/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

http://aja-games.com/aja_blog/?p=614

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896491
Indeed, there are quite a few on /jp/, and I can be quite an asshole myself when dealing with other ones. I must say though, I find it quite hilarious that you expect everyone to bend over backwards when someone is a dick around here, while making such claims as "/jp/ is full of assholes".

But this is pointless, so I'm done.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896546
Ignoring people is not the same as bending over backwards for them, or otherwise the trolls with no replies with be the most successful. Especially when the alternative is throwing around accusations of asspain and SO EDGY XD.

>But this is pointless, so I'm done.
There was never a point in the first place.

[Anonymous No.]

So does this add English?

[Anonymous No.]

Additional major changes Phantasm Stage (which appears once you clear the game), strengthening step-back jump kick attacks directed enhanced graphics and sound effects, some from jumping to kick Bakkusuteppunaifu Easy difficulty can be adjusted to cancel the performance of players, Version1.01 more easily than the English Stage Select to add automatic updates of bug fixes, support for the French (language need to download the file separately a)
・その他難易度調整 Difficulty - other adjustments

上記の他に不細かい具合修正もされています。 Is not also fixed minor addition to the above condition.
languageファイルについては近日公開予定です。 about language files are coming soon.

[Anonymous No.]

Touhouvania 2 was garbage. Why should we bother?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896674
Because it was pretty and had an awesome concept for an amateaur team.

[Anonymous No.]

So, back to my original point, before the netiquette nerds dropped in and started having a tea party: if you want scheduled events, give feedback to the GMs on the goddamn forum. You can bitch about it here but they're never going to know about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896674

The gorgeous art and voice acting.

Game? What game?

[Anonymous No.]

oh the drama

[Manfred !!UiOrmYiMsJQ No.]

>>6896674
No, it was great.

You just suck at vidya, play the first one and then complain.

[Anonymous No.]

So is it possible to get an English.dat?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896734
Touhouvania is one of the most hardcore games of all time. Only casuals dislike it.

[Anonymous No.]

Endou Aya as Yukari was absolutely delicious.

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>>6896674

It was better than the first one. Just wish they didn't fuck with the controls and make the natural feeling slide into a clunky backstep.

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>>6896742
I favored the back-jump over the slide, it's good for dodging attacks and has graze frames, whereas sliding was good for... um... a couple of stage traps?

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>>6896693
>Because it was pretty and had an awesome concept for an amateaur team.
The controls were clunky and the gameplay was repetitive/uninspired. Castlevania in general wasn't a good franchise. Castlevania was only successful because it was one of the first action platformers of its time. In retrospect, I don't know why there weren't more games like it; Castlevania games are trivial to code. Symphony of the Night, on the other hand is a completely different story. It is a game that is worthy of praise because it borrowed heavily from the Metroid franchise (and in many ways perfected it). The problem with Touhouvania 1 & 2 is that they marketed them as if they were Symphony of the Night era Castlevanias. They weren't. I wanted exploration, items, and abilities. Instead I got: side-scrolling and brain dead button mashing. We should make a true Touhouvania game.

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>>6896744

I used the slide for getting under bullets so I could go on the offensive easily. I would have killed for the sliding back dodge too.

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>>6896750
SotN is a clunky, ugly mess, and Metroidvanias are havens of dreadfully dull platforming "exploration."

Touhouvania is the worst of both worlds.

[Anonymous No.]

>Play Phantasm
>Archers everywhere
>Arrows take off 40% of your health
OH JOY

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896750
>brain dead button mashing

Funny, this pretty much sums up my experience Symphony of the Night and Aria of Sorrow.

[Anonymous No.]

But I like the game. Am I the only one?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896756
They already did that. On hard at least.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896760
>like
>Touhouvania

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>>6896759
Also, I honestly feel that Cave Story did the Metroid aspect MUCH better than Castlevania.

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>>6896762
Oh, I was just remembering what a pain in the ass they were. It's been a while since I cracked the game open.

Can anyone tell from the Nipponese patch notes if they fixed Stage Select wiping your progress if you go back to an earlier stage?

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>>6896755
>SotN is a clunky,
The controls become more smove as Arucard gains more abilities. They were good controls for their time.
>ugly mess,
The graphics were pretty decent last time I checked, just like most Castlevanias old and new.

>and Metroidvanias are havens of dreadfully dull platforming "exploration."
The only flaw in the Metroidvania formula is backtracking. Try again?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896760
Na, people like it. It's just a lot easier to voice dislike.

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>>6896762
It creates a retarded, perverse system where you actually are encouraged to dive into any other enemy projectile than those fucking arrows.

[Anonymous No.]

>People seriously believing metroidvania are better than classicvania
Wat ?

[Anonymous No.]

omg its impossible hard now @.@

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896793
I think both are equally bad.

[Anonymous No.]

During the transformation event anyone else get turned into a bladine that ark is soo fun

is he an ark?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896786
Well if you think about it those are kind of the most dangerous projectiles you could hit a human with.

You know, a lot of the fairies seem to stick with actual weapons. Axes, arrows, swords, spears, shields. They also seem to take huge chunks of your health off. The one's that fire danmaku do fairly little in comparison.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896804
>Well if you think about it those are kind of the most dangerous projectiles you could hit a human with.
NOOOO
NO
NO
NO

DO NOT BRING A REALISM ARGUMENT TO THE TABLE

GET THAT SHIT OUT OF HERE

[Anonymous No.]

Problem, Sakuya?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896776
>The only flaw in the Metroidvania formula is backtracking. Try again?

They're easy as fucking hell. The only hard one was Circle of the Moon, but that more about you having to grind like a motherfucker during some points of the game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896807
TOO FUCKING LATE
POWER LEVEL THREAD BITCHES

Arrows>axes>sword=shields>spears

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>>6896768
>Also, I honestly feel that Cave Story did the Metroid aspect MUCH better than Castlevania.
Which Castlevania? If you mean SotN then, no. SotN had a god tier map, several abilities used for exploring and lots of hidden items. It in many ways advanced the Metroid formula. And this is coming from a Cave Story fanboy.

>>6896781
I don't think people hate Touhouvania, but they certainly aren't praising it. Aside from its graphics, music and voice acting there's nothing remarkable about it. Castlevania without Metroid is nothing more than a brainless, side-scrolling, hack 'n slash action game. Hopefully Touhouvania 3 will have a map, RPG elements, and exploration.

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>>6896827
...and which points would those be?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896829
Swords>Axes>Spears>Swords
Bows are special.

[Anonymous No.]

Oh for pity's sake. I just want to get to the Phantasm boss at least once to hear the music!

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>>6896793
>People seriously believing metroidvania are better than classicvania
Take your nostalgia-goggles off and realize that Metroidvanias are the only thing keeping the franchise alive.

>>6896798
You say that while posting in a Touhouvania thread.

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>>6896840
Wrong genre Fatlus loser. Instead of your sparkly JRPGs, why don't you play a real game that takes skill, like black ops?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896834
That demon coliseum or those dragons or something. I haven't played it in a long time.

>>6896831
I honestly don't care, especially when more of Alucard's abilities come off as irrevelant. I prefer tough boss fights and equally dangerous environments.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896863
You know you love it.

[Anonymous No.]

Umm, How do I patch this?

It asks for a file location...but i don't know what

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896876
It wants a location? How utterly strange. Do you know what you are trying to patch?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896879

Actually, i have no idea how to patch this..

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>>6896793
A pure 'classicvania' game released on any platform of your choosing wouldn't sell in this day and age. Its gameplay is dated just like platformers and STGs.

It's as if doujin soft companies like Frontier Aja think they can get away with gameplay that wouldn't last a second in the mainstream market. How hard would it have been to add in exploration and RPG elements?

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>>6896896
Well that's terrible sad. How about you find the game.....

on your computer....

and learn japanese and/or how to directory

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896904
They can and are.
It wouldn't last a second in the mainstream market, but that's ok, because it's not IN the mainstream market.

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>>6896896
Wow, you're very new. How did you get here?

Also the file location you direct it to should be the folder the game's .exe is in.

Also be sure you've already patched it from 1.00 to 1.01 before trying to apply the 1.02 update.

[Anonymous No.]

Remi is ridiculous as a support, and I think she's the only way you're going to stand a chance in Phantasm.

Fuck, fairy trio, then that cat toohoo, then golem midboss. WHEN WILL IT END.

[Anonymous No.]

Can you extract the music files from the .dats in the game directory?

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>>6896924

>fairy trio

Now I'm interested. Time to finish the game then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896934
Someone else's done the music already.

http://www.mediafire.com/?locr6kccif12rez

[Anonymous No.]

They could adapt it for cell phones. Or just release figs, books and dramas.

[Anonymous No.]

Okay I've been trying the first part of this phantasm stage for a bit now. Why did they give archers the ability to aim?

They are officially the most bullshit enemies in the game.

Also any recommendations on subweapons?

I've been using Alice, Patchouli, and Remilia. I got past the bridge a couple of times, but I died instantly the first time I made it and got screwed over by running out of souls the second time.

[Anonymous No.]

So for the Phantasm stage, do I just have to beat the game any way I want to unlock it or does it have to be a 1cc? I'm playing on Normal and I want to know if I have to start over or if I'll be fine by playing with continues. I don't want to beat it then find out I needed a 1cc.

[Anonymous No.]

Well got past this first bit by stocking souls and spamming Remilia. Now I come onto the fairy trio. Died the first time then tried Remilia seeing how they were placed. Remilia slaughtered them in 3 Gungnirs. After they fade away this happens.

I'm mad now.

[Anonymous No.]

Why do you people complain this much over Touhouvania? Doujin games always have some flaws, complaining about it just takes the fun out of it.

Just take it easy and have fun.

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>>6896861
>Metroidvanias are the only thing keeping the franchise alive.

Sorry, I forgot that people nowadays can't play anything beyond jrpg tier diffculty.
Sad era we live in, indeed.

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>>6896861
>keeping it alive
Unfortunately. Today's Castlevania has turned for the worse, only attracting children and people late in the series. Linearity was much more superior. If you disagree, you have not played super castlevnia IV or chronicles.

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>>6897086
OH MY GOSH! Somebody who agrees with me!

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896863
>black ops
>implying spawn kills are skill
>mfw

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>>6897089
Stop being an elitist nostalgiafag, it isn't helping anyone.

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>>6897086

>implying difficult = quality

Some people like to take it easy.

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>>6897106
Neither is your "hurr durr nobody cares for linearity now days, grow up you has-been" comments. But it's obvious you and I have different tastes in games, so why bother complaining.

[Anonymous No.]

Normal Phantasm cleared. Using even Patchouli cheeses the hell out of the whole thing, especially Yukari. I'll get through Hard later, maybe eventually without helpers.

I laugh at the people who find this game has clunky controls though. Clunky backstep? Maybe if you don't backflip out. Don't even bother opening up Phantasm if you can't even move properly, silly babbies.

[Anonymous No.]

Played both games once, but can't really get in the mood to do a second play through, even on a different difficulty setting. Probably only play it again for the translation.

[Anonymous No.]

I might be misunderstanding this, but I'm just >6897106 and not >>6897089.
What I meant to sat is that saying stuff like
>Linearity was much more superior. If you disagree, you have not played super castlevnia IV or chronicles.
is pretty pointless, there are no games "superior" to other games.
It's just your opinion, so please accept that there are other people with different opinions than you. Hating on normals/casuals and whatnot all day isn't going to make anyone's life any better.

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>>6897130
I might be misunderstanding this, but I'm just >>6897106 and not >>6897089.
What I meant to sat is that saying stuff like
>Linearity was much more superior. If you disagree, you have not played super castlevnia IV or chronicles.
is pretty pointless, there are no games "superior" to other games.
It's just your opinion, so please accept that there are other people with different opinions than you. Hating on normals/casuals and whatnot all day isn't going to make anyone's life any better.

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>>6897173
Well, emotion got that best of me. What I want to get through is that if you have actually played the linear games, you would understand better (if any at all) why many think classic style castlevania was better.

But as you already stated, to each his own.

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>>6897099
I'm going to spell the joke out for you. There is no way I could know what he was talking about unless I myself had played fire emblem. I then refered to him as Fatlus, despite the fact that an Atlus game was never mentioned, and then implied not that Black Ops takes skill, but that a FPS took more skill than a tactics game.

Then you abused the quote function, and used >mfw.

[Anonymous No.]

if only they could combine both. difficulty of linear games with exploration of metroidvanias.

throw leveling up out the window, make the game difficult and don't give the player a "kill all enemies button" weapons like crissaegrim, but still give him options and a reason to try and do more than rush from point a to point b as fast as they can.

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>>6896972
isn't that from the 1.00/1.01 version though, without the phantasm music?

[Anonymous No.]

Holy shit.
This place is filled with casualfags.

[Anonymous No.]

Touhouvania?
What you guys want is Metroitohou, not Touhouvania, but-

BITCH PLEASE.

TOUHOU GAIDEN

SIDESCROLLING SAKUYA AWESOMENESS

FUND IT.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6897707
Get out you fucking casual, Ninja Gaiden is even easier than any Infinity Ward game on easy

[Anonymous No.]

>>6897707
Fund it bitches

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>>6897707
Ninja Maids?

DO FUCKING WANT

[Anonymous No.]

Linear castlevania was superior. The metroidvania games are boring as hell, pointlessly drawn out with no challenge whatsoever. But unfortunately for the casuals here, the next touhouvania will most likely be linear as well. Linear = costs less to create = more profit. The touhou fanbase actually buying these games expect a challenge as well.

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>>6897086
>Sorry, I forgot that people nowadays can't play anything beyond jrpg tier diffculty.
Difficulty has nothing to do with the sells of games. Certain genres just aren't selling these days because they're too primitive. When people go to purchase games they want complex designs and high production value.

>>6897089
>Unfortunately. Today's Castlevania has turned for the worse, only attracting children and people late in the series.
You haven't ever read anything about why that is the case have you? Long story short, after the next generation consoles started to come out Konami made the decision not to try to compete with 3D games. The DS for obvious reasons would become the next platform for the 2D Castlevanias. They created a few (decent) Castlevania games for their new platform but they didn't sell much, so they decided to make it more marketable to the DS's audience by making it more cartoonish. It was a successful endeavor. The gameplay itself didn't change much. As a matter of fact, according to the critiques the only Castlevanas so far that are on par with SotN have been the Castlevanias released on the handhelds, not your Retrovanias.

[Yｏur ｆavｏrite Aｎonymous thaｔ liｖes iｎ ßängkok No.]

so when are they making big bang beat 2

[Anonymous No.]

There are so many dumb and untruthful opinions in this thread.

Touhouvania 2 was great, especially compared to 1 in the visuals/music department. Banpai Akira for the artwork to give a great feel, and seiyuus from well-known anime. The gameplay wasn't on par with some of the better oldschool castlevanias, and the devs should've taken note of that.

The old school castlevanias aren't hard sidescrollers, contrary to what the SOTN haters say. In fact, the time investment in one of these sidescrollers is much shorter than the metroidvanias because of the shorter nature of the games. It will take you less time to finish them.

Also, every metroidvania since SOTN added something new to the series. Yes, the art direction was crappy but Order Of Ecclesia was the first acceptable castlevania with alternative artstyle.

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>>6897089
>Linearity was much more superior. If you disagree, you have not played super castlevnia IV or chronicles.
Sorry but the critiques disagree with you. When SotN came out it was almost universally dubbed the best Castlevania. Games that utilize the Metroidvania formula just happen to be some of the highest rated games of all time. Zelda's aggregate score makes it the highest rated game of all time and Metroid I think is 6th.

>>6897130
>Neither is your "hurr durr nobody cares for linearity now days, grow up you has-been" comments. But it's obvious you and I have different tastes in games, so why bother complaining.
You are a has-been. Our taste in games have nothing to do with this. I'm just explaining why the Castlevania team went in this direction. Classicvanias stopped selling a decade ago. A reoccurring complaint of the handheld games is that they weren't SotN-enough.

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>>6898400
HOLY SHIT HE JUST BROUGHT PROFESSIONAL REVIEWERS UP.
THE SAME GUYS WHO THINK THAT IKARUGA IS THE BEST SHMUP EVER

[Anonymous No.]

>>6898400
I don't usually rage at comments on the internet but holy shit, 10/10 my friend, bravo you got me on that one.

[Anonymous No.]

In the case of Sonic and the Mega Man series, the problem can be traced to the developers forgetting their roots. That is not the case with Castlevania. Symphony of the Night was a reinvention of the franchise that received universal acclaim. It didn't just borrow elements from the Metroid series, it took the Metroid formula to another level--hence the term Metroidvania. All Castlevanias that followed SotN attempted to emulate its success. SotN came at a time when the 'classicvanias' were dying. Had it not been for SotN the franchise would have died by the late 90s. Only a vocal minority prefer the linear Castlevanias. They're not even big enough to be considered a niche market.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6898400
>Critiques
>Sales
>Zelda
>Score
>Everybody has the same opinion
Sure thang, brah

[Anonymous No.]

With the NGP and 3DS coming, we're probably nearing the end of 2d castlevania, metroidvania or otherwise. The DS games didn't sell all that great to begin with. With the rising budgets that we can expect on the new portables, we're all screwed.

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>>6898485
What does the 3DS imply in your statement? How could that change anything.

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>>6896972
That doesn't include the Phantasm tracks, bro.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/, /v/ here. You know the old trope that you can get better discussion about anime off /a/, touhou off /jp/, vidya off /v/?... You're REALLY disproving that here. You're better than the average /v/ thread, but only by a slim measurement.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6898485
>The DS games didn't sell all that great to begin with.
They all made a profit. At the end of the day, that's all that matters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6898445
Mega Man lost it's roots?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6898669
You missed all the DS and GBA games? Network Transmission blah blah?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6898445
I don't see why people glorify "their roots" so much.

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>>6898674
The battle network games are spinoff games, albeit very successful ones. Mega Man has some of those, but it still has a lot of "main" games. I can't see the series as losing it's roots when the last two games released have been 8-bit throwbacks aimed directly at the classic crowd.

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>>6898649

I agree. Hopefully they can do the same on the 3DS. I'm a bit pessimistic, though. If they do try a 2D castlevania on the system, I would guess it'll be in the style of the PSP game (graphics wise).

[Anonymous No.]

>>6898702
2.5D? It could work.

[Anonymous No.]

is the game on /rs/?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6898719
Yep, there's even a preinstalled package patched to 1.01. You need 1.02 for phantasm though.

[Anonymous No.]

Youtube already has full runs of Phantasm up if you just want to see the voice acting and music.

[Anonymous No.]

>>Touhouvania 2
>>Yuu Kobayashi as Ran
>>OH MY GOD PINEAPPLE

[Anonymous No.]

Phantasm Easy is kicking my ass.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6898637
But /jp/ is for video games.

[Anonymous No.]

Beat Phantasm Easy with 17 lives leftover. The difference in damage taken between Hard and Easy is ridiculous. I was able to beat Ran before her spinning ring attack even finished.

[Anonymous No.]

Where can I find a fully patched game?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896608
>The controls were clunky
You are supposed to use a pad. It is in no way inferior to the original games. Just play SotN.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896608
WHY FRENCH?!

[Anonymous No.]

>>6902314
Because westaboos are getting tired of german

[Anonymous No.]

>>6902314
French > German

[Anonymous No.]

>>6902351
French is the gayest language ever!

[Anonymous No.]

>>6896934
>>6896972

3 new tracks from the patch, have fun:
http://www.mediafire.com/?vvy1fmv1t766ife

[Anonymous No.]

>>6902314
>>6902364

[Anonymous No.]

Why is Chen harder than Ran???