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東方蒼神縁起 - The Genius of Sappheiros Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:05:31 2013 No.10353721 [Reply] [Original]

Does anyone still play this game?

An incredibly in-depth Touhou RPG.

Prepatched game with the expansion and translation can be found here:
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=361555
Make sure to extract in Japanese locale or alternatively if you're having trouble running the game, try removing Japanese letters from the folder names.

Having trouble? You can turn on easy mode at any time for non-boss battles where the damage is halved for you and you gain minor offensive bonuses. (Such as increased chance to land status effects). No one ever does, however, not unless you're in elementary school.

You can also recruit Mokou early on but it is generally frowned upon because she is extremely over powered in the early game.

Make sure to read the manual, and the "gameplay" section on the wiki, it covers basic systems.
Have you had some trouble fighting a boss? Trying to make sense of stage design? Finding out that you need to split your party too late? Discuss it here in this thread!

Wiki at http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/The_Genius_of_Sappheiros.. Walkthrough contains spoilers for boss fights, be wary.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:10:16 2013 No.10353735 File: 52 KB, 566x476, 2c2b23e79875d62d0d2e359bb6268e73.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What to give some more info? Some screenshots? What does the gameplay compare to? How many hours of play am I going to get out of it?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:14:16 2013 No.10353747 >>10353735 If you're a fan of rpg's and Touhou then just try it. I promise you won't regret it.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:19:01 2013 No.10353760

Thanks, you just reminded me I should finish this. I remember the last thing I did was defeating Satori and adding her to my team.
Damn, I hate coming back to an RPG I was playing months ago and having to figure out what was going on and how was I organizing my team.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:20:16 2013 No.10353761
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>>10353735
I'll post a series of screenshots in a sec. In terms of hours of play, I have about 30 hours in already, and I'm still at stage 9 out of 21 (in the pre-expansion game, there is a lot more to do after that as well).

The wiki can give you a better idea of gameplay, but if you have specific questions I might be able to answer them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:21:46 2013 No.10353766 >>10353761 For a utterly and complete noob to this genre, would it be similar to a final fantasy for example?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:22:16 2013 No.10353767 >>10353760 I totally reorganize my team before every boss and before every new dungeon anyways to deal with new threats.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:27:46 2013 No.10353781
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>>10353766
Yes. Notable differences I suppose are the fact that you can totally respec your character's "growths" at any time to fit your needs, i.e. reimu can be a healer for boss battles and a tankish fighter for random encounters with just a bit of menu fuddling. You can't carry around restorative items like potions, but your hp is totally restored after every battle (not your MP though, so you still get worn down as you go through dungeons. Also random encounters can be hella difficult). Contrary to my above wording, the battles aren't random in the same sense as they are in FF: you can see the enemy sprites on the map, and running into them triggers a battle, rather than just walking around and randomly running into invisible enemies. These enemeies tend not to respawn very easily, so the game has less of a grindy feel than many of the FFs that I've played

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:29:01 2013 No.10353787
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>>10353781
>>10353766
the feet in this image are an example of what I mean by your being able to see the random encounters on the map. Sorry for the difficult grammar in that sentence

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:31:46 2013 No.10353793
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>>10353735
Play it. Seriously; this is easily the best RPG I've played in a long time.

It's a pretty basic. Go through dungeons, fight things, look for chests, boss fights, etc. It's not innovative, but it IS very well made. The sprites are charming, the music's great, the balance is superb; if a battle or dungeon is kicking your ass, the answer is almost NEVER to go grind, and the game actually discourages you from doing so.

It's not flawless, mind you, but it is still really fucking good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:34:16 2013 No.10353800 I just loaded up the game to try and get some screenshots, and the first thing I heard was the overworld music. Ahhhh~. I wish I didn't have things to do.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:36:01 2013 No.10353810 >>10353766 It's more like Saga Frontier than Final Fantasy. >>10353781 So pretty much exactly like Saga Frontier.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:36:16 2013 No.10353806
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>>10353793
why do your fonts look prettier than mine :(

Another thing worth noting (addressing >>10353735) is that the game works perfectly on linux through wine, which is a plus

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:37:01 2013 No.10353812 >>10353810 I've never played saga frontier, so I wouldn't know.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:38:46 2013 No.10353815 >>10353810 I've never played SaGa Frontier, but the wiki agrees with you, so yeah, like SaGa Frontier.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:42:46 2013 No.10353820 why is remi eating her hat

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:43:01 2013 No.10353821 File: 29 KB, 430x650, remilia's hat is delicious.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10353820 She mad.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:43:46 2013 No.10353825
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what formations do you guys like to use? I generally use the hinotori skydance for dungeons (using either aya or alice as the tank) and master star for boss battles, but I haven't done much experimenting with any others.

If anyone's curious, the specific bonuses for each one can be found here:
http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/The_Genius_of_Sappheiros/Formations/Bonuses
but that's still a lot of data to go through

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:44:16 2013 No.10353827 >>10353821 sprites too good

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:46:31 2013 No.10353832 >>10353825 Oh that's interesting, the hinotori skydance is basically just a super version of the hakurei type (which I've been using for basically everything), maybe I'll try it out. Although I'm not too keen on those defense debuffs

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:50:31 2013 No.10353842 >>10353787 >blue toenails why

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:52:01 2013 No.10353848 >>10353832 All party attacks hurt, but unless the baddies are spamming them and they're very strong, you're usually fine.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:53:16 2013 No.10353849 >>10353825 I like to use freefight so that I can spam Alice's marionette parrar

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:55:16 2013 No.10353855 >>10353825 I find myself mostly using red eyes and poison shield, but it looks like you haven't unlocked them yet

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 00:55:31 2013 No.10353858 >>10353849 Poison shield is better for that.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:00:01 2013 No.10353881
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I completely forgot about this game, according to the game the last time I played it was August. I almost finished, but then I just lost interest. At this point it's been so long that I'm contemplating whether or not I should just start over.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:03:01 2013 No.10353888 >>10353881 >60 hours >contemplating starting over Please don't. You'll make me feel bad

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:07:46 2013 No.10353901 File: 373 KB, 640x480, Barrier.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10353806 Any reason you're using those stats in particular? I found Reimu a lot more useful as a healer than a damage dealer.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:09:16 2013 No.10353909 >>10353888 How will I do that?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:09:31 2013 No.10353910 >>10353901 I make her a healer for bosses, but when I'm just fighting normal monsters it seems easier to just kill them more quickly so that I'm not wasting MP

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:10:46 2013 No.10353916 >>10353901 Reimu actually does a pretty good amount of damage for how mana-efficient she is.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:11:31 2013 No.10353919 >>10353909 Well, you worked hard to raise your touhous like that, they won't turn out very much differently if you replay the whole game, and I will just feel bad for the amount of time that will be irretrievably lost

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:13:31 2013 No.10353927 >>10353919 It's not really that much time, and I'd definitely do it faster the second run through. It's just that I don't really remember much about my party. But since you insist, I'll finish the game with my current party.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:15:31 2013 No.10353939 >>10353810 It's also very similar to Romancing Saga with the formations and such.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:16:46 2013 No.10353943 >>10353927 thank you very much anon. Sorry for the inconvenience

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:18:16 2013 No.10353949
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Started a new game but then promptly lost interest. Maybe I should pick it up again, but honestly, I'd rather play DoD or try to finish Summoners. I'm currently stuck at that Orin fight in Summoners, but have no motivation to grind for new cards.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:25:31 2013 No.10353958 File: 513 KB, 750x1000, Eyes of the Starry night.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] So Is this essentially the best fanmade Touhou RPG?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:38:16 2013 No.10353996 >>10353958 Yeah.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:47:31 2013 No.10354023

Well, I had just recently finished my 100% save
(All Satori skills, all equipments, all encyclopedia scanned, all chest, max lvl and Pow, etc)

I'll try to help anyone trying to find or get something.
I won't be able to help with boss strategy much, I usually just raise my level until I am not brutally killed

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:50:16 2013 No.10354029 DoD translation where?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:50:31 2013 No.10354030 >>10354023 >I won't be able to help with boss strategy much, I usually just raise my level until I am not brutally killed Hmph, 100% save my ass.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:54:16 2013 No.10354039 >>10354023 The only time I ever went back to grind to beat a boss fight was for the Youmu/Yuyuko fight, because I had Alice at level 3 or so due to never using her, not realizing how useful she was.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:55:46 2013 No.10354044 >>10354030 Well, grinding for item drops makes my chars already overleveled anyway, and I don't see how overleveling makes a game less complete.. (If only I had known the battle retry trick earlier, I wouldn't be so overleveled, sigh..)

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:58:31 2013 No.10354052

>>10354039
The only boss that got me stumped for quite a while was Tenshi.

I didn't know that we must not use field spells, or she would overwrite it with her own hax field spell..

Even after knowing that, I still use Marisa's last word, not knowing it is a field spell..

Damn Tenshi

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 01:59:16 2013 No.10354054 >>10354044 >Well, grinding for item drops Augh!

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:02:01 2013 No.10354066

played this last summer and got to the cloud level (heaven, stage 14 maybe), and by that point just got burnt out by it all. Thinking of trying to play it again from the start with the easier version.

Is the link the normal game or the easy mode patch?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:05:01 2013 No.10354073 >>10354066 The normal game (version 3.00 up) has the easy mode 'patch' already, you can toggle it on or off in the config.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:07:16 2013 No.10354079 >>10354073 Well there was that, but I'm talking about an overall patch that permanently affected all of the game. I think it was called Touhou Weekend

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:09:46 2013 No.10354085 >>10354079 Touhou Sappheiros ~ Weekend IS the version 3.00 Before version 3 (Lingering Summer Heat), the only 'easy' patch I know is the unofficial one I got from the previous Sappheiros threads, which raises learn rate and item drop rate.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:11:16 2013 No.10354097 >>10354085 Oh okay. And that's what's in the link. Thanks

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:13:31 2013 No.10354106

>>10354079
That IS Weekend.
It didn't make the combat any easier outside of easy mode, but it did increase drop rates, which is nice, reduce item crafting costs, which was...ok, and removed ALL consequence for death, which was stupid and should have been part of easy mode or something.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:22:16 2013 No.10354142 >>10354106 >ALL Incorrect. You still have to run back through the now enemyless dungeon to get back to where you were.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:24:31 2013 No.10354151 >>10354142 Oh right, my mistake. Damn. Such a crushing consequence.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:25:01 2013 No.10354157 File: 153 KB, 640x480, inner_eientei.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] just got to inner eientei. What a fun remix of cinderella cage. I think this is the first time i've noticed the background music

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:26:01 2013 No.10354160 >>10354157 >I think this is the first time i've noticed the background music ...seriously?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:27:01 2013 No.10354167 >>10354160 Well, in my opinion, that's a compliment, since it means it's not been distracting. I don't mind this though

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:29:46 2013 No.10354175 >>10354151 Hey, it's actually a non-trivial consequence in many dungeons where the paths are hidden or there's a puzzle to solve

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:33:01 2013 No.10354194 >>10354175 Oh, pfft. The puzzles don't reset and you've already found the secret paths, not to mention and shortcuts you've unlocked. Aaagh...I don't want to discuss this again...

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:39:16 2013 No.10354210 >>10353721 You can also recruit byakuren right at the beginning

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:41:46 2013 No.10354220 >>10354210 she's not worth the trouble running in a circle around the table 318 times for her to show up when you can get her just by doing the stages.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:43:16 2013 No.10354224 >>10354220 you just have to leave the game running there for an hour, you don't need to run around.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:45:01 2013 No.10354232 >>10354023 Which satori skills are worth getting? How often is it okay to synthesize character-specific things if I want all the best stuff in the end?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:45:46 2013 No.10354230 >>10354220 Or you could just leave the game running in the background while you go masturbate or something.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:46:31 2013 No.10354233

Zera beetle is definitely my worst nightmare.. Seriously, the rarest enemy has an equipment drop?! I've only seen 2 so far, luckily the second one gave the item drop..

The 'alternate' yukkuris are also irritating to scan, especially the yukkuri sister and king, since the translation does not give alternate name (unlike ska yukkuri, out of place yukkuri, and reimu emperor)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:49:01 2013 No.10354240 >>10354023 Is there a reason to be vigilant about using aya's report on everything? same question for satori's scan

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:51:01 2013 No.10354247 >>10354240 Using Aya's scan on enemies MAY result in rewards from Akyu

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:52:01 2013 No.10354249 >>10354247 MAY as in unconfirmed or MAY as in varies from game to game?

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:54:01 2013 No.10354252

>>10354232
What Satori skills you should get depend on where you are in the game.

If you're playing weekend, you craft all you want. Materials drop often enough that they won't be that scarce (but for the love of fuck don't grind for them that's stupid and unnecessary and BORING) and weekend lowers the crafting costs so that there's enough character-specific materials in the main game to craft all their stuff. Except for Nitori and Byakuren for some reason.

>>	Random guy from /a/ Sun Jan 13 02:58:59 2013 No.10354261 I have been stuck at the final 3 sisters forever before weekend. Whenever I get into phase 3 I get obliterated with no chance. I may be underleveled not sure. Everyone rangers from 63~ with Youmu being my highest I think at 74.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:58:59 2013 No.10354263

>>10354232

Aside from the basic elemental attacks:

Early game, Mind Blast is very useful, Enervation deals low damage, but lowers the enemy's attack drastically. Tentacle deals decent physical damage, and with a good knife, she can drain HP and MP, making it a very efficient move

Mid game, Mad Thunder can be Satori's most efficient skill, she also can be a great healer late game, especially if you have raise dead

Starlight Barrier, Leaf Shield, and other support spells in general are handy for specific encounters, but not a must have

Void Skills, like Bio, Medoroa, etc is good to have since it deals undefendable (no resistance) damage, but most of it can be acquired late game

In the expansion, Punish the Judgment and Dark Giga Flare becomes Satori's endgame skill, dealing great damage. Dark Giga Flare casts very quickly, often first in the turn, while Punish the Judgment can have 0 cooldown.

Or, you can use Satori as Death Inflicter with Death Zapper and Wail, which is very useful in the bonus dungeon

Most of the skills I write here is very helpful to deal with the bonus dungeon, or wiping out mooks in general

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 02:59:58 2013 No.10354264 >>10354261 Delete that. Spoilers. You beating phase 2 before they finish their chant?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 03:00:28 2013 No.10354267 >>10354249 You only need to scan 10 enemies (IIRC) to get a formation, other than that, it is only for completion sake.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 03:00:58 2013 No.10354270 >>10354252 I just unlocked what I think is the 5th tier of character-specific weapons, and haven't ever synthesized anything for fear of not having enough matierla. Welp. Time to get crafting. >>10354263 Thank you

Random guy from /a/ Sun Jan 13 03:02:49 2013 No.10354275

>>10354264
Sorry about that deleted my post

I have beaten it before the chant before, but it doesn't seem to make a difference (noted haven't played in about a month or so). My party normally consist of Byak, Youmu, Alice, Patchy, Sanae with Nitori as commander.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 03:03:49 2013 No.10354278

>>10354263
More.
Acid storm is cheap and cuts defense, and is the best water AoE spell. Get it.
Sunburst has useful slayers. Get it.
Area Heal (NOT Mass Heal) is a ridiculously good heal. Get it.
Holy, Flare, and Shadow Flare are strong and in sorta rare elements. Get them.

>Starlight Barrier, Leaf Shield, and other support spells in general are handy for specific encounters, but not a must have
I gotta disagree with this. Leaf Shield and Starlight Barrier saved my ass soooooooo many times.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 03:05:42 2013 No.10354282 >>10354278 When I get acid storm, will satori be better than patchy? I really like patchy

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 03:06:12 2013 No.10354288 >>10354275 It does. You WILL NOT beat stage 3 if they finish the chant. That's a good party. Stick with it. Buff up at the end of stage 2 before finishing them.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 03:07:27 2013 No.10354291 >>10353949 Has DoD been translated yet? Sorry for being bad at japanese, I just can't enjoy these games if I can't understand over half of the mechanics

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 03:08:12 2013 No.10354294 >>10354282 They fill different roles. She'll never be as good as Patchy at dishing out big damage, but she's also got great debuffs and healing and stuff.

>>	Random guy from /a/ Sun Jan 13 03:08:12 2013 No.10354295 >>10354288 Thanks think I will pick it up again and keep trying. I know for "most" of the bosses whatever level you are is pretty irrelevant, but do you think I should get everyone into the 70's?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 03:09:42 2013 No.10354297 >>10354295 Pffft, nah.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 03:12:57 2013 No.10354305

>>10354294
Patchy is still better against enemies with a certain elemental weakness, since she has stronger elemental spells.

...Except thunder. Satori's Mad Thunder is boss.

>>10354275
If they finish chanting, they have double HP and has regen, also, DO NOT let them fill any of the land gauges, use Patchy's void elemental spell.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 03:27:57 2013 No.10354332 >>10354291 The translation thread by TheNewGuy in shrinemaiden org is still ongoing, and TheNewGuy seems to have his hands quite full after phantasmal summoners is released recently. We just have to wait warmly, I guess

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 05:38:25 2013 No.10354636

>>10353721
>http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=361555

Is this with the "Weekend"(or 3.0) expansion?
I still have the first translated release without any extra(content) patches on it and stopped playing a while ago. Would i be able to use my old save from that version or not?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 07:57:25 2013 No.10354901 >>10354636 There is a save file converter in the save folder, so you can use your old save.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 08:09:55 2013 No.10354932 Is there something I'm missing with Satori's Meteor? It deals low damage and costs a ton of MP.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 08:50:40 2013 No.10355061

>>10354932
Are you using a staff for her weapon? I heard that Satori is better off using a staff than her eyes if you use a magic attacking skill set.

However, I just tested Meteor, and it DOES seems to be too weak, even weaker than Bio, no idea why.. Medoroa (Void, same MP cost, single target) deals great damage, though.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 14:40:26 2013 No.10356200
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>easy mode
I just checked the options menu in the game to find out that I have been playing with easy mode on all this time. Fuck this. I'm sure I've never touched anything in that menu (actually today was the first time I opened it), easy mode was probably on by default.
And now I feel really bad, it's like I cheated or something. This kills any motivation to continue playing. There is no point turning easy mode off now since I've already beaten half of the game, And for sure I don't want to restart after 45 hours of playtime.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 14:42:56 2013 No.10356206 Small question; at what level should I start thinking about challenging Komachi? I hurried through Muenzuka without leveling much, so just wondering.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 14:42:56 2013 No.10356207 >>10356200 If you switch to normal mode now, you can basically have the regular experience unless you spent a lot of time in easy mode grinding in low level areas

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 14:43:26 2013 No.10356210 >>10356200 Yeah, it's on by default. It's bullshit, I know.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 14:43:41 2013 No.10356212 >>10356206 I recall being like 22-25 I think for that fight

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 14:46:41 2013 No.10356215 >>10356212 I feel like there's a big difference between 22-25 though... Most of my party members are around 23 atm. I guess I should just grind more.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 14:49:26 2013 No.10356224 >>10356215 Not really, my party has a 4 level spread because it's very tedious to keep messing around with menus to keep everyone perfectly evenly levelled.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 14:51:42 2013 No.10356232 >>10356215 >I guess I should just grind more. No, this is almost never the answer. Is she kicking your ass?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 14:53:11 2013 No.10356234 >>10356200 yukkuri shiteitte ne

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 14:55:56 2013 No.10356238 >>10356200 >it's like I cheated or something. This kills any motivation to continue playing. Do you have aspergers or something? You can still turn it off now, and you will most likely not notice a difference in the difficulty.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 15:00:41 2013 No.10356253 Does anyone know exactly how much the "Sakuya Up" buff increases Sakuya's stats?

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 15:02:26 2013 No.10356256

>>10356232
>Is she kicking your ass?
I haven't been trying to beat her seriously because I thought I was under-leveled. It's been a while since I played last, I just saw this thread and though I'd ask before I forgot. But now that we're having this conversation, got any tips on what characters/strategy I can use?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 15:04:26 2013 No.10356261 >>10356256 Try to get a sense for how land manipulation works and the effects land has on gameplay. Go from there. It's also relatively easy to level someone you haven't been using to an acceptable level due to the way exp works in this game.

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 16:13:11 2013 No.10356461

I just started playing the game after having to redownload. The original .rar archives were broken.

I've noticed that the text goes off screen during scenes and such, is this because I'm not using Direct X9 or whatever? Or, is there something in the primary config file that will fix it?

Any help would be appreciated. The game seems to run fine, otherwise.

>>	Random guy from /a/ Sun Jan 13 16:16:56 2013 No.10356469 >>10356200 If I remember correctly easy mode only effects the trash monsters. All bosses only have one difficulty.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 16:30:56 2013 No.10356525 >>10356461 The same thing happens to me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 16:33:26 2013 No.10356537 >>10356215 Make sure satori is level 30 so you can get shinigami scythe

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 17:05:26 2013 No.10356663 >>10356537 nah, way too much grinding for that point, the skill is not very good anyway and can be gotten later

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 20:09:43 2013 No.10357285 Demon burst or shadow boom?

Anonymous Sun Jan 13 22:00:44 2013 No.10357658
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I remember playing this game about a year ago. I only got to that three way split. I was very discouraged after Satori learned that 1% petrify skill then I lost it. I used to play it everyday too. It was around the time the easy modo update was released. I want to get back into it, what can I expect?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 13 22:11:59 2013 No.10357713 keep this thread alive, I will come back

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 01:46:30 2013 No.10358278 File: 109 KB, 493x475, 1354424942680.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Having to wait an hour in the temple to get Byakuren is pretty silly.I feel like I'm cheating kind of too because I had to look up how to do it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 01:49:30 2013 No.10358287 >>10358278 You ARE cheating. For shame.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 01:50:00 2013 No.10358289

>>10358278

I kept popping back over to the temple every time I left a dungeon and seeing if she had come back. Earlier when I ran in there, I left the game running because I had to dash out and get groceries. Imagine my surprise when I got back to the house, sat down at my PC and found a cutscene of her coming back sitting there.

Also, another bump for the thread.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 01:54:15 2013 No.10358299 >>10358278 You're using a secret to get a party member earlier than you're meant to, you have no reason to complain.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 02:02:00 2013 No.10358331

IMO, getting Byakuren and Mokou is not considered cheating (again, IMO). What's the difference with getting some formations by waiting in Akyu's house or the bonus equipments with Kourindou's slot machine? If the game allows it, no problem.

What I WOULD consider cheating is using the quest reward glitch, or the retry random battle trick (I'm guilty for both, sue me)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 02:07:15 2013 No.10358354 >>10358331 >What's the difference with getting some formations by waiting in Akyu's house What? Because the game doesn't tell you how and you're almost definitely not going to find them without looking it up or something.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 02:08:30 2013 No.10358362 >>10358287 >>10358289 >>10358331 >>10358354 You never get either of them otherwise do you? If you do then heck I won't worry about it. But I assumed this was the only way to get her based on what I'd read on /jp/.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 02:09:45 2013 No.10358367 >>10358362 You will get them later.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 02:10:16 2013 No.10358374 >>10358362 No, they join up latter normally. The tricks to get them just mean you get them sooner.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 02:35:45 2013 No.10358481 File: 25 KB, 238x306, yes.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10358374 Oh well nevermind then

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 02:37:15 2013 No.10358487

>>10358354
Well, looking up a way to get something earlier (you would get it later anyway) is still better than to get something you wouldn't have otherwise.

However, two party members are very crucial in the early game, and they would have greater effect to the gameplay than a formation and a bunch of equipments, so different people would have different opinions.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 02:49:15 2013 No.10358523 >>10358487 Very crucial as in the break it in fucking half. Ok, Mokou breaks it in fucking half. Ironically she's the one you might get accidentally. Eh,

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 03:41:30 2013 No.10358617

>>10357658
Lowest learn rate for Satori is now 5%, i think, and it really helps. You'll get that petrify again soon, trust me.
Item drops are also boosted, but I don't know the minimum, it is very noticeable though.

The new feature, easy mode, affects random mook battles, you deal more damage, and they deal less damage. There is no consequences for using easy modo (except shame)

There is now a minimap, which makes looping mazes considerably easier.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 03:49:31 2013 No.10358630

>>10356525
>>10356461
I do experience some texts going offscreen, but It is very rare, only one or two lines of dialogues.

What bothers me once is that sometimes, texts and numbers in the status and item menu does not show up. My brother's computer even has his action wheel blank in battle sometimes.

I don't know if this is the cause, but I heard that Strawberry Bose's website lists several integrated graphic cards as unsupported, meaning it will have some visual bugs.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 03:59:46 2013 No.10358655
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>>10358617
Crafting costs are also lower. In the cases of latter items, a lot lower, and in the case of a select few, A LOT lower.
The Kusanagi now costs five iron.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 04:00:16 2013 No.10358658

>>10357285
There is no skill called demon burst. There are
shadow burst (multi target) and demon shock (single target, part of the demon skill tree)

I assume you are talking about demon shock, since it and shadow boom are both single target with similar cost.

Demon shock needs land power, if I'm not mistaken, or Satori won't be able to cast it. So it might be risky using it against enemies that often use light skills (which usually are the ones you want to use dark skills at), since some enemies can make it harder to fight for land dominance.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 04:03:31 2013 No.10358669 >>10358658 Pretty sure demon shock is exempt from those land shenanigans.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 04:05:16 2013 No.10358678 >>10358669 Well dang, then use whichever you like, since it only has 1 mp difference, lol.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 04:06:01 2013 No.10358681 >>10358678 I'm pretty sure demon shock is slightly stronger. Slightly. Barely enough to matter. Though I could be wrong.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 06:34:48 2013 No.10358996 >>10358630 Ahh, I see. I appreciate the response. I'm at the Earth Palace now, and the errant text is the only issue I've ever run into. Everything runs impeccably well, otherwise.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 07:41:18 2013 No.10359110 >>10358331 It's not about cheating, it's about the difficulty. Formations don't matter too much, but the bonus equipments and early Mokou turns the difficulty into toddler spoonfeed mode.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 07:51:33 2013 No.10359127 >>10358331 >quest reward glitch Holy shit, why didn't I know about this? Thanks for the information, man. This will surely lessen the amount of time running around doing quests just to craft shit.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 08:10:33 2013 No.10359161

Welp, just ran into my first pack of Mind Flayers, rather than an isolated one. What a fucking shitshow.

I know they're weak to stabbing, and only stabbing, damage, but that hardly helps given how little Stab representation the party has even after shuffling for it. I might need to respec the entire group just to deal with these faggots. It doesn't help that their typical plan is to just spam Mind Blast until the entire party is helpless. There's no way I can produce Paralysis Guards for the entire group. Lawdy.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 08:20:19 2013 No.10359179 I really, really want to play a touhou jrpg right now. Labyrinth of Touhou or Genius of Sappheiros ? What are the main differences ? Is there one that is better overall than the other ? Which one would /jp/ recommend ?

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 08:31:03 2013 No.10359196

>>10359179

I haven't had the chance to play Labyrinth of Touhou yet myself, and I only started Genius of Sappheiros yesterday. I'd say the main difference is likely in game flow and character management, though.

GoS has skill trees for each character to invest in and plays like the SaGa games in a lot of ways.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 08:40:18 2013 No.10359217 >>10359161 Sanae's Mass Resist buff + physical damage party setup should be able to sort that problem out. If you run into them with no Sanae and magicians, you'd better off trying to run away.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 08:46:33 2013 No.10359242 >>10359179 A good strategy can get you through in GoS, but Labyrinth is more grind-oriented. They're both fun though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 08:48:03 2013 No.10359251 >>10353825 Gensokyo's Fastest. Most enemies are dead before their first turn.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 08:48:33 2013 No.10359246

>>10359127
Be careful though, if you get the "quest failed" notification (wrong party or equipment, etc), do NOT fight the quest monster, it froze my game when I did that.

Just exit the map and retake the quest if you used the wrong party while abusing the glitch.

>>10359179
I prefer Sappheiros, seems more well-made overall. Still, LoT is still worth to try. So...why not both?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 08:50:48 2013 No.10359256 >>10359161 In mind-flayer infested areas, always bring Sanae. Her RES buff is essential. Since her buffs targets all, she is also very handy in random battles, it really helps finish the fight quicker.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 08:52:03 2013 No.10359266

>>10353825
Poison shield is very great when you use a tank in front.
The tank is positioned very far from the rest of the party, meaning most area attacks can only hit her. If you use Alice, Hourai doll makes the enemy target her almost every time, and Marionette Parrar can still cover everyone in the back row.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 08:52:33 2013 No.10359263 >>10359196 >>10359242 >>10359246 Thanks for the replies. I'll play Sappheiros then, and maybe Labyrinth later.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 09:14:48 2013 No.10359320

A couple of things to note:

Satori's Elixir skill:
The english wiki said to use control on Elder Dragon. DO NOT DO THIS.
I spent an hour trying to control the Elder Dragon and it doesn't even have Elixir in its skill set. The one you need to control is the Dragon in stage 27.

Zera Beetles:
This thing is Strawberry Bose's way to troll 100% OCD people like myself, since it is arguably the rarest enemy to find, and it has an equipment drop. This thing has 1% (maybe even less) chance to appear in certain enemy formations in stage 21.
Where to find it easier? In the final room of the bonus dungeon, you can encounter a Lightning Baron. This encounter has a whopping 10% chance each for TWO Zera Beetles to appear.
Of course, getting here by itself is very difficult, and you may not even find a single lightning baron there..

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 09:17:03 2013 No.10359326 >>10359320 Is it possible to encounter the beetles if I "save" in front of the Lightning Baron?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 09:21:48 2013 No.10359332 >>10359326 Yes, it is how I finally got the drop after trying for 10++ hours

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 09:39:48 2013 No.10359356

>>10359320
Oh, I forgot something

Trying to find all formations can be very..interesting, to say the least..

Aside from the one you get by waiting in Akyu's House, there is a formation where you need to have Sakuya in your party (I think she must be the first character, not sure) and kick Meiling's corpse outside of the SDM several hundreds time to get it.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 11:24:03 2013 No.10359588

>>10359263
You definitely should give it a shot. I know taste is subjective and whatnot, but I personally find Labyrinth to be fucking amazing, and I enjoyed it more than Sappheiros, though that doesn't make it a bad game by any means.

Labyrinth is a lot more light hearted story wise (though it has its good parts), but the combat is where it's at. It manages to handle issues like random encounters, length of battles, status effects on bosses, etc. far better than most triple A jrpg's out there.
It actually doesn't require grinding nearly as much as people would have you believe. It is a difficult game, sure, but for 99% of the game, it's possible to beat everything with pure strat and good management of your party. The only time I really gave up and had to grind (for 30 minutes, with great efficiency) was floor 18 out of 20.

Overall, it's one of my favorite games. Definitely try it, especially if you enjoy Etrian Odyssey.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 11:41:18 2013 No.10359654
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Can anyone help me with the keybindings? Everytime I set em up in the config.exe, they revert when I open it up again.

On my computer its not that much of a problem since I can use the default keys, my laptop however doesn't have a numeric keypad which is used for A=Enter.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 12:15:03 2013 No.10359745

I love how every character shines in this game (except Satori because her usefulness is proportional to time spent on learning abilities).

I always thought Aya would be completely useless except for yukkuris but holy shit Evasion tanking is amazing mid/late game

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 12:20:03 2013 No.10359761 File: 128 KB, 638x480, pls help.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] When I get to this part, what do I press?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 12:34:18 2013 No.10359796 >>10359654 Solved it myself! I had to untick write-only for the game.ini

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 13:39:33 2013 No.10359977 >>10359761 You need to set up keyboard controls in config.exe, it's defaulted to a gamepad.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 13:40:33 2013 No.10359982 >>10359745 they really did do a great job with balance; far better than most professional RPGs, and they did it by embracing character uniqueness instead of sacrificing it.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 14:05:26 2013 No.10360038

>>10359982
That's really noticeable when it comes to Last Words; they all fit their character in my opinion and make them stand out even more.
>>10353721
>You can also recruit Mokou early on but it is generally frowned upon because she is extremely over powered in the early game.
>Over powered
That's how most RPGs out there roll, man. Besides, I'm not waiting 'til chapter fucking 999999 to play as her.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 14:43:03 2013 No.10360158 Is trying to make characters jack-of-all-trades a good idea? Or is min-maxing what I should probably do? I'm on stage 3, so I'm still having trouble deciding what to spec into.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 15:02:03 2013 No.10360218

>>10360158
You can respec at any point so there is no reason to go for specific character builds.

Reimu, for example, makes a great Light Element sweeper with her aoe stuff, but you can also use her Barriers and healing as support for boss battles and whatnot.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 16:13:30 2013 No.10360431 Don't be a fart-huffer, OP. If your going to make another thread, make it for all 苺坊主 games in general instead of only for GoS.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 18:06:04 2013 No.10360710 >>10360038 >Besides, I'm not waiting 'til chapter fucking 999999 to play as her. Just one 9. It's not that far. This is not most RPGs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 18:07:04 2013 No.10360714 Never played this even with all the threads. It is like SaGa, right? Does it have combination attacks and similar stat growth?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 18:30:19 2013 No.10360785 >>10360038 Mokou really is THAT good early on. >>10360431 Speaking of which, do we know how the Devil of Decline translation is coming?

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 18:52:42 2013 No.10360875

>>10360710
Whatever nerd. I don't feel like grinding my favorite character from level 1 to 30 as soon as I get her.
>>10360785
How so? She seems to be rather weak to special attacks, and Sakuya pretty much outshines her in the physical damage department.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 18:54:34 2013 No.10360881 >>10360714 It never felt like a Saga game to me. It doesn't have combination attacks, and stat growth is from leveling up instead of gaining stats in battle. You also gain new abilities by leveling up instead of learning them in battle.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 19:07:34 2013 No.10360916 >>10360875 Check out her commander stuff.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 19:10:49 2013 No.10360927 >>10360875 she doesn't have much resources in the beginning, but when you want her to, her bomb abilities melt so much face. Like, 50% hp of the vanilla final boss.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 19:35:34 2013 No.10361002 >>10360875 You don't need to grind her. She's so fucking strong that she'll be usable at level 1 as soon as you get her.

Anonymous Mon Jan 14 19:51:49 2013 No.10361057

>>10358655
Oh wow. if the weapon costs that little, isn't that kinda cheap? I remember collecting all my iron getting up to around 18. But if everything else is cheaper, then I guess it doesn't matter that much. Still feels a little too easy if it's 5 iron.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 19:54:49 2013 No.10361072 >>10361057 >isn't that kinda cheap Yes. Yes it is.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 14 21:35:30 2013 No.10361463 File: 265 KB, 640x480, bio.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] All that suffering just to get one skill. Fuck this dragon for forcing me to use Sakuya.

Anonymous Tue Jan 15 03:29:28 2013 No.10362634

Guys i need advice for the bosses at Lakebed Temple.
For team 1: i use mokou and sakuya. A majority of the time things will go well and she'll fall fast, but other times she will use 1000 needles and wile out mokou, i first use sakuyas, clean world, (i think thats what its called. It takes off field effects) and then Colosseo world, then spam fujiwara volcano,

Team 2 is the kicker, i use sanae, aya, yomou, pachy, and satori. the shell bitch is the most difficult one. I mainly use magic attacks but they dont really do much, patchys magic tree is very high (20) and i buff them appropriately, magic/attack up. I still find her very difficult. I use the magic library formation.

Team 3 Alice, nitori, byakuren, reimu, marisa. I have the manipulation tree very high, and the craft tree maxed. When she charges, i absorb the water type move, and i use sunshine lunch formation. I find her difficult, i use dark heal often, and marrionet parriar. Almost every single turn. She kicks my ass a huge portion of the time.

Am i doing anything wrong?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 04:02:28 2013 No.10362761 >>10354233 Latest English patch version provided alternate names for those.

Anonymous Tue Jan 15 04:44:14 2013 No.10362835

>>10361463
At least you leveled up. *yay*
That dragon still has other skills you can get, though. Cosmic Liner, Comet and Dragon Breath.

>>10362761
Neat! If only I got this 3 weeks ago..

>>10362634
Nitori, Youmu, Sanae, and Byakuren should go to fight the tentacle lady, Byakuren gives Thunder weapon to Youmu, and Nitori use Thunder bullets. Sanae should give RES buffs. Byakuren and Sanae should then continue bffing and/or healing while Youmu and Nitori murders her. The resist Instant Death formation from Komachi may be useful.

Marisa, Patchy, Reimu, Satori should go to fight the shell lady, since she has high Pdef. Reimu sets up barriers when needed, and she can heal, her amulets can be used to attack too. The others should spam fire magic to prevent her from having regen in water.

Put Alice where you need her. I find Reimu's Barrier (And Satori's Starlight Barrier, if you have it) to be enough to help the party survive without Alice, though.

Anonymous Tue Jan 15 05:04:14 2013 No.10362875

>>10362634
Not really. Those three fights are easily the worst in the game since they're almost entirely based on luck.

For team 2 I sent over all of my spell casters (Marisa, Nitori, Patchouli, Satori, Sanae). Set land to fire (or whatever her weakness was), used Sabae's buffs, then went to town. Satori spammed Leaf Shield and heal when possible to prevent people from going down, and attacked when she could.

For team 3 I used everyone else (Alice, Youmu, Reimu, Byakuren, Aya) set to Sunshine Lunch. Alice had Instant Death protection and whenever she used her super attack I'd Little Legion + barrier to negate it and the instant death effect, then go back to spamming Parrar.

Anonymous Tue Jan 15 06:09:31 2013 No.10362990

>>10362634
The last time I played was patch 2.06 or something, so I don't know if they changed anything or not, but I used this team setup.

Against Akame(the one weak against fire) I had Mokou and Byakuren in the Devil Circle formation. Just use Byakuren to buff up Mokou and have Mokou spam Fujiyama Volcano. She should die within 5~ turns.

Versus Kagami(the one where you learn hyper fang crush) my team was Reimu, Satori, Marisa, Patchouli and some filler, probably Aya. I used the Poison shield formation with Reimu in front. With the right equipment, Kagami shouldn't be doing any damage, and you can use Reimu/Satori to heal, Aya to raise evasion, and Marisa/Patchouli to nuke. If I remember correctly, most of her attacks were Slash type.

Against the last boss, I had Alice, Sakuya, Sanae, Youmu and Nitori in the freefight formation. Spam Parrar every turn and Little Legion whenever you feel like she's going to use Maelstrom (it's water based, so get a water shield or something). Since you won't have much healing on this team, you should have Sanae buff everyone's stats and finish her off with your strongest attacks as soon as possible (full moon revenge, crescent moon slash/slash of eternity, rage eight, etc)

I didn't craft many items outside of the Rainbow Greaves and the Carbine, so just go with whatever has the slayer bonus/most damage

Anonymous Tue Jan 15 16:09:28 2013 No.10364296
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Is there any way to get full screen mode without making everything wide? The options don't appear to be related to that and putting my resolution (1920x1080) into the system file makes the window a nicer/bigger size but it's still wide full screen.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 16:41:58 2013 No.10364392 Silly question, but can anyone tell me what the actual executable of the game is named?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 16:43:58 2013 No.10364401 >>10364392 東方蒼神縁起.exe You're welcome.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 18:06:29 2013 No.10364570 File: 52 KB, 255x264, 1345519900569.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] What do you lose on death? I have easy mode disabled but I still appear to just get kicked back to the door with no real consequences.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 18:08:14 2013 No.10364578 >>10364570 half of your money

Anonymous Tue Jan 15 18:16:59 2013 No.10364593
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>>10364570
That's it. I don't like it much either.

In the original version, you lost every item you got since the last time you visited the overworld. Things from chests would go back to them, and one-of drops could be dropped again. It hurt, but it wasn't so soul-crushing that you'd stop playing or anything.
Most of the time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 18:28:59 2013 No.10364619 File: 72 KB, 202x857, tohos.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why does Sakuya use a large 2-handed sword? She never has knives in any good fan work, it's kind of getting strange...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 18:36:14 2013 No.10364632 >>10364619 If you go with her death tree, daggers are best. Though why you would do that when she's better as a beatstick is beyond me. The two-handers all have slayers, so maybe it's supposed to give a vampire/demon/monster hunter vibe?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 19:11:29 2013 No.10364718 >>10364632 My first thought was Arcana Hearts where the maid character had a giant sword

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 20:07:19 2013 No.10364913 when ever I click the exe to start it nothing happens what do i do

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 20:12:34 2013 No.10364935 >>10364913 Japanese Locale.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 20:14:19 2013 No.10364940 File: 16 KB, 658x524, s.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10364935 at least it sort of loads now

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 15 20:17:34 2013 No.10364952 >>10364940 Oh, yeah. Make sure to have Japanese set as your default locale. You can change that shit using the Control Panel on Windows 7.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 05:47:14 2013 No.10366296 You know, I didn't bother setting my PC to Japanese locale. All I did was rename the .exe to "The Genius of Sappheiros", and bang; not a single issue. It's literally the only thing I changed.

Anonymous Wed Jan 16 06:55:14 2013 No.10366420
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I used to make these threads, got bored of it however after grinding materials for the legendary weapons for half of the cast.

Damn the expansion feels suffering remaking your party for every sidequest.

On another note, Satori's legendary weapon makes her an amazing physical fighter, she's no Youmu, but way better than Aya.

Here's a GoS related image.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 07:01:44 2013 No.10366427 >>10366423 pity too, I love her spells outside of that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 07:05:14 2013 No.10366431 File: 181 KB, 540x372, not enough mp for private square.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Wed Jan 16 07:12:29 2013 No.10366454

>>10366423
>>10366431
Yuugi would like to have a word with both of them..

Seriously, she hits like a truck, but her bombs and MP makes her good for like 3-5 turns.
Of course, she does not need to use her skills in random battles, but in certain bosses she runs out of resources pretty quickly.

Anonymous Wed Jan 16 07:15:44 2013 No.10366460
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>>10364632
daggers are cool, period. Also, they are a great alternative for random encounters when you don't want to use up all your irons for claymores. Not that it matters that much anymore, what with Kusanagi costing a pittance now...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 07:47:14 2013 No.10366526 >>10366460 I found daggers to be superior in some cases. Against some of the flayer forms in particular; it was more reliable to rely on insta-death than try to attack them (fuck their defense)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 08:17:15 2013 No.10366582 >>10364913 This used to be in older thread's posts. Remove the moonrune from your folder's names, the game should load properly without any sort of Applocale of Locale

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 12:46:00 2013 No.10367293 >>10366582 worked a treat thanks

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 15:15:13 2013 No.10367712 File: 239 KB, 640x480, dispel.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] How do I get this guy to cast Dispel on Satori? Already tried controlling it and the skill didn't show up.

Anonymous Wed Jan 16 22:25:17 2013 No.10369058

What kind of shields should I give Alice? Is blocking everything better or heavy resistance to specific things?

Also in the shield descriptions for the elemental ones I see icons for elements saying that they increase damage taken. Do these only apply when blocking like with the bonuses?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 22:59:33 2013 No.10369184 >marisa has a unique skill that causes daze >marisa has a unique skill named sage

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 23:00:18 2013 No.10369188 >>10369184 >marisa has a unique skill that causes daze That took me a second to get.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 23:02:33 2013 No.10369194 >DoD FUCKING TENSHI.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 16 23:31:33 2013 No.10369276 >>10369184 I'm not the only one who felt like that was an intentional joke, then. I'm not sure if that's a sign my sanity is in no danger, or more danger.

Anonymous Wed Jan 16 23:34:18 2013 No.10369283

>>10369058

I can't say for certain with the elemental shields causing you to take more damage from those elements at all times, as I haven't tested for it specifically. What I can say, though, is that being able to block everything is probably ideal since that gives the greatest benefit to using Marionette Parrar(Peril?). The column/multi-target blocking abilities, anyway.

Of course, gearing her specifically for a fight if you know what you're in for would also suffice.

Anonymous Wed Jan 16 23:42:03 2013 No.10369299

>>10369058
>Also in the shield descriptions for the elemental ones I see icons for elements saying that they increase damage taken.
It just means that shield has lesser chance to block some damage types:
http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/The_Genius_of_Sappheiros/Equipment/Shields

Anonymous Thu Jan 17 02:55:48 2013 No.10369951

The final boss is incredibly bullshit.

Most of the bosses in this game are really badly designed and rely way too much on luck to survive. Having to hope that the boss doesn't throw out spellcards or randomly decide to destroy your team in order to win is dumb.

That and it's long as hell too. I keep losing in phase 3 because all of her elemental attacks decimate my team and I can't do anything to defend against it. Even Satori spamming Leaf Shield + Barrier isn't enough.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 02:58:48 2013 No.10369965 >>10367712 Try to give Satori Lots of Buffs, the AI will then use dispel on her

Anonymous Thu Jan 17 03:07:04 2013 No.10369998

>>10369951
>Most of the bosses in this game are really badly designed and rely way too much on luck to survive. Having to hope that the boss doesn't throw out spellcards or randomly decide to destroy your team in order to win is dumb.

Yeah, that's not true. You'll have to give an example or three, because as-is I'm calling that total bullshit.

For the final boss, Sanae's M. DEF buff should keep you safe, especially if Byakuren buffs her IND first. Also have everyone in the team for the final stage either a good M. DEF item or something that reduces elemental damage; you probably have a few of those floating around.
Throw up a little legion or optic camo if you're in bad shape and/or she charges up.

Anonymous Thu Jan 17 03:14:48 2013 No.10370019

>>10369998
Lakebed temple three-phase boss fight. Having to hope that the boss doesn't decide to merk your Mokou.

Anastasis and hoping that your earth enchant sticks.

And no, Sanae's M. DEF buff isn't enough. I was still taking 150 damage+ from each attack, and she'd throw out two or three a turn pretty much killing the weaker of my cast or wiping everyone out if I'm especially unlucky. As said, I even had Nitori as commander using optic camo to stop her, and Satori throwing out barriers.

I've been using: Aya, Mokou, Reimu, Patchouli, Marisa and Alice, Youmu, Byakuren, Sanae and Satori. Been beating down phase 2 before they can finish chanting no problem and can usually burn through phase 1 unless...dun dun dunn, the game decides to just kill me on a whim.

Anonymous Thu Jan 17 03:25:18 2013 No.10370039

>>10370019
>Lakebed temple three-phase boss fight. Having to hope that the boss doesn't decide to merk your Mokou.
Eh. I've fought her a LOT of times, with either Mokou alone or with one other Touhou, and never had any problems. Like, at all. Dunno what to tell you.
The octopus one, on the other hand...aaagh...

>Anastasis and hoping that your earth enchant sticks.
...huh?

You want Patchy on the final boss team. Satori is awesome, but you NEED void spirit. I cannot imagine beating the third phase without it.
Tried debuffing the third phase?

Anonymous Thu Jan 17 03:32:03 2013 No.10370049

>>10370039
Every time I fought her, she'd venom Mokou, sleep her or just outright kill her turn one with 1000 needles.

I had to enchant Anastasis with earth so that I could better counter her attacks using Alice. Otherwise her physical attacks destroyed me.

Void Spirit isn't needed since I do that at the end of phase 1 with Patchy (provided she lives), and she doesn't live very long in Phase 3 anyways.

Debuffing...well, I haven't had any luck with debuffing at all outside of the gimmick fights that required it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 03:38:48 2013 No.10370057 >>10370019 >Patchy in party 1 Theres your problem brah.. Void elemental not only prevents the boss from using her 'kill everyone' skill. It is also useful to keep the land at neutral, thus reducing the boss' elemental attack damage.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 03:41:33 2013 No.10370058 >>10370057 I know that already, I'm not a dumbass. The land is at neutral when I go into the fight and her spells still destroy me.

Anonymous Thu Jan 17 03:46:03 2013 No.10370069

>>10370058
The boss could still use 'raise land' skill, If I'm not mistaken. And you would still need to use void land a few more times.

Personally, I have never had any troubles with her basic attacks, maybe you should craft better equipments or find some? I know Drake Scale and High Ribbon reduces elemental damage well, both can be found in stage 21.

Anonymous Thu Jan 17 03:47:48 2013 No.10370073

>>10370069
Rarely does it use raise land from what I've seen. I'm not even surviving long enough to reach that point, Youmu can get maybe one full powered moon strike off and take her down to half, but after that she wipes the floor with me.

And I've been farming 21 for literally days. Nearly everyone is at 70.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 03:53:48 2013 No.10370080 >>10370039 >I cannot imagine beating the third phase without it. I beat it with fire maxed / thunder (almost) maxed. Get on my level

Anonymous Thu Jan 17 08:06:34 2013 No.10370476
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>>10369058
The elements listed on the shield represent that they can be blocked. If it's listed as a weakness on the shield, the activation chance for that element is weakened appropriately.
You want relatively high block chance, but keep Alice's passive abilities in mind that increase it. All the PDEF and MDEF will be given to the character on successful blocks, good shields often nullify damage completely if you choose them well.
Keep in mind Marionette Parrar has limited activations, sometimes you even want a shield that can't block a certain element, so you can save the activations for other attacks (some bosses rarely).

In short, listed elements on shields are blockable! There are some amazing craftable physical shields with huge PDEF.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 09:41:50 2013 No.10370638 Can you guys recommend some other games like this in English?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 10:14:20 2013 No.10370704 >>10370638 Uuh, I don't know if there are any other Touhou games similar to old school RPGs like Sappheiros.. Labyrinth of Touhou and Touhou Pocket Wars are both worth a try, though. Any other suggestions, guys?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 10:21:50 2013 No.10370718 >>10370704 How about non-touhou ones. Do you know anything? Hongfire doesn't help me that much

Anonymous Thu Jan 17 11:14:05 2013 No.10370827

>>10370718

I used to play shittons of different RPG maker games. There was ungodly amount of crappy games, but also some real gems really worth playing. I've never ventured outside the german RPG maker community, but i'm sure there is enough good games there aswell.

Can't really think of any good english game, but this one was pretty alright for a maker game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBnLKQmUmQ

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 11:29:50 2013 No.10370848 >>10370718 Non-Touhou? Hmm, maybe you could just get an emulator and play some classic RPGs? My PC does not have a good gaming spec, so most of my games are either old or simple like this one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 11:31:35 2013 No.10370850 >>10370848 Or that. SNES and PS1 have tons of good (english) RPGs.

Anonymous Thu Jan 17 21:28:26 2013 No.10372488
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How bad is the drop rate for Celestial Peaches? Would trying to get a couple to replace armor I'm still using from the forest of magic be worth it?

I had no idea Youmu joined the team either, just beat her and Yuyuko. The longer I go the more variety I feel like there is which I'm really enjoying. Without looking anything up I think most people playing would come up with fairly different strategies, at least when compared with other turn-based RPGs of this type.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 21:35:26 2013 No.10372526 >>10372488 >How bad is the drop rate for Celestial Peaches? I remember having bunch of those so maybe not that bad. >I had no idea Youmu joined the team either Have fun. She is my favorite party member after Reimu.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 21:57:11 2013 No.10372588 >>10372488 >Without looking anything up I think most people playing would come up with fairly different strategies That's one thing I really liked about this game.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 17 22:01:57 2013 No.10372602 Oh look, a GoS thread. I still have threads from October bookmarked. Someday I'll go back to this and defeat the sisters. Someday.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 18 15:15:19 2013 No.10375041 File: 18 KB, 239x206, mad.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] these sprites are too cute

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 18 15:16:49 2013 No.10375045 File: 153 KB, 638x478, rape time2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10375041 Aren't they? The sprite work in this game is fantastic.

Anonymous Fri Jan 18 15:18:04 2013 No.10375050
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>>10372488
Celestial peaches are alright, I wouldn't put too much effort into it however, just make sure you find the treasure chests.

I swear you can do the first half of the game without crafting anything, and just relying on treasure chest loot. They're really good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 18 15:18:34 2013 No.10375047 File: 10 KB, 216x174, agahast.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10375045

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 18 15:20:49 2013 No.10375057 File: 120 KB, 639x478, okuu's face.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10375047

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 18 15:22:49 2013 No.10375064 File: 5 KB, 110x174, nyan.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10375057

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 18 15:28:19 2013 No.10375087 File: 250 KB, 640x481, hyah!.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10375064 There's this one Touhou, late in the game, that is just incredibly cute here, but I can't post her because it'd probably spoil you. Despair.

Anonymous Fri Jan 18 23:13:09 2013 No.10376576 [DELETED]

>>10353721
Alright I just spent about 5 hours trying to get several skills for Satori for the triple bosses. Then I was debating whether to upgrade Youmu's or Mokou's weapon. I just went to Rinnosuke to make the one shot punch glove for Mokou but it won't let me synthesize it. I have 5 feathers, 4 rocks made from pretty mirrors, and a trapezohedron, but the requirements say 2/4/1. Glitch?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 01:58:10 2013 No.10377011 Why do sometimes the icons for actions when in battle doesn't appear?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 02:02:11 2013 No.10377028 File: 120 KB, 641x480, wait what1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10377011 Glitch. It happens.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 02:06:25 2013 No.10377040 going into this with a low knowlege of the japanese language, how fucked am I?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 02:08:55 2013 No.10377047 >>10377040 Its fully translated. You're fine.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 02:18:11 2013 No.10377075 Don't you guys get tired of this grinding shit? Holy shit, it's not even a MMO where you can show off your grinding skills.

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 02:19:40 2013 No.10377077

>>10377011
Some say that it happens in several video cards, nothing to worry about, though.
>>10358630

>>10377040
You'll be fine. The only japanese left is the attack type symbols (FIR, WTR, MYS, DRK, STA, STK, etc) and most of them are color coded in battle anyway.

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 02:25:40 2013 No.10377091

>>10377075
But I didn't feel that there's too much grinding to finish the game, even if you want a 100% completion, as long as you know what to do.

I only grind when I am stuck to fight a boss and I'm too dumb to come up with a good strategy. And even then 1 or 2 level is enough to make a difference.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 03:12:27 2013 No.10377171 so i downloaded it, but the .exe won't start. i open it and nothing happens

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 03:13:56 2013 No.10377173 >>10377091 I'll second that. Except for the second bit because I'm pro. >>10377171 Are you in Japanese locale? Were you when you downloaded/extracted?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 03:17:26 2013 No.10377177 File: 60 KB, 800x600, Untitled.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10377173 i downloaded it but there isn't any zipped files so i don't know what you mean by extracting. im trying to run the .exe in this folder.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 03:18:26 2013 No.10377178 >>10377177 Looks legit. You didn't answer the question.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 03:19:56 2013 No.10377181 >>10377178 what do you mean by "are you in japanese locale"? and im probably not.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 03:22:26 2013 No.10377185 GET THE FUCK OFF THE INTERNET YOU SHIT HEADS

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 03:22:41 2013 No.10377186 >>10377181 There's your problem. Go google around and do that. Or try removing any japanese letters in the folder names. This was in the OP, you know.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 06:12:11 2013 No.10377544 Anyone know what the duration is on Alice's Hourai Doll (taunt)?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 06:23:12 2013 No.10377555 >>10377544 1 round (just like most of her protection/cover skills).

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 06:24:42 2013 No.10377557 >>10377544 You can press the 'R1' button to view character buff timers and land information in battle.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 06:27:57 2013 No.10377562 >>10377555 Uhh, it's closer to like six rounds. >>10377557 Allright I'll try that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 08:16:27 2013 No.10377766 >>10377562 You can also press (hold) L1 when targeting the enemy to see their buffs and debuffs too. It is very useful when we want to know when certain effect need to be reapplied.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 14:59:57 2013 No.10379329 Anyone know how to get enemies to respawn? Wanted to grind a bit because I'm currently stuck on Yuyuko due to instadeath shenanigans

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 15:01:27 2013 No.10379336 >>10379329 Don't grind, think. You mean her parting gift? Grinding won't help you with that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 16:06:19 2013 No.10379513 >>10379336 I mean the whole fight through. She casts some Death thingy which kills off my party. I can't burn them down fast enough and I only have two of those resist accessories.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 16:18:48 2013 No.10379557 >>10379329 Sakuya has pretty high resistance to Death. I pretty much went "wut" when Yuyuko used her suicide skill and killed my most of my party but Sakuya still survived somehow and gave me the win.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 16:25:20 2013 No.10379569 >>10379513 Wait, she does? What's it called? Use Sanae's RES buff. That should cover it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 16:37:05 2013 No.10379593 >>10379569 Res buff? My Sanae only has 2 attack skills, 2 group heals and a single heal?!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 16:41:35 2013 No.10379597 >>10379593 The res buff is one of the first skills she ever gets, it's gotta be in the list Wind of Protection

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 16:46:50 2013 No.10379616 >>10379597 Wow.. I just found out that this game even has some sorta spell set thing to switch spells. I feel stupid. Played the whole game with level one spells up until now.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 16:58:06 2013 No.10379652 File: 360 KB, 588x354, surprise.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10379616

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 16:58:22 2013 No.10379649 >>10379616 It's a wonder how you managed to get so far... But then again the game is pretty hard on beginners since there's no tutorial.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 17:19:36 2013 No.10379720 File: 228 KB, 640x479, poor satori.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10379616 ...you're serious.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 17:25:06 2013 No.10379740 >>10379649 But there is a manual.

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 17:34:21 2013 No.10379771

>>10370073
>Everyone at 70
>Still haven't beat the main game

Dude, what. I beat the main game with everyone under 63. I had to grind to get Youmu to level 60 so she could learn Paschal Moon-Reflecting Sattelite Slash, after that, it was easy-peasy.
Your strategy is probably terrible, change your party around, try other things

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 17:41:06 2013 No.10379801 >>10379649 Well, I adapted. Spells didn't do much due to my retardedness, so I went for passive melee boosts for everyone. I just basically killed everything up till here with autohits.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 17:42:51 2013 No.10379805 >>10379801 Oh my god. Restart the game. You've missed so much.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 17:51:21 2013 No.10379837 >>10379805 Yuyuko's the second boss that my auto-attack team I use for going through areas couldn't beat anyway, the only other being Alice, so I I don't think that they need to do that really.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 17:51:51 2013 No.10379838 >>10379805 Missed an experience, I mean. Not items and stuff.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 18:26:21 2013 No.10379936 >>10379801 Try different things, only the basics are written into the manual. Bosses will soon require you to understand how various mechanics interact with each other, and they'll be puzzles you gotta figure out.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 18:40:06 2013 No.10379991 >>10379805 Why use spells when auto-attacking works fine? Obviously he's hit a point where this no longer works, but before that, if auto-battle works, why not use it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 20:22:31 2013 No.10380407 Does at any point the game force you to use certain characters/party? Can I go through the game using the same party?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 20:26:07 2013 No.10380425 >>10380407 yes, no (e.g. you start the expansion with only two characters and need to re-recruit everyone in a arbitrary order

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 20:28:07 2013 No.10380429 >>10380425 Arbitrary order?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 20:29:08 2013 No.10380431 >>10380425 so I need to level up all the characters?

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 20:31:53 2013 No.10380441
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>>10380429
yeah, but there is a recommended order because you need to fight the rogue touhous and some are quite difficult to beat
>>10380431
some deserve to be neglected, like Reimu or Cirno
>>10379991
cool kids autoattack, MATK is for nerds

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 20:35:38 2013 No.10380458

>>10380407
There are a few points where you have to split into two/three parties. You'll want everyone at a decent level when you hit those. Also, when everyone does different things and every monster has a different weakness, it pays to have everyone leveled. Also also, having backup characters means less trips to the save circle, which becomes especially important as the game goes on, and enemies get tougher and more numerous.

Short answer, no.

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 20:42:37 2013 No.10380479

>>10380441
>some deserve to be neglected, like Reimu
Uh

She's much too useful to be neglected, almost nothing in this game besides tsukumogami (which arent common) and angel enemies resist light

also unlike sanae, she can heal and remove status in a single turn

also, super duplex border

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 20:46:52 2013 No.10380498 >>10380458 Thanks, at least low levels level up pretty fast Leveling up satori right now

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 20:49:38 2013 No.10380508 >>10380498 Commander slot Touhous get just as much experience as the rest of the party. Use that to level up lowbies. Also switch out Touhous when the get low. Spread the love around.

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 21:12:37 2013 No.10380588

>>10380407
A main reason why Genius of Sappheiros is so esteemed is that unlike many RPGs where you just get a bunch of warriors and mages with varying stats that are more or less interchangable and you just spam your strongest moves, each character in GoS has their own niche, and most bosses also have their own special gimmicks that you need to figure out.

Also, you can change your characters at any time. If you aren't abusing the fact that Weekend made death less a threat, it is important to make use of all your characters to conserve MP to get through stages.

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 21:56:52 2013 No.10380730

>>10380588
> it is important to make use of all your characters to conserve MP to get through stages.

This, to me, is a strike against GoS. Several games, Touhou Labyrinth included, allowed you to make full use of your character's abilities without ever giving that "must conserve MP for later" feel.

I don't know if it gets better later on, but so far there's a whole lot of auto-attacking going on, which is dreadfully boring. Soldiering on in the hopes this game improves though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:01:08 2013 No.10380748 >>10353806 >the game works perfectly on linux through wine, which is a plus I'm getting wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\?\63a9?\58d5?\4e3b?\81b0?\838e?exe.exe" Has anyone else encountered this?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:04:07 2013 No.10380768 >>10380748 Set your system local to japan

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:08:52 2013 No.10380789 Can someone post what the bloody controls are, I can't even select a save slot

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:14:22 2013 No.10380810 >>10380768 Stop telling that to people, it's wrong You just have to rename your folder so it doesn't have moonrunes

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:14:52 2013 No.10380812 >>10380810 or you can set your system locale to japan

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:15:52 2013 No.10380822 >>10380789 You can configure them in the config.exe

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:21:22 2013 No.10380846 I just started this game, how do you save? I can't find save slots or anything, let alone a save function. Other than that it looks very fun. I hope it's quite long.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:22:37 2013 No.10380848 >>10380846 you save whenever you step on a healing circle, I think

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:23:07 2013 No.10380852 >>10380768 I was already doing that from the start. LC_ALL=ja_JP wine foo.exe >>10380810 Thank you. After also changing the name of the executable, it worked.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:31:23 2013 No.10380887 >>10380822 The torrent version is setup to use a joystick by default. I don't know if it actually comes that way to start, or if it was someone's idea of a joke. (Who the fuck has a joystick in 2013?)

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:32:52 2013 No.10380893 >>10380848 Okay, final question for now, in the descriptions for shields it says you have to 'use' them, how do you do that?

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:41:07 2013 No.10380915

>>10380846
It's long.
It autosaves whenever you enter a healing circle, open the menu, win a battle, loose a battle...

>>10380893
Shields are weird. They don't boost your stats unless they activate when your character gets hit; their evade stat actually means how often they'll activate, and what they'll activate off of is in the description. They won't activate at all if the wielder is casting or using a two-handed weapon.

I'm pretty sure this is wrong. Shields are weird.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:53:53 2013 No.10380952 I've been stuck on stage 14 for I don't know how long. Time to take yet another crack at it. ...oh wait goddammit I have no clue how I left the switches. Clearing the dungeon while I figure that out is going to be a pain in the ass.

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:54:07 2013 No.10380961

>>10380915
Just a thing about this post
When you step on a healing circle, your game hard saves, if you turn it off and on, you'll go back to it
When you go into and exit the menu, or after a battle, it's a different kind of save. If you turn the game off and on, you'll be outside the dungeon

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:03:52 2013 No.10381007 What is supposed to be Byakuren's purpose? Her debuffs are unnecessary on regular enemies, and don't work on bosses (or every one I've tried so far).

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:05:53 2013 No.10381019 >>10381007 >and don't work on bosses Yes they do. You giving her induction gear and power? She's also really good when most of your parties damage comes from one or two characters.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:07:07 2013 No.10381032 >>10381007 early on she does good damage and has rare light/moreso dark spells. Also if you give her ind gear/the right skillpoints her debuffs do work and are very effective. I think I've used her buffs at some point as well?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:09:07 2013 No.10381040 File: 165 KB, 500x500, byakuren has something to say.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>10381032 >early on

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:13:22 2013 No.10381049 >>10381007 Her debuffs are great on certain boss. You need to know which work and which doesnt. She turned some boss into a cakewalk

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:29:23 2013 No.10381094

>>10380441
Reimu is very useful. She's the most effective light attacker, she can heal, her barriers are amazing..

Cirno, on the other hand..
Well, She's actually quite fun to use as a tank, since she can counter everytime she's hit for 1000ish damage, and her regen can actually exceed her max HP, making her a pseudo immortal. Too bad she can't cover others

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:34:38 2013 No.10381109

>>10380730
What? The only time I feel that way is the final stage, since everytime you use a healing circle 20% of the enemies respawn..

>>10381007
Byakuren is the main status buff or debuffing mage. Her buffs exceeds Sanae's mass buff, and anything she can land power down on becomes a baby.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:36:07 2013 No.10381116 >>10380730 >"must conserve MP for later" feel. I don't know that feel. Not from GoS.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:55:22 2013 No.10381157 >>10381007 Her debuffs aren't that useful in the beggining (Maybe Death and Stone) But for many bosses and late game/expansion, she's one of the most essential characters. I'd like to see someone get past the last boss without Dark Blade

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 00:00:53 2013 No.10381167 >>10380730 Honestly, later on, every trash fight can kill you if you don't take it seriously. You WILL need buffs and magic and possibly appropriate gear.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 00:00:53 2013 No.10381168 File: 277 KB, 1366x768, japanesegame.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] what does this say?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 00:25:53 2013 No.10381245 >>10381168 "Please enter the password"

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 02:14:32 2013 No.10381567 File: 105 KB, 641x479, please be a sequel hook.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] It is to my endless frustration that nothing came of this scene.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 04:58:32 2013 No.10382032 >>10381167 meh. I always run away and shuffle enemies by retrying again when they are completely shit monster types.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 06:17:33 2013 No.10382227 Is there a way to recover your mp?

Anonymous Sun Jan 20 06:44:32 2013 No.10382297

>>10382227
Yeah, there are a couple of ways to recover MP in the game aside from stepping on a Healing Circle. It requires you to be in battle, though.
There are equipment and skills that can grant you MP regeneration in battle after fulfilling certain conditions. Sadly, most of them doesn't really add that much MP, but hey, at least you're recovering some of it back. And there's also Byakuren's 1 bomb commander spell, this one recovers 10% of your maximum MP once applied.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 06:47:32 2013 No.10382310 >>10382297 what do bombs do and how do I actually use them

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 06:58:32 2013 No.10382350 >>10382310 Read the manual, dude.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 07:56:32 2013 No.10382553 That moment when you realise Sanae's main role is a healer and buffwhore

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:24:33 2013 No.10382786 >>10382310 Certain skills require a bomb. This kind of skills have a card like border to the picture. Commander skills also use a bomb. >>10382553 What did you think she is used for?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 09:36:32 2013 No.10382831 >>10382032 Wouldn't that take more time than fighting them properly?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 17:04:33 2013 No.10384353 >>10364296 Press Alt+Enter ?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 21:53:32 2013 No.10385270 File: 300 KB, 900x775, ff52e983609faaf187baea63d66e520d.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] crafted zangantou and stuck 25 points into katana, all that death

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 22:35:09 2013 No.10385520 fuck bhava-agra

Anonymous Sun Jan 20 23:13:56 2013 No.10385655

Who are you guys giving the Kusanagi to? I crafted it for Sakuya, but I'm not seeing much of a difference between that and her 2h. I was thinking of giving it to Aya, as she's kinda uselessly weak at the moment.
Also, I have Mokou at around 350PATK, but she only hits ~300-500 with her regular attack. How can I get more damage out of her? She's equipped with her one handed glove something and some PATK things.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 23:15:11 2013 No.10385664 >>10385520 fucking finally. Tenshi should be fun.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 00:28:56 2013 No.10385925 >>10385655 Why are you using normal attacks? You should be using her skills, man. Her Fujiyama Volcano hits like a god damn truck.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 01:16:57 2013 No.10386050 >>10385925 Once I run out of mp, I'm kinda forced to use regular attacks. Fujiyama volcano does hit hard though, especially on those weak to fire. About 6000 damage, pretty damn nice.

Anonymous Mon Jan 21 01:34:27 2013 No.10386126

>>10386050
Is that damage already buffed with Byakuren's Elemental Weapon and Weapon Bless? Enchanting her weapon with the enemy's elemental weakness should boost its damage even further. Oh, and don't forget to use weapons with slayers against your enemies whenever possible.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 21 02:53:34 2013 No.10386338 >>10380407 Just got to Eientei, I've been mildly leveling up my other characters (like 15-20ish compared to my main team's 24-27ish) Completely turned around my perception of characters I've never used

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