Touhou thread

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#21

Aquastyle’s thing has always been good(for doujin) production values with absolutely no originality. They’re that kind of developer.

The weirdest thing they did was like… they released a platformer a year or two ago. Super cutesy Aya/Momiji thing.Here’s a trailer. Yeah, so, that’s real cute looking, right? I watched someone play through it under the impression that was what the whole game was like.

And then he got to the final stage, where it abruptly took a hard turn into body horror out of nowhere. (sorry, couldn’t find a video without talking over it, but skip around to get the idea.) (edit: particularly around 5:00 onwards, jeez)

Guy ended up not clearing the game because it creeped him out hard.

#22

Not as bad as I was expecting. Still weird for a Touhou game.

#23

I’ve always wanted someone to make Senko no Ronde work.

SNR was such a disappoint, partly because I looooooove the character designs/art style, and partly because it’s such a fun and original genre fusion idea.

But…it just…wasn’t that fun or competitive. It was really weird. It was like they didn’t test it for fun, just that it essentially worked.

Though I wonder if it’s just really difficult to make a PvP bullet hell competitive. I mean, competition becomes fun when it’s a dialogue, and it can be hard to respond to a bullet hell array with anything other than dodging them. I guess you have to have intuitive absorb mechanics or something. Hopefully this game cracks that nut.

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#24

I wonder if you could make it work if it’s like turns of call and response, where one form is blasting giant bullet patterns and the other must dodge/skim/reflect the shots and then they get a turn to do a giant flower pattern of bullets in return.

Kind of like a Bust-a-Groove/Move approach? But that’s straight Parappa, repeat-after-me though, with attacking/reflecting elements.

What if you both had bullet energy that let you spew out a pattern, but if you ran out, the only way to recharge was by skimming bullets, so you’d want to skim and shoot as much as possible? Also you could get a bomb by charging up enough energy for it?

Might work.

#25

I meant Genso Rondo. But nevermind, it looks to be a not-PC game? PlayStation only?

#26

The remastered version that NISA is localizing is PS4 only. There was a previous Windows version that they no longer seem to sell. There was also a “free” version (demo?) that was delinked, but…

http://www.cubetype.com/down/gensoRondo/
I’m trying to figure out what this “invalid” file is. I can’t check right now, but it may be that same demo was simply renamed so direct links wouldn’t work anymore. You can Google and download “grfree102.zip” from some Japanese download mirror sites, and the Internet Archive indicates that is the filename previously linked on the product page. Bon chance.

#27

yeah, they appear to have stopped selling it and were like, yeah, all future versions gonna be PS only.

either getting console support is going to their heads, or g.rev had some Conditions.

the ‘invalid’ is probably to kill direct links, yeah.

i’m sleepy, yeah.

#28

i’ve been reading the touhou wiki all night and ZUN would probably have the most interesting book collection out of all the living japanese game auteurs. he has the vibe of one of those old post-WWII authors who would write for porn magazines but be really good for some reason. idk how much money he makes but he should be making more. take him to art basel. the international art world would love ZUN if they knew who he was

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