Touhou Game Club

Actually the reason Johnny can't come is because his leave vacation got denied. He asked for it too soon after he moved out of Japan, so he can't make the travel. He will be coming for Reitaisai in May, though, and probably next year's winter Comiket (I won't be here by then, next summer Comiket will be my last for a while ;-;).

By the way...

I saw a thread on /jp/ about the circle numbers and I don't know how true it is, but it looks like Touhou is on a solid second this time around. Kancolle still doesn't have a whole day to themselves like Touhou does (and the scattered events are nowhere near Reitaisai size), but Kadokawa's backup will definitely make the game and the hype last longer than it was intended from the start. Having a lot of fun absorbing the reactions on the thread. xD

My connection's been fine for weeks now though.

so that's what happened.
your last? when are you gonna get back to tokyo after that then?

Touhou's still standing strong.
don't give up,ZUN.lol

http://www.tasofro.net/touhou145/index.html

Summary (thanks /jp/-anon)

Another collaboration with Tasofro, most likely it'll be another fighter.
Demo comes out on 12/29 (C87).

Edit: Yep, it's a fighting game. http://tasofro.net/diary/view/108



A bit disappointed since I thought it'd be a new game type, but who knows, maybe this game will fix HM's flaws.

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I know I'm very disappointed in that the next game is a fighter instead of competitive danmaku like PoFV, which was the last competitive danmaku game.

I'd like that too, PoFV was great.

That teaser image really was misleading though. I thought we were getting something new for sure.

My time in Japan is done in September. :( I'll be returning to the US after that...

I'm pretty hyped for the fighter announcement. Here's hoping that the line is not super horrible at Comiket for it, but based on experience, it's like, everyone will rush Itou Life, Kamikadou, Sound Holic and Yuuhei Satellites for the most part. The demo should be easy to grab.

*cough* Hibernated *cough*




Did you upgraded.

Nah. My net went stupid before and we could hardly play soku/HM like we used to, hence the insult. Jen still has cave-era internet, I think.

If it doesn't net me victories against you, then it's still as good as flawed.
Well, overall it's a wrench thrown to my excitement. Even if it wasn't a danmaku, I would prefer it to be something else other than fighting games since it's not like we don't have enough already. Or even better, Renko and Maribel game.

With that being said, I hope Satori will never be a central point of any canon game.


And yes Haru. As Fuwaruu said, my net is still within caveman-tier. His net sucks and my net sucks.

And I hope ZUN forgets about the Moriyas forever, as he did with HM.



..for the nth time, my internet connection is fine.

Bump now because Fuwaruu's net sucks.

Preparing responses.....

slow.....

14.5 demo is out.

Demo offers 3 playable characters, Reimu, Marisa, and Kasen. I haven't played around a lot with the demo yet, but here's some stuff I figured out.

• HM's card system seems to be gone. Instead, you choose from 3 spellcards at the character select screen (akin to IaMP's spellcard system). Only one of Kasen's spellcards is available though.

• The popularity system is scrapped, and is replaced by the occult(?) system. Instead of 2 separated popularity meters, we have one shared occult meter under the timer. The keyword here is shared; The meter has 7 empty orbs, so if Player1 has 4 orbs and Player2 has 3, then Player1 claims another orb, one of Player2's orbs will be lost.
  
  Similar to the popularity system's "last word", you can perform "occult" specials once you gain at least 4 orbs. If you have more than 4 orbs, you will deal more damage.

• A purple orb will appear in the middle of the screen at set intervals. This orb exhibits a certain special effect which is chosen at random, similar to SWR/Soku's weather system. After the orb appears, the timer then indicates the orb's duration (i.e. the orb will disappear when it reaches zero).

• This purple orb will move around the screen and lasts for a set amount of time. Touching the orb will add a "counter" on it (Red for Player1, blue for Player2). Once the timer reaches zero again, the orb will disappear, and it will be claimed by the player that has more counters on it. This claimed orb will then be displayed on the occult meter; Red if it belongs to Player1, blue if belongs to Player2.

• Like HM, this game eats insane amounts of resources. If it runs slow, you can try setting the [color=red]framerate[/color] to 1/2 and turning [color=blue]VSync[/color] off.
  
  Spoiler:

  

• Controls:
  Arrow keys for movement
  Z - Dial A/melee attack, can be modified by directional buttons
  X - Weak shot, can be modified by directional buttons
  C - Strong shot/special, can be modified by directional buttons
  A - Declare/cast spellcard
  D - Dash
  A+C - "Occult special". Needs at least 4 orbs.

One thing that I haven't quite figured out yet is summoning the "urban legends". Sometimes, when I hold down A+C, my character summons a weird object that attacks the other player instead of doing a special. Not sure what exactly procs this.

Edit: I figured it out, sort of. The way to do it is by holding C, not A+C. Since C is your strong shot, you'll end up doing your default C attack first before you summon the urban legend. Maybe there's a way to go around this.

An exception to this is Kasen, because she doesn't have an idle C attack. This means you can use the urban legend on it's own by holding C. Kasen can aim it upwards and downwards as well.

These special attacks are character specific and requires an occult orb.

remember the old time, when you only had to drop down the enemy life bar to win a match?
Gensokyo does not remember.
Anyway, have fun, all of you planning to get this "resourcethirsty" game.
Though i may still get down to it too in the near future.
For me, the most neat thing this game could do, is offer playable characters different from the first one, and the chance to fuse the two game roster like for SWR and Soku.
That much would be kinda good already

Meh, TH 14.5 doesn't pique my interest in the slightest. As I've said before, it should have been more of a Competitive Danmaku game than a Fighting game. That's what Touhou started out as.

Correction: it does indicate match time. The purple occult orb just appears at regular intervals during the match.

There're are also purple mini-orbs [size=10](really wish I know what these are actually called)[/h] that appear when you white-stun an enemy, which fly towards the timer immediately; maybe these mini orbs influence the occult orb's spawn time.

To add to this, if you get hit by the enemy while attempting to use your special skill, one of your claimed occult orbs will be transferred to the enemy.



That's understandable. The occult system does change things up a bit, but this game is pretty much HM 2.0. Truly, a playable Satori would be it's only saving grace.



Well, it's only complicated if you make it so. [size=10]Maybe.[/h]
The story mode is beatable even without knowing all that stuff I rambled about.

For those interested Focas Lens (the makers of Touhou Rhythym Carnival) recently published
a brand new Touhoumon game, which full version was available on the latest Comiket



For the racing game lovers, (Mario Kart particularly) it's finally here a game belonging to this genre.

However this game is available as trial only for now.

We also got what seems to be a new tactical RGP with 3d graphics

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Not really a complaint (though it totally looked like it), it actually had to be a sort of observation on the fighting game in general.

MARISAKART TOUHOU SKYDRIFT, I WANT IT

I'll abstain from the trial for now and wait for the full game. Hype.


Ahh, yeah. It proves true for most game genres, too; we only had to shoot pixelated aliens before, and now we have to weave through barrages of knives and rings and nuclear explosions and fairies and knives. Some old cat around here would share this sentiment.

Providing updates faithfully. Fuwaruu and Haruu, you both are awesome. It's a shame that I cannot seem to gather my will to play trial games. Hopeless Masquerade trial was downright depressing for me, and the end product didn't offer much aside from having a good story and adding Kokoro to Gensokyo.

I assume Urban Legend in Limbo wouldn't fare much better from substance standpoint. Besides, any games that cannot prevent me from getting slaughtered by Fuwaruu are bad games by default.



Do you have links for this one, Harumon!

Credit and thanks goes to original uploader