Touhou 13: 東方 神霊廟 ~ Ten Desires (It's out! Beware of spoilers!)

[Paper Conan]

Aren't we going to have to stop calling Reimu and Sanae mikos since now

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there's a new touhou called Miko?

Anyway, while I'm not a fan of the new danmaku and music, the plot seems pretty awesome. If it is hinting that there'll be a

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HOLY WARRRR

, that means that the next game is going to be amazing!

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(and we'll even get to see more Moriya vs. Myoren vs. Hakurei vs. th13's lolis action)

:3

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Oh, and Nue's last spellcard is pretty similar to Flandre's "And then there will be none". More Nue = Flandre evidence for the fanbase!~

I realized that, if Trance'd at the right moment, you'll get a bunch of bombs. On a near perfect run in Normal, I got 5 lives and ohgodsomany bombs. That means, in order to successfully Ten Desires, one must learn how to not waste bombs. Use bombs wisely, my friends. BV

[Savory]

Did any one notice that

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Miko has two right hands

?

[RegalStar]

The only Sanae ending I got

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depicts Sanae re-studying history to figure out what Miko did ages back, while Suwako's all like "FOOD SANAE GIMME FOOD"

How do you get two different endings anyways? Are they random?

[Khaotic Ace]

Did any one notice that

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Miko has two right hands

?

I did!

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Though I can see it as a normal hand now. And then the crazy idea [I think some religions see it this way as well?] of using your left hand for doing shenanigans is bad, which then lead to me saying "Miko, you're trying that hard to be a saint, aren't ya?" 8U But then again I got this idea late at night when I should've been sleeping.

[Paper Conan]

Hello Minoriko 2.0. 

[Sampson]

Am I the only one that thinks

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Seiga

is harder than Yoshika?  Maybe it's just that I don't feel like

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curvy lasers

are that difficult...

[Derpface]

Aren't we going to have to stop calling Reimu and Sanae mikos since now

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there's a new touhou called Miko?

Actually, when I was reading through the pages talking about the released full game, I thought that

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Miko

was actually referring to Reimu and Sanae .-.

[Savory]

Actually, when I was reading through the pages talking about the released full game, I thought that

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Miko

was actually referring to Reimu and Sanae .-.

I thought we were getting a new miko.

[Formless God]

Welp, it turns out I'm really into cheerful and Oriental songs, that's why this game has my most favorite music along with UFO and MoF.

Kind of disappoints

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True Administrator

doesn't have a Trance version.

[The Wanderer]

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what. Transformation "Pseudo-Exorcism of the Stupid Shrine Maiden" it's one of Mamizou's spellcards
wait.. How does Mamizou know reimu?

[ふとくていなねこじょおう]

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what. Transformation "Pseudo-Exorcism of the Stupid Shrine Maiden" it's one of Mamizou's spellcards

...

I love her even more now.  :getdown:

[The Wanderer]

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Wait.... how does Mamizou know Reimu?

[Tiamat]

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Presumably Nue told her about Reimu and what Reimu's job entails.  Her dialogue with Reimu and Sanae indicates she was very aware of the Hakurei Shrine Maiden before they arrived.  However, she had yet to SEE this Hakurei Shrine Maiden, as she mistakes Sanae to be the Hakurei Shrine maiden in her dialogue with Sanai.

Basically, Nue etc told her about Reimu, but she still hadn't seen or met Reimu in person yet (hence mistaking Sanai for Reimu)

...that doesn't explain how she knew how to transform into Reimu while fighting Sanae, though.  Hmm.

[The Wanderer]

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About those 2 pointy things on Miko's head, what are they? her ears?

[Koakkuri]

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About those 2 pointy things on Miko's head, what are they? her ears?

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It's hair shaped like animal ears.

[The Wanderer]

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Miko has the most spellcards out of any stage 6 bosses

[nintendonut888]

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Wait.... how does Mamizou know Reimu?

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The same way every major power in the world knows Reimu. It's clear that among the higher-ups in the youkai world, she's quite famous

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Miko has the most spellcards out of any stage 6 bosses

Umm...Kaguya? Don't blindly trust the Wiki.

Also, in regards to the final boss' art, it's possible that the left hand is drawn correctly, and we're seeing the pinky instead of the thumb. ...That is one painful position to be in, but the same could be said for Byakuren's dislocated shoulder in UFO. :V

[The Wanderer]

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err... the most spellcards for a stage 6 boss where she has health for all of them instead of being survival cards for Kaguya's latter spellcards

[Savory]

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About those 2 pointy things on Miko's head, what are they? her ears?

Bad hair day.

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9100/youmuz.png

[Shin Rokuren]

Gah, almost 1cc'd normal. T_T

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Seiga's & Futo's spellcards

were the most fun I had in the game; captured them on my first try. What caught me by surprise was stage 5 midboss'

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zigzag arrows

and

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Miko's double gold ring thingys which I think it was her second spellcard

...

I also noticed that the dagger-type danmaku has a smaller hitbox than the older ones and

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the Boss icon thing that's usually at the bottom of the screen's gone

. Idk whether the latter is a bug or a feature.

Hmm... Any idea when to Trance outside boss battles to get the best out of the purple/green spirits? Also, how many Extends do you guys usually get? I got 3 so far...

[Khaotic Ace]

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the Boss icon thing that's usually at the bottom of the screen's gone

. Idk whether the latter is a bug or a feature.

Naw it's there.

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It's a faint red dot that's blurred around the edge... blends in very easily with the whatever design that's around the game screen.

[Shin Rokuren]

Naw it's there.

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It's a faint red dot that's blurred around the edge... blends in very easily with the whatever design that's around the game screen.

Ahh, yes, I see it. Thanks. The game screen makes it almost unnoticable.

[ふねん1]

Hmm... Any idea when to Trance outside boss battles to get the best out of the purple/green spirits? Also, how many Extends do you guys usually get? I got 3 so far...

Just save Trance for when said bomb/life-fragment fairies appear. You may need to run through Stage Practice so you remember where they all are, but you can get quite a few extra bombs this way. Using up bombs during bosses also means you can get an extra Trance or two to capitalize on the bomb/life drops after Spellcards.

I remember I just barely reached the fifth Extend (18 fragments) before the end of my Lunatic run. You kinda have to work for it, but TD gives almost as many lives as EoSD and MoF. ZUN himself recognized that this game still gives fewer lives overall though. :V

[Grimarg]

Oh man, this is incredible, this guy, when I try to talk him into some kind of sense, says that 25% of the internet agrees with him ahahahahahahahaahah



Also,

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HOLY WAAR YEAH. The new girls ar baaaad girls, lemme punish 'em

[shadowken9]

Oh man, this is incredible, this guy, when I try to talk him into some kind of sense, says that 25% of the internet agrees with him ahahahahahahahaahah

If he's so sure why ishe afraid to post the picture here?  :V

[Helix ⑨]

By the way. The final spell card of stage 5 is the best in the entire game.

Any objections?

[Tengukami]

Oh man, this is incredible, this guy, when I try to talk him into some kind of sense, says that 25% of the internet agrees with him ahahahahahahahaahah

He could have avoided this entire mess if he just labelled each and every drawing "ORIGINAL CHARACTER: DO NOT STEAL".

[AJS]

It's interesting to see that

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the plot of the Touhou games is starting to evolve from simply "someone starts incident, Reimu and co. beat her up, everyone becomes friends and has tea."  If we have a HOLY WAR on our hands, it'll probably be fleshed out in more detail in Touhou 14.  That, or the plot will be resolved in a decimal game (Touhou 13.5?), so that ZUN can use a new plot for the next shmup.

If that's the case, another fighter would be nice.  I wanna see Yoshika vs. Yuyuko, Miko vs. Byakuren, and Mamizou vs. Ran. :]

[Shizzo]

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inb4 Touhou 13.8 - Holy Wars

[Alfred F. Jones]

I see that that edit of the TH13 jewel case with the Knight Templar loli that was posted on /jp/ and Poosh

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was not far off the mark

. Not that we didn't have this hinted at in stage 3 dialogue in the demo.

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Holy war and crusades! Boy howdy!

I don't particularly like any of the characters this time around, but that doesn't stop me from finding the plot around them intriguing. Gonna take some time to absorb, of course.