Touhou 4 - Lotus Land Story - Lunatic 1cc No Bombs

Turns out it wasn't that hard to do. At first I thought it would be hard because of the so many "you will die here" moments in the game, but even if you die to all of these you can still easily clear the game.
Lucked through quite a few of these moments in this run. Capturing the Rings of Doom was really unexpected, although the rank wasn't at it's highest.
Really dislike Marisa's fight in this game. It can be incredibly cheap at times. I still don't know how you're supposed to dodge that one attack.
Pre-stage 4 deaths were pretty stupid. The first was just :V, but the second could be avoided if I didn't end Elly's phase so fast. As she doesn't do that one attack if you wait a little.
Chickened out agains Yuka, sue me.
There's some audio desync happening around halfway through, but there's not much I can do about it.

[@Escaphase]

I can't believe that Yuuka has plaid carpets on top of plaid floors, incredible.

[@Phantasma6621]

Her clothes are plaid I wonder if her garden is also plaid

[@Kromiball]

​@@Phantasma6621She's gone to plaid

[@AbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyandzI]

I like Touhou 9 design

[@triforce9581]

9:53 The shots and explosions matched the rhythm of the song XD

[@plantoos]

Can't help it. Those ghost thingies look funny.

[@mayonnaisejake7191]

Those are ghosts from Kirby

[@amb3rrif1c]

They’re funky lads! I love emmmmm

[@admcgregor2006]

Those are the bakebake

[@ethankangaroo9767]

@@mayonnaisejake7191 huh I always thought they were teacup people :0

[@aelsye2675]

6:11 The feeling of nostalgia.

[@kasikasivendjinn5345]

True, but not from this game, but from one of the video with the highest view on Niconico Douga

[@corehazard4709]

did you really played this game back then on an actual pc 98?

[@EngiNetion]

@@corehazard4709 they probably meant the Bad Apple

[@ThirdXavier]

Bad Apple is one of the few landmarks from the PC 98 games. For the most part theyre forgotten and the series started with 6.

[@hiepntholha]

​@@kasikasivendjinn5345 stfu dawg. This game is where bad apple came from. It just remixed it

[@hawaiidkw1]

The PC-98 didn't have much of a legacy, so it was a treat to see this video. Never would know a thing about LLS otherwise. The funny thing for me is that it actually looks more like a very challenging conventional shooter, a la Strikers 1945 or Gradius, than a danmaku. No doubt the old hardware put a limit on just how pretty those bullet patterns could get.

[@God-ch8lq]

fun fact: nobody has ever defeated LLS on lunatic without dying or bombing this run is the closest anyone has ever gotten to so yeah, that's objectively the hardest touhou game also, acording to ZUN, some of his inspiration in the PC98 days came from CAVE and gradius i can see the CAVE influence here

[@R8Spike]

@Fansly wait where

[@Sumire973]

@@R8Spike Oringiri did it.

[@peaveejay2700]

5:09 wow, how nice of you...

[@threemays]

That bullet has killed me before. Had no idea what hit me

[@Ratteu]

Even she has probability to throw TWO bullets at different times before the fight start...

[@mkonji8522]

Hh my thank you. I played this as a kid in Japan.. I had forgotten about this game.

[@Ponera-Sama]

Bewitching Phantom Lotus: 1:11 Ō'Renji: 2:07 Kurumi (First Encounter): 3:52 Kurumi (Last Encounter): 5:06 Demon Shadow Mirror: 6:36 Ellie: 8:24 Hikariko (First Encounter): 11:00 Hikariko (Last Encounter): 11:50 Kirisame Marisa: 13:55 Yūka (Negligee): 17:41 Yūka (Full Power): 21:37

[@kimbuchmann]

24:40 I love the good ending music ~ It is a calmy and a nostalgic song ~

[@puellamagi1232]

huff... Elly should come back in one of the games... bad apple was her stage theme, and her actual theme shounded even better!!!!!! WHY ZUN?!?!?! WE MUST START A PETITION THINGY TO BRING BACK ELLY!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Random22]

change.org?

[@uboa8060]

@@Random22 heh

[@juonryu2nd]

Magnificent. The last moments of the stage 4 and 6 battles got me pumped. Kudos

[@otokonoko7418]

Elly's bullets seems really hard to jot down. It must've taken at least 7 times to lock the pattern.

[@koishiwii8370]

Funny how this has actually felt like a beloved childhood game when I've played it on a computer at my father's apartment like it's Wii Virtual Console. It's like some good times where people could actually be creative with designing games that requires skills and mind to complete. Also back when Reimu was actually nice like Mario. Yeah, my father has enjoyed watching me play it considering that he has loved playing shoot 'em ups before and that he has seen danmaku games as shoot 'em ups about dodging through unique bullet patterns.

[@thecarrshow3934]

i finally beat this game on lunatic earlier today, I was so happy

[@nametag8038]

is it me or does Marisa look chubby

[@prizmastarz742]

Every PC98 characters are chubby lol xD

[@theobserver4214]

Lunartic Skele-bone And sometimes reach dat uncanny vanilla (Madou Monogatari PC98 version)

[@AmstradExin]

That was the SD Style of the era

[@Momo-re4fg]

Chubby is sexy.

[@Junklu]

Thicc reimu is good reimu

[@thenumberquelve158]

I'm not much of a shoot em up player, but that Stage 3 boss looks like one helluva difficulty spike. And the final boss is such ridiculous sensory overload >_< But other than that, looks really fun and satisfying to get good at. Thank you for the (surprisingly high quality) recording from early 2011. I come back to your videos every now and again and am awed by the skill level each time. (Plus, this game DID give us the Gensokyo National Anthem.)

[@Kay-ie6xf]

That stage 1 theme is so good, but you only get to hear like 1/4 of it by the time the stage ends

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

I mean, it's pretty good. instrumentation could be better, but still good

[@yuukasnowkazami5768]

Fighting against Yuuka in stage 6 you cannot un-hear Yu-Mu

[@JohnJackson-mn4ts]

That looks rock solid to play.

[@ZebraOnYourNose]

*_NO_* *_VISIBLE_* *_HITBOX_*

[@shar.7888]

git gud

[@ReginaRicaeMortis]

The PC-98, to be more accurate. It was an old gaming computer in Japan.

[@15MinuteUpload]

that brief tune that unfortunately you skipped at 0:01 is likely the first appearance of theme of eastern story in the entire series

[@ElFuzz]

this is the only game i lunatic 1ccd and the only touhou game i will ever beat on lunatic ever.

[@ClamChowdaEnjoya]

How funny, this is higher quality than the Japanese uploads.

[@hawaiidkw1]

Funny thing is, it's the *stage* music that was the basis for that incredibly famous video, not the *boss* music... so there really was no need to include Elly. (And I'm impressed that at least two producers actually made an MMD Elly model *just* for a Bad Apple video. That's dedication.)

[@Phantasma6621]

I like Yuuka in PC98 because she seems way stronger and cooler than in the windows

[@kaku7398]

17:20 Oh! Those shoots... they remind me a spell...! Wait... Flan !! Where are you hiding !?

[@awe9217]

kaku, the cartoonist She is in the Void of the Not Ytr exsisting chatacters.

[@kaku7398]

Alinol Kreany Yep... all is linked ...

[@otokonoko7418]

That's what I thought lol

[@dirtkiller23]

I call Junko

[@otakugainsmaster6838]

Stage 1 theme so good!

[@rpgluvr1358]

6:09 Don't waste time and get to the song you've been waiting to listen to

[@krystal69420]

RPG luvr13 i enjoy the whole video. Surprised when Bad Apple started playing.

[@Kromiball]

All the songs here are great

[@user-rd8tz1rw3b]

最期の発狂弾幕を回避しやがったｗ

[@Zackylorin]

man i love lls

[@ChaoticEnigma1]

Forgot to edit out the ending. Outside of that, a good run. Also, we really need some sort of guide on how to record these PC98 games as that's pretty much what's stopping me from actually bothering to do them.

[@maulwurf9414]

i would recommend using something like neko project 2 and the screen capture software you prefer

[@lizzy5515]

I want to play touhou!

[@doctorblaze8754]

6:10 niiiice

[@ashecsavior5126]

Dat stage for boss! "the boss with the theme(Sleeping Terror)" I SWEAR she used master spark in that battle! or something just as power full. scary

[@Late0NightPC]

While it is never said by ZUN, most fans say that that was the original Master spark and Marisa stole it for her own uses

[@ashecsavior5126]

ROFL omg really?

[@Late0NightPC]

It is just fan speculation but it is practically cannon with how many fans are saying that

[@lorrainepomeroy5001]

I think she stole stardust reverie off Mima, or something like that.

[@cieele]

According to fandom, it wasn't that she stole it but it was that Mima gave it to her since Marisa learned a lot from her.

[@louizeandrei]

dam that ghosts in stage 1

[@TimeSpaceMage]

How the heck do you dodge Elly's last spell o.0; I'm looking on YT for a timeout of it or Google for advice on it, but most videos take her out too fast with Marisa. I could really use that point bonus on Hard, but damn is it tricky.

[@mabelpines1533]

I had no idea bad apple came from this game I thought it was a remix of flanderes theme lol

[@curiouswanderer4228]

Around the 7:00 mark, I was internally screaming, "How the h*ll can you do this!? I would've died 10 times over!" Am I the only one thinking this?

[@user-fc3lu7hk1y]

flying head!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bobaneko]

what window your using to play this cuz i have window 7 and i downloaded the pc-98 emulator and i try to run it every old touhou game and it only show me a black screen

[@starfire6789]

Love how for the stage 5 yuuka has light wings shes a plant yoaki right or does she have more abilitys we dont know about

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

Touhou 4: LLS is a pretty decent/alright-ish game. It's way better than the first three games, imo. The improvement over them is notable. it was fun on easy mode but got a little frustrating on normal mode as usual. It would've been good if it wasn't for the random annoying lag and bullets flying at mach 3 speed. Most of the patterns were bearable, but with a recipe like that, once you see the bullets flying at you, it's already too late. I beat it on easy with 3 deaths then on normal with 2 continues. For some reason I didn’t get a 6th stage but I don’t really care. Don’t even get me started on the extra stage, lol. While it’s insane to try for the first time, and the music is solid, I can’t even imagine how hard it is with all of that ridiculous lag and mach 4 bullets everywhere. Well, it's a PC-98 game with some flaws and aspects that haven’t aged well so it's not really surprising. At least it improved a lot upon 1, 2, 3 but i wouldn't really recommend it to anyone. I'm just going to try the extra stage and then move on to 5 (Wow, that extra stage was actually insane. I don’t know what in the world was going on, but i died at the white orb midboss, lol)

[@banana_pancake7171]

ナイス

[@Toyss]

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE!!!!?

[@poledra4153]

I'll use some of your techniques

[@jakebennett9130]

how did you get it to run so well?

[@minhtxr1663]

Yuuka’s last spell in stage 6 is almost impossib

[@user-rd8tz1rw3b]

(うふふ～、あけてやる～)

[@m3gAm37aLmAnX]

Why is Reimu riding on something? She doesn't need to in the later games as she just floats like everyone else. Plus, it kinda sucks that they never made English patches for these old PC-98 games :/

[@vavada8288]

+m3gAm37aLmAnX 1. It was before Reimu learned how to float, so she rode on Genji, her wise tortoise than taught her how to fly. 2. There ARE English patches for PC-98 Touhou. In fact, they just came out.

[@JcDizon]

+Vavada Oh wow, this game has an English patch now? I gotta replay it then, this game is one of my favourite Touhou games

[@wdg2384]

She flies on her Tortoise, Genji, who later taught her how to fly alone in the Windows era

[@Edarnon_Brodie]

yes

[@TRBenjiSwiss]

bruh is stage 3 where that one hypixel housing song comes from

[@ing9650]

스카가 합성으로 망작이라고 올렸던 영상에 쓰였던 노래 소스. 자신만 망작이라고 느꼈을 뿐

[@Detonexploder]

So... many.. 3 bullet spread

[@user272adh2a]

Something is strange with sounds...

[@daviddyer3543]

Featuring purple haired girl who is NOT Shampoo from Ranma 1/2 in pink and red shrine girl outfit and pink tabi socks, blonde sorceress girl in pink socks and purple dress...

[@ashecsavior5126]

*stage 4 boss

[@markfaites]

yuka with long hair what- what....... why..... why what wh-

[@robotnikkkk001]

=YUP,AT 6:11 IS THE ORIGINAL OF BAD APPLE SOUND ........WONDERING IF A REMIX OF WHOLE ORIGINAL TO BE.....CREATED,SO PEOPLE TO ABOUT WHY IS DOES SOUND SIMILAR

[@PrinceClaudy]

Lunatic LLS = Normal in EoSD

[@GungKrisna12]

Hardware limitations

[@vincent-ataramaniko]

Wrong. Yuuka is no joke on Lunatic difficulty.

[@God-ch8lq]

only if you die and bomb a lot rank exists in pc98, ad it's a bitch

[@ander_scarlet203]

I think that he refers to the invisible hitbox

[@Ratteu]

Fun fact: LLS is the only one of Touhou series NO ONE done LNN yet.

[@ZdrytchX]

Wait this isn't a 1cc/nobomb @ 9:20 Still Well Done

[@katodo8598]

This IS a no bomb 1cc...

[@ZdrytchX]

*looks at it again* I must be sleepy when I made that comment

[@JaimersSTG]

@EnigmaGamer Done. Check MoTK.

[@touhouguyII]

This game was actually easy on hard mode. One of the easiest touhou games for me at least.

[@xtensho-]

yeah

[@somefries3101]

It didn't took me that many tries so yeah

[@victordennis9913]

6:09

[@OilFreak]

Your audio all sotrsa messed up

[@marisakirisame867]

LLS lunatic mode somehow easier than what i thought

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

?!

[@_.NullAccount._]

Estoy reproduciendo TOHOFUMAROKU JYODOMANDARA mientrαs que Reimu se peleα contrα lα Yuukα Kαzαmi｡

[@nikorasumaltos8528]

I also beat Touhou 4 on lunatic!

[@elijahbradley704]

great job, i was barely able to suffer through it on normal. i hope one day i'll be able to beat most of the series on lunatic without too much trouble.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

@@elijahbradley704 normal wasn't too hard to beat, but was really annoying, imo. good job, haha

[@nikorasumaltos8528]

I forgot to mention....it was without bombs in lunatic mode too....

[@thwomp1542]

Urgh!

[@fragjammer09]

Why does this look so.much like Touhou2

[@imyojimboandiusehacks8878]

Frag Jammer because is Touhou 4 ..? I can't take this comment seriously XD

[@Kay-ie6xf]

Same hardware same year

[@jjjjasper]

is that japanese culture ?

[@ATeaDude]

6:13

[@beneta7056]

6:05