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Haven't posted here in 2 years but I came to sayrannum posted:the otter power gives you invincibility for 5 seconds which seems a bit unbalanced It's seriously busted. And this is nerfed from the trial version I think.
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They do some really creative stuff, especially in the bonus spellcards you can access from the main menu. Each boss gets around 5 unique attacks that are more in line with the ones from the decimal numbered side games. A particular favorite of mine is one that starts normally then up and creates a second hit box that orbits around you. And yeah Rumia maybe an irrelevant minor character but deleting her for OC notRumia felt weird. I do like stuff like jack o' lantern themed Koakuma and outer god themed Yukari though.
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Clarste posted:While I'm afraid of fanning the flames of this discussion, personally I think something attractive about Touhou to me, as an asexual/aromantic person, is that you can totally see the setting as asexual. That's not to say that none of the characters are in relationships or don't care about each other in that way--there's certainly been a lot of subtext in the comics especially--but more that no one seems to care that much? None of the characters define themselves or their motivations by their romantic relationships, if any. None of the stories are written around that kind of thing. It's just not... a big deal? At best we just see people being very casually comfortable with each other. I still remember the one chapter where Reimu and Marisa spy a human couple meeting under a snowy tree and shy away from them (I think it was actually a yuki-onna or ghost luring someone out?) and thinking to myself that's probably the most explicit relationship interaction we saw in the series so far. I hate to use this word but there's a sort of comfiness in how tame and low-priority these aspects are.
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Aug 27, 2019 13:58
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That is kinda how it goes in HSiFS Extra but wheelchair dodging/drifting is way better.
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I got a 5 star Kogasa then used the free ticket only to get a 4 star Kogasa. Actually got surprised, 0/10 noncannon game.
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Oct 2, 2019 16:15
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That's one heck of a spellcard failure.
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Clarste posted:I mean, to be perfectly fair I watched the Touhou Luna Nights run but the instant someone said "I should probably explain the lore" I immediately panicked and muted the audio for the rest of the video. I mean, maybe it was okay but I'm not taking any chances. He just explained the basic plot of the fangame, which is as throwaway as can be anyway.
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Golden Battler posted:3peso's been posting screenshots of Labyrinth of Touhou 3 on twitter. Hell yeah, this is good news. Although my understanding is this might be a while away cause they're assisting/working on some other game right now? Also I've seen rumors of a Steam rerelease of 1 and 2 but I can't find anything about that at all. Guessing it was just rumors.
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I only found out about this pretty late, but the Chinese Touhou community is hosting an online international event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYpQAdkwAFQ There's a Team China, Team Japan, and Team West, and they're competing in a bunch of games for either survival (no bombs allowed) or scoring, all on Lunatic (all the matches are listed in the video). It's already a bit more than halfway done but from what I've seen so far it's been a pretty impressive competition and display of skill. Score is also counted using something called IScore, which weighs different shot types differently. For example, in DDC Surival, ReimuA and SakuyaA are considered the best, so a successful no death/miss run as them nets 4 points (with each death halving the point total and a limit of no more than 5 deaths). Meanwhile, SakuyaB is considered so awful that apparently no one has ever done a nobomb run with her without dying (the best is 1 death). As a result a successful no miss run as her nets 180 points. I've only watched a couple archives of it so far but as a Normal player the whole experience has been pretty enlightening.
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rannum posted:https://twitter.com/yoidori_rumia/status/1250717589455515653 I've actually been watching a friend stream this a couple times. It's pretty short (just 4 stages) but the gameplay is pretty addicting and the music catchy. I particularly like the last boss' theme.
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Apr 18, 2020 15:20
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High School sukeban Okina has a real strong look. She even has the yoyo.
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Happy that Pure Furies remains consistently up there. Although I've noticed LoLK in particular seems to be THE popular modern Windows game compared to DDC and HSiFS. Sumireko seems kinda disliked for how much of a big push she gets in everything.
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Dunno what the posting situation is but since FMW came up, the FMW Complete Box got an update two days ago adding 5 more sheep based levels.
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Jun 28, 2020 23:22
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So that trailer was the capoff to the The Game Jam site also links to this collection of Touhou doujin game demos, some of which can be found on Steam, some of which aren't, and some of which are free on their devs' sites. It expires in a day and 20 hours from now but there's some interesting stuff there, like this half-decent Minoriko ARPG.
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Aug 24, 2020 19:47
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Cannonball is dead. Ah, truly the fate of every gacha. But I mean, honestly, competitive board game gacha? Never was gonna really work. It made less in its entire lifetime than Lost Word did in a month (whose Twitter almost immediately posted a 4 million download celebration after CB's shutdown notice).    Not to mention CB seemed to be dumping money on production values like Live2D, 3D Models, endless music remixes and arranges from god knows how many circles. The one OST playlist I could find had 337 tracks alone. E;FB but anyways, have one of the good things from CB:  leather fedora posted:I guess a year is a pretty decent run and it went out on a high note, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lost Word ate its lunch and Aniplex wasn't happy about that. Promotion wise, LW also ran a lot more campaigns and stuff pre and post release whereas CB seemed to be really slow about those and even failed some social media campaigns back in May, which was a sure sign of death throes. HGH fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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Oh, I got linked to an article about that yesterday and wondered what it was about. Pretty cool but small so far, they're only starting off with only around 35 tracks or so for the first upload. Still, archival is always a cool and appreciated thing to do. Last note on the Cannonball thing, but people pretty much extracted all the assets out of it. I dunno if this could be useful to anyone or if it might be considered  (I dunno what the rules on dead games are), but I figured some people might at least want the music downloads.Music, art assets, and everything else, respectively.
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Mysterious Sponsor X made a Touhou 25th Anniversary website for... well, the 25th Anniversary. It's nothing to special, just a glossary of terms, characters and release dates.
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Oct 7, 2020 23:03
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leather fedora posted:- USING ANY PHOTO OF ZUN, ALTERED OR OTHERWISE, WITHOUT PERMISSION as he himself is not part of the Touhou Project series Dang, I guess YHVH ZUN is a no-go.
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Oct 8, 2020 16:12
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Please help me budget my dying Touhou gacha game. - 1% gameplay - 1% game design - 98% music and animations and art and voice acting Anyway Cannonball dies on Wednesday. HGH fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Oct 12, 2020 |
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Oct 12, 2020 01:05
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Touhou Spell Bubble got an English patch for all its Asian EShop versions if anyone's interested in $45 musical Puzzle Bobble. I doubt there's enough interest in the Western Touhou market in 2020 to release it elsewhere though.
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Seems 17.5 is no longer compatible with Windows 7. Guess whatever was causing all those crashes was a really big issue. They also reworked the game mechanics. Now you naturally regenerate HP and mostly use water/fluids to charge bombs.
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drat, I've never been in one of those situations where I have a JP account for a game that later got an English version. While I can't read anything in it without my friend by my side I'm not sure if I should jump ship... it's a decently powerful account by now.Squiddycat posted:But are the girls being cute and doing cute things in it? Definitely. There's been 5 events with a sixth Halloween one starting today (starring Clownpiece apparently) and they are: 1- Sakuya's on vacation so Remi hires Youmu and puts Meiling and Flan on maid duty. Violence ensues. 2- Kappa wargames starring team Reisen/Medicine/Byakuren. 3- Someone stole all the copies of Strange Creators of Outer Worlds (at least that's the cover they use ingame) and it's up to Marisa/Patchy/Alice to investigate by randomly attacking people. Also they're wearing yukatas for some reason. Also the aforementioned introduction of Akyuu and Kosuzu, as well as Yukari making a weird gap face that turned into a minor Pixiv meme. 4- "Best Sisters Contest" starring every single pair/trio of sisters in Gensokyo and out of it and approximately two dozen cheaters (Kaguya/Star Sapphire was such a strong one the Watatsukis passed out). 5- Nemuno wants to open a restaurant, Kasen gets fired up and drags Reimu/Tewi to help. And I believe the main story is straight up "Your female self-insert OC is pulled out of plot relevant gacha currency into Gensokyo" and now Reimu is hopping between alternate Gensokyos like a high school AU, an edgy version, and so on. The game also really loves putting the characters in cute alternate costumes. EDIT: Also this.  Ammat The Ankh posted:All my favorites? That's a lot of Crown Princes. There is this one picture of Miko's legs you can equip as gear I guess and I saw with an inventory of nothing but 300 of it (this game uses one of those gear formats where you equip pictures of stuff). Clarste posted:Can confirm that the writing is shockingly sincere. Too bad the gameplay sucks. It is bad enough on lower difficulties that there's two separate Auto modes for the game to play itself (Shoot normal danmaku Auto and Use Spellcards Full Auto). But if anyone's interested, you can basically coast through Normal mode and see all the story and writing with just the starter Marisa you get. On Hard and Lunatic, for the first 3 months or so, you could just use your biggest firepower/Youmu on Full Auto and still not have any issue. Now though, it's getting pretty decently tough. The story mode chapter 2 boss Marisa Alter definitely needs some planning to beat, and the latest event ended with the bizarre tag team of Byakuren/Rumia/Joon which was hellishly rough even for strong teams. But yeah that's still 3 months or so of easy content and boring auto-farming. If nothing else the character tierlist is pretty funny, if only because what characters are in what tiers (red stars are limited time).  Tewi's position still makes me laugh. If anyone's starting a new account, you really want Youmu, you're basically set for life with her. Medicine and Sakuya are great too though. By far the game's biggest failure is useless tank characters (Kanako, Byakuren, Meiling) and defensive support/healers (Lily White, Sanae, Reimu). At the end of the day the gameplay's all about bigger firepower and firepower support. Also random aside but I think they made Yorihime's Last Word a Guilty Gear reference? She yells out "Yamata No Orochi Install" before buffing all her stats and using a flaming Orochi to attack, which feels really on the nose. FractalSandwich posted:Really? All my favourite characters? Are you sure you can guarantee that? SyntheticPolygon posted:Dang, and I just brought it from the HK eshop. At least the Switch is lenient with multiple accounts and regions. HGH fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Nov 1, 2020 |
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Lost Word got some Google award in Japan. The English account called it Best Competitive game but I know it has no competitive elements whatsoever.starbucks hermit posted:https://twitter.com/tasofro/status/1333353043421609984?s=19
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Latest ZUN stream soft announced Touhou 18 is in development. It's all in Japanese but there's a particularly hilarious bit where ZUN describes how much he couldn't stand Touhou fanbase purists and how he's glad there's less of them now, followed by JYUNYA saying said people would probably murder him if they knew he was making a gacha game now.
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A Sometimes Food posted:What does he mean by purist here? The example given was people who bother those who got in through fanworks or don't play the shmups.
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So 17.5 was announced for Reitaisai (which starts next week) only to now go back to being indefinitely delayed. They tried to finish everything by the last minute but didn't want to release it incomplete so now they're delaying it less than a week ahead of the event. HGH fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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A FE style fangame got an English patch a couple days ago. It had a playthrough going on here last year if you're wondering what it's like.
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Clarste posted:The rate-up banner is just Youmu so it honestly seems to be a bad idea to dump anything into the game right now unless you just love Youmu the most (which, statistically speaking, you do. I guess). Youmu can easily carry an account for the first 3 months so they know what they're doing. I don't think she had a banner just for her at launch in JP.
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Random thought, has Mamizou's tail expanded with every appearance?
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Good job and congrats on the 1CCs. The game is definitely on the harder side without the card system (or if you get garbage RNG before you've unlocked the ones you like to start with). Especially the insanity that is the stage 4 BALLPIT.Snooze Cruise posted:
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Today I learned that the term "hobgoblins" was apparently a mistranstlation and they're apparently "hof"goblins. And there's also this random one off haunted mansion in one of the older 3 Fairies manga that actually had a name erased in English.
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Yeah, dev just started work on LoT3 this year and is still using placeholder assets from LoT2. They also mentioned the reason for a lack of English translation being the price which makes me wonder about Chinese rates. Tasofro also officially mentioned the Steam port for 17.5 and mentioned they'll show it off next Touhou Station. Which happens to be a Friday the 13th.
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Buncha fangames dropped in English (they've been out in Japanese for a while) on Steam today following the Touhou Station broadcast. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1341460/Touhou_DollDraft/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1635980/Kubinashi_Recollection/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1533590/Three_Fairies_Hoppin_Flappin_Great_Journey/ Kubinashi's a pretty fun puzzle platformer if you're into those kinda games. The Fairy RPG is interesting in that it takes the gambit gimmick from FF12 and makes it the whole game so if you're into that kinda party programming thing you might like it (though it's also a pretty meaty game).
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No it doesn't work because of newer version compatibility issues, but that doesn't matter anymore because they're bringing it in to the official release. Seems like it'll be done soon. And this all started cause someone asked about it on Steam discussions and 3/4 of the old fantranslators showed up out of the blue to help.
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Unknown X was an, initially, unknown set of mysterious sponsors (Unknown Sponsor X) organizing and funding new events, music, even gacha games... Later it was revealed to be a collaboration between Aquastyle (of Gensokyo Wanderer/Mystery Gensokyo fame), DeNA (Japanese mobage company) and xeen (a Japanese games developer that mostly does behind the scenes work, most recently on Trials of Mana but also Sonic and Mario spinoffs). They basically wanted to pay back to the community because Aquastyle made a fortune off of it (for a doujin dev) and can afford to fund stuff now. They're behind Danmaku Kagura's big push but more than that, they're responsible for a rather large "Introducing people to Touhou" push. Most of their videos usually use a Reimu yukkuri wearing shades with Xs on them, using the yukkuri voice to talk about stuff, but there's a couple ones where some Aquastyle people show up. Also yeah, most of the old doujin creators/devs just got aged out/crushed by the real world, the big resurgence of late has more to do with younger kids/teens straight up having Touhou passed on to them by relatives and family (at least that's the story I heard for Japan, dunno about the west). Add to that the general decentralization of most Touhou content/communities until recently and it gives an appearance of being smaller than it is. Obviously there were people that totally jumped ship to other franchises (ironically involving ships to boot) but that mostly served to make those bigger rather than particularly shrinking the Touhou one. Basically if you were around in 2009 you're a dinosaur now. Random aside, I'm seeing talks of Youmu defrauding the popularity poll with bot accounts now, to the tune of 800 ballot stuffing ghosts/bots. https://twitter.com/toho_vote/status/1445385268731785219 
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Miko also didn't get her complete look till the air fighters and had some good presence/development in those. Like goddamn she looks off without that cape now.
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Always rember: blue bullets on blue background is an excellent design choice, almost as god as red bullets on a foggy red background. Someone went and translated what little text Mystical Chain some 12 years after the fact and made an English patch. Also from what I hear 17.5 's translation is progressing smoothly and should be done soon, if nothing goes horrible wrong.
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17.5's patch is near done and they rolled out some betas, they just need to iron out some bugs (some of which seem to be caused by Steam). 
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Does anyone have or know where to find the PCB Christmas mod from ages ago?
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