Touhou Gouyoku Ibun (Read 1,010 times)

[spongelevator]

looking forward to playing touhou 17.5 on october 25th (better not be 13.5 tier rushed)
will perhaps update with low quality screenshots and vague statements if I find it quickly

actually you know what I'll just edit the post (it is currently 18:55 PST)


this is all they had (picture uploaded at 18:36)
there were people on japanese twitter saying the line was so long and the stock was so low that you may as well wait for the steam release
apparently sold out at 18:48 (at 19:22 it was officially confirmed sold out by unabara)

this is from unabara's twitter


day one patch is inevitable


this was also posted though I don't know what it is
maybe a very crusty promotional paper or something I do not know

I'm hearing reports that there were not 50 but 200 copies
and that general participants were also able to pick up copies so there is hope for an upload at least
one guy on futaba said he got it and posted a picture at 19:19 so if he's legit it's just a few more hours now



ok update some 5 hours later
it seems the game has bad memory leakage and crashes when you retry
definitely not in a completed state but eh it functions decently enough I suppose
screenshots and information have been leaked but still no download link
people are saying the game is pretty damn hard and there was a ZUN afterword where he said something like "the fourth character you play has a special route"
I don't know what this means but people say raymoo unlocks kanakp unlocks murasa maybe it's just that 
there is a screenshot where kanakp is on the route with new character though so I dunno
also there are more characters than just the ones in the demo and the new one's design is uuh
well you'll see when you get there

I've just seen a screenshot of a character being playable other than the four
dunno if that means everyone is playable (because then why not just make a fighting game) but there's at least 5 confirmed routes now

ok an hour later there's a stream and I can confirm there is no way in hell I myself would actually be able to beat the game (not like a download link has showed up anyway)
but leaked screenshots just keep coming and there's more and more reoccurring characters which I don't think anyone ever expected would show up here
if it turns out all of these guys are playable I get why it took them so long to make now

ok I can say there is much more to this than we knew previously
I reloaded a thread and it got like 150 posts in 9 minutes so there is so much more to this game to the point where new reveals are made even as I edit this post (new routes, characters, locations) 
initially the gameplay kinda turned me away from the game but just the handful of leaked screenshots alone are more than enough to make the rest worth it
contrary to everyone's beliefs 15 hours ago this was actually worth the wait even just to know what's gonna happen in the game (though the game itself still has the crusty bugs and apparently the ED was not recorded and the game just sends you back to the title screen or something after you beat final boss)
if you want to have many "holy shiss" experiences I would recommend you stop checking any places that talk about the game because man
holy shiss

alright it's been 24 hours and I don't believe a download link has showed up
most people believe that there were too few discs and that nobody who cares to rip it got one
so I suppose we wait for steam release
some guy scalped it (and also the four new fumos because he is a scalper after all) for 600 dollars on yja so there is a very slight chance that someone bought it to rip it 
nothing at all suggests it but eh I will have a moderate amount of hope about this

[spongelevator]

despite the handful of pictures (at least four or five) I saw people post of having 17.5 not a single one of them uploaded it
I don't know why they did that or why a few of them decided to scalp

(3 file limit has been defeated)
but now those people who decided to show and not share are but puny ants upon this wasteland
wanna know why?
store.steampowered.com/app/1440500/_/
they release on stem 20 clams 

I've already known all the spoilers and a plot summary (and the plot is kinda a pain in the ass not to understand but to realize "they made it like that") since almost a week ago now
and touhouwiki somehow managed to get a hold of the entire game's dialogue over a day ago despite the steam release being five hours ago so 2/3 of the game's translated dialogue is already available
so honestly I do not have much if anything to get out of the game's steam release 
but if you have been avoiding spoiler and waiting you have been rewarded with game (ironically this widely available release was uploaded within 45 minutes of release compared to the 200 people only no upload ever)
I don't know if they fixed the bugs or anything
it seems almost all of the discussion about the game's characters and plot already happened so I guess avoiding spoilers is now easier than ever
all I've heard following the steam release is "everyone but reimu and 6th are rough as hell to play" and that the characters are pretty unbalanced
also multiple people (who used different characters) were saying the final boss was a complete pain in the ass and the steam release is said to have removed the easy mode on disc versions 
so I guess that is all now 

[Aeon]

SPONGE very sorry i intentionally decided to not read or respond to your post. i was immune to spoilers for a whole week and that was a sacrifice i had to make, although now upon reading you actually did not have any spoilers just fervent speculation as i did

for a few days i kept checking around to see if anybody had a link, but they somehow did it. tasofro had their little secrets all the way until the steam release

but today i woke up and

spongelevator
that is a hilarious markup that would never have existed if tasogare "twilight "tasofro" frontier" frontier told us when they thought they would release for real but for all we knew it coulda been months. i was hearing rumors that it was pretty buggy but i guess they figured it all out relatively quickly since i haven't come across any (aside from marisa being able to be super loud)

i have been avoiding spoiler and am rewarded with game. game is actually pretty hard though so it's taking me a bit. apparently flan is playable? kinda find it hard to believe but i guess the other picks are from basically wherever
i went and beat the game with reimu, not a massive amount of trouble but i was held up by each of the later bosses a bit until i was able to just be consistent. the first trial of the game had healing so you could have a few early mistakes but now you gotta be good. in compense, we got: small bullets only deal half an orb of hp. convenient
very much liking the fact that the reimu and marisa routes have three totally different bosses
murasa is probably my favorite fight and i probably would have never beaten kutaka if she had even one more attack. at least, all of hers are very cool. in wbawc hers are all kinda normal-like so the weird spirit and text bullets make her cooler

MARISA dude she still doesnt move nearly as cleanly as reimu but either they buffed her or i got good because this potion stuff is pretty cool. i do wish the one you throw up exploded on impact instead of after like half a second but its still a really good move especially with how much damage it deals at point blank. it is also very loud

it seems like there should be some way of holding on to your water attack without getting hit since i think i was able to do something like that with reimu but i've got no idea how and the tutorial doesn't tell you

all I've heard following the steam release is "everyone but reimu and 6th are rough as hell to play" and that the characters are pretty unbalanced

six??? on god??

final boss was not a massive deal for me, easier than okuu and kutaka (at least with reimu and marisa). she is a funny looking girl though. very mean. dumb spoon. i will go beat her up with kanako now

[spongelevator]

yeah I keep spoilers until the time is right
still have all the screenshots from the 11 hours I waited for the game link until realizing it was not going to happen and pissed off
in alternate universe comrade tasofro distributes game to each and every player who contributed to the making of glorious 17.5
there is no engpatch so I do not know if you are reading wiki or anything
I shall continue to conceal spoiler

I heard kanakp has one attack which makes every boss extremely cheeseable but if you don't use it then god help you
also the main complaint I saw with the final boss is when using 5th
if you already know about flan she's 6th
basically tears through the game from what I've heard
I guess it's only reasonable because she has multiple endings (I do not think this statement counts as a spoiler but I don't even know what the endings are anyway)
I do not have any actual experience with the gameplay because if it's a platformer other than old crusty new super mario bros DS I won't get past stage 2
so the things people are saying may be exaggerated or situational I do not know

final boss is literal *holds up spork*
damn ram demon girl with spork who can't even use megidola

[Aeon]

i have done a bit of kanako now
if you are not holding down she only has one move and its entirely worthless. if you are holding down, her hitboxes take up the entire screen. having a bit of trouble on stage three so i maybe that isn't the cheeseable attack or maybe i'm just not using it right
i was relying on my awesome japaneseと思ったが僕の知っている言葉は足りなかった
and i did not know they were so speedy with the translation so many thanks
i want to post a funny lil picture of a sprite i found but this game is immune to windows screenshots and i'm a bit broke so i don't have it on steam yet so imagine kutaka doing something cool

platformer is my turbozone so this is going pretty well even though it's pretty nonplatformer-like. don't even know what i'd call this thing. most platformers you can't be in graze state 80% of the time

edit: i can now take screenshots with the magical power of alt+enter to unfullscreen

[spongelevator]

the cheese did indeed involve holding down and doing something
but I dunno what because I didn't pay much attention
with a hitbox like that maybe it's just holding down and attacking in general lol

last time I checked the routes up to murasa (excluding endings) had been translated as well as the toutetsu notepad thing and whatever else I'm forgetting
I checked just now and it seems they translated the rest of the routes so now even EOPs like me can read in 1080p sharp black text on off-white background english
I dunno if this was all done in the past two days or if they'd been doing this for way longer and nobody noticed until recently but eh fast equivalent

probably I will just wait for someone else to play it and then watch routes 3-6 because I could not even beat the demo with raymoo
having to play it 6-8 times to see the full story is also the equivalent of learning new genre for me so I should probably spend that time making more than one attempt per month to complete any integer game instead and submit to pseudo-fighting game overlords to feed me kanakp content

once you have heard it all this may become first discussion thread since power levels argument because now there are not new characters in a is new game (if so that is very good because most discussion is dead by now somehow)

[Aeon]

tasofro on the switch! again
i will not be purchasing anything on the switch but it could be neat since its portable
more importantly: playable yuuma. is that important? its neat, at least
some people are also talking about something called "greedy mode" which supposedly brings some sort of roguelike elements. thanks for testing the waters again with your minimally intrusive rogueliking so people will be prepared for my stupid ass stuff when it comes out

there is a two percent chance that this is not an update and exclusive to the switch. which would be hilarious, but no way, right?
right?

i still haven't beaten flandre mode

[spongelevator]

ok I still do not know what "roguelike" is supposed to be because when I look it up I see like 5 different genres minimum of different games
I forgot if I asked before but if I asked before I forgot
but what is "roguelike"
I know the word "rogue" and the class "rogue" (close enough) but I have no idea what that binding of issac thing has to do with crooks or other poor-behaved people or promoted thieves (crooks)

like whatever this is I cannot tell what this is supposed to mean because all of this other than "grid-based movement" is like 1/2 of all JRPGs ever if I am seeing it correctly
but people use the word frequently and almost never to refer to JRPGs so I have no idea what it means

since ULiL had reisen on ps4-only for its first console release I would not be surprised if the goat one is switch-only as well
perhaps perchance this means there shall be an 18.5 with new characters in similar fashion????? just kidding there will not 18.5 will be toho 18.5: shoot the shotgun featuring the new blue tengu

(honestly I forgot this game existed I still haven't even been able to beat the demo)

[Aeon]

roguelike means a couple things, biggest is permadeath
you die, you lose all your stuff, you go back to the beginning. every run is an ironman and the game can usually be beaten in the 45 minute to hour and a half range
the main part after permadeath is that your abilities/character vastly changes within that short period of time, and each run ends up playing entirely differently by the end
grid-based movement, turn-based gameplay, and dungeon-crawling are not relevant to roguelikes at all no idea why those are there. you do want a fair bit of randomness though
unconnected marketeers is slightly roguelike-like because its got the random items. stages are always the same but since permadeath is always a thing in touhou, it could be considered a roguelike, depending on who you talk to. unfortunately you cannot overhaul your character in ways such as replacing your shot type or anything so its not very much roguelike-like but it is at least a bit
fire emblem is not a roguelike because it takes eighty years to beat, has the same stages every time, and doesnt delete your save when the lord dies even though everybody else can permadeath
it is not an actual gameplay genre like platformer or fps but just a general thing you can slap on any of those. i like a couple of em like isaac and one step from eden

anyway apparently it will be an update for everyone, found a tweet and then lost it but you can trust me
18.5 who knows what its gonna be but we havent skipped a noninteger game since eleven so im fairly certain itll exist. probably not like 17.5 but who knowssssss

[spongelevator]

what so like one of them arcade games where it's short but if you run out of lives (or health) you have to pop in another quarter kinda permadeath
except with random traits after each death/restart (gambling)
and with random maps like tartarus and also random items
ok I have not played anything similar but I now see why one of me pals has 790 hours in the binding of isaac

also I have found it is "roguelike" not as in the word "rogue" but a game called "rogue" so now I see where that is from
I looked at the wikipedia and it says a lot of the development was from two guys at UCSC lol lolol lamo lolol

ucsc lol lamo wwwwwww lololol
and this paragraph

this is a real gem here it is

if that is what you meant in the gimmick thread then I can see that in an entirely different light
with the current implementation of the cards in UM I don't like how it sounds
but in this mysterious "roguelike" the entire playthrough is a mystery box (20 bucks or boat?) and trying to collect all the characters/cards/whatever in one playthrough simply does not happen and suddenly the gimmick can actually work well and not feel like skill emblem competitive pokemon SMTIV superboss DLC

found the thing
if this aint no reisen situation then yeah I would not expect 18.5 to be 17.5+1 (well it aint a fighting game so the more I think about it the less likely it seems)
more power to shoot the shotgun it's looking like