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59 | 9.58% |
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414 | 67.21% |
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KataraniSword posted:There's a few mentions of Okuu and Orin being only the tip of the iceberg, that Satori's practically got a menagerie of various animals in Chireiden. It kind of makes me wonder if she's being hyppocritical to some extent. I'm not going to say that was she may or may not have experienced with other people, their reactions towards her, and their thoughts was something that gives her a break from being hyppocritical - but, doesn't she, herself, do the exact same? As in also having ulterior motives and secret thoughts and such? Sure, she's not exactly human, but I think I can assume that a Satori would have the same thoughts, desires, ways of thinking, &c. that humans do with the added "benefit" of their third eye. So, in that case, I see it as being something like, "Man, I really hate all these other people because of how they are on the inside when I, too a lesser extent, am the same." But at this point I'm just making really  guesses as to how she is because I see her as a human with the same flaws rather than a Satori. That's really what all the Youkai are - personification of humans in a different form, right?DrSunshine posted:Nitori invented the Universal Translator. That would explain a lot about the quality of the translations. A bit too much. I think it might be shaped like a cucumber, infact.
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Jul 17, 2013 01:14
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They're all still monsters and most actually still eat humans so no, they're not "personifications of humans", whatever that means. Basically they just look like little girls because little girls are super-marketable to creepy dudes in indie circles, sorry to burst the bubble for you.
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Jul 17, 2013 03:41
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a cartoon duck posted:They're all still monsters and most actually still eat humans so no, they're not "personifications of humans", whatever that means. I'm sure I was just making things up at that point when trying to come up with things for how Satori is. I shouldn't look too deep into flying anime girls created by a Japanese man who drinks too much booze. Words to live by. But, then again, I was referring to the Youkai of Japanese lore rather than the actual ones in the series. Why do we create monsters the way we do in our folktales? What does it tell about ourselves? A conversation for another place and people smarter than I. But then again, cute anime girls. AdorableStar fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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Jul 17, 2013 03:50
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Kheldragar posted:I'm sure I was just making things up at that point when trying to come up with things for how Satori is. I shouldn't look too deep into flying anime girls created by a Japanese man who drinks too much booze. Words to live by. But, then again, I was referring to the Youkai of Japanese lore rather than the actual ones in the series. Why do we create monsters the way we do in our folktales? What does it tell about ourselves? A conversation for another place and people smarter than I. But then again, cute anime girls. If you want to talk about actual folklore, Japanese or otherwise, I'm pretty sure there's multiple threads in other forums, and there might still be that one about Asian/Japanese mythology in particular somewhere in ADTRW itself! edit: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3491291 Here it is if you have archives! Karasu Tengu fucked around with this message at 04:32 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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Jul 17, 2013 04:30
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Yeah, pretty much everything in Touhou is derived from some mythological thing or another. Japan has a lot of weird mythological monsters/beings to pull from, so I doubt ZUN is gonna run out anytime soon. If not he can always start stealing Western ones. Greek god touhous... why did I just imagine that?
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Jul 17, 2013 06:56
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Yeah maybe in the next game ZUN will use mermaids and Dullahans and werewolves, wouldn't that be kinda funny.
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Jul 17, 2013 08:41
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Bluh, every single game after Mountain of Faith I've pretty much despised even though my favourite character does come from SA. Even though Ten Desires kind of fixed my whole problem with the new continue system and bombs being linked to your power, there's something about the "new" art style and just the way the games are presented that prevents me from liking them as much as 2 through 9 (PCB will always have a favourite place in my heart because it's the first game I ever beat). Also, from the fact that I'm a bit too lazy to look up information, is why I'm still pretty much in the dark about the new game. I've seen the Dullahan character once, and the thought that comes my mind is, "Wait? This is a Touhou character?! She's doesn't even look like one! Pass." Every game that's come out since I became a fan, which is two, has basically had characters that I've not considered to be part of the series. I wonder if it's like that for everyone with every game. Ten Desires characters are beginning to grow on me a little, though. vvv In a completely Japanese style house, no less. AdorableStar fucked around with this message at 09:22 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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Jul 17, 2013 09:07
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Hazdoc posted:Yeah, pretty much everything in Touhou is derived from some mythological thing or another. Japan has a lot of weird mythological monsters/beings to pull from, so I doubt ZUN is gonna run out anytime soon. Yeah it's not like the first modern Touhou game featured a classical European vampire as a final boss or anything.
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Jul 17, 2013 09:19
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HM got another patch. Kokoro is still not finished, but there's a ridiculous amount of patch notes so maybe the rest of the cast is now? EDIT: Okay, I can only speak for Miko but here's what's new: 1. AAA 2A now does floorslam. 2. Flamethrower was buffed. Feels like it's easier to land all the hits now. 3. Teleport [Forward] goes further, Teleport [Down] sends you under the opponent. 4. Divine Spirit skill is a two-phase (homing) attack while Miko's cape is red. Or maybe it was always like that, I don't remember. 5. Popularity buff now does an attack if you use it while the blue spirit is out. Previously doing that would have just replaced the first blue spirit with a new one 5. Shinto Miko's weak bullet now fires in a spread. 6. Orb Super is now aimed. Before it just headed diagonally up. 7. Beam Super now juggles the enemy, so it's not completely loving useless even if it does hit. System wise, text pops up on the side of the screen to tell you how much popularity you got and the popularity wheel is a little more animated now. EDIT 2: Oh wait, somebody on shrine maiden just straight up translated the patch notes. That's easier. EDIT 3: Holy poo poo the netcode isn't rear end anymore. I just had a stable USA > Germany match and an only somewhat spotty USA > Australia match, this is great. Combined with the rebalancing, and I'd say that HM just got a billion times better. BlitzBlast fucked around with this message at 10:55 on Jul 17, 2013 |
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Jul 17, 2013 09:44
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No more Nitori combos for days. That's a lot of nerfs. Though it looks like some of her moves have increased damage, but also increased spirit cost. That might make her neutral game stronger, but I wonder how good Nitori will be now that she no longer makes you think, "Oh god, if she touches me there goes half my health" at any time from anywhere on the screen.
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Jul 17, 2013 18:41
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And apparently Kokoro has skills now: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm21375708
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Jul 17, 2013 19:09
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Kheldragar posted:Bluh, every single game after Mountain of Faith I've pretty much despised even though my favourite character does come from SA. Even though Ten Desires kind of fixed my whole problem with the new continue system and bombs being linked to your power, there's something about the "new" art style and just the way the games are presented that prevents me from liking them as much as 2 through 9 (PCB will always have a favourite place in my heart because it's the first game I ever beat). Also, from the fact that I'm a bit too lazy to look up information, is why I'm still pretty much in the dark about the new game. I've seen the Dullahan character once, and the thought that comes my mind is, "Wait? This is a Touhou character?! She's doesn't even look like one! Pass." Every game that's come out since I became a fan, which is two, has basically had characters that I've not considered to be part of the series. I wonder if it's like that for everyone with every game. Ten Desires characters are beginning to grow on me a little, though. Wait, you like the ESOD/PCB art better than that from other games? This  is worse than  ?I mean, I most of my favorite characters are from the earlier games, but the newer ones are still good games with good character designs!
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Jul 17, 2013 19:26
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Elliotw2 posted:Wait, you like the ESOD/PCB art better than that from other games? Yeah, I actually do; there's also IN. I just think that the art of the later games makes them more like flesh-tube people than in the games before. Not to say that the actual fan-made character derivations from ZUN's original aren't that great for later ones (Which, by later, I mean after Ten Desires where the game-style changed yet again.), because they are still excellent. Miko from Ten Desires still has it in my book as a great looking character even though I thought she was Nazrin for the longest time when I didn't know any Ten Desires characters.
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Jul 17, 2013 21:10
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Elliotw2 posted:Wait, you like the ESOD/PCB art better than that from other games?
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Jul 17, 2013 22:39
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Takoluka posted:Why did you choose Meiling's portrait over the glory of EoSD Sakuya when comparing a portrait of Sakuya??? ...I assume he couldn't properly comprehend the true glory of EoSD Sakuya. 
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Jul 18, 2013 00:15
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a cartoon duck posted:Yeah maybe in the next game ZUN will use mermaids and Dullahans and werewolves, wouldn't that be kinda funny. I can't remember, but isn't it implied there are other places like Gensokyo, just for other lands and cultures?
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Jul 18, 2013 04:34
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JackMackerel posted:I can't remember, but isn't it implied there are other places like Gensokyo, just for other lands and cultures? I don't think it's ever actually implied but it's not an uncommon theory. The Lunar Capital is also explicitly "another Gensokyo" on the moon in terms of how its barrier works, but of course that's based on Japanese mythology too.
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Jul 18, 2013 05:27
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Renko and Maribel visit Gensokyo-like places. But there's really only one that has an abundance of drunk girls in silly hats.
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Jul 18, 2013 07:32
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Like Clarste said, it's never been implied per sé that other Gensokyo-like places exists, but Western monsters have shown up in the official works before. Other than Remilia being a Western vampire, there's been kobolds in Wild and Horned Hermit and Chupacabres in Forbidden Scrollery. So barring an unforeseen plot twist where Japan is apparently the only place without free-roaming monsters, it's not really unreasonable to assume other cultures have their own fantasy havens.
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Jul 18, 2013 09:57
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I've discovered that I really like making long Touhou music compilations for Youtube. I recently finished my second one, which is all soothing vocals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQzkZ95UNb0 And here's the first video I made, which is forty minutes of soothing Touhou instrumental music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-CN5r48Z0A
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Jul 19, 2013 21:12
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If you're not looking for soothing, why not try something a little different? Here's some electronic German touhou: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFzvxuRNPWQ You also don't have to bend over backwards in order to get their stuff! They've got a few albums up on bandcamp, all of which are pay what you want including free. There's actually a decent selection on the touhou tag and a couple more on the toho tag. Haven't listened to any of 'em but you might find something you like there. Edit: Listening to the linked video's album, and I'd definitely recommend checking out Lonely Nightmare/Necrofantasia (vocalist mostly covers of other songs) and Invisible Observer/Satori Maiden ~ 3rd Eye (vocalist Again, mostly just covers). Onean fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Jul 20, 2013 |
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Jul 20, 2013 12:08
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  e: momiji 
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Jul 21, 2013 14:24
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Not pictured: Mediator screaming while running away.
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Jul 21, 2013 14:59
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I think this brings the fanart count for the Mystic Square stage 1 midboss to... three? four?
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Jul 21, 2013 15:25
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That whole picture is a treasure trove of awesome moments but the giant robot vs doll geekoff between Sanae and Alice is jsut pure  .
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Jul 21, 2013 15:34
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I loved how they included PC-98 characters and especially Sariel. Characters from back then just don't get as much love, it feels.
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Jul 21, 2013 22:10
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Kheldragar posted:I loved how they included PC-98 characters and especially Sariel. Characters from back then just don't get as much love, it feels. That's because they don't get much love from ZUN either. He basically ignores them and acts like they don't exist, for example when he does worldbuilding. While it's never been entirely clear whether the Windows games rebooted the continuity entirely or not, that's certainly the most straightforward way to look at it. Honestly I'm kind of surprised that the PC-98 characters as popular as they are, although I've always assumed that was mostly people being hipsters.
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Jul 21, 2013 22:22
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I like them myself, aside from all HRTP characters besides Reimu and Sairel, yet hardly know that much about each one of them and still have a hard time reciting their names just because they're not represented as much in the fan community. Even though I like them, I still don't know them all, even now. I do like the PC-98 games a lot, though - to the point that my favourite game in the entire series is actually Mystic Square. Even though Shinki pisses me off with her curvy lasers.
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Jul 21, 2013 22:40
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Kheldragar posted:yet hardly know that much about each one of them That's because there's not much to know. ZUN hadn't yet started writing large character profiles in the manual, and their dialog is even weirder and more generic than the rest of the games. They've never been covered by side materials or official comics in any fashion, so compared to the rest of the cast they're completely blank slates. Which is saying something, considering how "blank slate" the entire series is in the first place.
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Jul 21, 2013 22:48
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I still get lost whenever you guys start going on about Moon rabbits, Toyohime, the events of some side book or whatever. That said. Satori owns: http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/473990?pool_id=6930
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Jul 21, 2013 23:05
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Clarste posted:That's because there's not much to know. ZUN hadn't yet started writing large character profiles in the manual, and their dialog is even weirder and more generic than the rest of the games. They've never been covered by side materials or official comics in any fashion, so compared to the rest of the cast they're completely blank slates. Which is saying something, considering how "blank slate" the entire series is in the first place. Well, when I say "know" a character, I'm at least referring to one or two things about them oficially (I doubt some of them even have that in the PC-98 era) and the rest of it is up to however the fandom decided to treat them. Even though there's not much for any of the characters anyways, I still find it a travesty that I haven't even learnt their names - I don't go about it consciously, I just learn it passively as I go through more fan-stuff. Which I haven't done in a long time, I'll admit. Yes, Satori does own, and that face makes it all the better.
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Jul 21, 2013 23:11
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Touhou 14's cover has been revealed: Can't find a bigger image. That silhouette is even weirder than usual. I guess I can see feet and a thumbs up? Also Tasofro is selling HM/13.5's OST for C84, which apparently has some music that has yet to be patched into the game. I never realized how incomplete it really was. The cover's pretty weird though. 
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Jul 24, 2013 12:52
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Gonna beat all the witty sarcastic predictions to the punch and say that I think it's a girl, guys!!! I'm honestly eagerly awaiting the final version of DDC. ZUN could do some really cool things with the concept of possessed weapons (man I hope he brings back dynamic stage 4 bosses), and the music I've heard so far has been great. Also I have no idea what other songs TasoFro could add to the game. Stage themes for the player characters? Legacy tracks from IaMP/HT?
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Jul 24, 2013 12:58
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BlitzBlast posted:Gonna beat all the witty sarcastic predictions to the punch and say that I think it's a girl, guys!!! Rock remix of Cosmic Mind. Edit: And an arrange of Last Remote instead of HYG.
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Jul 24, 2013 13:00
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That silhouette looks an awful lot like Mima...not even joking here. e: I don't see feet but I find it hard to make out much of anything at all on a picture that tiny and busy. I just see a ghostly(?) figure *shrug* Meowywitch fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Jul 24, 2013 |
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Jul 24, 2013 13:14
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It has a child's proportions (might be Zun art tho') and I swear I see an upside down smiley face.
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Jul 24, 2013 13:22
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It also has feet.
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Jul 24, 2013 13:26
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All I see is a happy yukkuri face at the bottom right.
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Jul 24, 2013 13:57
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It's not mima. Let her go guys. It's over. RIP Mima.
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Namtab posted:It's not mima. Let her go guys. It's over. RIP Mima. I'll never believe that Mima is dead; I'll keep listening to Reincarnation over and over again until she comes back.
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