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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Harukawa Moe speaks
« Reply #270 on: June 24, 2013, 06:30:16 PM »
The double-page spread at the beginning of FS 6 showed Kasen with her box, so I guess that that party where Remilia talks to Reimu about her new pet is the same one where everyone drunk from the Ibaraki box.

Maybe Remi, acting all oni around her house, accidentally set her chupacabra free. Or something.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Harukawa Moe speaks
« Reply #271 on: June 24, 2013, 08:16:19 PM »
The double-page spread at the beginning of FS 6 showed Kasen with her box, so I guess that that party where Remilia talks to Reimu about her new pet is the same one where everyone drunk from the Ibaraki box.

Maybe Remi, acting all oni around her house, accidentally set her chupacabra free. Or something.
Confirmed by Reimu mentioning that she had no memory of the past few days.

Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Harukawa Moe speaks
« Reply #272 on: June 25, 2013, 03:22:50 AM »
The double-page spread at the beginning of FS 6 showed Kasen with her box, so I guess that that party where Remilia talks to Reimu about her new pet is the same one where everyone drunk from the Ibaraki box.

Maybe Remi, acting all oni around her house, accidentally set her chupacabra free. Or something.

And if you look closely they also have roughly the same guests as well.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Harukawa Moe speaks
« Reply #273 on: July 03, 2013, 03:07:07 PM »
Here's a catchup update of selected tweets, covering topics from games to deceptively perverted jokes. Previously covered tweets will not be repeated here.

Keep in mind that ZUN has been working on DDC this whole time. :flowerpower:

Summary of what's important: When developing Touhou games, ZUN uses a PlayStation 2 gamepad.

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June 10:
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ZUN: Playing [Shin Megami Tensei IV]. Feeling satisfied after finally beating New Game+. I haven't concentrated on a single game for a long period like that in some while.

Okonogi: Did you choose Chaos or Neutral for New Game+?

ZUN:
Spoiler:
Isabeau route
. I'm pretty much satisfied.

June 11, E3 Press Conference time:
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ZUN: Hmm, PS4 and Xbox One are both so rectangular~. Can they transform and combine?

Engadget Japan: "PlayStation 4 appearance revealed" This picture is not a distortion; it really looks like that.

ZUN: I can tolerate lots of things, but I'll feel rather bad if the PS4 can't fit into my shelf due to those sharp corners.

ZUN: Hey~ Don't you want a good game like Bayonetta~

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From the night of June 15:
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ZUN: Seems the wife will begin playing golf next month. Her enthusiasm is extraordinary. We were only drinking beer in a pub a moment ago, and now we are lining up for a golf simulator.

ZUN: So we are now playing golf while drunk.

ZUN: Drunken golf looks like that.

Note: As you may remember, playing golf is an important part of salarymen's socializing in Japan.

June 14 and 16:
Meetings. June 16 is the first post-release HM design meeting, which I already reported in this thread.

June 18:
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ZUN: Keyboards are consumables. The main reason of consumption is alcohol.

ZUN: I couldn't take it any more, so I switched to this keyboard. It's very comfortable. [Link to Logitech's washable keyboard K310]

June 20-21 midnight:
More meetings. At 1 AM, June 22:
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ZUN: The meeting involves Muslim(s) who can drink alcohol. Because their sect is one that allows drinking but forbids becoming drunken, we can only drink this much.

ZUN: I've become even more mystified about religions.

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It's time to vote for the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly Election! Politics lead to politically incorrect jokes?
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heppoko: My voting location is neither an elementary school nor a middle school. I'm in the losers' bracket.

ZUN: Mine is in a kindergarten.

heppoko: Is this the meaning of winner at life?
BTW, I was wrong to call heppoko "younger"; he's 37 this year, one year older than ZUN.

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At 13 PM, June 27:
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ZUN: It'll be great if Etrian Odyssey Untold can be delayed for one more month. By that time my work is already done.

At 16 PM:
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ZUN: Huh? Index is bankrupt? On the release day of Etrian Odyssey Untold...
Index is the current parent company of Atlus; they seemed to have bought Atlus so they could stave off their financial disaster with a cash cow. Atlus is now in a worrying situation.

On June 28:
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I have no time for playing Etrian Odyssey Untold, so I ordered some foliage plants. This way, I can turn my workshop into a green labyrinth.

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Another PoriPori Club broadcast took place on June 29. During the broadcast, ZUN revealed that when developing his own games, he always uses a PlayStation 2 gamepad.

The second day, a strange thing happened. Yoshinaga, member of PoriPori Club and a famous blogger, announced on twitter he is getting married with the wife of Hara Tetsuo (the artist of Fist of the North Star).
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ZUN: I woke up to discover Mr. Yoshinaga is getting married, with Mr. Hara Tetsuo's wife. I have no idea what he's saying at all, so I'll just consider it a dream.

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July 2:
The game-themed pub A-Button will be celebrating its 5 years of running on August 18. ZUN has been invited as guest in a talkshow during the event.

At night of the same day:
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ZUN: The wife will be travelling to Hawaii with her company tomorrow, but has yet to return home from work. In the living room there is only an empty suitcase. Is such preparation really OK?

ZUN: She herself seems only concerned about playing golf for the first time in Hawaii (laugh)
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: drunken golf
« Reply #274 on: July 04, 2013, 11:14:03 AM »
The Muslim (one man) he met with that night happened to be one of the directors for AWA. He also had him sign some copies of DDC demos and Sealing Club CD 5.5 to be given out at some point... ZUN was reluctant at first because he was worried they would end up on Japanese auction sites. :V

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: drunken golf
« Reply #275 on: July 04, 2013, 02:24:26 PM »
The Muslim (one man) he met with that night happened to be one of the directors for AWA. He also had him sign some copies of DDC demos and Sealing Club CD 5.5 to be given out at some point... ZUN was reluctant at first because he was worried they would end up on Japanese auction sites. :V
Oh, that's awesome! You sound like you knew it from your personal connections... The AWA director really intended to give out those discs during AWA?

To people who are not familiar with it:

2011's Tohoku Earthquake caused Reitaisai 8 to be postponed to May. Instead of selling the TD demo at Reitaisai 8, ZUN decided to release TD demo for free, and make a special music CD, "Unknown Flower, Mesmering Journey", in memory of those perished in the earthquake. All the income from selling this limited press CD was donated to the earthquake recovery cause.

Unfortunately, "Unknown Flower, Mesmering Journey" has since been auctioned at astronomical prices on internet. This is a real problem, so giving out copies of it may indeed have certain consequences ZUN doesn't want to see...

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Another funny tidbit about religion and drinking: when tweeting about June 16's HM design meeting, ZUN said: "this time there'll be no Buddhist,"

It goes without saying that ZUN and co. was going to drink a lot during the design meeting. But was he implying there was a Buddhist attending his June 14 meeting, so he couldn't drink as much as he wanted?

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One more cultural note might be needed about the Tokyo election.

In post-war Japan, education is taken extremely seriously. As a result of education policies, schools are generally the most sturdy buildings of their areas, serving as shelters in times of emergency. They are also often used for public services, such as voting.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: drunken golf
« Reply #276 on: July 08, 2013, 10:14:25 AM »
Continuation of the tweet updates. This post is all serious.

July 3:
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ZUN: If the thing you've put a lot of effort into is not turning out well, be it drawing or music, you'll also need the determination to discard it. >Pssst<.

ZUN: I'll take a drink and reset.

ZUN:It's actually faster to start from scratch than keep working on a song you don't like... I guess.

ZUN: See, starting from scratch really is faster. Great.

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At 2 AM, July 4:
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ZUN: TV Tokyo seemed to have made a special feature about Touhou, so I timeshifted it. Its view is relatively unbiased, that's not bad. However if fan creations are the signs of a hit [as the show said], then Touhou's sign must be taking an especially long time...

ZUN: By the way, the show also invited me, but I refused, since it seemed they wouldn't offer me beer. (Kidding. I simply didn't have the time.)

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Someone:
If the child pornography law reform is implemented, Touhou's fan creation (including non-R18 works) will be dealt a devastating blow. What do you think of that? If you are against it, you only need to explain it on Twitter, and the voting Touhou fans will be greatly influenced.

ZUN: Having done various investigations into it, I am still against the current reform bill. However, just talking on Twitter isn't very meaningful. I'd prefer doing something actually influential if possible.

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Someone:
Hello. Sorry for the abrupt question. Recently Touhou has been appearing more and more as commercial works. I'm worried Touhou will eventually become commercialized. What is your view on that?

ZUN: Because it's doujin now, I can accomplish many things that are only possible for doujin. The same goes for commercial works. There are many things only possible for commercial works. What matters is, I am creating Touhou, therefore I must do things that only Touhou can. Where the work is published, is not an especially big issue.

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Still July 4, at midnight:
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ZUN: According to the body scale I have lost weight, so I 'm going drinking.

ZUN: For no particular reason, I'm drinking with Yoshinaga.

At 4 AM, July 5:
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ZUN: For nothing in particular, I'm still drinking with Yoshinaga. Come to think of it, it's impressive that I can stay in the company of weirdos who have become the talk of town. By my own standard, I must be the real weirdo.

What Yoshinaga had done (see the earlier post) would no doubt cause some people to avoid him. It looks like ZUN is no such people, even if Yoshinaga is not his close friend by any measure.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: drunken golf
« Reply #277 on: July 08, 2013, 10:39:30 AM »
Gheh, now I'm curious how this song sounded like. Guess we'll never know.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: drunken golf
« Reply #278 on: July 08, 2013, 01:35:20 PM »
Since first posting it, I've added two more segments to the post above. Be sure to read them if you haven't. Now, onto less serious topics.

An ITmedia article says at Akibahara, you can buy a CRT monitor in good condition, for only 500  yen!
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ZUN: They are indeed cumbersome, but this still makes me want to buy one...

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At 4 AM, July 7:
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ZUN: I think source code files are like raising simulation games that grow up along with the work. However, this boss script file, where the comments still read "Wriggle", has always been a child, no matter how much time has passed.

ZUN: In a one-man dev team, comments are just decoration.
This is the point where every experienced programmer shouts at the screen: "no, comments are important even if you are the only one reading it!!!"

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ZUN: Right, it's Tanabata, so I have to make a wish. I wish I won't have to pray for gods' help at the last moment, for the remainder of the year.

ZUN: I also wanted to wish I can have beer to drink even without working, until I recalled the reason Orihime and Hikoboshi were separated, was they didn't work after marriage.

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ZUN: The wife has come back from Hawaii, but she is dead tired, and Tokyo's heat is melting her.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: drunken golf
« Reply #279 on: July 08, 2013, 09:31:14 PM »

At 4 AM, July 7:This is the point where every experienced programmer shouts at the screen: "no, comments are important even if you are the only one reading it!!!"


The bizarre part is that bad habits aside his code's reasonably solid from what I've seen of the games in action. :V

Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: drunken golf
« Reply #280 on: July 09, 2013, 05:55:44 AM »
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This is the point where every experienced programmer shouts at the screen: "no, comments are important even if you are the only one reading it!!!"

I'm surprised his doesn't find his comments useful. Usually, you put comments to remind you what a certain function or script does.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: drunken golf
« Reply #281 on: July 09, 2013, 01:52:41 PM »
Vol. 3 of Touhou Ibarakasen ~ Wild and Horned Hermit. will have as many as 9 different store-specific bonus items. Again, the blogger "noeg" will keep his page of bonus items updated.

http://blog.livedoor.jp/noegasukida/archives/29872982.html

Azuma Aya has made a list of them:

Melonbooks: Japanese paper book cover (Kasen)
Toranoana: Clear file (Kasen)
Animate: Large clear sheet (Kasen and Seiga)


Anibro Gamers: Illustrated bromide (Reimu)
Bunkyodou/Animega/JBOOKS: Illustrated card (Marisa)
Sanyoudou: Illustrated card (Reimu)
Seibundou: Illustrated card (Marisa)
Manga-ou: Illustrated card (Kasen)

WonderGOO: Illustrated card (Yukari)  (normal edition only)
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: drunken golf
« Reply #282 on: July 16, 2013, 02:16:41 PM »
First of all, an important balance patch, version 1.10, has been released for HM. If you are waiting for Kokoro, this is not it. However, it does bring the game closer to an actually finished state.


WaHH Vol. 3 news:

The Toranoana bonus item is a file folder. It clarifies one detail about Kasen: she is not a glutton like Yuyuko. Instead, she has a sweet tooth.


Sanyoudo's card:



The site Akiba Blog (warning: the site itself is NSFW) has posted an article by the WaHH editor Okonogi for the promotion of WaHH Vol. 3.


Azuma Aya loves figures. These are her earlier design sketches for Vol. 3's bundled figurine. Dumplings, a thunder beast and a vulture are all ideas for accessories she had considered.


First, they made a prototype with a 3D printer. With this as basis, the sculptor made corrections according to Azuma's feedback.


Behind is the box for the figurine-bundled version of Vol. 3.

In the article, Okonogi also confirmed Vol. 3 will reproduce all the colored pages in full-color, same as Vol. 2. (This was not the case with Vol. 1, which only reproduced Chapter 1's colored pages, leaving the rest in black & white.)
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM 1.10 patch
« Reply #283 on: July 16, 2013, 04:39:07 PM »
Kasen's a sweet tooth?  Get ready to embrace those fan arts!

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: drunken golf
« Reply #284 on: July 17, 2013, 03:19:53 PM »
The Toranoana bonus item is a file folder. It clarifies one detail about Kasen: she is not a glutton like Yuyuko. Instead, she has a sweet tooth.

Oh man. She really is a girl after my own heart.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM 1.10 patch
« Reply #285 on: July 17, 2013, 04:07:25 PM »
Seiga and Kasen picture fawk yes!
Kasen has a sweet tooth.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: DDC web demo
« Reply #286 on: July 19, 2013, 11:48:56 AM »
ZUN has updated his official site with DDC's web demo download and game manual.

Top page:
http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th14top.html

Game manual:
http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th14man/index.html

There's of course also a blog update.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: DDC web demo
« Reply #287 on: July 19, 2013, 12:20:26 PM »
Does the blog update happen to mention if the web demo includes any changes/updates to the game?

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: DDC web demo
« Reply #288 on: July 19, 2013, 12:51:41 PM »
The blog mentions that it fixed some bugs in the Reitaisei version, and did not change the contents of the game.
Also mentions that computers than can't run the web demo is quite likely unable to run the full version.

How should I translate 不可思議で不穏な異変?
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: DDC web demo
« Reply #289 on: July 19, 2013, 12:54:01 PM »
He said bugs have been fixed.

I don't have the time to write anything, but here's summary of new story info:

Youkai are rioting, and tsukumogami are turning up;
no one knows what's happening; clouds are gathering; Strong wind carries the sounds of a huge building; Gensokyo is full of sounds of dissonance.

Reimu was troubled, because her gohan had turned into a tsukumogami. She should exterminate it, but it was too convenient. She felt guilty, so she didn't tell anyone.

The tsukumogami Hakkero abhors moisture, and kept Marisa's house dry.

Remilia ordered Sakuya to deal with the rioting youkai of Misty Lake. She normally wouldn't care about something like that, so there must be some hidden reason.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: DDC web demo
« Reply #290 on: July 19, 2013, 12:55:15 PM »
Sweet, maybe this means I'll be able to play it without a 85% slowdown rate unless I turn off everything but background processes.

"Human history and growth are both linked closely to strife. Without conflict, humanity would have no impetus for growth. When humans are satisfied with their present condition, they may as well give up on life."

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: DDC web demo
« Reply #291 on: July 19, 2013, 01:13:33 PM »
不可思議で不穏な異変

A mysteriously perilous incident? "Unstable" makes sense though, given the context of rioting.

EDIT:
The description/genre is 不可思議で不穏な異変, see above.

The download mirrors are named after legendary katanas. Don't look too deep into it, this is for the game's "weapon" theme.

The system requirements recommend players to have "an arrogant heart".


(I've never seen anyone translate these items, but they are part of the Touhou experience.)
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: DDC web demo
« Reply #292 on: July 19, 2013, 03:12:10 PM »
Apparently for the few several minutes after the site went up, ZUN had the TD characters descriptions up with the DDC pictures.

Sanae had quite a makeover there. :V

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: DDC web demo
« Reply #293 on: July 19, 2013, 04:15:53 PM »
Apparently for the few several minutes after the site went up, ZUN had the TD characters descriptions up with the DDC pictures.

Sanae had quite a makeover there. :V

Sanae confirmed for DDC.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: DDC web demo
« Reply #294 on: July 19, 2013, 06:41:44 PM »
So, uh, is there like a copy of this picture somewhere? I didn't catch it and apparently it's not there right now.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: DDC web demo
« Reply #295 on: July 20, 2013, 01:19:32 AM »
I guess he meant that with Sanae's description the image of Sakuya was seen.

So nothing special.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 cover art
« Reply #296 on: July 23, 2013, 01:04:40 AM »
I'm so so so falling behind on everything I want to translate...

The packaging design of "Touhou Kishinjou ~ Double Dealing Character." has been delivered for manufacturing. You will be able to preorder the game starting from July 26.

http://kourindou.exblog.jp/20835251/
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: DDC web demo
« Reply #297 on: July 23, 2013, 01:44:46 AM »
I guess he meant that with Sanae's description the image of Sakuya was seen.

So nothing special.

Yeah, I was joking.

Also, cuc, from about a month ago:
"RE: Touhou history questions: I'll write up some very short sunmary in a few days. Please don't expect too much. /bow"
Did that ever happen?
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 cover art
« Reply #298 on: July 23, 2013, 02:25:00 AM »
I'm so so so falling behind on everything I want to translate...

The packaging design of "Touhou Kishinjou ~ Double Dealing Character." has been delivered for manufacturing. You will be able to preorder the game starting from July 26.

http://kourindou.exblog.jp/20835251/

Now time to guess who the final/Extra boss it is!

She seems to be shorter than usual, as her feet only reach down half of the jewel case....
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: Touhou 14 cover art
« Reply #299 on: July 23, 2013, 02:28:05 AM »
Now time to guess who the final/Extra boss it is!

She seems to be shorter than usual, as her feet only reach down half of the jewel case....

There's speculation that the final boss will be/is based on the legend of Issun-boshi.
In all honesty, it seems somewhat plausible, though I don't see how exactly it would fit with the more Western parts of DDC...
Maybe something related to dwarves/gnomes/etc?