/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Give it to me straight, /jp/. How much tougher is this game if I start out without recruiting Mokou and Byakuren immediately? Every time I play through it I always recruit them because the characters are so weak early on and you could use as much firepower as you can get.

I'm mostly worried about Alice, Komachi, and Kaguya/Eirin. The latter mostly, because iirc, the only other way to get the control status besides Byakuren is Satori's last word which is an extremely unreliable method.

Taken from an anon in the previous thread:

Download link: http://www.4shared.com/folder/eAB1gLLj/GoSEng.html (ver 3.0, already with Eng patch)
Wiki page: http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/The_Genius_of_Sappheiros (contains lots of useful information)
Game tables, damage formulas and other in-depth stuff: http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,10383.630.html (scroll down to the pastebin links)

If you don't want to deal with 4shared you can get the DL from doujinstyle and manually patch it. The latter of which can be grabbed here (at the bottom of the OP): http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,10383.0.html

game demos/trailers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AQovAlPkTM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOUH11F8Gvs

about DoD (the sequel)

>shamelessly borrowing from DS and pooshlmer

Base game:

http://www.mediafire.com/?bqfsjlwlmn9wm

1.01: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/patch_maroku_101.exe
1.02: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/patch_maroku_102.exe
1.03: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/patch_maroku_103.exe
1.04: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/patch_maroku_104.exe
1.05: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/patch_maroku_105.exe
1.06: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/patch_maroku_106.exe
1.07: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/patch_maroku_107.exe
1.08: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/patch_maroku_108.exe
1.09: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/patch_maroku_109.exe
1.10: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/patch_maroku_110.exe
1.11: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/patch_maroku_111.exe
1.12: http://patch.hachikuma.net/maroku/patch_maroku_112.exe
1.12x: http://patch.hachikuma.net/maroku/patch_maroku_112x.exe (For patching from 1.00)

Manual: http://komatsuna-ya.kululu.net/manual_maroku.lzh
Partially Translated Manual: http://www.mediafire.com/?2xr1cpwut878ucv (Thanks to Catharsis)

Japanese wiki: http://www54.atwiki.jp/maroku
Google translated link: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www54.atwiki.jp/maroku

The "swamp" sucked, but the encounter with the boss more than made up for it. This entire exchange had me in stitches, and the battle was very satisfying.