SA

[Anonymous No.]

Comiket is this weekend. You know what that means.

SUBTERRANEAN ANIMISM'S FULL VERSION IS RELEASED.

I know you fags are excited.

[Anonymous No.]

OH SHIT I ALMOST FORGOT

[Anonymous No.]

yep

[Anonymous No.]

No, you're wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

Fuck your noise

Kaiba Doujins yeeeeeees

[Anonymous No.]

Where's my Touhou porns

[Anonymous No.]

Comiket is this weekend. You know what that means.

ANON'S NICE DAY'S FULL VERSION IS RELEASED.

I know you fags are excited.

[Anonymous No.]

SA's phantasm stage boss

[Anonymous No.]

>>1120923

No.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1120923
nope

[Anonymous No.]

>>1120923
Except it isn't, Colombia stated that he's too much of a fuck-up to finish it on time.

[Anonymous No.]

I was excited for Anonymous Nice Days.

[Anonymous No.]

MIMA WILL BE BACK I FEEL IT IN MY BONES

[Anonymous No.]

>>1120938
UNFORGIVEABLE!

[Anonymous No.]

I CAN FEEL IT IN MY BONES

[Anonymous No.]

>>1120923
fuck your gay western circlejerk shit

sweet sweet japanese touhou gaems and doujins

Hot Dog Chuck should have a new one released and Aki Eda is releasing a non-touhou H-doujin I think.

AND MAYBE ZUN IS ANNOUNCING A TOUHOU ANIMU

[Anonymous No.]

BONES WILL BE BACK I FEEL IT IN MY MIMA

[Anonymous No.]

>>1120963
YEAAAHHHH what

[Anonymous No.]

BONES WILL BE MIMA I FEEL IT IN MY BACK

[Anonymous No.]

FEEL I WILL BONES MIMA MY IN IT BACK BE

[Anonymous No.]

I CAN FEEL IT IN MAH BOI

[Anonymous No.]

is there a demo for SA out yet? i don't keep up on my touhou news

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121001

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121001
Yeah, like since 4 months.

[Sinisutaru No.]

I FEEL

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121001
Yes. since SA's been out.

[Anonymous No.]

I can feel it!

[Anonymous No.]

MIMAWILLMIMAMIMA

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121007
more like 2 months, 20 days and 23 hours.

[Anonymous No.]

Wouldn't it be pretty amusing if Mima wasn't in SA?

[Anonymous No.]

Mima will be Mima, I can Mima it in my Mima.

[Anonymous No.]

Meh, it will just be Aya wearing Mima's clothes, you'll see.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121020

[Anonymous No.]

I'm hoping for Ran to be in SA somehow

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121030
Sound delicious.

[Anonymous No.]

Fuck.
I'm going to be on vacation on the same day that CM begins.

[紅 美鈴 門門 !!jbNr9Gc7HBh No.]

SA's last boss will be MALE.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121032

with Yukari at the end when everyone has tea.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121041
And the next day, /b/ will have a reborn influx of awesomeness.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121041

RINNOSUKE?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121041

[Anonymous No.]

MIMA WILL RETURN!

[Anonymous No.]

It's Yumemi

[Anonymous No.]

It will be a new character that looks strangely like Mima, and also happens to be an evil spirit.

Just so ZUN can piss us off.

[(ノ゜-゜)ノ☆ DOZO! !FUKOwwFrJM No.]

>>1121041

It cant be male! It's wearing a ribbon! Unless he's some kind of faggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121195
Then Zun was a epic troll.

[Anonymous No.]

It's a yukkuri with an awesome outfit

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121030
I'd buy four copies.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm going to be in every game from now on. ZUN will never tire of me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121243
All future games confimed to be awesome

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121243
I remember when Sakuya used to say the same thing

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121274
I remember when Mima used to say the same thing

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121274

But Sakuya never starred in her own game, so yeah!

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121285
I remember when Genji used to say the same thing.

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

:<

[Anonymous No.]

>>1120902

Now already? Well that's nice.

Wonder if he has managed to make it not look like complete fucking shit by now, like the demo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121357
Explain yourself.

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1120920
FUCK YA

>SUBTERRANEAN ANIMISM'S FULL VERSION IS RELEASED.
FUCK YA!

>Comiket is this weekend.
FUCK YA!!!

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121371

Well Reimu and Marisa looked absolutely horrible in the demo (I wish I still had my screenshots of them, I deleted them yesterday when cleaning my /th/ drawer) and the patterns look amateurish next to MoF.

[Anonymous No.]

>Well Reimu and Marisa looked absolutely horrible in the demo
Sounds like ZUN.
>and the patterns look amateurish next to MoF.
I dont think so, Tim.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121400
Oh hey, you obviously haven't played any other Touhou game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121400
>Well Reimu and Marisa looked absolutely horrible in the demo

Oh wait, this is ZUN we're talking about here.

[Anonymous No.]

>and the patterns look amateurish next to MoF.
>and I only know how touhou games look like from screenshots.
fixed

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121425
further proved by the fact that he didn't know the usual release dates of the demo and full version which have been reitaisai and summer comiket respectively since EoSD. Even I know, and I started playing touhou some months ago.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121400
>Well Reimu and Marisa looked absolutely horrible in the demo

[Anonymous No.]

Please have Sakuya in this game, unless ZUN's had her kidnapped or something

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121452
well, reitaisai since IN I guess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121466
Patchy > Sakuya

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121452

Well ain't you so fucking proud of yourself.

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1121400
>Well Reimu and Marisa looked absolutely horrible in the demo
They look MoF, which is horrible. y u do dis ZUN...
I like the MoF sprites though.

>the patterns look amateurish next to MoF
wut?

Bucketloli is probably the most memorable 1st level midboss ever. Level two boss is bitchy in a very creative way. Unicorn oni does some pretty crazy shit.

Now of course the 4-6 and extra bosses are much more important, and we don't know what those are like yet, but so far the danmaku is interesting.

I'm not so sure about fun though, the jury is still out on that one. Part of the reason is probably bugs though, for example one of the level 2 boss's spellcards can punch though the border bomb. This shouldn't happen.

Now by far the most disappointing part of SA for me has been the bombs. MoF bombing system aside, the bombs are far too weak. Particularly annoying is how difficult it is to bomb some of the level 2 boss's spellcards.

[Anonymous No.]

I of course meant they looked horrible by ZUN standards, geniuses. Specifically, they didn't look at all better than in MoF. I wonder why he doesn't just reuse the pics he drew for IN. Those were acceptable.

As for the patterns, yes I played the fucking demo and yes they looked like complete fucking crap compared to the inventiveness of the MoF patterns. The projectiles also were simpler, and that's a bad thing, they made that shit look like EoSD (and that's a VERY bad thing since EoSD is pretty much the worst Touhou game).

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1121484
I'd like to see Sakuya actually. She has the potential for some really cool danmaku as StB showed.

She won't be appearing though. Its going to be like MoF, all characters who haven't appeared as a boss in a windows game so far.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121484
This man was later knive'd by Sakuya.

Gee, this heating pad sure is n

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121518
>Particularly annoying is how difficult it is to bomb some of the level 2 boss's spellcards.
Bombing on stage 2? Oh wow.

>Bombs in touhou are quite important because they allow you to bypass in part or whole attacks which are really not fun for you. Without bombs you need to be able to potentially capture every spellcard

I think you need to learn how to play.

[Anonymous No.]

Guys, what if ZUN is SOBERING UP!?

[Anonymous No.]

>>1120923
I want a fucking demo at least.

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1121524
I'll agree with you on half of that. I think the bosses were up to par, but the stages were incredibly disappointing, especially compared to MoF.

EoSD had some good challenging stages. PCB had elements of good challenging stages (stage4 was good, except I'd like to see half of it added to stage 3 instead). In IN the stages got way to simple and easy (with the exception of lunatic maybe?).

MoF got better and had really good stage design (I think it was ruined a bit by the bombing system though). However SA has terrible stage design. Its both difficult and boring, a terrible combination. No creativity at all, except in parts of stage 3.

[HelenXonpool !a0yHhBwvus No.]

>>1121545

He'll never survive dropping below 50% blood alcohol.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121508
the opposite actually.

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1121543
Without access to bombing stage4 powerful would be difficult in the bad frustrating way. I'm sure you can capture asteroid belt on lunatic 50% of the time, or whatever but if that was demanded of normal people the game wouldn't be fun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121545
Touhou will be over

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121569
Personally I think the stages became easier because of grace auto collection... because I am a faggot for items for no particular reason (I suck to much for playing for score)

[The real ZUN No.]

AYA WILL BE BACK IN TOUHOU 12 I FEEL IT IN MY DICK

[Anonymous No.]

Oi, gotta hurry up and clear PCB on Lunatic. Almost there...

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121592

Honestly, if you're playing a game like this, you should already know you're probably going to spend lots of hours remembering and trying to clear patterns, which is why this genre isn't for everyone. Powerful bombs encourage players to be lazy, instead of trying to find a solution.

Plus, we've had death bombing since Lotus Land Story, so you should be trying and clear a spellcard regardless. You really have no excuse for bombing for the sake of bombing.

[Anonymous No.]

Have we all forgotten about Seihou 4?

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1121728
Fucking duh. I couldn't have gotten as far as I've gotten without spending lots of time remembering and trying to clear patterns.

However I like not having to memorize every single pattern. I like how I can be bad at some spell and still beat the game. That's the way things should be.

Its ok for an extra, which is why extra bosses are immune to bombs. Its not ok for a whole game. It becomes not fun. I know this because I've played a number of shooter games.

How good are you at touhou games anyway? Everyone I've heard of who has said stuff like "you should be trying and clear a spellcard regardless" hasn't gotten farther than normal mode on Imperishable Night.

Once I started playing and beating hard mode though I realized that strategic bombing is important and instead of spending over 9000 hours trying to perfect a spellcard you're 3/40 against you should just bomb it the first time you think you may be in danger. Sure the game is easier with powerful bombs like that, but its also funner if you only have to get good at the spellcards you enjoy facing and feel are within your ability.

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1121832
Also setting it up like that makes for a much for gradual learning curve.

Gradual learning curves are good, that's what made Imperishable Night such a success. Someone could play a shmup for the first time. 1cc easy mode then gradually working their way up practicing spellcards and stages.

Lets say someone is weak against lasers. They can bomb lasery spellcards, practice the spellcards they like. Beat normal and start working on hard. Then midway through realize that they can capture lasery normal difficulty spellcards now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1120923
>>1120929
>>1120935
;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121764
And we get the full ver of 3 too.

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1121895
What's Seihou?

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1121895
There's still new Seihou games coming out?

I still haven't gotten around to playing the old ones ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

When I cleared PCB lunatic, I got 100% capture rate for the first 3 stages, and then bomb spammed my way to the end. Theoretically I could have kept trying to capture, and I have individually captured most spellcards in the game, but by that point I was getting bored with the game and just wanted the clear. But I ended with 0 lives 2 bombs, so I probably wouldn't have made it without the cherry boost from the early captures.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1121832
I tend to stick to hard mode, if I'm in the mood, I'll do some lunatic. Fortunately, I have pretty good pattern recognition skills, so learning the outline of an entire stage only takes a few plays.

There will be occasions when I panic bomb, but I'll note what I was doing wrong, and put into practice next time.

I will admit though, I do miss the sight of seeing a huge ass laser on the screen.

[Anonymous of Colombia !pkzejWGkfw No.]

Hey guys. I'm a lazy, slow writer.
Sorry if you were looking forward to a release in the next couple of days, but I don't think so.
So, December '08. Because I have a thesis to take care of too.

Sorry, and I'm back to anonymous lurking.

At least ZUN delivers on time, right?

[King in Yellow No.]

>>1121832

You really should be trying to clear without bombing.

That's not to say you should never bomb, but it's always better to clear without using one if you can.

And before you ask, I've beaten Hard on IN and gotten within seconds of beating Hard on PCB. I've finished all of the Windows Extra stages except for EoSD's, where I can get to QED.

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1121975
Well you won't be beating hard mode until you learn to bomb more often. I know I didn't.

>>1121953
This is pretty normal I'd imagine. Giving Sakuya four bombs was a really stupid idea. Part of the problem is that Yuyuko's 80% reflowering is easy and timeout and such. In the case of IN lunatic where you need to have a few extra lives as buffer to beat the jewel you can't do that as much.

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1121996
>You really should be trying to clear without bombing.

>That's not to say you should never bomb, but it's always better to clear without using one if you can.
Because its more effective that way (easier to beat the game?)
Because its more fun that way?
Or because your skill grows faster that way?

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1121996
>gotten within seconds of beating Hard on PCB
If you capture Saigyouji Flawless Nirvana in Imperishable Night 50% reflowering will give you much less trouble.

Beaten PCB hard, not as good at Flan as you are though. Maze of love is giving me trouble because I'm using illusion laser marisa.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1122012
>Well you won't be beating hard mode until you learn to bomb more often.

You seem to be making some pretty quick assumptions.

I clear hard on a pretty regular basis without having to bomb so much. You'd be amazed how often a bullet will just zip past you when you think it's going to hit.

Being a person who cares more about spellcard capture, I won't bomb unless I absolutely must. Having good bombing discipline and death bombing reflexes are important skills.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1122049
I know how you feel abou MoL ;_;

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1122057
Ahh you said you "played hard" so I assumed that you were still working on a 1cc.

My bad sorry.

[King in Yellow No.]

>>1122035

Because you improve more quickly that way, IMO. Bombing becomes a crutch if you use it immediately. I fully admit, if I'm just playing to clear, I just go 'fuck it' and bomb any card I don't like, but if I'm playing to get better, I try to bomb as little as possible.

>>1122049

I got toward the end of PCB on Hard right when my classes decided that they needed to eat all of my spare time, so I haven't had a chance to try it again yet. I actually hadn't played any Touhou games for about half a year until yesterday.

Now I'm working on getting my skills back by rebeating all the games on Normal before moving on to PCB on Hard again. Though I'll be working on SA when it hits, of course.

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1122076
Because you improve more quickly that way, IMO. Bombing becomes a crutch if you use it immediately. I fully admit, if I'm just playing to clear, I just go 'fuck it' and bomb any card I don't like, but if I'm playing to get better, I try to bomb as little as possible.
That's what I thought.

When I play in practice mode I try to capture every card, and that's how I'm able to get better.

But if I'm doing a real run and I'm staring at a number like one in twenty something for my record on the spell I'll bomb as soon as I know the bomb will finish off the spellcard.

And then when I'm at the final attacks and I don't have enough lives or bombs to survive. I'll go into practice mode and try to get one of those 1/20ish spellcards up into 16/40ish.

So back to my original point, the fact that you can beat the game while still being 1/20 on a lot of spellcards allows me to take it easy and makes touhou a lot more fun than I Wanna Be The Guy for instance.

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1122126
Forgot the > marks. First paragraph is a quotation etc

[Hard mode !!8IetKEAHCtY No.]

>>1122126
Also MoF was bad because it allowed bombing of some spellcards without penalty, so people who are just interested in beating the game will not try to capture those spellcards. PCB with Sakuya is kinda eh because you get too many lives and bombs and end up bombing a lot of the latter interesting and very capturable spellcards.

tl;dr (for all my posts) critique and bitching. Due to hubris I'm actually attempting to make a touhou game (I'm at the "how I shot directx lol" stage), but I only make progress when 4chan is down.