Touhou 12.8 - 妖精大戦争 ～ 東方三月精 ~ The Great Fairy Wars. F-ff-freezing a-a-article

[Formless God]

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6 routes that are actually the SAME (the bosses are the same except they appear in a different order in each route) so it was boring...even the ennemies, they are just more strong on the last level, but that's all.

The spell cards are not the same.

[Nobu]

The spell cards are not the same.

Hell, not even the cards that have the same names are exactly the same.. Three Fairies is slightly different depending on who is leading. And is it just me, or is Luna's Three Fairies disproportionately harder than the other two? D:

[Serela]

And is it just me, or is Luna's Three Fairies disproportionately harder than the other two? D:

yes

[AJC]

the boss life thingy is the circle thingy that was taken from the UFO system from well UFO

[hyorinryu]

Is it wrong if I picture Cirno being voiced by the Heavy Weapons Guys from TF2?

Also, Holy shit! I just found out that the meter doesn't need full in order to spam ice. maybe this make things easier.

[BeyPok?Dig]

LoI @ Extra "lasers"

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Flashlight Spark

not passing through transparent ice. Quality  :]

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恋符「マスタースパークのような懐中電灯」
Love Sign "Master Spark-like Flashlight"

Hahaha so i was actually right? It's its real name? I wasn't being serious when i said that and there was no spellcard section on wiki at that time  :] I didn't even know its japanese name!
Well, i guess that

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flashlight

might be a good weapon against ice beings... and

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vampires. I now want Marisa to use this on Flandre, Remilia and Kurumi. And Elis, just to make sure she is/isn't a vampire.

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[An Odd Sea Slug]

Is it wrong if I picture Cirno being voiced by the Heavy Weapons Guys from TF2?

Also, Holy shit! I just found out that the meter doesn't need full in order to spam ice. maybe this make things easier.

I've always seen her voiced by Rie Tanaka *shot*

Anyway, saying this game is deceptively hard is an understatement. Its quite possible to jump right in for the most part, but mastering it is definately tricky. Never the less, despite the soul crushing difficulty (damn the final boss to Chireiden), I'm having much more fun with this than with ZUN's other recent games. Best thing he's done in awhile, imo.

[scherzo]

Hell, not even the cards that have the same names are exactly the same.. Three Fairies is slightly different depending on who is leading. And is it just me, or is Luna's Three Fairies disproportionately harder than the other two? D:

On easy mode at least, I'm finding Luna to be the easiest final boss: her noncards are actually normal difficulty, and her spellcards are intermediate in difficulty between Sunny's (easy) and Star's (harder). Star's noncards on the other hand  :colonveeplusalpha:

[Nobu]

This just in: Cirno knows that

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3 x 1 = 1, demonstrating rudimentary understanding of math

:3

[Drake]

1cc'd every scenario on Normal except B2, which was on Easy. My Results are screwed up and says
-I didn't clear A2, instead I cleared B1. Replay crashes.
-I maybe cleared B2.
-I didn't clear C2, instead I cleared Extra. I got the Super Player screen and everything. Replay crashes.

wat do

[Helix ⑨]

Just 1cc'd the last route on normal. So now I can do extra yay!!!
But it's gonna take a while to get this stage down right the first and second move of the midboss is easy but the third, dear god. I know how to do it, but the random bullets and just slight movement in general can really fuck you up.
And the sword fairies right after that x_x I have nightmares of those, and I don't like what's after them yet.

Guess I'll try and reach the boss tomorrow.

[Serela]

1cc'd every scenario on Normal except B2, which was on Easy. My Results are screwed up and says
-I didn't clear A2, instead I cleared B1. Replay crashes.
-I maybe cleared B2.
-I didn't clear C2, instead I cleared Extra. I got the Super Player screen and everything. Replay crashes.

wat do

I think you doing the Retry after Clearing bug thing broke your game

On a more serious note, damn, something about your game is really messed up.

[Suikama]

Well ZUN did say this game was rushed so I don't think he did any bug testing.

[Drake]

Okay I redid B2 and 1ccd. That one's good, but C2 is still borked. Gotta do that over then, too.

[Udongein]

I gotta say, even though it was apparently rushed, this game is awesome.
Sure I can't beat it yet but it's still great.

[BeyPok?Dig]

More Cirno quotes from current translation:

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Hello, invincible fairy here!
Make fun of me and you'll BURN!

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Invincible? BURN?? Cir の Mokou?

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I'm not gonna chase you down!
Next time, you're ERADICATED!

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Cirminator

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This is WAR!
And war is DANMAKU!

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And danmaku is OWNAGE!

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Ehehe...
Sorry for the quickness, but time to die!

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Alright! You make...
um, ooone, twooo...
That makes THREE! Now DIE!

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They are lucky that they weren't 4. But that would be funnier.
Edit before posting: Oh wait, that's probably the joke in japanese, no? 1,2,3,death,...

Also:

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That makes just one left.
Where'd she go?

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Luigi: OVER THERE

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Sunny Milk: Oh, you came over here.  this was in another situation but who cares

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Luigi was right!

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Sunny Milk: What're you up to, I wonder?

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Your majesty, Cirno and her ice have seized the island of Gensokyo!

The amount of DIE!!s and the quotes above (from Also: section) make me think of Ganon and YouTube Poop

[Nobu]

Respect-points for Cirno went up fivefold after going toe-to-toe with

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Marisa

. Hell, she even comments at the end that

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"(Regardless, even fairies
aren't to be trifled with...)"

and

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"(Even with my most powerful laser,
she could be trouble...)"

. Cool Cirno :*

[Solais]

Of course, Cirno is Simon, cue time-skip and she freezes the moon.

[lumber_of_the_beast]

Does this game have a vsync option? >_>

[An Odd Sea Slug]

I managed to 1cc route one on easy somehow. Gawd, this game is hard even on that difficulty, but at least it doesn't feel like I'm getting bullshitted like in SA and UFO.

[Garlyle]

1cc'd every scenario on Normal except B2, which was on Easy. My Results are screwed up and says
-I didn't clear A2, instead I cleared B1. Replay crashes.
-I maybe cleared B2.
-I didn't clear C2, instead I cleared Extra. I got the Super Player screen and everything. Replay crashes.

wat do

I had the same thing happen when I 1cc'd C-2 the first time.  I think it happens the first time you clear it, or finish clearing all routes, or something.  Just do it again (Sigh)

[Recon 5]

Of course, Cirno is Simon, cue time-skip and she freezes the moon.

Nonsense. She'll discover that Yorihime is naturally better at freezing than she is.

[E-Nazrin]

>あたいを誰だと思っているんだ！

Holy shit it is

I CALLED IT! I FUCKING CALLED IT! Oh wow. Like last September I tried to push Doyora to make a short of Cirno mimicking Simon's 'revival,' using exactly that line. Holy shit.

[Recon 5]

WAAAIT A MINUTE...

So

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Marisa

said:

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I'll just fire off my lasers
that won't kill you if you touch them.

And then she said:

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Even with my most powerful laser,
she could be trouble...

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Contradiction much? Looks like Cirno wasn't the one who ate something weird.

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Further backed up by her use of familiars that could block her own flashlights

[vgperson]

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Marisa says she COULD be trouble. That doesn't mean she actually DID pull out all the stops, unless Cirno is ever more strongest than we thought and is imagining Marisa's strongest Sparks as tickly flashlights.

(I might be wrong about something there, though. I haven't gotten around to seeing Extra yet.)

[Drake]

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Marisa didn't use her strongest spells (i.e. flashlight puny lasers) because she originally thought Cirno was a poor opponent. During the fight, she wonders how she's been keeping up. As you continue the fight, she gets more and more bewildered that Cirno's standing up to her quite well. After the fight's over, Cirno doesn't actually win, but Marisa is still flabbergasted and she says herself that she's pretty beaten up, so Cirno is actually quite strong. Marisa comments that even if she had used her stronger spellcards, Cirno probably would have put up a good fight regardless.

[Nobu]

There are some really cool spellcards in this game, especially on Extra. And I don't even think I have to mention how great the theme is. It gives me the vibe of 'You've been facing cannon fodder all this time, here's a real opponent now'. Kinda like the boss battle you aren't supposed to beat.

Also, I kinda like the idea of motivation sapping flashlight attacks. It adds an interesting dimension on top of the one-hit-kill thing.

[Recon 5]

One thing I hope to never see again is familiars that block other parts of a boss's own attack (from hitting you, not just obscuring your vision). It just seems really nonsensical.

[Serela]

One thing I hope to never see again is familiars that block other parts of a boss's own attack (from hitting you, not just obscuring your vision). It just seems really nonsensical.

Why? It's a great idea, and makes the attacks really interesting. The cards that use it wouldn't anywhere near as interesting otherwise, and I think it's awesome; Grand Cross is so fun. It's useful for things other then lasers too, like CtC Reimu's spellcard with the circle of ying-yang orbs that make holes in the danmaku.

[Lord Phantasm Satori]

I was dissapointed that

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marisa

was the extra boss. I was hoping for it to be an entirely new fairy.

[ruro]And I am disappointed that none of you know how to respect spoilers.[/ruro]