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I want to marry and impregnate Sumireko

I liked the part with the naked stealth mission

cant this bitch just read my mind

Rate my control settings.
So excited to finally play this!

NO mudo skills?
NO hama skills?
NO nuclear / grav / havoc skills?

this thread is bad

>>44719633

>>44719584
>NO nuclear / grav / havoc skills
The game is inspired by the Super Famicom SMT. Havoc is spread out among a few skills but eventually got assimilated into Phys and Nuke and Gravity weren't a thing until Persona 1, a PSX game.
Though I am surprised at the lack of Hama and Mudo.

Stop having fun with this game fuckers I'm waiting for it to get cracked.

>>44719772
how are you this poor?

>>44719668
Can't have Hama and Mudo in a Touhou game or else the question will arise - why didn't Reimu just Hama and Mudo spam everything during the incidents, considering that she just wants to get that stuff out of the way asap because they're a pain in the ass to her? She is the master of the yin-yang after all, so she'd be both Light and Dark element

>>44719416

>>44719846
Fair point. If she could do that then innocent or not, there'd be a significant amount of youkai being sent off to visit Eiki.

The in-game stats tutorial for people who are too autistic to spend even one point without looking things up.

>>44719416
Hey that pretty cool, might check it out when I get paid

>rabbits are healing + merchants
at least it's not Tewi herself, then the prices would be even higher

>Gun damage type
Fuck yes, it's not an SMT game without GUN.

shamelessly shilling his own game itt

>>44722186
I get the feeling that's a factor as to why they used Sumireko (besides her having a smartphone that can be used as a COMP standin), since she canonically has a gun (the Defense Distributed Liberator, which she uses in ULiL/AoCF; it's the first gun you find in this game in the tutorial dungeon)

>overworld sprite is giant Sumi instead of a diamond that spins depending on your alignment
she looks funny but still

>>44722228
They could have used Reisen too. Not sure what Reisen would possibly use for a COMP though.

>>44722227
creator of the game is some russki trying to get out of the country
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/66230530

>>44722281
also Sumi is a Japanese highschooler, meaning she is the traditional Megaten protagonist

>>44722120
called it

>>44722373
I mean sanae would sort of fit that bill too, even if she is a slut.

The OST for this showed up in my YT reccs, how did they know?

MY GOD

>>44722466
Does Sanae know how to use a gun?

>>44722769
She knows how to cock one at least.

man the Remains of Blazing Hell theme is pretty gud
difficulty seems to ramp up here too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jLChSJn5OQ

>>44719974
Great but how do you even build this cunt
does STR affect Gun damage?
Does Sumireko even get spells worth a shit?

Shit like this is infuriating when I don't even know what kind of character she is or what the game will give her.

Please tell the cyka blyat no one like Sumireko. Even ZUN forgot about her and uses her hairstyle for the new monkeyhu.

>>44723093
>no one like Sumireko
This is wrong. I like Sumireko

>>44723093
>doesn't like sumisexo
ngmi

>>44723093
I've been brainwashed into liking Sumireko. Teen pregnancy for the win!

Are there any gun specific skills in the game or just a damage type available to Sumi?

>>44719416
is it good?
do you get anything if you finished the demo?

>>44723510
Yeah. Chiyari has one, and it's good on the first boss. You can deck your party out pretty easily, so I'm expecting difficulty to increase a lot.

>>44719896
would be funny if yuyuko and flandre could learn that.

>the first SMT-like game i will finish is going to be a fucking touhou fangame
It wouldnt even be the first time that happened.

>>44723060
Well? Anybody with a twatter who can tell the dev to get his ass in here and respond?

>>44723060
STR does not affect gun damage to my knowledge, or at least it shouldn't
Sumireko probably learns good skills but I don't know for certain, wouldn't make sense for her not to seeing as she has skills

>>44723723
It's a new game. You'll just have to gamble.
I assume she'll get good physical and magic skills.
Vit seems like a safe stat, though.

>>44723857
To be fair like him i also would like to know what stat makes gun better.

>>44723879
its PROBABLY agility if i had to guess? it would make sense but i dont fucking know

>>44723895
even the original games are inconsistent about it if i remember correctly.

>>44723895
I've played SMT1, I'm pretty sure there's no stat that increases gun damage, it's the sword that gets increased with STR, as for the gun you just buy one and nothing changes the damage. Important to note guns were fucking broken there.

>>44723916
is smt1 where you could buy bullets that give stun/other stats and just nuke the bosses?

>>44723927
1 or 2, probably both. Status was also broken as fuck, but there were guns that could cause status which destroyed the game.

>>44719416
>>44719667
damn, it nailed the early SMTs simple pixel artstyle.

Riot Gun?

Was this the game that one anon was working on? Very cool
Is it ok to play this without playing SMT yet?

>>44727253
should be a-okay if you've played other RPGs before, might be a bit tough if you're not used to getting strategic with how you handle battles and resource management though.

>>44723093
wrong. I "used" to hate sumireko.
this is the picture that corrupted me.

fangames end up being the most invested I get into games, this brings me back to pdp

smells like crossboarder in here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG13hO2Uihg

2 questions
1. How long is this game
2. Is Mamizou in it?

>>44723847
You can put skills from anyone onto her via the terminal so she can have whatever loadout you want (except Touhou-exclusive skills that are indicated as 「Skill Name」)

Not sure where to go after Blazing Hell, got my ass kicked in the monolith.

For anyone else in the same spot, there's an optional boss in the center of the Palace of the Earth Spirits once you've triggered all the switches.

>>44729107
>>44727253
I mean, it has the megaten certified teleport maze bullshit, so that isnt for everyone.

>>44731482
yeah but considering they give you the solution outright in the very same maze and then include stuff like picrel i think the dev did a pretty good job on making it something anybody can get into

>>44730788
1. feels pretty meaty so far but honestly i couldn't tell you, you can make it easier or harder for yourself though
2. i haven't seen her yet but considering i've seen pc-98 literally hus to ones from th19 and a fucking kedama i think it's safe to assume she'll be in, there's 165 characters in the database

Sumireko is possibly the shittiest 2hu in existence

So a couple of things I've found.

-You can reroll your stats at Myouren Temple after you beat Miko for Byakuren.
-So far, every dungeon has an optional side boss that gives either permanent bonus stats or really good equipment.
-Bamboo Forest is cancer
-No idea how to get Parsee to leave her bridge

>>44733382
>-No idea how to get Parsee to leave her bridge
buy a Burner Phone and then go to the bridge, it'll prompt you to give it to her and she'll be too glued to her phone to do anything afterwards
your reward is a permanent STR increase

>>44719455
There's a naked stealth mission?

Not sure what the developer meant by adding a cockroach swarm as an enemy, unless I'm fighting Wriggle soon.

>>44734253
i think that anon is making a joke about all the exhibitionism porn of Sumireko

heh

Also, some useful stuff early on
Converting Satori into items always gives a spare battery, and those sell for 125p which is more than converting her into money directly.
Orin, Chiyari, and Yuugi seem to give magic cloths
Koishi gave some remedies, and okuu life gems.

>>44734394
Either the Sumireko cockroach doujin or Wriggle, yes there's a goddamn doujin where Sumireko gets fucked by cockroaches

>>44735677
That doujin was almost as good as the one where Akyuu rips Sumireko's clit straight out of her body with a pair of pliers, roots and all.

>>44735677
>>44735718
Ok but where's the vanilla teen pregnancy doujins...

>>44723093
She just fit as SMT protagonist, nothing else to it.
Also, does the game has every Touhou character as recruitable party/demons?

The TORIFUNE can fuck off, I'd rather slog through ds95 sewers or Kether Castle.

good game though

>>44722248
its based off megami tensei 2, thats why theres busts for certain character dialogue aswell.

>>44736257
It's not that bad if you either have the explorer grimoire, or use the map item to see where all the pitfalls are.

https://files.catbox.moe/1kqyk9.mp4
im not used to health shrines costing this much but i welcome it and i had to intentionally kill party members for the vid

I don't trust this developer after udongein x.

>>44739539
Why is that? What happened?

Anons don't listen to the soundtrack until you finish the game. I did so and now I'm pretty sure I spoiled the final boss for myself. Ahhh

>>44739474
thanks I hate it

>>44739474
>https://files.catbox.moe/1kqyk9.mp4
Wow, this is horrible. Please make more.

I've beat utsuho and koishi in the demo. Is there anything left for me to do or is it over? Can I transfer my save if I get the full game?

do you get something for fighting nazrin? i had an option to attack her when first meeting her but it's gone now

>>44739474
I'm going to need a sequel with more fathus and LISA sound effects, thanks.

>>44739539
What's wrong with Udongein X

>>44722642

Hell teleport maze map, i didn't draw the rest because after this part theres no more optional doors

>>44745536
There's a demon who gives you a hint. You just need to remember to enter doors clockwise. (N->E->S->W->N->etc)

>>44745581
Yeah thats how I ended up solving it past the other points.
I'm just running through it multiple times to fill in the squares from the wrong warps now like the fucking retard autist I am.

>>44745581
I just bruteforced it

>>44745536
Cleaned it up now that I finished hitting every wrong warp intentionally.

Are any of the later maps insufferable? Bamboo forest sucked. The poison forests weren't too bad. I'm trying to decide what to use my maps on.

>>44743203
its a megaman game (disgusting)

from dev tw*tter
> Showcase of some of the new QoL features in Artificial Dream in Arcadia v.1.1
Auto healing outside of battle, HP display upgrade, skill descriptions in the status screen. There's more, but I can't show everything in a single video!

>>44752592
>Auto healing outside of battle
what does this mean

>>44752953
its a button you select and your party members with healing skills cast everything they can on your other members
https://twitter.com/potemki11/status/1706394825430360467

Getting absolutely destroyed in Remnants of Blazing Hell. Already lost two levels. Not sure what I can do to prevent the enemies from just focusing down Sumireko randomly. I guess I have to put her in the back row?

>>44753086
>2 days since release, and ADiA has sold 5000 copies!

Wow, he pretty much is a millionaire now, /ourguy/ made it. That could be me if I wasn't such slow, lazy piece of crap, it's not like I can't program and draw.

>>44753653
Do some grinding bro, grab some of the 2hus you don't intend to use and sacrifice them for levels. Try to grab the Evade Up special command too, I've been using that and the skill that raises the whole party's evasion to cheese through bosses. Remember that you can give skills to your 2hus from other 2hus, and remember to save everything in the database before you fuck around with anything just in case.

>>44753823
What does saving to the database do?
I ended up reloading an earlier save because losing levels is painful, but it meant I lost the Okuu I managed to capture in the Remains of Blazing Hell. I've been trying to capture something down there ever since, but I just keep dying (and reloading). I must have gotten really lucky to be able to capture an Okuu so easily the first time.

>>44753866
Saving to the database makes it so that you can, for a fee, get the 2hus you have saved once again, either as how they were first saved or as their latest "saved" incarnation. It's useful for messing around with fusions and passing various skills around to the 2hus you want. For instance, I was able to grab the party evade up skill from Kurumi and give it to Koishi, and grab the skill that removes the enemies' buffs from I forgot and give it to Satori.
It doesn't work if you're saving them to the database then reloading the file, though. Grind for a bit in the Palace and make sure to give Sumireko the right points when levelling up.

>>44753904
So I can give the fire resistance from my Orin to Sumireko, and then redownload my Orin from the database?
I tried to capture a duplicate Orin to do this, but the game wouldn't let me add her to my party since I already had another Orin.

>>44753968
Yeah, but she also gets Orin's weaknesses too, don't forget. If you have enough money you can then get Orin back from the database, but make sure to save her beforehand in case you haven't already done so.

>>44751920
Well I like Megaman

Is there any way to sacrifice some hus to Sumireko or do I have to grind manually, I'm going into Forest of Magic at roughly level 22, and all the shit in it is 26+

>>44753984
Thanks, it worked.
However, I can't sacrifice anything to make my Orin stronger right now. Instead, I fused a Yamame. She seems like she might be good? High luck and status inflicting skills. I'm gonna sacrifice some more to level her up.

>>44754051
Good luck bro. Remember that turning 2hus into items to be sold later always gives more money than directly turning them into money. And that Satorin drops portable batteries so you can wander around for longer. Going on every tile on a floor also nets you a money bonus.

does anyone know how to get ending A & C. I got ending B and i kept trying to do different dialogue options and look through maps to figure out what the checks are but im in the dark.

>>44753086
wow those quality of life changes actually look pretty good. I'll have to pick up the full game soon, I just hope I can use my demo save data.

>>44754063
>Remember that turning 2hus into items to be sold later always gives more money than directly turning them into money.
Not always, Parsee gives like 330 per money conversion compared to the like maybe 100 worth of items she gives.
Tewi later gives like 1k

>>44754925
>Tewi later gives like 1k
Eirin gives 1.75k when you convert her into a medkit

UDONGEIN X is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro pixel platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. Gameplay is just limited platforming with a focus on shooting and bullet hell style dodging. You have a dash move as well as the ability to shoot in a straight line. Surely the pinnacle of gaming. It's completely garbage from the concept, technical implementation all the way through to the lacklustre gameplay. The only reason this sold any copies is because it has an anime bunny girl in it. Heck, some of the reviews for this game, a lot of them in fact, are just the word "bunny" spelled badly. Well, I guess they found their target audience.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result.

While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals.

The game only displays in a bizarre 1:1 aspect ratio. Like... do they own a completely square monitor? Has the developer never seen a computer before? This isn't really acceptable, and it's unclear why the developer couldn't format the game correctly. Another reason to avoid this.

While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this game was never accepted on the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for.

Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the GameMaker Studio construction kit/toolset. This is a very poor quality toolset favoured by amateur developers as it's cheap and requires little in the way of development skill, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities. Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. GameMaker Studio is most commonly used to make retro pixel shovelware and cash grabs.

A strong argument can be made that construction kits like GameMaker Studio should never be used to make games for profit, as the "developer", Bar Holographic Otaku has done here. These construction kits are intended to teach people some of the basic principles of game development, and to make small demos to pass around with friends. They're not intended to replace to actual work of real, professional game developers. So it's inappropriate when amateurs try to use these for profit, without any actual, real game development effort taking place. This doesn't result in products that have any real meaningful value for gamers.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

UDONGEIN X has the comically over-optimistic price of around $5 USD (plus almost as much again for pointless cash grab DLC), it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.

>>44734394
>>44735677
??

Am I missing something really obvious or is there no way to erase/overwrite skills off a character yet?
My Sumi's skill list is already full, and I'd like to get rid of the shit I know I won't be using

>>44755511
>are a little harsh

>>44755539
I think it's a level or progress thing, I had the same problem until I hit around lvl15 and then it allowed me to overwrite skills with others.

>>44754198
iirc you have to fill up the database enough to trigger nitori's dialogue, in which she mentions a weird quirk about sleepers (i think it was 75%? maybe 50%)
after that, a new dialogue option should appear after the final boss
to get ending C, you have to complete an optional set of dungeons and beat the ultimate boss, its in the cave at the beginning of the game you couldn't enter before

>>44754198
>>44757848
>different endings
Well fuck, that's going to be fun to figure out.

>>44758103
I hope at least one ends in Gensokyo/the world getting totally fucked up.
It'd feel wrong to have an SMT without an apocalypse somewhere

>>44722642
Little freak spawned on me as soon as I de-summoned all my puppets so I didn't have enough time to find it's weakness before it ran...

>>44722642
Can you hijack it?
I want one...

Is Hina in the game?

>>44719772
it seems like its cracked now

>>44755105
She is a walking medikit with tits.

>>44762915
I want to know if Wriggle is in.

>>44762915
>>44765043
Yes to both

>>44765178
Okay cool, I'm bringing Wriggle to endgame if I can make her even remotely viable

This isn't fair... I'm poor and don't have a PC

>>44765203
Every PC I used breaks down in a few years except my old iMac

I feel like I'm cursed or something

is the 10k purchase achievement bugged or something? Didn't get it after purchasing a rocket lawn chair

>>44765203
i dont think the person who cracked the game can crack you a pc

>>44765525
You wouldn't download a car.

>>44765525
I can try.

>>44765525
>>44765661

>>44769001
go back

>>44771135
>Go back

Nigga where?

Lost track a little, Remilia's hungry, what do I do now

alright what general direction do I follow if I take the north path, im tired and want to save already...

>>44772657
nvm I did it in like 5 minutes lamo

>>44772657
You can just talk to the rabbit to skip without having to go through the bamboo forest

>>44772645
find the kitchen, pick garlic, trust
the verification not required means you dont have to doubt me

>>44772764
and I forgot to post it because im stupid

>>44772764
>>44772772
NTA but I picked the chilli pepper, do any of the choices actually avoid the battle or have differing effects?

>>44772781
different effects, none of them let you skip the fight, garlic had the best debuffs iirc (-1 all stats)

>>44772799
Kino. What does the other one do?

>>44772831
I forgot already lmao but there was one with I think +1 for evade and -1 attack that im pretty sure was the pepper

>>44772854
It's the other way around for the pepper, she had +2 atk and -2 evade. Thank god Satorin removed that buff on the first turn.

>>44769304
i will never forgive $ega for ruining dx2

Didn't think it would work but it's in fact possible to pay Kaguya 20k, not sure if you're supposed to do it this way but you can

>>44780203
For those wondering I don't think it gives any benefits doing this, other than being able to avoid the chase but that's easy enough to get through, I say save the 20K

>>44780203
I payed her thinking it wouldn't work, and she took my money and delayed my rocket launcher purchase.
Stealing makes you a bad person. You'll probably get punished for it once you go to hell.

>>44782501
I got the rocket launcher anyway meaning I got 70K off of Tewis which probably makes me insane but I did it

I am so happy right now.
I managed to defeat Kutaka even though I'm probably pretty underleveled (she one-shoted Sumireko on my first attempt, but I adjusted my affinity and made Sumireko immune to her bullshit). Now every encounter basically one-shots me. If I can just hijack one of these high-level sleepers, I'll be so overpowered I'll be able to break the rest of the game, I think?

>>44784024
Fuck yeah, I was barely able to snatch my favorite TH19 character. One more turn and I'd have been dead. She's level 46, while the rest of my part is like level 32, lol. Is this how people will speedrun this game?
The battle music is so hype in here. Probably the most high-energy "sea that reflects one's home planet" arrange I've heard. I love it.

I was easily progressing but eientei felt like a pretty steep difficulty increase relative to how it had been going

>>44784373
>Eientei
>Hard
Go to the bamboo forest and pick up some sleepers/exp from there. Don't forget your piercing, your mind attacks and fuse some of those to your strongest sleepers/sumi

bump

I'm playing and I still haven't come across Wriggle but apparently they're in?

Sanae's ability seems really darn good.
Special abilities rarely seem worth it since hijacking is so powerful against random encounters, and most are too situational to be useful against most bosses.
This, however, can be anything you want it to be. A chance to really stack up on buffs and debuffs, for example.

>>44794054
Honestly as someone who used sanae all the way till the Shining needle castle I don't think it's worth it. It's a slot you will never use until you reach a boss and it competes for space with aoe buffs/debuffs, the heals/aoe heals and the buff/debuff removers. Plus against a boss I prefer to spend turn 1 analysing and boosting evasion/defence instead

>>44793856
she is roughly level 50 so she shows up pretty late

>>44794973
It's a shame that all SP skills seems to be kind of useless, since they are what makes characters unique. Maybe I'll have to use them (and fuse for the right skill) once I reach the end game and the bosses become genuinely difficult.
Only ones I've found useful so far is Seiga's Zombie Ritual and Komachi's whatever. The former is legit pretty good during boss fights, and Komachi's is just nice because it's hard to recover MP, and it's much easier to justify spending SP on things like that that have long-term benefits for your dungeon crawl, rather than just to win a single random encounter.

>>44795010
Satori's is nice in the early game since it's an MP drain, but the amount it gives is fairly anemic since it's divvyed up equally between party members
every little bit helps tho

>>44795010
For what it's worth, I found Byakuren's SP skill useful as it managed to help me fully heal the party without using MP - very good for dungeon crawling.

I just bought 2 copies for me and a friend, I think I will play it soon after I beat another game I have been playing through.

When you unlock teleporting and the Dream World, I recommend finding and capturing Joon. She's level 40 and you can basically just take her for your frontline as early as around level 30~
You can also just power level in that area.

>>44795002
I'm about level 40 thanks to the Dream World so that's cool
I hope Mima is in the game too but I don't really care if she isn't

Is it possible to make any 2hu viable?

I met Nazrin while I was looking for poisoned cats. I didn't attack her. Did I miss an opportunity or do I get the chance to fight her later.

Also the game is kicking my ass more and more. I was not prepared for the guardian of hell to actually try and stop me. Took out most of my team, had to use my Energy Drinkl.

>>44800195
Kind of, I've been using Alice for a while and they're alright still, probably better options but it's doable

I wonder if there's anyone who has the bucket loli as their favorite and carried her from the start of the game to the end.

>>44719416
Looks very cool. But I have to ask: Does the neutral route allow me to go scorched earth on Gensokyo?

>>44776052
What happened?

Is this like PDP but with an SMT-esque system?

>>44800506
I don't think attacking Nazrin does anything aside from earning her anger, ("What the hell, I just helped you, you know!", something along those lines) and maybe some extra EXP.

And I haven't finished the game yet, so who knows. Maybe she's an extra secret boss for sparing her back there.

>>44801191
It's SMT2 with touhou.

so I got out of the bamboo forest and now have 3 locations I should check out, which one do you guys recommend?

>>44800195
The only thing that matters is their stat growth and from there you can basically forcibly shape them into whatever relevant archetype depending on what they got.

You're not gonna turn a vit/str character into a caster, but buffs/debuffs don't actually care about the caster's stats (though MP costs might be an issue)
Anybody with high INT can pull nearly any non-physical role that uses a lot of MP.
Someone with low LUK wont be good for status effects like poison/blind, though STR/LUK would work perfectly for those attacks like Leg Shot

>>44800840
I don't think there are too many moral choices you can make like in SMT. Only one I made was siding with Keiki and Mayumi (law) over Yachie and Saki (chaos) but that was just one choice. Fuck Yachie though, shitty ass aoe status spammer.

>>44800845
they added new p2w demons that have no counters and ruined pvp unless you whale

>>44803640
You act like that wasn't the default state of the game since launch, or least since around when they added chinese emperor if you really want to be generous.

I feel like I might have broken the game by visiting TORIFUNE and hijacking a Rikako + Yumemi before even starting the Garden/Shining Needle Castle. Their stats + levels + skills just seem like they're going to blow everything the fuck out

>>44805217
Shining Needle Castle has level 56-58 enemies, I went there before the garden. Because of my insane amount of cash from the hijacks I got myself the ability to fuse shit 10 levels above me, and those who have even only played P5 know how broken that is

>>44803906
obviously but they were way less blatant in power creeping new banners, and at least provided some counters as opposed to none

im sorry but i think the megami tensei formula is outdated and i dont have time to do some time wasting puzzles in 3d windows screensaver zone when autobattling 99% of encounters
tpdp is better

im only missing 2 cheevos and the other superboss so i guess i can give advice
>>44800195
seems like it, what that anon said + even when their stat growths struggle to compare to the new toys you find later they are still able to pull their own weight thanks to the cover spell which lets you abuse enemy AI by constantly making a sleeper absorb/block an attack that was meant for the original target
>>44800840
most choices don't matter and the only differences are dialogue/gameplay diffs, the exception to this is in the final stretch where you will need a 50% compendium to trigger something
>>44802913
explore wherever, akyuu says you can just leave a place if its too tough but it's more fun to sequence break IMO

>>44810748
Parsee is really good. I phased her out though. Kept Satori. Eirin has been really good as a buffbot, but I find that I don't actually use her for bosses a lot of the time.

>>44719416
How good is this?

>>44811039
It's got a demo, so just try that. It's not for everyone.

>>44811039
>>44811299
its also cracked

>>44811039
It's quite fun but not for casuals. You'll know when you get to the teleporter maze.

Where can I buy the rocket launcher? I just completed all major places (Animal Hell, Moon Capital, Youkai Mountain), I might have missed some special locations.

should I go fight Miko for Byakuren before doing the SDM or should I wait until later? Tried to fight Meiling but got my ass kicked

>>44810748
Is Ending C doable in the postgame or nah, do you have to 100% the codex and do it all in a single run?

>>44812791
Rinnosuke's shop, just in front of the human village It been available since the very start of the game.
>>44812435
I'm fighting level 60+ sleepers right now. So far, the game is not particularly hard. I wouldn't worry about difficulty if you're just starting out. Just get the right elemental resistances and nothing should really give you trouble, as far as I can tell. Udongein X was much harder.
The game is quite fun, though. I really enjoyed it for the first 10 hours or so, at which point it felt like I had seen most of what the combat system has to offer.

where can i pirate this

The final boss was actually rather tough even as a Megaten guy, mainly because two bosses in a row with a lot of RNG in the first, and all that dialogue and whatnot between really good game, reminded me of 4A in difficulty
>>44810748
Cover makes Junko fucking broken but Mima is basically the same thing but better
>>44813984
Haven't gotten it but pretty sure you need to beat the superboss in the postgame, which is available after Ending A which requires 50% in the database (just be sure to talk to Nitori)
>>44814089
Moriyashrine has it

>>44811039
It's fun but I recommend not to purchase it unless you want to fund Russia's invasion of Ukraine

>>44812435
The teleporter maze was crazy and all but there's a dungeon later on that has pitfalls, for that just use one of the 7-8 map items you get. You at least have a hint for the teleporter. I'd say the game takes it easy compared to other SMT titles but it sure as hell isn't an easy game in general

>>44814153
>superboss
I'm assuming they're in the upper right cave from the Monolith after you fully unlock the entire codex?

>>44814238
yeah just talk to Reimu
Location in question is Makai, home to many PC-98 characters

is there no achievement for beating Medicine? if there is then it didnt unlock for me...
what a tough fight, first time I've ever had to use items in an encounter

>>44814200
You can use the grimoire that expands your exploration radius to spot holes before you fall into them. I would have gone crazy without it.

>>44814513
That must be the only one I don't have, where is it if you remember

>>44814522
As I recall, it's for finding Sunny when she plays hide and seek. It reduces your SP gain but increases your exploration radius to a 3x3 square. It's super handy for me since I'm under-leveled and always low on battery.

>>44814543
Oh right, I forgot all about that one. At this point it's not too necessary for me because I'm in postgame but it could've helped with a few of the maps

>>44810926
yeah she hasn't let me down as a dmg dealer surprisingly + i can abuse her weaknesses with cover
>>44813984
only a 50% compendium seems necessary, if you are doing the postgame stuff might as well get 100% on the way
>>44814153
right? i really liked the YHVH vibes when the superboss returned sleepers to my stock, got it on my second try though so i hope this second superboss has something similar to infinite power and a nuke that changes the pace of the fight constantly

>>44814583
The main reason the final boss was hard for me at first was because my build was a glass cannon and that meant Yukari and I almost got 1-shot by the clone if it got a clean hit in

>>44814600
i just abused reflect spells to chip her away and equipped that melee weapon that reduces ATK with a hit for free, had more issues with yukari____ cause i had to play it slow and i almost got greedy multiple times during the fight lmao

I'm disappointed that the upgrade that lets me fuse higher level sleepers doesn't let me sacrifice to level up sleepers to the same higher level.
The high level sleepers that I can fuse or hijack just don't appeal to me, but without being able to sacrifice above my level, I can't get anything else that's comparable in combat power.

>>44800195
If you're playing perma Lunatic mode, you're basically forced to constantly hijack or your team falls off a cliff since Sumi's basically always -10 levels behind the stuff in the area. That being said, alot of hus are actually pretty viable for their area around the time you hijack them, and if you're not playing perma Lunatic, they're probably viable enough if you sacrifice boost them. Pic related was the squad I ran for the final section of Monolith

>>44815274
I did Normal because I didn't know how hard the game would be, turns out it was a bit of a challenge, Lunatic would be a little crazy. Sigma is too good.

Is there an achievement for beating the game without use of Grimoires? I feel like many of them feel so cheesy or more for New Game+

>>44814165
as if i needed even more reasons to buy it anon, im sold

>>44814583
what the actual hell is going on in that picture

Does this have new game+? I really want to try the game with differing teams each run.

I reached the TRUE final dungeon and AAAAAAAAAAAA I do not like pitfall puzzles

What's the trigger to have Doremy show up? It happened to me and I'm not sure why. The dungeon it unlocked is kinda overleveled for me, too, since the enemies are in the 40s while I'm still in the 30s

just did the Abandoned Western Mansion, genuinely excellent, from the music, to the demons, to the visuals, and the use of LORE, speaking of, was there any mention of the fourth Prismriver in any of the works? I cant remember if it was actually mentioned in any of the works or just a theory

>>44832818
Yeah, Layla is a thing but I think it was literally just an offhand comment in PCB somewhere.

>>44829976
you need to go to the moriya shrine first if you've gotten the boat by now.
If not you need to finish up the forest of magic stuff to get the boat and open up the game.

Also, does anyone know what song the Hell theme is remixing? My knowledge of the newer Touhou games is a bit lacking.

>>44829976
I reached the abandoned mansion and had it happen after I saved.

Remember to skill transfer the hell out of your cheap Kedama

Dev is brainstorming 1.2 changes.
I wouldn't mind a nerf to hijacking. The suggested changes would make it riskier and more interesting, without stopping competent players from just going to the highest level available area and hijack a high level team.
Not sure about being able to just upgrade away the risk, though.
If anything, the game would need updated spell cards where the difficulty scales with level differences. Just increasing the HP doesn't stop anyone from hijacking when many of the spells are so easy that you can dodge them almost forever.
>>44840628
That's clever.

>>44841754
I hope NG+ keeps your database saved on the "new" file. If money is going to be harder to collect then it should be fine.
I also hope that you can save different versions of sleepers- for a cost- so you can try/save different skillsets on them without just deleting the one you've been building up so far; or if you wanted to have another run through the game with the same sleeper but don't want to go through the hassle of getting the skills you had previously again. Maybe a level 1 variant that costs just as much- or half as much- as the higher level one? Would be nice to go through the early game again but with 2hus from the late game.

>>44840628
The lesser fairy and the angry spirit are also good for that. It even lets you have 3 sets of skills to shuffle around if you wanna.

>>44814583
>>44824263
TrinityFate, big-name fat artist

Got a sauce by the way, anon? Perhaps an old private commission you'd like to share?

>>44842432
not my comm but here you go since you were so direct, whatever, she's fucking hogging my sacrifices and already broke the 3 million exp mark on the way to 99

>>44843570
i respect the dedication anon

>>44841754
The one change I'm really hoping for is to be able to crabwalk through doors.

>>44843570
Big Paru, thank you!

do stats still do something past 99?

super secret boss fucking cool, everything i expected like the YHVH from smt4a, bit more RNG reliant tho since after the infinite power skill theres a chance she just focuses MC hard and you lose in a second, also funny parsee 4.6m EXP
>>44849652
seems like it, i had 104 STR by being maxed and some equipment but at that point you are better off investing in other stats for the defense

>>44852467
nice job.

>>44852467
You must really love Parsee.
Good job!

>>44852467
>being this level of a Parseefag
is that you vinum

>>44852614
Not that anon but I kept Parsee as well. Her stat spread is really good.

>>44852630
Do leveled-up early game sleepers have comparable stats to late game sleepers?
I'd also like to level up my favorites...
Although I can't until I'm high level myself: I'm almost 10 levels below my party. It kinda sucks because I don't care too much about PC-98, yet I have to rely on them for the post-game.

>>44852766
They have comparable stats, and their maintain the ratios to which their stats are boosted. Sacrificing is the absolute best way of leveling up your party that may start to fall behind.

>managed to make it into Pandemonium, on a run that's been on Lunatic as soon as it was accessible
Is Liver Punch a boss-exclusive move? That shit was fucking obnoxious to the point I just spammed Hideluo with Sumireko's 5 AGI just so I wouldn't have to deal with the paralyze skips.

>>44852782
I just wish I could sacrifice to keep my favorites competitive. I'm not high enough level, unless one of the recent patches made fusion updates affect sacrifice.

>>44742007
https://files.catbox.moe/3t7n4r.mp4
SPOILERS for the super secret boss i guess

>>44859237
very funny and epic that okina only has 1 agi

Man, Junko's got some good stats, but being weak to all the elements but absorbing physical and bullet is kind of annoying.

>>44859237
You actually delivered, I love you.

Is the amount of turns between Paradise Lost, 4 or 5 turns. I feel like this shit keeps switching but I might just be losing my mind.

>>44862861
can't really tell but i guess it doesn't really matter, whenever you can use the prevent special command to reset the tempo that paradise lost caused and dealing all the damage possible within the window after you debuff her back to normal until the next paradise, turtling doesn't work, it's slow af and you will run out of steam before you have even dealt half her HP

>>44859237
best post in this thread

>>44862861
>>44867837
It's 5 turns. Enough turns to take 1 to swap her debuffs with Seija/Hecatia skill and then 2 charged attacks. Honestly Yukari was a more hectic boss fight, Shinki just kind of does nothing but be a big hp sponge

>>44867995
do not hp shame her she's just been bulking, i found her to be way more difficult than yukari, being on lunatic means at least that if you fuck up one of your turns or lose too much tempo she's probably gonna wear you down, not mentioning that i believe the blind status that she sometimes inflicts can make buff/debuff items miss and anon that's a pretty good strat with those special skills actually

>>44868065
That's the thing though, once you have a swing of 6 buff levels, even on lunatic I don't think Shinki does much damage.
I don't think I've ever seen blind make anything other than attacks miss
Oh, and if you want another strat, put Junko affinities on Sumi solo, and spam magic reflect until she dies. 100% works on Lunatic, just make sure to quaff energy drinks when she uses charge.

>>44868109
>>44868065
>>44867995
>>44866640
Yo who turned off the lights in here?

Is Unzan the best general purpose affinity to put on Sumireko? phys/pierce resist and only weak to mind which I find isn't used often

>>44868065
>this ancient shitpost image is now rea

the encounter rate gets very tiring sometimes

>>44870735
Hijack EVERYTHING
Outside of bosses, every SP I earn goes towards hijacking. I guess it's the same for you, if you've grown tired of the encounter rates. We should both be rich by now.

Is it obvious when the endings are about to trigger?

>>44871148
I would say so. Your last boss sense should start to tingle during the final corridor.

alright im gonna need one of you to be a dear and post the full lunar palace maps with instructions on how to navigate them

>>44871514
Do yourself a favor and enable the grimoire that increases your exploration radius.
It lets you see teleporters and other traps before you step on them. It will only get worse from here on, so you don't want to be without it.

>>44870735
this is unfortunately the biggest hurdle of the genre

>>44870847
A grimoire for a lower or higher encounter rate would have been great.

>>44874933
I'm surprised there isn't an estoma style spell or something.

>>44872122
I did as soon as I got it lmao, it's a time saver for sure, im just lazy and dont want to route...
im about to play again anyways, so exploring is precisely what I want at this very moment

Just got Ending C.
That last battle sure is something. I got it on my second try, but wouldn't want to do it again, at least not in quite a while.
The ending art after the credits is amazing, though. Definitely worth it.

Some thoughts on the game from a post-game perspective:
While I think the otherworldly and sometimes bizarre PC98 flavor works well for the post-game, I wish it was easier to keep your favorite characters relevant. The fusion upgrades could probably be available be sooner (for me, I started to lag behind the sleepers' levels already at Eientei), and have one or two additional tiers to let you fuse for even higher level sleepers during the post-game. And sacrifice should definitely use the fusion level limit, I see no reason why it doesn't. Since you can't have duplicate sleepers, It'd still be enough of a pain to sacrifice for levels so only the most dedicated people would do it, so you'd still get people to rotate their party.

I finished the game at level 87. My build focused on VIT, AGI, MAG, INT, in that order. This means that with both fusion upgrades, I only got access to the highest level fusion after beating the Ending C boss, by which time it was obsolete.
The Rusty Rocket Launcher is awesome and you should all get it. It was my primary source of Sumireko damage (which wasn't my primary source of damage, but still).

Does it seem like character unique skills aren't that useful? I just got the ability to fly and I've barely used any of them compared to the smartphone SP skills that don't eat up a turn

>>44881616
Also, some more general reflections:
- It felt like I had seen everything (combat wise) after about 20 hours of playtime, and the remaining 20 hours I just spent following my established combat routine.
While I think this is not too far from the SNES-era RPG formula, it's also part of why I don't typically play these kinds of games anymore. Since it's so easy to change up your party, I think the game should force you to rethink your approach more often. More unique abilities would help spice things up, too.
- Just increasing the HP of a spell card is not a good way to make it more difficult. I could dodge most of these cards all day. The cards would need to get more difficult over time to really prevent people from just hijacking the highest level sleeper they could find (and if done right, it'd still let people who are really good at danmaku do it).
- It would be good if items that don't fit into your inventory got sent to some kind of storage, instead of just disappearing or the game outright preventing you from looting the chest. The storage could be accessible from Anomalies, or in the village or something. It's especially frustrating to not be able to loot a magic fabric, since you have to throw away your entire stack to be able to loot the chest.
>>44881695
I basically never used any of them. Only Seiga's during a few early game bosses. That ability would be useful late-game, if it was feasible to fuse for your sleepers.

dev said on twitter that he wants to nerf hijacking and would like a switch release

Should I bother having backup units in my team or just stick to a core 3?

>>44883804
Keep a bossing set on standby at least just so you don't have to backtrack much to get them out.

>>44883804
I had some healers and some recently hijack (thus high level) sleepers as back-up. Having some non-party healers is very helpful, and the high level back-ups saved my ass in a few boss fights (plus you kind of get them for free if you are trying to complete your database).

So, anons, lets talk about grimoires(besides the "change difficulty" ones)
Which do you use?
Which do you think are good/can be good?
Which do you think are not worth it/garbage?
So far i have dilemma permanently enabled and aggression enabled outside of bossfights
Is there anything im sleeping on?

>>44887945
I don't use any of them

>can't use the burner phone for yukari

is there a full rip of the overworld map? I really want to see it in one image, and I dont think I missed anything that requires flying anyways

Damn I turned down fighting Nazrin after getting the inner tube to go save first but now I can't go back to actually fight her.
Did I miss anything interesting from that?

>Shumishitko
Damn I thought this game would be decent but seeing this shitty self insert turd of a character makes it a no from me

>>44895581
She's easily my least favorite and I wish I could make a party without her but the game itself is solid. Also she says dumb zoomer shit and everybody immediately gets offended/attacks

>>44896561
the twitter dialogue and forced memes are my biggest complaint about the game, it feels very out of place in what is otherwise a mostly genuine experience

>>44896957
I dunno it feels extremely in character for a chuuni zoomireko

>>44896957
>forced memes
That's kind of the point, isn't it? Emphasis on "forced". Sumireko is the only character in the game who uses memes, and everyone is either confused or angry when she does. She's just an obnoxious, internet addicted teenager who doesn't belong in Gensokyo.

>>44896957
As the other anons mentioned, it's Sumireko. Her goal in the game is to have fun being a cool, powerful protagonist and to take selfies with some of the most powerful beings in the fantastic world.

>>44896957
Blame trannylators

I don't really want to do the post game with a bunch of PC98 shitters

alright spit it, where is this last grimoire? is it in Shining Needle Castle? also when do I find Suika? I really want her...

>>44898161
I don't think you understand who or where this game was made

>>44903649
I don't think YOU understand what's going on, trannylators adding this shit to jap games makes people, including non-jap devs, think this is what game writing should be like

I spent hours grinding for the rocket launcher and its not significantly stronger than the rusty rocket launcher.

>>44899824
i'm pretty sure you can find suika on the way to the final boss, she's like level 60ish and you can use the database fusion option at terminals to be on the lookout for her, that's what i did with yuuma

>>44899270
Then don’t. It’s post game for a reason, you’ve already beaten the game.

>>44915163
Actually I've come up with a solution, I'm just going to grind and sacrifice post game sleepers to aesthetically pleasing Touhous with decent stat spreads

>>44915163
>>44916154
I hope to fuck that NG+ keeps your database

>>44916154
Do fusion upgrades work with Sacrifice?

>>44917879
you can't sacrifice to get sleepers that are a higher level than sumi even if you have both of the upgrades

>>44719416
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1inZEF1BstyQ9mGk1uWaThAN-YcBal1bIOBHjLfkRMGk/edit?usp=drivesdk
spreadsheet for guides, walkthrough, items, maps, etc.
also you can participate if there's stuff that you don't like or want to be changed in the QoL suggestion here:https://steamcommunity.com/app/2248430/discussions/0/3875967149485337988/
if you don't have a steam account or you have some recommendation for the spreadsheet just post it here and I'll pass it as proxy lmao

>>44719421
Fpbp

>>44916154
are you doing it all natural or using cheat engine to save some time

new skills in new version
https://twitter.com/potemki11/status/1710281941805625667

>>44934425
I wonder if multiple helping hands can stack
If yes, sounds like a good meme strat fuel

>>44932727
All natural which is making me think I should stop playing if I'm not able to make my team in a couple of days. After I get everyone I want up into the 70s from there I think itll be more efficient to just grind the old fashioned way instead of sacrificing makai sleepers. Still havent made it to the final post game dungeon and filled out the database because I'm so focused on grinding out Reisen and Sanae and I just replaced Wriggle with Sanae because I noticed her INT sucks

just got endings A and B, around what level should I be for the superboss? low-mid 70s? also what are some good magic attack demons? preferably fast ones, I love Hatate but I feel like switching things up a bit, same with my Tenshi and a Suika

>>44936313
So uh don't do this guys. Just wait until you have the database completed to make your favorite 2hus. Just buy high level sleepers and sacrifice them

>>44936313
>All natural

>>44936313
I'm having more trouble keeping sumireko's level up more than I am grinding money and sleepers.

>>44946948
How? In the post game you gain levels like crazy

I finally made it to Shinki, time to grind everyone up to level 99

>>44946948
im not having trouble keeping my thing up while playing

i wonder if there is interest in making another one of these as it will hit bump limit now the game isnt freshly out anymore

>>44948859
I actually don't want to do this I'm not having fun anymore

All in all a cute little game with good graphics and nice music. Worth ten bucks for 50 hours of playtime

idk if it's because im tired rn but this Yuki and Mai fight is genuinely so dogshit, sleep and paralysis with hard hitting phys attacks sometimes while buffs and debuffs come and go, it's really annoying and after getting multiple statuses in one turn then my demons getting one shot from wind up attack crit after like 10 minutes of dealing with that felt like such a waste of time...

>>44956738
You don't need to be level 99.

>>44957824
>>44956738
Wait until after whatever update he has planned that adds new skills and passives. Might be less shit then.

>>44957824
It helps to have high agility and healing on Sumi, and/or a few sleepers with Cover. To ensure you can always heal before the bosses make a move.

>>44958776
I did it! first try today, so it only took two tries, I went to grind a bit and sacrificed a few pc98hus to my demons, still took a bit when Mai was alone because I didnt have much mana left by then, but just a few levels did the trick.
>>44963682
I do actually! high agi tank support sumireko was my idea when I started playing and it didnt fail me even once, about cover, this was the fight where I used it most, thank god I thought about keeping it on Suika just in case when I got her lol

>>44964357
Congrats!
Agile tank/support Sumireko is pretty much what I had, too. It's nice.
I had MAG as my 3rd stat, but all it really did for me was allow me to save MP by using the moderate healing spells instead of the highest level ones. LUK might have been better, for status ailments, but they never seemed reliable enough for me to invest in them, and buffs/debuffs is a full-time job anyway.

>>44956677
well one more couldnt hurt i guess...

>>44956677
Would rather have another gameplay thread than the usual shit that spams this board.

>>44964638
INT is my 3rd stat, I have no attack spells, she just debuffs/clears buffs or heals, all in defense, the damage is basically up to my demons
However, I do use my gun, really glad it's a completely separate thing and doesnt scale off AGI, which I why I have LUK as my 4th and last stat I really dump anything into, and my damage keeps up for normal encounters because of it, it's been working well this far
and yeah I dont use status ailments, they never activated often enough for me to really want to invest in them, if the dev makes a sequel I hope he incorporates them a bit better, I would say add them to more guns (and more multi target guns haha) but combined with AUTO the game would play itself like SMT I at that point...
Personally, I would like the bigger, multiple groups of SMT I, that would be fun here I think, but that would require a LOT of balancing and basically expand it to be twice the size of ADiA at least, and for one person that would just be too much.
The spritework is very good, so for a sequel I believe more traditional, varied youkai would be awesome.

>>44964881
i baked it, first time baking generals hope its not shit
>>44964881