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nrook
Jun 25, 2009

Just let yourself become a worthless person!
I didn’t play danmaku kagura on phones bc gacha, but the pc rerelease is looking like it’s going to be really special

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El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Also. ZUN art

https://twitter.com/korindo/status/1688425657506918400?s=46&t=RfhlX-UN9YMscISDFJ-6Yw

Blaziken386
Jun 27, 2013

I'm what the kids call: a big nerd

leather fedora posted:

Toby Fox also had a short video saying how this was an honor for him since he's been a Touhou Project fan since elementary school and asking for Ran to appear in the next game.
specifically, he asked for her to be the protagonist of the next game and you know what

hes so real for this

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

A phantasmagoria game would be the right time for it.

leather fedora
Jun 27, 2004

The closest acceptable translation is
"die properly"
Comiket release in two days: https://touhou-project.news/news/9810/

Two notable changes in the disc version:
- Price increased to 1500 yen
- Latest version of DirectX not included due to space issues

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
How crammed is this disc that they couldn't fit directx

Meeko
Sep 15, 2017

That's right! I'm the counting sheep, Meeko. And I'm a proper sheep youkai!

In fairness directx 9.0c's like a 95mb download? and CDs really don't have much space relative to how big modern files are, I believe they top out at around 700~ MB. Touhou games have been 450+MB installed for awhile now, so it was only a matter of time before one of them got too big to fit a directx download in as well.

Even with compression though there's just only so much you can do to keep a CD relevant, it's a 40 year old format designed for music.

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

Fight for all that is beautiful in the world


Zun, we have this thing called a DVD

Meeko
Sep 15, 2017

That's right! I'm the counting sheep, Meeko. And I'm a proper sheep youkai!

blank CDs also either cost the same or more as blank DVDs (and have been like that for awhile afaik), i'm pretty sure it's just one of those tradition things he'd rather not give up on unless he absolutely has to.

Nook
Jan 27, 2015

The bulk of any Touhou game in terms of file size is music and this one probably has more than usual considering the roster size

Rectus
Apr 27, 2008

Nook posted:

The bulk of any Touhou game in terms of file size is music and this one probably has more than usual considering the roster size

good time to return to FM synthesis

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Soon

For now back of the box showing off some characters

Ran, Orin, Tsukasa

https://twitter.com/ann_momitsu/status/1690538525933121536?s=46&t=RfhlX-UN9YMscISDFJ-6Yw

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

Congrats Toby Fox

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

She even has a main character portrait in the character select, so she’s in fact a protagonist like Toby wanted

Erg
Oct 31, 2010

Ty toby fox

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

I'm glad Tsukasa is in

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
Yo!!! Reimu's in the game!!!

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

Fight for all that is beautiful in the world


I cant believe one of my old dreams of playable Ran is true

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

uuuuuuuuu suika

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

I have heard all members of the animal hell Yakuza are in, and I hope this is true. They one of Zun's best ideas from the last few games.

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
One of the new characters is Saki's subordinate too.

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

Doesn't seem like Shou got in

poor girl

Blaziken386
Jun 27, 2013

I'm what the kids call: a big nerd
ZUN, open the steam page
stop having it be closed

duck.exe
Apr 14, 2012

Nap Ghost
Biten is a monkey who Yacchie gaslit into thinking she’s Sun Wukong. Can’t believe everyone who made gag rosters featuring Goku turned out to be half right.

duck.exe fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Aug 14, 2023

mdct
Sep 2, 2011

Tingle tingle kooloo limpah.
These are my magic words.

Don't steal them.

Blaziken386 posted:

ZUN, open the steam page
stop having it be closed

He did the thing. Go get it.

leather fedora
Jun 27, 2004

The closest acceptable translation is
"die properly"

rannum posted:

Doesn't seem like Shou got in

poor girl
Nazrin does all the hard work anyway.

Kagerou however got a raw deal.

El Burbo
Oct 10, 2012

Newhus are cute

I assume there’s a lore reason for Son Biten to be wearing Nemunos outfit

symbolic
Nov 2, 2014


let's. freakin. go

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

El Burbo posted:

Newhus are cute

I assume there’s a lore reason for Son Biten to be wearing Nemunos outfit

She lived in a Yamanba's territory/sanctuary I think

Schwarzwald
Jul 27, 2004

Don't Blink

Erg posted:

Ty toby fox

Mazed
Oct 23, 2010

:blizz:


Hisami, flower-face girl, seems like she's shaping up to be a crowd favorite due to how much of a sheer weirdo she is...which is great, because her design is pretty wild and experimental for ZUN and it's good to see that in the spotlight.

lets hang out
Jan 10, 2015

The t-shirt gremlin just snaps the AI in half. It's so incapable of dodging the purple spirit things she sends over you can win story matches the old-fashioned way.

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

This truly is a game about the ingenuity of the individual triumphing over AI the perfectionism of AI

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.

SyntheticPolygon posted:

This truly is a game about the ingenuity of the individual triumphing over AI the perfectionism of AI

Zanmu?

Also, this is a freaking long game.

Ammat The Ankh
Sep 7, 2010

Now, attempt to defeat me!
And I shall become a living legend!
https://twitter.com/richard_effendi/status/1690647049036083200

rannum
Nov 3, 2012

I love zun's afterword spiel about AI

quote:

When the AI boom got going around last year, I figured (in my contrarian way) that "if AI takes the world by storm, homebrew work will conversely go up in value," and decided to make a game that was, first and foremost, just plain chock full of stuff. That's this game.

If AI symbolizes perfection, inorganicity, and "ends over means," then the opposing symbol of imperfection, organicity, and the importance of "the process" would be, in short, living creatures.
"While humans are all abuzz about AI, the beasts are the ones building a world of mental enrichment and a palpable sense of life." That's the fantasy crammed into this game's main theme.

And the result is, well, this thing (LOL)


which is also why the game's so long :v:

Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Honestly, I think the biggest reveal in this game is that Ran is from the Animal Realm and is an old yakuza buddy of Yuuma's.

Meeko
Sep 15, 2017

That's right! I'm the counting sheep, Meeko. And I'm a proper sheep youkai!

She's additionally a old acquaintance of Saki and Yachie!

Also a big fan of the way how said reveal is dropped also just scrubs the whole "actually Ran's just a computer program installed over/burying the original Youkai" plot point and keeps her as her own person.

Always felt kinda out of line with how Yukari's been portrayed in recent years.

Meowywitch
Jan 14, 2010

Fight for all that is beautiful in the world


But where's Clownpiece

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Clarste
Apr 15, 2013

Just how many mistakes have you suffered on the way here?

An uncountable number, to be sure.
Clownpiece is not an animal.

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