Touhou

Zansnae! grin One other Grand Prix Watcher! Awesome! However, important question! Where did you watch it? The only one on YT is down for copyright!! *cries* sadp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oql5gmFLvtU

Only the Patchu-Mirin one (in the link above) is in a decent resolution though.

They're all available at a higher resolution on nicovideo.

http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/45347361

edited 22nd Aug '14 8:28:29 PM by Zansnae793

edited 22nd Aug '14 8:39:38 PM by atrican

Oh Alice.

@atrican: I don't think you need an entire game to be an introduction to Gensokyo though. You can just have a prologue or something. Just a short kerfuffle a la Forbidden Scrollery where Reimu has to stop some low-level youkai from stealing all the toilet paper or whatever. Frankly I think using either of those incidents as an introduction is actually kind of weird and misleading. For example, the stuff about the underground youkai may be a fundamental aspect of the setting but it's also something that Reimu and Marisa lived their entire lives without thinking about, apparently.

As for my preferred storyline, I think Miko would make a great final boss for various reasons. First, she just has the right sort of personality, second every single other boss you fought earlier has a reason to hate her and therefore join you, third she highlights the themes of Gensokyo by contrasting the difference between the pretend-youkai-conflict that characterizes Gensokyo at rest and the real conflict from ages past (forcing a bit of soul-searching/honesty from our protagonists, at least momentarily), and lastly she can easily change her mind on a dime and sit down for tea at the end.

edited 23rd Aug '14 12:55:30 AM by Clarste

alice no

At the creation of Gensou Shoujo Taisen 1, there is no Hopeless Masquerade. It is just Touhou 6 - 12. Hisoutensoku or Great Fairy Wars being the newest game.

They did a good job, so I am unsure if changing the way they introduce it would be better or worse.

This has been part of my headcanon so long that I nearly forgot it's not actual canon. EX Rumia in my mind is Rumia from before electric lights became widespread. Rumia is the incarnation of humanity's fear of darkness.

Which, nowadays, embodies "It's dark? That's mildly annoying. Flashlight/cell phone/light-up-watch to the rescue."

Nobody recognizes them... since nobody sees them. So... yeah, makes sense to me.

Well, I'm sold. But then, I'm an easy sell, so yeah.

Only to be revealed they were only doing it to make the filth-licking youkai's job harder so they'd be late to a party because the toilet-paper culprit didn't have enough Sake to host everyone properly.

Haha, FMW3 has the Time Paradox skill that lets her get attack assists with herself...

I haven't posted it here: Ichijinsha has a 128-page artbook for TOKIAME named "Hourai". This will be his first proper artbook, collecting his Touhou illustrations plus some additional commercial and personal works. The book costs 2700 Yen (tax included). Japanese Amazon

Huh, because I haven't said it, in the recent months, my attitude on the PC-98 era has turned around. The PC-98 games have a warm heart that means well, which is unfortunately a rare thing in video games, and I'd argue, something that's somewhat lacking in the Windows canon.

HRTP and SOEW are very much beginner's exercises. LLS & MS have excuse plot with no proper denouement, and their characters are mostly fillers, compared to SOEW which actually tried to tell a story; they are all about ZUN improving his craft in STG making. Strangely, this leaves PODD as the most accomplished game from the PC-98 era.

edited 23rd Aug '14 7:14:45 AM by atrican

Speaking of PODD, I think it would nice if we would get another Phantasmagoria game.

Speaking for myself, I hope it never happens.

Quite frankly I think a warm heart that means well is overrated. Windows canon has more of a cynical heart that's nonetheless optimistic, and I find that much more valuable. If this series was too warm and fuzzy I'd probably have gotten bored of it long ago. I like the fact that ZUN has something to say about our world, through his own weird lens.

Speaking of other things I would like to see (because I am daring), I would like if in the future there would a character who can generate gunpowder (mainly for fireworks because danmaku is practically a fireworks festival anyway) and one base on gemstones. And Christian, but that happening would as slim as having a proper male character in the games. There are more (like aUshi Oni who has an identity crisis and Gashadokuro who is a large woman with skeleton-themed clothing), but those would be bit specific.

edited 23rd Aug '14 7:26:06 AM by TPPR10

@Zansnae: Super Thanks for linking! Was busy since last post and gonna be busy for a bit now, but gonna watch and enjoy as soon as I can! Resolution doesn't bother me much. Just happy to watch.

x3 Though I wouldn't mind some sort of synthesis (in the Hegelian sense), is my point.

EDIT: According to wikipedia, Aufhebung, the word Hegel himself would use is translated in English as "sublation". Oh my.

edited 23rd Aug '14 7:55:51 AM by atrican

I remember that on Danbooru. Unsurprisingly it's Fuantei.

New Silverquest.

NEXT TIME ON SILVERQUEST: LET'S GO SHOPPING!

i voted for larp outfits

there is no way this can possibly go wrong

For some reason, I am pretty sure the LARP outfits are the obligatory "no, stop being dumb and pick again" option.

edited 23rd Aug '14 5:39:49 PM by Otherarrow

its stuffman

i wouldnt put it past him to actually go through with it

I am pretty sure he has included "pick again" cold openings to posts before, in Purplequest at least.

Of course, now that I've said it, he might do it anyway because I said he wouldn't.

(or my memory is just shit)

Well, LARP outfits would be an invitation to introduce another screwy subsystem into the game, so he might go for it. He has done the "nope, forget it" open before, but I'm not sure he's ever done it for an option he himself offered us.

It's already in the game, but you need advanced FASHIONTECH to use it.