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But what if the direction Mami set her skill is an item card in the opponent's deck?
Besides, it'll be too random.

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Why would you want to transform. You picked Mamizou because you wanted to play as Mamizou, not because you wanted to play as whoever the other guy picked. Full transformation would be super dumb, unless someone can point to me why it'd be beneficial at all. Using select moves or something sounds the most reasonable.

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Why would you want to transform. You picked Mamizou because you wanted to play as Mamizou, not because you wanted to play as whoever the other guy picked. Full transformation would be super dumb, unless someone can point to me why it'd be beneficial at all. Using select moves or something sounds the most reasonable.
I don't think she will transform into a complete duplicate of the character, but I think she'll turn into a mixture of the two, as in she will be able to use a mixture her own attacks and the original character's attack too. Maybe she'll be like Double from Skullgirls and be able to make combos by using a variety of different people's attacks, with her own, which I'd love.

P.S. Although she keeps the exact duplicate form of the original character in HM, remember that she kept her tail when she transformed into Reimu during TD in Psuedo-Excorcism of the Stupid Shrine Maiden, and used a mix of Reimu's and her own attacks in the spellcard. Maybe she'll be like that.
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Why would you want to transform. You picked Mamizou because you wanted to play as Mamizou, not because you wanted to play as whoever the other guy picked. Full transformation would be super dumb, unless someone can point to me why it'd be beneficial at all. Using select moves or something sounds the most reasonable.
Someone here has never played as Shang Tsung, it seems :P

Although I don't see how they'd implement a system similar to his in HM. Gpop's idea seems to be the most likely, indeed.
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I agree with Drake. Full transformation means that you need to be good with all the character(I dare you use that against Koishi) and that's just weird.
And since this is her special trait, I think it can't be a skill card after all.


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mamizou using koishi strong attacks on command sounds so hilarious (because 6B/8B are powerful as F if you aren't restricted by her AI reqs, albeit outside of corner 6B has few followup options)
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #516 on: October 11, 2013, 10:51:36 AM »
HM patch 1.30 released! New spell cards, lots of shapeshifting, as well as new character color patterns are here.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #517 on: October 11, 2013, 11:31:07 AM »
What Mamizou's new spell card can do:
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #518 on: October 11, 2013, 01:23:20 PM »
. . . . .Those transformations are so kawai! (. . .that is all)

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #519 on: October 11, 2013, 01:59:40 PM »
And then Byaks was the Naz

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #520 on: October 11, 2013, 02:04:53 PM »
Any story behind these? The Ichirin looks like Son Gokuu. Byakuren's a mouse making a wheel spin?

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #521 on: October 11, 2013, 02:14:22 PM »
Owl Miko is best Miko.

I think I'll have to go play HM now just to see these.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #522 on: October 11, 2013, 02:20:14 PM »
Owl Miko and Mouse Byakuren.

Subliminal messages much?  :derp:

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #523 on: October 11, 2013, 02:47:46 PM »
Koishi has a new winpose referencing Terry Bogard.

Futo is a hen - she's cowardly.

Marisa is a magpie or crow, a thief-collector.

Ichirin and Unzan are more than a monkey king reference. They are a bunch of classic manga references. I think.

Reimu is a white fox, a noble messenger of gods.

Hijiri's treadmill is her rosary. The reference is probably the same as Nazrin: a silver mouse sent by Bishamoten to save a besieged city. But we are not even sure this is the idea behind Nazrin.

Kokoro is a tengu mask.

Futo's new spell card resembles GGXX Zappa's curse and Sanae's divination, causing random things to fall from heaven depending on the result of divination, including a gigantic UFO.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #524 on: October 11, 2013, 10:02:41 PM »
The tengu mask seems to be a reference to a Famicom shooting game Abarenbou Tengu (aka Samurai Zombie Nation):

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #525 on: October 12, 2013, 03:42:49 AM »
Yes, very likely. That game has even already been mentioned in this thread.



Futo is a chicken, probably because Isonokami Shrine is famous for having lots of chickens. They consider the chickens to be divine messengers. This is the central shrine of Mononobe clan. Futo's name (or more precisely, Futsuhime, the person she's based on) comes from the god enshrined here: Futsu-no-mitami, a mythical sword.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #526 on: October 12, 2013, 01:27:03 PM »
Touhou Animality :V  I am waiting for Fatalities in the next patch

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #527 on: October 14, 2013, 06:20:16 AM »
Charged B attacks doesn't seem to be exclusive to buddhism anymore. What's the point on aligning to buddhism if it just weakens your projectiles, then?

Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #528 on: October 14, 2013, 03:19:59 PM »
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #529 on: October 14, 2013, 05:09:07 PM »
The animal transformations are so fitting and adorable.  And Miko's hair goes so well into an owl's ear tufts...never noticed it until seeing these pics.

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #530 on: October 15, 2013, 02:41:05 AM »
One thing (probably not the last) that comes with the 1.30 patch: during the development, Unabara said on the blog that Mamizou's special ability is 狸穴の大将 "General of the Tanuki Lair", and they should release Mamizou's profile now. So far the profile is still nowhere to be seen.


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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: HM patch 1.30 released
« Reply #531 on: October 15, 2013, 02:45:13 AM »
Charged B attacks doesn't seem to be exclusive to buddhism anymore. What's the point on aligning to buddhism if it just weakens your projectiles, then?
Bhuddism projectiles generally have good points to balance out the small range; generally being -very- dense, and/or much more effective in close range then the other religion's versions
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: One year anniversary for FS
« Reply #532 on: October 22, 2013, 01:41:23 PM »
Another Nikenme broadcast will happen on Oct 29.

I haven't translated ZUN's manga writing tweets in a while. Feel free to imagine him spending every day playing games, only starting on a new chapter after the deadline hour has passed - that won't be too far from the truth.

A few hours ago, during today's meeting, they served a cake to Harukawa for the first FS anniversary.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: One year anniversary for FS
« Reply #533 on: October 22, 2013, 03:38:23 PM »
The animal transformations are so fitting and adorable.  And Miko's hair goes so well into an owl's ear tufts...never noticed it until seeing these pics.
Fan arts depicting/associating Miko as/with owls existed long before this came out.


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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: One year anniversary for FS
« Reply #534 on: October 23, 2013, 02:24:00 PM »
Oh, I forgot to mention, the white fox, as messenger of the god Inari, is known to deliver their message in omen dreams. "Reimu" means "omen dream".
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: One year anniversary for FS
« Reply #535 on: October 23, 2013, 05:32:38 PM »
I don't think I've seen 霊 used in the context of "omen" before, just "spirit" or "departed soul". Unless Inari's messengers delivered those dreams through possession or something. I don't know enough about Inari folklore yet to understand what the fox+Reimu connection might be beyond the messenger aspect.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: One year anniversary for FS
« Reply #536 on: October 23, 2013, 05:59:00 PM »
霊 has no meaning of "omen". It still means "spirit" in "reimu".
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: One year anniversary for FS
« Reply #537 on: October 23, 2013, 09:13:17 PM »
Actually...



That's what 'reimu' means when the two kanji are together.
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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: One year anniversary for FS
« Reply #538 on: October 24, 2013, 08:51:57 AM »
Actually...



That's what 'reimu' means when the two kanji are together.
But unless the kanji is arbitrarily assigned to a word (there are quite a few such cases in Japanese), there is always a reason behind the kanji used, even if that meaning may have been obscured by history. If you love linguistics, there's a lot of fun in figuring that out.

In the case of 霊 in "reimu", I guess a better word is "mystical".

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Re: ZUN and Touhou status update: it's a Halloween party
« Reply #539 on: October 26, 2013, 03:22:18 AM »
ZUN will attend tonight's Halloween-themed PoriPori Club broadcast. Everyone will be in costumes. Enough said.


The broadcast is scheduled to start at 8:00 PM in Japan, or 12:00 PM GMT, 7:00 AM EST.

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