Touhou 16 「東方天空璋(とうほうてんくうしょう) ～ Hidden Star in Four Seasons」 announced

[Fulisha of Light]

Spoiler:

Lily White friendos: http://i.imgur.com/oYsNpB6.jpg

[Drake]

Stages look like they cycle through seasons. Summer -> Autumn -> Spring.


Stage 3: Komano Aunn. Probably a Yamainu Komainu wtf is with my names today.


Noting that point value seems totally unrelated to graze, as previously hypothesized from the blog screenshots.

Spoiler:

CURVY LASER NO

[mauve]

komano the komainu.

even i groaned at that one

[Fulisha of Light]

Stage 3: Komano Aunn. Probably a Yamainu Komainu wtf is with my names today.

Was about to ask what a Yamainu was because I was sure by her name alone she had to be a Komainu instead.

So we have a butterfly, mountain hag, and komainu as bosses. Huh.

[gilde]

Reimu heads back to the shrine and Aunn's there like 'oh hi! i was guarding the place while you were out' and Reimu's like 'OH GOD WHO ARE YOU WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY HOUSE' lol

[teefa85]

Poor Reimu...someone's always dropping by unannounced...

Spoiler:

So we've got two adorable girls and one of the best slasher smiles (fittingly so).

[Colticide]

Oh sweet! If she is a fairy I'll be happy! I'm not sure but the other two just feel like characters you see in some fangame shooters lol. Might take me time to get use to them I guess.

[Fulisha of Light]

Is she a fairy or a butterfly?

[gilde]

A butterfly fairy.

Apparently there's no music room or manual yet? Only thing selectable on the title screen is 'Start Game', says screenshot dude.

[Nyxnyx]

We have another girl with pants!

So, komainu is considered some kind of a lion-dog? Do we have a lion dog girl now?

Looking great so far, i like all the new characters. Or maybe I'm biased, we may never know.

[Drake]

Graze creates Season items.

[Alrysc]

To be honest, I didn't like the Life Pieces. How's the difficulty compared to the other games? Has anyone said?

[game2011]

We have another girl with pants!

So, komainu is considered some kind of a lion-dog? Do we have a lion dog girl now?

Looking great so far, i like all the new characters. Or maybe I'm biased, we may never know.

Those stone lion things you find at temples.  Also called Shisa, unless they're both different.

[Drake]

System:
- Graze and destroying enemies creates Season items
- Season items fill up gauge
- When it fills up one level you gain a bonus option
- Up to 6 bonus options
- Can press the Release button to get rid of bonus options for temporary invulnerability and a circle spawns around where you press it
- Release circle cancels bullets and you gain point value based on how much you cancel, and also canceled bullets give you Season items back
- Effectiveness of Release depends on what your level is; the behaviour depends on subweapon
- Release can deal a ton of damage holy cow

Spring Release uses all levels, size of circle depends on level, and disappears quickly. You also become invincible.
Summer Release uses only one level, creates a small circle, and disappears quickly.
Autumn Release uses all levels, creates a small circle that follows you, and lasts longer depending on level. You can also go fast.
Winter Release uses all levels, creates a small circle that shields you, and lasts longer depending on level. Your shot power also increases a ton.

[gilde]

Oh the manual is still accessible from the pause menu during gameplay. Okay.

The Butterfly Fairy who Approaches God
Etanity Larva

Species: Fairy
Ability: Capable of scattering scales

A swallowtail butterfly fairy.
However, she doesn't just embody grown butterflies, but also caterpillars and chrysalises;
she can be said to be a fairy embodying insect growth, rebirth, and perversion.

Like Cirno, she's stronger than usual due to some strange force. She's in berserk mode, basically.
Fairies typically go berserk during most incidents anyway.
Her regular personality is extremely gentle-- no matter where a fight breaks out, she'll head over
to play with a few power items in hand.

Apparently when she senses danger, she spews danmaku and a foul stench from her antennae.

Her theme song is "A Midsummer Butterfly's Dream". I would imagine it's a reference to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as opposed to the Nicovideo gay porn memes, but since ZUN straight-up put the word '変態' in her profile he's probably well aware of how the JP fandom's gonna memeify the poor gal.

Shisa are specifically the Ryukyuan kind I think.

edit: You can select which Season options you want when selecting your player character. Spring converts bullets into Season items and grants brief invincibility, Winter serves as a temporary barrier and grants increased attack, Autumn converts bullets into Season items and increases your speed, and Summer's bullet-clear is small and brief but only consumes one option at a time.

[Lebon14]

So, we have another fairy to go hang out with Luna, Star, Sunny, Cirno, Clownpiece, Lily and "the big fairy". I'm kinda disappointed because I'm pretty sure she'll show up in Visionnary Fairies in Shrine's next issue this summer. I really wanted her to be a butterfly youkai instead of a fairy. Beggars can't be choosers I guess.

[Gondolin]

New characters are looking pretty cool so far. Nice to see Lily White make a return

[Alrysc]

Wait, does Reimu's sprite not have her Gohei? I don't see it.

[Tengukami]

Hooray new Smug Aya faces!

[Valar]

Reddit post with some screenshots (contains spoilers): https://www.reddit.com/r/touhou/comments/69p8u8/some_images_of_touhou_16_hidden_star_in_four/

Also check out the headbar there XD

[Tengukami]

System:
- Graze and destroying enemies creates Season items
- Season items fill up gauge
- When it fills up one level you gain a bonus option
- Up to 6 bonus options
- Can press the Release button to get rid of all of the bonus options for temporary invulnerability and a small circle spawns around where you press it
- More Release time depending on what your level is
- Release circle cancels bullets and you gain point value based on how much you cancel

EDIT: This is Aya. Seems like other characters have different Release mechanics.

Seeing screenshots of choosable options after Character Select, i.e., Something + Something, where the bottom something is changeable. What is this?

[game2011]

So, we have another fairy to go hang out with Luna, Star, Sunny, Cirno, Clownpiece, Lily and "the big fairy". I'm kinda disappointed because I'm pretty sure she'll show up in Visionnary Fairies in Shrine's next issue this summer. I really wanted her to be a butterfly youkai instead of a fairy. Beggars can't be choosers I guess.

She's a butterfly fairy, so she still counts as she bug.

[gilde]

Seeing screenshots of choosable options after Character Select, i.e., Something + Something, where the bottom something is changeable. What is this?

(   .w.)/ it dis

You can select which Season options you want when selecting your player character. Spring converts bullets into Season items and grants brief invincibility, Winter serves as a temporary barrier and grants increased attack, Autumn converts bullets into Season items and increases your speed, and Summer's bullet-clear is small and brief but only consumes one option at a time.

[Lebon14]

She's a butterfly fairy, so she still counts as she bug.

She still has "fairy" in her species. That's where I'm getting at.

[Nyxnyx]

Then let's say we have a lion girl!
Butterfly and lion now, what kind of beasts will the 3 unrevealed be? Hmm

I think the final boss will be a genuiue youkai though.

But Cirno seems to get way stronger than fairies, excluding clownpiece. Since she's out to resolve an incident, something that only some of the strongest members of gensokyo are capable of. Aya has always been powerful so that doesn't change much for her, however.

[Tengukami]

(   .w.)/ it dis

Oh neat!

On a musical note, nothing so far has really jumped out at me, save for our Mountain Hag's theme, which is pretty rad.

[game2011]

Then let's say we have a lion girl!
Butterfly and lion now, what kind of beasts will the 3 unrevealed be? Hmm

I think the final boss will be a genuiue youkai though.

But Cirno seems to get way stronger than fairies, excluding clownpiece. Since she's out to resolve an incident, something that only some of the strongest members of gensokyo are capable of. Aya has always been powerful so that doesn't change much for her, however.

Shisa are like lion/dog hybrids.

[Colticide]

Oh neat!

On a musical note, nothing so far has really jumped out at me, save for our Mountain Hag's theme, which is pretty rad.

I hope to be able to hear them soon!

[Lt Colonel Summers]

but since ZUN straight-up put the word '変態' in her profile he's probably well aware of how the JP fandom's gonna memeify the poor gal.

Or maybe ZUN is actually saying she's embodying insect growth, rebirth and metamorphosis?

'変態' does means "pervert" in Chinese - which is what Japanese Kanji is based on. But '変態' can also mean "metamorphosis", as in the stage where a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly (basically an insect's equivalent of puberty), and the inner pervert in most people automatically assumed it means "pervert". A case of "one word having multiple meanings", which is more common in Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean than it is in English.

[KaiserKnuckle]

Here be somebody's day 1 Normal 1cc. Spoilers!

(All music is Bangin'?, those stage themes in particular.)