Raenir Salazar posted:

Any Lunatic LP's of the Touhou games that don't skip the dialogue? I know its mostly fluff that barely characterizes anyone beyond one or two quirks for fanon to latch onto with their talons but c'mon, I figure there's gotta be something content wise to it to make it worth reading.

Because I'm bad at the games and can't watch the dialogue myself even on Easy

Falls Down Stairs posted:

In the meanwhile I really wish Zun's visit to the USA would bring him anywhere even sort of close to where I lived rather than way off in Atlanta.

Samurai Sanders posted:

It's already April Fool's Day in Japan so expect to see a lot of fake game announcements and stuff. The first one I saw is a remake of Phantasmagoria of Dim Dream.

Onean posted:

If you're talking about finding someone on pixiv with just one of their images, than Google's image search allows you to drag-and-drop images to search by them, or you can upload one by clicking on the camera icon in the search bar. (Google's search result. Clicking the top link leads to a pixiv popularity listing, and finding the image there, about halfway down, will lead you to the artist's page for the image.)

Tengames posted:

Man I find these shooting games so dull. I don't have the patience for such lousy gimmicks as "focus" and "dodging"(or surviving past stage five)

Mazed posted:

Not to disrespect your own enthusiasm for them, but by the time it gets to where someone's custom-titled you about it, it might be worth taking into consideration.


For some ungodly reason I'd never thought to actually track this manga down and read it. Now I will.

Speaking of supporting official Touhou products: Does anyone know if importing the games from sites like Paletweb properly gets royalties out to ZUN?

It looks like the expenses must add up, but considering what goes into making these games and what you get out of them, it seems right and proper.

Artificer posted:

Ask Nitori.

In unrelated news, I need to figure out how to groom my hair now that I've got an antennae shoved into the back of my head.

I'm not sure about meth but as part of the rent the crazy white-haired doctor lady keeps injecting me with stuff.

Send help.

Anyways, after IN, which is generally considered to be the next easiest?

Clarste posted:

I suppose it's not unheard of for dubbed anime characters to get drunk on tea or milk.

Hazdoc posted:

Ugh, reading some of the comments on the touhou tag team wrestling comic on danbooru... well I don't know what I expected. So many people complaining about the dumbest stuff. I probably shouldn't have expected anything more, though.

BlitzBlast posted:

Just wait, DDC will have unlockable characters.

(Beat the game on Lunatic with Reimu to unlock Sanae. )

BlitzBlast posted:

He was talking about IN's solo characters.

EDIT: Also StB is waaaay harder than DS.

BlitzBlast posted:

Assuming the "background characters will not be playable" theory holds true,



don't get your hopes up.

Falls Down Stairs posted:

Was alphes always this terrible at art and I just never noticed, or is this a new thing with Hopeless Masquerade? Because seriously. Ichirin's probably been hit with it the worst:



Girl got some stumpy-rear end limbs.

e: didn't realize how big that pic was.

KataraniSword posted:

Is that ZUN himself chilling in the hot spring/lake there?

legoman727 posted:

Okay, so what's the final cast again? Reimu, Marisa, Hijiri, Miko, Nitori, Koishi... I know I'm missing people.

nekoxid posted:

I may be wrong, but I think almost every Tasofro game had a day 0 patch?

Volt Catfish posted:

Having played as all of them now, I can safely say Byakuren's far and away the best character in Hopeless Masquerade.

edit: Miko is a cool close second

Hedera Helix posted:

The most important question remains, however- do the characters have spinning animations?

a cartoon duck posted:

Meiling's story mode is a literary master piece and not exemplary for the genre as a whole.

On a different note, after giving every shot type a good shake in TH14, is it just me or is this actually pretty difficult? Granted, I thought the same thing about TH13 when the demo first came out so I dunno how my opinion will change in the future, but right now things seem to get pretty tricky even at the stage 2 boss.

BlitzBlast posted:

Maximum Chenergy posted:

I keep all my touhou related stuff in Program Files and haven't had a single issue with any of the patches, although the new patch system doesn't recognise my 1.02 of EoSD but that isn't really a huge concern like computer freezing.

What I have had a problem with is getting the new tasofro patch to have the right file path. Kind of annoying that windows can't handle a \ in Japanese.

Hazdoc posted:

It seems Kagerou is the most popular of the new characters, judging from the amount of fanart I see of her. Though to be honest, I like her too. The mermaid chick is kind of cool too, I guess.

Aliginge posted:

I dunno, some of these names are unrecognisable as Touhou characters but they'd make loving incredible racehorse names.

Village Gauze Watertight
Star Bear Yong Yi
Taken Up River Castle
Spirit Road Crow Sky

and my personal favourite

Small Umbrella Good Many

legoman727 posted:

Where did all this popularity for Koishi come from?

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.

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.

vvv In a completely Japanese style house, no less.

BlitzBlast posted:

That sounds very cool. Too bad hitting 100% is practically impossible outside of Practice.

Kheldragar posted:

Just to make it clear, IN is considered to be the easiest game, right?

Saigyouji posted:

Utsuho, Aya, Nue, Tewi, and Renko.

e: Oh, and Murasa.

Kheldragar posted:

So we can't count Rinnosuke as a magical old dude?

Tengames posted:

The countdown for the new release is back again.

Ive never tried the actual patcher to see if its any good though.

Volt Catfish posted:

ZUN is pretty good at that. Look at Rin's really elaborate galaxy dress that no fan artist seems to bother re-creating.

Maximum Chenergy posted:

no it's been there since EoSD. Although ZUN did like using a few more violin-esque synths. I think people just remember Border of life and Necrofantasia since the trumpets are very noticeable in those songs.

Hokuto posted:

"Honey, my 480 seat room hit capacity and they had to cut off the line. Holy crap!"

HGH posted:

So ZUN just tweeted he's releasing another game at Winter Comiket(29-31 December). No demo this time. Off the top of my head I'd say this is either more photography or "MINOR CHARACTER'S EXCITING ADVENTURE" again.