A touhou RPG, interesting. Did you make the touhou portraits yourself?
Pergold, I am fine with artists or thread starters bumping their own thread up in case of updates and news. However, I expect them to be valuable and/or important, such as a patch they released or a new script they made and so on.
Sadly, I am getting Twitter/Facebook like vibes from your posts which doesn't really fit in here. Consider re-evaluating your posting style.
OK, I spent five hours pushing through this thing, and there are a LOT of bugs to report.
- Constant typos, most notably with your/you're confusion
- When entering the Great Youkai Forest early you get a cutscene with Reimu even if Reimu isn't in your party yet
- Speaking with Nitori after her boss fight (but before talking to Lily White) allows you to repeat the boss fight infinitely
- The Thomas scene with Koa is bugged - you end up talking to Tewi at the end instead, and it can be triggered repeatedly to get you the Conductor's gear ahead of schedule
- Eirin's prescription to Nitori is bugged - you can accept the quest repeatedly and then receive the reward repeatedly
- Eirin's prescription to Keine is bugged - the quest doesn't show up properly and you get a useless placeholder item called ------- Space as a reward
- Are you sure Sakuya has spellcards? I got her to level 18, and she didn't unlock a single one. Reimu and Marisa on the other hand already had four.
- You can't deactivate the security system at the UGC until you reach the locked door. [This isn't strictly a bug, but it's stupid and should not exist.]
And of course, there are the two major ones:
- The .exe version of this game is outright broken. Saving doesn't work, and the game crashes when you leave the options menu.
- Even if you play the HTML version - and I did, for five hours - the game abruptly ends after defeating Utsuho and shutting down the reactor, with text saying that it's still a demo.
I did not enjoy this game. Your comedy was weak and needlessly offensive at times (comparing human/youkai affairs to the Gaza Strip? Really?), the dungeon design was immensely obnoxious (AT LEAST LET ME BUY ENCOUNTER REDUCERS IF YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE ME BACKTRACK OVER AND OVER AGAIN) and there's a crippling lack of signposting for huge chunks of the game. Some of the Touhou sprites were nice, and I'd like to know where you got them in case I ever try to throw something together myself - except you didn't bother adding credits for where you got your assets. Above all though I am extremely mad about the fact you lied about it being finished. Even if this is a stupid bug you managed to miss (in which case DID YOU EVEN PLAYTEST THIS?) then I'd still probably have to play the whole game AGAIN once you've fixed it, and I don't think I'm willing to go through that.
tl;dr you stole five hours of my life and i am unhappy about this
Hopefully a double post is okay, just want to make sure this gets seen after the whole security certificate thing.
So I finished the game, and for the sake of completion I thought I'd mention a few more bugs I found.
- First off, offline saves still don't work. Going to the options menu and back crashes the game with the following message:
"UnknownError
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir '[game location]/www/save'"
In other words, it's looking for a folder in the game directory called www, and then inside THAT folder for a folder called save. That's where the offline version stores their saves. Adding these folders in causes saves to work normally, but based on the www naming this can't be the intended offline behaviour.
- Second, I found another game breaking bug. If you accept Eirin's delivery to Nitori before you fight Nitori in-story, you never get the option to fight her and the game becomes unfinishable. Most obvious workaround is for Eirin not to offer the Nitori delivery until after the boss fight is finished.
Other minor notes:
- ?Gensokyo, Assemble!? quest does not complete upon recruiting Sakuya
- Chest in the room before the Rumia fight is unreachable
- Nitori can still be challenged repeatedly by talking to her again right after the fight (but before talking to Lily White)
- Great Youkai Forest 2 has no encounters when entered from Nitori?s house
- The ladders between floors 3 and 4 in the defense tower lead to the wrong exits
- Sakuya STILL has no spellcards. Why is this?
General suggestions:
- Some areas feel like they really need a fast travel option on the way back. The most obvious nomination is Former Hell - on the way out you have to walk through the reactor, the palace, the Former Hell, and the entire trip down Youkai Mountain.
- There are a few points in the plot where the way forward is really unclear, even reading the quest descriptions. With the trip to Yukari's house there's no obvious indication that Komachi will get you a boat, and it's possible the player doesn't even remember that Komachi's hanging around the shrine. Former Hell is even less obvious - the teleporter you have to use is both unmarked and at the end of a long dungeon (Youkai Mountain) you have no apparent reason to go back to.
A dungeon teleport spell would probably help a lot, yeah. And it's your call whether or not you credit me, I don't really mind :VJust finished uploading the update. BTW Frank learns "Ryuka" at level 2 and the skill is disabled during the Gap Space level so at to not sequence break. You don't have to play it, but I'm just letting you know that I fixed some more issues. Also YOU CAN NOW SAVE ON WINDOWS!