|
Which religion is the best? This poll is closed. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| Shintoism |
|
59 | 9.58% |
| Buddhism |
|
77 | 12.50% |
| Taoism |
|
66 | 10.71% |
| FEAR CLOWNPIECE |
|
414 | 67.21% |
| Total: | 616 votes | ||
|
FractalSandwich posted:Unless it's a fun game that just has lovely art direction, I guess. There are plenty of those too. Don't insult Zun's creativity. 
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 00:58
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 9, 2024 22:10 |
|
|
I actually like ZUN's art direction. He doesn't draw short skirts or nonsensical skintight clothing or anything like that. Maybe that's just because he can't, but either way it's good.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 01:13
|
|
|
FractalSandwich posted:I actually like ZUN's art direction. He doesn't draw short skirts or nonsensical skintight clothing or anything like that. Maybe that's just because he can't, but either way it's good.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 01:21
|
|
|
ZUN can only draw weird-looking dolls with sometimes hilarious expressions on their faces (like Satori and Hina), hope this helps.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 01:22
|
|
|
SyntheticPolygon posted:Also, Tojiko is clearly the best dialogue-less Mid-Boss. Because even though Futo killed her she doesn't care at all, since being a ghost is hella cool. Tojiko has dialogue during one of Miko's spellcards. 
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 01:28
|
|
|
Zun's design is good in the sense that most of the characters have a unique silhouette without being too outlandish.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 01:30
|
|
|
IronicDongz posted:I think your idea of 'good' has been skewed by anime games a lil, if all it takes is not having dumb/creepy outfits He also uses colours other than grey and brown. That's also important. Other than that, yes, that's all it takes. The past 10 years of games have not been kind to my standards.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 01:32
|
|
|
ZUN's a good character designer, even if he's not quite good at making those designs work in his own art. Like, hell, look at this:  Chances are those characters are recognizable to you. The man uses color pretty well, and his designs are distinctive. Also he can draw frills pretty well. That's literally the only thing he's good at drawing. That and maybe hats.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 01:33
|
|
|
NO LISTEN TO ME posted:ZUN's a good character designer, even if he's not quite good at making those designs work in his own art.  Is there something that does this for all of the characters? I'd like to see how many I can guess right. (I was about to make a post doing the same for this set, but then I realised it's literally the MoF bosses in order. I couldn't guess the Aki sisters though.)
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 01:36
|
|
|
Yeah, I agree. I unironically enjoy ZUN's art, even it's technically flawed. Though those cross-sections are missing some of the best parts, ie. Suwako hat. Unless the hat's a lot flatter than I remember it. I guess it's not meant to be in scale though. Redmark fucked around with this message at 01:40 on Mar 3, 2014 |
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 01:37
|
|
|
Kheldragar posted:
No idea, I made that a while back, along with most of the rest of the games. I only have a few, though, since most of them were hosted on Waffleimages. (gosh, remember that?)
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 01:45
|
|
|
SyntheticPolygon posted:But does she take herself seriously? As a midboss without dialogue the only thing we know about her is that she and Aya dislike each other and Hatate thinks she's pretty cool. I suppose it's just another example of how the Touhou Fandom basically invents personalities for most of the characters. I'm just more confused about how Momiji is so much more popular than the other midbosses. As for taking herself seriously, well, this is her SoPM portrait. You be the judge: 
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 02:17
|
|
|
SirSlarty posted:Never understood Momiji's popularity either. Probably has something to do with being a furry with a sword. She has the Canadian contigent backing her up.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 03:14
|
|
|
FractalSandwich posted:I don't know anything about Keitai Colander or whatever, but I find it hard to believe that any game with school swimsuits in it could be anything but a cynical cash-in.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 05:29
|
|
|
leather fedora posted:Take a heavily chance-based game like XCom except no amount of actual strategy or unit strength will make up for botched turns, and then change all your units into girls with varying otaku fetishes (and one girl from "England" with American mannerisms). Does it also have an energy system? I bet it has an energy system. Interesting that free-to-play browser games are catching on in Japan, though. For better or worse.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 05:54
|
|
|
Japanese browser games aren't new, both Idolmaster and Madoka had one and I'm assuming that they were successful. Kantai Collection's main draw is actually that every character is voiced with a bunch of lines and they got some decent talent for it, like the one English battleship that yells gaijun English is literally Karen from Kirino Mosaic.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 06:26
|
|
|
Conversely, I'd say Touhou is pretty notable for continuing to not have voice acting, even in the fighting games. From what I can tell, voice actors in Japan work for crumbs and need any job they can get.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 06:40
|
|
|
Schwarzwald posted:She has the Canadian contigent backing her up.  here, for some reason ever since I saw the maple leaf on her shield my head canon is that she's some particular French Canadian specific wolf-breed native American spirit who emigrated to Japan.Honestly I think its more fun than [Insert-Youkai-Here] that happens for most of the characters. I want a Moose Youkai so badly. 
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 06:50
|
|
|
Ha ha ha, Reisen dead loving last of all Windows characters. Though Unzan being not much higher is an outrage.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 07:03
|
|
|
Mazed posted:Ha ha ha, Reisen dead loving last of all Windows characters. That's the moon Reisen from the manga, Reisen that fled to Earth is 23rd.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 07:08
|
|
|
Redmark posted:That's the moon Reisen from the manga, Reisen that fled to Earth is 23rd. What's the difference?
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 07:40
|
|
|
Redmark posted:That's the moon Reisen from the manga, Reisen that fled to Earth is 23rd. This is only confusing in the translation. In Japanese their names are spelled differently so it would be obvious (the new one's name is written in katakana, while the original is in kanji). Not sure why the SSIB translators didn't think of using "Raysen" or something, which is what I would advocate, but it's too late to really change that.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 07:40
|
|
|
Redmark posted:That's the moon Reisen from the manga, Reisen that fled to Earth is 23rd. Well gently caress. That means Unzan is dead last. or should I say, 
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 10:04
|
|
|
FractalSandwich posted:I actually like ZUN's art direction. He doesn't draw short skirts or nonsensical skintight clothing or anything like that. Maybe that's just because he can't, but either way it's good. We may mock Zun's drawing ability as simplistic but among an otaku culture drowning in overt sexualisation of young teenage girls, he is doing a drat good job avoiding creating characters with boob windows, miniskirts, thigh highs, creep-shots, etc and I don't at all think that's by accident. Kantai collection is pretty much the otaku cash-in opposite of touhou and it's creepy as poo poo as well as having none of the charm. GeeCee fucked around with this message at 10:41 on Mar 3, 2014 |
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 10:39
|
|
|
Hokuto posted:What's the difference? To answer this more directly, in Silent Sinner in Blue the leaders of the Moon's defensive forces, the Watatsuki sisters, decided to take in a new pet rabbit to replace the one that ran away. Just to be confusing, they gave her the same name. The reason Reisen #2 didn't have a name previously is because moon rabbits don't have names. Just like normal Earth rabbits don't have names. It's also the reason Reisen #1 has three names. None of them are her surname. All three are her given names simply given to her by different people.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 11:18
|
|
|
About the character design in Touhou, I think ZUN is kind of bad at drawing. However, he's actually really good at making memorable character designs, so it doesn't matter how well he draws them. (smugface characters are also a very charming thing he does and the world would be worse without it)
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 12:05
|
|
|
Trihugger posted:To answer this more directly, in Silent Sinner in Blue the leaders of the Moon's defensive forces, the Watatsuki sisters, decided to take in a new pet rabbit to replace the one that ran away. Just to be confusing, they gave her the same name. The reason Reisen #2 didn't have a name previously is because moon rabbits don't have names. Just like normal Earth rabbits don't have names. It's also the reason Reisen #1 has three names. None of them are her surname. All three are her given names simply given to her by different people. I loving love that this is the actual explanation. Though presumably Tewi doesn't count as a 'normal' Earth rabbit.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 13:43
|
|
|
Trihugger posted:To answer this more directly, in Silent Sinner in Blue the leaders of the Moon's defensive forces, the Watatsuki sisters, decided to take in a new pet rabbit to replace the one that ran away. Just to be confusing, they gave her the same name. The reason Reisen #2 didn't have a name previously is because moon rabbits don't have names. Just like normal Earth rabbits don't have names. It's also the reason Reisen #1 has three names. None of them are her surname. All three are her given names simply given to her by different people. I learned something new today. I always thought Reisen Udongein Inaba was some sort of full name that we called her by for some reason or another.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 13:46
|
|
|
Clarste posted:Conversely, I'd say Touhou is pretty notable for continuing to not have voice acting, even in the fighting games. From what I can tell, voice actors in Japan work for crumbs and need any job they can get. Funnily enough, The Touhouvania fangame has voice-acting And your comment about VAs working for crumbs helps explain why its actually decent, at least as far as I can tell. For all I know they may sound like the first Resident Evil game to native Japanese speakers.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 15:13
|
|
|
Kheldragar posted:I learned something new today. I always thought Reisen Udongein Inaba was some sort of full name that we called her by for some reason or another. For the record, all the names are pretty insulting. "Reisen" is what the Watatsukis apparently name whichever rabbit happens to be their pet; "Udongein" is what Eirin calls her as a reference to her purpose (roughly equivalent to "Canary" as in "Canary in the coal mine": her job is to die first as a warning); and Kaguya calls her Inaba because she can't tell her apart from Tewi. SirPhoebos posted:Funnily enough, The Touhouvania fangame has voice-acting That game got an A-list cast of voice actors, and made a big deal of it. The voice direction wasn't always too great, but the actors were pretty good. Clarste fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Mar 3, 2014 |
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 15:26
|
|
|
Devour or Fire posted:Japanese browser games aren't new, both Idolmaster and Madoka had one and I'm assuming that they were successful. Kantai Collection's main draw is actually that every character is voiced with a bunch of lines and they got some decent talent for it, like the one English battleship that yells gaijun English is literally Karen from Kirino Mosaic. how many of them have that annoying super-high-pitched voice that grinds in your ears, my guess is like 90%
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 17:04
|
|
|
Mazed posted:I loving love that this is the actual explanation. Tewi's old enough to probably have earned a million names from people. Most of them epithets
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 17:17
|
|
|
Dr Pepper posted:Tewi's old enough to probably have earned a million names from people. I had a slight moment of  when reading through the wiki I come to known than Tewi's the big wig for the Earth Rabbits and is just allowing Kaguya, Eirin and Reisen to stay with them.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 17:32
|
|
|
Dark_Tzitzimine posted:I had a slight moment of 
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 18:04
|
|
|
This game series is terrible.
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 20:24
|
|
|
"If I'm bad at it, it must be terrible." *nods wisely*
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 20:35
|
|
|
Motherfucker posted:This game series is terrible. I disagree
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 20:39
|
|
|
my phone is 90% touhou mixes and house sets and I can barely easy-mode these games. Its me. I am terrible. :nignog:
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 21:18
|
|
|
Motherfucker posted:This game series is terrible. Are you the one responsible for this video?
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 22:01
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 9, 2024 22:10 |
|
|
Motherfucker posted:This game series is terrible. You MOTHERFUCKER
|
|
#
?
Mar 3, 2014 22:11
|
|
