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reported for not being about Umineko

It won't be before monday that I clear it but a day or two of marathoning it I'll get.
So far it has just been working timing and mechanics and figuring out spell cards.
Fuck Star Sapphire, no matter what route I take she rapes me, everything else is manageable.

I keep dying on the three fairy boss fight. Even the bgm is mocking me.

Once I figure out what all these numbers and percentages mean, I'll start handling it better.

But it's so damn addictive I can't even begin to explain.

Dat mouth.

And yes, I'm getting destroyed. Usually at around stage 3.
Admittedly, I'm tired as fuck and shouldn't be Touhouing at this hour anyway. Still, I can see myself taking a WHILE before I beat this shit.

I'll likely have to rely on someone else's file since I won't be able to even take a look at extra for a while.

I enjoy being gang raped by fairies.

>>5931862
Welcome to the club.
I too hit that 3fairies wall.
It is like the Youmu PCB stage all over again.

I, for one, will be glad to see the secondary horde of Cirnofags getting decimated in this game. Looks like ZUN always knows what he's doing, after all.

>>5931891
The first % is your life. 100% = 1 Life.
The 2nd % is the charge on your freeze.
The 3rd % is your bomb. 100% = 1 Bomb.
The last % I assume is your power which shows an increase each time it "levels".

Percents seem to go up based on the percentage that shows up after you use a freeze.

>>5931935
Might be why it exists in the first place. But I have to say, I was expecting a disappointment. This is surprisingly fun, despite being hard.

Maybe it'd help if I knew what the hell was going on. Why can I bomb sometimes? How many lives do I have? It's confusing me.

This game is amazing. Fucking love it.

>>5931935

Why the future tense? There's plenty of them ITT.

Weren't people complaining about UFO being too easy? And now you're all whining about GFW being too hard? Fuck you all, faggots.

>>5931962
You build up your bomb power by freezing bullets (Z button), which in turns is built up by shooting fairies, but you still have to hold Z down for a few seconds, even at 100%, before you hear that click sound like in StB or DS until a big freeze can be unleashed. (THANK YOU ZUN)

Lives are unlimited, as you build them up; you're given 2 at the start of the game. Continues are also limited.

>>5931991
.. you are joking, right?
UFO, too easy?
Seriously?

>>5931991
I think you meant IN or MOF.
SA was hard as fuck with UFO slightly below it.

Aren't you guys just playing on normal mode anyways?

>>5932009
Kinda fun that my question was answered straight after reply. Thanks for your clarification though.

This reminds me of shield based shooters like giga wing so of course there's going to be a ton of bullets.

It's nice to see an involved scoring system, or just something that gives you something to do other than holding down the fire button and dodging shit.

I keep getting game over after the third boss fight. I'm playing on easy.

The fuck?

Daiyousei still didn't get any dialogue from what I've seen

Does Zun just inexplicably hate some characters?

>>5931935
>secondary
Opinion invalidated, reported for being a blemish on the Touhou fandom.

The end fight kind of reminds me of Genetos. Just the way the song sounds and the never ending barrage of colors. This game is danmaku as fuck even with the freezing.

Should I continue if I get ass-raped?

I'm getting slaughtered, but having a lot of fun doing so.

Well...I'm getting closer bit by bit
Still had my continues maxed out, but at least this time I made it to the 3 fairies.

I know it doesn't mean shit but IT'S SOMETHING DAMMIT

>>5932009
Lives are capped at 10 (1000%)

I really like the part in the stage 2 song when the midboss comes in. But I only feel it while playing.

With the way the control work, I found myself not using SHIFT much.
If I want to focus dodge, I just hold Z.And seriously my index finger is getting really tired holding C. It is just weird. The game will probably be easier once we get use to the control.
I mean we are used to holding down Z with our third finger not holding down C with our index finger.

Fuck, mine is still downloading.

I'll be joining you in a few /jp/

>>5932681
I just started playing, but yeah, the controls are annoying me a bit.
But the game is rather fun.

>>5932740
>downloading.
Might I kindly ask for a download link?

>>5932768
I got mine in C78 thread. Can't verify if it's the real deal though since it's not done yet.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7e0idhz8qclml7o

I don't see any japanese text. How can I fix it?

>>5932775
Finished as I was typing, it's real.

Also .exe fuck year

>>5932781
Look at this faggot

>>5932768
see >>5931307

That's where I got it from, Derek-approved.

So who's in this game? any new characters?

>>5932800
Cirno
Three Fairies
Marisa
Thats it

there are too many aiming bullets

>>5932813
too many for litttle babby

I was grumbling about another STB style game, but Zun has actually made a decently challenging, very fun game with this. P.S., on the three fairy fight shoot the two off to the side to make some of the cards more bearable.

>>5932781
http://rapidshare.com/files/412879821/fonts.zip

All of Marisa's spell cards after her first two keep destroying me, and I've 1cc'd all of 6-12 on Lunatic.

Oh ZUN~

>>5932065
>Does Zun just inexplicably hate some characters?
yes. I heard he was butthurt when meiling made it into the fighting games. I guess he thinks throwaway characters should be throwaway.

>>5932065
I thought she was going to be upgraded like Momiji was...;_;(He should be fair atleast)

Why the fuck aren't the bombs instant?

>>5932825
What is this true

And even so it doesn't make any sense. Cirno herself was originally a throw-away non-plot related character. Now she has her own game.

>>5932805
You forgot Lily White, Lily Black, and Daiyousei.

>>5932825
>I heard he was butthurt when meiling made it into the fighting games.

I also heard it. Source is /jp/.

Every time you see something attributed to ZUN, ask for a citation.

>>5932851
Cirno is always plot related

>>5932863
Especially in EoSD

>>5932065
ZUN doesn't hate. ZUN trolls.

ZUN, like any good person, has a habit of breathing new life into characters the fans love.

See you in TH13.

Well, we learned something from all this: apparently Cirno might not like Daiyousei that much, since she's attacking her too.

>>5932857
He also forgot Ex-Star Sapphire.

>>5932876
When you are trying to prove you are the strongest fairy, you can't not attack another fairy just because they are your friend.

>>5932876
In Gensokyo, attacking others is a sign of affection.

>>5932876
It's danmaku PLAY. See all those fairies in the stage? Apparently Cirno hates every single one of them.

this game will spawn more CirnoxMarisa pairings

>>5932876
They don't become damaged the same way as humans so it doesn't carry the same meaning to them.

>>5932886
Battle
It's like saying "hello" in Gensokyo

>>5932876
Actually, Cirno really likes Daiyousei...

"The mating ritual of the modern Touhou is complex and deep. During periods of great stress, usually brought on by environmental events such as unusual fog or violent weather patterns a Touhou will become agitated from normal behavior and take to the sky in search of a mate. When a possible suitor is discovered a terse verbal exchange is made in which the two Touhous evaluate the willingness to mate of the other party. If both parties are prepared to reproduced they begin the complex mating dance of the Touhou.
They release haploid gametophytes called "danmaku" in a semi-random pattern over an extended period of time. This danmaku is comparable to the way in which plants release large amounts of pollen over a wide area. However it also serves another purpose. Much like the peacock's plume the way in which a Touhou arranges danmaku beautifully demonstrates the sexual fitness of a potential mate. If a danmaku reaches an egg, sometimes called a "hit box" then that Touhou will typically become submissive and follow the now dominant partner to a new location for tea, a necessary nutrient for the growing child."

>>5932851
Zun liked her enough to have her show up in PCB after EoSD for no real reason and made special exception to include and joke about her in the labeled screen thing in the PoFV manual that led to that stupid meme.

ZUN obviously has a thing for Cirno, even before the fandom did.

Managed to clear route a1 using all my continues. Those three fairies are horrific. There's two branches for each route, meaning a total of six paths to take overall. Each fairy has different spellcards depending on what stage you're fighting them. A completionist is going to have a field day with this game not even mentioning the gold medal standards which will possibly make some just punch their computer screen on lunatic I'm guessing.

>>5932926
ZUN tends to love what the fans love. That's because he's a creator, not a Jewish executive producer.

>>5932926
Cirno is ZUN ideal daughter just like how Aya is his ideal slut.
How does it feels knowing you will never have a tomboyish girl like Cirno as your daughter?

I cant wait for the dialogue translation.

And it turns out she's the smartest of all the fairies.

>>5932933
i thought Sanae is the ideal slut

>>5932947
That is what Sakuyafags want you to believe.
They are still butthurt and frustrated over how Sanae replaced Sakuya as a playable in UFO.

>>5932944
I noticed this too, pretty amusing.

In a related note, I got to the last boss on the Route B without losing a single life. Got slaughtered so bad at the spellcard that they throw themselves on you that I lost my continues there.

Alfhdusjkfesns.

So, has anybody beaten Extra yet?

>>5932956
Does it counts to unlock Extra if you beat the routes in Easy?

>>5932956
So what are the specific requirements of unlocking Marisa?

>>5932944
Wasn't it always the case ? I remember reading that since fairies are dumb, Cirno is quite intelligent compared to them.

>>5932966
Yes.

Hardest touhou game ever

So how do you unlock extra again?
Do you have to get one ending on each route (for three playthroughs total) or all six endings?

>>5932966
>>5932968
All you need to unlock Extra is to 1cc all 6 paths on any difficulty, Easy included.

I'm getting plastered but at least it's ten times more fun that StB and DS could ever hope to be while drunk.

>>5932969
Yeah, canon regards Cirno as an unusually powerful fairy in any regard. She's literate, she partly understood the events in PoFV, and she's used to fighting because she does it all the time.

>>5932970
Hmm. Not sure if I want to break my honor doing this. Normal is kicking my ass hardcore, but it's being fun.

Thanks for the info.

>>5932975
HERP DERP

It's like STB; you're not playing a typical game so your experience isn't going to carry you here. That's part of why ZUN is better than fags who publish the same exact crap ad infinitum.

I bet Suigin can beat it with his eyes closed.

>>5932944
The dialogue has been pretty funny so far.
However, I should probably get to reading the comic so I can understand the backstory behind all of this house destroying, fairy revolution nonsense...

>>5933014
I read it, saw no connection.

My personal guess is that they're just being random buggers.

>>5933043
Fairy Wars GOOD END

This is emasculating, getting raped by fairies. But I think I'll be disappointed by its shortness.

>>5933110
Don't worry, you won't mind how short it is as soon as you get to Extra. You'll wish it was shorter.

>>5933121
oh jesus what the fuck.

>>5933121
I kind of feel bad for beating Cirno in the previous games now. It must've been a terrifying experience whenever I fought against her.

>>5933110
I thought about this too. The 3 fairies apparently were getting HUGE during all this time.

>>5933138
You should feel even worse for her.
Apparently, the bullets and patterns are so dense and hard because we're seeing them from her own perspective.
Imagine how she must have felt every time she faced Reimu or Eiki or something.

>>5933149
This distorted perception of Cirno makes me wonder. Is her perception of her danmaku distorted too? Does she imagine her danmaku more dense than it actually is?

>>5933156
>>5933138
>>5933149

You guys are silly.

The art in this game is pretty well done. Too well for Zun. Did someone else draw this?

>>5933164
yes, some other artist

>>5933164
...Nah Zun just took an art lesson.

>>5933164
The guy who drew the three fairies before in their canon mangas.

>>5933149
The game is zoomed in on the boss (=huge fairies), so the bosses danmaku appears to be bigger than it really is.

"Oh, this can't be so bad... let's see... yeah i can manage thOHSHITHOWTHEFUCKDOIDODGETHAT?"

>>5933156
Maybe. That's why she's stuck as a Stage 2 boss. Maybe she has strabismus or something.

>>5933164
Could be the S&BND author? (Luna is adorable when flustered!)

>>5933164
>The art in this game is pretty well done.

Are you kidding? I want ZUN art, damn it, not this generic manga style.

I figure I might as well give some updates as I slowly drag myself through Extra.

She throws meteors at you, at fucking light speed.

>>5933177
http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Strange_and_Bright_Nature_Deity
It's actually him.
I guess that would be the equivalent of making a game about the Watatsuki sisters with art by Aki Eda

I've got to say, I love the new bombing system. I got bored with UFO pretty quickly, but this one will probably keep me entertained for a while

>>5933177
She has such a cute mouth.

>>5933192
from http://may.2chan.net/40/futaba.htm

>>5933012
Suigin won't even bother playing a Cirno game.

>>5933205

ray mu where did your long hair go

What's the coldest black metal album I can listen to while playing this?

>>5933225
>coldest
i see what you did there

>>5933225
Venom's?

>>5933225
Go for the Classics - Immortal, Call of the Wintermoon on loop.

>>5933225
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal

Comedy option: The Howling Wind – Into The Cryosphere

>>5933188

Oh come off it, man. The art style is cute and kinda derpy, what with the dresses all the fairies are wearing being so big and poofy and all. I think it's great

>>5933301
Not him but I do not like this artstyle either. The faces are fine but the bodies look fat.

>http://www.mediafire.com/?7e0idhz8qclml7o

Downloaded this one twice and keep getting "The program can't start because d3dx9_42.dll is missing". It seems this download is working for the rest of you.

>>5933225
>>5933243
>>5933248
>>5933300

WTF people.
Playing a motherfucking ZUN game without listening to the music?

>>5933329
Google d3dx9_42.dll, download it and put it in your system32 folder.

>>5933332
I don't really like the music in this game.

>>5933329
Update your DirectX install.

>>5933329
How about you download d3dx9_42.dll ?

>>5933341
Sadly, I couldn't agree more with this picture.

>>5933342
>Google d3dx9_42.dll

...or you could, you know, install the DIrectX update from MS properly. Just google "directx update" or whatever. Slightly less likely to get a botnet that way.

>>5933344

You are a huge fucking faggot.

>>5933362
> you are now aware that windows is a botnet

>>5933367
Well Fairy Wars works pretty well under Wine. But it's missing graphical effects, much like Double Spoiler, unless you're using d3dx9_36.dll from Microsoft.

Extend Party 2 where?

I got Cirno leveled up to lvl 14.
Where do I allocate skill points?

I like how the last battle against all three of them has such a fun theme.

It's like all serious at first, but then goes "Naah, just kidding you're still playing a Cirno game."

>>5933387

Every game from th10 and above has almost unreadable text also.

I wish they'd fix it ;_;

>>5933341
Stage 1: hey, this is pretty easy. I can just freeze the bullets. Don't have to dodge them.

Stage 2: ...

>>5933401
I can't hear anything over everything being frozen, broken, shot, or dying.

only played for about 30 minutes, it's fun and it's nice to play a touhou with care and skill applied to the art direction.

>>5933412
This.
I think that's the thing about this game. Instead of gradual incrments of difficulty like any other game, the difficulty increases pretty exponentially, and suddenly it's danmaku hell and unfreezable bullets everywhere. It's like going from Stage 1 → Stage 3 → Stage 5/6

>>5933432
I shit on you.

>>5933156
>Does she imagine her danmaku more dense than it actually is?
Someone didn't read the strongest manual.

http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Fairy_Wars:_Gameplay

I think I'll just say here that I'm glad this game brought back Insta-continue.
Shit's a lifesaver.

Ripped soundtrack where? The stage 2 theme is great.

>>5933479
Wait for thxxbgm to be updated I'd say.

>>5933479
Oh, actually, a temporary solution is to grab Audacity, and import PCM the thbgm.dat file. Settings in picture related. I'm wondering where the "cue sheet" is for the music data.

>>5933563
I hate forgetting the verification.

So, how do I unlock the extra stage? I have to beat every possible last boss variation?

>>5933602
I just did that on easy, and I still can't fight marisa.

>>5933614
Beat it without using continue.

Best Cirno game reporting

E..my B2 replay kill me computer when i try to play it. Somone have this problem?
Can somone try to play it and check it out?
http://www.mediafire.com/?6gr4h8kik0and99

God dammit fireballs.
Anyone know what he side bar says?

Are there any niconico/youtubes up with the EX stage? Want to hear the theme.

>>5933720
Sidebars are here >>5931944

i've tried updating directx, did all the stuff, running the game with all possible resolutions

but this shit won't start no matter what
goddamn

So what are the controls and how does the freezing mechanic work?

>>5933723
You can hear the Ex stage/boss themes without actually having to play them. Just go to the music room and double click the selections.

>>5933747
Seriously just play it and you will learn

>>5933747
Tap Z to shoot
Hold down Z and release after a bit to freeze surrounding bullets
Bullets that come in contact with frozen bullets freeze as well so you want to try to create chain-reactions
Fireballs can't be frozen

>>5933747
You know, most of us got around this last night by playing it and eventually figuring it out ourselves. Do you really need someone to hold your hand?

>game about Cirno
You may as well have approved an anime that will be distributed in the US by Disney, ZUN

>>5933747
http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Fairy_Wars:_Gameplay
Learn to google.

So does ice touching them actually do more damage to enemies or is its only purpose to kill bullets?

>>5933790
The Ice does more damage

>>5933776
I'd fucking fund that. I'd love to see Disney advocate a cartoon with epic danmaku battles, moe youkai and lesbian undertones.

Is there any other game where Cirno is the main character?

>>5933843
P.S. And somehow they'd make it entertaining for little girls and grown men alike, being Disney.

>>5933848
She appears in EoSD, and is playable in PoFV and Hisoutensoku. So it's not like she's a once-off.

>>5933843
Only if it's old Disney, with awesome insert songs.

>>5933872
Or new Disney.

>>5933883

Disney owns Naruto.

>>5933883
Niggers.

>>5933867
She also directly reappeared in PCB.

If you think about it, Cirno is quite a war veteran.

>>5933710
Well now i know this B2 replay is A2 replay. A2 is fucking bugged. 1 time it show me ending 5 and saved as B2, other time showed me ending 3 and was saved as B1(not sure if it was ending 5 but i think so)

>>5933912
Right she does, I forgot. Midboss only.

To quote someone in IRC.

>About the life percentage: "Think of it as the "Butthurt meter", once it runs out, Cirno gets too butthurt to continue and you lose."

My butthurt meter is at 600%
Lets do this.

does this make IN look like Bashinnryu?

>>5933947
Don't talk shit about my waifu

>>5933912
Which doujin is this? Sauce.

>>5933947
Hey, I said that and I'm not from IRC, I'm over there >>5932542

>>5933957
Ey, Suigin did you play the game yet? If you want my opinion, it's ZUN's best "FUCK YOU" to secondaries, you should definitely check it out.

This is way more fun than the main series and everyone needs to heard my opinion.

>>5934011
downloading
this better not be a borefest

>>5932821
>This file is neither allocated to a Premium Account, and can therefore only be downloaded 10 times.
>This limit is reached.
Can someone reupload?

>>5934047
>this better not be a borefest
Oh ho ho, you're in for a suprise.

This is way more fun than the main series and everyone needs to hear my opinion.

>>5934047
I don't know, it kept me occupied more than Double Spoiler did and certainly more than the casual runs I'm having these days. And that's an accomplishment.

Plus, you get to kick Daiyousei's ass among others' in a fit of rage.

>>5933929
Ow comone fuck this i 1cc all 6 routes still no extra stage, cause of this A2 bug..somone can share scoreth128.dat(or th128.cfg don;t know witch one hold progress)?

has anyone beaten Marisa yet? i want to see the replay

I wish I could play this for the lengths that I played DS, but I keep having to pase and recover from the pain caused by SHOT BUTTON TAPPAN.

>>5933929
Bug? What's this about a bug? Should I not play A2 path?

>>5934105
sure is baka around here. juct hold c button for rapid fire

>>5934104
I haven't even gotten to Marisa.

How does that last attack of Daiyousei/Lily work?
One time, after a bomg, I got them to shoot a corridor in which I could stay in the middle, but I couldn't repeat that yet.

>>5934105
you can hold down control or c for auto fire...

>>5931819
what's the game's name?

english patch plx
i wanna read the story

>>5934090
How does that bug get "triggered"? I certainly saw people both from around here and on 2chan get to Marisa, so there must be a way to bypass it.

That is to say, until ZUN gets the thousandth email about this and fixes it after a day or two.

>>5934154
I think he's just bullshitting.

This game is pretty much all Extra stage all the time.

You just need to figure where you need to freeze and it becomes trivial.

Lunatic is great with the "Hey, you shot me? Enjoy 40 revenge daggers out of nowhere per fairy down" mechanic though. Touhou needed dying enemies shooting back (that rock from SA Stage 1 doesn't count, neither does Parsee's clone nonsense) and now it got just that.

>>5934139

>>5934139
Touhou 12.8 ~ Cirno's Rape Fest

>>5934166
Actually these bullets practically help you keep the freeze counter above 30% all the time (since grazing fills it up). I bet he added them to help, not to harm.

Imagine a giant penis flying towards your mouth, and there's nothing you can do about it. And you're like "Oh man, I'm gonna have to suck this thing", and you brace yourself to suck this giant penis. But then, at the last moment, it changes trajectory and hits you in the eye. You think to yourself "Well, at least I got that out of the way", but then the giant penis rears back and stabs your eye again, and again, and again. Eventually, this giant penis is penetrating your gray matter, and you begin to lose control of your motor skills. That's when the giant penis slaps you across the cheek, causing you to fall out of your chair. Unable to move and at your most vulnerable, the giant penis finally lodges itself in your anus, where it rests uncomfortably for 4, maybe 5 hours. That's what playing Touhou 12.8 is like.

Why can't I freeze the fireballs?
Cirno you baka

>>5934213
Not really.

>>5934233
bacause Zun is stronger than Cirno

>>5934213

Wow this game has a lot of bullets coming from the side. I'm not so great at those so it's good practice. Also, the 3 fairies fight varies in difficulty so much by spellcard. Some are piss easy while others is a pain. I like the gravity gimmick though

>>5934248
Well durrhey, next you're going to tell me that ice is some kind of frozen liquid.

>>5934213
Why do you play it in first place if you dislike it so much?

>>5934285
Because the situation that kopipe describes is necessarily unpleasant, right?

>>5934154

ZUN never fixes bugs anymore.
Double Spoiler is broken as fuck and he doesn't give a shit.

>>5933929
Same here. When I beat A-2 it shows me either ending 3 or 5 and doesn't have the little "clear" notice at the route selection screen.

>>5934154
No idea i just 1 again finished A2 this time again B1 ending...i finished with 7 lives left ffs. Any other route works fine.

>>5934293
So plz somone upload score.dat(or other file that go with progress) i want to play with marisa a bit :P

>>5934296
btw i have clear notice but its clear with continue only so it dosn't open marisa

>>5934285

I don't dislike it. However, I am getting brutally raped repeatedly. Easy mode is retardedly easy while normal is ridiculous.

>>5934293
Probably because neither of them is a natural-numbered game.

http://www.mediafire.com/?96pw73meztvh97f

When you're done playing extra, tell me how to do:
Midboss last attack
How to deal with the second shield fairy at that time when they spawn too far away from each other to freeze both at the same time.

BTW, you can freeze Marisa's laser. Don't die trying to circle around her like I did.

>>5934314
>So plz somone upload score.dat(or other file that go with progress) i want to play with marisa a bit :P
>:P

>>5934346
Seconded. Did easy modo as a first run to get the hang of the mechanics. Finished using no continues. Went to normal mode and ran out of continues at the start of 3 faeries

ahahahahah this game is absolutely crazy

This game is awesome. But hard.

It's not easy being an ice fairy.

>>5934416

I find it cool

has anyone posted the endings yet

>>5934443
Fucking seconday fag. Touhou endings are earned

>>5934414
Elaborate.

It pisses me off that the freeze shot has to charge before use. At least I can still death bomb if I have to, but I'm still forced to freeze my way up to those.

Circular life bars are awesome. I hope ZUN sticks with this.

>>5934454
once they are posted i will reupload them in every thread just for you~~~

>>5934468
In the next game, every greater fairy and familiar will get one.

Once I got the mechanics down, I found the game to be pretty damn easy, actually. I rarely have to bomb.

Believe it or not, all that StB and DS playing probably helped me more than any other game, since the freeze works in a similar way/timer.

>>5934465
I noticed the deathbomb window is kinda larger than usual in this one.

>>5934468
Unless they're covered with bullets. Having the normal one as well would also be nice. Or maybe one on the sidebar.

>>5934293
Really? That's unfortunate.

>>5934489
I rarely ever bomb because the bomb key is not situated ergonomically.
I also often press shift instead of the freeze button when unfocused.

I wish I could remap the fucking keys, switch out Z and C.

>My face when spinning arrow bullets

>>5934527
Get a keyboard remapper. Or for the Unixen, xmodmap

I miss the "enemy" indicator.

and, it's possible to get the live % up to 999?

>>5934597
1000%

is max

>>5934527
in the options menu there's a controls section.
I use a control pad, and the default buttons suck on it, so I switch them out.

I downloaded the mediafire download and I click on the exe but the game doesn't even turn on...
Anyone else having the same problem?

>>5934629
I use a gamepad too (X focus, square rapid fire, L2 and R2 for bombs and freeze)

>>5934636
For some reason the first time I tried to run the game it hanged, but it's fine now..

>>5934597
It maxes out at 1000%, but it's hard to get it up there.

>>5934636
Download d3dx9_42.dll

>>5934636
The mediafire download is bad for me, too. Can someone with a working copy upload to megaupload or something?

My first time playing the game just now. I'd have to say it's quite fun. Freezing the bullets sounded kinda weird to me at first but in-game it works very well. It's fun placing yourself strategically during a boss fight and freeze 70% of the bullets on screen just like that. It's like bombing but more fun and feels more rewarding.

I prefer ZUN-art but the game looks good regardless. I haven't played that much yet but far so good.

Just finished a Normal run. Anyone try Hard yet? Some games have pretty big jumps, especially between Normal and Hard.

This is really really good fun.
But Touhou 13 better be next ZUN >:T

>>5934468
Seconded, it looks great.

>>5934704

I found a working torrent earlier, and so far there's plenty of seeders so it goes by pretty fast.

http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=151085

On another note, who else actually likes the medal system? It's pretty helpful when noting which spellcard attacks are actually worth trying to spend time on...but getting gold is downright ridiculous sometimes.

The game is shit, whatever back to Mars Matrix and RayFORCE

Fuck Lily Black, she spams bullet so fast that I couldn't even charge to freeze the them.

here is a working megaupload link
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4EU3RB55

>>5934704
Seconding this.

I keep getting a damaged file error.

I really wish I didn't have to remap Z and C. Why the fuck would ZUN put a charge shot on the standard fire button? I can understand for PoFV, but this is annoying to have to either tap at the speed of sound or fork your fingers a good 5 inches without a key remap.

>>5934841
Excuse my lack of patience, thanks for the link.

can anyone give me a labelled screenshot of what all of the percentages mean? I know the one under cirno is the freeze charge (higher means longer freeze) but the ones on the right don't mean shit to me.

>>5934551

Or better yet, a gamepad. It seems ZUN is trying to screw over keyboard users with this game, but oh well. I haven't used a keyboard to play Touhou in ages.

FUCKING GOLD CARDS, THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE.

I can understand not bombing or dying, but no freezing either?

>>5934862

Top: Extra. every 100% means an extra life, and it naturally builds up.

Middle: Charge.

Bottom: Bomb. I'm not exactly sure how to build this one up, but I'm guessing it's just "use the charge." Life counter goes up naturally with points.

>>5934879

Yep. Play through the spellcards like you were playing a regular game. Like I said, downright ridiculous, especially on the later cards when the three fairies pull Prismriver shit on you.

>>5934854
I think it's because he considers the Freezing feature more important of a function than the actual shot, thus worth of occupying the "z" button. And really, shooting in this game is pretty much a utility tool when you have that many bullets in your face.

Just Beat Touhou 12.8 on Easy Mode.
Praise me.

sage for horrible giga wing ripoff

Yes, I am getting my ass handed to me on a silver platter.

I can't wait until 12.9 comes out.

I

>>5934355
Thx a lot for this
so for last midboss atack
i start with going up- and freezing first big ball attack. They get hurt if they step on it so i want to freeze it up when they fly. After this i go back to normal position around middle. and just step a little forward +shooting and avoiding little bullets when i when close to them i just use freeze again and go down. Repeat, and with enough luck you will not time it out.
Well i didn't try this but maybe if you use ice in middle down the fairies up there will frieze both of shield-like fairies.
But honestly some Marisa attacks are quite impossible, fucking balls of steel

for no reason at all here is another link
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/668919/th128.zip

Why in the hell are you fighting Marisa as the final boss? Does ZUN even care about Reimu at this point? Or did Marisa do some stuff to get put into this game with the fairies?

>>5934942

No one cares about Reimu, it's all about Sanae now and she has more important business to handle than playing with fairies

>>5934942
Reimu will be Yorihime's EX boss in th13.5

>>5934879

I can do it pretty successfully on normal up to Stage 2. Beyond that, shit just gets bonkers. Especially some of the star cards that are unpredictable and flood the screen. The laser cards are probably the easiest to gold, since they expect you not to freeze as much or get hit by shards of death.

>>5934970

>Stage 2
>Level 7 shot

areyouawizard.jpg

Are you freezing fucking everything? No, that would mean you wouldn't be gold carding...

What.

>>5934980

There are certain places in the first two stages where you're better off not killing everything that moves, and instead freezing at the last possible moment.

>>5934943
Wow he actually has end screens like from LLS? Awesome! But I bet they don't get progressively more unclothed...

>Stage 1
This seems pretty easy...
>Stage 2
Okay, now we're talkin'.
>Stage 3
FUCK FUCK FREEZE DAMMIT WHERE'S MY FREEZE

Great game.

The final boss is easier for me than the rest of the game. This happens with Yuyuko too.

>>5934943
>最強だ！

Oh ZUN.

>>5935004
GENAU DAS!

>>5934986

>you're better off not killing everything that moves

Since when do I need patience and judgment to be an ice fairy? Fuck.

I expected a simplified system, instead 12.8 features a scoring system more complicated than UFO and a CAVE game put together.

>>5935047

It's going to make for some awesome Let's Play Danmaku threads, I'll say that much.

>>5935047

This isn't near as complicated as many cave games, for example espgaluda 2, which has a lot of similar mechanics.

I don't need no stinking freeze button.

i die every 5 seconds

>>5935106

Damn dude gj.

>>5935106
Now do it on Lunatic, casual.

Dammit, I've been playing Touhou for over 2 years and this is the first time I've experienced tetris effect.

I guess I am still little grasshopper.

>12.8

lol no

going to play Hisoutensoku.

Well this took 2h but marisa is down, really funny fight and 1 more thx for posting this data file.
http://www.mediafire.com/?jh414388kh3pi25
lol capcha: 128 ftionds.. 128..he know what i am writing about!

>>5935176
(inb4 i posted because someone asked for replay of defeating marisa not because i want to boast about it)
and man this last attack got me by surprise. But well i paniced a little when i had 95% hp... good that had 1 bomb left, and thx god that having 0% life don't kill you

Now that one was retardedly hard. The Prismrivers have nothing on the Three Fairies with no freeze.

>>5935217

Forgot the picture, damn Captcha.

So is it confirmed that the routes are fucked? I just finished A2 and it counted as a B1 clear..

>>5934980
milk the fuck out of non-cards with your freeze. be careful not to accidentally hit the boss too much until you're running out of time.
that way you can score gold and still have high power.

Yet another working dl for the game incase anyone wants, no need to download .dll file as it is already included
http://www.mediafire.com/?8634emeo6m37o0r

>>5935221

In contrast, this one was so easy I almost fell asleep.

>>5935221
>>5935272

>1307%

I thought shot power capped at 1000%? Or was that /jp/ bullshitting?

Which one of the meter was the butthurt life meter again?
Capthcha: subculture worries. How about that...

>>5935281
well you unlock MAX POWAR at 3k i think, and it's quite funzy

>>5935272

Man this is my favorite new mechanic since the familiars in Imperishable Night. I mean faith meter and the UFOs were just shitty but this is great. You get into such a rhythm on lunatic. Charge and dodge for graze til you hit full or can't dodge anymore, let loose with the freeze, graze the revenge daggers to charge another freeze, repeat. Milk nonspellcards, try and gold card the spells (laser ones are easiest). Great fun.

>>5935281

That's life.

>>5935281
Only lives are capped at 1000.

>my face when I just watched a lunatic 1cc and I'm still struggling to get stage level 2 on normal without continuing

This thing comes flying at me, so I avoid and fly up to Marisa and suddenly...

>>5935388
should have hit bomb

>>5935400
That button to the right of my index finger, v?

>>5935431
I think default is X I set it to B on my gamepad
it makes you invincible and gets rid of all the bullets on the screen

Impressions:

Music: 8/10. Two memorable tracks for me, the stage music seemed pretty bland though. I did notice the tone and instruments were reminiscent of the PCB - MoF period rather than the new sound he's picked up in the last few games.
Scoring system: 10/10. I will say right now this is far and away the best engine for competitive scoring play ZUN has made yet.
Control scheme: 6/10. I like the speed on both focus and unfocused. A lot of people (including me) find the Z and C keys backwards, though, so either get a gamepad or reformat it manually.
Art: 9/10 Fuck the haters, I love the Three Fairies style. The expressions were nice and the boss sprites were good.
Danmaku patterns: 7/10. Some cards are a bit too random, and laser cards are a punch in the dick unless you're going for a no freeze capture. I found myself praying for streaming cards and weaving, rather than relying on twitch for 25 straight seconds. The 3 danmaku type thing is pretty cool (normal, fireball and laser), and really add some strategy.

Level difficulty curve: 4/10. Kind of all over the place. Like, worse than EoSD in bouncing from retarded random cards to simple streaming, and Marisa is pretty easy.
Different difficulty curve: 8/10. Feels like any other game, though Easy is again too easy and will make you actually worse for having played it.

>>5935251

There never was any need to download any fucking .dlls in the first place if your DirectX is properly installed and updated.

Unless you're using Wine, of course.

>>5935384
Do you have a link to it?

>>5935459

>I did notice the tone and instruments were reminiscent of the PCB - MoF period rather than the new sound he's picked up in the last few games.

I was just thinking this. What happened to your electric guitar and multi-drum beats, ZUN? There will be no face-melting Stage 1 boss themes like this.

>>5935503

CASIO broke his kneecaps for not fulfilling his yearly trumpet quota.

>>5935388
actually this is pretty easy spellcard, you can regenerate so much that you will freeze every blue bullet marisa toss, all what is left is redirecting flair and not getting killed while doing this...w8 for 6 of them...this one is hell

Maybe it's just me but it seems like there was more bullets and fire in normal C than in normal A and B.

>>5935679
C is rape route

>>5935384
Where do you put replays? Where does the game save replays? I saved a replay, but it doesn't show up in the replay folder. I tried watching the replay, and it works fine. Where was it saved!

>>5936101
try
%AppData%\ShanghaiAlice\th128

>>5936145
You found it anon! Thanks! Now I can watch replays and see how much I suck.