Furthermore, I'm pretty sure that the number of hours clocked on SoEW don't even compare to the other games for most, if not all people.
So so true. I wouldn't be putting in the effort in if I didn't 1cc SoEW's modes on the first try after like month-long breaks from it.
Consider how often you actually practice
Practice? What's that? :derp:
I'm like that in school too; I've never actually studied before. I just kinda remember everything. People in math class get mad at me because I finish way faster then they do, and on the occasion we're working in a group, I keep telling them the answer to whatever they're putting in the calculator before they can finish inputting it :V
It's kind of creepy, actually. But in a good way.
For instance, SoEW / LLS / MS don't have "Stage Practice" unless you use savestates.
Yeah, they don't. I admit, I'd probably practice the last three stages of MS Lunatic if I could, and I'm considering grabbing savestates for said purpose. But UFO and MS are the only cases where I've actually done (or in this case, wanted to do) that. MS Lunatic does not look friendly. PoDD Lunatic isn't either, for that matter, and I'm going to have to be practicing it a lot to be able to dodge all these boss patterns so I don't need to bomb. I'm improving on that quickly~
But I pretty much just use my knowledge of the stuff in previous difficulties, and heightened skills from doing other games; by the time I try to 1cc something, I have the ability to do it, I just need to get out a good enough non-derpy run. SA Hard is a wonderful example of this. My first 1cc had SEVEN extra lives at the end, which is insane, and two deaths were super-derp things at full power on loleasy parts of Stage 6 (not Utsuho, the STAGE.). I'm still surprised at that.
Yumeko and PoDD are really difficult because I've got to practice those exact patterns; I can't just use miscellaneous dodging skills and grab a 1cc against stuff like that, and I don't have sufficient experience on them, since PoDD I mostly just bombed the bosses, and on MS, I 1cced Hard the first time (and I mostly bombed Yumeko then too anyway).
The fact that there's so many games that when I can't do one thing, I can just go do something else first; that really, really helps. I don't have to practice on one game, I can go play a different one and just hone my general skill, and I can remember almost everything about the game within a few runs anyway.
