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

[Lavalake]

Too bad I don't have the game.  :V
But I think everyone represents a religion making each religion have 3 characters except Taoism plus two mystery character.

Warning spoilers of the characters...kind of

Spoiler:

Shinto would have Reimu, Marisa and Nitori because she helped Suwako and Kanako before.
Taoism would have Miko, Futo
Buddhism would have Byakuren, Ichirin, and Koishi because Byakuren wants to help Koishi with her state.

If only had the game... But overall from then looks and sounds of it, I would really love to have this game. And Koishi is controlling herself.

[fishsicles]

Where are people buying their copies of the game?

I have not been in the fandom when a new game came out (found my way here right after Ten Desires hit); do the usual vendors send them out this quickly, or is it on Tasofro's website, what?

[PJ]

Spoiler:

Shinto would have Reimu, Marisa and Nitori because she helped Suwako and Kanako before.

Marisa isn't Shinto, she's the "Magician Representing Humanity". So, if anything, she'd prefer Tao over Shinto.

[Sagus]

You know... I never understood why people were calling the whole 10-13 arc "Religious War". There was no conflict between the factions at all. (no more than normal for Gensokyo, at least). At most, there were some sparks between Byakuren and Miko in SoPM. Kanako showed 0 interest in going against either them; hell, the Moriyas helped Byakuren build her temple, even.

All I'm saying is that I don't see how the story turned the religious conflict in a red herring, since there was no real religious conflict in the first place.

Also the final boss is adorable.

Spoiler:

Using her masks to express her emotions is too damn cute aaaaaaa

As for everything else, I'll just say, with complete honesty, I don't remember the last I had to much fun playing a game. I was so damn happy that I didn't even get mad when the game crashed before the last boss. Goddamn, I'm still smilling like an idiot from my first playthrough!

Now to desperately try to stop the game from crashing so I can finish it!

[Unfortunate]

Unfortunately, the game crashing looks like a pretty common problem. I'll give it a few days before Tasofro can make a patch to fix all these problem.

[Sagus]

Changing the locale to japanese stopped my game from crashing before the final boss, but Koishi's specials still crash.

[Gpop]

So looks like Koishi's thorny roses are what's crashing the game for me. Even with it patched it still crashes

[Kingault]

Marisa isn't Shinto, she's the "Magician Representing Humanity". So, if anything, she'd prefer Tao over Shinto.

Also, Nitori's a member of the kappa group that dislikes religion.

Also,

Spoiler:

Mamizou would be Buddhist at best, considering her ties...

[Tiamat]

Do we have any actual details in the in-game story yet? Maybe Nitori represents Kanako without realizing it, since Kanako is trying to become a god of technology. By showing off the power of technology, Nitori is gathering faith for Kanako but has no idea that she's doing so, which leads to hilarity in the ending.

[Kingault]

Do we have any actual details in the in-game story yet? Maybe Nitori represents Kanako without realizing it, since Kanako is trying to become a god of technology. By showing off the power of technology, Nitori is gathering faith for Kanako but has no idea that she's doing so, which leads to hilarity in the ending.

Mind telling me the ending via PM? Don't want to spoil it for others.

[Frog]

So looks like Koishi's thorny roses are what's crashing the game for me. Even with it patched it still crashes

You're not alone, as far as I know that's the case for everyone.

[zferolie]

Hey. Anyone know how to unlock characters? Missing the last 2 for versus

[Clarste]

Hey. Anyone know how to unlock characters? Missing the last 2 for versus

You unlock one by beating Story Mode with the first 8 (on any difficulty). The other can't be unlocked yet, as far as I know. I'm told this is because she's unfinished and not ready to be played. Presumably she'll be patched in at some point.

[babalenong]

can someone translate the options menu? trying to get rid of lag as much as possible but i don't want to use the half fps setting
this thing is more demanding than crysis 

[fondue]

Apparently,you have to run the game on  japanese locale.

Applocale refuses to run with it though.
E: How do you patch the game?

[Stuffman]

Any info on what the new item cards do yet?

[Validon98]

can someone translate the options menu? trying to get rid of lag as much as possible but i don't want to use the half fps setting
this thing is more demanding than crysis 

Same here. It lags REALLY heavily on the newspaper part especially. What's the best set of options for reducing lag for it?

[SeasideCharizard]

Same here. It lags REALLY heavily on the newspaper part especially. What's the best set of options for reducing lag for it?

I'd half the frame rate; this game in particular doesn't suffer many adverse effects from it, and pretty much all your lags disappears (unless that's not the problem).
Trust me, it's not as bad as, say, Melty Blood's 1/2 frame rate  :V

[StratusAsterion]

Taken from the Touhou Wiki
"Human Village stage  Alice Margatroid, Eirin Yagokoro, Fujiwara no Mokou, Kaguya Houraisan, Keine Kamishirasawa, Kosuzu Motoori, Reisen Udongein Inaba, Rinnosuke Morichika, Suika Ibuki, Tewi Inaba, Yuugi Hoshiguma, several humans"

What? Yes I know its a wiki but whats this all about?

EDIT: Just saw the pic on the first page in the human village I also don't see Suika and Yuugi so I guess its just an error

[CyberAngel]

Say, what's the lowest screen resolution this game has?

[LadyScarlet]

Taken from the Touhou Wiki
"Human Village stage  Alice Margatroid, Eirin Yagokoro, Fujiwara no Mokou, Kaguya Houraisan, Keine Kamishirasawa, Kosuzu Motoori, Reisen Udongein Inaba, Rinnosuke Morichika, Suika Ibuki, Tewi Inaba, Yuugi Hoshiguma, several humans"

What? Yes I know its a wiki but whats this all about?

EDIT: Just saw the pic on the first page in the human village I also don't see Suika and Yuugi so I guess its just an error

Right here:

She's pretty hard to see. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't notice her. Lonely Alice is lonely, I guess.

[StratusAsterion]

She's pretty hard to see. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't notice her. Lonely Alice is lonely, I guess.

Aww she's all alone but she looks so cute! She's not there on the pic in the first page, can the audience change or was that just an older pic?

[Atfyntify]

I have a question, how do we unlock other characters for story mode? Because I can only play as Reimu and Marisa. I've beaten story mode with Marisa but not Reimu yet.

[Limian]

Aww she's all alone but she looks so cute! She's not there on the pic in the first page, can the audience change or was that just an older pic?

Iku and Tenshi have been added later on to the Palanquin Ship, so the audience can (well, could) definitely change. There's no way to know with Alice, though, as the first screenshot we saw of the Human Stage was scrolled too far to the left to see her.

[StratusAsterion]

Iku and Tenshi have been added later on to the Palanquin Ship, so the audience can (well, could) definitely change. There's no way to know with Alice, though, as the first screenshot we saw of the Human Stage was scrolled too far to the left to see her.

Good point, but Suika and Yuugi aren't there in the first pic either (mind you they could come out every now and then throughout a battle I have no idea.)

[Tsalop]

Okay... They really need to balance Miko as she is too overpowered. Just by spamming her lazer-attack I completed the story mode nearly without getting hits (Mamizous demon parade was too much).

[monhan]

I have a question, how do we unlock other characters for story mode? Because I can only play as Reimu and Marisa. I've beaten story mode with Marisa but not Reimu yet.

As far as I know from all the comments, keep on beating the story mode a pair in any difficulty with to unlock a new pair, so on so forth until you get Mamizou.

[Sage Ω (Ultima)]

Damn the game crashed after the dialog with the final boss. Anyone know why?

[Hinacle]

I have a question, how do we unlock other characters for story mode? Because I can only play as Reimu and Marisa. I've beaten story mode with Marisa but not Reimu yet.

Play as Reimu and then you'll get Byakuren and Miko and just keep beating the stories.

[Sage Ω (Ultima)]

Where are people buying their copies of the game?

I have not been in the fandom when a new game came out (found my way here right after Ten Desires hit); do the usual vendors send them out this quickly, or is it on Tasofro's website, what?

I don't know for sure but you can try websites that keep Japanese games in stock. I got the game from a friend so I'm all good.

Though I hate having to play with 1/2 framerate but the lag is killing me.