/jp/ - Otaku Culture

The face on that ghost is awesome.

SPIDERMAN!
http://scarletdevilmansion.com/spider.html

sage

>>686606
Reminds me that you should TAKE IT EASY!!!

Anyone managed to get the 1280x960 mode working? I just get a 1280x960 window with a 640x480 subscreen at (0, 0).

>>686619 (0, 0).
For a second I thought that was an emoticon.

Any bets on final boss?

>>686619

Works fine for me..

>>686631
Giant mole loli.

Why the fuck can't he just use the character art from SWR? Seriously, his art looks like shit.

>>686619
Yeah i get the same...

ZUN has entered a chronic state of intoxication.

>>686656
Why?

>>686658
No one knows why.

Ronriness.

>>686656

He admitted he was drunk during most of Imperishable Night's programming. Can't imagine what state he's in now.

Sorry /jp/ I missed it last night. Where can I get the demo?

I already got SWR from /rs/, is it there too?

>>686728

Torrents

http://tokyotosho.com/details.php?id=136843

The man has gone insane or genius, I can't tell which. Level 2's boss is so different from any other boss in the other games, I don't know what to make of it.

is the only way to gain a life in this game is by beating the boss spell cards? If that is the only way then it is really fucked up.

Also reimu in youmu mode is just useless. what the use of getting the full power if you can only aim one side of the attack

What the fuck is the deal with Reimu C? Its pretty, buts its completely crazy.

Marissa A is amazing. Eight levels? Fuck yeah.

>>686867
>you can only aim one side of the attack
>aim one side
What?

with 4 you aren't stronger against a boss as with 3, but better against normal enemies.

best thing about the game so far is the stage 2 music

When will an /rs/ version show up?

>>686884
Yeah, it sets the perfect atmosphere to hate the level two boss, who looks like a noble reverse trap.

>>686878
Reimu C seems to be the best for me so far. It is the only one that I could hit the bosses with all the time and not run out of time. The ability to shoot a concentrated blast in any direction is definitely awesome.

>>686631
I dunno, but my money's on Yugi pulling an Alice and coming back as the Ex boss.

Eight levels? is this confirmed? Does anyone here think that the difficulty has been raised like the older games? From the first three stages it sure does feels like it.

>>686922
For me I'm not sure it is harder so much as I am used to Reimu's homing amulets and I have not played a character that has the equivalent yet. Luckily I was able to get the hang of Reimu C pretty quick so I stopped running out of time on the bosses.

I think its just different and I'll probably master it in about the same time as MoF.

>>686954

>I am used to Reimu's homing amulet

>>686922
I just meant Marissa A has 8 power levels.

>>686972
Still on my way downloading, but I have a gut feel that an 8 power Level Marisa would be nerfed, considering that she could "bomb" twice as much as the rest. Kind of like Marisa having to reach Level 2 in order to be in par with the others having Level 1 shots.

>>686966
The only reason I admit it is to draw out fags like this.

>>687008
that's the whole point to it. its more like she gets to bomb every 0.5 of her power with a max of 4.

Holy shit! Try holding one of the lower diagonals during the game and watch what happens.

>>686922

Getting a new asshole made for me on NORMAL MODO. Sorta odd as I can beat Ran on Extra. I agree?

>>687116
That's how I watched lunatic, because I was to bored to die.

>>687116
It works in the upper corners too!

What the fucking fuck was zun thinking with Nitori's bomb? No fucking way that's staying in the final version.

Given the eastern European designs in the game, I figure ZUN has gone from beer to cheap vodka... straight up.

Stage 2's music is fuckin' pimp though.

Why won't daemontools mount this .img file?

>>687239
I could mount it but after install it wouldn't work.

>>686867
>is the only way to gain a life in this game is by beating the boss spell cards? If that is the only way then it is really fucked up.
Come back after you've played Banshiryuu.

>>687257
It won't even show up in the folder when I try to mount it

>>687311
put the iso on your desktop (not the folder), and try then.

>>687330
It's a .img file

Hardest Touhou game ever

FUCK

>>687368
Use Reimu A. Easiest Touhou game ever

I get this when trying to run th11.

>>687376

I only died once in my first play using Reimu A and I suck at danmaku.

>>687116
lolling

what the fuck

>>687376
Reimu A lacks her signature homing amulets

where is my master spark!!

So how do you gain a life in this game? getting loads of score does not seem the right way of doing it

>>687413
gee i duno, maybe collect the heart looking items???

>>687385
I got that once when I tried to open 2 instances of it. Check your task manager and make sure there isn't one running silently and not doing anything.

ZUN has lost his mind.

This is an awesome thing.

>>687187
What does Nitori's bomb do?

>>686889
NO, get the torrent and stop whining

>>687421
6/10

Parsee is fucking me up on normal, but the music's great.

>>687368
Hardest in terms of plain old survivability? No.
Hardest in terms of No Miss/Max Grazing/Max Score attempt? Maybe.

All I could notice is the ridiculously weak Reimu'sMarisa's default shot and the ridiculously low amounts of power-ups from shooting them nameless fairies. Hell, you could even end up having MAX power at the end of Stage 1 in PCB under ideal conditions.

If you don't like torrents, you can get it from Doujinstyle.

>>687420
It's an PCB-style border

>>687447
Dunno what that means.

1CC'd (wow all the way through level 3) with 4 combinations on normal so far.

>>687447

wtf does that means?

>>687413
Every time you shoot down a certain set of health from bosses, they would drop out a purple hollowed star item. Collect five of them to obtain an extra life. Also it is known that the bosses will not drop that item if you failed a spell card.

>>687440
Was just very surprised by the amount of bullets so early in the game. But I've just beaten the gamr with Reimu A now.

>>687389
>>687464

awesome.jpg

Yamame's theme and the title theme are the best music tracks in the game

>>687469

crap, that sucks. Then that means that you have to be good at dodging to be able to obtain a life, but if you are good then you dont need the extra lives.

Zun has definitely lost his mind

>>687424
Didn't seem to be the problem.

Any other ideas?

>>687501
not really, extra lives will add up to your score and it is expected that you at least have no problems until stage 04, so you can rake in some extra lives while it is still easy

>>687447
>>687466

the Cherry Border (from PCB). When activated, you will get a one-time invulnerability against bullets within a preset time limit. In the SA version of this border, when it reaches the expiry time or your hitbox bumps to a bullet, it will clear all the current bullets on screen. I don't know if it has any effect towards your score while activated, though. But it will surely make you facepalm when you panic-bomb, thinking that a bullet would hit you, only to find out that you managed to dodge it.

Does hiding in a corner grant invulnerability?

Level 1 felt like level 3 of some of the earlier touhous, that many bullits were flying about.

>>687652
amusingly yes

>>687652
Somehow, that question struck something in me ;_;

>>687597
If you don't get hit while using the barrier, you'll regain .5 Power.

>>687501
Stuff like this is in most arcade-style games, there’s a certain point in getting better at the game where you have an exponential gain. You’re good at dodging the early spell cards now, so you have an extra life for the later sections. This is good because it provides “you’re getting better” feedback.

At least he isn’t making you destroy a boss in the most suicidal way possible for them, damn you CAVE.

>>687597
afaik if you activate it and don't hit anything before it expires, you also get some power back.

>>687652
This is ZUN's new way of letting you beat Lunatic, but you hardly gain points so yeah

>>687667

Can you cruise through the game by hiding in the corner all the time and waiting out the spellcards?

>>687672

Also, the All Clear remaining lives bonus score.

>>687680
Yeah but you won't get any score.

This demo really felt like a collection of some of the most random shit ever. I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I definitely would have liked to see more characters than just R&M again. Maybe Aya so that people would bawww on poolshmer about how she ruins everything.

At least the character portraits looked somewhat better than the kindergarten doodles in Mountain of Faith, even though Reimu and Marisa look a lot like their yukkuri versions at times. Level 2 and 3 bosses looked to be close to PCB/IN level.

Still I fucking wish he manned up enough to admit that he can't draw and let Tasogare or somebody do it.

>>687698
>Still I fucking wish he manned up enough to admit that he can't draw and let Tasogare or somebody do it.
I think he's well aware of his capabilities, besides Reimu's new face is priceless so just let him do his stuff

BLEEDING HEART LIBERALS

>>687698
But that would be so boring. It wouldn't be the same without the weird artwork.

>>687729

Damn right it wouldn't be the same, it would be better.

>>687729

I'd be happy if he just managed to reach the PCB/IN level instead of falling back to EoSD grade.

GOOD DRAWINGS ARE PIG DISGUSTING

Matchouli MULTIDIRECTIONAL DANMAKU bbqpwns everything

parsee lol homing lolrofl lame and easy just dance around her while changing colors and watch her (him?) bleed. thank god lunatic mode is quite diffficult.

I really wonder what the devil is the point of the corner hiding invulnerability, game design wise. It seems almost like talking down to the player. "I know some you bitches ain't MAN enough to get through my game on your own, so here's a hidey-hole for all you pussies to have your period in." (Pulls out Tampax) "On the house."

so whats the plot so far?
Images of the characters where?

There's some kind of a mole girl who looks like she's wearing a barrel, a unicorn girl, and the level two twat who looks like she's paralyzed since she never changes her posture in the close-ups.

>>686972
>I just meant Marissa A has 8 power levels.

That's how Alice affects people.

Poor Alice, you might have friends if your power levels wern't so high. ;_;

>>687783

99% chance its just there for ZUN to test shit and he forgot to take it out, like MarisaBroken in MoF

>>687786
You didn't say anything about the quality.

>>687783
Heh, though of course it's just a bug.

>>687800

Is that the story behind MariB? Makes sense.

Has he bothered to patch it away by now, by the way? The time you're about to release a new game would be a good point to have the previous one working right.

they are going underground so the enemy must be satan this time

>>687824
any time you release a game is a good moment to just forget about the previous one

Man I just thought you guys were being too critical of the art till I played it myself....

>>687886
>>687891

Uguu

>>687891
OH SHIT SHE CAN SEE INTO MY SOUL!

>>687886
meh, the art doesn't really bother me
I usually just skip the dialog anyway (even when translated)

>>687908
Even when translated I can't understand what the fuck they're talking about.
It's like they're using some code.
Or maybe it's just too DEEP.

>>687936
You have to drink to understand it.

the ZUNICORN has an awesome face tough

>>687936

The translations aren't very good, you have to fill in a lot of blanks for it to make sense. Possibly hit your head against a wall a few times.

>>687943

Yeah, he's picked himself up a bit from MoF where all characters were horrible mutants. In SA, only about half of them seem to be.

Still, his "high" point was around PCB/IN, and that was still pretty low when compared to doujin games that have actual artists. StB might have been his best looking game, character-art-wise, but it only had Aya so it's debatable whether it counts.

Zun art is zuuuuuuuuuuuuuun, I've grown fond of it.

First time playing a Touhou game and I'm having a hard time on stage3 normal. How hard is SA compared to the earlier games ? Should I just play some earlier, easier game ? say PCB or smtg ?

>>688007
you just suck. I already did a pacifist run on lunatic

>>688007

If you compare only the first three stages then SA appears a bit more difficult. But usually it's stage 4 that punches you in the faces after three easy levels. PCB was a murder here, we'll see about SA later.

>>688007
Definitely harder. Not TOO much harder, but definitely harder. I'm interested in the full game now - historically, Touhou games get much harder on the 4th stage. Dunno whether that's going to happen with this or not.

Oh well back to grinding normal moudo SA then

>>688046

oh u

>>688007

Imperishable Night is probably the easiest.

i cant get the torrent to work for some reason any rapidshare links

>>688130
newfag

>>688130
had the same. just download a random torrent client and use that.

I can't find a torrent anywhere for either SWR or the SA demo, am I just stupid?

>>688049
>>688051

Hive mind.

>>688379
DEAD

>>688379
Why does my shota have tits?

>>688387
I'm not seeing them anon

Anyone find out what's special about Reimu B (Suika)? I picked it thinking it was going to be her typical PERSUASION NEEDLE, but it ended up being this ghosty thing. Funny thing is that I 1CCed Normal with it.

>>688670
Stop firing and you auto-collect.

Why does Marisa have no lasers? And how come it seems there's no difference between Patchy's and Kappa's focused/unfocused shots?

>>688727

Alice has lasers

>>688727
Hit Shoot+Focus at the same time with Patchy. There are 5 different configurations for her options that you can cycle through. 1 for each of the Chinese/Japanese elements (fire, water, wood, metal (gold), and earth).

>>688749
Oh, that's pretty cool.

I'm now see how homing amulets have spoiled me. I usually use them so I can focus on dodging but this game is forcing me to both dodge and shoot since there does not seem to be configuration with the same trade off this time.

I'm not complaining though.

>>688911
l2p

>>688749
Oh shiiiit. I did that once by accident and got very confused.

>>688727
Focus button is now all about slowing down and revealing your hitbox, nothing else. ZUN agreed, don't even bother him about it.

Gawd, PCB and IN has really spoiled us.

Not as awesome music and graphics/atmosphere-wise as MoF, but I liked how ZUN expanded on his Gradius weapons in MoF even more.

Fuck yeah Marisa/Nitori force field

>>687385

right click -> run as Admin

>>688980
Also, destroyable kidney stones and rolling yinyang options.

Where does it show my bombs? I never actually played MoF yet so I'm not used to these new kinds of bombs.

>>689006
Bombs are based on your power. Using a bomb drains 1 power level.

>>689006
What the hell, go play MoF before playing 11.

>>689012
Thanks

>>689006
It don't, brah. You lose 1.00 power for every bomb. You can't bomb below 1.00 power.

>>689014
Yeah, I guess I should do that. I was going to wait til I could actually 1CC normal mode on PCB before I tried MoF but when SA came out I forgot about that completely and played SA

>>688911
Reika is the closest you're going to get

>>687886
Oh God what the fuck.

Also, I won't be able to play 'till Tuesday. Someone upload some screencaps.

>>689081

I'm uploading a video of a full run-through of Normal SA by me right now, I'll post it in 10-20 minutes when its done.

Warning: I suck badly.

>>687906

She can see into my soul anytime, if you know what I mean.

>>688943
Every time I sit down with Touhou I try to learn more about how to play thank you for the advice though.

>>688999

Rolling yin-yang option Raymoo is fucking overpowered

Her bomb grants like 3 seconds of god mode, AND clears the screen.

>>689130
And you can teleport from side to side.

>>689130
>>689177

It's probably the first time we can actually use her special ability to its fullest though; her 'float above reality' trick.

Alright, /jp/.
I'm just done downloading, installing and giving it a first spin. Time for a question: what's that gauge similar to a cellphone reception indicator for? Granted, I've still to get the hand of most of the new gameplay tweaks, but I can't seem to figure out any purpose for it, much less why the amount of bars highlighted increase or decrease.

>>689130
It never cleared the screen for me nor in any video's i've watched. The bullets are not effected at all.

>>689130
Beat that, Mega Crush!

>>689199
It seems to be indicative of how much each bonus item is worth, or rather, the value of the multiplier. To fill it up, I think you either kill, kill, kill or graze, graze, graze. One way to fill it up to max is to go to the item collect line.

>>689199

Raymoo and Marisa use it to communicate with their youkai allies on the surface.

Does anyone else find Marisa being assisted by Nitori fucking awesome?

>>689242
Anyone being assisted by Nitori would be fucking awesome.

>>689202
Reimu A

So anyone have played with Nitori yet?

>>689177
Huh, I didn't notice that before.

That's pretty useful.

>>689261
Then that means....

Anyone being assisted by Alice...

...would not be awesome.

>>689292
Who?

>>689303

You forget that anyone being assisted by Alice is also being assisted by Shanghai.

its obvious now nitori would work

>>689319
Shitty doll laser is shitty.

>>689212

I see. Therefore, I might as well pay no attention to it, right?

Where the hell's the rapidshit for this game?

>>689303
Actually that's wrong

WHAT THE FUCK MARISA B HAS FIVE DIFFERENT ATTACKS THIS IS FUCKING WIERD

How does one fix this? I can hear sound and when I hit enter the menu pops up but I don't see anything.

>>689572

Dunno if one's up yet, but if you just want a direct download there's http://tarball.us/Subterranean_Animism.rar

So, is there a comprehensive list of all the abilities for each shot type? I had no idea about the auto-collect or Patchy stuff until a few minutes ago...man, I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

>>689572
bump for rapidshit

Massive slowpoke here, but is my auto-focus option gone for good? It's irritating to have to use three buttons rather than two.

>>689674
SUPER LUNATIC MODO

>>689858
http://tarball.us/Subterranean_Animism.rar

Is it me, or is this really fucking strong, even at low power?

>>689870
At high power its weak because 50% goes behind you.

Also Marisa A is the best. You know why? Because she gets the heart piece from a spellcard even if she bombs it.

>>689921
I got the same with ReimuB

No I don't play it because of homing.

>>689921
I like it that way because it's easier to aim when you have little room.

>>689177
Teleporting with Yukari is fucking awesome.

>>689965

Uh, how do you do this?

>>689921
Disregard that, may be true for more people (or everyone)

>>689674
If you're playing on Vista, it's probably a Vista problem. If you're playing on a boot camped iMac, then ditch the iMac and get a PC, the graphics cards fucks itself in Boot Camp. If neither of these, try updating your drivers and/or DirectX.

Okay, since after reading this thread people still don't seem to know what is what, I'll help you out.

Reimu:

Yukari's special feature is that the options/orbs will cross over the to the other side of the screen. Basically, you're thinking with portals. If you move all the way to the left side of the screen, your orbs rotating around you will then show up on the right side of the screen.

When you stop firing with Suika, she auto collects all items on the screen no matter where you are.

With Aya you gain super high speed movement as long as you are not holding down the fire button. Just keep tapping the button and you will zoom all over the place. If you hold the button down, you will move normal speed.

Marisa:
Alice has nothing special to her other than she lets you use more spirit energy than the others. Marisa using Alice can get up to 8.00 power. Whereas everyone else only has 4.00 power

Patchouli allows you to change the arrangement of your options by typing Slow/Focus+Fire at the same time. Just tap it. Don't hold it down or else you'll just enter Focus mode.

I am loving the changes. Stage 2 music is fucking awesome, the Russian loli with weird ears is one of the most unique boss fights ZUN has thrown at us in a while, and I shat my pants when the stage 3 boss STAYED ON SCREEN SHOOTING FUCKING LASERS after you beat her as a mid-boss.

It got me really god damn pumped up for the whole thing.

>Yukari's special feature is that the options/orbs will cross over the to the other side of the screen. Basically, you're thinking with portals. If you move all the way to the left side of the screen, your orbs rotating around you will then show up on the right side of the screen.

If you could actually warp between screens yourself that would be so amazing.

>>690111
That's an option only for the DS version

>>690111

You can warp from one edge of the screen to the next, if that's what you mean. And it's awesome.

>>690118

why u do dis ;_;

>>690092
>I shat my pants when the stage 3 boss STAYED ON SCREEN SHOOTING FUCKING LASERS

Same here. My tiny mind nearly collapsed in on itself.

YOU'RE BLOWING MY MIND, ZUN! BLOWING! MY! MIND! CAPSLOCK!

>>690147
This is Reimu A we're talking about right? And no you can't...

Marisa B hurts my eyes.

>>690321
The options around her can. And for simplicity sake it is ReimuA, yes. The youkai she uses is Yukari.

ReimuA - Yukari
ReimuB - Suika
ReimuC - Aya

MarisaA - Alice
MarisaB - Patchouli
MarisaC - Nitori

>>690321

Tap in that direction while at the edge of the screen, and make sure you're not firing.

>>690360

Hurr. I meant double-tap.

>>690360
Just tried this. OMG

>>690389
This is madness!

>>690395
>>690424

It's fucking sweet, though wonder how useful it'll be in actual gameplay; there's a bit of a delay after you warp.

I was always weak against force-you-into-a-corner shit myself. Hopefully this'll be a good evasive maneuver against those cards.

>>690424

THIS. IS. GENSOKYO!

>>690478
Where are my scans?

>>690389

Holy shit.

I'm so glad Graze is back. And in a big way.

-Grazing increases the multiplier next to the cell phone bars. .01 per 100 grazes.
-Grazing increases the bars on the cell phone bars too (.05 per bullet, though it drops very fast) If you graze a lot of bullets at once and raise the multiplier to >1.00, you'll auto-collect everything.
-There are lots of opportunities to graze. I got 600+ after stage 1 and ~2000 at the end of stage 3.

Supergrazing is gonna be awesome.

>>690687

Wonderful. ZUN made a GRINDAN GAEM

Graze was always shit and useless

>>690755
Next game needs to make like Castle Shikigami and power up your shots while grazing.

>>690738
>GRAZAN GAEM

fixed.