:06 - Key Spirit "Bosendorfer Divine Performance"
01:23:17 - Merlin Nonspell #3
01:23:29 - Nether Trumpet "Ghost Clifford"
01:25:01 - Noisy Funeral "Stygian Riverside"
01:26:28 - Great Funeral Concert "Spirit Wheel Concerto Grosso: Wondrous"
01:28:43 - Stage 4 Closing Thoughts
01:29:30 - Stage 5 First Half
01:32:45 - Youmu Intro
01:33:08 - Youmu Midboss Nonspell
01:35:02 - Hungry King Sword "Reciprocation of the Ten Kings and the Preta"
01:37:50 - Stage 5 Second Half
01:38:49 - Youmu Nonspell #1
01:40:16 - Hell God Sword "Godspeed Karmic Wind Slash"
01:42:44 - Youmu Nonspell #2
01:43:17 - Asura Sword "Obsession With the Present World"
01:44:48 - Human God Sword "Constancy of the Conventional Truth"
01:46:11 - Heaven God Sword "Three Kon, Seven Haku"
01:48:13 - Stage 5 Closing Thoughts
01:48:35 - Stage 6
01:49:38 - Youmu Midboss Nonspell
01:50:22 - Six Realms Sword "A Single Thought and Infinite Kalpas"
01:53:27 - Yuyuko Intro
01:54:10 - Yuyuko Nonspell #1
01:55:03 - Losing Hometown "Death of One's Home -Suicide-"
01:56:26 - Yuyuko Nonspell #2
01:57:47 - Deadly Dance "Law of Mortality -Demon World-"
02:00:19 - Yuyuko Nonspell #3
02:02:52 - Flowery Soul "Butterfly Delusion"
02:04:27 - Yuyuko Nonspell #4
02:05:00 - Subtle Melody "Repository of Hirokawa -Divine Spirit-"
02:05:52 - Cherry Blossom Sign "Perfect Ink-Black Cherry Blossom -Bloom-"
02:07:47 - "Resurrection Butterfly -80% Reflowering-"
02:09:51 - Perfect Cherry Blossom Closing Thoughts
02:11:02 - Thanks+Patreon Credits
02:12:18 - Future Plans

[@gretelandcat6393]

I am now going to draw Cirno with the ribbon from now on

[@MrLunarias]

Really enjoyed both of your mainline Touhou guides so far. Nice detailed strategies for detailing with each section and the commentary on spellcard names is really interesting too at times. As you said it's a shame we don't see more works with Yuyuko using a sword. Would be a great opportunity for fan-works to subvert the mentor role Yuyuko sometimes is shown in relation to Youmu.

[@vutrungduc8957]

Extremely well-written and detailed guide for PCB. I've been using it as a reference guide to 1cc normal, which I can't thank you enough. Looking forward to your future guides!

[@generaldispear9558]

This guide was the last bit of motivation I needed to commit to trying to get the Lunatic 1CC for Cherry Blossom (my fave by far), and after one week of dedicated practice I managed to get it. Big thankees Hakanai, no doubt it would have taken much longer without some of the strats discussed here. Looking forward to whatever comes next (especially Subterranean Animism, whenever you finally reach that point).

[@HakanaiBlue]

Congrats, I'm glad to hear that! Comments like this let me know these guides are making a difference so I'll definitely keep doing them.

[@squirrelfart275]

Fantastic guide. I appreciated the occasional bits of trivia to break up the technical gameplay explanations - and speaking of those gameplay explanations, they're really good as well! Also I found it funny how you committed to the bit and kept on calling Yuyuko's penultimate spellcard her "final", since Resurrection Butterfly is quite the surprise... Hope you make more content in the future! I would love to see your LoLK or SA guides, if you get around to making them...

[@lottery5795]

Huh, just finished your EoSD video, so this was good timing. Honestly, 1ccing this game on Lunatic still seems impossible, even though I’ve done it on Hard once, but this’ll make it a lot easier if I decide to give it a shot. It was really cool to see how much of this game can be routed when you break it down. It’s still insanely difficult, but remarkably consistent. It’s weird, because the way I see PCB is that it’s one of the hardest Touhou games starting out (especially on Easy), but it’s also one of the easiest once you get the hang of it. I think the best part was learning about the origins of various Spell Card names. It’s fascinating stuff, and stuff you don’t really see covered… anywhere really. Also, for Pseudo Stradivarius, I think I have an explanation as to why Lunasa shoots those bullets if you get close to her. The Hard version of this spell (Stradivarius) is much different and she just shoots omnidirectional bullets straight down at you really fast (honestly, this seems easier than that Spell Card is), and you could cheese that by staying near to her. She has the same behaviour there where she shoots bullets if you get too close to her, so I’m guessing what happened is that Zun came up with that behaviour for Hard, but left it in the Lunatic version by accident, forgetting that the Spell Card works completely differently there. I guess it supports the theory that Zun comes up with Normal and Hard first, and then adjusts them for Easy and Lunatic respectively. Anyway, if you do decide to make an Extra/Phantasm video, I’ll look forward to it. I’ve beaten them before, but it would definitely be nice to learn how to do it with more than just a single bomb left…

[@HakanaiBlue]

That's a very interesting find about Pseudo Stradivarius and I think you're definitely right! I have distinct memories of facing the Hard variant a long time ago, but I totally forgot about it during the video. Funny enough, just like you said, it really IS still easier to dodge it next to Lunasa and just back up after each wave. PCB sure does have a lot of patterns that can be cheesed. I remember having the same impression about the game's difficulty being high when I first tried it. I immediately wanted to go back to playing Imperishable Night. Nowadays though, I think it's close to the bottom in terms of difficulty (at least we're talking Lunatic). I just finished the script and footage gathering for the PCB Extra/Phantasm video yesterday, and though I need to take a few days to work on other things, it'll probably be out within a couple weeks to a month.

[@luisangel8147]

I surely will not try to 1cc PCB at Lunatic, although I will continue trying to 1cc Normal. Great video as always, the advises I heard are really good, your voice is calming and with the enough volume, the editing is good and the "fun facts" are well fun!

[@K_TataraB]

Thanks for using my arrangement song!

[@HakanaiBlue]

Thank you for making such a wonderful arrange! It was a great fit for the video's introduction.

[@FantasyJared]

These are so high effort! ^^ Might pull a weekend night watching these vids, also love your translation work.

[@brand_st4325]

Thank you so much! I'm new to Touhou games and this guide is so helpful 🙏

[@Proudchaud]

I shall patiently await the ufo lunatic guide.

[@Norirane]

Just as I finished watching EoSD guide, nice

[@LeCorbeauNoar]

Thanks for this video !! i've been trying to beat the game for like 6 or 7 years now, it will probably help me a lot lol

[@HakanaiBlue]

Feel free to report back if you pull it off! Beating any Touhou game is definitely worth a brag.

[@garlicslap]

When the world needed him the most... HE RETURNED

[@Tohorazen]

Fun fact: yuyuko’s 3rd non spell seems really hard at first, but its kinda a static attack since the bullets travel based on where you are, so I recommend playing around with it and learning a pattern to it that you can do

[@satyman08]

35:34 i didn't know that was possible, that looks so fucking cursed 💀💀

[@Dukstless]

The difficulty name in spellcards is because of ZUNcode (of course). Due to whatever reason, spellcards with the same name are treated as the same thing. This also happens in EoSD iirc, but it wasn't really that important there. Here, you have Phantasm locked behind capturing 60 various spellcards, so ZUN just slapped a bandaid by adding the difficulty suffixes and called it a day.

[@Proudchaud]

Just wanna thank you again, for i have beaten pcb on lunatic. Run had a clean first half but the late game could've been a lot better. Might do it again with marisa sometime later

[@fero_art]

No Letty Whiterock was harmed in this video

[@Kasamori]

Oh yeah I'm currently trying to beat it on lunatic

[@Zackylo_D_Mofo]

i just started practicing today and oh my god words cannot express how much a hate alice rn day 2 update: why does it feel like when i get better at the later stages, i get worse at the earlier ones

[@snowy3877]

hmm.... neat

[@gaver_x5874]

How do you prevent all the bullets from despawning upon getting hit by one?

[@HakanaiBlue]

That's a feature of the Universal Practice Tool! You can toggle invincibility by opening the menu with backspace then pressing F1. You can get it from the link in description.

[@gaver_x5874]

@@HakanaiBlue I see it now, I just missed the part where it was mentioned because I skipped straight to Merlins attacks, thanks.

[@Ikaros0153]

a picture of Yuyuko's ghost corpse, or her 80% resurrected corpse?

[@faf2324]

Nice video. I think this video teachs well how to do 1cc or even lunatic no bomb, wich is very nice. No much to say about all the patterns, they are well explained and how we can dodge them. I can say something about Yuyuko 2nd spellcard and Yuyuko perfect ink-black spell. There is a strategy which can be used as soon as the spell begins and the people who does score runs do, spin around Yuyuko. It is advisable to start below Yuyuko, spin twice and then go down screen. In scoring you can stay spinning for a long time until the spell ends, it is a little more difficult to learn, but even some scoring techniques are also useful for survival, although there are few cases where this happens. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnTRnqiXaclkfKs here, the player Mino decided to spin in a survival match. However, in my opinion that spin is very risky, he doesnt start below Yuyuko and do some micrododgings. But, is a example Yuyuko perfect ink-black It can be routed safely, it requires a little of routing more with other weak shot types. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jICWdpKFfr-rr9Esi=-brzuVH5nC-UlgBf also, Alice midboss 2nd nonspell, the first 2 waves can be dodged if you stay at the right of the "Y" of the Enemy Marker. Finally, I will look forward to when you make a guide for Touhou 8, which is not an easy game to not use bombs or if it is necessary to capture a spellcard. There are a lot of tips for that game, so I imagine the video will be very long. Good video.

[@HakanaiBlue]

Thanks for the tips! You know, I usually do think "hey, what if...?" and do weird things like spin or dodge attacks up at the top if I'm struggling to find a good way to handle a card, but I'd missed it on Yuyuko's second card despite it taking multiple rewrites for me to end up giving tips. The routing on her fifth card is definitely something I wouldn't have caught onto myself, and maybe a little precise for the kind of tips I'm looking to give in my videos but it's interesting nonetheless. The Alice tip was also new to me (I typically only check for safespots in trickier patterns that need them more). I have the script, recording, and footage for the PCB Extra/Phantasm video done so that'll be the next one to come out when I eventually get around to editing it. Hopefully I can finish an Imperishable Night video during my mortal lifespan!

[@wl4316]

Heavily disagree with Marisa B being better than A. After having tried both, the difference in damage is too big to pass and so is the difference in getting borders. Marisa A is quite incredible in that aspect. I was able to skip attacks by just planning borders with how quickly she gets them.

[@kasugaryuichi9767]

[@user-wf8do7uf8v]

2:13:23 hm, have you ever played Barrage Musical?

[@HakanaiBlue]

I haven't, but I checked out the trailer just now and it looks like it could be pretty good. I've wishlisted it and might try it out sometime, thanks for the recommendation.

[@user-wf8do7uf8v]

@@HakanaiBlue It also has a pretty useful danmaku tutorial game (for beginners) that teaches the player the basics of danmaku

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

Yeah....I'm never doing this, lol. I'll just beat all of these games on normal, use a code to unlock the extra stage and expect to get decimated (it's still fun to try, though), and maybe attempt lunatic and expect to get decimated, then move on to the next game, haha

[@chaosplank210]

are you making one for the extra boss

[@HakanaiBlue]

Yep, it's currently in the works!

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

still too hard for me