Touhou 13.5 東方心綺楼 Hopeless Masquerade - I'm hopelessly in love

[Suikama]

Wait so no Meiling in any backgrounds?

DLC CHAR TASOFRO PLS

[Tiamat]

Kokoro has a story mode. Cuc or Clarste unlocked it I believe. It's... buggy. Heck, unlocking it is probably a bug. You can't even equip any special moves on her or use her in any other mode. But the actual storyline is there.

[Raikaria]

Wait so no Meiling in any backgrounds?

DLC CHAR TASOFRO PLS

.. How did I miss China? I guess I assumed she was on the Hakurei stage with the rest of the SDM?

Also Flandre.

Why did I just automatically assume the whole SDM was on the Hakurei stage and not even look? I'M A MORON. I shoulda gone to sleep like 2 hours ago anyway but 2hu news is keeping me up @_@

[Validon98]

Kokoro has a story mode. Cuc or Clarste unlocked it I believe. It's... buggy. Heck, unlocking it is probably a bug. You can't even equip any special moves on her or use her in any other mode. But the actual storyline is there.

Wait, what? Source, please? I mean, I knew she had a story mode, but I didn't know it was UNLOCKABLE.

[GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em]

flandre isn't in any backgrounds because it would make no sense for her to be in any stage short of "sdm basement". i doubt they'll add her as playable

[Suikama]

also flan hasn't appeared in any game ever since stb :V

[Tiamat]

Wait, what? Source, please? I mean, I knew she had a story mode, but I didn't know it was UNLOCKABLE.

Cuc or Clarste (forget which one. Not my fault! Their names both begin with C!) stated they did it in the tvtropes forum and even what the story is. I assume it's a bug to unlock in the first place.  Too bad, since like the other fighting games, it seems to contain the finale to the story (Kokoro's final boss and ending makes for a neat finale to the religious war, too, I think. Well, what was mentioned of it)

[Validon98]

...And that's not helpful because the Touhou forum on TVTropes is so long and hard to dig through that I'd probably take forever to find. Great...

[Tiamat]

...And that's not helpful because the Touhou forum on TVTropes is so long and hard to dig through that I'd probably take forever to find. Great...

Yep. Sorry. If I remembered the page number, I'd give it to you. Well, I'll spoiler what I can remember about it, though it'd be hilarious if my memory was wrong and it was another poster posting fake lies. Pretty sure it was someone reliable like Cuc or Clarste, though.

Warning: Storyline spoilers that may or may not be true depending on faulty memory of mine based on something someone else said! Hopefully whoever it was doesn't mind me reposting my paraphrased memory version of it here.

Spoiler:

Only Kokoro's normal moves are accessible since you can't equip anything, but they're good enough to get the job done. The final boss is Byakuren, Miko, AND Reimu tag-teaming against you, and the ending has Kokoro put on a performance for them which they all enjoy.

[Validon98]

Ah, I FINALLY found it. Yeah, it was Clarste. Your description was dead-on, by the way.

[Lukesky180]

Final Boss sounds epic.  :V

[Tiamat]

Yea. Personally I find the idea of

Spoiler:

all three of the major religious big shots... well, besides Kanako, of course, teaming up against the final boss and then enjoying her performance together

to be a nice Touhou-esque way to end the story arc, myself, although of course I can't say for sure since I don't know the finer details of the in-game story.

[teefa85]

That sounds like the perfect ending to a Touhou game.

[zferolie]

Oh man, futo is nuts. placing her dishes alters all her mives, giving her some insane movesets and conbos and even impossible escapes

[Suikama]

I dunno if anyone has already figured this out, but you can have custom profile icons by adding 32x32 .bmp files into the icon folder :]

[Kingault]

I dunno if anyone has already figured this out, but you can have custom profile icons by adding 32x32 .bmp files into the icon folder :]

Oh, that's awesome.
Thanks.

[Kilgamayan]

Is there a transparent-background picture of Miko's sparkly cut-in posted anywhere yet? That pose is absolutely fabulous.

[Hinacle]

Oh man, futo is nuts. placing her dishes alters all her mives, giving her some insane movesets and conbos and even impossible escapes

She is nuts. Take the time to set up on Mamizou and Final Boss and my god, she takes out more than half their health with 5 plates on the field and her fireball attack. She's my favorite character so far.

[GMOFucker: Makin' GMOs To Fuck 'Em]

I dunno if anyone has already figured this out, but you can have custom profile icons by adding 32x32 .bmp files into the icon folder :]

only problem here is that people online shouldn't be able to see them (unless there's some mechanic i don't know of)

kind of wish they had added some more icons since the demo.

[Suikama]

only problem here is that people online shouldn't be able to see them (unless there's some mechanic i don't know of)

kind of wish they had added some more icons since the demo.

well since you can only netplay with people you can have contact with to trade ip addresses you can just give them your icons too :V

[Sanger Zonvolt]

Nitori combos are too fun.

[LadyScarlet]

Meh, I prefer comboing with Futo and Koishi.

Speaking of favorites, surprising absolutely no one, my favorite character is this BAMF right here:

She's so badass, she was banned from the fighting tournament and had to sit in the background!

[highzealot]

Has anyone figured out how to unlock Kokoro outside of story mode? Apparently just beating her story mode isn't the requirement though I do have to say her final level is badass but not having spell cards is tough.

[Validon98]

As far as we know, unlocking the story mode itself was a bug. Maybe. I haven't beaten all of the story modes yet, though, so I can't say for sure.

[Quwanti]

Is there a transparent-background picture of Miko's sparkly cut-in posted anywhere yet? That pose is absolutely fabulous.

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/1572/fabulouse.png Here ya go.
Totally ignoring the fact that she has 4 toes.

[LadyScarlet]

Actually, she has five: there's a faint line on the end of her foot signifying her small toe.

[Kilgamayan]

Beeyooteeful. Many thanks.

[teefa85]

That Miko pose is made of Win.

[MewMewHeart]

Finally got used to the controls and managed to get payback on

Spoiler:

Mamizou

with Reimu!
So far: I think I'm getting used to Reimu's first deck while Marisa's Dark Blue deck is BEAST I managed to cheap shot a few bosses!
Now... to decide whose story mode to do next... Miko or Byakuren...
Edit: FABULOUS!

[Clarste]

Finally got used to the controls and managed to get payback on

Spoiler:

Mamizou

with Reimu!
So far: I think I'm getting used to Reimu's first deck while Marisa's Dark Blue deck is BEAST I managed to cheap shot a few bosses!
Now... to decide whose story mode to do next... Miko or Byakuren...
Edit: FABULOUS!

I did all my clears with the default Taoist deck for everyone, because being able to sit back and spam penetrating shots trivializes a lot of spellcards. Then again I did most of the game on Easy/Normal just to get through them all faster so maybe there are better strategies. Buddhism seems strong in melee, but a lot of boss spellcards make melee annoying to do. And Shinto is just kinda eh. I guess maybe that would work well on other players who might try to dodge or something.