Touhou 15 東方紺珠伝 ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom - Perfect Lunatic Junko (No-Miss, No-Bomb)

"No I'm not doing stage 6 because it's absolute garbage."
Who would have thought that a single throwaway line like that would have such a huge and drastic effect. An effect that would last for years to come. The comment itself was a bit of a half-joke exaggeration, but I can see how it wouldn't fly over very well for some people.
So yeah Junko, she's by far the hardest boss in Touhou by a pretty big margin, it's pretty crazy. I had to do some serious grinding for this one. I got Master on every single spellcard, which is not something that happened in anything else I did in Touhou.
First non: the rings are really dense but fortunately it's static so it's not too annoying. You can line up Reimu's needles with the boss to see how far away you are from the gap.
Pure Light of the Palm: the blue lasers can't hit you so long as you align yourself with the bullets in front. There is always a big gap for the red lasers. This one is really easy.
Second non: stay at a certain height from Junko and move along with the lanes. Very easy too.
Lilies of Murderous Intent: Misdirect the first four aimed orbs to the sides and then stick to a wall depending on where Junko is on the screen. If she's in the middle the safest way to dodge is to also stick to the middle. The RNG on this spell is very unstable, but it's doable most of the time.
Third non: the first rows of a wave are random but the later rows are static. The pattern on the later rows is basically the same as in spellcard 4. Difficulty drastically increases if the boss moves low on the screen. It's a hard pattern but it's at least learnable.
Modern Divine Spirit World: this pattern is awful and it's one of the things that made me really hate trying to perfect this boss. There are several reasons why this pattern is so bad:
- The RNG on this spell is extremely unstable, it just randomly walls you at times. It's a coinflip.
- You have no idea which direction the bullets are going to move in until they've already started moving. Which means you can just get screwed if the spot you chose to move in was not good. It would be a lot better if it used a bullet type where you can actually see in which direction stuff is going to move in.
- Bullets are constantly overlapping with each other and are virtually invisible if one is hiding behind another one.
Fourth non: This pattern can be kinda bullshit depending on how the boss moves. It's not too bad if she stays in the same place, but if she constantly keeps moving all the way from the left to the right and vice versa, then it can give you some really awful angles on the bullets.
Trembling Shivering Star: this is just rhythmically tapping right and left. It's a rhythm game in a shmup. It's really easy under normal circumstances, but it's surprisingly hard under pressure.
Pristine Lunacy: this pattern feels very luck-based but there is a trick to it. You can predict where the next laser is going to go by looking at the angle of the lasers before they come out like this: cdn.discordapp.com/attachment....
You also want to make sure you don't stray too far away from the center, because that makes it really hard to dodge the incoming laser. I got really lucky this run and all the lasers were aimed around me.
Cleansing of Earthen Impurity: this spell is probably the easiest attack in the fight. Start in the bottom-right and then just move in a square-like motion. Start moving up at around 5 seconds left and the pattern ends before the bullets reach you.
Pristine Danmaku Hell (PDH): this pattern is ridiculously hard. It's easily the hardest pattern in Touhou that is not an optional thing or a silly thing like ISP no items. And even then it can easily give those a run for their money. PDH is basically an exercise in extremely fast reading and decision making, and keeping that up without losing focus. It's exceptionally difficult, but it's never unfair. This is obviously by far the hardest part of the fight.
The first three attacks are quite boring, since you mostly just stand still and only tap left or right once in a while. This is also somewhat true for the 3rd and 4th non and Pristine Lunacy, there is a whole lot of just sitting there waiting for stuff to happen, which is not the most exciting thing. Spirit World is garbage. Lilies and PDH are good though.
I should mention that during that time, and I only found this out much, much later when the vsync patch came out, that I had quite a bit of input lag with LoLK. Which obviously made this boss a lot less fun to play, with how precise you have to be and all. I still don't really like this stage, but the better responsiveness makes it a lot more playable at least.
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[@WomanSlayer69420]

This is like looking up and seeing an anvil fall towards you, only that you realize there must be some spaces in between the individual atoms composing the anvil and you might be able to survive if you could squeeze yourself in between those spaces.

[@peika8324]

Hey everything is 90% empty space, so is viable

[@Minal_Aurapine]

You put it so perfectly

[@randominternetsurfersurfin7595]

​@donhimesamadaifutariThe wat

[@sorrychangedmyusername3594]

Through quantum tunneling, I am able to barely survive.

[@waluigiisthebest2802]

Fun fact: this game was planned to have an overdrive difficulty

[@unovi8141]

Really?? Is there a source on that?

[@lucane8172]

It was based on IWBTG

[@-Fhaiz-]

True I have See it Once But IDK why They were a Not an Update :l

[@Niiue]

what kind of lunatic woukd play that.

[@joannamysluk8623]

@D. So... Reisen Udongein Inaba?

[@mysterymuffn]

You know it's bad when the spell card makes your graze sound like a tazer

[@abbywilberg1087]

I like junko's theme a lot, too. It sounds... shiny.

[@crowedarken]

Never i thought circles would be so terrifying. *Yuyuko taught me nothing*

[@randomspartanhoe4501]

Therefore, I taught you circles are terrifying in my last spell

[@randomspartanhoe4501]

@Aditya A Circles of butterflies

[@spiritsong4026]

The butterflies are annoying as hell since they keep trapping me I can't get to my yukari senpai because of them TwT

[@darkritetsuiho519]

The circles are the true challenge of the last spell in every difficulties to be honest...

[@darkritetsuiho519]

@@randomspartanhoe4501 Circle of life, circle of death!

[@UCmDBecUtbSafffpMEN3iscA]

Visited this video because I saw the wiki about Junko, and got me interested: _"Her spell cards violate the spirit of the spell card rules. While the rules were in part designed to prevent bloodshed, Junko has multiple spell cards made to kill."_ No wonder why Junko's attacks have very tiny gaps, they're indeed made to sure to hit you, rather than look beautiful

[@shaoran1026]

She is the embodiment of fury. You wont bother with patterns if your entire being is just made of pure rage. I never understood why people hated her attacks. It represents her perfectly.

[@unovi8141]

@@shaoran1026 Because representing a character thematically shouldn't come at the cost of good gameplay. And Junko is very frustrating to play for this kind of run and reads to some as an excuse to make borderline placeholder patterns.

[@kwobuk]

@@unovi8141 lunacy

[@syncswim]

One of the few final bosses in Touhou who genuinely wants to kill you

[@sanstheskeleton679]

​@@unovi8141 How would you have designed her attacks to fit her perfectly?

[@connormelton1635]

How a human being is even capable of processing all the shit on screen during that last spell card is beyond me.....

[@thegrayseed2792]

You tunnel vision yourself on spaces that actually matter, but then again i also have a hard time tracking it on tunnel vision that i would probably dies atleast 6 times on third phase of the last spell card.

[@gcjas1998]

@@thegrayseed2792 yeah it feels like you either focus entirely on a circle around your hitbox to survive, so you end up locking yourself between a three-way crossfire, or you attempt to expand that field but you start losing track of everything going on. gonna take plenty of sleepless nights and sandpaper eyes till you can pull that one off.

[@azza5332]

It's actually not that complicated once you break it down. The mistake newcomers to Danmaku make is they focus too much on bullets that are just for show. You need to concentrate on a small section just ahead of your hitbox to process what is coming. It also takes PRACTICE, these patterns aren't random, they will stay the same every gameplay. Once you get the muscle memory down then you start to focus on what matters and how to respond to it. What people may find hard is having the confidence not to look directly at your hitbox, but instead look ahead and gauge how much of a gap your hitbox needs to dodge. Anyone who's interested in Danmaku should definitely give Touhou a try. The characters, soundtrack and memes are amazing, and all this work comes from 1 person.

[@joeapau5043]

90% of the bullets are for decoration

[@KruCorn]

Me : "i fear no-" "Guess I'm wrong"

[@lovelymya.]

You couldn’t even finish the sentence lol

[@marisakirisame1st]

junko purified her danmaku to simply be for murder but reimu forced her to at least name it

[@MaribelHearn]

Little known fact btw: the purple and yellow fireballs (i.e. the ones that cover the bottom half of the screen on Modern Divine Spirit World) have, counterintuitive as it is, SMALLER hitboxes than the pink and red ones; it is in fact safer to always dodge MDSW at the bottom and never at the top. You would think it doesn't matter since you dodge MDSW at the side and thus aren't under Junko anyway, but ZUN decided that fireballs having a different colour should change their hitbox. Amazing.

[@WishMakers]

Maribel Hearn That's actually ridiculous, wtf.

[@Bravidunno]

Why would you bother going to the top if going to the top would make your shots become almost out of range ?

[@MaribelHearn]

That's irrelevant to the point I'm making here. The point is that you would think bottom or top is irrelevant, because logically the hitboxes would have the same size... but they don't.

[@Bravidunno]

Again, why would you bother going to the top ?

[@MaribelHearn]

There's not much reason to, and people usually do the spell at the bottom anyway, but I was discussing the hitboxes alone, unrelated to what players actually do in practice.

[@frostnova2144]

I really love her "Cleansing of earthern impurity" spell and what it represents Feels like it channels all the negative/imperfect parts of being human and uses that energy against you Really fucking cool

[@carljohan9265]

Her Pristine Lunacy spell though, that one can die in a fire. Bendy lasers that come back 2 times and overlap with the next wave is Satan.

[@DiogoMontoia]

You actually did it. The absolute madman. Kudos to you.

[@ReSpark141]

what i find a little humorous as to why junko is so difficult is because her spell cards technically break spell card rules cause her attacks are aimed with the intent to kill outright

[@faustlican5566]

Junko's final spellcard omg. One struggles to breathe in an atmosphere of 80% bullet

[@Yatsuzume]

Lmao that's amazing, never thought you'd even take a glance at this game anymore. Hopefully now people will stop mentioning that dead as fuc quote.

[@ArcadeBGM]

5:25 Jaimers signature victory dance®

[@DsiakMondala]

In case there are newcomers reading this. This is not extra stage. This is regular stage.

[@user_5999]

Also dont start with this game.

[@bulb9970]

Also just don’t play this game in general

[@palasvuash]

to newcomers: play it. best touhou game

[@Archedgar]

@@user_5999 I started with this game. I played on normal+pointdevice. After a long time with a LOT of tries I only made it as far as stage 3 before quitting and much later, trying again on EZ MODO. I was able to finish it but the shame of playing EZ MODO will follow me forever onward.

[@Sparky579]

Also pretend that this game doesn't exists

[@wordsoflove8787]

Can we appreciate how perfectly timed the music is to the spellcards from 3:03 to 3:43? What a great game.

[@okuu_utsuho]

The fact that most non spells and spell cards of Junko are like patterns of a regular shmup boss.

[@envyreanilarsa]

4:05 I just realize that Junko was laughing Maniacally or something

[@VividVoid]

She's doin' a stylish dance

[@megomo7659]

why mama is angry

[@crabapple.]

mama baby is kil

[@crucible1084]

thanks to this game i can dodge every freaking droplet of rain

[@marcuswong730]

No shit the rain attack (Suwako’s “Kero-Chan braves the wind and rain”) is 100 times easier than whatever Junko is

[@pohatunuva3771]

It's stressful just to watch this, holy crap.

[@fluury]

the actual madman has done it

[@creepeecheesee3629]

I'm having an existential crisis watching this

[@secondlayer7898]

2:04 Junko seems to have learned something from Cirno

[@Spaztron64]

On one hand, I'm happy you managed to pull this feat off. On the other, I feel so bad for you, because you played LoLK just for this.

[@sath6089]

I can't even stand this game in normal on point device mode.......

[@DoctorNovakaine]

I'm miserable at Sagume and cannot beat Clownpiece on PD mode. Granted, I'm terrible at Touhou and barely can handle Normal, but I've been trying to use strategies I see for them and I just cannot replicate them. Honestly I think PointDevice mode is counterintuitively HARDER than Legacy Mode for a player at my level - while you can try as many times as you want at a spell on PointDevice, your resources are severely limited, while on Legacy you'll likely get more chances to screw up yet proceed because you get lives that refresh your bombs. So if there's a spell that you're stuck on, you have more leeway to just bomb it at some point.

[@sath6089]

I just dodge sagume's nonspells and first & last spell the other spells have tricks.

[@DinoAcre255]

*ARE YOU WATCHING* *CHANG'E* I already 1 CCed hard mode imperishable night two times, but i can't beat this hell in normal mode :/

[@sath6089]

One of Sagume's spell, where orbs start appearing and leaves bullets when you kill them, the trick is to stop pressing shift, then stop moving. Just hold Z and you'll be fine. And the one where orbs start appearing from her sprite, u just need to go in front of her and stay there. You'll be safe. That's the only good time in normal mode.... There's still clownpiece and her survival spell....also her non spells, except where lasers follow you (nonspell) that one is easy. Junko's last spell is too hard, it takes so long for her to be pichun'ed, you still have to dodge because even if she is defeated, some bullets will take long for her to be unspawned. We were both pichune'd once which activates a bug. On point device mode, if you spawned again after you were both pichun'ed, the next gameplay will be on slow speed.

[@Dark-ie6wm]

You know its quite ironic how some of Clownpiece is harder on normal than on hard... and maybe lunatic but didn't get experiece that yet

[@jj22arc90]

5:00 that moment always scaaaared me... panic overcome my brain. I never beat this game on normal mode because of that even after hours of (bad) training

[@sky1566]

Now do it with Marisa. Seriously though , grats. It took me a very long time to do this too and I know how much effort goes into this. Congratulation , you are super player!

[@user-jm8ti2mk3t]

marisa is too heavy.

[@BrikaEXE]

I main marisa and i know what i am saying, too damn hard the only thing good is the straight forward shoot and its speed

[@bulb9970]

@donhimesamadaifutariCAVE fans trying to not make unrelated comments about how bullshit their games can be (CHALLENGE IMPOSSIBLE)

[@ZaTimou]

Man, even when watching this I can't jam to the music because I'm busy looking at the bullet patterns to see if _I_ could pathfind my way around them (To no one's surprise: probably not)

[@ASE-PRL]

Lmao people loved making fun of that comment from that long ago

[@masterseal0418]

This is evidence that circles are evil and you'll need to find the most narrow of spaces to avoid getting hit at all.

[@Ponera-Sama]

*For the One who Lost Everything ~ Ultimate Despair*

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic3803]

Everybody: "No you can't clean it!" Jaimers: "Ha-ha, graze goes BRRRRRRRRRRRR"

[@Niiue]

some of these attacks look deceptively easy, "modern divine spirit world" and "lilies of murderous intent" being 2 of them. looks easy, stupid in practice.

[@alexhndr]

> Touhou Lunatic is easier than any CAVE game Junko Lunatic: *TIME TO PROVE THEM WRONG* DOJ Death Label Double Hibachi: _SADISTIC BEE NOISES_ Spiritual Larsa: *Thats Cute*

[@Sam_Hue]

Mokou’s last non spell (IN):

[@thesmartest62829]

Damn this must have taken a while to complete, well done

[@hoppefrosk]

Meanwhile I'm just sitting here moderately proud to have beaten Lunatic Junko at all... using Pointdevice Mode. I can't imagine the frustration every time you had to have gotten screwed over by "A Pristine Danmaku Hell" right at the end of a run. At least now you can forget about the whole "I'm never going to no-miss Junko" thing from way back. Would you say that PDH still is harder than "Hidden Breezy Cherry Blossom" (Lunatic) though? And I never actually knew the spell history could do that. I assume it's from capturing a spell 100 times, since the spell history doesn't go higher than that in the newer games.

[@God-ch8lq]

at least you beat her on lunatic i barely defeated her at normal

[@Niiue]

God i took 30 minutes to beat her on point device on easy, granted it's my 2nd ever touhou game...

[@hoppefrosk]

@@Niiue Granted, I'm the sort of person to bite off way more than I can chew. Like deciding to beat ISC without items or subitems. Sukuna and Mamizou are still stopping me from progressing with that to this day.

[@PawClow]

@@NiiueBeing that it's one of the hardest (in my opinion) touhou games, getting to easy when it's your second is no simple feat. Congrats 😌

[@cocopuffs88]

HBCB is way harder than PDH. You can get somewhat consistent with PDH but HBCB can just decide to kill you whenever it wants

[@WishMakers]

Can't say I was expecting to see this. Nice job.

[@gordonramsayisstilllooking8114]

and reimu doesn't get paid!?

[@ord3r781]

After beating EoSD on normal, I decided to look for a harder touhou game I immediately regretted that decision

[@toro2812]

Lmao I had the same experience, I beat EoSD, thought I was hot shit, decided to play SoEW, UFO and LoLK because they're apparently the pinnacle of difficulty and then immediately regretted my decisions Good times

[@rgenc42721]

​@@toro2812isn't ufo quite easy on normal? I haven't touched it in over a decade and surprised myself when I 1cc normal without much trouble the other day. Green UFO then bomb spam can carry you very far

[@toro2812]

@@rgenc42721 Surprisingly it kinda was, took me a while to pull a 1cc but honestly it might as well be the game with the most difficult extra stage after LLS, Nue herself was easy but my God that build up with the UFOs and Kogasa was just cancer. Speaking of the others, SoEW was not so bad but the hitboxes are janky af. I tried LoLK, instantly dropped it (I'm ass at shmups, how did you guess), then came back later (which was last week), played it again, then lost all my lives and continues to clownpiece. I don't plan on touching it ever again (I'm lying)

[@TechnoSpectre3]

1st Spell: Unable to Live Jointly Under Heaven. In other words, "This Moon aint big enough for the two of us!"

[@ZekamashiTheDestroyer]

Lol I saw this and instantly thought of that quote. Well done, at last.

[@rainnei4672]

Well done man, well done 👍

[@marianegracel.gumban2823]

The history says MASTER. That's a lot of dedication.

[@korohacker]

Ooh, I remembered that comment, nice to see you finally conquered that past

[@remixtheidiot5771]

You finally did it!

[@MasakanSolaris]

So this is what it looks like when a gensokyo resident is actively trying to off you...Scary.

[@ohhahhglennmcgrath4202]

Dude fucking nice. I know some people were giving you shit for your comment but props to you man. What suddenly inspired you to try Junko perfect of all things?

[@faby6515]

Holy sh!1, she has some serious spell cards that are filled with tricky patterns, Mokou looks like a childs play now tbh

[@koishiwii8370]

My father as a TMNT fan seeing this: "Finally! A video game boss more worthy than Shredder! Our battle will be legendary!"

[@andrianharrykennethwong1115]

for some reason watching how you play is like looking at an art

[@KatNoirZGK]

Congrats boi :---D

[@misterk3064]

*I did it, now time to dodge the rain*

[@awe9217]

honestly when you remember that LOLK is inspired by IWBTG it kinda makes sense why you did Kamilia in the first place.

[@tarktoker8282]

i guess you can dodge rain

[@odinlavaloon8767]

Lover junko power 🥰

[@uf-kg7oo]

Amazing.

[@Blaze9able]

Thats magnificent. I knew you would do it. Just didnt knew when. But wait... No more jokes about junko now?

[@monument-cafe]

Well done!

[@the1337fleet]

This gave me anxiety the entire time

[@Lunarethic]

he did it bois

[@SackyBalls444]

He finally did it!

[@nonsense0000]

u finally did it

[@CorpseTongji]

now marisa

[@ahyesinternet9500]

This just give me Anxiety but good video

[@thundergodwannabe7260]

This point device killer.....

[@GarryDumblowski]

Guys, did you know Junko is unable to dwell jointly under Heaven?

[@Shepardus]

After Kamilia 3 this almost seems not masochistic enough. Well done.

[@Vulcapyro]

this took him far longer than kamilia 3

[@tunakann7629]

Oh my God that's crazy!!!! Why is every girl named Junko so cool?? XD

[@tesseract7572]

i'm a year late but this is sick!

[@jazy6853]

I love

[@junkofuckyouchange4526]

I am so cool

[@cesarm.3616]

So this is basically why they say Touhou players can just dodge the rain, speechless.

[@Archedgar]

Junko-chan.....

[@Trollifieds]

her theme sound like she about to give you a nonstop beatdown

[@Radyum1]

Touhou is harder !

[@Pimpeaux]

aBSOLUTE MEME

[@Ramash440]

>Got notification now, comments from 12 hours ago Guess there are no new witty comments I can make about this one, GG is all I can say.

[@aarontaglucop4147]

*BRUUUUUUHHHHH*

[@funnyfroggiealert1816]

i wasnt even the one playing and i let out a massive sigh of relief when the last spellcard was over. kudos

[@garrisonsison]

I have no idea what's going on. But it's cool

[@yoshkabosh7979]

Not even playing the game and that last spell gave me chills

[@AssWoop9000]

3:30 at this point reimu just sounds like a concrete drill

[@soldier1stclass987]

holy mad lord

[@luthfiimammaulana]

i dont know either luck or just my laptop gave me pity, been plying for 2 weeks in normal pointdevice using reisen and somehow the laptop overheat itself and the game lag ~25~30 fps after 253 retry on clownpiece and maintained to junko, i dont know what happened but the framerate return after junko final spell, i only open a browser and lolk at the time

[@elbinopaper4629]

She purified your shitty computer so you can fight her

[@Jose_ManuelS18]

@@elbinopaper4629 lmfao, good one xD.

[@duccducc2641]

...are you God?

[@FuchsiaRosa]

She the type of person to say “I’m going to kill everyone 🤗” and that smile would probably be genuine

[@mushroomsrcool1449]

How is this possible? I have never actually played any actual Touhou games, only fangames. HOW LONG DID IT TAKE FOR YOU TO DO THIS!?!

[@FireCrauter]

Tarde 1 minuto en darme cuenta de que no era una nave, era una waifu corriendo, y el enemigo tambien una waifu.

[@unrealredist4124]

Junko: RNG sucks man

[@Alexs23743]

PLOT TWIST: This all happened in the south side of Chicago. ;D

[@nakoamechi]

Are you even human??

[@khiemdong6232]

are you literally a god...?

[@Hiroshiken71]

Now do it as Marisa

[@NikosKatsikanis]

5:14 who is that humanly possible

[@someoneontheinternet8848]

And then we have me who couldn't get past doremy

[@crestive1877]

Tfw you’re still stuck on clownpiece on normal

[@auriidraws5563]

*last spell card flashbacks*

[@WindowsDrawer]

Is this even humanly possible