/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Apparently, BIRDS HAET REIMU

Does this get good any time soon?

Ah, who am I kidding? It's still better than the best Castlevania.

[Anonymous No.]

It's cool. Final boss has epic music but rather disappointing in difficulty.

This game forfeits difficulty options in exchange of haypickhowmanylivesyouwant.

[Anonymous No.]

>Does this get good any time soon?

>Ah, who am I kidding? It's still better than the best Castlevania.

Are you some sort of atrocious troll?

[Anonymous No.]

Does is favor the old Castlevania games, with momentum-controlled jumps, a set number of lives and health, or the new ones with action RPG elements?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140936
Awwww.

Well, the music so far has been awesome. Glad we're not getting ZUN REMIX PLUS CASTLEVANIA. Only SWR is allowed to get away with that shit.

How do I save and quit?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140950
Saves automatically at the start of each stage

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140948
No RPG. No exploration.

But no shitty NES jumps. You can fly and control your air movement pretty well.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140948
The old ones. It's a lot like Rondo of Blood with some Touhou influences.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140950

You don't

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140957
Sweet.

Do we at least get a boss rush? I can do without frog/bird fightan forever. Cirno was fun though.

>>3140937
lol u mad?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140963
>It's a lot like Rondo of Blood with some Touhou influences.

I came twice.

[Anonymous No.]

This game is hard, I can't get through stage 1. Can someone recommend me an game of the real Castlevania series?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140983
I suck too, but stage 1? Really, anon?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140983
Castlevania.

[Anonymous No.]

Fuck, why am I fighting some chinese magician girl with red hair?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140995
You're fighting an unreliable gate guard

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141003
She let me get in the gate. Seems kinda unreliable...

Then she pasted me right after. ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140983

Play 1, 2 and 3 on the NES.

SoTN on the PS1.

AoS on the GBA.

DoS and OoE on the DS.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141021
Forgot PoR.

CV1-3 aren't that good beyond nostalgia though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141014
I just brought her to the middle column and spammed the support move (c) and whip.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140989
Maybe I don't get something, but Cirno has way too much health and I'm incapable of dodging her bullets reliably.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141034

>CV1-3 aren't that good beyond nostalgia though.

1 is a must play. 2 is an oddball, with pseudo-RPG elements and a lot of exploration. 3 is awesome in general.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140983
Rondo of Blood and Bloodlines. Metroidvanias are shit with the exception of Aria and Symphony.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141053
Fuck year Bloodlines. The only CV I've taken a shine to.

I hated Rondo of Blood though, and I tried to like it like nine times.

SotN isn't that good though, beyond the nostalgia factor. Most people who hate later Metroidvanias just do so because they got bored with the franchise. If you start with PoR and then go to AoS and OoE, those will be your favorites and SotN will seem like shit.

>>3141040
Jump while in mid air to fly. It's free. Shooting while in air is bullets and costs your soul.

[Anonymous No.]

Don't forget to play Richter mode in every game whenever possible, don't upgrade your equipment unless it's absolutely necessary to pass an obstacle, and no grinding. Castlevania was originally one long hard slog through a castle where the very stones beneath your feet are out to kill you. You're not getting the authentic experience unless you're screaming like a banshee after you get knocked to your doom for the umteenth time.

The walls are your friends. They give you meat.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141040
strongest blah blah blah derp

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141084

>a castle where the very stones beneath your feet are out to kill you

Throw Holy Water to check for fake floor. Losing a few hearts is better than falling to your death.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141084
Richter mode is lifeless and boring. The Metroidvanias are not balanced or interesting enough to merit that sort of artificial difficulty hike, anyway.

LOLHARD games aren't necessarily good games. You only took a shine to NES CV bullshit because you were 7 when you first played it, and you'll like FUCKING ANYTHING when you're 7.

[Anonymous No.]

Step 1. Set lives to 9
Step 2. Whine about how games are casual
Step 3. YOU'RE NOW A PROPER /V/ POSTER. GO BACK TO THERE.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

Flying breaks the game, and the stages are consistently bad. The music isn't terrible, but it lacks structure; I guess the composer is still green. On the positive side, the sprites are nice. I deleted the game as soon as I beat it once though.

>>3141021
OoE was the best Castlevania in 10 years. It started out a bit slow, but it in the end it combined the old stage-based gameplay and the whole Metroidvania thing quite well.

The 3D ones are mainly worth it for the music; they have some of the best stuff Michiru Yamane has ever done. Curse of Darkness was especially awesome for music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogUcCAbaqSw&fmt=18

[Anonymous No.]

NES CVs are awesome. What are you bitching about?

With save states, of course.

[Anonymous No.]

Lol casuals.
Back in my day you had only one life and no continues.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141146
I disagree. The levels and platforming were consistently bland as fuck, right in line with the Metroidvanias since AoS.

Also, copy-pasted rooms.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141146
>The 3D ones are mainly worth it for the music; they have some of the best stuff Michiru Yamane has ever done.

This. I fucking love Dark Night Toccata and Melancholy Joachim from Lament of Innocence.

[Anonymous No.]

What's the ending like? Does Reimu stand on a cliff watching the Scarlet Devil castle crumble to the ground?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141110
What part of "screaming like a banshee" made you think it was enjoyable? I just want to share my pain, you just had to have been there man!

Somebody pull our the copypasta of the Stormtrooper on Endor.

[Anonymous No.]

I was a little disappointed there seems to be no talking or storyline at all.

[Anonymous No.]

Sakuya's sprite is REALLY FUCKING HOT.

[Anonymous No.]

What's the name of this one? Has it been uploaded to Megaupload/Mediafire/Rapidshare or anything like that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141287
[Frontier彩] 紅魔城伝説 スカーレットシンフォニー
http://www.mediafire.com/?n2mjtmyznzw

[Anonymous No.]

Megamari was here.

Metroidvania is shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141324
Er, Touhouvania is shit. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.]

Sheeeit. Alice did not fuck around. I just had to derp my way through. How much remains?

[Anonymous No.]

Fucking door guard killed me many times. but I finally able to figure out her pattern.

[Anonymous No.]

Okay, fuck it. I can't quit the game and continue from where I left off. That's retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141318
I hate to ask, but what exactly do I do with this file? I apparently dont have what i need to run it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141423
Just add .rar or .zip to the end and extract it

[Anonymous No.]

The music is great at least

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141407
The continue option is still selectable after quitting, so I wonder if it's a glitch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141433

Well after the installation I'm left with a folder that doesn't have the executable file anywhere. Just the control and config exe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141433
Thanks!

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141470
You mounted and ran the ISO, right? Take a screenshot of your folder.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141489

Yup, this is what is in there. Weird.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141515
Reinstall using either applocale or Japanese locale settings.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141556

Ahh, yeah that's probably it. Thanks bro.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141470
go to files folder and copy the exe with moonrunes. then rename it to something in english.

[Anonymous No.]

Why is this game so laggy?

[Anonymous No.]

I like this game and all, but I just don't like the bosses at all. I can't really explain it, they just annoy the shit out of me. When I think fun danmaku/platformer hybrid bosses, I definitely think Megamari, and I guess this game isn't going to change that.

A somewhat minor gripe I have is that the sensitivity for controlling your jump height feels rather off. I was hoping they'd fix that. More annoying are the extremely large hitboxes that everything seems to have (unless you're flying).

Also, Ecclesia is just plain the best castlevania if you ask me, save for maybe SotN in the sense that it's the only one where I really cared for the non linearity that the metroidvanias all tried to emulate. In fact, I'm probably not enjoying this as much as I did the demo because I was just playing through OoE, which makes this feel a lot weaker in comparison. I guess I'll come back to later when it'll feel a bit more fresh.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141582
It seems to get like that if you open another window over it. Just minimize it and reopen it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141588
I agree. The bosses are terribly weak sauce. If you are really only in danger by trying to attack the boss, then it is a shitty boss.

Plus, again, they are trying to do the same FLYING DANMAKU style for every bitch in the game, which is just a tremendous lack of creativity, in my opinion. Not only does it make every boss the same style, but it wastes the potential of a fightan kung fu Mei Ling or a knife fight with Sakuya.

Megamari wins this one.

I just want to finish this and see what the final boss is like.

[Anonymous No.]

PATCH
http://aja-games.chicappa.jp/blog/?eid=21
GET IT MOTHERFUCKERS

[Anonymous No.]

>If you are really only in danger by trying to attack the boss, then it is a shitty boss.

That's it, I knew there was something really off about them, I just couldn't quite place it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141828
what. why is the patch bigger than the game? what does it add?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141828

That's one fucking huge patch. Any idea what it does?

[Anonymous No.]

Adds an opening movie. yay.

[IFuckedYore No.]

>>3141836
To defend it, I STILL like the game better than most CVs I've played.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141828

Google Translate:

We have very quick delivery.
Eventually the time will I have over four hours ...
Sorry.

The main area is added.

-Additional scenarios
-Add Movie OP
-Review of the decision behavior of players
-Enemy character, add a map object
-Position of the enemy, boss difficulty adjusting

※ Magic Risa is the first use of a surface is by design.
On the story progresses, you can use against a boss surface.
※ 190MB be enough, 100MB is a movie about the high quality OP.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3141876
Wow. The opening movie is larger than the actual game.

[IFuckedYore No.]

>>3141876
>Nothing that seems to allow you to save and continue.
>Nothing that appears to be level select.
Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141876
still even if the movie is 100mb that leaves about 90 for other stuff, when the game is about 130 for 1.00

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141897

I like how the game lacks those. Just like old times.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3141897
Ehhhhh? Save is something they added to new Castlevania games for people without skill.

Try playing one of the older Castlevania games and then whine some more.

[Anonymous No.]

deluded touhoufaggot

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141874
Honestly, the only Castlevanias I really love are OoE and to a lesser extent, SotN. The pre SotN ones are rather slow and have that whole wonky jump business, while most of the metroidvanias are just bland and/or easy, though I kind of liked AoS and PoR.

>>3141920
It rather annoys me, considering you can continue as many times as you'd like anyway, it just forces you to leave the game open if you want to take a break.

[IFuckedYore No.]

I can't get the patch to work. Do I need AppLocale?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141933
You could save in Rondo

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141933
You kidding? I had save states when I played all the old CVs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141920
>Just like old times.
Remember how it felt to finally get through one of those long marathon-of-ass-raping games?

[Anonymous No.]

Just wondering about the patch; I guess I have to reinstall the original game without any changes before applying it? Changed filenames and such to make everything work.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141876
>Magic Risa
>Magic Risa
>Magic Risa

lol

[Anonymous No.]

Could someone please upload the zip of the patch somewhere? For some reason, when I try it, it won't download off the main site.

[Anonymous No.]

This game is kinda bland because there's no real subweapons except those shit tier scrolls and annoying to aim Marisa.

I mean really, we could have the bouncing yinyang orbs as axes or cross weapon, needle things as that gay crystal weapon that never did anything, the 8 point star seal thing as the shield/bible thing, and what kind of touhou game doesn't have any sort of spellcard? They'd just be item crashes though but yeah.

The bosses take way way too long to kill though, mostly because of shit subweapons. I sure hope this patch halves their health.

[Anonymous No.]

how do I uninstall this game? I get an error whenever I try

[Anonymous No.]

Help, this is the hardest game I have ever played!

[Anonymous No.]

Fuck yeah, patch.

Doesn't look like you start with Marisa anymore, does this mean we can get multiple C button supports now?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142064
Just delete it you pampered fuck.


I hate this game because it's everything I hate about platformers in general. Unrealistic and artificial difficulty. I cannot stand that in games. Why the fuck can't you aim your whip down or up at an angle? Why do those moat monsters get invincibility when shooting fireballs? And why the FUCK are doves attacking me?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3141978
I also remember dying during end games and wanting never, ever to play again.
FUCK

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142104
Would you like Remilia to hold your hand throughout the castle as well?
You're given a weapon. It has limitations. Deal with it and stop whining about "artificial" difficulty.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3142138
I did like the addition of the multi-directional whip in the early games.

Shame it's inconsistently used.

[Anonymous No.]

>And why the FUCK are doves attacking me?
you got bread crumbs in your hair

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142138
I'd love to hold hands with Remilia....

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142138
It has absurd limitations.

It works both ways, actually. Fairies swinging swords around at nothing. Cirno shooting icicles straight in front when you're directly over her. The fact that your whip is nothing at all like a whip; contact is what does damage, regardless of what part of the whip hits or when in the strike it occurs. Shit like that is annoying. I don't mind difficult games. I do mind when the difficulty is absurd like it is in touhouvania and all of the metroid-esque castlevanias (I've never played the others. Not a big console gamer)

[Tatari !JERKwzbfbg No.]

>>3142192
No Metroidvania was hard.

[Anonymous No.]

<3

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140917
How come this is so often brought up around this site?
--
http://at.com/4i

[Anonymous No.]

can someone tell me why suika appears in the trailer thing? Is she a boss or what?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142192

>metroid-esque castlevanias
>difficulty

Uh, yeah, sure.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142234
even bots hate the touhou c76 spam

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142212
>>3142138
Could we stop this /v/ shit?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142239
Yep.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142212
>>3142243

I never said it was hard, I said it was filled with artificial difficulty. They're easy, but any problems are caused by stupid bullshit like not being able to hit an enemy directly above you, or fucking medusa heads flying through walls. Oh, and the fact that contact with an enemy always damages YOU and never the monster.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3140917
Birds are the most faggot enemy in castlevania.

Also WHY DOES EVERYTHING CHASE YOU? You can bypass the stuff in the first couple stages, but if you stop for a moment, 4 BIRDS, 1 HARPY, AND 2 FROGS SPITTING SMALLER FROGS ARE ALL OVER YOU.

[Anonymous No.]

I like the new patch's dialog. Reimu and Marisa look badass. Remi doesn't stand a chance.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142265
>I HATE EVERY GAME THAT WAS MADE BEFORE XBOX 360

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142248
Seriously. Let's discuss how hot Sakuya's sprite is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142265
Jesus christ, dude. It sounds like you've never played an 8 or 16bit game before.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142265
since when do enemies get hurt when they bump into the character? Thats their whole point

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142277
Sakuya's sprite IS hot.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3142288
Happens in Kirby games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142282
They probably only play roguelikes and dorf fortress and other autistic things like that with unnecessary amounts of actions.

[Anonymous No.]

With the patch, you CAN switch your support. After you beat Cirno, you get her on the team. Duck and hit the special button.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142282
>>3142288

In God of Thunder, an old game I used to love as a kid, walking into an enemy would damage you both. It played a bunch of sound effects to imply that, instead of you throwing your hammer and the enemy doing whatever, the two were punching each other. Compare to Castlevania, where touching a zombie causes you to take damage and jump back.

>I HATE EVERY GAME THAT WAS MADE BEFORE XBOX 360
I'm not a console gamer. Never played any game on an XBox or 360. Only consoles I've played are a few super nintendo games and game boy [advance] games. All the games I've liked have been on the computer. Mostly old games, since my current computer is 4 and a half years old; newest game I've played is Painkiller.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142310
so it's megavania now? It's like it happened just to shut up the megamari faggot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142310
i just got to this part myself
I WAS LIKE FUCK YEA

[Anonymous No.]

well, i got cirno to join me and give me her powers. so yeah, it's possible now to have more than just marisa. couldn't get others to do that though.

also after you beat remilia you get to re-fight upgraded china, patchy, sakuya and remilia again in one string with no rest, only few healing items in between.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142357
No, Megamari is still superior.

[Anonymous No.]

>Apparently, BIRDS HAET REIMU
What doesn't?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142323
So you only like generic shooting then. You know you get hurt if enemies touch you in those too, right?

[Anonymous No.]

The patch won't work... any tips?

It shows this error:
\Frontier Aja\紅魔城伝説 能data\data\bgm.dat] MD5チェックサムを計算中...
[エラー] 旧バージョンのファイルが存在しません.
差分ファイルの適用中にエラーが発生しました.
作業途中のファイルを元に戻しています...
作業途中のファイルを元に戻しました.


Any tips?
thanks

[Anonymous No.]

FFFFFF why do these dam jap games always quit when you press escape! I just wanna pause the damn game!

Also, are there no other weapons than your miko whip and card stuff?

[Anonymous No.]

So do you only get Cirno and Marisa? I didn't get China after beating her.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142390
Yup, and that's the biggest load of bullshit in Touhou or whatever. I practically scream every time I collide with someone, even though I'm a nearly-invincible shrine maiden or loli vampire or time-stopping maid and I ran into a fucking weak-ass fairy.

No, I like all sorts of games. metriod castlevanias, touhouvania included, are poorly designed and have shit difficulty (shit meaning artificial nonsense, notsomuch being easy).

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142400
Use AppLocale. Make sure you rename your Touhouvania.exe back to weeaboo moonspeak.

[Anonymous No.]

Can't play due to lack of DLL:lib\e3dhsp3.dll
What do I do?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142435

Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's badly designed.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142484
I was asking this before, just delete the moonrunes from data and lib folders and it will stop asking for that.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3142435
All game difficulty is artificial.

The only non-artificial difficulty involving games is physical reaction time, dexterity of your fingers in matching input requirements, and eye coordination/tracking.

Everything else is an artificial construct by the game's designers.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142435
Why don't you complain about the unrealistic ways difficulty is removed from games? Like how healing is handled?
Nearly dead? A single use first aid kit will make you good as new!

Oh, right. You're just a bitch who can't win so he whines about it on the internet and tries to convince himself he doesn't suck. Now stop trolling.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142412
probably because you have to fight her again at the end along with the rest of sdm crew.

though then i have no idea why isn't it possible to get alice or suika.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142508
>White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ
tripfags. *sigh*

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142508
Then I suppose I'll stick to the term "bullshit" instead of "artificial". The kind of shit where you just stop and wonder "Wait, why is this difficult? There is such a simple solution, why does the game not allow me to do it?". Or, from the other end "Why is this enemy behaving this way? It could do a much better job of attacking me, so why doesn't it? Why is it so suicidal?" An example of the latter is a boss with a weakpoint you need to exploit that's only available during an attack. Like the final boss in Terranigma (both forms, actually). You are unable to directly damage Dark Gaia's first form, you must reflect the light orb back to it. The second form is capable of moving outside of your reach. Why does it ever move within your reach? You literally would not have a chance to win if not for that. So why doesn't the boss do that? That is the bullshit I'm talking about. It's poor design.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142528
>It works both ways, actually. Fairies swinging swords around at nothing. Cirno shooting icicles straight in front when you're directly over her. The fact that your whip is nothing at all like a whip; contact is what does damage, regardless of what part of the whip hits or when in the strike it occurs.
All of those make the game easier and are the same type of bullshit.

[Anonymous No.]

Ok, I think I've successfully patched the game, but I don't see the OP video. When is it supposed to play?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142604
All it is is the trailer video. But it is set up attract style. Let the game sit at the main menu or just watch the damn thing in the data folder.

[Anonymous No.]

How'd you guys install the patch? I open it applocale and and select the folder the game is in but it doesn't do anything past that.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3142546
>The second form is capable of moving outside of your reach. Why does it ever move within your reach? You literally would not have a chance to win if not for that. So why doesn't the boss do that? That is the bullshit I'm talking about. It's poor design.

I sure would love to play a game with a scenario in which I can't really win.

It's like I'm really getting gang raped!

You're confusing "realistic elements", logic, and conventional game mechanics. There's so many ways you would NOT want your game to be an accurate reflection of the real world that it's not even funny.

Who would want to play a FPS in which one bullet hits you, and then either kills you or maims you so you can't do anything else. Or a FPS in which after you die, it uninstalls itself to accurately reflect having only one life.

[Tatari !JERKwzbfbg No.]

>>3142546
I think you're retarded, you must be a movie critic. But that's, like, my opinion, man.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142640
Seconding this. None seem to do anything. Installed with applocale, didn't change anything, open patch with applocale, and when I choose folder it stays at 0%.

[Anonymous No.]

there's flandre's portrait in the small portraits file. i wonder if she's hidden or a placeholder for some future patch.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142654
>I sure would love to play a game with a scenario in which I can't really win.
That would be a good example of very poor game design. I argue that a boss that is sometimes invulnerable but voluntarily decides to let you hit him is also poor design, obviously not as much as your example.
How about instead of going to that one extreme, you have a boss that is never invulnerable and is instead difficult for other reasons?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142640
>>3142671
Are you selecting the right folder? Choose the actual game folder, not just the Frontier Aja one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142671
I'm trying but I just get this:

差分ファイルの情報を取得しています...
旧バージョンのファイルを確認しています[MD5チェックサム]...
--> [C:\Documents and Settings\Compaq_Owner\My Documents\Games\Doujin\Scarlet Symphony\data\bgm.dat] MD5チェックサムを計算中...
[エラー] 旧バージョンのファイルが存在しません.
差分ファイルの適用中にエラーが発生しました.
作業途中のファイルを元に戻しています...
作業途中のファイルを元に戻しました.

I stupidly deleted the setup and iso so i'm only going on what I can get of the filenames that things should be.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh sweet, just got it working now, nm. Keep the folders as "data" and "lib" respectively, no moonspeak. Change the exe to 紅魔城伝説 緋色の交響曲.exe and run the patch through applocale. Direct it to wherever you have the game installed.

Rename your crap however you want and enjoy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142697
I got it to advance. Rename the "moonrunedata" folder to just "data", select Frontier Aja folder, and it SHOULD work.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3142686
Because limitations of time, mechanics, player input, and many other things make it difficult or unfeasible to implement a way of fighting which reflects a truly intelligent method of fighting for the A.I. to use that also doesn't result in the complete and utter rape of the player.

Also, that sort of thing is a theme. You're approaching this in a way that makes me think you would complain about turn-based fighting systems because they don't represent an accurate flow of time in comparison to the real world.

Why doesn't he fight from higher ground, so you can't reach him? Because then we'd have to implement a Z-axis, and because then we'd have to implement a way in which you could counter it without him devastating you. Why doesn't he just run away and kite you with ranged attacks? Because then we'd have to find a way for players to prevent this tactic so that they don't end up putting their fists through their monitors in manic anger.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142697
It seems to be saying there's an MD5 error on file bgm.dat. I doubt you modified the file, so it probably can't find it.
Google translate says
[Error] File does not exist in previous versions.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142697
"Found old File"
"Checksum calculation"
"ERROR NO OLDER FILE FOUND"
"RETURNING BACK TO ORIGINAL"
"RETURNED BACK TO ORIGINAL"

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142729
That 紅魔城伝説 緋色の交響曲 part was random. WTF? Ok, thanks for figuring it out!

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142679

She's in the game right now. Beat it without continuing, even if you have to use 9 lives.

[Anonymous No.]

I managed to make the game start, but the patch do nothing.
I'm supposed to see an intro sequence right?
It just starts in the garden and then there's Cirno.
The only thing that I did'nt notice bofore is the song that plays if you wait in the menu.

How do the patch work?

[Anonymous No.]

Where is the video after the patch works? I suspect the patch only worked partially for me after I changed data and lib folder names, since the percentage on top remained 0%.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142736
>you would complain about turn-based fighting systems because they don't represent an accurate flow of time in comparison to the real world.
I do dislike Fallout's system, since it allows you to a) sneak past enemies by running right in front of them and b) shoot someone and then hide without giving them a chance to react

>Because limitations of time, mechanics, player input, and many other things make it difficult or unfeasible to implement a way of fighting which reflects a truly intelligent method of fighting for the A.I. to use that also doesn't result in the complete and utter rape of the player.
I accept that such limitations exist. But do they have to be designed in such bloody stupid ways?
>Why doesn't he just run away and kite you with ranged attacks? Because then we'd have to find a way for players to prevent this tactic so that they don't end up putting their fists through their monitors in manic anger.
You honestly don't see that as poor game design?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142777

Nevermind, I was doing it wrong.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142757
>>She's in the game right now. Beat it without continuing, even if you have to use 9 lives.

i did, but she never appeared. when is she supposed to?

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3142779
There's only so much you can do to make fighting realistic before it becomes an unending recursion of "I DO THIS.", then "OH NO YOU DON'T, BECAUSE I DO THIS!"

You have to pick a system and way of presenting it that lets you get the most out of it that you can, but remain simple enough to be consistent, affordable to make, and easy enough for the player to get into.

I'm sorry that full-motion fighting hasn't been developed to your satisfaction, yet, but to my knowledge there is no motion-capture bodysuit or neural uplink that lets the player function in unrestricted 3D movement.

Things like Fallout/Oblivion with their sneak system... well, sorry, that's pretty much a restriction of all current games. There's not an easy system that lets you determine whether or not you can be seen or not, nor one that provides the physics for crawling all over objects in real time, like someone who was really skulking would do. You could make it, but how are you going to implement it so that the player can use it?

Answer the question, design the system, and sell the technology for an ungodly amount of money. Then, use the profits to fix more gameplay limitations.

Just as long as you don't start fucking with my SNES games and "WHY CAN'T I FIRE IN FULL 360 DEGREE MOTION?"

They're fucking classics for a reason.

[Anonymous No.]

I had a hard time playing this game. I kept trying to read the dialog, but whenever Reimu said something I read it in Norio Wakamoto's voice......

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142779
Making a game fun and playable instead of realistic and frustrating? No, I don't see that as bad design.

[Anonymous No.]

For those still having trouble, you should know that your number of lives is stored in plaintext in the .ini (as shown by this
<-) wwww

>>3142758
Reinstall the game with AppLocale on, then also patch with AppLocale

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142779
If you couldn't do that sneaking would be pointless, why spend points on it?

[Anonymous No.]

That is the coolest, most masculine Reimu I've ever seen. I still look up her dress when she's flying, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142758
I think I've resolved by renaming the .exe in g–‚é“`à ”êF‚ÌŒð‹¿‹È
Funny

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>>3142829
Killed myself a few times in the first hole of the second screen to see if it was just a display thing but... nope.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142878
badass.

Still doesn't replace level select nor does it fix the sucky combat, but nice.

[Anonymous No.]

I just get an error saying "Startup Failed", this is the setup folder, am I missing files or something?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142907
grow a pair

[Anonymous No.]

Now, why the fuck is there Suika instead of Flandre?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142843
You misunderstand that bit. I mean running past someone in COMBAT mode, not sneak. Because the enemy cannot do any kind of movement while you still have AP, you can use this to sneak past enemies or duck behind walls before they can strike back. A notable example of this is that in FO2 you can get into the Vault City vault early by starting combat and just running in. The guards don't stop you during combat so you can get into the vault without being a citizen. I'm fairly certain that even 300% sneak won't let you do that.

>Making a game fun and playable instead of realistic and frustrating? No, I don't see that as bad design.
I do not find the castlevania games I've played fun. At best a time waster for a few hours. I do not find it fun to be unable to hit an enemy directly above me. I do not find it fun to be assaulted by enemies that can fly through the fucking walls. I do not find it fun to take damage by walking into a zombie that popped out of the ground right in front of me. I do not find it fun to defeat an enemy by sticking out my whip and then having the enemy literally walk into it. If you find stuff like that fun, then I guess this boils down to lolopinions.

>to my knowledge there is no motion-capture bodysuit or neural uplink that lets the player function in unrestricted 3D movement.
That's not necessary. My claim is that Castlevania does not handle the limits well. In Doom, it is impossible to jump. This does not hamper gameplay in any way, because it is never necessary to jump.

[Anonymous No.]

Is there a way to change the windowed resolution? The text gets cut off.

[Anonymous No.]

Yeah, the librarian is a retarded boss battle. The trick is to throw yourself on her books, who just do chip damage, so you can be invincible for her bullets, which do 30% damage.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142929
>>In Doom you never have to jump.
A craven lie from a useless whiner. What about all those pressure plates you have to fall on? And that bit where you have to cross a gap in the level where you get the double-shotgun?

[Anonymous No.]

Who here pretends to hear Sakuya yelling REEEEIIIIIMUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRGGGHHHHH when she dies?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142973
This thread somehow got DUMBER.

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>>3142973
>What about all those pressure plates you have to fall on?
That's Rise of the Triad.

>And that bit where you have to cross a gap in the level where you get the double-shotgun?
Running.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142929
please go to insomnia.ac and read everything on the front page. you do not need to side with the casuals just because you have poor reflexes.

[Anonymous No.]

I like how this game continues the decades old Castlevania tradition of not having to design more than three rooms per level, and just copy-pasting the rest.

Konami were such hacks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142993
>insomnia.ac

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>>3142924
same here. suika just flashes in, then disappears and game ends.

[Anonymous No.]

Soooo how do we get the other assists besides Cirno and Marisa? No damage runs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3142993
Don’t forget to read the copy and paste articles on philosophy first, or his articles are like a magic eye where you only see shit instead of genius.

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>>3142929
This fight is still going on here? May as well give my statement.

I think you misunderstand the point of these games. "Back in the days" games were made from testing around with various ideas and then, if something was fun, sticking with it. Realism or convenience had nothing at all to do with it. Most games even profited from exploiting the faults in the engine (Doom as a grand example).
If you complain that you can't do something, which would completely change the gameplay, then you just don't want to accept the game. It's like complaining that the milk you bought doesn't taste like strawberries. That would be cool, but it would also be something completely different.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143030

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3142929
The whip is a magic vampire killer. Next, you'll be complaining that knives in other games can slash through people that are wearing full-plate armor, or that fans are capable of inflicting massive damage, or any other thing that would be realistically impossible but works in games.

What, are you going to complain that Rockman can't duck in the early games, too?

Some things aren't design flaws, but rather design elements. They are what make games unique to themselves, such as Rockman's slide, which doesn't make much sense in a 3D context, but is brilliant for 2D levels.

>I do not find it fun to be unable to hit an enemy directly above me. I do not find it fun to be assaulted by enemies that can fly through the fucking walls. I do not find it fun to take damage by walking into a zombie that popped out of the ground right in front of me. I do not find it fun to defeat an enemy by sticking out my whip and then having the enemy literally walk into it. If you find stuff like that fun, then I guess this boils down to lolopinions.

Those aren't necessarily flaws, but rather things that are hallmarks of Castlevania games. Simple mechanics from a time when it was cutting edge. And you know what? They're still fun.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3142993
He's a total idiot. His review of Cave Story shows that he has no sense of wonder whatsoever left in his heart.

A waste of carbon atoms.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143034
>If you complain that you can't do something, which would completely change the gameplay, then you just don't want to accept the game.
Yep. That's true. I don't want to accept a game where attacks can only go straight in front of you, and changing that certainly would force everything else to be redesigned. The difference is that I think it would be better, because I honestly do not find games with such flaws/design elements enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143073
>tripfag
derp.

Actually, he is a complete moron, a total charlatan. But you're still a tripfag.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3143111
And anonymous is legiun, etc.

Waste of carbon atoms, he still is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143111 herpa derpa derpa ANON IS LEEJUN xD

Do us all a favour and head on back to /b/, okay?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143136
>>3143126

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>3143158
Proving you're from /b/ doesn't sound like the way to win at anything.

[Anonymous No.]

Hey, a fight about things I have opinions on. I'll tell anonymous my opinions!

Damn skeletons on the stairs. While I think the game would be much easier if I could attack up or down, my real problem is with the stairs. The only way to attack an enemy on a step lower than yours is to jump over his head and get him from behind. Or use Marisa.

[Anonymous No.]

Is it possible to change direction while flying?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143073
Wow, I am reading this and am raging pretty hard.

Does /v/ know about this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143659
The certainly does, the forum members he doesn't ban instantly take a break from slobbering on his cock every now and then to save all /v/ threads linking his articles and present them on a velvet cushion. Icy then proceeds to post how they are retardedly retarded retards and he is the New Jesus.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143722
They certainly do, rather. Going to bed now, I think.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143659
I don't go to /v/, but I've seen some of that faggot's articles before. Apparently, gameplay isn't a word, because he says it isn't, in spite of the fact that the Oxford English dictionary says it is. Unless this is opposite day, I'll definitely take the word of linguistics PhDs over internet neckbeards.

[Anonymous No.]

I just beat Remilia's second form, set to epic music after the boss rush (probably the hardest thing I've ever done in any Castlevania game), and I got this error once Suika started talking.

Don't fucking tell me it died right before the end.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143975

You just missed credits.

Or Flandre fight if you scored high enough.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143659
I make sure /v/ knows about it because the ensuing ragefests are great, so I post it all the time.

There's really nothing you can say that can pierce this intellectual lightweight's tiny ego. Don't waste your time on him.

Rage Survival Mode: Read as many of Icycalm's posts on his forum as you can without raging.

Civility Survival Mode: Contribute positively on his forum as long as you can without getting banned.

>>3143975
I think the Flandre boss fight is a joke.

But, yeah, the ONLY thing you missed is an ending image of all the girls drinking, and credits. That's it.

That boss rush, since you can continue at the boss you died at, and I only lost maybe 5 lives tops across it, most of them because final Remi is kinda bullshit, I don't think it was at all that hard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144015

>Or Flandre fight if you scored high enough.

What's the cut off point on that? 100k?

[Anonymous No.]

Um, where can I download this?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144122
see
>>3141318

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144059
how the hell do you beat final form remi without spamming your attacks while invincible

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144284
You don't. You just have to pick which attacks hit you.

This is from memory, but take the small shots, not the big shots. Then she flies or some shit. The laser spiral has some wonky hitboxes, but you can dodge it usually.

Don't touch her. She does pretty big damage.

I think after than she lands and just fires straight at you. Easy to dodge.

After that, she'll rev up and SPEAR THE GUNGNIR. The spears are 60% damage. The lasers up top are glitched hitboxes. You're usually safe up top. Then she'll teleport and start again.

[Anonymous No.]

How do you save? I quit after beating stage two and now when I press continue it starts me at the beginning.

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>>3144406
HA HA ENJOY YOUR MARATHON PLAY SESSION.

Make the game easier on you and edit the cfg file to give you 999 lives. That way, you don't have to replay the game's shitty levels.

Though I really don't recommend sticking through this one. The art style is cool as fuck but there's no game here that isn't shit.

[Anonymous No.]

So, is there a mirror for the 1.02 patch anywhere?
I use http://m.amatukami.com/~aja-games/downloads/koumajou_1.02patch.zip from the Frontier Aja front page, and it just times out on me.

[Anonymous No.]

Dohoho that's clever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144445
Uploading it to mediafire

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144343
but is there no way to beat her purely by dodging her shots? i can't seem to graze her shots, i always get hit by the small clusters

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144527
You think WAY too highly of this game if you expect that after what you've seen so far.

The only trick I've seen to grazing is the spear upper lasers are bugged to never hit you, and that you need to get behind her and FAST for her opening volley.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144512
Thankee kindly.
Polite sage

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144539
yea i thought so, i had some hope tho, but the later boss spams just come too fast

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144512
Thanks from me too.

[Anonymous No.]

This game is fucking hard guys wtf. :(

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144636
Jump again while it midair to fly.

[Anonymous No.]

avira keep bitching about this download, games clean right?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144558
>>3144603
http://www.mediafire.com/?jztvw5xwxut

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144764
Downloadan, thanks

[Anonymous No.]

i wish there was more depth to the game, also souls to fire bullets is shat man

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144789

Use the whip more

[Anonymous No.]

Cirno keeps on raping me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144796
it gets boring after a while

[Anonymous No.]

>>3143012
Probably in the next patch.

[Anonymous No.]

I just wish it had been like SotN.

[Anonymous No.]

So wait. Is getting to Flandre dependent on your score or on no continues?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3144858
If Cirno is raping you, wait till you get to Alicia and Patchouli.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3145041

It is definitely not dependent on 1CCing the game

[Anonymous No.]

The portrait pictures in this game are badass. Can I find them somewhere on the net?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3145081
Then what's the minimum score, if I may ask?

[Anonymous No.]

>>3145128

No idea, but it probably involves not dying on stages to get the no miss bonus since you get like 30 000 from that alone

[Anonymous No.]

>>3145112

Chuugoku will kick your ass

[Anonymous No.]

How do you save your progress in this game? I mad it to stage 3 a few hours ago and decided to come back to it now, I click Continue and sure enough... I'm back at Stage 1.

[Anonymous No.]

>>3145112

Search banpai_akira as a tag on a -booru, some should pop up, along with his other stuff.