pixik / starryemmie

I JUST FLUKED FROM 5 TO 9 TORT LMFAOOO

2 days ago | [YT] | 3

pixik / starryemmie

INTERMISSION TIME! While I am on break for an indefinite period of time, I've already laid out what my next Catastrophic+ grinds will be. While I can't promise everything, or this exact order, this is relatively what my gameplan is when I come back.


#1: Tower of Torturous Oblivion (Top 10)
Is this tower ass? Yeeeeeah it sucks a lot. Will it be really easy to knock out in just a few hours? For sure. Doing this partly because I already got a PB of Floor 6 in only 2 hours a bit ago, but also this is the last catastrophic I have unbeaten in TEA (just the subrealm, not the whole game).

#2: Tower of Descent Into Exile (Top 7)
Being honest I don't have a proper reason for doing ToDIE, and it might end up being too laggy anyways, but assuming I can run it, ToDIE just seems like a really fun grind that I have more than enough skill to easily beat now.

#3: Tower of Unorthodoxy (Top 7)
Old grind, my ONLY old catastrophic grind to still be left unfinished, might as well finish the job.

#4: Tower of Champion's Road (Top 4)
I had this in my backlog for a while but wanted to beat ToHG first since I saw that as the "better ToCR" at the time. With the ToHG grind finished now... I'm so fucking scared bro. This could be harder than ToHG, could be easier, I still don't really know, but I hope it's BETTER than that shit.

#5: Tower of Meaningfulness (Top 2)
This is partially just for the sake of filling the pretty big vacuum of space between ToVS (11.68) and ToJJ (12.00). From what I've played of ToM so far it seems easier than ToJJ, but still around High-Peak, if not Peak Catastrophic.

#6: Steeple of Cha Cha Real Smooth (TOP 1)
THIS WILL BE MY NEW HARDEST EVENTUALLY, well, maybe. I really love this tower, and personally think it's among the best Horrifics, but Floor 5 absolutely terrifies me and the gameplay feels outright impossible to even begin approaching. I'll also be practically forced to beat this on 90 FPS due to how many client objects and trusses there are, so that'll be... interesting I guess.


Anywaysss that's about it I think. Once again this isn't a fixed plan, but as of right now this is what I have set in motion. No promises for how long this'll take either but remember that I've beaten 5 Catastrophics+ in the span of a month TWICE now so... I'm jgoated... heh.

3 days ago | [YT] | 0

pixik / starryemmie

the nightmare is over


Fail Counter:
Floor 10 x3

Enjoyment: 1/10 (F+) [6TH LEAST FAVOURITE SC BEATEN]
In-Game Difficulty: Mid-High Catastrophic (11.65)
Personal Difficulty: Mid-High Catastrophic (11.60) [3RD HARDEST]
Total Playtime: 24 Hours
Floor Difficulties: 5 > 6 > 8 > 10 > 3 > 1 > 7 > 9 > 2 > 4 (these are so hard to accurately rate honestly)


I don't want to talk about this tower. I really don't. If you've payed attention to the ratings I've given every soul crushing, you'll probably notice this is the first tower in over a YEAR I have given an F. I really wanted to enjoy Tower of Heaven's Gate, trust me, I really did. There's a reason I kept campaigning so heavily for this to be the Zone 9 Catastrophic pick, and there's a reason I chose to start grinding this in the first place. To say I'm disappointed would be an understatement, this is probably the biggest let down of a tower I've ever played.

I'll keep this brief, since like I said, I do not want to talk about this tower, but I want to explain WHY I hated it. Floor 1 is just awful. Inconsistent, tedious, annoying to do, hated it. Floor 2-5 is the real issue though. If ToHG was a 2nd half carried tower, especially with the 2nd half we got, I think I would've liked it, but almost all of your playtime will JUST be on the 1st half, which is filled with random difficulty spikes, borderline RNG jumps, and don't even get me started on Floor 5. The 2nd half is fairly better, Floor 6 can be annoying but it does get really consistent, Floors 7-9 same applies, and you can easily save on the top of Floor 6, I actually really like Floor 9 in particular for its client object usage... then Floor 10 throws an outside section at you and suddenly ToHG becomes 10x worse to play because any Floor 10 fail could mean 10 hours of playtime just to get back (not hyperbole btw, 12 to 22.5 hours of playtime in between my 1st and 2nd 10 fail). I know this isn't nearly as much as I'd write for most other towers, but I'm ready to just be done with ToHG. This tower was an awful experience and I don't want to look back on it.

As for what's next... nothing, at least for a good while. In the past month, starting on August 20th (beginning of my ToJ grind) and ending now, in these 23 days, I have completely flipped my Top 5 inside out. My 2nd hardest at the time, Tower of Necrotic Incantation, is now at #6. My former hardest, Tower of Thin Mints, has already fallen to #4. While this recent achievement burst has been absolutely spectacular to go through, it's starting to take a toll on me, and I think it's about time I gave myself room to breathe before my next big grind. I'm not sure how long I'll be on break, but I'll come back when I'm ready to play hard towers again. Thank you for all the support in the past month, once again it really is surreal just how much I've accomplished in such a short amount of time. I'm really excited to see where things go from here.

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3 days ago | [YT] | 3

pixik / starryemmie

tower of heaven's gate has well and truly broken me. i'm honestly impressed, this is the first time since togf where i've truly just lost it. don't expect a fun review once i finally beat this

10x2 by the way, 22.5 hours playtime

4 days ago | [YT] | 0

pixik / starryemmie

i failed the single unnetted jump of floor 6 tohg, which is obviously THE most important event to happen today and there's nothing else that is a bigger deal than this

5 days ago | [YT] | 1

pixik / starryemmie

.........


Current Fail Counter:
Floor 10 x1

Enjoyment: 7/10 (either B or B+)
In-Game Difficulty: Mid-High Catastrophic (11.65)
Personal Difficulty: Mid-High Catastrophic (11.55-60)
Playtime: 12 hours

1 week ago | [YT] | 3

pixik / starryemmie

early bird is cooking


Current Fail Counter:
Floor 5 x1
Floor 4 x1
Floor 3 idfk dude

Enjoyment: 7.5/10 (either B+ or A-)
In-Game Difficulty: Mid-High Catastrophic (11.65)
Personal Difficulty: uhhhhhh idk dude somewhere around totm (11.50-60)
Playtime: 4.5 Hours (+ 2 old but those were JUST all random all jumps and whatnot)

i dont really have a tooooon to say rn but like for only 1.5 hours of legit runs i think getting to the middle of floor 5 is actually pretty damn good progress that i'm very happy with. i also finally get how this is easier than tovs cuz yea if i got past 5 that run i'd probably be vibing on floor 8 rn LOL

1 week ago | [YT] | 7

pixik / starryemmie

not making a full fledged comm post until more progress but i all floored tohg YAY!!!

1 week ago | [YT] | 2

pixik / starryemmie

double jump bug the worst thing ever conceived bro


Total Fail Counter:
Final Stretch x3
Floor 10 x3
Floor 9 x6
Floor 8 x11

Enjoyment: 9/10 (S) [6TH FAVOURITE SC BEATEN]
In-Game Difficulty: High-Peak Catastrophic (11.83) (if you laugh you go to hell)
Personal Difficulty: High Catastrophic (11.68) [2ND HARDEST]
Total Playtime: 21 Hours
Floor Difficulties: 9 >>> FS = 10 = 8 > D > 4 > 6 > 3 > 5 > 7 = 2 = 1 (9 is a horrific floor dont even try me bro)

I LOVE THIS TOWER. I'll just get straight to the point, please play ToVS if you have the skill to. It is one of the best SC towers ever made and I can't emphasize that enough. I'll mostly just be talking about my own grinding experience, but there will be small sprinkles of my own enjoyment of ToVS throughout.

There's a reason I got to Floor 9 on Day 1, let's just really remember that. ToVS at its core is a punishing, but consistent tower, but moreso it's really 2nd half carried. This led to the very beginning of my grind being... quite annoying, since Floors 1-3 are really not fun to loopfail, but I got consistent at them quickly. By this point, ToVS is just a plain fun grind. While it would become a chokepoint floor later due to a CERTAIN SPINNER, Floor 4 is easy to get good at, and while Floor 5 seemed really hard at first, my passrate on the floor wound up being probably over 85%. This takes us to the depths... I do not like the depths. This is a common complaint with ToVS, and I'll parrot it too now, the depths is just a complete time waster that butchers the pace of the tower. Expect to be REALLY annoyed at the depths, particularly later into the grind when you're consistently reaching the last few floors. Moving onto the last "easy" floors, I don't actually have much to say about Floors 6-7. Floor 6 is a bit weird since it's entirely carried by 1 jump and nothing else, while Floor 7 is literally just a filler floor that I barely failed after my first Floor 8 run. Neither of these floors should give you much trouble, but if you DO fail these floors, or Floor 8, you can actually save on Floor 1, and if you first try Floors 4-5 again, you skip depths which is awesome. This brings us to Floor 8, the first "hard" floor of ToVS, and yeah IT IS A NOTICEABLE DIFFICULTY SPIKE. I surprisingly still managed to get past Floor 8 on my first day of grinding, but it's a floor that never really got 100% consistent for me, and likely won't for you either. All I can say for these later floors is practice, practice, PRACTICE. Don't go in with the expectation that you could save any of your fails. You need solid consistency all throughout ToVS, but making sure you're consistent at the last few floors is especially important... speaking of which...

I'm starting a new paragraph just for Floor 9. This is the hardest floor by a lot. I really am serious about it being a Bottom Horrific floor, since it's not only the most punishing floor of the entire tower, but also has some genuinely hard jumps given the aforementioned punishment. It is really not fit for a High Catastrophic, and I can't tell you enough to be ready to fuck up this floor a lot. From my experience, I had 5 fails on Floor 9 before ever making it to Floor 10. Speaking of which, Floor 10... is... really overrated? I see so many people make a big fuss over Floor 10, as well as the Final Stretch being extremely hard, but I don't see it at all honestly. Are they some of the hardest floors? Yup no question. Are they comparable to Floor 9? NO??? Floor 10 is extremely consistent, many fails on it can save on Floor 9 (I actually had no fatal Floor 10 fails), and the raw difficulty isn't even close to Floor 9's. While I don't want to give false hope on this floor, know that I fluked Floor 10 on my first time there. Now... the Final Stretch. This is a weird one. It's fairly long, and has some offputting difficulty spikes, but it's also ironically enough the SAFEST part of ToVS. It really isn't uncommon to save on the Final Stretch, and please keep this in mind so you know which jumps you can easily save on... and which jumps you can't. I should've done this. I had 2 fails on the Final Stretch to the SAME JUMP, a jump that was a guaranteed run ender. What sucks more is that both times, I easily could've beaten the whole tower straight from there, but well, I mean, as you can see right now, that did happen afterwards. Just please, do NOT get cocky with the Final Stretch. It's relatively safe, but a single slightly above minor fuckup will kill you.

Oh yeah lastly there's a double jump bug in ToVS where sometimes you buffer the double jump when they aren't meant to be buffered so please please pleaseeeeee be careful of that.

So... that's it! Just like that, ToTM has gone from my hardest completion to my 3rd hardest in literally under 1 week. I honestly can't believe I beat ToVS this quickly, and though the grind made me realise it was... maybe a bit easier than I expected, it's still harder than ToTM no doubt. Like I said before, this is a really fun tower to grind, and I'd even say a good new hardest if you're at Low or Low-Mid Catastrophic skill. From here, I'm not entirely sure what to do next. I want to grind Tower of Heaven's Gate, not as a sure fire way of knocking ToTM out of my Top 3, but still a guaranteed Top 5, but after that, I will definitely take a backseat on all of these hard grinds since I'm practically completely revamping my entire Top 5 now in the timespan of under a month. We'll see where things go from here I guess, GG!

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1 week ago | [YT] | 13

pixik / starryemmie

my opinions have barely changed but i didn't wanna leave this as an appendix under the first tovs community post just because this run was on the same day, I GOT TO FLOOR 9 MOTHERFUCKERS (btw i also almost did 9-wp)

Current Fail Counter:
Floor 9 x1 (near the end of inside)
Floor 8 x2
Floor 7 x4
Floor 6 x1

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