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Hey there guys, this is Validon here with something I've been wanting to do for a while now, but haven't really had the time or patience to do.
I'm here to LP Devil of Decline, Strawberry Bose's second brutally difficult RPG, made in collaboration with Hachikuma (famous, or rather infamous for creating Defiant of Shrine Maiden) and AQUASTYLE (infamous once again for making Fushigi no Gensokyo).
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This is the title screen, which shows off our four main protagonists as well as one cruel, cruel fact about this game.
The English patch for it, unlike Genius of Sappheiros, isn't complete. Yeah.
Fortunately, I have text hookers and machine translators to help me out in the process (hey, they got me through my first playthrough, didn't they?).
Now before we start, there is voting to be done. Yes, voting! Only one of the four Touhous you see pictured above can become our main character! In terms of what each can do, well, here's a summary:
Reimu: Not really great when it comes to physical attacks or buffs/debuffs (she has terrible DEX), but she is a decent caster and boasts the second-highest POT in the game, which means she can take magical hits better than most. Her Last Word (read: FF6/8-style Limit Break) is Hakurei Healing Border, which heals everyone to full. She is the worst of the four in my opinion, and I really do not want to play the game again as her.
Yukari: The jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none type of character, although her combined stat total is the highest in the game IIRC. Her Last Word is Danmaku Barrier, which reduces damage on the turn it is used by 75% for all party members.
Byakuren: She's basically like she was in Genius of Sappheiros, with a high DEX and decent INT, making her amazing at buffs/debuffs and murdering things with magic. Her Last Word is Star Maelstrom, which is a powerful all-enemy light elemental attack that scales in power with level. Probably my prefered choice, but I'm leaving that to you.
Meiling: The warrior type, with the second-highest STR in the game and decent tanking ability. She also somehow has a higher AGI and INT than Yukari. Make of it what you will. Her Last Word is... uh... Rainbow Colored Tai-Chi? It deals large physical damage to one enemy and once again scales in level.
So there you go! I'll begin the LP proper when I get enough votes to come to a conclusion as to who you want to be the main character.
Note: The image looks squished because the aspect ratio for it is normally 841x480, but I have to abide by the 640x480 rule. That's unfortunately going to have to be the norm for this LP.
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Some notes: Devil of Decline is, until the final dungeon, not hard, rather then "brutally difficult". It's kind of easy until then from what I've seen, really! The final dungeon is just -damn-, though. Expansion difficulty mostly comes from gimmicks, although if your level isn't high it's probably drastically harder; depends how much stuff you strive to get, so I guess that actually varies a good bit. Most people I see do a bunch of stuff in the final dungeon and go into expansion pretty powered up, but if you didn't, then...!
Yukari's Last Word also gives you 75% reduction in chance to get hit by status effects. She's also leaning a bit more towards tankiness and has a specialty of having pretty high MP and low AGI, apart from otherwise being a jack-of-all-trades.
Byakuren, while normally being someone I'd like, has a lot of REALLY WEIRD LOOKING SPRITES imo.
Meiling was balanced at first, but then in expansion, they significantly boosted several of her stats, especially her INT. Wut? She's almost definitely a developer favorite in this, considering her not being an obvious protag choice, the clear favoring of her stats, and the fact that they use like 7 remixes of her themes in the game, often for fairly notable things.
I'll vote for Yukari or Meiling!
Also... rather then squishing the images sideways, it'd be much, -much- better if you just shrank their overall size to keep them in proportion. XD
Edit:As an example of Meiling's stats; she beats out or matches ALL THE OTHER PROTAGS in all stats other then MP and POT, and Byakuren's DEX. So yes. In expansion they made her ridiculous.
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This is going to be interesting.
My vote for the MC goes to Chuugoku.
A question: what's your text hooker of choice?
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Some notes: Devil of Decline is, until the final dungeon, not hard, rather then "brutally difficult". It's kind of easy until then from what I've seen, really!
Easy it certainly isn't! Several of the dungeons have some extremely nasty encounters (MINDFLAYERSSSSSSSS) and a lot of the boss fights, even optional ones, can rip you a new one. It's definitely easier than Genius of Sappheiros, I'll grant, but the game is still reasonably tough. I actually haven't played the expansion at all, but the simple fact that they brutally nerfed chasers - deserved, but still - would make even sweeping and some of the simpler bossfights a lot tougher.
The real reason to pick Reimu, to be honest, is that she has the best theme by a mile. But I'm going to vote for Meiling because god damn the devs want you to play her.
I'm also going to agree that resizing the images is a much better idea than squashing them.
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Devil of Decline is, until the final dungeon, not hard, rather then "brutally difficult".
Okay, maybe I put a little too much emphasis on the difficulty. You're right, the game is nowhere near as hard as Genius of Sappheiros until the end, where the stats of the enemies leap up out of nowhere. And then the expansion is a bitch, which is why I stopped after beating the next-to-last boss, because my lack of leveling and impatience were enough for a rage quit. I'll see if I can't remedy that in this LP, because I want to finish it, but with someone who's not Reimu.
they use like 7 remixes of her themes in the game
I know, it's ridiculous, right? Then again, they did that with Innocent Treasures in Genius of Sappheiros, although that song's lesser known (I've never heard the original before, so...)
Maybe she's getting more screen time because she spent almost all of GoS unconscious at the gate. And then you kick her in the face a bunch just to get a formation.
She needed a little more love, but this is ridiculous.
Byakuren, while normally being someone I'd like, has a lot of REALLY WEIRD LOOKING SPRITES imo.
Holy crap can they get weird. What the hell does her hair do while she's running?
My vote for the MC goes to Chuugoku.
*checks Google* So Meiling, then? I'll keep that in mind.
A question: what's your text hooker of choice?
Originally it was AGTH, but then I switched to ITH when I realized it was easier to set up with the game. Neither one solves the text-caching issue which makes it impossible to reread things.
The real reason to pick Reimu, to be honest, is that she has the best theme by a mile.
That's the only saving grace she has other than Hakurei Healing Border and her Union Last Word, which I didn't cover because we don't start with those, obviously. And they're rare as hell. I've used it once. Only once.
I'm also going to agree that resizing the images is a much better idea than squashing them.
I'll do that, then.
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I vote Byakuren.
I want to see the weird sprites now. You've all made me curious.
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I vote Meiling.
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Voting Byakuren.
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Byakuren or Yukari plz.
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I'm tossing my hand in with a Yukari-Vote as well.
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So as it stands right now...
Reimu- 0 :V
Yukari- 1
Byakuren- 2
Meiling- 3
???- 2
Serela and Ikari, not to be OCD or anything, but a split vote isn't really helping the count, especially considering there isn't a whole lot of votes here. Your votes could determine the outcome. Or not, because Meiling is leading and based on your split votes, the best we'd get for anyone but Meiling winning is a tie. Not that I don't want to play Meiling's story, but split votes. Yeah.
EDIT:
Reimu- 0, Yukari- 2, Byakuren- 2, Meiling- 3, ???- 1
Okay, that means one more vote for either Yukari or Byakuren will tie it with Meiling (or three votes for Reimu, which is probably not going to happen). One more vote for Meiling, though, and I call it here. I do want to actually start screenshotting and stuff. Impatience, it kills me every time!
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Alright, sorry. I'll pick Yukari over Byakuren.
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Advance Meiling.
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There aren't enough votes for Byakuren. +1 to her just because I can.
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Well, unless Serela votes on Byakuren, we're sticking with Meiling, then. I declare this vote called.
LPers do their best and are preparing. Please watch warmly until they are ready.
People are subject to the Spiriting Away!
This is unprecedented serious affair!
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Let's actually get this LP started!
Prologue- Part 1: Spirited Away
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I'm getting a major Persona 3 vibe from this.
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Oh, it's a countdown. Joyous.
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...Reimu...Reimu...Reimu!
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Good morning, Reimu!
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Reimu is pissed by the lens flare, because it's such a stock effect. Or it's hot. That works too.
Meanwhile she goes off to cool at the river. Have fun, Reimu.
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Wow, you have a really big nose. That's kind of disturbing.
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Apparently it's hot and peaceful. Sounds like a summer in Gensokyo alright.
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Actually not everything is perfect in Gensokyo. Keine's been missing for two days. Bah, I'm sure that's not important.
However, the guy is saying there has been rumors of people and places being victims of "spiriting away" recently. I watched a Studio Ghibli film about that once. It was a pretty nice movie.
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Meanwhile Ichirin and Nue worry about Byakuren.
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Apparently Murasa and Nazrin have gone missing.
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And Nue blames the "spiriting away." Bah, they probably just took the day off... wait, can you take a day off from temple duties?
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And Yuyuko's missing too. Gee, there's quite a few missing people.
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Whoops, a day's passed. Well, I'm sure nothing else will go wrong.
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Oh yeah, more missing people! Also, that may look like a Kasen, but it ain't a Kasen. Sorry.
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Minor Genius of Sappheiros reference: apparently Nobou has been spirited away. Nobou was a minor character in that game who befriended Biotopos at a bar. I assume it's the same guy.
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...Uh, Sanae? I think you misplaced your shrine.
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And the Palace of Earth Spirits crew is missing too, sans Utsuho. I thought surface youkai aren't allowed into the underground. Obviously whoever or whatever did this is ignoring that fact.
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Ah, YAY! I love this game. Looking forward to more updates. :D
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Meiling apparently can't find the Scarlet sisters. I thought you were asleep at your post again.
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Apparently she heard me.
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Clock o' Doom keeps on a ticking.
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Marisa misplaced her house too. Now she can't return those books to Patchy when she dies! :o
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Yukari had Chen looking for... Ran, I think. Though why Yukari would call Ran a child, I don't know.
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Yukari, pay better attention to your shikigami while they're fading out of existence!
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...Did it seriously take you one-and-a-half days to wash yourself at the river? Honestly, Reimu.
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And that's why you shouldn't leave your shrine for one-and-a-half days.
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Don't be pissed at me, you're the one who left it that way!
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Apparently she's going to solve this "Spiriting Away Incident." Except she's not because she isn't the main character this time.
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Because after the long, unskippable prologue cutscene we have to be reminded of the game's title.
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THE PLOT THICKENS.
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You guys wanted Meiling, so here you go.
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Apparently her search for the Scarlets hasn't gone particularly well. Or maybe she's just lost. The bamboo forest tends to do that to ya.
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Wait a minute, could it be...?
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Why yes, it's a Tewi! Damn bunny still owes me for the shit she gave me in Genius of Sappheiros.
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What, did my foul language offend you?
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Anyways, Meiling apparently wants to help the poor, rapidly fading away bunny. It's not like she did anything nice for you...
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I'm sorry, when did you nab one of the Hakurei Yin-Yang Orbs? You can't use those, you know. Unless you're some lost descendant of the Hakurei clan?
Ahahaha, yeah right.
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Apparently stuffing the poor rapidly fading rabbit into the yin-yang orb works. Sure, I'll go with it.
Not pictured: Meiling mentioning that this only had a 43% chance of success. Good thing Tewi is lucky by nature.
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Newcomers have arrived!
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Apparently Sanae and Mokou caught their own shikigami. So, about how many people have been spirited away like this? No clue, personally.
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Double fist pumps mean apparently we're going to go incident resolving! And thus now we have Meiling, Sanae, and Mokou as "masters" and Tewi, Minoriko, and Rumia as "shikigami." Shikigami basically are a cross between Pokemon, materia, and Personas. You can equip three per master and they grant special abilities, both active and passive, along with stat boosts. Obviously there will be more later, but we've got three.
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FINALLY SAVE POINT!
Sorry, having to go through a lot of screenshotting and cutscenes takes a toll on my psyche. So save points are good.
Thankfully, actual gameplay will be much easier to screenshot. As in I don't have to screenshot every half a minute, meaning much less screenshots.
We're going to leave it at that for tonight. Tomorrow we'll discuss game mechanics, battles, and maybe find out about who's causing the incident. Or it can be like Genius of Sappheiros and actually not know until 2/3rds of the way through the game.
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The second update is fully screenshotted and coming. If I have enough time, I might even be able to screenshot and do the rest of the prologue today.
Please watch warmly...
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Prologue- Part 2: Accusations Everywhere
Being the Bamboo Forest of the Lost, we've got White Flag of Usa Shrine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RADKwYhyb7M&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h) as the theme.
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So here's our main menu. It's got our party and shikigami listed, with levels and amounts of experience needed to level right handily on there.
To the right you can also see the Clock o' Doom, which says we've got four hours until... whatever happens.
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Equips and stats are here. As you can see, we've got nothing but a crappy weapon and a crappy armor. Fun times. Stats are STR, VIT, DEX, AGI, INT, and POT on the left-hand column, and on the right there's PATK, MATK, PDEF, ACC, MDEF, and EVA. I don't remember whether the fifth one on the right is MDEF or EVA. It's one of those two.
To the right of that we've got elemental affinities and levels. We'll go into those when it actually becomes important.
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Our shikigami equip screen, which lists elemental affinities, active skills, passives skills, and stat bonuses. Tewi here knows Ancient Duper (a low accuracy high-powered attack that hits everything) and Front Teeth (single target physical attack that inflicts Blind). Her passive is +10% XP to the party. Useful.
Minoriko knows Autumn Sky (heals 1/4 of everyones HP, but has a massive cooldown) and Water Recovery (essentially a Cure spell), and recovery spells are boosted by 10% .
Rumia knows Shadow Bolt (single target Dark spell) and gives a 25% resist to Dark attacks. Handy.
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Inventory screen. We don't have muchnow, but we'll have a huge amount later.
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Formation screen. We only have Free Fight for now (which boosts Last Word activation chance), but we'll get more later.
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Our bestiary, but it's empty for right now. We'll get it filled quickly enough.
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And configuration. Except I have no idea what any of this stuff does. I'll leave it alone.
Anyways, onwards to battle mechanics!
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Here, have a Bell of Avici~Infinite Nightmare remix as the battle theme. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEpf8kafM40&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h)
The battle screen. Essentially we've got character stats on the bottom, the skill selection wheel right there, and the land meter and turn counter in the upper-right. I'll explain land when it actually figures into the battle.
We've got our master skills and our shikigami skills, which can be selected between using the trigger buttons (whatever you've assigned them to, I've got them assigned to "A" and "D"). We use those skills to whack things.
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Like these guys. I'm not really going to explain many of the enemies at first. Just spam the attack button and you'll be fine.
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As you can see, we don't get a lot of XP at first. This will change eventually, but for right now we're going to have to wait awhile before leveling up.
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More guys. These are weak to Ice, but we've got no Ice spells. So whack away, team!
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Unlike Genius of Sappherios, you can only move to other screens through these portal things. Blue denotes just a normal exit.
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Bakebakes! Or Mr. Ghostlies, if you prefer that. Or Mr. Ghosties. Whichever. They're weak to light and fire.
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Last Word! These are random chance skills that show up when you attack or are hit. I think being at a low amount of health makes them activate more frequently, but I don't know for sure. Let's see what it does!
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Pretty fire. Anyways, this is Phoenix Rebirth. It revives all allies, and sticks the ones who are still alive with a Reraise effect. This could save the party in a tough battle.
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Some time after the battle I find a chest with a robe in it. I give it Meiling. Woot, 4 Defense! That's four times better than what I had on her before.
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Apparently Sanae took fashion advice from Reimu. I don't think she had detached sleeves before.
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Anyways, that was Yasaka's Divine Wind, which does the exact same thing it did in Genius of Sappheiros: buff all of your party's stats. If Sanae had better than average DEX, it would be a pretty amazing buff.
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Goddamn bats. They have decent EVA and can drain your health. They're weak to piercing. Except I don't have anyone with piercing. Whacking away at random it is!
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Meiling, your hand over there is upside-down. That isn't normal.
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Epileptic Kick!
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That'll do, Meiling. That'll do.
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A shield, specifically a buckler. They add a certain amount of defense to your base defense if they activate. That 50 there? That's it's activation rate. I forget if I gave it to Meiling or Sanae.
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Red exits mean boss fights. Thankfully there's usually a healing circle right there for usage. Don't mind if I do.
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The "calm" music sounds so nice. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6TeA84_myQ&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h)
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Oh hey there Nitori. I see you like catching bugs. Are you going to perform experiments on it?
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Being serious now... Yadda yadda yadda, spiriting away, yadda yadda yadda, incident...
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Okay Wriggle, no need to be pointing fingers. We didn't do anything.
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Their contorted expressions say it all.
Also, the pre-boss theme that's playing? It sounds great. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4COvhR4bGY)
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A Decisive Magical Battle~Fight it out! remix as the boss theme? Don't mind if I do. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NQZPykp_k4&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=13)
Also, your plan of attack is foolish, Nitori. It's two against six. The odds are not in your favor.
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That sort of happened. The rest of the battle was uneventful.
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Not pictured: Nitori and Wriggle passed out.
Pictured: Double fist pumps mean Nitori and Wriggle are joining my party! MOAR PARTY MEMBERS! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xgi4CeNfOQ)
So what can Nitori do, you ask? She can do this:
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This is Perfect Camouflage. It completely negates the next attack each party member takes. Amazing for weathering a blast of HOLYSHITWHATWASTHAT, which happens quite a lot in this game, especially later on.
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Another shield, which I also forget who I gave it to.
Also we've lost an hour. Joyous.
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Aha, Meiling's slash element leveled! Okay, now's a good time as any to explain element levels. If you use one of the ten elements in this game repeatedly, it levels up. You can only get element XP once per battle from using the element, so using multiple elements in the same battle with the same character will be better than repeatedly using the same element in the same battle. Also, the rate at which element XP is gained is based on the level of the enemies you're fighting. This means that elements are harder to level at this point, but characters who join in later will gain element levels quickly, which lets them catch up to the current party.
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What is the point of this path again?
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This is totally a fair fight, what are you talking about.
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Wriggle, I forgot to mention, knows Hypnosis, which puts enemies in a column to sleep. She also grants 25% resistance to Variety status effects. For when you don't want to get debuffed.
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Meiling's learned Falcon Slash now! Much like in Romancing Saga 3 (IIRC), your characters "spark" new abilities. These abilities are based on the type of weapon you have and have a random chance of being learned based on the element level of the weapon type you have. Most abilities can only be learned once you get a high enough element level, and are sparked by using normal attacks or other special attacks. Some special attacks have a higher chance to spark other special attacks than just the normal attack, and often they can spark new abilities at lower element levels than what is necessary while using a normal attack. I think Falcon Slash can spark something else, but I'd have to check the website I got all of that info off of to see.
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Boss time!
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GoS and DoD have a lot of inspiration from the Romancing Saga series, actually! But yes, that's totally where the element proficiencies and skill inspiration comes from. And formations and shields and there's plenty of skill references.
Sanae's Last Word is based on her level, rather then her dex. This is both a good and a bad thing; you don't have to worry about her DEX, but you can't pump it for more effect either. It's not really as good as the ALL buffs you can get later, but it's all-target and doesn't require equipping shikigamis you don't have much other reason to use, so it's still pretty good.
Mokou's last word is ridiculous though. Revival on all and Reraise on everyone already alive, holy crap.
Edit:Oh, by the way, new character stats. Sanae's are... overall a little below average, actually, but she has above-average INT and her specialty is high MP. Mokou is what you would expect from a warrior-type; e.g. pretty high STR VIT HP, low mp/int. Nitori has above average STR/VIT/HP, but very high DEX and POT, with low MP and INT. Her stat layout is reallly nice, she got some significant buffs in the expansion.
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When I was actually playing the game earlier while screenshotting, I turned off the game and ended back at the room right after where I fought Nitori. Everything was saved, it's just I had to run through the stretch of dungeon again. Whatever the case, I got some sort of armor. I believe I put it on Mokou.
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Wait, Sanae, what are you...?
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Not pictured: Crackles of electricity spurting out of the blow Sanae did to the bat.
Oh, you learned Stun Blow. Carry on then.
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Back to the story... what the hell is with that magic circle thing?
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WHERETHEHELLDIDYOUCOMEFROM!?
Also, I guess this is the pre-battle-with-demon theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6xRWirZf54&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h).
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Okay, apparently this is his magic circle, and he wants to kill us for touching it. Great job there, team.
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You are really ugly looking. Apparently his name is Buyo. I'll go with that.
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Buyo here knows Dark Hand, Shadow Bolt, and couple of other Dark elemental stuff. Thankfully Mokou won't take much damage because of Rumia.
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Oh, he has land regen. That's not too big an issue though. Though what is a big issue is "What is land regen?" Well, it has to do with that land gauge on the top-right hand corner. Using elemental attacks will shift the land towards that element, kind of like with Chrono Cross, except instead of replacing previously cast elements, it works on a sliding scale. Genius of Sappheiros also had a land meter that worked the same way. There are three intensities of land, each of which makes that element stronger and the opposing one weaker. Because the land is currently at the first level of Dark, Buyo here is regenerating his HP. Certain abilities can only be used under certain amounts of land, and knowing how to manipulate land is an important skill for boss fights.
Buyo goes down after a few turns. Not really that difficult.
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So, your plan of killing us didn't work. What do you have to say for yourself?
Besides this theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgdRwVCvLKc&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h).
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Whoa, stop shaking the screen, Buyo. We understand that you're upset you lost. Not our fault you attacked us.
At least he's gone now.
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Seems like we broke it. You can still sort of see the imprint on the ground. Bah, I'm sure that doesn't mean anything.
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Yeah, let's go find those other magic circles and break them!
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Oh boy, finally out of the Bamboo Forest of the Lost and into the Fantasy Plains.
The Fantasy Plains comes with a complementary "A Soul as Red as a Ground Cherry" remix. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADzokAkz8H4&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h)
Yellow exits, by the way, mean a transition point between two areas of the game. You can fast travel to these areas, making traveling around Gensokyo much less annoying.
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Snakes. I hate snakes. They are weak to ice.
Not pictured: Mokou also learning Falcon Slash.
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Slimes are pretty annoying too. They take a small amount of damage from any physical element but slashing. They are extremely weak to fire and ice, though, so that helps. Or not, because I still don't have fire or ice stuff. Shadow Bolt's going to have to do.
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And Nitori just learned Leg Sweep, which inflicts Stumble on an enemy! There are a lot of Stun type effects in the game, but this one is specifically Stumble.
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Not the caterpillars. They are extremely hardy and can cast Earth Wall, which raises physical defense.
Not pictured: The godawful fight with them that barely turned out well.
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Meanwhile, we get a rod, which boosts magic damage a bit. I hold onto it for later. It might be good on a caster, and I haven't really set up anyone to be the caster.
Also, the fight with Buyo took off another hour. Two hours until the Clock o' Doom rings.
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So who're going to fight now? It can't possibly be easier than the Buyo fight...
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I stand corrected.
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Apparently they too have been investigating stuff. And the other two Fairies of Light were spirited away. Now they can't pull pranks as a group!
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Sunny isn't exactly sure if Letty's accusations of us being the incident-causers is true. Whatever the case, we fight!
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So what you're saying is it's a carbon copy of the Nitori and Wriggle fight with the exception of enemy abilities.
:fail:
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Letty can debuff our defense, but that's about it.
They go down quickly enough.
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This is what happens to people who accuse me of doing shit I haven't.
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Nevertheless, they join.
Sunny, by the way, is the worst character in the game IMO. As soon as I can I'm ditching her and leaving her to rot.
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All paths lead to the Forest of Magic. No, really. Doesn't matter who you start with, you end up here last.
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@Serela: Oh yeah, I made stat summary lists myself in terms of the ranking of each person's stats. I'll add them in from now on.
Meiling-
HP-3
MP-15
STR-2
VIT-3
DEX-10
AGI-11
INT-10
POT-15
Sanae-
HP-15
MP-5
STR-13
VIT-15
DEX-11
AGI-12
INT-8
POT-18
Mokou-
HP-4
MP-17
STR-4
VIT-2
DEX-13
AGI-15
INT-16
POT-11
Nitori-
HP-8
MP-16
STR-9
VIT-8
DEX-2
AGI-13
INT-15
POT-3
Sunny Milk-
HP-19
MP-10
STR-20
VIT-19
DEX-6
AGI-7
INT-11
POT-5
Those are positions, not actual final stats, of course.
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Thing is, positions aren't that good- they can differ by only a few points in comparison to someone else, yet be far lower or higher on a list because of it. Just a quick summary of how good their stats are comparatively is more useful, heheh. I edited that into my previous post.
Sunny has quite low HP/STR, with only above average INT and MP. Her DEX and AGI are pretty great though, and she has high POT. Her stats are a bit eh as you can see (Her good stats are the generally less praised ones), and her LW tends to not work on stuff you want it to (It doesn't ignore flat resistance to the Stun status), so really, the reason people use her is because of the most powerful, and hidden stat.
Moe.
Actual stats don't generally matter a whooole lot in this game; it's actually not a big deal if you have Patchouli as a physical smasher even though her base stats don't favor it at all, for example, and I saw someone who did that and did more hp then the final expansion boss HAD with a single attack from her. Sanae's pretty bad overall stat-wise for that matter, as she's below average across the chart and only has a slightly better then average-y INT, although you could perhaps value her last word, and she attempts to make up for it with MP.
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So what can Sunny do for a Last Word?
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ICAN'TSEEI'VEGONEBLIND!!!
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It inflicts Stun. Which does have a chance to fail. Of course it does.
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In terms of enemies, we have the incredibly hardy beetles, the tree-girls, who can buff attack and magic attack and inflict blind and silence, both of which are not good, and the fairy warriors from Genius of Sappheiros. They come in sword, spear, axe, and wand varieties, and can use special abilities associated with those weapons. Like Falcon Slash. Joyous.
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Found this short sword lying around. It looked lonely, so I gave it to Meiling.
One hour remains.
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And Meiling learned Whirlwind Slash. Our first column attack!
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And Sanae learns Shock Burst in the same battle! Our first AoE attack!
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Why is this here? To mock me? Well, I'm sure we'll find the other side of that rock eventually.
Stupid Waist-High Insurmountable Fence...
EDIT: Oh, I already pushed that rock. Well it was a Waist-High Insurmountable Fence earlier.
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Rumia learned Shadow Burst, our first multi-target spell!
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Similarly, Minoriko learned Clearance, which heals Permanent status effects. We might as well call it Esuna.
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And a shiny new spear for Nitori!
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And a ...shovel. That goes to Sanae. To bury folks with.
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Looks like there's another boss ahead. But that's the rest of the screenshots I've taken so far. Next time we'll finish up the prologue and see what happens when Clock o' Doom strikes midnight. Or noon. Or whatever time it's supposed to be.
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Moe.
Everyone has that in this game. I don't think the demons really care.
Actual stats don't generally matter a whooole lot in this game; it's actually not a big deal if you have Patchouli as a physical smasher even though her base stats don't favor it at all, for example, and I saw someone who did that and did more hp then the final expansion boss HAD with a single attack from her. Sanae's pretty bad overall stat-wise for that matter, as she's below average across the chart and only has a slightly better then average-y INT, although you could perhaps value her last word, and she attempts to make up for it with MP.
Yeah, I've heard of a physical Patchy before. I might go for it, but I'm not really one of those "play against type" sort of people.
And yeah, I'm going to dump Sanae eventually too. Her stats are somewhat okay, but I'd rather let a certain Yama take her place. ;)
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Prologue- Final Part: It's the End of the World as We Know It.
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Oh look, another demon and another magic circle. Looks like we've got stuff to break.
Also, ominous music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxA9X5ehw9A&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=24). That's never good.
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"You can't stop us, it's too late," blah, blah, blah. I've heard it a million times already.
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Somehow it manages to surprise Meiling.
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Double fist pumps for incident ending time! And Drifting in the Fog of War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4COvhR4bGY&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=12), because it's an awesome pre-boss song!
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You can't kill us, this is Gensokyo. There is no death, only spell cards.
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This is Negro. Much like Buyo, he's a demon with Dark land regen and some Dark abilities.
Like Shadow Burst. It hurts a lot (I was too slow to catch the numbers, but it hurt).
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Try to hit me now!
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Try to kill me now!
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Epileptic Kick for the win!
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It doesn't show the numbers, but he just used Dark Zapper. Thankfully I had Perfect Camouflage up.
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And again!
Also, thankfully I had Reraise going too, or Nitori would have died to an offscreen Shadow Burst.
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He goes down after a turn or two more. Wriggle here learns Mute, which inflicts Silence in a column.
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Hurray, we did it! Incident resolved, right?
Then he says we haven't won yet.
Then more ominous music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVLjW99GX7I&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=34).
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Shit.
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So, uh, what is that magic circle going to do?
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Apparently, it didn't matter if we shattered the magic circles we did (assuming we smashed some more offscreen), they only needed to be placed to begin the time limit.
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Not pictured: The screen shaking like Marisa just set off a Master Spark.
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Hey random people.
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Uh... why do you have a random statue of Keine? The dialogue implies some sort of perverted intent behind it. Okay then...
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The ground apparently wants your statue. Or it just wanted to stop your perverted fantasies.
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Okay, it's happening everywhere.
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The netherworld too?!
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And the Underground too.
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Earthquakes must be contagious or something.
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Oh hey, another map of Gensokyo. Too bad it's not canon. Not that there is a canon map.
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Alright, who removed the keystone from the Hakurei Shrine?
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What is this I don't even.
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And we've ended up at the Hakurei Shrine. Apparently we've just been moved.
And the ground starts shaking. AGAIN.
And this music starts playing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmMYGgH_dmQ&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h) Crap.
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It's just a hole. So?
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Uh... what?
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So, towers. And they're forming the Clock o' Doom at the top. Are they supposed to be like elevators or something between the layers?
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"Clock Towers of the End?" Okay then. I can see the clock part, and the tower part, but what do you mean by the end?
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Suddenly shouting from out of nowhere.
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Who the hell are you!? And why is your theme hard rock (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Blcfit-uY)?
Demons from Makai? How'd you get here then?
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The one with the scythe introduces herself as Chloe Gripper, of the "Three Demonic Pillars." I am not joking, that's how their title is translated. Anyone have a better translation, then let me know. Otherwise, they're the Three Demonic Pillars.
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Ms. Blood-and-Jiang-Shi-Outift is Xia Zhuli. Or Sha Jurii. Depends if you want the Chinese or the Japanese.
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Ms. Wind and Rags is Shijuukara Otoha.
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So, this is all their fault, Zhuli is pretty happy they've sliced up Gensokyo like this, and Otoha is basically saying, "Don't do anything regrettable."
Why is this?
When the Clock o' Doom circles around again, Gensokyo will be destroyed. Completely and utterly.
I wonder how that'll affect the Outside World.
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Okay, why are your happy sprites so weird looking?
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And Negro says we're all screwed before vanishing. Gee, thanks Negro!
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Yep, we've got only twelve hours, Sunny. I'm surprised fairies can do math. Well, I guess the Fairies of Light are a minor exception.
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Though things look pretty grim, Meiling's double fist pump says it's time to solve this incident for real! I guess we're headed to the Clock Towers of the End.
Not now, though. This was a combination of a couple of hours of gameplay, and I'm tired at this point. Next time we start exploring this messed up Gensokyo and save it from the Three Demonic Pillars of Makai.
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Nice Let's Play so far!
Random question, as I've never played the game, does the whole clock thing actually limits stuff you can do or is it just a plot point that disregards gameplay time/actions completely?
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I've been wondering that myself. If it's only plot-related, then it's more like Rudras no Hihou(Treasure of The Rudras), which I liked.
Otherwise...Well, I'm not good with timed games like Majora's Mask. Always disliked that when a game designer made a game like that.
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While I like realism in video games (Read: Tales Of timed plots made no sense), I am terrible with decisions and trying to save time.
On a more related discussion, who's the most useful team member so far?
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It's plot-driven only. We're not playing Valkyrie Profile, damn it!
And in terms of useful party members, the game is more focused on the shikigami. The most useful person is the one with the most useful shikigami. Because we don't have that many shikigami, everyone is about the same right now, with some minor differences that get exaggerated as time goes on.
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It's plot-driven only. We're not playing Valkyrie Profile, damn it!
Gah! Thanks god!
What are your shikigamis and their powers so far, if that isn't too long to answer?
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What are your shikigamis and their powers so far, if that isn't too long to answer?
Well, I said stuff about that during the LP, but I can repeat what I've already covered.
Tewi: Front Tooth- Physical attack that inflicts Blind, Ancient Duper- Extremely strong all-targeting physical attack with terrible accuracy, +10% XP to the party
Minoriko: Autumn Sky- Heals 25% of Max HP for all party member but has a 6 turn cooldown, Water Recovery- Simple healing spell with 50 power (all spells have a power rating, which I believe is a multiplier of some sort), Clearance- Heals Permanent status effects, +10% healing spell power
Rumia: Shadow Bolt- Dark magic attack with 30 power, Shadow Burst- All-targeting Dark magic attack with 20 power, 25% resistance to Dark attacks
Wriggle: Hypnosis- Sleep spell that hits an entire column, Mute- Silence spell that hits an entire column, 25% resistance to Variety status effects
Letty: Ice Chill- Ice magic attack with 30 power, 25% resistance to Ice attacks
Should be everything so far. They'll get more abilities as they level.
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You did cover them briefly during the LP, but I was looking for details like those, since I never played the game and had no idea what kind of bonuses Shikgami gave.
That's pretty interesting though, thanks for the list.
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Ah,so they wanted to destroy Gensokyo? You went through the prologue really fast. I thought it was them trying to
make a new makai
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Well, I'll try to bring that up more during the LP. Speaking of which...
First Stratum- Part 0: So Here's the Deal...
Before I move onto the next portion of the game, I'm going to let you know how this is going to go from here on out, because I think I've captured WAYtoo many screenshots. So here's what I'm going to screen shot from now on:
Cutscenes
Interesting Stuff in Dungeons
Interesting Events in Random Encounters (First Enemy Appearances, First Ability Sparks, First Last Words, etc.)
Boss Fights
Here's what I'm not going to screenshot:
Treasures I've Received (I'll list what I get instead)
Abilities I've Already Sparked on Other People (Again, list)
Shikigami Abilities Earned (I'll list them as I get them)
This should cover pretty much everything. I'll try to also add as much information as I can about each master and shikigami as I get them. That should make it easier for me to screenshot, as I won't have to have as many pictures, though it means taking a lot more notes.
Updates themselves will be shorter, only encompassing no more than two areas per (or until I stop playing).
In addition to that, any new music that shows up I'll provide a link to, so that you can at least hear what the game should sound like.
In terms of uploading schedule, it's pretty much: "When I have time." I just got out of mid-terms today, so I'll be updating somewhat frequently for a while, but eventually I'll have to get into the swing of schoolwork again. I'll still update,just not as frequently. I will get this LP done. Even if I take a hiatus later for whatever reason, I will get it done.
One last thing: I didn't really think people would be really interested in this, but apparently I was wrong. Thanks for letting me know that I'm actually not failing at being an LPer. I'll try to keep things going smoothly for you guys, and if you have any questions or comments, don't hesitate to let me know. I'll take things into consideration.
With that, I'll see what I can do about exploring the first stratum. Please watch warmly until update is ready.
@Hinacle: Well, that's what they said.
In terms of the speed, I tend to do that with RPGs. The rest of the game is going to be at a slower pace, mainly because I have to actually attempt to collect most of the treasure, and the dungeons get more complex as time goes on. Trust me on this one.
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It inflicts Stun. Which does have a chance to fail. Of course it does.
On the upside, it does ignore the resistance stat, so on anything without direct resistance to Stun, it works 100% of the time. Given it's on Sunny and not usually available, I think it would have been fair for it to be completely infallible, but ah well :T (This is more for readers, as you're dumping her pretty soon.)
And in terms of useful party members, the game is more focused on the shikigami. The most useful person is the one with the most useful shikigami. Because we don't have that many shikigami, everyone is about the same right now, with some minor differences that get exaggerated as time goes on.
This is very true. Even if you go directly against a character's stat layout lategame, it works out fine- shikigami (and to a degree, equipment) are the more important part. However, playing people to their stats does help a little, of course, so characters with great stat sets like Nitori are good for people who want an efficient party.
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First Stratum- Part 1: World of Chaos
So, Serela mentioned that Shanghai Teahouse~Chinese Tea was used a lot. Besides the title screen and victory theme, this is the first of several times you will hear it. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55jq3UoK9JU&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=6) It plays at the Hakurei Shrine and while in the Chaos Plains.
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Obviously, we've got a healing circle on the right. The ying-yang orb allows you to switch masters, and the green circle lets you directly save. The only reason to use it is in case you want to save on a new slot or something.
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Moving onward, this is the Chaos Plains 1. There are random fissures to nowhere everywhere. Them demons messed up Gensokyo big time.
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First new enemies are Skeletons, which hit hard yet are weak to Fire, Light, and Blunt. Sanae and Sunny, work your magic!
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See this rock?
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Pushing it will make a jump point. This is pretty much the only "puzzle" you have to solve in this area. It's pretty straight forward.
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Why the hell do we need a cutscene to open a chest?
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...What...?
Her name is Isohime, and apparently after being spirited away, she was trapped in that chest. She's got a friend trapped in another chest somewhere. I guess we'll find her friend too. In the meanwhile, Isohime joins our party. She has all four of the single-target 30 power elemental spells: Fire Arrow, Ice Chill, Earth Javelin, and Plasma Ball. Her passive is that spells cast have a +5% influence on the land. I'll keep that in mind if I want to do some land manipulation.
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Tanuki. They buff physical and magic attack power and have a basic attack. Simple enough to kill.
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This hornet here can inflict Poison. At about 30 damage per round. Yeah, that hurts a lot. Weakness, as usual, is to Ice.
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I need a hootshot to cross this gap. Really now, can't we just fly over it?
Just like in Labyrinth of Touhou, they will not listen to common sense. To the cave it is, then!
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Okay, why the hell is it so dark? It wasn't dark a second ago...
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Mokou shoots down whatever was talking to us. It wasn't friendly, whatever it is.
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Dawwwwwwwwwwww. Mystia looks so cute knocked out. :3
Anyways, she thought we were the ones that caused the incident. Uh, Mystia, were you even paying attention? It's those Three Demonic Pillars you want, not us.
Not pictured: The rather hilarious scene where our party threatened to grill up Mystia as yakatori, especially Mokou. She owns a yakatori stand, you know.
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Meiling uses the healing power of the double fist pump to recruit Mystia and banish the party's thoughts of eating poor Mystia.
Her first ability is Scent, which is an all-targeting Sleep spell. Her passive is currently +5% XP to whoever has her, which is currently Nitori. Combined with the boost from Tewi, and we have quite a bit more XP than we should, and Nitori will level a crapton more than she should.
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Goblins and Housemaids. Goblins hit hard, and Housemaids use Sonic Blade to hit extremely hard. Housemaids can one-shot Sanae or Sunny with Sonic Blade. Fortunately, like most warrior-type enemies, it's weak to Dark. Rumia, I believe your presence has been requested in every battle regarding these assholes.
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And this dropped. It's a Zombie Killer, which I give to Meiling. It has pretty good damage and has Slayer against Undead-type enemies, like the Skeletons.
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We've got Nurses too. They can inflict Sleep. And they can use Fang Crush, for whatever reason. Dark attacks work best on them, though.
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And now we've got giant viruses trying to kill us. What will the game throw at us next, discarded pieces of technology?
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I wish you could just climb over the rock instead of having to go a long way around it and do stuff to it. This is sadly the norm for this game.
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Here we arrive at the Giant Toad's Pond, but I don't quite want to go there yet. There's stuff I need to do. Like explore the actual Chaos Plains 1 instead of Chaos Plains 2.
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As you can see, I've filled in a bit of the map for the First Stratum. We've still got a ways to go before we complete this stratum. Back to the shrine for healing!
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Rinnosuke? What're you doing here?
And what's with the Asian-sounding theme? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2D-j3Ty-P0)
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Nitori, why'd you call Rinnosuke a bum? He works hard! He's a shopkeep for crying out loud!
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Rinnosuke explains that Kourindou has vanished ever since the World of Chaos was made. So now he's going to operate out of the Hakurei Shrine, because Reimu is missing as well. Well, I wouldn't be too worried about her. She'll be fine.
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So we can make things by throwing materials into that weird pot/helmet looking thing. Works the same as it did in Genius of Sappheiros. He gives us a couple of recipes to start off with.
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Is this GoForce 256 a reference I'm not getting?
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This essentially says it's a catalog for comfortable dog houses. Apparently Rinnosuke thinks Meiling needs an upgrade from her current one (which was broken in Genius of Sappheiros, thanks to Reimu having been more destructive than the situation called for).
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Go away, I don't want to be sick.
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Crap, those are Pus. Those things can inflict Paralysis. Thankfully, I have Isohime and the power of Plasma Ball. So these guys can die in an electric fire.
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Well, I didn't need to live, did I?
Not pictured: Me surviving this encounter and other one exactly like it. Pus are actually pretty slow.
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I had to go around this long side path to get to this one rock to push so I can access another part of the area. Stop making me work harder than I want to!
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So here's the first Clock Tower of the End. Except we can't enter this one from this stratum. Looks like we're going to have to find another entrance. It at least counts as a warp point, for whatever reason.
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Let's see where this leads!
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Uh, it's dark.
Really dark.
I'm come back later (this is the Underground, by the way).
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That path I opened up pushing the rock leads here. Let's see what is beyond here.
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Uh, that area location in the upper-right says Makai. There are two things wrong with that.
Why is Makai even here? Isn't it a separate dimension? How did the Three Demonic Pillars get part of Makai here?
And why the hell is it a desert?
Whatever the case, once more I'll return later. I have one last thing I want to do before ending this update.
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I guessed they just meshed the Chaos Plains with part of the Forest of Magic. It truly is a jumbled up world now.
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Oh, hey there Marisa!
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I guess she's surprised to see us.
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She's also pissed because of what happened. It's okay, Marisa, we get it. We want to beat up the Three Demonic Pillars just as bad as you do. Now kindly put the Mini-Hakkero down...
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Nitori, insulting her house isn't going to get you very far.
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Once more, Meiling interjects with double fist pump to set things straight. Now Marisa's Mini-Hakkero will hopefully be pointed towards the enemies, not at us.
In terms of her stats, she has terrible HP, STR, VIT, DEX, and POT, but makes up for it with a decent MP pool and some high AGI and pretty good INT as well. She's essentially a Lighting Bruiser, if the Bruising was being done with magic instead of with physical attacks. She'll replace Sunny.
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And back at the shrine I made this and gave it to Sanae. It has decent damage, can reduce STR, and has Slayer against Artifact Spirits. That's actually pretty handy against the Pus and their friends.
And thus I'll stop here. Before I go, though, here's a summary of the stuff I picked up along the way.
Items: Fire Shard, Thunder Shard, Rock, Zombie Killer (Drop, gave it to Meiling), Round Shield, 2 Legacies of the Gods, Flame Ring, Magic Source Rock, Wizard's Robe, Fairy Remains, Long Sword (Mokou has it), Mace (Sunny had it, but she's no longer in my party), Bamboo, Iron, a Spear (Nitori has it), Mage Staff (Marisa has it now), Bar (Synthesis, Sanae has it)
Recipes: Moraruta, Kuranbo, Bar, Steel Shield, Leather Crest
Skills- Blizzard (Letty, All-targeting 20 power Ice magicattack), Whirlwind Slash (Mokou)
That should be everything. Also, I'm going to put up the next area of exploration up to a vote. Here are the choices:
The rest of Chaos Plains 2+Area beyond that
Giant Toad's Pond
Underground
Makai 1
Hopefully this vote will go over more smoothly than the one for character choice. Well, that's enough Devil of Decline for now. Next time we continue exploring so that we can find those demons and make them pay.
EDIT: @Hinacle Hush hush, spoilers! I'm Obfuscating Stupidity to the plot HCBailly style (i.e. I pretend I have absolutely no idea what's going to happen, even though I do know). You want a plot detail out of me? Wait until I actually get to that point in the game. Don't let the guys who don't actually have a clue what's going on know what's up.
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Another (admittedly minor) point is which promo-shikigami you're going to get.
Some of them are actually pretty nice and worth using, while others are okay-ish but nothing special. The sea cucumber and Melon-chan
are probably the most notable, although if you like charging up your power for a turn before a nuke, there's Black Angel-tan
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...I'm not sure that matters enough to bother with tags, but it doesn't hurt :T Anyway, more game mechanic ranting because I like going on and on and on even if no one wants to listen.
Marisa's default weapons are spears, but unlike almost everyone's default weapons, her stats are pretty badly-suited for them. They're bad at piercing def and she has pretty bad STR which is a not-good combo, she doesn't have anywhere near the DEX or AGI to help her use the quick effects they deal... on the upside, people you consider using staves for generally are best suited for blunt weapons due to their good defense-bypassing formulas, and that they carry nifty debuffs and some real blunt weapons carry magic damage boost like a staff would. You can't use or learn Blunt skills with a staff on, but it trains blunt proficiency, so it works out in the end.
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Another (admittedly minor) point is which promo-shikigami you're going to get.
Haven't really thought about that yet. I'll take a look on the wiki to see what there is. I didn't really use Melon-chan when I got her before (I grinded her up for using the needle attack against yukkuris... and it turns out they nerfed it so that it doesn't do much against them, which pissed me off for wasting so much time).
Anyway, more game mechanic ranting because I like going on and on and on even if no one wants to listen.
I actually don't mind too much. Sometimes you say things I don't know about the game (like I didn't know Yasaka's Divine Wind's effects increased with level, not with DEX).
EDIT: I'm probably going to go for either D-Bag (that's literally the shikigami's name) or Chibi Hina, mainly for the physical elemental attacks. I know I can always switch later on.
Also, I'm going to wait for a little while longer for votes. If no one votes, I'm just going to go on to Chaos Plains 2 and the area beyond that, and maybe the Giant Toad's Pond.
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Hah, I didn't even notice you put up voting. Just go wherever, honestly.
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I'm echoing shim's sentiments. Just roll with the flow.
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Really, unless maybe when it comes to Tower or Not Tower, you should probably just explore at your leisure. Also, ehhhh... while I can see the use of having some elemental selection now, those shikigami become extremely boring pretty fast, as you gain more (and better) shikigami with elemental arrays , and exp doesn't carry over between the promo shikigami.
Fantasia converts your attack entirely to the chosen element, but is only as strong as a normal attack (Until you get the passive boosts; but I'm pretty sure the scaling doesn't come near standing up to just using other things), while Hands have a small portion of the element added onto the power of a normal attack. But yeah, you can always switch, and none of the promo shikigami are super useful or anything, so it's not a big deal.
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I can explore at my leisure. I figured I'd ask for a vote for audience participation or something, but the one LP I saw where someone did that was a blind one. Meanwhile I have an idea of what I'm doing. So I'll go where I go and do things in the order I'm going to do them in. And when it comes to the towers, I already know how I'm tackling them. So, off to the Chaos Plains 2, then!
And with the promo shikigami, again I never really cared in my first playthrough. I figured it would make Meiling more useful by abusing elemental weaknesses (especially Light and Dark, which I don't have much of right now), though eventually later shikigami will outclass those ones. So even once I get promo shikigami, they won't last long in my party.
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Is this GoForce 256 a reference I'm not getting?
I guess it's a reference to the GeForce 256 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_256), the first ever video card in Nvidia's GeForce line.
As for the vote, just go whererever you want.
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I would have had this update sooner, but somehow I quit out of the tab I was writing this in when I was getting close to finishing.
:colonveeplusalpha:
Anyways, now hopefully this will be the last time I do this specific update.
First Stratum- Part 2: Things that Live in Water Shouldn't be Weak to It
The Chaos Plains 2 was actually completely done, I think. So I went up to that area above it.
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This is Heaven's Falls. You can't really tell that it is that, but it is. Year-Round Absorbed Curiosity is its theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6dbLCZVwo0). Huh, a Fairy Wars theme. I'm as surprised to hear that as I am to hear Decisive Magical Battle~Fight it out! as the boss theme.
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We've got Ancient Battlefield's Fire (casts Fire Arrow, weak to Ice) and Youkai Mountain Crow (can inflict Stun with Swoop, weak to Pierce). These are the easier enemies here.
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This Land Turtle here is one of the harder ones. He's incredibly hardy, but dies to Ice very easily. Can't imagine why.
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Medusa's Heads. They're weak to Pierce and they look ugly. Kill them like everything else.
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Considering Heaven's Falls used to be is part of Youkai Mountain, we've got to have Tengu. They hit hard, cast Fire Arrow and Plasma Ball, and are just generally a pain in the ass. Good thing they're weak to Light and Electric.
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So, any doubts about Marisa's usefulness?
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Banish them from your thoughts now. Her Last Word, as you can tell is the almighty Master Spark, which is an enemy-piercing Mystic elemental attack with 90 base power that scales with level. Yeah, she'll be with us for a while.
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And Nitori learns Pole Swing, which is a column attack! Column attacks for all of the physical fighters!
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Why, game?
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You need a hookshot to cross this. I will be back for you, gap we could obvious fly over but can't because this is a JRPG and not a cutscene.
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The sword guy in the back is a King Waterfall Soul. He's a plant. No, I'm serious. That mean's he's weak to Fire and Slash. He can use Whirlwind Slash IIRC.
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We've got Giant Water Ticks here too. They're weak to Fire. That's about as interesting as they get.
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Another cave. It's mainly a dead end with treasure.
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This game really hates me sometimes.
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See? There are waterfalls here. And a nice bridge, too.
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Then we find this newspaper. Gee, I wonder who's it is?
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I figured as much. Honestly, Aya, why would you leave your newspapers here like this?
She tells us also that she knows something about the incident. Well, any information is useful information.
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Aya, we already know it's the Three Demonic Pillars. They kind of announced it. Out loud. To everyone in Gensokyo. You couldn't miss it.
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Whatever the case, she joins her party to do research on this incident. We don't really have to research it. If we beat up the Three Demonic Pillars, then everything will be fine, right? That's usually how incidents go.
Anyways, Aya here has Plasma Ball and Lightning Speed, which gives the person it's cast on the ability to act twice for one turn. Useful for nuking an enemy twice in one shot. It has a massive MP cost, though (41!), so it won't be too useful right now. She also reduces the cooldowns for all Electric attacks by one. She's going to Marisa.
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So where does this go?
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Oh, more Makai.
Specifically, this is Makai 3. Yeah, I need to leave. Now.
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So this is what we've explored so far. It's not too much, but hey, I can't explore everything faster. To the Giant Toad's Pond, to finish it off!
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These Wooden Golems are Artifact Spirits, which means that Sanae's Bar will have Slayer against them. Plus they're weak to Fire. So they're not much of a threat.
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This is the gimmick of this area: lily pads that carry you places. Not too hard to deal with.
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Uh, I don't know what to call that demon thing in the back. It's weak to Light though, so Sanae can take care of it with Minoriko's new-found Star Blaze!
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So where does this head?
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Oh, back to the Chaos Plains. Nevermind, heading back.
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Sometimes the game just really wants you dead. This is one of those times.
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I actually have no idea what to call those frog things. They're weak to Ice. Go figure.
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I think that the wolf thing is a Jayson. I don't know much about it. I was kind of not paying attention to what the enemies were doing. I'm tired, that's mainly why.
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If we hadn't gotten Nitori earlier in the game, we would have gotten her here. She would have trapped us with a cage, thinking we were the incident causers. Again, the Three Demonic Pillars said it was them. People must be deaf these days. With that, however, the Giant Toad's Pond is done. Time to head back to the shrine, synthesis stuff, and take a break. Next time I'll go after the Underground, and then I'll explore Makai. That'll be fun, huh?
Summary:
Treasure: Broken Treasure (drop), Bronze Bustier (Mokou), Legacy of the Gods, Pretty Mirror, Ring of Light (25% Light Resist), Magic Source Rock, 2 Fairy Remains, a wooden shield of some sort (Mokou), Necklage of Herculean Strength/Rage Choker I (Meiling), Morningstar (Drop), Broken Bracelet, Steel, Ring of Ice (25% Ice resist), Alpine Stars (Nitori)
Skills: Star Blaze (Minoriko), Pole Swing (Nitori), Clearance (Letty), Charm (Mystia, single-target Charm spell), Lightning (Aya, 20 power multi-target Electric attack)
Passives: Wriggle: +1 to Status Effect duration
I don't know when I'll get the next update up. I might get it up tonight, but then again I might not. I'll shoot for at least one update per day.
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So when you are going to switch out of Freefight formation? :V
For those who don't know, you auto-unlock all formations as soon as you get 5 members.
In GoS, beasts and some tsukumogami-types (not machines) were the general non-obvious things weak to earth. Dunno if it follows in this game too. On my second play of GoS I kept going "Oh, that's weak to Earth...?" Somehow, I'm totally not surprised it got removed in their new game Phantasmal Summoners.
Anyway, reptiles are weak to ice because they're cold-blooded :D They can't take cold temperatures!
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First Stratum- Part 3: Rocks, Rocks, and More Rocks
So, I said we're going for the Underground, and that's what we're doing. I don't have especially keen memories of this place. Mainly because it was so damn annoying to navigate!
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And I failed to screenshot the beginning of the dungeon. I ran into these guys first. Centipedes are annoying; they can inflict Paralysis with Coil and can hit hard with Tail Chop. They're weak to Ice, so I can kill them with Ice Chill.
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Meiling, continue learning skills like Mirage Blade. They are very much appreciated.
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The gimmick of this dungeon is darkness. Everywhere. So how do you deal with it?
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You interact with these torches, and your vision expands. However, it will decrease over time, so activating torches multiple times is a must.
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And a bunch of new enemies. The big rock-thing is a Stone Servant. It can inflict Silence, but it's very weak to Earth, for whatever reason. A single Earth Javelin can kill it.
The weird pink thing is a Blood Sucker. It can cast Fire Arrow and Fire Chase, but is weak to Fire and Light.
The angel thing in the back is a Patrol. It can cast Star Hand, Star Blaze, and Shining Stars (the 20 power all-targeting Light spell). Of course, being an Angel-type enemy, it's strong against Light but weak to Dark. Mokou, you're up for those.
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Ugh, more new enemies. The Dwarf is weak to Light, but uses Shock Burst and other Blunt skills. The demon with the shield is a Keiten. They have a shield with a high activation rate and use Slash skills, but are actually weak to Slash. That's as ironic as the Stone Servant.
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And then there's the Dullard, which is weak to Electric and also uses Electric attacks. It's also pretty hardy. There's a lot of enemies like that in this game.
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After stumbling my way through the darkness, I run into a cutscene.
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So uh, hi Yamame. So you're not looking too good.
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She's sad. Obviously being spirited away isn't the greatest thing in the world. You start fading away, become less powerful, require being stuffed into something in order to stay alive...
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Meiling, despite her probably knowing the whole "surface youkai and underground youkai don't mix" rule, lets Yamame into the party.
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And Nitori pulls out all of her inventions for no reason.
Yamame here is a pure Earth type shikigami, who starts off with Earth Javelin and has -1 cooldown on Earth attacks. Very useful for whenever I need to use Earth, which is a lot more in this game than in Genius of Sappheiros. Earth was a rare element there, but here it's very common. Huh.
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...I don't know whether to be excited that I can kill all of these guys easily or laugh that there's four of the same guy.
After I loot the rest of the Underground, I head for Makai 1. Maybe I'll run into some more demons.
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These guys are Fighters. Like the Dwarves, they use Blunt skills, but they're weak to Dark.
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Anyone remember those Mr. Gensokyos from Genius of Sappheiros? The ones that inflicted Poison? These are Mr. Makais. They act the small way.
Behind them are Magicians. They can cast Magic Missile, which hurts. A lot.
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The gimmick of the Makai areas is these weird stone things.
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They float up when activated, acting as a temporary jump point. They float down when jumped over.
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The plant thing is a Makai Petal. It's weak to Earth, and I think it can inflict either Sleep or Poison. Later variants of it do, so this one I think does as well.
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And Sanae learned Hard Hit! It's more accurate than a normal attack, so that's good for when you really want to hit the enemy.
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So...many...demons...
Not pictured: Me obliterating the four demons in one shot with a column attack.
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What the hell is a cart doing here? Wait a minute... that cart looks familiar...
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WHATTHEHELL!?
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Uh, hey Orin. Why did you just attack me? And why are you laughing?
Not pictured: Her basically taking a nihilist attitude, thinking that if we're all going to die anyways, she should just take our souls now. Thanks for the vote of confidence, Orin.
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Why does she have one of those demons as a shikigami? Doesn't she know they work for the Three Demonic Pillars?
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What did he do to Orin?
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...So he was influencing her mind, and now he no longer needs her, so he stole her strength, turning her into a shikigami and making him become physical. Okay then, I don't really appreciate demons possessing other people. You're going to have to die now.
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Here, take a Master Spark to the face.
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Okay, it did about 1/6 of his health. Not bad.
Anyways, this is Henenkun. He's associated with Fire, she he's weak to Ice as well as Light. Tewi got Star Hand recently, so this should make things easier.
Although maybe I should have put Letty or Isohime on Sanae beforehand instead of having both on Marisa.
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Okay, that sort of hurt. Thankfully he hit one of my tanks. That probably would have one-shotted Sanae, Nitori, or Marisa.
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For that, I'm going to have to Master Spark your face off.
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And buff myself. That'll help.
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Wait, what are you...?
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OUCHTHATHURT!
Nevertheless, after some flailing about with healing, I got the job done. Henenkun vanishes, just like the last two demons we fought. I'm actually surprised I managed to do that fight first time on this playthrough. It took me a couple tries to get it right before.
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You okay Orin? The big scary red demon is gone.
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She's fine, and Meiling is happy! Orin joins with our party, rounding off shikigami for the four basic elements!
She has Fire Arrow to start off with and grants 25% resistance to Fire attacks. That would have been helpful one boss fight ago. Oh well.
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So, this goes to...
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...Deja vu land. Looks like we're returning to the Bamboo Forest of the Lost. First though, I shall loot the rest of Makai 1, then next time I'll go after the Bamboo Forest of the Lost.
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Last thing. In Genius of Sappheiros, silver chests were locked and required silver keys. In this game, they grant recipes instead. I'll list the recipes in the summary with everything else.
Summary:
Treasure: Venomous Snake's Scale Armor (Drop, Sanae), 2 Broken Bracelets, Staff of Earth's Axis (Marisa while in Underground), Earth Shard, Anklet of Protection (Mokou)*, Ring of Earth, Magic Source Stone, Bamboo, Iron, Quick Wood, Launch Goggles (Nitori), Siamese Seal, Staff of the Thundercloud (Marisa while in Makai 1), Ring of Thunder
Skills: Mirage Blade (Meiling, can stun enemies), Flashing Pierce (Nitori, High speed and high accuracy attack that can inflict Shock), Star Hand (Tewi, Light elemental physical attack), Yorodusenano (Isohime, grants land regen of an element of your choosing to one person), Canyon Clap (Yamame, 20 power all-targeting Earth spell), Hard Hit (Sanae, high accuracy attack), Fireball (Orin, 20 power all-targeting Fire spell)
Passives: Mystia- +5 Sleep Success Rate, Minoriko- +5% Recovery Casting Speed
Recipes- Sword of the Earth, Annuvin, Axe of Lightning, Robe of Evasion, Crescent Shield
So next time, we go after the Bamboo Forest of the Lost as well as whatever's after it. I can't believe I'm already through half of the areas on the First Stratum already.
EDIT: I'll get out of free-fight. I was actually out of it by now in my first runthrough. Weird that I haven't changed yet...
Things are weak to Earth like crazy here. I didn't use Earth that much in GoS (considering Patchy, Sanae, and Satori were the only ones to get Earth spells, and I didn't use Sanae's or Satori's attack spells often...).
And what was taken out of Phantasmal Summoners? The Earth element? I didn't know that. I must have missed that part of the trailer, somehow.
SECOND EDIT: Okay, so somehow I forgot to link the music for the dungeons here. The Underground one is a remix of Walking the Streets of a Former Hell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWV5rhP8NWM), while the Makai one is a remix of Dimension of Reverie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNJrlPMRXF8). Hey, Mystic Square music! Very fitting.
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Well, I might get the next update up tonight. Then again, I might not. Today was busy day.
Please watch warmly...
EDIT: Yeah, not getting it up. I'm not even close to finishing it. When it comes, however, it'll be quite a large update, don't you worry. Plenty of stuff to get where I am. It'll be 60+ screenshots at least.
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I was busy for most of the day today, but I managed to finish screenshotting. So here you go, a longer-than-normal update for your viewing pleasure.
First Stratum- Part 4: Close Call Central
So, the Bamboo Forest of the Lost again. The music's still the same: White Flag of Usa Shrine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RADKwYhyb7M).
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These guys are Desk Stars, and they can use HDD Crash to inflict removal, which is like instant death except you cannot revive people afflicted by it. These guys got the first turn and killed Mokou before I could do anything. Thankfully, they are weak to Electric, which makes them vulnerable to Aya's Lightning ability.
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These bird-things whose name I can't translate can inflict Charm. They actually managed to at one point inflict Charm on everyone except for Sanae, I think. They're also weak to Electric.
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See this exit?
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Whatever you do, do not go through it if it is like this, or you get warped to a room near the beginning of the area. It's an annoying gimmick to deal with.
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...I'm so glad I can go before them, otherwise I would be crying.
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These Werewolves are weak to Electric, but can use Hellclaw Assassination, a column attack that hits hard and inflicts Poison. Given that I'm still in Free-Fight, this hurts. A lot.
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This is where you end up if you get screwed over by the fog. Well, time to restart!
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You can't really tell by the picture, but you see how that area is foggy on the minimap? If you go there while the fog's out, you'll end up in that room in the earlier picture. This happened to me at least once. On the bright side, if you don't have Mokou in your party, there's where you would get her.
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Tiger. Why? I don't know. I don't know what he's weak to, but he hits hard and has a bunch of HP.
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Finally, a way out of this place. I don't see what could be more annoying than the place I was just in.
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Oh. Right. Makai. Filled with those stupid floating stone puzzles, which get more annoying here. The words "backtrack" don't even begin to describe Makai 2.
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Oh hey, I remember you from Genius of Sappheiros. Matangos are weak to Fire and Slash, like most plants. I forget exactly what they do, because I usually kill them before they do anything bad to me.
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More new enemies, this time the Orcs. I think they know Blunt skills, but again I forget.
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What are Zombies doing here? Whatever the case, weak to Fire and Light, as usual.
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And an Ogre. Thankfully, as he's a giant, he's weak to Earth and Slash. He might have a lot of HP, but he's not too bad. So fire away, guys!
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The guy in the back is a Payokakamui, I think. They are weak to Earth of all things and know Electric skills. So many things weak to Earth in this game...
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...That's a lot of dudes.
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And Alligators. They're weak to Ice. Of course they are, as reptiles. I think they can use Fang Crush, but I forget.
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One Ogre, not a problem. Two Ogres? Yeah, run.
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In that chest is the unique promo shikigami. Whichever one you get depends on the code you entered. Because I still have the code for Melon-chan left in, then that's what I got. She has terrible stat boosts and knows Drain Touch (Dark elemental draining attack) and Melon Beam (1-3 hitting physical attack with a two-turn cooldown). She does increase drop rate by 1%, so I'll keep her around.
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'Kaythanksbye. *runs*
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A boss room. Not quite yet, I need to do things.
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Another cave, but this time I'm going inside.
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A The Road of the Apotropaic God~Dark Road (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8DjIiY9CV4) remix? Weird music for a cave, but it's cool sounding, so I'm good with it.
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More new enemies, the Ghost (the guy at the top) and the Quick Silver (the girl at the bottom). The Ghost is practically immune to physical attacks, but Light will kill him easily. I forget what's notable about the Quick Silver.
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Holy crap Nitori, you've turned into a missile! Missile Weapon can inflict Stumble, but unlike Leg Sweep, which has "parallel" power (which I have no idea what that does), it has Medium power. Okay then.
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At the end of the cave we find... can it really be?
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It is! It's the Scarlet Devil Mansion!
And for some reason Heartfelt Fancy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty5d1cGM7Ys&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=22) is playing. Okay then.
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Patchouli? You didn't get spirited away? I figured with her poor physical condition, she'd be easy enough to spirit away. I guess she's too tough for the Three Demonic Pillars to get spirited away.
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See? Meiling shows my surprise.
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Patchy explains that she and Remilia hadn't gotten spirited away, and that they split up to look for those who were spirited away. Except Remy hasn't come back yet. Nevertheless, it means that's she's not in shikigami form, while the other residents, well...
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Sunny calls Patchy a shut-in. How rude! Even if it is true, that's kind of rude. Well, you're a fairy. I could punt you into a tree and you'd turn to dust.
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Patchy here isn't amused, obviously.
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Meiling steps in with a quick double fist pump to break up the arguing. Patchy promptly joins our party. She's weak in all physical matters, meaning her HP, STR, VIT, DEX, and AGI are all crappy. However, she has the highest INT in the game as well as the second highest MP. I originally didn't use her in my first run too much, but I'm going to replace Marisa with her, just to try something new. Don't worry about her being behind in level. She'll catch up quickly enough.
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Elsewhere in the SDM I find these upgrades to the 25% resist accessories I've been picking up. I can make each of them except for the Ice one, because I don't have a Water Shard. Thee guys add 10 RES to the original 25% resistance, so they're pretty good.
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To make up for the fact that I now have such a squishy master, I switch to Twin Shield. I hardly knew ye, Free-Fight. No more Last Word spam.
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Yeah, I'm going to come back later. I want to finish up Makai 2 first.
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And Mokou learns Mirage Blade. Well, it's a good as time as any.
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Who usually carries around a violin and a trumpet? Hmm...
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Oh yeah, Lunasa and Merlin. Here to perform in this desert that's apparently Makai?
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Mokou promptly notices that there's supposed to be three Prismrivers, not two. Apparently Lyrica is still missing.
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Meiling gets them to join with the power of double fist pump (and a promise to both find Lyrica and kick the Three Demonic Pillars' asses).
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For some reason, Lunasa plays the "defeated" theme. Which is yet another Chinese Tea remix. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4gzQ5Gxgzo&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=39) What a shock.
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Merlin perks them up with another Chinese Tea remix, this time the victory theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vIHcFYQJXM&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=14). That brings us up to four Chinese Tea remixes heard so far, including the title theme (which I did not link, for some reason. Here it is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh0t_Ksl5Zk&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=1)).
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Meiling's so happy, she can double fist pump a second time! She's way too happy for such a serious incident.
Lunasa's more of a physical-type shikigami, but she also has Increase, which buffs one of the six main stats for all party members. She also boosts critical hit damage by 15%. She's going on Nitori for maximum buffing output, though.
Merlin is more of the magical type. She starts with only Insanity (which causes Berserk to a single target), but learns Magic Missile (a 40 power single target Mystic spell) after a single level up. She also boosts magic attack by 1%. She's got really nowhere to go, but I put her on Sanae for now.
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Alright, let's do this thing.
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Yuka? What're you doing here?
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Apparently she wants to kick some ass too. Well, hop on! There's plenty of room. We could use the help.
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Hang on, what? You want to do it by yourself? What, do you think we're going to steal your victory?
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Apparently so. And Drifting in the Fog of War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvqW5R61Z84&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=37) plays again, but it's upgraded from the original. Yeah, I needed some good pre-ass-kicking music to pump me up for this fight.
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Pointing your parasol isn't going to do anything. Unless your going to Master Spark me. Then I'd want to get out of the way.
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And we have Demystify Feast (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRW6hKdqtOI&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=25) as our new Touhou character boss theme. Alright then.
So yeah, Yuka. She's weak to Electric, but she's physically tough and hits hard. No worries, I've got buffs.
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After managing to not get killed for two rounds, I find out she can cast Sleep, which knocks out Nitori, Mokou, and Patchy. I really need Patchy; she's the one with Aya on.
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Wait, what are you...?
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Crap, there goes Nitori. Do note I have no revive spells. Yeah, Meiling and Nitori are out for the rest of combat.
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She has a spell that makes her immune for physical attacks for a round. Big whoop, I can barely scratch you physically anyways.
She goes down with TPKing me, thankfully.
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She agrees to come with us, begrudgingly. Yuka is a physical tank with the best HP and VIT in the game, but she lacks in AGI or DEX, which makes her a bit tough to use for anything but tanking. Her Last Word is the same as that spell she used to make herself immune to physical attacks. I'm benching her, mainly because Mokou is also a good tank but isn't necessarily only good for tanking like Mokou is. Weird, I replaced Mokou with her in my first run through the game. I guess I understand the importance of having a versatile party now. WHAT A SHOCK.
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And all of that took an hour to do. Well, eleven hours left until the end of Gensokyo. We've totally got this, guys.
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We also pick up... this person. She's the friend of Isohime that got trapped in a chest too. I never really used her, so I'm not even going to bother talking about her, because there are other shikigami that can do the same thing as her, but better. Plus Permanent status effects are hard to land on people anyways.
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The staircase drops us off here... which is a blue recoloring of Makai.
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As you can see, we're now on the second stratum. Yeah, coming back later. After I finish the first stratum. That's it for this update, though. Next time we go to the Youkai Forest and hopefully finish off the rest of the First Stratum.
In addition to my usual summary, I'm going to include a TPK meter. It'll say how many times I've been TPKed, and how many times I was TPKed in this update specifically. The higher that number, the harder the area is. Usually.
Summary:
Treasure: Gale Boots, Broken Treasure x3 (Drop), Fairy Remains, Rock, Bamboo Guard (Patchouli), Dark Shard, Steel, Dragon Lance (Nitori), Purgatory Staff, Muffler of Evasion, Legacy of the Gods, Pretty Mirror, Ring of Darkness, Silence Gold (Nitori), Thunder Shard, Amulet of the Milky Way (Drop), Tabaru (Sanae), Fairy Remains (drop), Hard Shell (Nitori), Kiruteddoshiruku, Mystic Shard, Pendant of Sharpness (Patchouli)
Skills Learned: Flash (multi-target Blind spell, Mystia), Pitch Darkness (column Blind spell, Wriggle), Lingering Cold (60 power all-targeting Ice spell with high MP cost, Letty, Missile Weapon (Nitori), Magic Missile (40 power single-target Mystic spell, Merlin)
Passives: Tewi: +1 Critical hit chance
Recipes: Bracelets of Fire, Water, Thunder, and Earth
TPK Meter: 0 this update, 0 total
Frustration with the game: Small. Some annoying areas like the Bamboo Forest of the Lost and Makai 2, but nothing too bad. Yet.
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Yuuka's actually got above-average strength too, so she's nice apart from just being the most durable character. But of course, if you used her on your first play, then~
Food-loli (shikigami he got at the end) learns the strongest and also most accurate (base 100% hit chance) poison move in the game after awhile, but she's not good for much else. She learns resists to various status effects and has some cheap single-target status moves like Paralysis. Poison is actually a pretty worthy status effect in this game all the way to the very end of expansion, so she can be pretty good (leveling her increases her poison move's strength more) but if you aren't interested in using poison much, then you'll never have any use for her.
That bird enemy is Moh-Shovuu or something, I think!
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Food-loli (shikigami he got at the end) learns the strongest and also most accurate (base 100% hit chance) poison move in the game after awhile, but she's not good for much else.
Oh, really? Okay, she'll replace Wriggle then, because Butterfly Storm and it's usage for poison is the only reason I have her on.
I really wish I knew that earlier. It would have made several boss fights much, much easier.
Welcome to the team, Nishiki!
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Ahahaa, good thing I mentioned it then!
It's possible to stack poisons on enemies in this game, but I have no idea how that works, exactly.
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Okay, I'm going to upload the update soon. All the screenshots are done, it's just that I need to upload them.
There's good news and bad news in relation to this update.
The good news: exploration of the first stratum is done. I'm pretty sure I've gotten all of the chests and shikigami I can get without the hookshot.
The bad news is that there's a great big Beef Gate between me and Xia's tower.
Yeah.
This messed up my plans for the order I was going to do things in, but not to worry! I've got a backup plan. So watch warmly for the update and I'll let you know then what Plan B is for the LP. I may be a bit down (I haven't been feeling well for the last two days or so) but I'm not out. It'll take a lot more than a Beef Gate to mess me up.
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First Stratum- Finale: The Beefgate Scandal
I did put Nishiki into my party like I said I would. She currently has Sleep, Paralyze, Blind, and Silence, which are all single-target status-inflicting spells that inflict exactly what they say they inflict. She also currently grants 25% resistance to poison, which is nice when enemies use stuff like, I don't know, Hellclaw Assassination, or something like that.
So, to the Youkai Forest, then. It has White Flag of Usa Shrine as a theme too. I'm not even going to bother linking it again, because the theme has been recycled already, and I'm tired of relinking recycled music.
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The angels are Apostles, and the girls on the left are Deacons. The Apostles have the usual Light skills, but I think they have Holy Zapper. I forget if they do or not. The Deacons can use Water Recovery to heal, but I forget what else they can do. Weak to Dark, as magicians usually are.
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Three new enemies in one shot. The Ground Spider is weak to Ice and I think can paralyze people. The Lizard Man is usually dead due to Ice before it can act (though it knows Slash skills) and I have no idea what's up with the Venus Man Trap. Again, it's usually dead before it does anything.
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The Mining Village, as weird as it looks, is weak to Earth and can explode in your face if you leave it for too long. Try not to think about that too hard.
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So, another Blunt skill for Sanae, eh? This one's... something. Google gives me Gras Marie Buster, ATLAS gives me gibberish. Personally, all I know is that it's an AoE attack that lowers POT, I think.
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More recipes, this time the CD-ROM and the Light, Dark, and Mystic 25% resisting accessory upgrades.
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There's an Archer in the back. She can shoot you. She's weak to Dark. That's all you need to know.
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So where does this one go?
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Gah, more Chaos Plains. I thought I was done with those. Going back for completeness.
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I find this. It's Hina! She's not spinning, though. Okay then.
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She's surprised to see us here, but that's sort of expected when the Three Demonic Pillars sort of mixed up Gensokyo really well.
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Despite the fact that she says that she cannot take on all of the misfortune from this incident (which means she's leaking misfortune badly now, and that misfortune's going to befall the entire party, such as Mokou's stand failing and the Moriya Shrine receiving even less faith) she joins anyway. She's a pure debuff master, currently with Decrease, which is like Increase except it decreases one of the enemy's main stats. She also offers 50% resistance to curse, which would be nice if any enemies inflicted curse at this point.
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Oh hey, an Infant Demon. We'll be seeing more of these types of monsters as time goes on. For now, just know that it uses stuff like Dark Zapper and other Dark elemental attacks. Star Hand does a number on these guys, though, so Meiling will hurt them. A lot.
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We will be back.
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Oh look, another tower I can't enter. That's 2 of 3 of them, now. By process of elimination, only one other is left. There is only one tower that can be accessed per stratum, so it has to be the one in Makai 3.
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These winged things are yet again something I can't translate. I think they might know Hellclaw Assassination, but I'm not sure. They're weak to Electric.
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This is a suppository. Gee, I wonder who needs this in order to show up? Nevertheless, that person isn't here. I'll have to find her elsewhere.
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Hang on a minute, I want to check around a little more before going through.
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Actually, that's enough checking around.
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Makai 3, finally. This is in fact the last area of the first stratum!
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And here's the entrance back to Heaven's Falls, in case I need it. Which I don't.
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Hang on a sec, we'll get there.
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In another part of Makai 3, the title theme starts playing. That's weird, I though that was for the title screen only.
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Ah, there you are, Lyrica! Your sisters are worried about you!
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I believe the conversation implies that she abandoned her sisters to go at it alone, and that despite the fact we found them, she doesn't want to really go with us. Too bad, you're coming with us, Lyrica. She's actually good at buffing stuff, and starts with Heat Weapon, which increase's the party's physical attack. She also increases magic defense by one for now.
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Now we'll take care of this boss. I don't actually remember what the boss was like in my first run.
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Finally, a Clock Tower of the End that I can enter! Looks like this is Xia Zhuli's tower. I'm sure it'll be a bloody good time.
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However, this thing appears. It's a trap!
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Who the hell are you?
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Apparently his name is Ansuitei, and he's the guard of this place.
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Dark auras are never a good sign of anything.
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Oh, you look threatening. I'm pretty sure some Star Hands and Fire Arrows will bring him down.
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What the hell?
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Oh, it only damages my whole party and stuns it. Great.
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He can Blind us too? Oh great. Magic attacks aren't doing too much to him, so physical is normally the way to go. Except he can inflict Blind. Swell.
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Yeah, this hurts. A lot.
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Well shit.
Looks like I'm not going in any time soon.
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On the bright side, we've pretty much finished up the first stratum, as you can tell by the map. That blank spot in the middle isn't important or anything. Not at all.
So, instead of grinding, we're going to move on to the second stratum and all of the joys and splendors it brings us. We'll be back. And we'll throw Ansuitei and Xia Zhuli into a pit of fire, where they belong.
Summary:
Treasure: Ancient Purification Thing x2, Intense Cold Staff, Fire Shard, Armor Lining, Rosary of Fortitude, Water Shard, Linen Cuirass (Mokou), Muscle Belt, Chain Mail (it's an accessory with 25% Slash resistance, not an armor), Magic Piercings, Barrier Earrings, Ring of Magic, Earth Shard
Skills Learned: Gras Marie Buster (Sanae), Tongue (lowers resistance to Fire, Water, Electric, Earth, Light, and Dark by one level, Rumia), Capture Web (50 power all-targeting Earth spell with a chance of inflicting Paralysis, Yamame), Melt Weapon (debuffs physical attack in a column, Hina)
Synthesis Done: Bracelet of Water (Mokou)
TPKs: 1 this update, 1 overall
Frustration: Small. Even though I've encountered a Beef Gate, I've got options, namely going somewhere else.
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There's most likely not going to be an update for a couple of days. I would have done so tonight, but I've started playing Persona 4 Golden and, well...
Yeah, I've wasted a couple of hours with the beginning of that. And tomorrow I'm going to be livestreaming a Touhou marathon, so...
Yeah. Thursday's most likely the day I'll get an update up. I'll get to the second stratum, don't worry.
EDIT: Actually, if I change a couple things around on my to-do list for today and tomorrow, I'll actually get something up later tonight. Please watch warmly...
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I think that's Mardi Gras Buster! Or whatever that holiday is...
Rumia's Tongue Lick skill is so fabulous <3 Due to the way some things scale, hitting any degree of weakness makes your damage skyrocket later on; increasing STR makes you deal more damage when you hit a weakness, go figure. (INT increases critical hit damage, so that becomes similarly insane later as well. Probably related to why I saw a Patchouli deal like 44k damage with a physical attack when hitting weakness and critical.)
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So, after a few hours of beginning Persona 4 Golden, I actually remembered "Hey, I have an LP to do!" And thus I sat down, cracked my fingers, and got back into the game.
Second Stratum- Part 1: Moving on Down
So, we're going after the second stratum now. Which starts out in another Makai area, only this time it's blue. We've got Maple Wise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROUPxr3LrUc) as theme. Hey, I raged at Mystic Square earlier today for being an ass to me. What a coincidence.
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Sleepless Night in the Eastern Country (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwvRqibowr4) as a battle theme, huh? Well, it does get me pumped up for murdering things.
These guys are Laughing Tires (who are weak to Earth and use Hit-and-Run, which can inflict Stun) and Rabisus (who can use First Strike, I think).
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A new area already?
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Oh, the Netherworld? We'll be back here later. I want to take care of the Makai area first.
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Akankaus are undead, weak to Fire and Light, and can use Explosion, which is a large AoE attack that hurts like hell. They're easy to take care of.
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RECIPES. They'll be listed in the summary as usual.
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The game says that this is Makai 2 now. Okay then. I'll keep going and see what happens. I'll go back and finish Makai 1 afterwards.
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Oh crap, these puzzles. Essentially, you now have to push the stones into their slots before they can be activated. This is more annoying than anything, but I can push through.
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Oh, Ran! Yukari's been looking for you. Too bad we have absolutely no idea where she is. I doubt we'll see her ever.
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Yeah, we're kind of going after the Three Demonic Pillars. We need to kick ass and take names. We need to show them who's boss.
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Ran has one question that she's been trying to investigate, though. Why are the Three Demonic Pillars trying to destroy Gensokyo? Do they have a true motive? Huh, I never thought about it that way. It seems like they're just doing it for the evulz, but the antagonist of a Touhou game usually has a reason for what they're doing. I mean, what would be the usefulness of a destroyed Gensokyo? Hmm... I guess we'll find out more about their true motive later. We don't exactly know it yet.
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Regardless of what's going on, Meiling agrees to let Ran onboard. She's basically our first Light elemental shikigami, which means we now have a shikigami dedicated to each of the seven magical elements. She provides 25% resistance to Light and has Star Blaze and Shining Stars, the 30 power single target Light spell and the 20 power all-targeting Light spell respectively. She'll go on Sanae in place of Letty.
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So, there's a Yakushi in the back. She can attack twice in one turn and hits pretty hard. She's technically a giant, but unlike most giants, she's not weak to Earth or Slash. I actually don't know what's she's weak to.
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Look's like we finally got Patchy to use her Last Word. They've been rare ever since I switched from Free Fight to Twin Shield.
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Philosopher's Stone, you never cease to amaze me. It's an all-targeting, 70 power spell that scales with level. It's actually Void elemental, which is an extremely rare element that cannot be resisted, just like in Genius of Sappheiros.
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GODDAMN COCKATRICES! They are weak to Electric, but they can cast Petrification Breath. This can obviously Petrify you. Points to anyone who gets the reference.
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Uhh...
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That leads to a Clock Tower of the End. That means one of the Makai Assassins (what I call the demons that have attacked us before) is protecting the tower. Nope. No no no no no. Not yet.
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The Maraika is the back is an angel-type enemy. Obviously, it is weak to Dark, resists Light, and uses Light attacks, as well as Earth attacks. Weird, it looks Middle-Eastern. Well, that can't possibly mean anything.
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Dem's some weird flora.
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A WILD PARSEE APPEARS!
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So, what was the point of attacking us again?
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...I refuse to dignify your crazed muttering with a response.
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Nevertheless, she joins the party. She provides 50% resistance to Petrify, Paralysis, and Sleep, and she has Water Recovery as well as a spell I can't exactly translate. It's 丑の刻参り, which gives me gibberish in my translators. I think it has a Gravity-type effect (like the Final Fantasy spell), but I'm not exactly sure. She's being benched.
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Take a good look at that mini-map.
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Yeah, screen-wrapping. This is actually used quite often across the game. I have know idea how the Three Demonic Pillars made a torus-like area, but whatever.
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Oh boy, I remember this guy from Genius of Sappheiros. He is a Shade, who has some land regen in Dark as well as the usual weakness to Light. He can act multiple times per turn, inflict Instant Death, and use Dark attacks. In other words, he's stronger than the average cannon fodder found around these parts.
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More areas to go through.
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It's Muenzuka! With a Poison Body~Forsaken Doll (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDMWbrXHYSc) remix as a theme. I don't get why they didn't use Higan Retour like they used in Genius of Sappheiros, but I guess that's would sound too similar.
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Who let Germans into Muenzuka? Nevertheless, these are Stormtroopers (actually they're whatever the German name is for them, but TheNewGuy said he's going to translate some of the German names into the English equivalent, so I'll do the same). They know Missile and Stun Grenade. Stun Grenade is especially annoying, as it can inflict Blind. So kill these guys off quickly. They're weak to Dark, like most warrior-type enemies.
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Sanae learns Bone Crush, which can lower VIT. She seems to be learning most of the moves here. I wonder why. I think it's because she's a type 4 skill learner, and they learn some of the best skills. Patchy's another one, but I've got staves on her, so she can't learn Blunt skills.
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I find some sort of food here. Like the suppository from before, this'll trigger a recruitment flag later.
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Can't cross these flowers. Come on, they're only higanbana. They'll only poison you... on second thought let's not try to cross them. We'll have to find another way into the eastern half of this place.
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And Engineers as well. They can use a Decoy effect to force you to target them and can buff attack and defense. Of course, they're weak to Dark.
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The translator translates them as Thud, which I know is probably wrong but I'll go with it. They're basically Pus, including having the ever annoying Bug attack, which paralyzes your whole party. A group like this is a death sentence. They paralyzed everyone but Sanae. Yeah, I had to run like hell.
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That's two recipe boxes in a row, huh? I'll list these later too.
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Again, the translator gives me a weird translation for this guy, who is a Nurse Horn. He's weak to Electric. Kill him quickly or he'll mess you up badly.
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Of course, Philosopher's Stone doesn't give a damn.
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Another recipe box? Really?
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Thisis way better than a recipe box. This is the hookshot! Now we can return to those areas back on the first stratum and loot the goodies within. Later, though.
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It seems like we've explored a pretty good portion of the second stratum. There's one more place in Makai 1 that we missed, however. Let's quickly take care of that.
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More caves. Wonderful.
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And here's the Myouren Temple. Byakuren's not here, though. Strange. If we didn't get Sanae at the beginning, then we would have gotten her here. She would have been essentially seeking shelter from the monsters and stuff. Either that or when the World of Chaos was made, she ended up being spirited away to here, but not turned into shikigami form.
That's all for this update. Next time we'll go back to the first stratum to see what's in those hookshot places, and then we'll go to the Netherworld and hopefully get strong enough to deal with the guardian of that tower.
Summary:
Treasures: Steel, Charming Photo Album, Ruby Guarder (Drop, Meiling), Broken Bracelet x2, Rock, Kite Shield (Mokou), Unsilent Throat, Youkai's Memories, Fur Armor (Meiling), War Axe (Sanae), Iron, Dual Saber (Nitori), Stardust Shard, Sleeping Lamb, Anti-Paralysis Needle, Comrade Sword (Mokou), High Magic Rod (Patchouli), Control Medal, Magic Source Stone, Pretty Mirror, White Robe, Stone Statue of Self-Protection, Tinbe, Aivi Guarder (Sanae), Spirit Stone, Hookshot
Skills: First Strike (Makes the person it is cast on move first, similar to Tengu Support from Genius of Sappheiros, Aya), Acid Storm (reduces physical defense in a column, Hina), Energy Hand (a physical attack that's Mystic element, Merlin), Earth Wall (buffs the party's physical defense, Lyrica), Bone Crush (Blunt skill that reduces VIT, Sanae), Butterfly Storm (attacks all enemies and inflicts a Permanent status effect of your choice, Wriggle)
Passives: Nishiki- 25% resist to Petrify, Sleep, and Paralysis
Recipes: Silver Shield, Great Wizard Robe, Rubber Suit, Mage Masher, Ron, Warhammer of Earthquakes
Synthesis Done: Great Wizard Robe (Patchouli)
TPKs: 0 this update, 1 overall
Frustration with this game: Not too bad. Granted, the Cockatrices and Thuds are a bit annoying, but I can handle the random encounters. For now.
I may update tomorrow, if I manage to do my Touhou livestream quickly enough (I'm shortening it from every integer game in the series to just five games) and get some schoolwork done (yes, even over vacation I have work for school). Damn reality wrecking my gaming.
And Merry Christmas! Yes, it's still barely Christmas where I live. Just barely.
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Parsee's Dark attack is a multitarget Dark-elemental physical that scales with your level. However, it's power goes down if the user's HP is lower. (Percentage of total HP, so higher max hp doesn't make it stronger) It's not terribly strong, but as you level up, it's power increases, so it's not... terrible. Gives you another option against Dark-weak enemies, but not worth much else.
She later gets a healing magic mp reduction and whole-party status cure moves. Her special Dark skill isn't terribly good but, at least it's physical I guess, which scales better then magic. Ran, for example, becomes mostly useless eventually as her strongest light attacks aren't very strong; but she attempts to stay relevant by being the shikigami with the "Light Magic can critical hit" passive, and I guess she learns an AoE heal too.
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I haven't said a thing, since I don't know ANYTHING about this game, but I've been reading all of your updates! Nice Let's Play so far! Keep on going and stay strooooong!
...Aside from that, I'll be cheering on Nuke-Patche.
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I haven't said a thing, since I don't know ANYTHING about this game, but I've been reading all of your updates! Nice Let's Play so far! Keep on going and stay strooooong!
Seconded. It's been an entertaining read so far, keep it up!
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Well, I'm glad you guys have found it entertaining so far. To be honest, doing an LP for the first time, especially with a game like this where knowing every little detail is harder than usual, is quite a bit of work, but if you guys like it, then I feel like I've done a good job so far.
Update won't be until later. I'm about to begin livestreaming Touhou stuff over an obscure screen-sharing program called join.me. The stream will be on Youtube later, if you're interested. Afterwards, I just need to take care of some other work and I'll be set for screenshotting.
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Oh dear :/ If I remember right, that program is super low quality streaming material. Like... you get a couple frames per second, and the screen doesn't update evenly. It's okay for some stuff, but definitely not playing a game. If you want to stream, you should look into using XSplit with Twitch.tv or Livestream.com's stuff. There's some other good ways, but they aren't as easy to just pick up and do (Xsplit requires some minor setting tweaks to get it running optimally and the sound quality good, but it's pretty simple, and twitchchat is kind of iffy if you don't connect via IRC. Livestream is grab'n'go but awkward to sign up for)
Or maybe join.me got better, i'unno!
For that matter though, if you're uploading videos to youtube, you might consider adding the occasional video for the LP; like, for the really significant bosses, e.g. the three towers and the final boss.
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I was already going to upload videos for important bosses and stuff later. Also, the stream was a complete failure because of technical difficulties and whatnot. So nothing is going on Youtube after all. you're right, I need a better streaming program. Oh well. I'll get the update up later when I have time to screenshot it.
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And now I have the demon lolis themselves as my profile pic. If I didn't have a mission to slaughter them viciously, I'd say they're a bit cute. A bit.
Second Stratum- Part 2: Attack, Attack! Retreat, Retreat!
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Now I can cross these guys. I somehow missed this one in my first playthrough, or just plain forgot about it.
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Whee!
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Enemies on the other side of hookshot areas are unique. They're all forms of bakebakes, kedamas, slimes, and fairies from the beginning of the game. These are the "High" forms of them. All of these monsters give fixed XP (read: not affected by the area's usual XP modifier) and have a good chance of dropping common materials, like Rocks, Irons, and the like. This is also where you can grind for Broken Treasures (from the slime-type enemies). Finally, they are Level 99 according to the bestiary, but for the skill learning formula, they all count as Level 1. Yeah, I almost got tricked by that. Thankfully that blog with all of the internal game mechanics told me the truth.
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So... many... enemy symbols...
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At first I had no idea what all these treasure chests were in a previous screenshot of this area (I was not here myself in my first playthrough), but it's all of the treasure chests from the Prologue. If you missed anything, you can pick it up here. The recipe chest has the "Material Set A." It allows you to trade in 10 Broken Treasures for some Rocks, Irons, Bamboos, Steels, and Pretty Mirrors.
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This area was behind the shrine, but you can't move the rock unless you come in from the hookshot area in Chaos Plains 2.
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Ah, there's the other two Fairies of Light. Makes sense they would be at their home, which is behind the Hakurei Shrine, naturally. I wonder if the Hakurei Barrier here is okay.
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I think Nitori's accusing them of pulling some sort of prank, but I'm not sure.
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Apparently they're not too keen on being asked to help with incident resolution.
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Well, too bad. When Meiling double fist pumps or goes into her battle pose, you're as good as recruited. Luna Child is basically a darkness based shikigami who starts off with Silence and grants 50% resistance to Blind and Silence, while Star Sapphire is a Light-based shikigami who starts off with Dispel and grants 5 RES. I'm going to bench Luna but equip Star, mainly because Star gets Resurrection later on, which can be extremely useful.
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And finally we have the hookshot area at Heaven's Falls.
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MOAR CAVES!
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Who's there?
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Oh, Momiji. You were a pain in Genius of Sappheiros. So, how does it feel being a shikigami?
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Really, three seperate occasions of the double fist pump in one cutscene? That has to be a new record.
Not pictured: The conversation regarding how all of Gensokyo seems to be uniting under the threat of the Three Demonic Pillars. Also, something about the tengu, though I'm not exactly sure what.
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Can't argue with a battle pose.
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And Momiji calls Meiling's battle pose and raises a badass-looking sword. Momiji's all about shield skills, starting off with Shield Wall (which, like Marionette Parrar from Genius of Sappheiros, protects a column with a shield). She also had Perry's Canaan Expedition, which is basically like Ancient Duper in that it has high power but crappy accuracy. She also grants +20% shield defense, which is pretty nice. She goes on Mokou. Goodbye, Wriggle. I hardly knew ye.
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Yukkuri shitette ne! Metal Yukkuris and their later cousins are basically like Metal Slimes from the Dragon Quest series, in that they have a small bit of HP but huge physical defense and complete immunity to magic. If you do manage to kill them before they flee (which they can do very easily), they drop massive amounts of XP. Spray and pray is the only method for dealing with them right now. They can be easily farmed in the cave that had Momiji in it, and generally can be found in hookshot areas, although they can be found elsewhere. I do manage to kill this one!
Anyways, on to the Netherworld! It has Charming Domination (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CFEvdLdOa4) as theme. That's a million times better than it's theme in Genius of Sappheiros, which I couldn't even tell from just listening to the song that it was Oriental Mystic Dream~Ancient Temple. I still can't tell that.
Anyways, back to Devil of Decline.
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Zombie Dodo on the top (bird-type, yet has the usual undead weaknesses) and a Car on the bottom (spirit-type, so it's weak to light). I believe the Zombie Dodo can paralyze you with its normal attacks, so be careful.
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I don't get the point of these dead ends.
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There's a Succubus in the back. She's a demon who can use Shadow Bolt as well as Charm. She's weak to Light, so Meiling can abuse that with Star Hand. No, not that kind of abuse.
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Kisume, is that you? Regardless of that, she's a miniboss, just like she was in Genius of Sappheiros. She hurts your party like hell. Simply put, run.
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We've got a Scorpion in the back, who is weak to Ice, and a Natural Killer in the front, which is weak to Fire. I forget what they do.
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Again with the dead ends...
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I think those are Putrids. They are undead, so Meiling can one-shot them (a critical on Star Hand does over 800 damage, which is quite a bit of HP). They know Blood Drain, but that's about it.
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Oh crap, Yuki-Onnas. Essentially, run from them. I forget what the thing up front is, but it doesn't matter right now. Yuki-Onnas know extremely high-powered Ice spells, so you want to get out. Immediately.
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No just no.
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Looks like the entrance to the next area. I swear there was something else here, so I'll head back.
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And run into these guys. The big thing is a Kakurinorasu, andit knows Cold Breath. And can barely be scratched at this point. Yeah, run.
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Or fail to run for three straight turns! That's our second TPK. Now I've got to go through the entire Netherworld, because I can't just warp back to the new exit.
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More new enemies. The Seven Person Cape up front can be one-shotted by Meiling (go Star Hand!) and the Darknesses are similar. They know the usual Dark skills and have Dark land regen.
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That exit leads here. Really, more Makai?
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Harpies. They're weak to Electric, but can inflict Silence. Whee.
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A new area already? That was fast.
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On second thought, let's leave before Yuka finds out we're here. Even if she is chilling out at the shrine right now.
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So, the Hiramonsuta in the back is weak to Ice. They can also use TailChop. That has so far failed to killed me.
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Crap, a Large Makai Cactus. They can cast Porcupine, which is the same as 1000 Needles. Which means it can murder you like crazy.
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And an Ogre Chief, which hits hard but is weak to the usual elements giants are weak to.
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After tons of exploring, we come upon yet another new area.
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
Yeah, let's come back later. This place is essentially death.
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We don't have much else to explore, so we'll go after the Garden of the Sun. Which has Gensokyo, Past and Present~Flower Land (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL383Q02yE8) as a theme. It has an 80s alternative rock vibe to it. I like that.
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Sunflower Fairy Mage. It can cast basic single-target spells and is weak to Dark. They can also cast Leaf Shield, which makes a target immune to the next-couple of attacks.
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Of course we can't enter this one.I guess that this means this is the one that can be accessed on the third stratum. That's not until later, however.
Sunflower and Earths. The Earths are weak to Electric, but can inflict poison that does 60 damage a turn, and the Sunflower is weak to Fire, Slash, and Earth, for whatever reason. They can hit hard with some Mystic attacks.
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Oh boy, Adamanmymys. They can be killed by a single Capture Web. Meiling, you truly are amazing.
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And Serpents, who can inflict Poison and Paralysis. Ice murders them, however.
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Another Yukkuri?
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Maybe they're not immune to the Void element?
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Shit. This one gets away.
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This is a Special Izayoi Blend of tea. Yet another recruitment flag, but one we can actually find at this point! Later, though.
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And this goes...?
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Not here again...
We'll be back. There's a couple of things we need to do here.
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Yamas. They can use Acid Breath, and are weak to Fire. Thus they need to die.
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So many exits...
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Eientei, eh? Again, not exploring here yet.
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What a beautiful full moon. It reminds me of Keine. I wonder where she went? It's probably not important.
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Off the cliff we goooooooooooo...
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We survived the fall and found a new area. Again.
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I THOUGHT I WAS DONE WITH BLOCK-PUSHING PUZZLES!
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Well, it looks like we made some good progress. But we've been going for way too long. Next time we'll check out all of the things we've come across so far. And maybe we'll see how close we are to beating up Ansuitei and entering at least one of the towers.
Summary:
Treasure: Breastplate, Broken Bracelet, Sexy Underwear (Drop), Silver x2, Legacy of the Gods x2, Dark Shard, Iron, Mystic Shard x2, Berserk Charm, Poison Bottle, Sunglasses, Rock, Earth Shard, Quickwood, Water Shard, Black Robe, Steel x2, Stardust Shard, Ancient Purification Thing, Light Shard, Ring of the Thunderstorm, Bamboo, Pretty Mirror, Fire Shard, Log Armor (Meiling)
Skills Learned: Active Mental (increases magic attack for the whole party, Lyrica), Sunlight (40 power piercing healing spell, Ran), Physical Defense (reduces physical damage to one person by 95% for one turn, Momiji)
Passives: Hina- +5 Curse Success Rate
Recipes- Material Set A, Flaming Sword, Suteropesu, Ice Club, Half-Moon Shield, Raven Armor, Muscle Belt +, Magic Piercings +
TPKs: 1 this update, 2 overall
Frustration with the game: Rising. You missed the frustration I had trying to explore all of these areas. They are confusing in their layout, and I tend to miss way too many things while I'm trying to explore. I'll get better at it, but not by that much. We're not exactly at the worst of it, but this is one of the hardest sections to explore. I'll get through it.
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You should probably go back to the first stratum tower and clear it out for exp; the boss should be beatable by now o: And the tower enemies likely become trivial if you wait much longer, which would mean little exp.
Star Sapphire has more useful moves then just resurrection; her specialty move Sapphire Shooting is actually amazingly powerful with the Light Land up to increase it's amount of hits, and it stands up to some of the strongest light spells accessible until the final expansion area; plus she gets Light mp cost reduction.
Luna Child learns some fairly useful stuff like AoE heal/darkspells and Dark mp cost reduction, but isn't especially notable, unlike Star. (Notice a pattern? MP cost reduction and delay reduction comes on low-end Touhou characters to try to make them not useless later in the game. Sometimes they aren't learned for awhile; Orin gets both, but you won't get delay reduction 'til expansion!)
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You should probably go back to the first stratum tower and clear it out for exp; the boss should be beatable by now o: And the tower enemies likely become trivial if you wait much longer, which would mean little exp.
I've been considering it. I might update again tonight, and if I do, then I'll take another shot at Ansuitei (after picking up a few characters). If he falls, it's Clock Tower time. If he doesn't, back to the rest of the Second Stratum.
Star Sapphire has more useful moves then just resurrection; her specialty move Sapphire Shooting is actually amazingly powerful with the Light Land up to increase it's amount of hits, and it stands up to some of the strongest light spells accessible until the final expansion area; plus she gets Light mp cost reduction.
You think I forgot about that and Starlight Web? Of course I have her on for the Light attacks too! :V
Luna Child learns some fairly useful stuff like AoE heal/darkspells and Dark mp cost reduction, but isn't especially notable, unlike Star. (Notice a pattern? MP cost reduction and delay reduction comes on low-end Touhou characters to try to make them not useless later in the game. Sometimes they aren't learned for awhile; Orin gets both, but you won't get delay reduction 'til expansion!)
Yeah, I've noticed that. That and some shikigami might be outclassed by others later on in terms of skills, but are still technically useful for their stat boosts. I didn't exactly take that into account in my first runthrough, but I'm going to make better use of it this time.
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Almost all the early shikigami don't have particularly notable stats, and rarely are moves notable apart from status effects or mp cost efficiency (Several shikigami learn -25% mp cost on their specialty move, such as Rumia for Moonlight Ray; and since she has Lick, several people do keep her around)
But generally it's the passives that try to keep them relevant. Even Minoriko gets an interesting heal passive (Any heal completely recovers the HP of who has Minoriko, iirc. Too bad Refresh makes that less exciting.). If only she got a delay reduction on her 25% Health Recovery move; at least they reduced the mp cost further!
I wonder if Merlin's multi-hit attack like Star Sapphire's is any good? She's extremely underwhelming if not; if I remember right, her INT boost is actually pretty nice, but her moveset is blegh and her Mystic-boost passive has ignorably low bonuses even thought it keeps getting higher for the entire game. Unfortunately, Merlin's can't get land bonuses, and it already has a lower base power. Whyyyyy?
I think multi-hit attacks in this game are interesting because they get more of a bonus from your elemental proficiency then other moves. I -think- they do, at least. I'm not sure. Basically, iirc when I looked at the calculation, the power bonus gets to apply to all hits instead of a single one, and adding 1 power onto 5 different hits is like adding 5 power to a single hit, which... it only would add 1 power to. The "ultimate" spear skill has a very unexciting formula, but hits numerous times... hrm.
...I'm ranting far too much :V Maybe I should have saved it and spread it out over multiple updates before I run out of things to say. AAHAHAH like that would happen, though :T I can always make a little summary for new shikigami recruited.
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...I'm ranting far too much :V Maybe I should have saved it and spread it out over multiple updates before I run out of things to say. AAHAHAH like that would happen, though :T I can always make a little summary for new shikigami recruited.
Go nuts. I don't mind. You probably know a hell of a lot more about all of the Touhou RPGs than I do. I mean, I have a basic grasp of GoS, DoD, and LoT, as well as a few advanced concepts, but I don't know every single formula. So this kind of stuff is actually interesting.
But enough of that, time for mini-update number one of hopefully two!
Second Stratum- Part 3: Wherein I Spend Most of It on the First Stratum
I'm going to go for Ansuitei. Again. Before I do that, however, there's two people I want to get now.
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Remember that Izayoi tea blend (which is a reference to Genius of Sappheiros, by the way)? Guess where we need to go in order to get the character it unlocked?
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Remilia! Well, Patchy did say you were out looking for Flandre and Sakuya.
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I guess Meiling didn't get the memo.
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Remy explains exactly what I already said.
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When Meiling says she's demon hunting, Remy gets pissed, for obvious reasons. I think you might want to explain yourself fully, Meiling.
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There you go. Yeah, we're after the Three Demonic Pillars, not you.
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Even with that misunderstanding taken care of, Nitori again cannot learn to shut up and instead insults Remilia by saying that her staff is susceptible to spiriting away. In other words, she just got called weak.
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...That wasn't the reaction I'd expect you to have. You could chew on your hat like you did in Genius of Sappheiros.
Not pictured: Her getting pissed off and agreeing to come with us. Remilia has the second-best AGI in the game, meaning she's pretty damn fast. She has some decent STR as well, as well as some okay POT. However, she can't take a hit, and her DEX leaves something to be desired. Her Last Word can change enemies into bakebakes or, more rarely, Yukkuri. The chances of the enemy becoming a Yukkuri becomes greater as she levels. Sadly, she is not going to be joining our active party. To the bench with ye.
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Meanwhile, in the Netherworld...
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Hatate? You've got to be kidding me...
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Apparently Meiling wants her to come with us, though it's unusual to see her here of all places.
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Nitori, shut up. You never help the situation. She called Hatate a shut-in, obviously because she doesn't need to leave her house to collect information. Spiritography, remember?
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...I'm not going to dignify that pose with a response.
She wanted to seek out information on her own, but then she got spirited away and ended up here.
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You ever hear of personal space, Hatate?! Nevertheless, she joins. She's another Electric shikigami who has Accurate Move (which raises Accuracy) and Lightning. She also raises Electric damage by 5%. Obviously she and Aya were meant to be together, so I replace Isohime with her. You've served well, Isohime, but it's time to retire.
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Let's do this again.
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Attempt 1: TPK. Blind is a bitch, the stunning attack is also still a bitch. I've got better buffs and debuffs, though, so hopefully next time I can land Melt Weapon and Acid Storm.
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Attempt 2: Victory. Ansuitei here doesn't look too good. Makes sense when you just got the crap beaten out of you.
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Not pictured: The screen shaking violently as Ansuitei screams himself out of existence.
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Yeah, let's kick ass.
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Not yet, though. Here's a quick preview of the first tower. I'll begin covering it in the next mini-update tonight.
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We can't warp out of Clock Towers of the End. Back-tracking it is.
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And a view from outside. Yep, this is Xia Zhuli's tower. Next time we'll storm the tower and see how Xia Zhuli is doing.
Summary:
Treasure: Stun Guard, Ring of Darkness, Ancient Purification Thing, Half Sword (Meiling)
Skills Learned: Thorn Bind (reduces Accuracy and Evasion, Hina)
Passives: Star Sapphire- +5 Accuracy
Recipes: Stardust Shard, Spirit Stone, Silver, Youkai's Memories, Rubber (So now I can craft the second tier of materials. What about the first tier?)
TPKs: 1 this update, 3 overall
Frustration: Lowering. I'm making some good progress. The fact that I'm finally tackling a Clock Tower of the End is proof of that.
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Clock Tower of the End- Part 1: Bloody Hell
So, it's time for the first Clock Tower of the End, huh? Can't believe we've made it this far. On another note, beating Ansuitei knocked another hour off of our time. I'm not really worried, we still have plenty of time, and we've explored more than half of the World of Chaos already.
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...That's a lot of blood. Our theme for the dungeon here is a remix of OUT, titled appropriately Clock Tower of the End (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-zErWL4uik). OUT is a song composed by Hachikuma, who created Defiant of Shrine Maiden and helped out with Genius of Sappheiros, Devil of Decline, and Phantasmal Summoners. This theme is usually included somewhere in the games he's helped with.
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...I'm not going into there.
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The battle theme? It's titled The Devil Bares His Fangs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5iPG-bafpA&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=36). And it is the best damn battle theme in the game, bar none. Please click on the link. Please listen to it. You're missing out if you don't.
Anyways, these guys are Nekomatas. They can inflict Charm, but are weak to Fire. Patchy, they're all yours.
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Okay, there's a Blob in the back. Weak to Fire. Murder it's face, Patchy.
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...I don't like the look of these drains.
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Damn it, there's a recipe chest up there. But how do we get up there?
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Dark Eyes. They can inflict Blind, but they are weak to Pierce. Nitori therefore roughs them up pretty well.
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The gimmick of this tower? These pumps. They'll raise and lower the amount of blood in the room. Don't think about that too hard.
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Same room, now with extra blood.
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I actually don't know what the cat-thing with the knives is called (it's 窮奇 for those who can translate). They can inflict instant-death with their normal attacks and know Samidare Slash (which hits multiple times and does some decent damage, Ansuitei had that too). They're weak to Light, I think.
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We're actually going to go into the blood?
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...Where the hell'd that raft come from? Well, we can ride on top of the blood with it.
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Two-Headed Person. It's a giant, so whack at it with Slash and Earth. It knows Benevolence Wall, which has the same effect as Little Legion or Deva Stand did in Genius of Sappheiros (covers the entire party).
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So much blood...
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These recipes make materials. I'll list them in the summary.
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This is the third level. That's right, there's enough blood to cover three levels. Where the hell did Xia get that much blood?
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This is a Adoramereku. It's apparently a demon, so it's weak to Light. It knows Demon Shock, however, so be careful. One by itself is okay to handle.
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Another room, still tons of blood.
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And this leads...
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To here. Right then. There's a shortcut back to the first room, which is good.
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And Giant Crab. Weak to Electric, uses Drill and water attacks.
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Another recipe chest. I'll grab it when I can.
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More confusing rooms!
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The Lesser Vampire in the back could actually be encountered back in Makai 3, but I was to busy running from the battles trying to get map completion. And getting to Ansuitei. They're weak to Light, but they have regen and can both use Blood Drain and Control Magic, which inflicts Control. That's very bad.
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Damn, blocked by a small pile of rubble I could easily climb over!
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Here we are, more materials I can now make.
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Hah, not so tough are you, huh small pile of rubble?
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Healing circle and boss room. Not quite yet.
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And this pump...
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...drains the blood in the first room, giving us a shortcut directly to the boss room. I'm not quite done yet, though. There's a recipe chest I missed.
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This weird seal you see here? You can't open it until you get an item in the postgame. Each of the towers have one of these. From what I know, they're essentially superboss rooms. We're not going to open these up for a long time.
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Here's that last chest, which allows me to make the elemental shards. Hurray!
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Meiling learned Sonic Blade, which is quick and has Slayer against Spirits and Birds.
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Here we go. Fingers crossed.
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We immediately start off with this theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVLjW99GX7I&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=34). Eerie.
Not pictured: Xia coming out of a portal of blood which dripped from out of the air. If that's not frigging creepy, I don't know what is.
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And of course, Three Demonic Pillars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6Blcfit-uY) starts playing. Because all good JRPG villains need their own theme music.
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We're ready to take you on! Come here!
Not pictured: Her actually beginning to walk forward. Oh crap.
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...Uh...
...Xia?
This is a new form of pathetic. Your awesome theme music even stopped playing.
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No wait, it's back.
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Not pictured: The party asking Xia about the true motive of the Three Demonic Pillars. She freaks out at the question, then gives us this as a response. Basically, the Three Demonic Pillars take joy in destruction. It's all fun and games to go around destroying places, at least to them.
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She's trying to enforce the whole "we take joy in the slaughter and destruction of Gensokyo" thing. Seems more like you dodged the question. Your little freak out beforehand is too revealing. What's your real motive?
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Guess we're going to have to beat the information out of her! With yet another version of Drifting Through the Fog of War (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0UaXjIwZrk) playing! This one is a further upgrade to the second one, which means it is epic and kickass as hell.
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Hey, Hsien-Ko, how's it going? Oh wait, you're Xia Zhuli. Never mind.
Also, yet another Shanghai Teahouse~Chinese Tea (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svom8cFiNRo) remix. That's five so far. Not that it detracts from being awesome, because it is very awesome.
I begin with trying to poison her (with the new poison move I got for Nishiki), but it misses. She goes and almost kills Mokou in response, then charges up.
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You've got Spell Cards too? This could be very, very bad.
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Holy shit that hurt! That was Large Whirlpool of Woe "Dancing Spray of Blood." It's a Water-elemental spell that hurts like hell and can cause instant-death while the land is shifted towards Water. At this point, it's pretty much instant death.
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I'm surprised I managed to last that long.
Okay, time to admit something. Xia Zhuli is impossible to defeat first, unless you grind like crazy. And I had to grind just to get Nishiki's new poison move. So yeah, we can't defeat Xia. Not yet, at least. First we're going to have to go after the second tower, who's boss is much, much more manageable at a lower level. We could go after it now, if we wanted to, but I'd rather try to get at least a little more of the second stratum explored. So, next time, we're going to keep going through the second stratum. Afterwards, we're going to go after the second Clock Tower of the End.
Summary:
Treasure: Rock (drop), Light Shard, Steel (drop), Mystic Shard, Ancient Purification Thing, Dark Shard, Broken Treasure (drop)
Skills Learned: Accurate Move (Lyrica), Spell Enhance (single-target magic attack buff, Star), Strong Attack (a low accuracy, high-power physical attack, Lunasa), Sonic Blade (Meiling), Rapid Shot (2-5 weak physical attacks, Hatate), Dumpings over Flowers (the best damn poison spell in the game, Nishiki), Eruption (a single-target, 100 power Fire spell with a 2 turn cooldown)
Passives: Rumia- +5% Dark power
Recipes: Fire Shard, Water Shard, Electric Shard, Earth Shard, Light Shard, Dark Shard, Mystic Shard, Rock, Iron, Bamboo, Steel, Pretty Mirror, Legacy of the Gods, Fairy Remains, Ancient Purification Thing, Magic Source Stone, Quick Wood, Broken Bracelets
TPKs: 1 this update, 4 overall
Frustration: Medium. This dungeon is extremely annoying to navigate. If you missed anything, then expect a ton of backtracking. At least I won't have to deal with it when I return to take care of Xia later.
EDIT: Also, anyone knows where the extracted images of the Three Demonic Pillars's Spell Card portraits are? Because I can find the ones for the playable characters, but not for these guys. Took damn long enough time, but I found them on my own.
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We could go after it now, if we wanted to, but I'd rather try to get at least a little more of the second stratum explored.
I'd say to go after it asap since otherwise if you want to get the monster shikigamis in the other areas you'd have to go back and fight them again afterwords
, but I don't even know if you're interested in any of the things that would encompass, so.
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...I guess you have a point. Well, after I stop playing Labyrinth of Touhou (I got to Floor 9, found all of the treasures, and need to grind up to fight Komachi's spirits, Nitori, and eventually Suwako and Reisen. Fun times.), I'll go after it.
Man, two Clock Towers in a row... and this one's even more annoying exploration-wise, from prior experience. Should be fun. :P
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I completely bumrushed the second tower. MINDFLAYERS >:(
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The update has been entirely screenshotted. Even though it's a huge update, if I have time I might get even more done later.
Yeah, 70+ pictures. It's kind of ridiculous. But hey, Clock Towers of the End are larger than most dungeons. Plus I had a couple of boss fights and such. Please watch warmly while I make the actual update.
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Clock Tower of the End- Part 2: Don't Fear the Reaper
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So, to the second Clock Tower of the End it is!
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It's apparently Chloe Gripper's place. Is she going to slash me with her scythe or something?
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As usual, a demon's guarding the place. How's it going?
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He claims he is Demotorowa. To me, he's just a roadblock.
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Sticking your sword into the ground is going to make it harder for you to fight.
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You're one big ugly with one big sword. Obviously he's weak to Light, so copious amounts of Star Hand is the way to go, with the appropriate buffs and debuffs.
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He can use a skill to shift the Land towards Dark. That means his Dark skills (which are the usual ones, at this point) will do more and Light does less. That could be bad.
Not pictured: The rest of the fight. He wasn't really that difficult, although he killed a couple of my guys.
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You were easier to deal with than your friend up on the first stratum. Any last words?
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Again with the screen shaking!
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Well, time to find Chloe and show her what we're made of.
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Same music as before, for both the dungeon and battle theme. Recycling them doesn't make them any less awesome, though.
Also, this tower looks very dark.
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This door is a no-go.
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Mind Flayers! And two of them! We're so screwed. They know Mind Blast, which is a party-wide Mystic attack with a good chance of inflicting Paralysis. Their normal attacks are weak, but have a chance of inflicting instant-death.
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The usual result of running into these guys.
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Here's Nidhogg, entwined around Yggdrasil. How that works I don't know. Anyways, he's weak to Light and does stuff I forget.
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Epileptic Kick still works wonders.
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Oh boy, a Fairy Maid. She knows she different spells, including some new ones like Starlight Whip and Dark Lure. She's weak to Dark, like most magicians.
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And here's a Namahage. Weak to Slash and Earth, like most giants. He can inflict Silence, so be careful.
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Nonononononono...
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Damn!
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This spell?
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It's called Thunderclap. Aya recently learned it. It's a 80 power, all-targeting Electric spell with a 9 MP cost and 2 turn cooldown (reduced to 1 by Aya). It will be our most treasured random encounter clearer for a long time.
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Can't go any further at this point. There's got to be a switch somewhere...
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What about this one?
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Oh, it opens a different door.
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We'll have to find another way to get to this switch here.
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After some exploring, I find a way to the switch and open up this door, which goes to the next part of the dungeon.
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This guy is an Arch, probably meaning Archangel. He's a bit physically imposing as a heavy angel-type, but he's actually not too bad. Drain Touch on Meiling works wonders on him. Just beware of the Light attacks.
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The puzzle of this dungeon? These colored switches. They'll open some doors and close others. By switching them around, you'll be able to find all of the treasure and the way out.
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The ninja-looking guys are Genins. They can inflict Poison with their normal attack and inflict instant death with a skill that I think is called Decapitate. they can also use Flash to inflict Blind. They're weak to Light, which I have plenty of.
Not pictured: Me actually beating this encounter.
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The lion-looking thing is a Shisa. It can use Roar to stun you and use a skill whose name I can't remember to protect the entire enemy party from attacks.
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Much time spent flipping switches later, I come here.Don't flip this switch here in the middle if you don't want to be flooded by enemy encounters.
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Use this switch in a nearby room instead.
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After a ton of exploring, I find this switch.
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It opens up that door, allowing for a shortcut to where I am now. In the same room is one of those expansion-only seals.
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The boss room, finally.
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I switch my formation in order to have Mokou tank. She has Dark resisting gear on that also grants Dark land regen.
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Chloe Gripper! At last we meet. So, you ready to get your ass handed to you?
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Or you could repeat you name. That's fine too.
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Yeah, she's all about the whole chaos and destruction thing too. No shit, Sherlock.
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Sunny notes that Chloe's scythe looks like Komachi's. Okay then.
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Nitori pieces things together pretty quickly. Apparently Chloe is Death itself.
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Chloe confirms this, and says that even if she was just a shinigami, she would find ferrying souls boring. Or something to that extent.
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Whatever the case, you're going down, Chloe!
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You look very ominous. No matter, we can take you on.
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We use Hino Phantasm, a spell unique to Lyrica, to raise our resistance. Chloe can inflict Curse, Sleep, and Instant Death, so that would be useful.
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Oh shit, here we go again.
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That's would be Grand Conquest "Causer of Ruin." It's a column Spell Card with a chance of inflicting Instant Death. It one shots Mokou.
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Later, this happens. Let's try again.
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She can also used Sliced to Smithereens (or whatever the name of the attack is). It hits a lot of times, and it hurts. Badly.
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This time we've got Phoenix Resurrection going.
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Meiling criticals with Star Hand. You are so awesome, Meiling.
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This is what happens when you combine the almighty deadly power of "Causer of Ruin" with the awesomeness of Momiji's Physical Defense skill. Big deadly physical attack just got tanked.
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Doesn't stop her from hurting me even more with Magic Storm.
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Meiling, you are truly amazing. She goes down after a couple more turns.
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Well, how does it feel?
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The incident apparently won't end until we beat up Xia and Otoha as well. Okay then, we were going after them anyways.
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We've also lost more time. It's currently been four hours since we started. So that leaves eight left to get the other two. We've got this in th ebag. We've already explored the first stratum, a good deal of the second, and will soon be heading for the third one. We've got this incident handled.
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After walking outside, we find Satori! So, you were affected too, huh? Damn shame.
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After reading our minds and figuring out we just beat Chloe, she offers her help in the form of being able to calm down the youkai who have been attacking us. They're only attacking because they're scared and confused by the incident.
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Using her powers on her own, she managed to capture a Kedama in this fashion.
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Double fist pump means recruitment of both of them. Alright then!
Satori herself has abysmal stat boosts, but she makes up for it with a 95 power all-targeting Mystic spell (Energy Riot), and 90 power all-targeting Light and Dark spells (Starlight Web and Dark Web). She also has Water Pulse, which is a 40 power AoE healing spell. Her passive is +1% deflect against all attacks. I've yet to decide who to put her on or whether or not I'm even going to use her.
The Kedama, on the other hand, is so pathetic I'm not even going to bother with it. There are much more powerful monster shikigamis to recruit. Next time, I'll make another return to the first stratum to pick up a few monster shikigami, and then continue on with the second stratum.
Summary:
Treasure: Steel, Mystic Shard, Fire Shard, Water Shard, Rubber, Earth Shard, Silver, Electric Shard, Youkai's Memories, Stardust Shard, Light Shard, Iron, Dark Shard, Bamboo, Rock, Magic Source Stone, Pretty Mirror, Joint Ring (Mokou), Spirit Stone
Skills Learned: Hino Phantasm (raises the party's RES, Lyrica), Strong Attack (Melon-chan), Thunderclap (Aya), Resurrection (revives a party member with 1 HP, Star)
Passives: +2% Item Drop Rate (Melon-chan)
Recipes: Launch Goggles +, Gale Boots +, Necklace of Strength +, Protection Anklet +, Muffler of Evasion +, Keen Pendant +, Barrier Earrings +, Rosary of Fortitude +
Synthesis Done: Necklace of Strength + (Meiling), Keen Pendant + (Patchoulli)
TPKs: 3 this update, 7 overall
Frustration: Rising. I'm not happy about these confusing dungeon layouts, and I'm especially not happy about enemy encounters TPKing me so much, but I've gotten through a relatively tough area. The next couple of areas shouldn't be that difficult.
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Hino Phantasm, a spell unique to Lyrica
You mean Fatsudori Meditation... or it's something like that, I didn't actually check the spelling of that first word. Hino Phantasm is Merlin's best skill, silly!
Now you can recruit tons of monster shikigami! Of course, it depends on what you want. Lemme think here. Rant tiiiime.
1st Stratum
-Mine Village:Fabulous, learns many useful defensive moves and is popularly to use for the rest of the game
-Computer chip thing Prescott: It learns Arithmetic Circuit or somesuch, increasing the damage you deal when hit a weakness by 20~25% (and more depending on your dex)
-The tutorial water monster for a reason I'm sure you know.
Lesser Vampire, the bird thing Moh Shovuu or somesuch, the flame candle, and the little ghost are also recruitable, but less super interesting. Lesser Vampire does learn a all-target Regen In Dark Land skill that is interesting, and Moh Shovuu gets a charm move equivalent to Sunny's last word, with a more notable status effect.
The kedama actually learns several nice healing moves such as Refresh and Resurrection, it's healing speed bonus passive is alright, and Sacrifice Bomb is a nice panic button to revive the party. It's a pretty usable shikigami, but there's plenty of options for healing shikigami and you don't exactly need a lot of them. As for Satori, her MP and POT growths are actually pretty high, but...
Stratum 2:
You might want to go back and grab the Yuki-onna (A variety of useful ice moves that mostly inflict freeze, decent passives and good stats, and is notably the learner of the 250 power Ice-elemental attack!), Fairy Maid (notable for Land Manipulation skill), Sunflower Fairy (Alternative buffer shikigami with status resist passives and a status resisting skill), or Mind Flayers. There's some other you already did too (The tire, I think a debuff specialist, the Lesser Demon, and the cockatrice) but they're pretty boring. Apart from Kisume, of course, who has an interesting passive and Well Destructor is an interesting move.
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You mean Fatsudori Meditation... or it's something like that, I didn't actually check the spelling of that first word. Hino Phantasm is Merlin's best skill, silly!
Damn it, I can barely remember any of the Prismrivers' Spell Cards, let alone whose is whose!
I've already begun the process of recruiting shikigami. The update is going to be almost nothing but that, though if I have enough time, I'll get in some exploration.
I already had my eyes set on the Mining Village and the Bulbul (did you really think I would ignore that shikigami, of all of the ones I could get?) when it comes to the first stratum. On the second, I went for the Lesser Demon (which I never got in my first playthough) and the Fairy Maid. I'm not going for the Mind Flayer, because it's too much risk for not enough reward, in my opinion.
I'm also not going for the Lesser Vampire or the Moh Shovuu. I personally don't care enough for them.
I still need to get the Prescott, the Yuki-onna, and the SHINZO, and I think I'll be good for now. Wish me luck, because the RNG hates me when it comes to shikigami recruitment.
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oh god the SHINZO took me close to an hour
that bastard
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and Moh Shovuu gets a charm move equivalent to Sunny's last word, with a more notable status effect.
With an amazing name as well!
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FINAL NUDE
So basically she just teaches your characters how to strip. how lewd
Also dang, now I feel like replaying the game as well, without waiting for the English patch!
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I get the feeling those three are doing it for attention or something, seein' as how they're not that competent.
Either that, or they're just minions. Xia sure isn't quite competent, given her little 'trip' she took. She's definitely powerful though.
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I get the feeling those three are doing it for attention or something, seein' as how they're not that competent.
Either that, or they're just minions. Xia sure isn't quite competent, given her little 'trip' she took. She's definitely powerful though.
Not that competent? They did rip Gensokyo into shreds, then somehow arranged them into the different layers. This is the worst incident in Gensokyo's history, and that's saying something, compared to PCB's incident. I'd say they're very competent. Although you are on the right track about the minion thing...
Of course Xia's powerful. She is a demon of Makai, after all. Think about all of the Mystic Square characters. I'd put the Three Demonic Pillars between the power levels of Yumeko and Shinki, just as a comparison.
Also, update screenshotted. It's another big one. Hopefully the next one is the last one for this stratum.
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Well, that's something that takes power, I never said doing that meant they were smart.
I mean, look at the little freakouts. That pretty much tells you that while they are strong, some of them aren't terribly bright.
Either that, or it's just Xia being the typical dopey Jiang-Shi.
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Yeah, I guess that's true. It's hard to peg down personalities when I can't understand half of the text I'm getting, though.
According to her unofficial profile, she has a "mild personality," which makes it hard to believe she is actually a demon.
Also, about Chloe, I found out what she meant about being "Death" from her unofficial profile. She actually used to be a shinigami, but found the job boring. She somehow found her way into Makai and became a demon, and considering she was a shinigami before, she still kept her powers over death. She's not exactly interested in the destruction of Gensokyo, but more in the display of her power. These are not spoilers, by the way. These were all revealed in their cutscenes.
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Second Stratum- Part 4: Gotta Catch 'em All
Time to go shikigami hunting!
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This is a Bulbul. The only reason I grabbed this shikigami is for one of its skills: Water Wall. It makes the party immune to Water attacks for a turn. Guess which boss fight this will make easier? Yeah, we're going to go after Xia. Not yet, though.
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This is a Burabura. It's a fire-based shikigami I'm not going to use, yet. There's a particular boss in the expansion I'll be using this shikigami for, as it has Fire Wall, similarly to the Bulbul.
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It's a Bakebake. Not using it ever.
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Now a Mining Village I'm using! It starts out with Resisting Shield Wall, which grants extra RES to the whole party based on the shield being used by the user for one turn. It also grants 25% resistance to Pierce, so That'll be good. As Mokou's my tank, it's going on her.
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This is what you get for trying to recruit Mind Flayers. They're not worth it, trust me.
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Ah, a Fairy Maid. It starts off with Control Land, which shifts the Land towards an element of your choosing. It also learns some good elemental spells later, and provides a +5% casting speed boost to basic elemental spells. I haven't equipped her yet, but I'll probably put her on Patchy. Eventually.
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Here's an enemy I didn't see when I came through earlier today. This is a Lesser Demon. Like the Arch, it's very powerful, except it's a demon, and thus knows such like Demon Shock and other dangerous Dark attacks. It's also recruitable!
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Really? On the first try? With a 12.5% chance of being recruited?
...The RNG doesn't hate me! Not yet, at least. The Lesser Demon packs spells unique to the Demon series of enemies, such as Demon Shock, which it starts with. It also provides 50% resistance to Dark! That could be really useful later on.
Anyways, I head off to Bhava-agra to collect stuff. That place is much easier for me now that I've leveled a bit.
The theme is The Road of the Apotropaic God~Dark Road (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8DjIiY9CV4) again. Why can't it be a song from Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, or something? Maybe it's because in Genius of Sappheiros, they already used all the good songs from that game. Oh well.
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These are Thunders. They can inflict Silence, know Shock Hand, and are weak to Earth. That's about it.
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WhatisthisIdon'teven...
Well, uh, this diaper is another recruitment flag, as well as a reference to Genius of Sappheiros. References are everywhere.
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These are Angels. They are weak to Dark and boast some Light moves. They are also recruitable.
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Sanae, what are you...?
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Oh. you learned Explosion. It's a large AoE attack. I'm not equipping it on her.
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Finally, got it. It starts off with Angel Wall, which raises the party's resistance to Light and Dark by one level (similar to Byakuren's Sacred Barrier from Genius of Sappheiros). as well as Shining Stars. It provides 25% resistance to Light. I haven't put her on anyone, mainly because I have Light attacks and I don't necessarily need them now.
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Another new enemy: Otohime. No, not this Otohime (http://en.touhouwiki.net/images/0/0a/OtohimeKanpukugu.png). Otohimes are dragon-types, which makes them resistant to the basic elements. They also have powerful attacks of their own. They are pretty damn dangerous, especially at this point. They are also recruitable, but I don't care enough to grab them.
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Okay then. This attack, which I can't translate for the life of me, has Large - power and also has a Dispelling effect. Interesting. I don't need it right now. Pole Swing and Flashing Pierce are serving me better.
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Apparently we need a Long Hookshot to cross this. Why game?
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Hey, let's check out Eientei... Reisen is that you? You were giving me shit earlier in Labyrinth of Touhou today. I'm going to have to grind for a while...
Sorry, got off track for a moment.
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She's surprised to see us.
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Apparently Eirin and Kaguya are missing. Huh, weird. We may have found Tewi, but if those two are nowhere to be seen... where'd they go?
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Meiling agrees to look for them while going after the Three Demonic Pillars. Maybe they'll be helpful this time, unlike the last game, where they just attacked us and then gave us a crappy formation later on that I never really used.
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Sanae? She's noticed that everything's getting kind of somber.
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She apparently said something about the Eientei crew not coming back or something. This pissed Reisen off.
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Not pictured: The actually sound of bullets being fired at Sanae. Sanae claims that it's just a joke to lighten the mood. And then she says something about suppositories.
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Uh, Reisen? I think you killed her. Reisen joins soon after. She's all about inflicting Berserk, starting out with Lunatic Voice. She also offers 50% resistance to Berserk, Charm, and Control. However, I don't really care for her, even if she gets Hyper Decrease... at level 71. Yeah, not worth it.
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Over here we've got a seal. We don't have the item that destroys this barrier yet, but we'll get it soon enough.
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And the Prescott. It has Arithmetic Circuit, which increases the amount of damage done when a weakness is hit, and Discharge, which deals Electric damage to all enemies based on your current HP. It's going on Nitori, for now, just to make hitting weakness that much better.
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And a Yuki-onna on the first try! It starts with Cold Breath and learns a bunch of Water attacks later on. It increases Water spell casting speed by 5%. She's going on Sanae in place of Ran (sorry Ran, you were useful for the short amount of time I had you on).
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Oh yeah, I forgot to show these Netherworld Wells off earlier. I forget what's so special about them.
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Is that who I think it is up there?
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It is! It's Youmu!
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Youmu somehow made Nitori angry. I don't remember why.
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Apparently Youmu wants to find Yuyuko, plus she is fine with coming with us.
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Yeah, double fist pumps for recruitment.
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Then she made the mistake of saying swords are better than fists. Oh, Meiling would beg to differ.
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Then Nitori joins in on the argument, saying her inventions are the best.
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...You can't be serious, right? Anyways, Youmu joins us. She boasts some good HP, STR, VIT, DEX, and AGI, but she has crappy MP and INT and POT. Her Last Word isa series of six attacks, all at half damage. I was not going to use her from the beginning, so off to the bench you go.
Meanwhile I return to Makai 4.
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A new area already?
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Youkai Mountain, huh? I'll come back sometime later.
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Three new enemies. the Wyvern (a dragon type enemy with some breath attacks), the Snake Queen (I forget what she's all about, but she is recruitable) and... I'm just going to call it a Preying Mantis. It knows Paralysis Zapper, which is pretty damn dangerous. I think they're weak to Water.
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Breath attacks sure are fun, huh?
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A Mercenary. He knows Stun Blow. It inflicts paralysis. Kill him.
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Behind exit number two is...
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The other side of Muenzuka. We'll be back later.
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In a minute, just let me finish up other things.
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Daiyousei, is that you? She knows some Water spells and can cast Teleportation on herself to negate some physical attacks. She goes down after an unseen struggle.
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She's also recruitable, with a 100% recruitment rate. She knows Teleportation, Water Recovery, Water Chase (chasers suck nowadays, unlike pre-expansion, where they were awesome), and Cold Hand. She boosts healing by 5%. To the bennnnnnnnnnnnnch.
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We totally needed to see Xia's tower from here.
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Let's take care of you now, shall we?
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Shikieiki? What are you doing here?
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Apparently she caught wind of the incident from Higan and has been going at it alone.
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Even if she isn't a natural resident of Gensokyo, she still wants to protect it. Well, we could use the help.
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However, she wants to test our strength to see if we can deal with the Three Demonic Pillars ourselves. Uh, you must have missed me kicking Chloe's ass, then.
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Hey, no need for violence!
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Apparently need for violence.
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I manage to poison her first turn. She has 3000 HP. This kind of poison is really damn good, then.
Not pictured: Basically the entire fight. She uses different elemental spells, based on the power of the Land. At higher Land levels she uses stuff like Dark Web, which can hurt. A lot. She can also charge up for using "The Last judgment," which inflicts a flat 666 damage. That's basically a TPK. Thankfully, the poison manages to kill her off the turn she charges up.
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So, uh, you okay, Enma-sama?
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She congratulates us on our strength. Aww, you're making me blush.
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She agrees to come with us too! Alright then!
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There was some conversation about them complaining about her (as a Yama) coming with us. She threatens to put us down for hell, which prompts this reaction and a quick "Just kidding!" Eiki has a very high MP pool, DEX, and INT. While her physical stats are average, she's a good all-around caster with a buffer/debuffer slant. She also has The Last Judgment as a Last Word, which deals 666 flat damage to all enemies. She's going to actually join our party, replacing Sanae. It was nice knowing you, Sanae.
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We've got seven hours left. We've got this handled.
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Oh boy, more Makai. Except this is the third stratum.
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See?
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Looks like we're almost done with the second stratum too. However, that's all for this update. Next time we finish up the second stratum, and maybe see if we're prepared enough for Xia. Probably not, though.
Summary:
Treasure: Light Shard, Electric Shard, Spirit Stone, Pretty Mirror, Death Jewel, Silver, Boundary Amulet (drop), Bamboo, Earth Shard, Quick Wood, Tower Shield (Mokou), Magic Source Stone, Ring of the Earth's Crust
Skills: Bad Fortune (reduces all of the enemy party's stats, Hina), Starlight Whip (a 70 power single-target Light spell that can inflict Paralysis, Ran), Explosion (Sanae), Spider Net (AoE attack that reduces AGI and DEX, Yamame), Whatever the name of that spear skill is (Nitori), Tunder Pierce (55 power Electric spell with piercing range, Prescott), Thunderclap (Hatate)
Passives: +5 EVA (Aya), 25% Blind and Silence Resist (Nishiki), Shield Evasion +1? (Momiji), 25% resistance to all Permanents (Minoriko)
TPKs: 1 this update, 8 overall
Frustration: Lowering. Getting shikigami can be annoying, but there could be worse things.
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as well as a reference to Genius of Sappheiros
oh god suddenly that item makes sense @_@
Just a reminder not to forget about that side of Muenzuka you didn't explore in this update! Also, Kisume has a passive that increases the duration of capacity changes. I'm not sure if it affects all beneficial ones too or not, but, there's some normally-1-turn capacity changes for various kinds of damage reduction that become very strong if they can last another turn... (I don't think you have any of those shikigami yet, but; Aegis Defense, Pendulum Guard, and Little Legion! Not sure if both of the latter are capacity change or quick though. Or if this trick even works.)
And yeah, it's hard to peg down personalities in japanese. However, only Xia is explicitly dopey. Then again, being a Jiang-shi... mmmn, if only the final of these bosses wasn't a pushover.
(In unrelated news, I played a lot of Romancing Saga 3 today. Playing it makes me realize even more things DoD pulls from it that aren't as obvious; even the three demonic pillars and how they are in-game is fairly similar to the Abyss Gates. Also how I just got curbstomped by the boss from the Gate of Earth, the easiest one to get to @_@;;;)
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oh god suddenly that item makes sense @_@
Yeah. It's one of those "blink and you miss it" types of things in Genius of Sappheiros too. Maybe if I LP that I'll point it out. Big "if," though.
I'm not forgetting the other side of Muenzuka. I'm in the midst of screenshotting, and I already took care of it. Didn't get the SHINZO, though. :(
It does look like I'm finishing the rest of the second stratum in this update, though. Tomorrow I head to the rest of the third stratum, I guess. That was fast.
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The game isn't very long, really; and the fact that the LP skips over exploration apart from "This is a new area" and "these are the monsters" takes out most of what there is :V Not that that's a bad thing, of course; it's just how a screenshot LP goes.
What levels are you at, by the way? The only ways I have of telling are "Oh, a shikigami learned ____, so he must be at least level..." You can wait on answering until you actually update though, it's not a pressing matter, heheh.
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Second Stratum- Finale: Hell on Earth
So this is the last update for the second stratum. Well, to start things off, let's see if we can't defeat Xia!
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Nope. Still can't defeat Xia. I just soft reset instead of taking another TPK like I deserve for thinking even with the Bulbul, I could do this fight. We'll be back for real later. Like, after Otoha later. Onwards to the other side of Muenzuka, then!
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Oh boy, a Wheelcart. They know Hit-and-Run and can inflict Berserk on the entire party. They're extremely fun to fight.
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Dancing Heads. They know Tongue, but they don't really have anything to follow that up with, so they're okay. They are weak to Light, I think.
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And a Gargoyle. They can inflict Petrify. I don't know what they're weak to.
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You know, anywhere else purple cherry blossoms would be weird, but here they fit right in.
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Here's a SHINZO. Their actual names are longer, but I'll just call them SHINZOs. They know some Mystic stuff and can lower your elemental resistances. They can be recruited, and they're actually pretty good. I fail to get them in this update, though. :(
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How many sinners are there?
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Huh, a hookshot area. This probably leads somewhere interesting.
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Yuyuko! Youmu's been looking for you!
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See? She's so happy to see you.
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Or she can be pissed for worrying about you. That too.
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She went off on her own to check things out, considering that the spiriting away was reaching even the Netherworld.
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She, of course, wants to help too.
Not pictured: The party noting that all of Gensokyo seems to be uniting together under the threat of the Three Demonic Pillars, which is a good thing. If we can get all of Gensokyo on our side, there's no way we can lose.
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Double fist pump for the recruitment!
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And a double sword brandish to go with it! Yuyuko is strictly average in most stats, with slightly better than normal DEX and AGI. Her Last Word inflicts Instant Death on all enemies with a large chance of success. Again, she is going to the bench. Sorry, Yuyuko.
I move onto the Youkai Mountain in the meanwhile. It has whatever your main character's theme is as its theme. So whee, more Shanghai Teahouse~Chinese Tea.
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And more dark caves. Wonderful. As if I didn't have enough of that earlier.
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Remember these guys from Genius of Sappheiros? They're Zakkumus, and they know Dark attacks yet are weak to the usual plant weaknesses plus Light, I think.
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In the back is a Peri. It can Berserk you and knows some Chasers, but is weak to Electric and Pierce. It is recruitable, but I don't care to get it.
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Ugh, Ratoshikamuis. They can inflict Blind, which is actually not too bad when. If the Peris inflict Berserk on Patchy and it's overwritten by Blind, then Patchy can still get off Thunderclap. Yeah. They're weak to Electric and I think Pierce, but I'm not sure.
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Make yourself right at home. It has some status effects and provides 50% Charm resist, but I just don't care.
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So, let's see that Last Word of yours, Eiki.
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666 damage is enough to one-shot most things at this point. Welcome to the team, Eiki.
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Whoa whoa whoa, wait a minute. Not quite yet.
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That's a Nasunasu. It's a giant. The usual weaknesses apply. I don't know what they do.
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How many new areas are there?
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Oh. The Hell of Blazing Fires. Well, this is actually the last area to explore. So let's do this! With that good Walking the Streets of a Former Hell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWV5rhP8NWM) remix!
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There's a Fire and a Hell Hound. Both are weak to Water, and both use Fire attacks. Makes sense.
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Oh boy, a Sorcerer and two Caviars. The Caviars can use HDD Crash, but they're so slow in doing it that Thunderclap gets them before they have a chance. The Sorcerer is more dangerous, as she can cast spells like Starlight Whip and Dark Lure.
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Another sealed thing. We'll be able to unseal it soon enough.
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Caviars are recruitable! They start with HDD Crash and Fire Breath as well as 25% resistance to Removal. Nope. Don't care enough.
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And a Zombiesaurus, which is weak to Fire and Light, like any good undead creature. Star Hand and Thunderclap bring it down easily enough. It can use Benevolence Wall, though, so be careful.
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Hmm?
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And here's the Release Formula, which allows us to unlock those barriers!
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Gah, a Salamander! These guys are pretty damn tough, plus they have deadly Fire Breath. They're weak to Ice.
I barely survived this encounter, by the way.
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And here's the Yukkuri Sisters! They can use Energy Hand and such, but aren't too much of a threat. The only problem with them is that, like their metal cousins, they like to run away. I manage to kill this one, however, so that's good! Plenty of XP to go around.
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Utsuho? You're still here? She's actually saying "Unyu?" That's cute, right?
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It takes her a while to recognize Nitori, even though the two have met previously.
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Apparently the spiriting away spread to here as well. That's way Satori and Orin were missing. And Koishi, but she's always missing.
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Upon hearing that we found Orin and Satori, she becomes pretty happy.
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We explain that we're going after the Three Demonic Pillars.
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She wants in as well! Well, sorry Utsuho, I'm not using you either. She's basically your red mage, with decent STR, AGI, and INT. However, she's a glass cannon in multiple ways. Her Last Word is a goddamn Mystic nuke against everything, but even that doesn't make up for the fact that she can't take a hit. Bench time for you, Okuu.
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Impale Charge. It's a row-piercing attack. I'll replace Leg Sweep on Nitori with this.
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Well, time to do this.
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Apparently this crack in the ground isn't natural. It's from a battle.
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Murasa! Crap, she doesn't look too good!
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Who the hell are you and what did you do to Murasa?
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He's an assassin that was sent by Demotorowa, the guy guarding the second tower. Uh, hate to break it to you, but your master's dead.
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He himself is Gurowaru. Apparently he and Murasa ran across each other, and he attacked her. The resulted battle proved too much for Murasa, and she slipped into shikigami form. So, shikigami form comes from being physically weakened, huh?
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Well, you hurt Murasa, so now you pay with your blood.
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Dude you look nothing like your field sprite. He's Light elemental, but he is still resistant to Dark like the other demons. This could be bad.
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He knows Blunt skills, can inflict Silence, and can do this, which not only hurts a ton, but also dispels Variety effects. My buffs!
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Damn it, not again...
Besides this, his attacks hit hard, but he's otherwise fine to deal with. I barely manage to finish him off with the combined power of poison and physical attacks.
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Get out.
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Murasa's wounded. Crap.
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It seems like she'll be fine, but she's now a shikigami. Crap.
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Meiling agrees to let her onboard. Hurray! Murasa is a very good character. She specialty is field effects, which are specials effects that apply to everyone on the field. There can only be one of such effect at a time, so be careful with them. She starts off with Colosseum, which negates all healing for everyone. I guess that could negate the enemy's healing, which could be useful. She also grants +5% field casting speed. I need to figure out where to put her.
Offscreen, I also check out the other side of Eientei. It has some higher leveled fairy warriors. Nothing major. I get some recipes for my troubles. I also check out Bhava-agra again, as I missed some treasure there as well. That's all.
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Here's my levels by the way, Serela. I know you wanted to see them. And that's it for the second stratum! Next time we head on down to the third and final stratum, where hopefully we'll find Otoha and put a stop to this incident.
Summary:
Treasures: Youkai's Memories, Pretty Mirror x2, Frozen Soil Ring, Light Shard, Legacy of the Gods, Water Shard, Stardust Shard, Ring of Starry Worlds, Spirit Stone, Steel x2, Bamboo, Electric Shard, Fire Shard, Sword Mastery, Rock, Release Formula, Iron, Blunt Mastery, Dark Shard, Rorika Hamata (Mokou), Spear Mastery, Sacred Ring. Silver Hammer
Skills: Curse (Lunasa), Professional Vacation (casts Decoy on self, Momiji), Demon Blast (a column 90 power Dark attack that can only be used when the Light/Dark land meter is neutral or further towards Dark, Lesser Demon), Polar Blast (a 70 power all-targeting Water spell that can inflict Freeze, Yuki-onna), Starlight Web (90 power all-targeting Light spell, Star), Thunderclap (Prescott), Impale Charge (Nitori)
Passives: 25% Breath Reduction (Yuki-onna)
Recipes: The 50% elemental resist and land regen with a weakness to the opposite element accessory upgrades, which eliminate the weakness yet keep the land regen effect, Material Sets B and C (The elemental shards, made from Broken Treasures)
TPKs: 0 this update, 8 overall
Frustration: Low. PROGRESS!!!
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Peri! Now that chasers are weaker, Peris are mostly not very good, but they do provide several chaser skills and a +1 to chaser activations (You also get more chaser activations from dex... I -think-? But the point you get another activation is pretty high; well past the three digits mark)
There's a reason Peri could be considered for usage later in the game.
A little more on Yuyuko; while her stats are indeed mostly just average, with sliiightly higher VIT/POT and good DEX/AGI, being average+ all over actually turns out being a pretty good thing. She's a solid character and has one of the highest stat totals, up there with Meiling and Nitori. (Except her MP isn't really low like theirs; albiet, not a -lot- higher either)
HDD Crash's success rate is based on your level vs the enemy's level.
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While I understand the chaser nerfs, it still makes me very sad that Peri went from godly to mostly ignorable. :(
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Third Stratum- Part 1: Wherein the RNG Hates Me
So, it's time for the third stratum. Once we deal with this and Otoha, we just have to beat Xia and the incident's resolved! So let's do this!
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Makai 1 of the third stratum. Wait a minute, is that Alice Maestra (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kox35jER3Fs) as the Makai theme?
Game, sometimes I love you. Sometimes.
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The gimmick of this first room is wind. If you go down a certain path the wrong way, you end up being blocked by the wind. The puzzle is to figure out the proper path to follow, which will allow you to get your way to the exits.
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And our battle theme for the third stratum is Bad Apple!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlxHUMq99iE)
Note: I do not like the fact that the person that posted this version of the OST uses such... revealing pictures. When I see Elly, I don't want to see her panties. Honestly...
Anyways, these guys are Papirusagus. They are weak to Water, but can use Poison Zapper, which hurts like hell.
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This exit leads to the next part of Makai 1. It's also the most annoying thing to actually get through without the wind being there. This gave me so many troubles.
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And a Dragon Maid. She's a dragon, so she's resistant to the usual elements. She is recruitable, though she's not one of the shikigami I care about.
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This is technically Makai 2. I'll take care of it, I guess.
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Mummies. They're undead, but I forget what they can do. Maybe they can inflict Curse? I don't exactly remember.
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Ugh, Rafureshias. They can inflict instant-death with their normal attacks, but they are weak to anything plants are normally weak to.
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And a Medusa. It can use Stare, which inflicts Petrify, and Minus, which deals 666 flat damage. Obviously they need to be killed quickly.
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That's a New Mr. Makai in the back. I think it works like the earlier Mr. Makai, but it's stronger.
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That's a weird cave.
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Another staircase? But there's only three strata...
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It leads to absolutely nowhere. I can just imagine it ending in the endless void that the World of Chaos seems to be floating in. Let's not go down, shall we?
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That thing in the back? It's a Desert Burei. It knows stuff like Tail Chop and is a fricking tank. This sort of encounter is essentially death.
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There's an Allosaurus in the back, and I believe it can use Tail Chop. It's weak to Water, I believe.
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Uh...
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That's a huge screen full of nothing.
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Wait a minute, I was just here! What the hell?
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That area was apparently Makai 5. I guess we can't go through there yet. It seems like it would lead into that middle area we haven't been able to access yet... strange.
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Back in Makai 2, we find this unnatural fissure in the ground. What could have caused this?
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Suddenly there's roaring and the screen starts shaking. Damn it, not another demon!
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Wait a minute, that's Flandre! What the hell are you doing here?
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She mistook us for demons for a second, but she recognizes us, thankfully. We could totally use your destructive powers right now, Flandre. Maybe you could insta-kill the Three Demonic Pillars, or just knock down the Clock Towers of the End.
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She claims herself more powerful than Remilia. Then Nitori has to be a snarky bitch like usual and say Remilia is stronger.
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Don't kill us, Flandre! Damn it Nitori, why do you have to piss off everyone? Thankfully, she decides to come with us. She is an absolute demon on the battlefield (sounds like Arngrim) and is a master of Fire attacks. She starts with Lavateinn (a 200 power Fire column attack), Detonate (a 60 power AoE Fire attack), and Eruption. She also provides +5% power to Fire attacks. She's going on Meiling, however. Why? She has one of the highest STR boosts in the game, along with two other shikigami we'll be getting on the third stratum. So, she's partially going to just be a stat booster, but her Fire attacks are powerful as well.
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No, I want to go to the rest of Makai 1! Eventually I figure out the path I need to take in order to get through her reliably. Took damn long enough.
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Two new enemies, the Manuscript and the Assassin. The Manuscript has a high magic defense and is immune to Light and Dark, but it is ridiculously weak to Fire and Slash. That Flaming Sword I made for Mokou can cut through these guys like butter. They are also recruitable, and I actually want them. The Assassin is weak to Light, but boasts a powerful poison which can take off 100 health per turn. They're extremely dangerous, so end the battle quickly when they're around.
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Lavateinn, you're so awesome.
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The Dragon Maid joins. She starts with breath attacks of the four basic elements as well as 25% resistance to the four basic elements. Not using her for right now.
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Oh crap, a Power. These guys are weak to Dark, but know Ectoplasm Net, which has a high chance of inflicting Instant Death. Kill them quickly!
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These Namutarus aren't too bad, but they know a lot of debuffs. They're weak to Earth, I think, and maybe Fire, but I don't know.
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Okay, a straw doll. That has a nail in it. That's not disturbing. It's another recruitment flag.
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Ladies and gentleman, the unluckiness of having the Power using Ectoplasm Net twice in a row!
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Anywhere to get away from those Powers.
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Anywhere but hereeeeeeeeeeeeeee... I still have to get some stuff in Makai 1 anyways.
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Nitori learns Brandish, which is a column attack like Pole Swing, but has "medium" power instead of "parallel." Honestly, I still don't understand what parallel power means, but Brandish seems to be an improvement.
I manage to finish my business in Makai 1 and head off to the Forest of Magic. I never posted it's theme when we were there in the prologue, so here it is. It's a remix of The Witch's Ball~Magus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZBSsnx3l18)from Immaterial and Missing Power. Okay then.
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We've got a Gorgon Ball up top (weak to Pierce, knows Petrification moves) and a Dekkuarubu (weak to Light, can inflict Charm, not too threatening). The Gorgon Ball can be recruited, but again I don't care.
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And a Doryuadesu. It knows some Earth attacks and can use Leaf Shield. It's recruitable, but I'm not really sure if I want it or not.
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Uh. That's a Rakushashi. It can attack 2-3 times per turn. It looks threatening but it isn't. But it's Middle Eastern again. What's with the Middle Eastern monsters everywhere?
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And a Unicorn. It can use Electric attacks and it can use Starlight Barrier to protect the entire enemy party from one attack. It can be recruited.
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Oh there you are, Alice!
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Nitori, why did you call Alice a doll freak? Nitori has really pissed off everyone so far.
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Stop that, Nitori!
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Alice threatens to turn Nitori into a doll. At this rate, I'm completely fine with that.
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Nitori, stop saying you were only joking. Your jokes are pissing everyone off.
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Meiling steps in just in time to recruit Alice. She's all about shield skills like she was in Genius of Sappheiros. She starts with Little Legion (makes the user immune to all attacks, but has a high MP cost and a cooldown of 5 turns), Magic Defense (the magical equivalent of Physical Defense), and Element Shield Wall (blocks a single element with a shield). She also grants +5% Shield Evasion, which is pretty nice. Once I actually attempt to reorganize my shikigami, she'll go on Mokou.
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Thankfully, we're out of the forest.
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And right in the Misty Lake. Moving along.
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Just die already.
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Oh hey, you finally got recruited. She knows some good Earth attacks as well as Leaf Shield. She also grants 25% resistance to Electric and Earth. I'll think about it.
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See that turn counter? I spent all of those turns trying to RUN AWAY. Really game? You don't let me run for 12 straight turns? The RNG loathes me! I swear that the more times you run away between saves, the smaller and smaller the run away chance gets!
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It's times like these that I just want to do this to the game.
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Finally, you've shown up. PC-98 Marisa here knows some Mystic attacks, but she's not too hard to take down.
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Like Daiyousei, she has a 100% recruitment chance. She starts out with Rainbow Ray and Energy Riot, an 80 power single-target Mystic attack and a 95 power all-targeting Mystic attack respectively, as well as a +5% boost to Mystic attacks. I need to put her on, but I've got to figure out where to put her.
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Goddamn long hookshot area. We'll return.
That does it for now. Next time we continue on to the Misty Lake and hopefully finish most of the rest of the third stratum considering we've actually gotten through almost half of it.
Summary:
Treasure: Iron x3, Dark Shard x2, Person's Wisdom, Pretty Mirror x3, Broken Treasure (Drop), Steel x4, Rock x3, Bamboo x3, Rosary of Fortitude II, Quick Wood, Magic Illusion Stone x2, Silver x3, Amulet of Inanna (drop), Legacy of the Gods, Light Shard, Red Robe, Amulet of Mephesto (drop), Anklet of Protection II (Mokou), Spear of Taima (Nitori), Meteor Shard, Mystic Shard x3, Barrier Earrings II, Begaruta (Meiling), High-Grade Fur, Spirit Stone, Ancient Purification Thing, Ashoka Hammer (Eiki), Mink Coat (Eiki), Mercury Drop
Skills Learned: Stradivarius (a Large - physical attack that scales with level and inflicts Paralysis, Lunasa), Element Shield Wall (Mining Village), Stun Blow (Eiki), Shock Burst (Eiki), Brandish (Nitori), Dark Zapper (a powerful Dark elemental column attack, Lesser Demon)
Recipes: The upgrades to the status resisting accessories, Auto Clear (Autobomb???), Gajaruga, Bardiche, Meteor Iron Shield, Cotton Shell
Synthesis Done: Flaming Sword (Mokou), that Lightning Speak whose actual name I don't remember (Nitori)
TPKs: 2 this update, 10 overall
Frustration: High. The RNG is a bitch. That's all I have to say about that.
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Progress is progress is progress! Ranting is also good to help point non-obvious things out to people who aren't familiar with the game. Lessee here.
Manuscript gets some kind of magic defense buff which is nifty, and I think has resistance passive for light/dark. Dragon Maid's elemental resist passive eventually upgrades, along with Breath power increase and a single target All-Up buff; the resists and buff are why she's popular. Her breaths are very weak but very cheap, and used to be popular to activate chasers. After those got nerfed, though...
...nothing else in particular comes to mind.
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I wanted to get the Manuscript for the buff, obviously.
Also, I screenshotted the next update already, but I'm thinking about making it a super long one (probably the longest one yet) to just finish the third stratum, and then I'm going to do the Clock Tower afterwards. I'm full of energy, and even though I've been hitting some bumps, I just have this drive to keep going.
If I do a Genius of Sappheiros LP after this, I'm probably not going to have as much of a drive.
Please watch warmly...
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One notable thing about SHINZO is that most of the time, he will start a turn by using some weird thing that has a high chance to cancel your spell casting. That thing also always goes first. And at least in older versions, it also canceled running from battles (I don't remember if it still does that). Fun times for everyone!
Manuscript also learns a Mystic chaser really later on, which used to be a good thing because it was considerably stronger than the rest of the elemental chasers, but since they all got nerfed it doesn't make much of a difference anymore.
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If you are gonna LP GoS, you may as well do Weekend. It'll be easier on you that way.
Plus, I'm interested in seeing how you'll use the Bonus Characters.
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If you are gonna LP GoS, you may as well do Weekend. It'll be easier on you that way.
No. Shit. The majority of my first playthrough was on Lingering Summer Heat only. I only got Weekend at the Lakebed Temple. Yeah. Would've been a lot more useful earlier...
Also, bonus characters? As in the expansion ones?
The big update has finished being screenshotted. Yeah, it's the rest of the third stratum.
I somehow did it all in one day.
...Wow.
Uploading is beginning now. 86 pictures, minus whatever I decide to toss out while uploading. That's the most screenshots I've had for one update.
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Bonus character...
...if only Akyu was finally added in on weekend. I mean, she has a full battle sprite sheet and last word cut-in?! But alas, that would have been too good to be true.
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Yeah, the expansion characters. I'm looking forward to how you fit them into a team.
But yeah, Weekend's hella useful. And it's a cryin' shame about Akyu not bein' playable.
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This sorta stuff has me lusting over the in-process translation patch.
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Third Stratum- Finale: Faster than a Speeding Tengu
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See this map? This is where we left off last time. We're going to fill it in this update. Completely (besides the totally unimportant spot in the middle). So off to the Misty Lake! It has Year-Round Absorbed Curiosity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6dbLCZVwo0) as a theme. Makes more sense here than it did for Heaven's Falls.
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Winter Wolves here are weak to Fire and can use Cold Breath, which actually doesn't do that much damage anymore. Granted, it was powerful a while ago.
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Three more new enemies on top of that! The Ice Tower I think can use either Benevolence Wall or some sort of shield skill, the Ice Fly knows Water Chase (which really isn't that bad), and the Water is like any other elemental-like enemies we've been facing. They're all weak to Fire.
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It's a block of ice. So that's what katamari means (a block or clump)! Well, considering I've played Katamari Damacy, that makes sense.
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Apparently it's gotten colder. What's the worst that can happen? Besides getting frostbite, or something.
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Whoa, holy crap! Where'd that come from?!
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Whoever it is, she's pissed she missed.
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Of course it's Cirno. Apparently she thinks we're in league with the Three Demonic Pillars. Really?
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Are you really going to attack us? Hey, look through the mist, damn it! It's us!
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I think she just got called stupid, or something. It's hard to follow a conversation in Japanese.
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Now she realizes it's just us. Took you long enough.
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Meiling lets Cirno know that we're also after the Three Demonic Pillars, and she agrees to come with us. She's all about Water spells, obviously, starting with Cold View and Polar Blast as well as a 5% boost to water damage. Bench. Now.
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This shouldn't need an explanation.
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Crap, an Undine. She's weak to Fire, but she's got insanely powerful Water attacks.
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I manage to recruit her after my first battle with her. She's also a Water based shikigami with some healing, but I'm sticking with the Yuki-onna for Water stuff.
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There's an Iceberg Turtle, which is weak to Fire but is physically strong. Flandre, you're up.
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Is this really necessary?
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We're finally done with this lake. You haven't seen it, but the gimmick of this dungeon is hidden portals to other rooms. It's not too bad, but if you go into the wrong portal near the end, you end up right back at the beginning. Fun.
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Of course the Makai areas are still annoying to navigate.
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These Death Stalkers here are weak to Water, I think. I forget what they do. They're not too bad, though.
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These Summoners, on the other hand, are dangerous in that they can summon monsters to help them. I believe they might be weak to Dark, and they're slow enough in summoning that you can kill them off before they summon anything crazy.
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And Hell Scissors too. They know Drill, but they're not too bad. They're weak to Electric, so Thunderclap just roughs them up more than it roughs up other monsters.
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Makai 3 is small. Like really small.
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Hang on, we'll frolic in the Weeping Lily Meadow in a minute.
Wait, wrong game. I meant the Nameless Hill. Well, I think the Weeping Lilies in Valkyrie Profile are suzuran. The two look similar enough.
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Another exit. Really?
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Uh, the Sanzu River? Well, if I stay too long in the Nameless Hill, I'll probably end up here too. Nevertheless, there's still a little more to do in Makai 3.
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Oh, a boss. Wonderful.
Okay, I'm not going to sugarcoat it or anything. That boss in there? There's no way I can beat it at this point. He's just that impossible. I didn't even beat him in the main game in my first run, mainly because I forgot he existed. Then I came back in the expansion, gave him what for, and was done with it. He's not required to beat the game or anything, so we're going to save him for much later. Sorry. Let's head to the Nameless Hill, as it's a dead end area and I want to get it out of the way. Finally, Poison Body ~ Forsaken Doll (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDMWbrXHYSc) has a fitting place to be a theme!
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Why don't you die? By the way, all Yukkuri are recruitable, but their recruit chances are terrible, being like 1/256 or something. There's no way I'm recruiting one.
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Oh look, a Zombie Dragon. Whee, more Valkyrie Profile memories. While we don't have the Dragon Slayer to deal with these guys, we've got Light attacks in the form of the awesome Star Hand.
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...This is real, right? I'm really seeing a helicopter and a dude who looks like he spent way too much time at a gym recently?
...Crap. The helicopter is a Mangusuta, which is weak to Water but boasts powerful physical attacks. The Monk knows Mardi Gras Buster, but he's not too bad, since he's weak to Dark.
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And there's a Poison Lily. It can inflict some pretty strong poison, so kill it quickly.
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This is another long hookshot area. I think it's the last one in the third stratum.
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Medicine?
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How the hell did you get in there?
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Apparently she got caught in that cage. Why the hell would a cage be there like that? Also, she's pissed because she got called as dumb as Cirno. Well, you are a doll...
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She's also pissed off at the Three Demonic Pillars, because if they destroy Gensokyo, then the suzaran will be gone too.
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She agrees to put off her Doll Liberation plans (which I've heard plenty of from Sengoku Gensokyo and the fanfiction Do the Right Thing) to help us out! She's a pure Earth based shikigami with Poison and Lethal Poison (65 power single-target Earth spell with a chance to poison) and 50% resistance to Poison. Given the nature of an upcoming boss, I'll put her on Patchy. Meanwhile, we move on to the Sanzu River. Which has the same theme as the Misty Lake. This is one case where I'm not too excited for theme recycling.
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These guys are new, of course. The Specter is highly resistant to physical attacks and it can inflict Control. The Stone Tower of Three Roads is weak to Earth, but knows some shield skills. The enemies keep getting more and more annoying, don't they?
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The gimmick of the Sanzu River is these streams, which are one-way passages.
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These whirlpools serve as portals between different areas. The first time I came through here, I was confused and used a guide. I haven't really relied on a guide for exploration this time, though. Maybe it's because I don't mind fighting monsters as much?
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Crap, Ninjas. They know Decapitate, which inflicts Instant Death. They're weak to Light, though, so Eiki can take them out with Starlight Web.
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Did I mention they were recruitable? They start with Decapitate and Samidare Slash, as well as 50% resistance to poison and instant death, but I don't care enough. So long, Ninja.
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Oh shit, a Lich. Liches can cast Dark Lure and Dark Web. Dark Web will TPK you.
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See?
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And a Oshirasama. It's a plant-type, so Fire and Slash are the way to go. I forget what they do.
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Why is it I'm getting all of the shikigami that I didn't really get the first time I played this? Regardless, she's all about field effects. She starts with Osendaku, which is an unoverwritable field that has no other effect (which essentially prevents someone from using their fields until it runs out) as well as Jammer, which raises resistance to a single element by two levels. Osendaku will actually be useful for a few boss fights, as there are some bosses with Jammer, which can be very annoying. She also decreases casting speed for field effects by 15%. She'll be on the bench for now, but she'll become useful much, much later.
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Shizuha! Your sister's been worried about you, I'm sure! She uses some poerful Earth attacks, but Electric takes her down easily. She almost TPKs my party, though, so be careful.
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She joins, which is actually pretty damn good. She currently only has Heat Weapon and Earth Wall, along with +5% Variety effect casting speed, but she'll get Foreign Blast later on, which makes all of your party members immune to the next magic attack they receive. This is a godsend for later bosses. There's another shikigami we can get with the physical equivalent of this spell, but we missed her. We'll go back later to get her.
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Finally off the damn boat, although there is something I missed.
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The exit only leads to Makai 4 anyways, so we'll just get the thing we missed.
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Is it just me, or should shadows have bodies attached to them?
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Yeah, this sure is suspicious.
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What the!?
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HOLYCRAPYOU'REBRIGHT!
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Apparently the ball of light said that it was friends with us.
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Sanae remembers now! From Undefined Fantastic Object (she says from the Treasure Ship Incident)!
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Aha! Nue! Using a Seed of Non-Identification, weren't you? So, how's it been going?
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Apparently she's been looking for Murasa on her own. She wants to prove herself useful or loyal to Byakuren.
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We let Nue know that we've found Murasa, and she is pretty happy. She agrees to come along with us regardless, as she wants to help stop the Three Demonic Pillars. She starts with Detonate, Toxic Cloud, Cold View, and Thunderclap, along with having 25% resistance to the four basic elements. I haven't replaced anyone with her, but I might replace Hatate with her later. We move onto Makai 4 in the process.
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Don't fall in.
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These guys are Senmuruvus. They're weak to Electric and Pierce like all birds, and they can use Perfect Chase, which really isn't that threatening, considering Mokou is a goddamn tank.
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Oh no, it's Kanako. Ugh. Hate to break it to anyone who likes her but, well, I don't like her. She's caused almost every incident since Mountain of Faith directly or indirectly, including Gensokyo almost getting nuked, two religious figures being unsealed or revived (I don't mind Byakuren, but I kind of mind Miko) and because you cause so many incidents, the Human Village is in a state of nihilism, and religious war is about to break out. All because you want faith. Plus your Spell Cards are pains in the ass to handle. I hate you so much.
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Nitori is glad that Kanako's okay, I guess. They have been collaborating in the whole technological revolution thing, so that makes sense, at least.
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Kanako's amazed at how much being spirited away takes away from her godly strength. Yep, you're level one like all the other shikigami to start out with. Deal with it.
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She's also somewhat worried about Suwako, I think. She of course also wants to see Sanae grow. So she's coming with us. There's a lot more to this conversation, but I didn't really get any of it. It involved Mokou somehow. Anyways, Kanako is a physical based shikigami with a huge STR boost and some of the largest stat boosts overall. She starts with Meteoric Onbashira (Medium power attack that hits all enemies and scales with level), Coil, and Missile. She also has a 1% chance of negating a magic attack. She's going on Meiling as a stat booster, and nothing more.
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They all manage to run away, but I immediately get into another battle with the same formation of them and kill them all. What.
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It was around here that I actually bothered to put Medicine on Patchy. Let's grind her and Kanako up a bit, shall we?
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The Poison Blob can inflict poison, but is weak to Fire. Okay then.
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Mokou learns Wolf Fang, which has Slayer against reptiles and beasts! Awesome.
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Crap, run away, run away! The Earth Dragon is resistant to pretty much everything except maybe Electric (I don't really remember), and it knows the second tier of breath attacks. It nearly TPKs my party before I luckily manage to run away.
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Told you we'd get the map filled in. We just have to deal with that guard and we've got full access to the final Clock Tower. Let's go!
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Otoha like flowers, I guess.
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Yep Nitori, it's the last tower. Although we still need to deal with Xia after this.
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This guy? He's Kakuyokudaibu. He's Electric. He has drums that go along with his movements. Do we need to say anything else?
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Oh boy, this guy is a bit tough. He's all about Electric, as I've said. So he's weak to Earth, but not to Light, as I've found out. Oh well.
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He can use Vaccum Slash, I think. It hits hard. Because of it, Meiling and Nitori stay dead for most of the fight, regardless of Eiki's attempts at reviving them.
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Mokou learns Demonbane! Okay, now I don't want to lose. Demonbane has slayer against Angels, Demons, and Transcendents, which is really good.
Thankfully, though, the dude goes down with the power of the poison Nitori inflicted earlier as well as attacks from Patchy and Mokou.
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"Oh how could I lose" blah blah blah.
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Shaking and roaring, along with some drum beats. And we'll never see him again.
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Inside the tower is a nice looking statue of Otoha and another expansion seal. That Release Formula won't release the seal, of course.
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And we get a cute picture of Otoha on the map for our troubles. Well, that makes the third stratum complete (besides the boss I'm not going for yet)! Next time, we finish off this Clock Tower of the End and then go after Xia. Then the incident should be resolved! Gee, that was rather fast.
Summary:
Treasure: Magic Illusion Stone, Rock x2, Purification Ceremony Tool, Water Shard x2, Aconite Guarder (Eiki), Plate Mail (Mokou), Rubber, Silver, Keen Pendant II (Patchy), Meteor Shard x3, Electric Shard x3, Iron x2, Mercury Drop, Pretty Mirror x2, Bracelet of Starting Break x2, Fire Shard x2, Dark Shard, Person's Wisdom, Necklace of Strength II (Meiling), Bamboo x2, Rainbow Robe, Earth Shard x2, Steel, Sage's Staff, Muffler of Evasion, Light Shard, Gale Boots II, Desutorakuto Protector (Eiki)
Skills Learned: Moonlight Ray (90 power wide penetrating Dark spell that's highly influenced by the Land, Rumia), Explosion (Eiki), Shooting Sapphire (1-4 40 power Light single-target attacks, with the number of attacks increasing the further the Land is tilted towards Light, Star), Burst Shock (Patchy), Wolf Fang (Mokou), Toxic Cloud (85 power AoE Earth attack, Medicine), Hard Hit (Eiki), Demonbane (Mokou), Increase (Shihuza)
Passives: 50% Critical Prevention (Tewi), 25% resistance to Berserk, Charm, and Control (Nishiki), 25% Earth resist (Medicine)
Recipes: The 50% elemental accessory resistance upgrades, Sword of Thunder, Kiyuberei, Hammer of Heat, BD-ROM, Sage's Robe, Full-Moon Shield, Royal Leather, Magic Plate Mail, Super Sexy Underwear, Cockatrice Crown, Basilisk Eye
Synthesis Done: Bardiche (Patchy), some sword that I forget (Meiling), Kiyuberei (Nitori), Royal Leather (Eiki), Magic Plate Mail (Mokou, now she is the ultimate tank), Hammer of Heat (Eiki)
TPKs: 1 this update, 11 overall
Frustration: In the middle. It took a while to do this, but I'm happy I got it done. Let's finish this!
Maybe. We'll see.
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Oh, a boss. Wonderful.
Okay, I'm not going to sugarcoat it or anything. That boss in there? There's no way I can beat it at this point. He's just that impossible. I didn't even beat him in the main game in my first run, mainly because I forgot he existed. Then I came back in the expansion, gave him what for, and was done with it. He's not required to beat the game or anything, so we're going to save him for much later.
That's the earth demon, isn't it? I remember having some trouble with him, but in the end I won without too much trouble by spamming electric attacks and dispelling his buffs whenever he got too carried away. I didn't even know about Prescott's ability to make your attacks against weaknesses deal more damage back then, and I suppose that thanks to this this guy shouldn't pose a threat at all.
Also, Otoha~ why are you so pretty, Otoha. I like how the next dungeon won't feel as bad as it should simply because she's watching you all the time.
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Undine's move Aquarius Age is a really powerful magic-damage-reduction buff to the party. The description says it has a short duration (I think), but it lasts a good while, so I don't see. She also gets the powered up version of Increase, and a decent power Water attack later.
However, for all the good she can do, she doesn't learn any of this nifty stuff for a long while; 28 she just gets the attack so she's not terrible (it's nothing special by the time you get it, just nice), and the actual perk skills are 40 and 50. Late bloomer.
Anyway, don't forget about the two new characters who appear after you unveil the middle area :D
So, that boss you skipped is the one that buffs up and then destroys you, right? Just use dispel (star sapphire) and your own buffs like Earth Wall, and he shouldn't be -too- bad. Then again, maybe I'm forgetting something.
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You're right about the boss. I don't like him one damn bit.
Anyway, don't forget about the two new characters who appear after you unveil the middle area :D
Hush hush, spoilers, damn it! I know about them, and of course I'm not going to forget them. I'm going to spend the update after beating Xia doing that.
Even though it's late where I am, I'm still working on the third Clock Tower of the End, although I probably won't upload the update until tomorrow. It will be sort of big, but not by that much.
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Well, it looks like I won't get the update up until later. I still have to finish screenshotting stuff, but I have to do some work first. I'll be back later today hopefully when I'm all done with rl stuff.
I have finished the tower itself, I just have to beat Otoha. I will get that done today, along with Xia, hopefully.
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Clock Tower of The End- Part 3: Tower of Flower
Let's get through the final Clock Tower of the End and take down Otoha! The music's the same as always. It doesn't get old, in my opinion.
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The area itself is quite nice looking, but is also a maze of these platforms. We have to be very careful not to get lost, although it's not that bad.
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A boss fight already? Well, let me just tell you that the boss fight is entirely optional. You don't even have to do it to get to Otoha. However, I'll take care of it soon enough, just to get it out of the way.
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New enemies, as always. The Saladins know some advanced Slash skills like Samidare Slash, Comet Assault Sword, and Emperor's Brandish, but are weak to Dark. The Peryutons are forgettable. They're weak to Fire.
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Ah, a Wizard and a Dragon Fly! The Wizard knows some more advanced spells (Starlight Whip, Lethal Poison, etc.) while the Dragon Fly knows a somewhat powerful Fire breath. It's weak to Water and Electric, for whatever reason.
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Blackbeards, which I've heard are from Shin Megami Tensei. They can inflict Berserk, are weak to Fire and Water, I think, and have a good chance of reflecting your physical attacks back at you. As it happens, they can be recruited, but I fail to get one here.
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This is what happens when you go out the wrong doorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...
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This spot here? Remember it for later.
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This room I'm in here? This is where that boss fight is supposed to be. You can actually enter it from a different path, and it doesn't put you into the boss fight. Really, game? Really?
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*sigh* Let's go in the right way, then.
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Shou and Nazrin! We haven't really heard of what happened to you guys. So, what's the matter?
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...I forget why she did this.
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Nitori, where did you get that cheese from? Actually, don't answer that. Please.
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Nazrin knows that Otoha is indeed in the tower. Gee, like we already didn't know that from the statues and pictures of her everywhere!
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That's the second time you've fallen for that, Nazrin. Really?
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Shou, wait a minute, what do you mean "Go home, we're taking care of this"? Excuse me, we're a five-strong group with most of Gensokyo sitting in our back pockets! You're a two-strong group of people with no shikigami whatsoever to help you out.
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Okay okay, we've had to fight a few other Touhou characters so far. We fought Nitori and Sunny because they thought we were related to the incident. I'm fine with that. That sort of thing happened in IaMP, PoFV, SWR, and Soku. In fact, attacking random people is the whole process of incident resolution! Yuka attacked us because she wanted to do it by herself. Okay, I'm fine with that too, because she's belligerent and also happens to be one of the strongest youkai in all of Gensokyo, so okay, fine. Eiki attacked us because she wanted to make sure we were strong enough to deal with the Three Demonic Pillars. Understandable, because they're powerful enemies.
You two are attacking us even though we outmatch you in every way, shape, and form, because you think you are more prepared to deal with the Three Demonic Pillars than we are? Bullshit! This is ludicrous! This is the stupidest excuse for having a boss fight with Nazrin and Shou ever! At least it made sense in Genius of Sappheiros to fight Nazrin, because of the malice! But here? No reason! How stupid can this game get!?
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Here's who's going to save us, everyone! A tiger and a mouse! Give them a hand as I cut them to ribbons for their stupidity.
Shou is weak to Dark, and Nazrin is weak to Fire. Nazrin can buff them but does little much else, while Shou attacks with Light elemental attacks and the occasional Nine Million Volts, which either does single-digit damage or puts your HP in the single-digits.
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Their weakness getting hit. They go down easily, although Mokou gets knocked out due to Nine Million Volts and a follow-up attack the next turn.
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You so don't have it handled.
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Our saviors, ladies and gentlemen. Reduced to ghostly forms that are bound to cease to exist if they don't find someone to help them.
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We agree to help them (and of course, they apologize for their stupidity). Shou is a Light based shikigami, with Absolute Justice (greatly increases Light land power), Holy Zapper, and Saint Chaser. She boosts Light by 5%. Nazrin has Increase, Pendulum Guard (which cuts all damage done to a single ally by 25%, and +5% drop rate. I might use them later, but bench. Now.
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I can actually kill these reliably now.
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You look nice in the picture, Otoha. Shame I'll have to kick your ass later.
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It's an Ace Power. I think he no longer has Ectoplasm Net, but he has Holy Zapper, I think. He's extremely dangerous, but he is recruitable, if you want to go for him.
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Oh boy, a Basilisk. The Basilisk can inflict some very heavy Poison and is pretty sturdy, but I can deal with him. I forget what he's weak to. He's also recruitable.
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I failed to get the proper picture, but Mokou just learned Emperor's Brandish! It's a column attack with Slayer against Warriors and Magicians.
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And a Prototype, which is weak to Water. I think they might know Stun Grenade, but I'm not positive.
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The thing in the back is a Supurigan. I forget what's so special about them. They're weak to Light, like most spirit-type enemies.
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Sorry, I just love doing this.
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The Dragon Fly joins. It knows Fire attacks I'm not interested in. Bench.
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Hang on, almost.
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That's a long staircase.
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Now we've somehow opened up a shortcut to the top! Alright then! Let's take on Otoha now.
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Pretty sunset, or is it a sunrise?
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It's a dead end. Hmm, where's Otoha?
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Ah, there you are. So, how's things?
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Meiling notices that Otoha's pretty polite and nice for a demon. Well, yeah. She's got a tower full of plants and stuff. Though she might be a little egocentric.
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Otoha compares Sunny to a worm, which ticks her off, obviously. Well, fairies are weak.
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Okay, I guess a fly works too.
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I guess we're done with the pleasantries, then. Time to fight!
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Can anyone explain to me why she has mouse-like ear-things on her head? Please? It's kind of weird. She's Electric, so she's weak to Earth. Of course, you might not want to use Earth spells on her. Why? Just don't, trust me. She's also weak to all physical attacks. No, really. Bash away it is!
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Meiling learns Chain Slash, which hits a bunch of times.
Not pictured: Meiling dealing almost 1000 damage between the four hits. Go Meiling!
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She knows Suction Power, which drains HP and hurts, but it isn't too bad.
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Meiling gets a critical hit off. Yes, 1187 damage. It's enough to kill Otoha. Damn, she didn't even use her Spell Card. Well, I'm glad she didn't, anyways. It probably would have killed Meiling and Patchy. She knows she Pierce attacks too, but I didn't really show those off.
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That was really easy.
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I think she just congratulated us for winning, or something. I don't exactly remember.
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Seven hours have passed since this all started. We've got five left. Plenty of time to take down Xia.
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Screen shakes, she roars, she disappears. Well, that takes care of her. Next time, we go after Xia and finish this all.
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My levels, for anyone who cares. I'm going to do a bit of grinding before going after Xia, though, so they'll be different when I fight her.
Summary:
Treasure: Bamboo, Rock, Magic Piercings II, Pretty Mirror, Earth Shard, Magic Illusion Stone, Dark Shard, Maximilian, Defender, Steel, Mystic Shard, Light Shard, Person's Wisdom, Water Shard, Fire Shard, Ribbon (Eiki), Fairy's Spear (Nitori), Iron, Electric Shard, Muscle Belt II, Bracelet of Starting Break, Purification Ceremony Tool, Trapezohedron, Sledge Hammer, Murasei (Drop)
Skills Learned: Garden Moth Thing (70 power all-targeting Earth spell that can inflict Poison, Medicine), Disintegrate (180 power single-target Fire spell, Flandre), Emperor's Brandish (Mokou), Stun Blow (Patchy), Chain Slash (Meiling), Mighty Shield Wall (like Shield Wall, but all-targeting, Mining Village)
Recipes: Furagarahha, Spear of the Legendary Knight Fiana, Hyper Shell, Meteor Shard, Magic Illusion Stone, Person's Wisdom, High-Grade Fur, Mercury Drop, Bracelet of Starting Break (actually should be called Half-Broken Bracelet), Purification Ceremony Tool
TPKs: 0 this update, 11 overall
Frustration: Mainly with the story, less with the game. It'll reverse soon enough.
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Clock Tower of the End- Finale: Time's Up
Let's finish this! Xia, you're next!
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However, I did a little bit of grinding (actually not too much). I ran into this Officer Demon, who knows Dark attacks and is basically a Dark equivalent of the Ace Power. Back to Xia.
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My status before resetting the first time. Not really worth going further than this.
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Right before the second reset. I'll put the Fairy Maid on Patchy to try using Land Control, as well as the Oshirasama on Nitori to use Jammer for Water.
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This is from a critical on Star Hand. A critical. She has 4500 HP. Do the freaking math.
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Mokou learns Meteor Zapper. Amazing.
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Meiling's Last Word doesn't do that much more. Well, she does have 25% resistance to Slash, I think.
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Counter Aiming. I forget what exactly it does, but it's new.
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The majority of the battle was pretty much me amking sure Decoy was constantly on Mokou, making sure Jammer was still active, and using Water Wall whenever Xia was about to use "Dancing Spray of Blood." Look at the Fire land. It stayed like that pretty much throughout the entire fight because Patchy used Land Control enough to shift it to where she couldn't shift it back fast enough. Thus "Dancing Spray of Blood" couldn't inflict Instant Death at all.
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Hah, that does it!
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Victory is ours! You and your friends better hurry on back to Makai. Or we can do this the usual Touhou way, where we all just have a tea party, forgive each other, and become friends. I mean, besides the whole destruction thing, you guys seem nice enough.
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What do you mean, it's not over?
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Why is the screen shaking? I thought we were done!
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No. No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no.
No. Five hours did not just past. You're kidding, right? Please tell me you're kidding!
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Well, we failed. At this point, the screen starts shaking even harder. Gensokyo must be falling to pieces!
This song starts playing as well. Gee, that's not an omen or anything! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OE4LvxNeoI)
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What?
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What!?
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What the hell is that thing?!
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Apparently it's the Sinister Castle of Chaos. So wait a minute...
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You said Gensokyo would be destroyed. But that thing is all that showed up. What's your deal?
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Answer me or I'll thrash you again!
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Entertainment? You mean watching us run around, fighting monsters and almost getting killed is fun to you? What kind of sadists are you?
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Then what about the time limit? You had us all thinking we had 12 hours, but apparently that's not the case.
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Xia explains that they meant when the clock hits 0 again, they meant when it literally hits 0. As in 0000 hours.
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In other words, they meant we had 24 hours, a whole day. We've only used up 12.
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Alright, fine, then we can use all of that time pounding you into the ground!
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Mokou just realized something. If beating all of the Three Demonic Pillars didn't stop this, then they aren't the ones who did this. There's someone else behind the scenes pulling the strings! Show yourself!
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Whoa, I didn't mean for you to answer immediately.
Wait, why are you surprised, Xia? You thought the real mastermind would stay behind the scenes while letting you guys have all the fun? Of course not, that would make sense!
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This starts playing. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYPMODuQ6o) Such an ominous song.
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I'm sorry, who're you? You look... weird. And vaguely Middle Eastern.
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Xia's apparently surprised the newcomer showed herself. Okay then.
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She introduces herself as the true mastermind and the leader of the Three Demonic Pillars.
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Angra Mainyu? Oh shit. Oh shit. Angra Mainyu is also known as Ahriman. In other words, she's the Zoroastrian representation of all evil. Do you realized how utterly screwed we are now?
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So, why are you doing all of this? Your minions claimed it was the destruction of Gensokyo. But I'm not so sure.
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She claims that she is going to destroy and rebuild Gensokyo. Into what, you might ask? A second Makai, a Makai she rules over. In other words, she's attempting to expand whatever territory she held in Makai originally.
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Okay then, we're just going to have to beat you so that won't happen!
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Oh, you guys are back. Are we really going to take on all four of you at once?!
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No, they all teleport away. So, they've fled. Obviously they went to the Sinister Castle of Chaos.
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We've got 12 hours, we can do it! Let's settle this for real this time!
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But, how do we get to the Sinister Castle of Chaos? Well, we'll figure out a way. However, there's a few things we can do now that the Sinister Castle of Chaos has risen. Next time, we'll take care of those things, and then prepare for the greatest difficulty spike in the game.
Did you really think we were done yet? Ahahahahahahahaha... we're not even close.
Summary:
Skills: Blizzard (Bulbul), Great Wall (increases shield chances, Oshirasama), Eruption, Polar Blast, Toxic Cloud, Thunderclap (Fairy Maid), Meteor Zapper (Mokou), Counter Aiming (Nitori)
Passives: Dark Regen 25 (Lesser Demon)
Synthesis Done: Furagarahha (Meiling)
TPKs: 0 this update (3 resets), 11 overall
Frustration: Little. It'll get a lot higher very quickly. You'll see.
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Pendulum Guard (which cuts all damage done to a single ally by 25%
Isn't it 75%, though? o:
Not much else to mention, apart from that most people just use Water Wall every single turn to negate the attacks. I'm not sure Dancing Spray of Blood even can inflict Instant Death through it or not; but she has regen in water land IIRC, so.
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Whoops, I meant 75%. My bad.
I normally would use Water Wall every turn, but in hindsight that leaves one party member doing almost nothing but that. I did this in order to allow Nitori to actually do stuff like buffing without having to worry as much about her water attacks. I don't think anyone else has ever really used this strategy before.
And yes, "Dancing Spray of Blood" can inflict Instant Death through Water Wall. The only way to prevent it is either get Death resistance or keep the Land on Fire.
She does have Water land regen, so Fire land helps.
Also, can't wait for C83 tomorrow! Phantasmal Summoners and the Hopeless Masquerade trial!
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I love how Patchouli is dead in pretty much every end of battle :V
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Sinister Castle of Chaos- Part 1: Loose Ends
There're a couple of things left to do now that we've beaten all of the Three Demonic Pillars.
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The first is that this boss icon shows up in the Chaos Plains 3. Let's deal with it now, shall we?
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Everyone decides that they should be careful walking around. What, were you not being careful before?
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The scene shifts over to Kogasa. She's all freaked out about the incident, of course. Who isn't?
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She realizes that because of all the confusion, people will be more on edge, and thus easier to scare. Can't argue with that logic.
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Urameshiya!
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Everyone mistakes her for an enemy.
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Uh, Kogasa? I think your plan backfired.
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Bash her repeatedly to win. There's no real strategy to this fight.
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Afterwards, everyone realizes that it was Kogasa the whole time. Okay then...
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She's a bit pissed that we beat her up because we thought she was a demon.
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Then she starts crying... okay, if you come with us, will you stop crying? Yes? Okay then.
Kogasa, however, isn't going to really be used. She has the highest MP and POT counts in the game and slightly higher than average DEX, but she has only average HP, VIT, and AGI and terrible STR and INT. I don't even know what her Last Word does. I'm not using her. Sorry.
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Remember that staircase that leads to nowhere? Well, there's a boss encounter here now.
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Suika! Well, it seems the incident hasn't escaped your attention.
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And Yuugi's with you too! Ah man, I'm glad you guys are here. We could use the strength of oni.
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Wait a minute, what do you mean, you don't want to come with us?
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Again, they want to do this alone. They do agree to fight us, and whoever becomes the victor is the one who goes after Angra and the Three Demonic Pillars.
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It's on!
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Okay, Suika and Yuugi aren't too bad, but they aren't "whack on them until they die" like Kogasa. They're actually dangerous. They'll use a bunch of physical attacks on you, especially Blunt ones. With a bit of Decoy and the fact I still have the Blunt Mastery on Mokou, I can survive most of the attacks. I also seem to be terrible at screenshotting the fight. You missed a Missile that hurt quite a bit, but after that the fight wasn't too bad.
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Suika will use Missing Power to buff her STR, though, so be careful. I don't know if Yuugi can use Knockout in Three Steps, but she probably can.
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Even though you two are both Devas of the Mountain, you still can't win them all in a Spell Card duel (by the way it is implied that all of the battles we've been fighting are danmaku ones, as told in Genius of Sappheiros's ending, where one of the characters talks about how they played danmaku with the final boss).
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Yep, we won fair and square. At least you're not too bummed about losing, even if it does shatter your oni pride.
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Meiling says something about now having allies with the strength of 100 men. That is very true. Suika is a physical powerhouse with the best STR in the game as well as a decent HP and VIT count. All of her other stats suck massively (she has the worst INT and MP pool in the game), but that doesn't matter to me. Her Last Word is Missing Power, which doubles her STR, I think. She's going to replace Nitori. It's been fun, Nitori.
Yuugi is also a physical powerhouse as a shikigami, boasting an extremely high STR boost. Along with Flandre and Kanako, they make up the top three STR boosters. They'll all go on Suika. As for what Yuugi can do, she knows Poison Hand and Knockout in Three Steps, which is a parallel power (still don't know what that means!) attack that hits three times. It's basically a physical nuke. She also increases either Critical or Slayer damage by 5%. I think it's Critical, though.
So, anyways, how are we supposed to get to the Sinister Castle of Chaos?
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Remember the endless desert of Makai 5? Well, if you go through that portal on the left end, it'll now lead to a new area, which leads all the way to the Sinister Castle of Chaos.
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I don't think I fought these guys before. They're Burakus, and I forget what they do. Moving on, then.
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That's a big gate.
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Meiling opens it up with the power of her fighting pose. Let's do this thing!
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Looks like Angra knows we're here.
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...Why are you so happy about it? If we're going to try to stop you from making Gensokyo into a second Makai, why would you be happy?
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Looks like the others are here too. So, uh, are you going to do anything, or are you just going to sit here until the Clock o' Doom rings?
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*clap clap* Good old Xia.
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Are you pissed about something, Angra? I think they were having an argument over their next move, but I'm not sure.
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Apparently Xia wanted to do something, but they're all shutting her up. Xia, it's best if you just stay here. Let your more competent friends try to stop us.
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The conversation was hard to follow, but I think they were talking about going down to do something, and Angra not wanting them to because they got their asses handed to them.
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Except they weren't fighting at their full power. Oh shit.
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Yeah, we're totally screwed.
Not pictured: Chloe announcing she's going to go down and see what we're doing. This doesn't sound good...
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Nice looking castle, but we're saving it for next time. I actually screenshotted the entire first part of the Sinister Castle of Chaos, but I'll leave that and the summary for next time. Can we get through the Sinister Castle of Chaos and stop Angra? What's Chloe going to do? Is there anything else we don't know yet about Angra's plot? We'll find that out as soon as I get the update up!
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Sinister Castle of Chaos- Part 2: The Madness Begins
So, time to deal with the Sinister Castle of Chaos. Here's its theme. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL8tUWcNUAo) Very ominous sounding, but considering it is the final dungeon, of course it is. It's battle theme? Still "The Devil Bares His Fangs." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5iPG-bafpA&list=PLwqVdkhy2aqEdXjOeEDDJFJHVgjK19X8h&index=36) Still kickass.
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These are Kujatas. They're weak to Fire, I believe, but they are able to Berserk the party. That can be really bad in this dungeon, so kill them off quickly.
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Suika here is level 1. Look at her attack power. 157. At level one. This is pretty much one of the highest attack powers I have right now. She will get even stronger.
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Crap, White Sharks! They know an extremely dangerous Water attack that will probably kill your whole party. If they get off two, then you are D-E-A-D. They are weak to Electric, so hit 'em fast and hit 'em hard!
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Crap, a Locomo Dragon! These guys know dangerous breath attacks that'll wipe your party off the face of the earth. They have no weaknesses, so kill them with whatever you have.
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Oh yeah, did I mention they know Dragon Fang, which can hit TWICE?! TWICE!
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And this isn't even its worse breath attack. Thankfully I survive this encounter with it.
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These guys are Beholders. They know some Mystic stuff, but they can use a skill that cancels any spells you haven't cast yet. They can be dangerous when in groups with deadly foes like the Locomo Dragon.
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In the back is a Vanity. It's pretty much immune to magic but weak to physical attacks, so hit 'em hard! They know Void Cutter, which hurts. A lot.
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The after results of one of those Water attacks the White Shark knows.
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This happens way too often.
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I think that's called a "Race," though it might be Wraith. I forget what they do, but kill them quickly anyways. They're probably dangerous.
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Elite Cockatrices? Two of them? RUN. They're pretty much stronger versions of their normal versions we came across earlier.
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WHITE SHARKS ARE RECRUITABLE!!! They know some pretty damn awesome Water attacks and grant 25% Fire and Water resistance. Sorry Yuki-onna, but you've been outclassed.
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This is what you want the White Shark for. PKW TypeIVs, also known as "those tanks." They know some seriously damaging physical attacks that WILL kill you. They're thankfully weak to Water, so knock 'em dead, Eiki!
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If only I could kill all of these...
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A Sentence Car? Okay... they can buff the enemy, but they're weak to Fire. They're not too dangerous.
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You, on the other hand, are. Cyclopes know very dangerous Electric attacks as well as some brutal Blunt skills. Yeah, be extremely careful around these guys.
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Intense Lightning, ladies and gentlemen.
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Ahh, Suika's Last Word!
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That was Missing Power. I think it double's Suika's attack power, or something.
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Somehow, this went a lot better in my head.
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Same here.
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Looks like a wall, right?
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And here we find a SECRET PASSAGE!
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Carbuncles here can reflect your magic and use Benevolence Wall, but they're easy enough to take down. I don't know what they're weak to.
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Beholders can be recruited too. They start out with Destruction Ray (60 power single target Mystic spell) as well as 25% resistance to Mystic and Quick effects. Nope.
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The girl in the back is a Deyuminasu Princess, or something like that. I;m not sure what they do, because this was the only time I encountered it and I autoran.
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Flipping some switches on either side of this here pool and then stepping on a carpet in the middle raises us a bridge and opens a door. ALMOST THERE!
Not pictured: a healign circle in the next room, but no boss symbol. Strange...
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Keine! Looks like you've been found, finally! You were the first one to disappear.
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She's hurt, though. Crap, what happened?
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Chloe did this. Okay then. That means she's somewhere around here still. That can't be good for us in any way, shape, or form.
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Nitori didn't greet Keine at all. So, headbutt. Which apparently really hurts.
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Sunny greeted Keine, but not properly. Okay, look Keine, we've had a long day so far, and it's only half up. Could you please stop busting our skulls with yours?
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Keine's not too happy. In fact, she's upset. What's the matter, Keine?
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She tells us that even though we've been trying to resolve the incident, we've never really figured out the true cause of it. Angra did it though, right?
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No, she explains that she's involved with the direct cause of it. Wait a minute, so you caused this?
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She explains that it wasn't her, persay. Rather, it has to do with Angra's power.
She can steal any person's power for a short time, allowing her to use it herself.
So guess why Keine was missing several days ago? That's right, Angra kidnapped her and stole her power in preparation for this incident. By using the power to eat history, Angra has taken away Gensokyo's history, which is why it has been rendered in such a state. Everything is mixed up because there was no history to define any place's true location. Without history, Gensokyo has fallen into the chaos it has.
And why is the Clock o' Doom going to ring tonight? It's the night of the full moon. That will allow Angra to change Gensokyo's history to make it a new Makai. There's no way we can let that happen!
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We tell her we're already after Angra, and she wants to come with us. If we can restore her power, she can set Gensokyo back to normal by restoring its history.
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Can't argue with that! Let's find Angra and crush Keine's power out of her! Keine herself is another field effect user with Great Wall to start off with and a passive that boosts field effect duration by 1. I can't really find a place to put her into my party for now. Maybe I'll fit her in at some point.
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We find ourselves in Agrabah. Or just a stereotypical Middle Eastern town. The exit at the bottom brings us back to the shrine and unlocks the second warp point for the Sinister Castle of Chaos. Next time, we head further into the Sinister Castle of Chaos as we attempt to reach Angra and stop her before she changes Gensokyo's history forever.
Summary:
Treasure: Legacy of the Gods, Water Shard, Ancient Purification Thing, Earth Shard, Liquid Iron x3, Broken Treasure (drop), Fire Crystal, Keystone x2, Platinum x3, Scorching Ring, Silver x2, Makai Loadstone x3, Beholder Eye (drop), Large Mirror x2, Mystery Bamboo x2, Water Crystal, Orichalcum Shard x2, The Ring of the Earth, Earth Crystal, Damascus Steel x2, Large Makai Ring, Genie Stone x2, Adamantite Shard x2, Angel Ring, Dark Crystal, Shoulder Strap of Kagutsuchi (drop), Beautiful Bracelet, Aviator Gem x2, Ring of Thunder Something, High Grade Fur, Purification Ceremony Tools, Light Crystal, Electric Shard, Ultimate Yin-and-Yang Gem, Permanent Ice Wall Ring, Electric Crystal, Mystic Shard, Steel, Trapezohedron, Half Broken Bracelet, Mercury Drop, Mysterious Branch, Fire Shard
Skills: Hard Hit (Patchy), Mega Stroke (180 power single target Electric spell, Hatate), Mari Gras Buster (Patchy), Foreign Blast (makes your party members immune to one magic attack each, Shihuza), Falcon Slash (Suika)
Passives: 10% Variety effect boost (Shihuza)
Recipes: The upgrades to the second level of stat boosting accessories (like the Necklace of Strength II), Furuntingu, Kuruseidoburudonasu, Diamond Axe, Perseus Shield, New Moon Shield, Raiden Shield, Yggdrasil Armor, Dragon Scale, Ultimate ZUN Hat, Red Beret, Grendel's Gauntlets, Ninja's Gauntlets, Homicide Mantis Gauntlets (???), Fairy Lingerie, Platinum Gauntlet
Synthesis Done: Furuntingu (Suika), Necklace of Strength II+ (Suika), Anklet of Protection II+ (Mokou), Keen Pendant II+ (Patchy)
TPKs: 3 this update, 14 overall
Frustration: Not as bad as I thought it would be, but there's still some frustration.
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I seriously would've raged myself to insanity if I died half the time you did. Good job!
Since I never played the game, and because I reallyyyy want to know, does anyone know Kogasa's Last Word?
Also uh... eventual Koishi?
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I seriously would've raged myself to insanity if I died half the time you did. Good job!
Since I never played the game, and because I reallyyyy want to know, does anyone know Kogasa's Last Word?
Also uh... eventual Koishi?
It's just a high power attack with pretty colors. I think it can cause instant death too.
Super close to the end of the main game. Then it's off to the fourth stratum
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I seriously would've raged myself to insanity if I died half the time you did. Good job!
TPKs are a way of life this late in the game. However, I have an LP to do, so matter how many TPKs I get I'll keep on going.
Also uh... eventual Koishi?
Mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybe. There's still those long hookshot areas...
Also, the next update is screenshotted. I'm just going to let you know now, though, that after this update, the next one might not be for a while. There's a couple of reasons for that. First of all, I've gotten to the point in the game where I really need to start grinding, and that's going to take some time to do. The second reason is that my vacation is ending in a few days, so I won't be able to focus on playing. The third reason is also I want to take a small break from the game. I've been doing this like crazy for a week or two now, and I feel really tired of playing this. I'll get the next update up probably tomorrow, but don't expect another one for a while. I'll be back, don't worry, it's just that I really need to take a break.
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Kogasa's poor STR is helped by her having Type 1 weapon learning type, otherwise exclusive to the protagonists; it's on par with Type 4 in overall skill learning capability, except that no other type is able to learn Type 1 skills easily at all, and type 1 skills are the most powerful of the bunch. And she's got the MP to spam them! But, yeah, probably more of a support character, given how many good skills there are with reallly high mp costs that are worrying even in a boss fight.
Cyclops, Locomo Dragon, and a enemy not seen in this update that IS in this area are all recruitable as well. Cyclops owns the 250 power Elec spell. On that matter, the White Shark isn't exactly better then the Yuki-onna, either; it doesn't actually get any particularly strong water attacks. Or, to be specific, it doesn't until level SEVENTY. Your Yuki should only be a few levels away from learning her cool nuke at lv30, right? The shark does have better DEX/VIT/HP and some nice passives though, so it's still an upgrade in some fashions.
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...Oh. You're right. Excuse me while I change that...
Also, I'm going to actually try to upload the update tonight. I still don't know when the next update is, but between when I said I was going to take a break and now, I changed my mind. I'll try to get it done as soon as possible, but real life is going to start getting in the way soon enough.
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Sinister Castle of Chaos- Part Three: Agrabah
So, onward with the Sinister Castle of Chaos, then. We've already finished the first section (of four, mind you), so lets go and do the second one!
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These guys are the newest of the hard drive monsters, C400s. They are weak to Electric and know HDD Crash. Again, HDD Crash has a slow casting speed, so you should be able to deal with it without having to worry about Removal.
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The High Ninja is basically a more powerful form of the Ninja. The Solid Metals, however, are new. They know some higher powered Slash skills and Benevolence Wall, for whatever reason, and they can be killed easily with Mystic attacks.
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The Ammonite knows some powerful Water skills and is weak to Fire, I think.
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These Bushuyasutas are weak to Electric, but know insanely powerful Blunt skills like Breathless Strikes (or Roll Apnea, whichever you prefer), and can act twice per turn.
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The Backfires here are weak to Water, but boast powerful Fire spells. They can be recruited, and they're actually good as Fire shikigami.
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At some points during this dungeon, you'll have to go underground. Or as underground as you can get in a weird castle/tower thing that makes no sense.
The Howaitodairu up front is weak to Ice, I believe, and knows Fang Crush, I think. The Evil Petal can put you to sleep, and will often follow that up with Invitation to Death, which has Slayer against people who are asleep. Be careful of that. They are recruitable.
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Apparently Dekarabias were originally from Shin Megami Tensei. I haven't played enough of those games to meet them there. They know powerful Mystic attacks, and they can wipe you out if you are unprepared. However, they are recruitable, and they are really good because of one of the skills they have.
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Thanks to this Last Word spam, I take it down, but don't recruit it.
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Lily White! She knows she spells, but she really isn't a threat.
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As a shikigami, she's about field effects and healing. She starts with Jackpot, which increases the chances of getting multiple hits in an attack. She also gets +3% magic casting speed. She'll be on the bench for now.
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That's a Fire Crow. It knows some Fire spells and can use Nose Dive to stun you, but that's about it. Weak to Water.
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I think those things are Malboros. They can hurt you. Badly.
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Like so. I don't know what they're weak to, but they are pretty powerful.
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Skeleton Warrior. They work just like their Skeleton cousins, except they know even more powerful Blunt skills.
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King Beetles are not too bad, except they're hardy. Water will kill them, but they're hard to dispose of otherwise.
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That's an Armed Hawksbill in the back. I don't know what it's weak to, and I think it uses powerful physical attacks.
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Mokou learns Bandit Pursuit! It has Slayer against enemies inflicted with Permanents. This can be very useful, especially in boss fights.
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Long Hookshot! We'll have to go back to those areas, huh?
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We've got this.
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Chloe? One of the other Three Demonic Pillars? Angra?
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Tenshi!? The hell was that for?
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I want answers, damn it!
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The incident has spread to Bhava-agra, obviously, but she's still bored. So, I guess she wants to go after Angra herself.
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And we're kind of in the way of that. Crap.
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So, Tenshi. She's all about Earth, obviously, but she's extremely weak to Electric. If you do hit her with an Electric attack, though, she'll use Jammer set to Electric.
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She can use Ectoplasm Net. This kills everyone but Mokou, who manages to get her Last Word and resurrect everyone. Hey Tenshi! We're not done yet!
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Here's that special field effect of the Oshirasama. It'll prevent Tenshi from using Jammer.
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Doesn't prevent her from kicking my ass with powerful Earth attacks.
Not pictured: Me redoing the fight, actually dealing a bunch of damage and such, and then...
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Everyone gets knocked out but Mokou. She uses Little Legion to make herself immune to all attacks, and between her attacks and the poison I inflicted on Tenshi earlier, I finish her off. Best ending to a difficult fight ever.
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She becomes shikigamified for her troubles, and comes with us. She's all about Earth attacks, obviously. She starts with Kaname Funnel (which is a 2-6 time hitting attack, and the name reminds me of Hellsinker's Kaname Stones), Gift from the Land (AoE 30 power healing spell), Supergravity (150 power single target Earth attack that canlower AGI), and Stone Shower (105 power all targeting Earth attack). She grants +5% Earth power. Bench.
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Another boss symbol? Really?
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Oh crap, it's just like when Angra first showed up! This can't be good...
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Who's that?
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You don't mean...
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Reimu, Yukari, Byakuren! Crap, Chloe's got them cornered!
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Okay Chloe, that's not cool. You just back away from them right now and flee back to Angra. No one's losing their souls on my watch.
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Of course she's not going to run. She's going to fight at her full power now.
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Bring it on! I can take your full power!
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Whoa. Chloe, you look a lot more evil this time. No worries, some Light attacks will take you down!
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Okay, you can one shot Mokou. That's cool.
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And Eiki. With Abyss. Which has 200 power, if I recall correctly.
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Okay, that was Star Hand. She has 10000 HP.
Maybe we don't have this.
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Full Moon Revenge! Well, so long, Patchy.
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I don't even know the name of this spell!
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Yeah, we've totally got this incident handled, guys.
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Well, that plan of attack failed.
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She tells us that she'll let us live. For now. If we come back, though, she will kill us.
So, uh, is that it? Are we just going to fall unconscious and fail? We've come so far, though. Are you saying it all ends here?
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No, it doesn't. After Chloe left, Akyu came. Well, I guess I'm glad to see you, Akyu.
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Yeah, uh, Akyu? We don't have this covered. At all. We're outclassed and outmatched in every way, shape, and form.
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Reimu explains that the three of them wandered into the Sinister Castle of Chaos by chance, and have been fighting their way up. Of course, then they ran into Chloe...
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Akyu tells us that we do have a chance, if we truly unite our powers together.
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She gives us a special paper, which apparently contains a powerful recipe.
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That's not all! It also contains the secret knowledge of the Union Last Word! Union Last Words are extremely powerful Last Words, unique to each of the four main characters, which can only be activated if all of the party's Last Words have been activated at once. It's pretty rare to get, but if you can get it, be prepared to unleash hell upon the enemy. Meiling's Union Last Word attacks all enemies for massive damage.
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We also get all of these recipes. Alright then, once we make these, we should be able to take on the Three Demonic Pillars, even if they are fighting for real now.
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And that concludes the second area of the final dungeon. Next time, we'll take care of the Long Hookshot areas and continue with the Sinister Castle of Chaos.
I'm going to cover all of these new recipes in a mini-update later. There's no way I'm going to cover that all at once now. I'll cover the new shikigami I get then too. That includes Akyu and the unique shikigami of each main character. Also, Byakuren's replacing Eiki, just to let you know. That's my final change in my party. My final party, therefore, is Meiling, Byakuren, Mokou, Suika, and Patchoulli. It's a weird group, but it'll all work out.
Summary:
Treasure: Olympic Book, Magic Illusion Stone, Electric Shard, Damascus Steel, Half-Broken Bracelet, Aviator Gem, Purification Ceremony Tool x3, Butcher's Toxic Scorching Spear (drop), Mystery Bamboo, Large Mirror, Earth Shard, Rubber, Platinum x2, Keystone, Russian-Japanese Armor (???), Silver, Super Cushion, Mercury Drop x2, Emperor Robe, Mana Stone, Orichalcum Shard, Ultimate Ying-Yang Gem, Brynhild (Mokou), Defense Shield (Mokou), Merlin Staff, Silver Plate Armor (Suika), Genie Stone, Makai Lodestone, Poseidon's Trident, Beautiful Bracelet, Chernobyl Guarder, Adamantite Shard, Minotaur's Axe, Long Hookshot
Skills: Element Barrier (Alice), Mighty Shield Wall (Momiji), Earth Chase (Yuugi), Mirage Blade (Suika), Bandit Pursuit (Mokou), Sonic Blade (Suika)
Passives: +20% recovery power (Minoriko), -25% cost of Light skills (Star)
Recipes: Too many to count
TPKs: 3 this update, 17 overall
Frustration: We're done with the annoying parts in terms of exploration. Time for more annoying enemies.
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Marlboros are also recruitable!
Meiling's Union Last Word is only single-target iirc, but I'm not sure. It uses the combined attack power of your entire party.
(Reimu's is a multitarget 500 power light attack that scales based on level, which when you consider how high the damage scaling for Magic type is, means it is indeed fierce; it's like, seven to eight hundred percent damage increase at lv99. Byakuren's is just a souped up version of her GoS LW; more EXP/drop rate. And Yukari is complete immunity to damage and status effects for three turns, on your whole party.)
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Fun fact: you know how you get a billion recipes after that cutscene with Akyu? Before the expansion, the game showed them all one by one. Mash that A button! :V :V
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Synthesis Done: Furagarahha (Meiling)
Little late, but I think this is supposed to be Fragarach. Y'know, that legendary irish dagger/shortsword?
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Oh, I really should have remembered to mention it before since you like Poison; the Basilisk in tower 3 gets passives at lv40 and 52 to boost poison damage by 20% and 30%. Ninja gets a 10% poison boost at an unknown level, but who likes him?! >:V (you'd probably be better off just putting on a high-dex shikigami with any decent moves rather then the ninja anyway, tbh)
While I'm at it; poison damage formula for the cooking loli's Dumpling move is [(Level/4) + 20] x (DEX / 10) = Damage, where level is the shikigami's level. For comparison, most other poisons just have a flat 15 or 20 (Aka no level modifier) for the first half of the equation, with a few 25s.
Especially when stacking is considered, the poison damage is potent all the way into postgame.
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Sorry, this is quite late. For two reasons. First of all, reality. Second of all, Persona 4 Golden. And Labyrinth of Touhou.
Sinister Castle of Chaos- Part 3.5: A (Half) Day in Review...
So, I figured now we're so late into the game, I'll not only review the recipes and shikigami we got last time, but also everything so far. So without further ado...
Two days before the main events of the game, rumors spread of people and places in Gensokyo being spirited away, with Keine Kamashirasawa (I probably spelled her last name wrong, but I'm not too familiar with it) being the first victim. Reimu, Yukari, Byakuren, and Meiling all go out into Gensokyo in order to discover the source of this, four hours before a mysterious Doomsday Clock rings for the first time.
The victims of this spiriting away have been turned into spectral forms that are bound to fade from existence. By binding these forms into objects, similarly to the process of binding a being as a shikigami, the forms can survive. Meiling rescues Tewi Inaba in this manner.
Magic circles are discovered by Meiling and the group of people she has recruited to her cause. These magic circles were smashed one by one until one remained in the Forest of Magic. However, it was too late. It didn't even matter if the circles were smashed, as long as they were placed. Gensokyo falls apart, and the lands making it up are arranged into three strata. As well, three Clock Towers of the End appear, rising through all three strata and forming the Doomsday Clock over the World of Chaos. Three demons from Makai, known as the Three Demonic Pillars, announce to all of Gensokyo that they are the perpetrators of this incident.
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Xia Zhuli, a jiang-shi-like demon with a mild, rather comedic personality. She has power over blood, and her Clock Tower of the End is filled with it. Makes me wonder where she got it all from...
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Chloe Gripper, a former shinigami who was bored with her job and found her way into Makai, becoming a demon with mastery over death. Her Clock Tower of the End is a dangerous, dark place. I wonder if Komachi knew her in the past.
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Shijuukara Otohane, or simply Otoha. A polite demon with power over wind and electricity. She wears some weird ears on her head. Okay then...
These three threatened that Gensokyo will be destroyed when the Doomsday Clock comes around to zero again. Taking this to mean 12 hours, Meiling and company set out to defeat them. The journey took the party all throughout the World of Chaos, where they found many residents of Gensokyo and joined forces with them, gathering all of Gensokyo into one combined force. With this power combined, the Three Demonic Pillars are defeated.
However, the twelve hours passed anyways. Instead of Gensokyo being destroyed, however, a mysterious fourth tower, known as the Sinister Castle of Chaos, rises into the World of Chaos. It is here that the leader of the Three Demonic Pillars and the true perpetrator of the incident shows herself.
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Angra Mainyu, a powerful demon from Makai, whose goal is not to destroy Gensokyo, but convert it into a second Makai, as part of a plan to expand her territory. She and the Three Demonic Pillars escape to the Sinister Castle of Chaos.
Meiling and company pursue them, only to find Keine, who was kidnapped by Angra days earlier. Angra, using her own power to steal the abilities of others, took Keine's power, and erased Gensokyo's history, thus allowing the World of Chaos to be born. The Doomsday Clock itself counts down to the full moon, where she will be able to change Gensokyo's history to make it a new Makai.
The party encounters Chloe later on, who claims she was not fighting with her full strength earlier. The party is quickly defeated, and she threatens that she will show no mercy if they continue onwards. Later, Akyu shows up and heals the party, as well as giving them recipes for powerful equipment and the secrets of using the Union Last Word. With this newfound power, Meiling and company now stand a fighting chance against Angra and the Three Demonic Pillars.
As for Reimu, Yukari, and Byakuren, they were attacked by Chloe before Meiling and company showed up, and now they have united themselves and their unique shikigami with our own party.
Now, to go over the shikigami and recipes we have received, not only from Akyu, but from the whole second area of the Sinister Castle of Chaos.
From the Sinister Castle of Chaos: Scorching Bracelet, Bracelet of the Everlasting Nagakabe, Bracelet of the Earth, Bracelet of Roaring Thunder (so that's what that accessory I got earlier translates as!), Angel's Bracelet, Demon's Bracelet, Large Makai Bracelet, Agni Amulet+, Boreas Amulet+, Inanna Amulet+, Saul's Amulet, Yahveh's Amulet+ (damnit, YHVH!), Satan's Amulet+, Mephisto's Amulet+, Orichalcum, Adamantite, crystals of Fire, Water, Electric, Earth, Light, Dark, and Mystic, Liquid Iron, Mystery Bamboo, Keystone, Large Mirror, Damascus Steel
From Akyu: Snowstorm Sword (not the Ice Sword, that's in the expansion), Orichalcum Knife, Tenhane Kuikaeshi Zan (someone translate that, please), Doujisetsu, Durandural, Kusanagi (the Grass Cutting Sword of legend! Or the Scarlet Gold Sword, if you've played Labyrinth of Touhou), Shiukoatoru, N-kay (no idea how to translate this properly...), Hachiman's Falcon Wind, Gae Bolg (I probably did not spell that right, but I sort of know what it is...), Shura Valla (uh...), Japanese Model, Mace of the Earth, Rune Axe, Priest's Gold Binding Staff (going for broke on that translation...), Iron Duke, Executioner, Vajra of Heaven, Mistelteinn (didn't spell that right, most likely), Great Mirror Shield, Jewel Shield, Heaven's Gem Shield, Compound Plate Armor, Ogre Shield, Sun Shield, Barrier Shield, Aegis Shield (!!!), HVD-ROM, Force Shield, Demon Robe (???), Stripped Heart, Harmony Garment, Mystic Mantle (???), Barrier Robe, Dragon Mail, Cantrip Guardian Armor (???), Shunera Pants (???), Armor of Idaten, Hakurei Robe, A. Muscle Suit, Diamond Saint's Clothes, Hakurei Ribbon, Yata no Kagami, Yasakani no Magatama
Okay then, there's a lot of things in there I couldn't translate properly, but I did the best I could.
Onward to shikigami, then! Reimu comes with Komachi, who's a physical based shikigami who starts with Higan Retour (Medium power physical attack with a good chance of Instant Death) and Dark Hand, as well as a passive that has a 33% chance of raising the person back to life after being hit with Instant Death. She might go on Meiling.
Chen was on Yukari, and she starts with Flight of Idaten (a fast casting column attack that scales with level) and Sword Chase. She also has a 5% chance of turning normal attacks into column ones. Useful if you wanted a column version of Falcon Slash, but I'm not going to use her.
Byakuren comes with Ichirin (congratulations to her on being in Hopeless Masquerade!), who has Fist Smash (hits four times, but each hit is weak) and Heat Hand, as well as 5% physical reflection. Sorry, nope.
And then there's Akyu herself. She has Gensokyo Records, which protects your party's weaknesses (similar to guarding in Persona 4), Water Recovery, Resurrection, and Clearance. The character she's equipped to will always be resurrected with full HP. She'll probably going onto Byakruen at this point.
So, that's it, then. Next time I update, whenever that is, we'll revisit those Long Hookshot areas and then deal with a certain boss fight I've skipped until now. After that, we'll go after the rest of the Sinister Castle of Chaos. Thought what I've gone through so far is hell? Ahahahahaha... you have no idea.
@Serela I knew the poison's formula already (I found that blog or whatever with all of the info on it), but I didn't know about the Basilisk's poison booster. That might be useful later on, when I actually bother to go shikigami hunting again. Which will probably be before the final boss.
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Byakuren comes with Ichirin (congratulations to her on being in Hopeless Masquerade!), who has Fist Smash (hits four times, but each hit is weak) and Heat Hand, as well as 5% physical reflection. Sorry, nope.
Worth noting is that she gives a rather nice VIT boost (STR too, if I recall correctly), and later on gives a plain DEF boost and a chance to deflect physical attacks. Almost Anyone can tank now!
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Ichirin's Fist Smash powers up with level too, and is actually pretty good when you total the damage of the fists. IIRC Komachi's does too. Komachi/Ichirin are fairly nice shikigami with some nice moves and bonuses, Tei is as well but in a different kind of manner, and then Chen is really underwhelming for a protag shikigami :T
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Well, I ended up putting Ichirin on Meiling, so all is well. Except I didn't put Komachi on anyone. Yet.
The next update is screenshotted, but I don't know when I'll put it up. Hopefully by the end of tomorrow.
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Sinister Castle of Chaos- Part 4: Grinding Time
So, we've got some Long Hookshot areas to go to. The one in the Forest of Magic led to a recipe chest containing the recipes known as the Piles of Broken Treasures A-L. These let me convert some of the higher tier materials into Broken Treasures, which I can use in making material sets. Afterwards, I visit the one in Bhava-agra.
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Iku!
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She's surprised to see us. Well, I guess it's because seeing people in Bhava-agra that don't live there usually is surprising.
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She says that she was aware of the calamity to come, but didn't warn people in time. She feels ashamed of herself for not doing her duty.
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She wants to make up for it, though. She wants to come with us!
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She also says that Tenshi has gone missing... no shit, Sherlock. She just tried to kill us a while ago.
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I forget why she's angry here, but whatever. She joins our party! She has Thunder of the Palace of the Dragon King, which has a chance of reducing the entire enemy party's HP by 99%, as well as Thunder Pierce and Thunderclap. She offers 25% resistance to Electric, but I don't care enough. Sorry. Well, I just have to go to the Long Hookshot area at the Nameless Hill and we're all set.
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I know you've been waiting for this one, Ikari. And here she is, Koishi! She looks a little more transparent than most shikigami, but subconscious powers and all.
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Oh hey there, how's it going?
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Apparently Meiling was the only one who could tell she was there, because of her intense training related to chi. She could essentially sense signs of life in the area, and even Koishi's subconscious powers can't block that. Amazing.
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This surprises Koishi, but what surprises her more is the fact that we found Satori. Apparently Koishi was worried about both Satori and Okuu. No worries, we've found them.
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She agrees to help us in the meantime. Hurray, you can actually be with a group instead of disappearing all the goddamn time like in Do the Right Thing! The first several threads of that fanfiction were partially your fault...
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She apparently pissed them off in some way. I'm not exactly sure. Well, she's in our party now, so let's talk about her, shall we? She starts with Radiation Mist (reduces magic attack in a column), Melt Weapon, and Acid Storm. She also increases the casting speed of Variety debuffs by 3%. She also has the highest total amount of statistics combined, even surpassing Kanako. She's probably going to go on Byakuren (but I forgot to put her on this update, so... yeah...). Last but not least, let's deal with that boss fight I skipped.
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Of course, I manage to run into Koakuma along the way! She can use Ectoplasm Net, but it hasn't worked. Otherwise she uses some Dark attacks.
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As a shikigami, she starts with the almighty Dark Illusion, which is basically the physical equivalent to Foreign Blast, which Shizuha has. These two skills combined can be lifesavers later on in the game. She also starts with Dark Web and provides 25% resistance to Dark. She'll be used, just not yet.
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I think we've got this.
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Suwako! There you are! Well, it seems she's looking for Sanae and Kanako. I'd be a little more worried about yourself, because you're not looking so good right now.
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Who's there?
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Another assassin, eh? Well, Suwako's a god. Even in this form, she should be able to take care of you, right?
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Or not. If she were in her normal form, however, she'd be able to deal with you.
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Thankfully, we show up just in time.
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Yeah, we're not going to let you get away with this! You think you can just beat up a god, eh?
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Prepare to deal with her descendant, who is more than capable of dealing with you (if she were actually in the active party...)!
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This guy is Haniyasudaisoi, and he's an Earth-elemental jerk. He can hit hard with Earth attacks and Blunt skills, and he also can buff himself. Hopefully I'm powerful enough to kill him before he does. If not, I have Dispel from Star.
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Mega Stroke does that much damage. I'm so glad I have that.
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And Mokou learns Shockwave, which is a Medium power all-targeting attack! Alright, then! Despite the fact I was worried, I end up killing him.
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And that's what you get.
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And that's the last of the Makai Assassins! And we'll never see any of them ever again.
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Are you alright, Suwako?
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Yup. Demons won't get her down for long.
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She wants to help out (which is why she was out in the first place), so she comes on board. She has Moriya's Iron Rings, which is a 60 power 3-4 time hitting Earth attack which has a chance of inflicting Paralysis (just like in Labyrinth of Touhou!), as well as Moonlight, a 40 power column healing spell. She also has 50% resistance to Instant Death (reference to Genius of Sappheiros, wherein the boss fight with her has her being very resistant to Instant Death while Kanako... wasn't :V). And again, I forget to put her on Byakuren. Whyyyyyyyyyyyy...
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So, here's the third area of the Sinister Castle of Chaos. It has a new theme. Once again, it's Shanghai Teahouse~Chinese Tea (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzyR-g-88ec). That's six remixes of that theme so far.
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Uh... where the hell did this all come from? I'm starting to think this place is like the Tower of Geddon, where there's no true physical connections between any of the areas.
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New theme is known as Fighting Fantasy Moonlight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoNbeS8nPns). It's not any The Devil Bares His Fangs, but it'll do for the final areas of the game.
So, a Shining (no, not that Shining!) and a Lizard Knight. The Shinings can blind you and have regeneration, which only gets stronger when the land is shifted towards Light. The Lizard Knight comes in sword, shield, and ax variants, and they know deadly skills related to each type, which pretty much required Mokou to use Shield Wall to allow the party to survive them. Thankfully I have that Riot Shield. The Shining is weak to Dark and the Lizard Knights are weak to Water.
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There's the other variants. This can't end well.
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I knew it!
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And that there at the bottom is a Durahan (I probably spelled that wrong...). It hurts. A lot. Light skills are the way to go, if I remember correctly.
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Crap, an Oarfish! It uses Intense Lightning, and it hurts. Badly.
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Why can't I just kill you?!
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Back in the second section, because I want to do grinding, I find a familiar enemy in the form of the Purple Worm. It's weak to Water and uses Perfect Chase. Combined with the Locomo Dragon, the breath attacks become one-two knockouts. Yeah, run.
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Ah, Star Maelstrom!
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Okay, it's not that strong now, but Byakuren will grow stronger.
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I forgot to capture her portrait the first time it went off, so here it is.
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Locomo Dragon get! It starts off with Dragon Fang (a two-hit Medium power attack), Tail Chop (can stun, but seems to be... a little more powerful than it seems), Lance Chase, and Hellfire (a 100 power Fire breath attack). It also boosts physical attack directly by 10. Suika. On. Now.
Not pictured: Using Tail Chop to one-shot a Cyclops. One shot. A Cyclops. Granted, the sword I had on her has Slayer against giants, but yeah. That ridiculous.
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TANKS!!!
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Push gear, open door.
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Pushing some gears will stop these big ones, allowing me to walk on them. How all these gears are fitting in this tower, I have no idea.
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I think that's a Gold Gargoyle. It's weak to Water, and can use Hellclaw Assassination. Okay then.
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Beautiful sunset.
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Why...
Anyways, I stopped playing after this, because my party was starting to run dry on MP. Next time I'll head deeper into the third section of the Sinister Castle of Chaos, and hopefully get it finished.
Summary:
Treasure: Man's Wisdom, Launch Goggles II, Magic Piercings III, Gold ,Muscle Belt III, Mercury Drop, Trapezohedron, Riot Shield, Barrier Earrings III, Rosary of Fortitude III, Beautiful Bracelet, Shoulder Strap of Matabee, Adamantite Shard, Fire Shard (drop), Earth Crystal, Mysterious Branch, Makai Lodestone, Half-Broken Bracelet, Mystery Bamboo, Liquid Iron
Skills: Thunder Hand (Ichirin), Shockwave (Mokou), Mining Village Union (increases the entire party's physical and magical defense, Mining Village), Lance Chase (Ichirin), Wolf Fang (Meiling), Vacuum Kill (Mokou), Freezing Snowstorm (Yuki-onna), Whirlwind Slash (Suika), Sonic Blade (Mokou), Stun Blow (Byakuren), Burst Shock (Byakuren)
Passives: +10 Defense (Ichirin), 25% resist to Burn, Freeze, Shock, and Stumble (Ichirin), +20 physical attack power (Yuugi)
Synthesis Done: Tenhane Kurikaeshi Zan (Suika, though I might switch it to Meiling)
TPKs: 3 this update, 20 overall
Frustration: Rising, because the grinding has begun. Damn it all...
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Heh, this really does look like a min-maxing team, even if not on purpose. Patch/Suika are the most powerful examples, having really high stats for their particular offense and abominable stats everywhere else. Then Byakuren has the highest DEX in the game (Effective since you're a poison user), Meiling is the highest stat protag by a significant amount, and Mokou has what's arguably the best LW by a longshot (along with being a great tank/physical attacker)
Forgot to put on two new shikigamis in one update? Shame on you >:V
Freezing Snowstorm (Yuki-onna)
Oooh, almost there~ Going to be just in time, too, at this rate.
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It's meant to be a min-maxing team, damn it!
I'll remember to put on those shikigami! Maybe.
Also, while beginning to screenshot the next update (made it to the final warp point, hurray), I did in fact get Freezing Prison.
If only there were less enemies on the screen at once...
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New theme is known as Fighting Fantasy Moonlight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoNbeS8nPns).
THIS. This here is the (second) best thing of the game oh boy I love you so much. The game is starting to get a bit too hard? No problem, have some amazing battle BGM to pump you up.
It's only second because of a certain upcoming new track, by the way.
Also, good to see the tank love once again! seriously how do you even defeat them consistently without too many deaths
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THIS. This here is the (second) best thing of the game oh boy I love you so much. The game is starting to get a bit too hard? No problem, have some amazing battle BGM to pump you up.
It's no The Devil Bares His Fangs, but it gets the job done, damn it!
It's only second because of a certain upcoming new track, by the way.
I know exactly what you mean, and I wholeheartedly agree with you.
Also, good to see the tank love once again! seriously how do you even defeat them consistently without too many deaths
Simple: I don't. I'm just lucky not to run into that formation too much.
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Ughhhh, bad memories of the later levels of this dungeon are coming back >_<
Anywayyyys, good luck on the rest of this annnnnnd damn, I never knew that's what the story was about.
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Now that I think about it... you don't have a single spear user in your party *Blinks*
Heheh, they do tend to be an unpopular weapon, but for hitting enemy weakness it's nice to have around- and one person to get off the Quick effects on bosses is nifty. They work on pretty much all the bosses with a good accuracy rate I think (Chef's LP used them on basically all the expansion bosses) and the effects are pretty useful, either making your attacks do a lot more damage on that turn or making the boss do a lot less, or dispel, etc.
Then again, Mokou/Meiling are already pretty much ingrained with swords, and your other party members are all slow, which is bad for getting off quick effects :T
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Ughhhh, bad memories of the later levels of this dungeon are coming back >_<
Yep, it's just as painful as I remembered it the first time. I'm starting to wonder why knowing that I'd have to go through this again I actually decided to LP this game, of all of the ones that I could. Then I remember Genius of Sappheiros, and that feeling goes away.
Doesn't make it any less painful.
Anywayyyys, good luck on the rest of this annnnnnd damn, I never knew that's what the story was about.
Well, I'm all about the story for a game. Give me a story, and I want to experience it. Even if this game is in Japanese, I want to enjoy the story.
Don't worry, the story's about to come to its conclusion. Don't think there won't be any more twists, though...
Now that I think about it... you don't have a single spear user in your party *Blinks*
Yeah, that kind of stopped when I got rid of Nitori. Honestly, Piercing weapons were never really appealing to me in this game. I'm more of the "kill things dead faster" kind of guy. It might be different from some people, but it's how I work. It's what playing games like Kingdom Hearts for so long gets me (where you just upgrade everything, and strategy, while still important, is not is important as pure power). Of course, I still take buffs, debuffs, and defense into consideration. Not like I have a choice in this game...
Anyways, I'm still working on the update. Sort of. Real life and procrastination are slowing me down, but not for long.
EDIT: It's mine! The Dekarabia is all mine! Finally! For the first time ever I got it!
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Second EDIT: Please just die, boss. Please die. PLEASE DIE IN A GODDAMN FIRE!
...That's all I have to say.
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Yay Koi-Koi~!
Great job for not getting lost in those weird dungeons. I get lost in the most basic areas, I think this game will completely end me.
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Second EDIT: Please just die, boss. Please die. PLEASE DIE IN A GODDAMN FIRE!
...That's all I have to say.
Sword skills with slayer effects, colloseo (sp?) world to prevent healing/resurrection, Koishi debuffs drastically reduce their damage (along with stuff like Manuscript's mdef buff and Earth Wall for the buff inverse)
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So, I went back and looked at the titles of all of the Sinister Castle of Chaos updates and *gasp* they were numbered wrong! So I fixed that.
Sinister Castle of Chaos- Finale: Even in a Touhou Game, T-P-K!
It's technically not the finale of the game, but more like the finale of this section of the game. I consider the final area to be in a class all on its own.
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That big hulking thing of what I assume to be light is a Luminescence. It packs hard hitting Light attacks like Holy Zapper, Holy, and Starlight Web. It's weak to Dark, but what do I care? It's an instant run-away as far as I'm concerned.
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That octopus looking thing is a Gapuin. You can make one of them easily in Phantasmal Summoners right from the beginning. It's weak to Electric and can use Tentacle and Tentacle Dance, I think, but I don't exactly remember. Thunderclap can one-shot it, so I personally don't care.
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That thing in the back is a... uh... Duner Master, I think? I don't exactly know what it's weak to (probably Water, but I'm not certain). From what I remember, it packs Electric attacks, so watch out.
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Okay, running time. That there's a Mushufushu, and it's even more dangerous than a Locomo Dragon. That's all that needs to be said.
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Or not. Damn.
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Weird thing with the instrument is a Kinnara, which is some sort of Buddhist guardian that plays instruments. Why it's beating up people like Byakuren, I have no clue. It can inflict Berserk and can buff the enemy. I believe it is weak to Dark. Komachi, you can be useful now.
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That there in the back is a Zerachinasumata. It's recruitable, spews Electric attacks like crazy, and is weak to Fire and Water. It is also the sole possessor of the Ostracon, a material we need in order to make the Hakurei Ribbon, which I do want.
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That's three this update. And we're not even through a fourth of the pictures!
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Here's the location of the final warp point in the game. So, who could be behind here? Well, we're going to grind first, damn it.
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My party up until now. Oh yeah, we have six hours left. Doomsday Clock's going to ring soon.
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DEKURABIA!!! It knows Remove Field to start off with which removes the current field, obviously. It will eventually learn the almighty Emerald Pentagram later on. It also adds one to the duration of field effects. Handy for when you want fields like Regeneration or Damage Net to last longer. Going somewhere on the party because I want Emerald Pentagram, damn it!
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Why...
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This looks impossible, right? I actually won this fight, believe it or not.
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Elephants shouldn't have eyes all over them like that. It's weak to Fire, I think, though I'm not exactly sure. It can use Face Smash, so do be careful.
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More TPKs. Wonderful. Like I needed more.
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Oh look, a Stray Yukkuri. THAT I CAN'T KILL! *sob sob*
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I think I've had enough. I'm going to try for the boss now.
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Looks like Angra's liar is right up ahead. We've almost made it.
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Oh hey, Eirin and Kaguya! Reisen was worried about you earlier. Why she was, I have no idea, because you guys are more than capable of handling yourselves.
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Mokou isn't trying to kill Kaguya for once. I guess that's good.
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So, uh, do you want to come with us? I know it's sudden and all, but we kind of do want to unite all of Gensokyo together, and you guys are the last ones who haven't joined up with us (besides Kasen, Rinnosuke, and Sakuya, but I don't have a clue where Kasen is, Rinnosuke's helping us by helping us craft stuff, and I haven't recruited Sakuya simply because I don't care enough and I couldn't find her earlier because the event flag for her confuses me). So, want to come?
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Why with the testing us crap? We had enough of that in Genius of Sappheiros, damn it! And it sucked, too! I saw a guy who did a LP for it use cheats, damn it! I didn't, though. Oh no, I did that whole game the proper way. THROUGH MY BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS, DAMN IT! MOSTLY BLOOD AND TEARS!
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We call your badass poses. And raise nothing.
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Badass poker is a damn hard game to win at.
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Here you see Unfair Bitches 1 and 2. Eirin is all for whacking you upside the head with physical attacks and status effects like Berserk and Paralysis. Kaguya is all about using magical nukes to kill you. If you kill Eirin first, I believe Kaguya heals herself, or something. If you kill Kaguya first, Eirin resurrects her with half health. They both have 5000 HP.
Time for a gallery of my failures.
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Oh wait, that last one was me doing some damage with Suika. Never mind.
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For some reason, any time I killed Eirin, Kaguya never healed herself. Weird. Still, killing Eirin is only about two-thirds of the battle.
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Here I just started using Free Fight to get a better shot at using Last Words. It also means Shield Wall affects everyone instead of only the back row. Also, Knockout in Three Steps is the best thing ever.
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So damn close...
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After countless resets (which are not pictured, but I reset somewhere between 20-30 times, by my estimates) and many TPKs, I finally beat them. I do admit I was a little underleveled for this, but the main difficulty in this fight is hoping the RNG doesn't have them put you in an unfavorable situation before you can even do much. The worst part was that my debuffs were not hitting that much, and Mining Village Union didn't help too well. I don't think any other fight in the main game gave me this much trouble, except maybe Xia's. Why do Eirin and Kaguya have to be pains in the ass to fight in whatever game I play?
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You're not that tired. I probably only hurt you a little. You're Lunarians, you're tougher than that.
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Not enough to avoid shikigamification.
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Yeah, they want to come with us now.
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Sure, why not? The least I can do is prevent you from fading aw- GO DIE IN A FIRE!
Ahem. Eirin is all about healing and weird attacks. She starts with Water Recovery and reduces damage taken from... I can't tell if it's supposed to reduce Gravity-style damage or fixed amount damage. Either way I'm not using her. Kaguya comes with all of the high-powered single-target elemental nukes like Disintegrate, Absolute Zero, Supergravity, and Mega Stroke, and reduces Light and Dark damage by 25%. I will put her on, but I forgot to. I will get her on, though, because multiple elements are useful.
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Looks like our progress has not gone unnoticed. Well, it took a while, but we're almost there, Angra! You better prepare yourself!
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She's talking about she's waiting for the residents of Gensokyo to come. Apparently, she wants to relieve her boredom by fighting us. Well, sitting in a tower waiting for the world to end (or for it to be converted to a second Makai, whatever the case) is kind of boring...
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FINAL AREA!!! It also has this music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubz0uvTWBto). Very final dungeonesque. Anyways, there's four ways to go. There are portals on either side of this walkway which lead to smaller versions of each of the Clock Towers of the End, where we'll be able to fight the true power of the Three Demonic Pillars. Doing that will allow you to make Angra actually beatable at a reasonable level. The fourth path leads to Angra herself, obviously, but we're nowhere near prepared enough. So let's begin the grinding, shall we?
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Our first enemies here in the final area are Garubangorus. They can use 9 Million Volts, which can reduce your HP to single digits or fail to make a difference at all, and they know Energy Riot and can heal themselves. They are weak to Electric and are recruitable. Sic 'em, Patchy.
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That's a Poison Giant. Weak to Light, oddly enough, though he'll poison you and use powerful Blunt attacks. Nothing I can't handle. In fact, most of the stuff in the first room on the path to Angra is easier than the stuff in the last rooms of the third section.
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Lizard Knights return, but Funbabas are here. I forget what they're weak to, but they know Dimension Hole, which can inflict Removal, I think. Not too bad to deal with.
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Don't go into the second room, though, or you start running into enemies that will hurt, like this Frost Giant. Again weak to Light, but he's a lot stronger than his Poison Giant cousin. Watch out, then.
At this point, I stopped the grinding. Well, that was a lot of TPKs. Next time, we keep going. And hopefully die less.
Summary:
Treasure: Purification Ceremony Tool, Electric Shard x2, Light Crystal, Mercury Drop, Gold, Electric Crystal, Fire Crystal, Fire Shard, Keystone, Damascus Steel, Water Crystal, Keen Pendant III (Patchy), Genie Stone, Dark Crystal, Orichalcum Shard, Gold (drop), Evasion Muffler III, Shoulder Strap of Musashi (drop, Meiling), Adamantite, Orichalcum
Skills: Freezing Prison (250 power single-target Water attack, Yuki-onna), Counter Magic (raises party's Resistance, Komachi), Earth Wall (Suwako), Death (Komachi), Jackpot (raises chances of getting higher amounts of hits on multi-hit attacks, Dekurabia), Subterranean Rose (a strong version of Decrease, Koishi), Wind Sword (attacks all enemies, Ichirin), Axe Chase (Yuugi), Rainbow Shield Wall (guards against all elements, which would have been useful one boss fight ago, Alice), Rune Chase (chases magic or Mystic attacks, I think, Dekurabia), Aegis Defense (reduces all damage by 75%, Kanako)
Passives: +15 Attack (Komachi), -25% MP Cost for Shield Skills (Momiji), 10% chance to have normal attacks become all-targeting (Kanako), 25% resistance to charm (Nishiki)
Recipes: Bracelet of Restoration, Trance Bracelet, Evolution Bracelet, Super Mana Stone, Super Skill Stone, Makai Lodestone, Genie Stone, Aviator Gem, Mysterious Branch, Platinum, Gold, Beautiful Bracelet, Mirror of Viganerra, Sharp Cutlery
Synthesis Done: Orichalcum, Adamantite, Kusanagi (Suika), HVD-ROM (which is now useful and will forever be useless), Aegis Shield (Mokou), Harmony Robe (Patchy)
TPKs: 11 this update, 31 overall
Frustration: I really do want to kill Angra. *badum*
But I'll let Hakurei do that job. *badum*
Do you want decapitation?
Asphyxiation?
Or danmaku to the head? *Rufus' Welcoming March plays*
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The gapuin is recruitable too! It starts with an expensive but nifty instant kill move.
Fun fact:Angra actually has a different form for every single combination of gears on/off. I doubt there's a big enough difference for it to really matter more then "x amount of cogs on/off", though.
If you use Tongue Lick from Rumia (or Magical Hammer weapon skill, type 1 so Byakuren should be able/already have learned it)
, the final boss shouldn't be -too- hard? (With the cogs off) It's not exactly easy to land, but once you do, every hit does several times more damage for a couple turns, and stuff like Freezing Prison would destroy her. For that matter, she's pretty vulnerable to debuffs in general, in videos I've seen she usually gets hit by debilitating offense debuffs on the first try.
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(With the cogs off)
No. No no no no no. I've been going crazy enough already. I'll do a "gears off" Angra fight later. As in much later in the expansion, maybe after I've beaten the final boss of that. I'm going to turn all the gears on for the final fight. Besides, I'm going after the Three Demonic Pillars anyway, so...
Also, no I don't have Magical Hammer on Byakuren! I don't use her to whack things upside the head much. Speaking of which, I need to check out the skill tree and see what skills I am close to getting.
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The best thing about the Eirin/Kaguya fight is that as mentioned, Eirin can revive Kaguya with half her HP. Not that big of a problem, right? Well, Kaguya can revive Eirin too, at full HP. GASP well I hope you have that Colosseo ready! Or maybe you could try to kill them both at the same time, it isn't impossible if you have that sword skill with slayer on humanoids (and you really should), preferably on more than one character.
A fun thing is that in early versions of the game (so early they didn't even have those adorable huge sprites), Eirin would try revive Kaguya every turn if she was dead... at 1 HP. Cue spamming area attacks to kill the NEET princess every turn while Eirin revived her over and over again and did nothing else.
And... wow, those are some really low levels in there, I don't remember having reached that last part with anyone at less than a 40 as their level (but then again, I ground for a Decarabia in both my runs because I love that guy and the amount of MP he gives). Are you planning to grind it easy with the king?
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I hate how they made that patch so, Eirin would revive Kaguya for more hp. Hey! Remember when she revived Kaguya and she only got revived for 5 hp? I do ;~;
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Ooooooh whoops that was a typo, I DEFINITELY didn't mean to suggest you fight the final boss at full power. She's a whole lot fuggin stronger and has a lot of status resistance and stuff too.
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And... wow, those are some really low levels in there, I don't remember having reached that last part with anyone at less than a 40 as their level (but then again, I ground for a Decarabia in both my runs because I love that guy and the amount of MP he gives). Are you planning to grind it easy with the king?
That's from my habit of not really fighting things and trying to avoid most battles. It's a terrible habit, if you ask me. And I'm not going to grind off the King Yukkuri as much as I did in my first playthrough. I thought level 60 was enough. Turns out I only need to be like level 50 if I want to beat up everything in the main game. I'm grinding to 40-ish for now, then going after the Three Demonic Pillars, then getting to level 50, then taking on Angra.
I hate how they made that patch so, Eirin would revive Kaguya for more hp. Hey! Remember when she revived Kaguya and she only got revived for 5 hp? I do ;~;
Funny enough, Kaguya never used that skill. At all. In any of my fights. I don't know why.
Ooooooh whoops that was a typo, I DEFINITELY didn't mean to suggest you fight the final boss at full power. She's a whole lot fuggin stronger and has a lot of status resistance and stuff too.
I hope you didn't. What do you think I am, suicidal, stupid, or both? I saw someone else beat her at level 50-ish, so I'm shooting for that too. The expansion shouldn't be too bad at the beginning at that level. I should still be able to get to a good point with levels there.
Also, my vacation ended today, so who knows when I'm going to update next? Also, Labyrinth of Touhou. Sanae's Foe. Hate you so much.
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This isn't an update per say, but more like a notification on how the update is going.
Thanks to Labyrinth of Touhou, real life, and pure and simple procrastination, I haven't really worked too much on getting this update done. I'm getting close to done with the grinding. I'll be... taking it easy, if you know what I mean, very soon. After that, I'll be going after Otoha. Then maybe Xia, then Chloe. And then, last but not least, I'll finish my grinding and go after Angra.
As to when the next update will be done, well, if I do everything else I need to do quickly, I might get it up today, but don't get your hopes up, because I might not get it done.
EDIT: Totally no way I'm getting it up tonight. Real life is going to be on my case for... a while, to say the least. That combined with my unwillingness to grind pretty much means this LP's on hiatus. Whee...
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Through the power of sheer willpower and playing when I can, I got the next update screenshotted. It'll be up over the weekend, hopefully.
The title of the update?
Three Demonic Pillars- Part 1: Shijuukara Otohane
Yeah...
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Hype!
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I'm back with another update for Devil of Decline! It's been a while since the last post, but grinding's been going on. And Labyrinth of Touhou. Lots of Labyrinth of Touhou. Floor 14, woo!
Three Demonic Pillars- Part 1: Otohane
So, we're finally down to the wire. We've made it to the final area. Now, do we go in and charge Angra? No, we don't. Why?
She will flay us alive.
So, how do we deal with that?
We go after the Three Demonic Pillars instead. By beating them, Angra will be weakened enough so that we can take her down.
Of course, the Three Demonic Pillars will flay us alive at this point too. Remember how Chloe kicked our asses before we could even really dent her?
They're all that strong. And when we rematch them, we have to win. No fake battle bullshit like with Chloe before. It's for real this time.
So we've got to bring everything we've got. We haven't got much, but we can do our best. So let the grinding begin!
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So, this is a Rufu. I have no idea what it does. Why? I simply run away. I think it has Electric attacks. Maybe.
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Oh, Vaccum Slash. Okay then.
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A G-3! These guys know some physical attacks, are weak to nothing, and are recruitable. They also drop the Hi-Ribbon, which we need.
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And a Lesser Dragon. RUN!
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This is the final save point before Angra. Of course, we could go up there, but we'd get our faces smashed in. So let's hold off a bit.
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Instead, let's go to Otoha's little area. It looks more like a temple than a tower, but okay.
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See? It's the Tower of Geddon all over again!
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Death Riders. They looks a lot different from when they did in Genius of Sappheiros. Whatever the case, they pack attacks like Drain Touch and Death Zapper, but are undead. They can be recruited, but I really don't care.
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Karukadans here are like previous unicorn-like enemies, with Electric attacks and the ability to shield the entire enemy party from harm. Lovely.
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Remember the Duner Masters? This is a Duner Growth Master. They know Electric attacks that hurt. A lot. Water will mess them up, though.
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Fine, you can come along. It starts with Blood Sword, which works the same way it does in Final Fantasy II (depends on the max HP of the target, I think), and absorbs the damage, as well as Shield Bash, which has power proportional to the amount of defense the shield has (which would be nice on Mokou) AND sets the shield's activation rate to 100%, ensuring it blocks any attack that turn. It also boosts the power of HP draining attacks (such as Sucking Blood or Drain Touch) by 10% and boosts the amount of HP absorbed by 25%. Sorry, I don't care enough.
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Crap, Elite Mind Flayers. They still know Mind Blast. They are still assholes.
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Well that happened.
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Garubangoru get! It starts out with Energy (which heals the party based on the amount of HP the user has left) and Damage Net, which prevents the enemies from escaping and damages them a small amount every turn. It also has Auto-Protect on, which means it covers allies, or something like that. Byakuren. On. Now.
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Nooooooooo...
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And here Murasa learns Damage Net! Now it's time to show you how to grind a lot of XP in a short amount of time here.
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First things first, save here. Then go out into the previous room. There are two enemies on the left side of this screen. Go into an encounter with one. If you get a normal fight, run away and fight the other one. If that one gives you a normal fight, run away from that one and then return to this save point. This will reset the chances of you encountering...
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...The King Yukkuri! This whole game, I've been driven nuts by the fact that I can't kill normal Yukkuri. No longer will that be true, for I have a plan!
Turn 1: Fast Strike on Byakuren. Have her use Damage Net. Everyone else wails on the King Yukkuri.
Turn 2: Have Byakuren use another field effect that isn't Damage Net (She has Murasa, the Dekarabia, and the Garubangoru, so she has options). This negates the King Yukkuri's Regeneration field that it counters Damage Net with. Everyone else continues to wail on the Yukkuri.
Turn 3: Have Byakuren use Damage Net again (Fast Strike needs to be used on her again, of course). Everyone else continues to wail.
Turn 4: Repeat Turn 2, if you have another person with field effects.
Turn 5: The cooldown on the original shikigami with Damage Net should be over, so just repeat these steps until the Yukkuri dies. It has 8 HP, but multi-hit attacks can reduce that to nothing ppretty quickly.
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Glorious experience!
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Oh boy, an Azreal. Despite it's appearance, it's actually an angel-type enemy. It uses Holy Breath, Starlight Web, and Holy (the Light nuke to end all Light nukes pre-expansion). It's weak to Dark, but good luck killing him before he kills you.
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Two new enemies in this one. The Machine Dragon knows Missile and the extremely dangerous Evolution Breath, which is almost enough to TPK my party on its own. It's weak to Water, but good luck figuring that out on your own. The Queen Flayer is a recruitable enemy (the Machine Dragon is too), but it comes with Mind Blast and hurts like hell.
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Case in point. This is what you get if you are trying to deal with the possibilty of Evolution Breath, Energy Riot, and Mind Blast, all in one fight!
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This is what Evolution Breath can do to you. Mokou's lucky because she has the Aegis Shield, but everyone else... not so lucky.
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I forgot to mention King Yukkuris know Face Smash. It's pretty much a TPK if it decides to use it.
I think it's best we stop the grinding for now and head back to Otoha's place.
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Hanumans here can inflict Charm and know some single-target buffs. I don't know what they're weak to, but Charm is annoying, so be careful.
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Ah geez, a Great Demon. Just like the Lesser Demon and Infant Demon from before, it knows Dark attacks andis generally a pain in the ass to deal with.
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This is getting old...
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Let's. Do. This.
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Voice from nowhere. Gee, I wonder who that could be?
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Figures. Hello, Otoha.
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So, pretty much, she's saying she'sat her full power. That or she's saying she's going to stop us from getting to Angra. Japanese, I still can't read you.
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Yeah, enough with the polite taunts. You're going down, mouse ears.
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Aha. Ahahahahaha.
This looks like it's going to suck.
Anyways, Otoha still has a high Evasion and weak to all physical attacks and Earth. Don't cast Earth spells on her, though. My strategy for this fight is to boost accuracy and use Arithmetic Circuit to boost the damage I do with physical attacks.
Do note that there is a new boss theme. And it is the best damn boss theme in the game. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to OUT~Devil of Chaos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZEBoW_2naA).
Fuck. Yeah. Let's kick ass!
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Remember how I said Otoha didn't use her Spell Card the first time? Well here it is, Supersonic "Wings of a Nightmare." Heavy Electric damage to the party. Safe to say, it hurts.
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I totally didn't expect this at all.
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And this is what happens if you cast an Earth spell on her. Porcupine to everyone. A TPK quickly followed.
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Wait, what are you...?
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HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THAT DAMAGE!!! That is her new Spell Card, Speed of Light "Luxion Edge." It's a penetrating Electric attack that does, well, THIS.
Yeah, I reset after this.
By the way, the other two have a new Spell Card as well.
That'll be fun, huh?
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Well, I finally did manage to beat her. That was Meiling saving the day with a critical hit using Falcon Slash before she used some attack. I think she had just charged up for one of her Spell Cards.
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We sure blew you away. Ahahahahaha... okay, it's not that funny.
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I think she politely congratulated us on beating her. Again. I'm not sure.
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Though she wonders if we'll be powerful enough to stop Angra. You know, something like "Do you really think you can stop her? Ufufufufu..." Without the "ufufufufu...," of course.
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We've totally got this. One down, two to go, right?
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On the way down, I find frustration in the form of THINGS I CAN'T KILL!!!
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Alright, this is on, which means Angra is a bit weaker now. Still not weak enough. We'll get to her. But can we defeat the other two of the Three Demonic Pillars? Will we be able to defeat them and Angra in time? Will it take me at least another week before I update again? Well, we'll find that out in the next update or two.
Summary:
Treasure: Gauntlet (drop), Orichalcum Shard x2, Large Mirror, Sacred Shrine Maiden Clothes, Adamantite Shard x2, Damascus Steel, Gold
Skills: Hard Hit (Byakuren), Vacuum Slash (Meiling), Elixir (Revives and heals to full, Akyu), Dispel (Koishi), Bone Crush (Byakuren), Mardi Gras Buster (Byakuren), Ether (Increases chances of status effects landing, Murasa), Diamond Dust (110 power all-targeting Water attack, White Shark), Firebird (120 power all-targeting Fire attack, Flandre), Damage Net (Murasa), Refresh (heals to full, Suwako), Destruction Ray (60 power Mystic attack, Garubangoru), Emerald Pentagram (increasesall of the party's stats, Dekarabia), Vacuum Wave (a Large power, high accuracy attack, Tewi), Freeze Impact (a Large- power physical Water attack that can cause freeze, White Shark), Shinigami Scythe (an attack that can cause Instant Death, Komachi), Saint's Cross Slash (a single-target Slash skill with Slayer against Youkai and Undead, Meiling), Explosion (Byakuren), Saint's Cross Slash (Suika)
Passives: 100% HP is absorbed when Instant Death is inflicted (Komachi), +1 shield wall duration (Little Legion???, Alice), 25% Slash resistance (Mining Village), +1 to duration of positive Variety effects (Suwako), 25% Mystic resistance (Dekurabia), +10 Evasion (Aya), -25% Electric skill MP cost (Hatate), +20 Defense (Ichirin), +5 Shock success rate (Prescott), Magic Defense +3 (Lyrica)
Recipes: Muscle Belt III+, Magic Piercings III+
TPKs: 7 this update, 38 overall
Frustration: Not too bad, now that we're actually getting to the end.
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Oh wow, that new spellcard is... scary. At this point though, supreme tanking options should be becoming available. Or as soon as someone who can do so learns Benevolence Wall, at least. (the final dungeon slime thingy, Yuugi, and Mine Village all do. I think there's one more shikigami that gets it. Then again, I think that's a lv45-ish skill, at least on Yuugi/Village...)
Because lol Little Legion! But, no, that passive doesn't boost it. I think certain capacity change duration bonus shikigami DO work on it, though. In any case, at lv72, Alice learns a +1 duration bonus for it.
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Yeah, still haven't learned Benevolence Wall. On anyone. :fail:
Also, I'm coming close to ending this game except for expansion stuff, and I want to put this to a vote now so that I can mentally prepare for this. After this, do you want me to continue on directly with the expansion, or do you want me to switch to another game? Here's a list of what I can do:
Genius of Sappheiros
Phantasmal Summoners (I haven't finished the game, so it'll be partially blind)
Sengoku Gensokyo
Final Fantasy IV
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (it's the only one I can run on my computer, because I don't trust PS2 emulators. I do own the game!)
Other???
Let me know so that I can prepare for that.
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Expansioooooon.
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I say expansion, then Sengoku. It'd help my playthrough, I know that much.
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I'm not calling the vote quite yet, but I am letting you know that the next update is already screenshotted. Yeah, the second one went a lot faster, considering I didn't really have to grind. Please watch warmly...
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Three Demonic Pillars- Part 2: Xia Zhuli
So, let's deal with the hardest of the three originally second! That makes perfect sense!
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So, we went from six hours left to three. We don't have much time left...
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Welcome to the Temple of Blood! Population: Xia and a lot of monsters. Shall we proceed?
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Our only new enemy is a Papapulus (that's probably spelled wrong). It's weak to Fire, but it's just as annoying as the White Sharks from earlier, plus they have Tentacle, which is pretty dangerous.
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I didn't screencap it quickly enough, but Suika learned Quick Break. As in one of the best Slash skills ever. Why? It treats the enemy as if it had a level lower Slash resistance than it actually has. Which pretty much makes it a very powerful attack.
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They've got blood here too. What is this, the Black Dream Tower from Valkyrie Profile?
I can't believe I didn't make that parallel when I was at the actual tower earlier.
The Black Dream Tower gives me the shudders. If I remember right, it was made of corpses. Ugh...
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Glad to know people still think TPKing me is a great idea.
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This area is the shortest of the three, I think. Hang on a second, I want to raise the levels of the Bulbul and the Oshirasama at least a little.
Fun fact: the Oshirasama is a reference to Shin Megami Tensei, like the Dekurabia.
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Comet Assault Slash. It's somewhat powerful and has Slayer against beasts and insects. Okay then.
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You see that? That's after fighting three Elite Mind Flayers and a Beholder. The Beholder got killed early, there were two Elite Mind Flayers left, one somehow died, and everyone got paralyzed. But Mokou tanked the last Elite Mind Flayer's Mind Blast and normal attacks, did not get inflicted with Instant Death, recovered from Paralysis, and took down the last Elite Mind Flayer.
Mokou, you are the badass of the party. Screw Meiling. Screw Suika. YOU are the badass.
Enough with that. Let's go kick Xia's ass.
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Three guesses, and the first two don't count.
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Hey there Xia, how's it going? Good?
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Mokou, still in Badass Mode, goes up and demands sacrifice.
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Xia notes that she kind of wasn't really excited about their little plan in the first place, and that she's the "good one." What, you don't want a second Makai?
Despite that, of course, she's still going to try to kick our ass.
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Uh, no, sorry. We have our badass poses, and you don't.
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Your badass pose isn't as good as ours.
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Those things look like they would hurt. A lot. The strategy is the same as before, except this time I have Quick Break, which does some decent damage against her. With Mokou having Decoy and herself and spamming Physical Defense, she can tank everything. And if Xia uses Diamond Dust, Water Jammer will just lower that damage.
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Weirdly enough, she only uses "Dancing Spray of Blood" and not her new Spell Card during this fight. The name of that card is Catastrophe "Descent into the Maelstrom." It's pretty much a stronger version of "Dancing Spray of Blood."
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Timing, I hate you sometimes.
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Yeah. Physical Defense is awesome.
I manage to beat her without too much difficulty, compared to the amount Otoha gave me.
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So, still faceplanting, huh?
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Apparently Xia thought we were soft. For once I'm with Nitori, despite how much she's pissed everyone off (Diamond in the Rough doesn't help matters).
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She didn't think we were this powerful, but she states we're still no match for Angra. We'll see.
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Let's keep going!
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Two down, one to go.
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We only have two hours left, though. Time is running out. Next time we take on Chloe, and then we finish this.
Summary:
Treasure: Orichalcum Shard, Gold, Sekuretto Aparrel, Orichalcum, Makai Lodestone, Adamantite Shard, Mirror Shield, Red Dragon's Broadaxe (Byakruen)
Skills: Quick Break (Suika), Meteor Zapper (Meiling), Comet Assualt Slash (Meiling), Cold View (Bulbul)
Passives: -25% cost of field effects (Murasa)
Recipes: Necklace of Strength III+, Anklet of Protection III+, Launch Goggles III+, Gale Boots III+
Synthesis Done: Mystleteinn (Patchy)
TPKs: 2 this update, 40 overall
Frustration: Almost there...
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Moh Shovuu (Shovaeu? I don't know how to spell it at all.) THE BIRD SHIKIGAMI FROM STRATUM ONE are also Shin Megami Tensei references.
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Moh Shovuu (Shovaeu? I don't know how to spell it at all.) THE BIRD SHIKIGAMI FROM STRATUM ONE are also Shin Megami Tensei references.
...Uh, any reason for the capital letters? I do remember where the Moh Shovuu is from in terms of which stratum, I just didn't know it was a SMT reference. I don't exactly play it a whole lot.
Anyways, the next update has been completed as well. The next update after this one will be the finale. Wow.
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Three Demonic Pillars- Finale: Chloe Gripper
And then there was one. Well, it's time to deal with the former shinigami herself, Chloe. But first, grinding!
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And TPKing. That still happens.
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Kind of barren around your temple, Chloe.
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Of course, it's Chloe, so...
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I went back to the final area to grind more, and more shit happened. Wonderful.
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Uh, a Queen Flayer? Really? Ididn't get one in my first playthrough. Not that I care, but it's kind of nice, I guess. It starts with Energy Hand, Rainbow Ray, and Energy Riot. It provides 50% resistance to Light and Dark, weakness to Pierce, and a 5% chance of causing Instant Death with normal attacks. Sorry, no.
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Out only new enemy here is the Midnight. They are pretty much just stronger versions of Darknesses from earlier.
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See this Great Demon? I killed it. Barely.
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Hmm... the door's locked. But how do I get to Chloe?
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Just memorize which of these lights are on and which ones are off. Then go on the other side of the room and turn the corresponding ones on.
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I'm out of jokes for this.
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So, Chloe, you're the last one. I've already beaten your friends. Now, you can come quietly or I put you down.
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Yeah, I remember you said if we come back, you show no mercy. Well, we're back. And we're a lot stronger.
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Our badass poses are still the same, but that doesn't mean anything!
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Let's do this!
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Chloe here pretty much is the same as she was when we had that fake fight with her earlier. So, she'll use stuff like Abyss and Full Moon Revenge. Like with Xia, I'll use Decoy on Mokou and spam Physical Defense. However, if she pulls out "Causer of Ruin" or her other card, I've got Benevolence Wall, and Suika can use Aegis Defense (if Mokou hasn't already applied Little Legion to herself). I made the Durandal for Meiling and put Shou on Patchy for both Absolute Justice and Holy. There is no way she'll be able to bust out her Dark stuff.
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Still, I could try to somehow negate Full Moon Revenge on the turn I cast Professional Vacation. It still hurts.
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Star Hand. Critical. Look at the Land. That is awesome.
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I was doing so well...
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Completely different TPK.
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This is Holy+Whatever the name of the Magic Attack up buff is plus huge tilt towards Light.
We get her after a couple of resets.
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So, that takes care of you.
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She admits defeat honorably. Well, thank you, I guess. Can you go call Angra off then? No? Damn.
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She says that compared to Angra, her power is is only that of a baby. Okay...
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Well, doesn't matter to me! Let's take down Angra!
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Yikes, one hour left. This'll be a close call.
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Some sort of magical energy is flowing about now that all three gears are on. That means that Angra is at her weakest. However, we are not going for her right now. Next time, we finish the necessary grinding and deal with Angra Mainyu herself. So tune in next time for the two-part finale...
The Devil of Decline- Part 1: Angra Mainyu
I'm so uncreative with titles, aren't I?
Summary:
Treasures: Orichalcum Shard, Damascus Steel, Adamantite Shard, Minstrel Chainmail (???, Mokou), Adamantite, Dragon Slayer (Mokou), Gold, Iruminsuru Guarder (Suika)
Skills: Hourai Jewel (150 power all-targeting magic spell with your choice of Fire, Water, Earth, or Electric, Kaguya), Breakthrough (Increases chances of landing status effects, Murasa), Holy (200 power single-target Light spell, Shou), Quick Break (Meiling), First Strike (Garubangoru), Benevolence Wall (covers all allies, Mining Village), Temple Crash (Byakuren), Face Smash (Kanako), Comet Assault Strike (Mokou)
Passives: +10% Critical damage (Yuugi), +1% Critical chance with Fire spells (Flandre)
Recipes: Evasion Muffler III+, Keen Pendant III+, Barrier Earrings III+, Rosary of Fortitude III+
Synthesis Done: A. Muscle Suit (Suika), Adamantite, Orichalcum, Durandal (Meiling), Keen Pendant III+ (Patchy)
TPKs: 5 this update, 45 overall
Frustration: It all ends soon enough.
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All of 'em all at once, hah. Nice slew of updates! Final boss hype~
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slow
It starts with Blood Sword, which works the same way it does in Final Fantasy II (depends on the max HP of the target, I think), and absorbs the damage, as well as Shield Bash, which has power proportional to the amount of defense the shield has (which would be nice on Mokou) AND sets the shield's activation rate to 100%, ensuring it blocks any attack that turn. It also boosts the power of HP draining attacks (such as Sucking Blood or Drain Touch) by 10% and boosts the amount of HP absorbed by 25%. Sorry, I don't care enough.
"Okay here's a shikigami with a lot of good things! I don't care about him".
I laughed. You should've mentioned the decent boost in STR the guy gives, too.
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Ah geez, a Great Demon. Just like the Lesser Demon and Infant Demon from before, it knows Dark attacks andis generally a pain in the ass to deal with.
I. HATE. YOU. SO. MUCH. Most (if not all) monsters around this part of the game have a capture rate of about 1.49%, if I'm not mistaken. Do you know how many tries it took until I got him? 357. If my calculations are correct, the chance of that happening hovers around 0.5%. Still easier than a card drop in RO! :colonveeplusalpha: Also, no I will never grind for a Yukkuri. I remember checking Twitter for D rank shikigamis after I finally got him, and apparently I beat the previous unlucky record owner by 4 battles. Sadly enough, Twitter appears to have gotten even worse than the usual and doesn't show search results older than a week anymore, so I can't see if I still hold the world record.
Elite Mind Flayer
I remember that my strategy in one of my playthoughs to beat them was giving Remilia a good spear, Gapuin and spamming Tentacle whenever one of them showed up. It killed them in one hit most of the time, but it wasn't enough when there were more than one...
OUT~Devil of Chaos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZEBoW_2naA)
And then you get to the final bosses, remember how they're going to be annoying and get blown away by the music. This is the best song I was talking about in that other post, oh boy it's so amazing.
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I. HATE. YOU. SO. MUCH.
You probably thought he recruited it, didn't you? I'm preeeeeetty sure that's just an image of him encountering one by itself! XD
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"Okay here's a shikigami with a lot of good things! I don't care about him".
It's called "I don't have anybody to put him on, because everyone else is min-maxing." Shield Bash would be great on Mokou, if during boss fights she wasn't spamming Physical Defense. And from Final Fantasy experience, drain attacks suck no matter what game you play (unless it's Osmose, which is good).
I. HATE. YOU. SO. MUCH.
Did you think I actually recruited him? Ahahahahaha... no. Not even. No way. I've only beaten him once. Yeah, I'm not recruiting him.
I have recruited the King Yukkuri in my first run of the game because I grinded off of them so much (it was within the first thirty or so, I think). I got the drop even earlier. That is the one time the RNG liked me.
And then you get to the final bosses, remember how they're going to be annoying and get blown away by the music. This is the best song I was talking about in that other post, oh boy it's so amazing.
It's my favorite version of OUT of all of the ones I've heard. GoS's is okay, but not really as intense. The version for the Clock Towers of the End is okay too. The Phantasmal Summoners version I can't hear except in the soundtrack I ripped from the game myself (go not having a Twitter), though it is good, and I've never heard the original OUT originally made by Hachikuma. But then you come to this version...
None of the other ones really matter (though if someone knows where the original OUT is, I'd like to give it a listen).
EDIT: Since no one else has voted, I've made up my mind about what I'm doing next. I will move onto the expansion, but parallel to that I will be LPing Sengoku Gensokyo. So I'll be working back and forth between the two games. After I finish the main game of DoD, I'll start working on Sengoku Gensokyo, then probably go back and start the expansion.
I still need to work on some real life stuff for a couple hours, and then I'll see what I can do to finish this up. Then I need to figure out how I'm doing Sengoku Gensokyo, because it's such a different game from DoD, for those who haven't played it before. It'll be fun, I hope.
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Well, the finale has been screenshotted. I feel disappointed in myself for not screenshotting more of the final boss fight, but what can I do? I can only do so much...
So, I'll get that up in a while. I have some real life stuff to take care of first. And then afterwards, we begin Sengoku Gensokyo and the expansion!
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Sweet.
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The Devil of Decline- Part 1: Angra Mainyu
It's all come down to this. All of our battles. All of our struggles. Everything we've done over the last 27 (in-game) hours has come down to this. Let's bring this fight to the one pulling the strings herself, Angra Mainyu.
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Here I get Final Anchor, a field effect that lasts two turns. When it ends, all enemies are damaged based on the caster's DEX. It cannot be resisted. It is flat damage. It is awesome, and it's saved me on more than one occasion. This shall be one of our greatest weapons against Angra.
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Three TPKs from grinding. You also missed the part where four King Yukkuris used Face Smash in a row on the first turn each, though I actually barely managed to kill the last one of them. I really hate Face Smash.
Offscreen, Meiling learns Bandit Pursuit and Yuugi learns Benevolence Wall. Momiji also gains a +25% boost to the defense of the currently equipped shield. Now the Aegis Shield has 125 defense rating instead of 100!
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My levels right before I march in to fight Angra. This is lower than I originally intended. I simply don't care anymore. Let me know if you guys have beaten Angra at a lower level than this.
Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things in Gensokyo!
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This certainly is the final area, Mokou.
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That's not good.
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Crap, she knows we're here.
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Why hello there, Angra. Last time we personally met was, let's see, eleven hours ago? You issued your ultimatum. We issued ours. You came here instead of settling things immediately. Time for payback.
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Or you could smile. Honestly, you're not doing much to frighten me.
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I don't know where her little bed/chair/whatever went. I simply don't care.
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Keine?
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Angra remembers her, but it's not really an "oh crap" thing or anything for her.
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You look like a confused puppy with that expression, Angra. You're losing badass points and earning... uh... cute points, maybe? I really don't know.
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Okay, I take it back, you're not cute. You're a terrifying demon from Makai.
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Pretty much the actual conversation was her explaining her plot a second time, including the details with Keine, of course. I don't really need to repeat it.
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And then she says that the whole shikigami thing was "natural selection." So, through manipulating and observing the history of Gensokyo, you've selected certain people to become shikigami and others to stay normal? Uh, I'll buy it for now, but I personally am getting confused.
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Uh...
She says later that this is a gift from her. After all, what's a final boss fight without an awesome other dimension to fight in?
Weird, it's almost as if she wants us to fight her...
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Whatever the case, we're here Angra.
And Gensokyo's Purpose and Final Moment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0dEmoZYV9Q) plays. It's our seventh and last remix of Shanghai Teahouse~Chinese Tea. And it's heroic as all hell.
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Sunny Milk might just be a fairy, but she's come a long way (story-wise), and she's not going to let her friends down!
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Fujiwara no Mokou has been in Gensokyo for a long time. Immortality does that to you, of course. And she's not going to let you tear it apart!
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Sanae Kochiya is a shrine maiden of Gensokyo. Despite the fact she's still somewhat of a newcomer, it's her role as a shrine maiden of Kanako Yasaka and Suwako Moriya to resolve incidents!
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Nitori Kawashiro is a scientist, and history is a precious thing to a person of learning. She won't let you destroy it!
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Keine Kamashirasawa is the one you kidnapped from the beginning. It's time for her to reclaim her power as a were-hakutaku and restore Gensokyo!
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And finally, Hong Meiling. She is the underdog. The one everyone picks on. The one whose name everyone forgets. To them, she's China. But to you, she's Hong Meiling, the gatekeeper of the Scarlet Devil Mansion! She will not let you destroy Gensokyo!
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OUT~Devil of Chaos plays for this fight. Kickass music for the win!
As for the fight itself, Angra is weak to the basic elements, for whatever reason. She'll use some physical and magical attacks, as well as put up a shield that reflects magic. So don't use magic. The fight is rather simple enough (though I reset a few times because I forgot how to do this a few times).
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This can't be good.
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YugenMagen, is that you? Also, that's the same spell circle from the beginning of the game. Well, considering she probably was the one to make them...
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OWW.
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75% Resist to Mystic+Benevolence Wall+Aegis Defense=Tanking Spell Cards like it was no thing. That was Great Devil "Eruption of Damavando." It attacks 5 times randomly.
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After reducing her to 0 HP, she starts laughing. Are you enjoying this? I'm kicking your ass!
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Oh, she hasn't had to try to fight in 342 years. This... isn't good, is it?
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Now I'm a bit worried.
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Uh...
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I'm trying to think of what Maleficent says in "Sleeping Beauty" and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, but the quote escapes me.
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I'm going to file this one under fanservice. Also, the true final boss music plays here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8nMs14Xui8) Ominous. Okay, the hands and the head are separate enemies. The hands will do some attacks and will resurrect the head if I kill it first. So, I have to go after the hands to make things simple.
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I really didn't want a lesson in demon anatomy. I really didn't. Ugh...
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I think this was from Quick Break. Go Suika!
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Oh shit...
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I can't see shit. What's going on?
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Oh look, the power of 75% Mystic resistance and Aegis Defense. That was "Vendeidado Vinaya." That would deal 1000 damage split between each of my party members normally.
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I think that was Magic Storm, or something like that. It actually didn't do too much damage. Huh.
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Patchy, keep blowing things up.
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Damn it, she brought her hands back.
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That still freaks me out. I got the last hand through the power of Falcon Slash. That skill has served me well as the finisher of bosses.
Oh, and Suika learned Emperor's Slash. Okay then.
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It's over. It's finally over.
To be continued...
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The Devil of Decline- Finale: Decline of the Devil
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Well then, that's it!
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We won! Standard incident resolution procedure must follow. You will fix things. Now.
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Surprised? You shouldn't be.
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So, what's it going to be?
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She admits defeat. Well, that's a start!
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Huh? Why are you bowing?
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She calls in the Three Demonic Pillars. So, guys, how's it going?
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They all say they're sincerely sorry. Uhh...
Okay...
Wait, you guys are demons. From Makai. Why are you apologizing? Isn't it in your nature to be destructive? Wasn't your plan to turn Gensokyo into more territory for you to hold?
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This is an unusual English phrase in the midst of the dialogue, but whatever.
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So wait a minute. WAIT A MINUTE.
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This was all... a game!? A lie!? A joke!? To relieve your boredom!? Everything!? The towers, the castle, everything was only there to add to the dramatic effect!? As fun!? As a joke!? There was no real danger!? You LIED!?
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I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU! YOU DO NOT PLAY FALSE INCIDENT WITH ME! TENSHI DID THAT ONCE, AND I RIPPED HER TO SHREDS! COME HERE, YOU FOUR! I'M GOING TO EXTERMINATE YOU AND SEND YOUR SORRY ASSES INTO THE DEPTHS OF HOKKAI, NEVER TO BE SEEN AGAIN!
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Damn it, they escaped, saying they want to meet us again sometime. Oh, that'll be the day.
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Yeah Mokou, I'm pissed off too. They were never going to destroy Gensokyo in the first place. Damn it, that was a complete waste of 28 hours.
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Meanwhile Keine fixes everything. Hell yeah!
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What did you three do to piss off Cirno?
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And you two are fighting... *sigh*
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Uhh...
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What, afraid of the dark, Kogasa?
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Yuyuko, how hungry are you?
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Hey Sakuya. I never recruited you, mainly because much like the Peri, you were severely nerfed. Maybe I'll fix that in the expansion.
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Remilia gives Meiling the reward of having a room in the Scarlet Devil Mansion, while Sakuya is forced to live in the dog house instead, as punishment for becoming a shikigami. And then because Patchy heard a rumor about Meiling claiming herself the master of the SDM while Remilia was out (whether that was true or not I have no idea), Meiling loses that reward. Thanks a lot, Patchy.
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Be careful, Medicine. Her umbrella is loaded.
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Tenshi drags Iku to do... something. I don't want to know.
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You pervert.
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Hey guys, how's it going.
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"Whee, I'm going to go exploring the surface again!"
So, anyone else read Do the Right Thing? Koishi is... interesting, in that fanfiction. I recommend it.
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Apparently Ran has been checking out the situation in Gensokyo.
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Uhh...
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Chen, you look so cute!
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Sorry, they had to wake you up, Yukari.
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And she just gaps in things to hurt you. Of course.
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After discussing the incident for a little, Yukari goes back to sleep. Not a surprise.
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They said Yukari sleeps way too much. I wonder where they'll end up.
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Hey, Rinnosuke! Kourindou's back, huh?
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Oh, hey Alice!
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Uh...
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Hey guys, how's it going?
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Why are all the tengu pissed off at each other? Aya and Hatate I know, but Momiji?
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Of course she's lecturing her.
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Uh... they're talking about stealing Byakuren's clothes...?
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Ichirin, you disturb me, sometimes. Unzan too.
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Nue, you don't have to sit over in the corner. You might not exactly be a Buddhist and you sort of almost messed up Byakuren's unsealing, but it's all okay now, right?
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You don't have to be a loner. I understand you're the Nue of the past, but there's people here in Gensokyo you can be friendly with.
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Apparently, Nue has noticed that there's some sort of connection between Byakuren and the Three Demonic Pillars. Hmm?
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Apparently Byakuren and the Three Demonic Pillars are old friends from the time Byakuren was in Makai. She says they were a little troublesome, but they're good at heart. Huh. Well, they seemed sort of nice. Granted, they were playing one of the greatest practical jokes ever right there, which pisses me off, but I guess I can get over it. Maybe.
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And then they all fight over which one of them is the favored disciple of Byakuren.
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Nazrin and Shou, you're smart about getting out of there before the argument goes sour.
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The Phantom Ensemble is back at last!
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Heck, even the Giant Toad wants to listen!
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Suika broke the rock, but she's not feeling so well. You too drunk, Suika?
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Mokou, why are you in Eientei?
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That's more like it.
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Well Reimu, it's been a long day. I'm just as tired as you.
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Uh...
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Gee, that wasn't expected at all.
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They're having a feast to celebrate incident resolution like everyone else.
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Uh, you CAUSED the incident! You don't have a feast to celebrate it afterwards! We have it, you just come to it to see how things are going!
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Reimu decides to join, but the carpet is burning. Apparently, it's much cooler to them than the fires of Makai. I didn't even know Makai had fires.
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Angra tells Reimu that even though they did not take Gensokyo as their territory physically, they now consider it they're home, so it is their territory, technically. So technically speaking, they did what they set out to do originally, which was to relieve their boredom.
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And of course, they leave Reimu with the mess.
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And the Touhou-style ending, of course.
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Uh, look, I know this is your home now, but Reimu doesn't have to get you breakfast. Honestly, you befriend a bunch of demons, and they start taking your food.
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So, uh, are you going to return to Makai?
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Apparently not. Reimu's worried that people are going to be afraid of them. I mean, they are demons. It's not going to be pleasant running into them, I think.
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"All clear! As expected!"
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And that does it for Devil of Decline! We're all done!
Or are we?
Now that the Three Demonic Pillars and Angra have stopped the incident and befriended the people of Gensokyo, what happens now? Is some other character we haven't met yet prepared to make a move. And who is that smiling in the background of the title screen?
Find out next time when we begin the expansion for Devil of Decline!
And don't forget to watch for the beginning of Sengoku Gensokyo!
I wasn't expecting people to be too interested in this LP, but it's been great so far, and I look forward to doing future LPs. If it wasn't for you guys, I probably wouldn't have kept doing this. Let me know how the LP was. If there's anything I can do to improve things, I'll take them into consideration.
This has been Validon98, and thanks for reading!
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Congratulations!
Your LP was amazingly entertaining. Your clever and funny comments made it all the more awesome. You're great at that!
I'll be following your LPs from now on~ :P
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The Devil of Decline- Finale: Decline of the Devil
Wai wai wai. Soo, what the hell are the expansion villains planning then?! Oh geez, I'm confused about the expansion now. This seems like a good time to play through it again~!
I have no complaints about this LP. The pacing was good and your commentary was great. Overall it was a nice experience.
Also for Sengoku Gensokyo you can do what this LP did: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9516642
E: Oh damn. I wanna play Sengoku Gensokyo again now. Oh well, it was a fun game.
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You probably thought he recruited it, didn't you? I'm preeeeeetty sure that's just an image of him encountering one by itself! XD
I was actually talking about the monster :V I'm afraid of my next playthough after the translation patch comes out because I don't want to need 300+ kills to get anything that isn't a yukkuri.
Angra!
What? Absolutely no mention of how the hand with the eye loves spamming something that reflects your magic attacks back to you? Also, her theme isn't something as amazing as the one for the final boss of GoS, but it always comes back to my mind every now and then.
As for the LP, good job! Maybe I'll feel motivated to go back and finish the expansion after I see you doing it. Hopefully, I guess
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Thanks for the positive comments, guys. Much appreciated. Sadly, I won't be able to start anything for a while. Real life has finally decided I don't need to have fun for a while. So sorry about that. If I'm lucky, I'll be back starting in February. If I'm extremely lucky, I might be back even earlier.
Don't worry, I'll start those two LPs then. Even a hiatus won't slow me down forever.
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Great LP, I enjoyed reading it from start to finish. Looking forward to your Sengoku LP!
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So then, we haven't done anything with Devil of Decline in a while, huh? Let's remedy that, shall we?
EX Prologue: History Always Repeats
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We get asked if we want to move onto the expansion or go back to before I fought Angra. Obviously I'm moving on.
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Looks like a nice day in Gensokyo.
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All of the villagers seem to be happy. Granted, they are a little shaken by the recent incident, but they're fine now.
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Is that really a guy with an afro? Seriously? I don't even think that's a reference to Defiant of Shrine Maiden.
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Don't mind them, they're just three youkai who happen to be insanely powerful. Don't mind them at all.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-44-22-881.jpg)
Reimu comes in from the back, complaining about a hangover. How bad did you drink last night?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-44-58-042.jpg)
Of course. They left their stuff here, didn't they? She complains about how much the Three Demonic Pillars and Angra drank. She literally thinks to herself "Do they have livers of iron?"
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-45-21-846.jpg)
Don't bend that too...
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-45-23-599.jpg)
...hard. Looks like you need a new gohei, Reimu.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-45-41-074.jpg)
The Yakumos show up, and Reimu says that her terrible day is now gotten even worse. Come on, how annoying is Yukari?
Considering my other LP, very annoying.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-46-22-342.jpg)
Yukari lets Reimu know that everyone else in Gensokyo is fine. No complaints anywhere.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-46-42-981.jpg)
Reimu, of course, tells her that she has been miserable, thanks to the Three Demonic Pillars. Honestly, I wish they had a shorter title I could refer to them by.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-46-59-254.jpg)
With the mysterious voices from nowhere! I've heard way too many of those recently!
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-47-09-739.jpg)
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-47-12-581.jpg)
Oh, hey Angra. You sort of left a mess last night.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-47-16-399.jpg)
Chen freaks out. It's okay, Chen, she's a nice demon.
Ahahahahaha, I'm sorry, I can't believe I just said that. What an oxymoronic statement!
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-48-54-679.jpg)
Angra is angry at Reimu for being angry at her. Or something like that. I don't think she likes your complaining, Reimu.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-49-15-648.jpg)
And then she leaves. Well, that was pointless.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-49-37-926.jpg)
As Reimu starts to "Ugigi" even more (which I assume means extreme anger), Ran feels something. What is it?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-49-52-991.jpg)
Uh... why are you fading away? No, don't tell me...
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-50-09-702.jpg)
...That's got to be pretty uncomfortable.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-50-14-612.jpg)
Sakuya too! You mean to tell me...
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-50-39-517.jpg)
Mokou's just chilling with Nobou, I guess. Hey, where's Biotopos? Shouldn't she be hanging out with you guys?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-50-41-914.jpg)
Nobou?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-50-59-714.jpg)
He completely disappeared! What's going on?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-51-08-347.jpg)
Are you guys still fighting over who was most useful during the main game?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-51-18-501.jpg)
There goes Murasa.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-51-23-848.jpg)
Ichirin and Nue as well... this is affecting the same people as before...
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-51-54-101.jpg)
You okay, Ran? Actually, I shouldn't say that. You look pretty bad.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-52-11-678.jpg)
Damn it, Chen as well. This is bad.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-52-33-088.jpg)
What!? Ran disappeared!? That didn't happen last time! What's going on? Why are they being spirited completely away?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-52-47-717.jpg)
Then an earthquake starts. No, you can't be serious...
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-53-02-677.jpg)
No.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-53-11-740.jpg)
No.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-53-21-235.jpg)
No.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-53-27-353.jpg)
No.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-53-32-712.jpg)
No.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-53-51-269.jpg)
The World of Chaos... it's back. Reimu wonders if Keine had anything to do with this. Well, considering it was her power that did this last time...
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-54-06-010.jpg)
Akyu wonders the same thing, but Keine replies it isn't her. Mokou runs off after this, probably to inform everyone of what's going on. Well, the four main characters already know, but they need to know it's not Keine's fault. But whose fault is this? Angra's?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-54-34-950.jpg)
Xia herself is confused. They stopped their incident. Why has it come back?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-54-46-416.jpg)
Hmm?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-54-52-094.jpg)
Otoha! Any answers? I believe she says after this that it isn't Angra's fault. Then, whose is it?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-55-04-763.jpg)
Three guesses.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-55-09-139.jpg)
Chloe! Well, the gang is almost all here, but do you have any inkling as to the situation?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-55-15-357.jpg)
She notes that everything is the exact same, but the Doomsday Clock itself is expelling some feeling of malice or evil. Please don't tell me we're having a repeat of Genius of Sappheiros's expansion.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-55-31-300.jpg)
Who's there?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-55-38-070.jpg)
No. No no no no no. It can't be. Mima? What are you doing here?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-55-55-755.jpg)
They don't know her, however. Otoha deduces that she must be the one who caused the incident, which Mima confirms. And then Otoha says Mima has a small brain. Way to go, Otoha.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-56-24-046.jpg)
Apparently, Mima is doing this is restore the pride of demons. But you're not a demon, Mima.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-56-54-288.jpg)
Apparently the Three Demonic Pillars ashamed the rest of Makai by creating the incident but not going through with it. I guess Mima figured such a good idea couldn't go to waste.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-57-10-341.jpg)
Well, too bad. The Three Demonic Pillars live here now, and they won't let you destroy Gensokyo!
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-57-24-539.jpg)
So, are you ready, Mima? A new song called Sparks Scatter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXnfOiq9FOs) plays for this cutscene here. Not bad.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-57-37-532.jpg)
Energy Storm, I think. Good job, Otoha!
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-57-40-264.jpg)
And a Tsunami from Xia.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-57-43-870.jpg)
And Shikigami's Scythe from Chloe. Can't you guys just bust out your Spell Cards and be done with it?
I didn't captured it properly, but Mima hits Otoha with Rainbow Ray, knocking her down. Crap.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-57-49-436.jpg)
Cosmic Liner!? That's not good.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-57-52-822.jpg)
And Abyss as well. Uh, guys? I don't think this is going well...
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-58-07-451.jpg)
Well, they're screwed.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-58-14-006.jpg)
What the!? Demon Tempest? At least, I think that's Demon Tempest. It might be something else.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-58-19-899.jpg)
Can it be?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-58-30-384.jpg)
Mima, apparently you don't know exactly who you are dealing with here.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-58-39-667.jpg)
Angra! You could have come at least a little earlier.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-58-56-270.jpg)
She literally says she is going to make Mima feel one hundred times the pain she has caused Chloe, Otoha, and Xia. This'll be good.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-58-58-667.jpg)
Death Zapper!
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-03-582.jpg)
Her Last Word!
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-05-221.jpg)
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-05-991.jpg)
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-08-609.jpg)
Damn, Angra. You really should have come earlier.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-22-473.jpg)
Mima?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-24-882.jpg)
I have no comment.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-27-934.jpg)
A Spell Card!?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-30-780.jpg)
This doesn't look too bad...
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-33-074.jpg)
I take it back.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-34-485.jpg)
Shit. That was "Twilight Takedown," by the way. Don't tell me I have to deal with that Spell Card later.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-41-705.jpg)
I'm worried now. Really worried.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-49-566.jpg)
Retreat, retreat!
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2022-59-53-813.jpg)
You guys can really jump. Can't you just teleport, though?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-00-13-587.jpg)
Touhou Gensoumaroku Matsuri- The Devil of Decline Festival.
That was quite an opening.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-00-25-818.jpg)
So, uh guys? We kind of have the World of Chaos back. We have to do something.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-00-38-698.jpg)
Of course, Meiling (and Reimu as well) wonder if Angra has anything to do with this. Well, she doesn't.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-00-56-612.jpg)
Speak of the devil, and she'll appear.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-00-58-685.jpg)
Uh, hey Angra. Everyone kind of thinks this is your fault.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-01-03-593.jpg)
She's kind of wounded, guys. I don't think she had anything to do with it.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-01-10-804.jpg)
This she confirms by saying she was fighting the one who caused the incident.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-01-18-554.jpg)
Whoops, sorry!
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-01-24-673.jpg)
At least Byakuren knows healing.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-01-49-678.jpg)
Angra explains the situation to the others.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-02-05-727.jpg)
I forget what Meiling said to deserve this. I don't think burning someone is a good way of dealing with them, Angra.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-02-10-757.jpg)
Poor Meiling. Anyway, Angra explains that while she is in charge of a poriton of Makai, Makai is an infinite area. There are plenty of regions she doesn't know about, and that means that the chances of someone from Makai being stronger than her are likely.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-02-22-658.jpg)
Reimu calls her weak or something. I'm not sure.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-02-26-050.jpg)
That makes two burnt people. Byakuren and Yukari, you guys are next, I assume.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-02-37-726.jpg)
Uh, I forget what causes her to do that.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-02-47-780.jpg)
Whatever the case, we have to go take down Mima!
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-02-52-689.jpg)
Angra agrees! So, I guess that means we're on the same side this time.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-02-55-740.jpg)
She says she feels responsible, because she caused the original incident, so she's going to take down Mima... by herself? Uh...
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-03-08-739.jpg)
Angra...
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-03-16-822.jpg)
Wait a minute. Incident resolution is our duty. You want to help? That's fine. But you play by our rules.
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-03-31-453.jpg)
Angra agrees! So, it's up to the five of us, huh?
(http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y512/Validon98/Devil%20of%20Decline%20LP/DoDEXLP1/bandicam2013-01-2023-03-38-444.jpg)
I don't know how much time we have, but with the five of us, surely we can take care of Mima. But what happened to the Three Demonic Pillars? Where will we go to find Mima? How bad could things possibly get? Find out next time where we still don't do any actual gameplay and keep going through cutscenes!
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Oooh, so that was the plot, huh?
Looking forward to the rest of the expansion since it gets really good later on~ It's a lot better than GoS Expansion imo.
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So, I haven't done much of anything for either of my LPs. So guess what? I'm going to fix that. Right now. With more Devil of Decline. Hell yeah.
Fourth Stratum- Part 1: Demons in a Winter Wonderland
I didn't talk about Angra last time in terms of her stats. She has some good MP, STR, and AGI as well as some pretty good DEX and INT, which means she's a Red Mage of sorts, similar to Utsuho. Unlike Utsuho, she isn't nearly as squishy, and her Last Word is pretty good (it's the one she showed off in that cutscene earlier, for those who are wondering). For once, I'm going against my min-maxing tendencies and replacing Byakuren of all people with her. Sorry Byakuren. Your Last Word doesn't make the cut, I'm afraid.
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Upon returning to the shrine, Meiling stops. Hmm?
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Uh, Meiling?
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I'm just as confused as you guys are.
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Huh, Rinnosuke's missing. I think they mention something about him going on a business trip or something. Whatever the case, the cauldron's still there, so we can still synthesize stuff if necessary.
Anyways, before we look for Mima, there's something we need to check out back at the Clock Towers of the End. I'm assuming story-wise Angra's dragging everyone else there for whatever reason. Okay then.
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So, yeah, Angra? Why'd you bring us to Xia's tower?
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I never screenshotted this properly during the main game.
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Xia! But wait, you're in shikigami form. I guess you weren't as lucky as Angra in terms of finding help.
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I think Yukari or someone insulted Xia. I don't think angering her is good for your health.
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Why am I not surprised? Xia agrees to come with us to stop Mima. In terms of what she's got, she has Tsunami, "Dancing Spray of Blood" (it's a 120 power all-targeting Water spell with a chance to cause Instant Death, like when she used it against us). She also provides a 75% resistance to Water, immunity to Freeze, and 1 MP regen. She's going on Patchy, because she's essentially a mage-type shikigami.
Let's see if Chloe's home at her tower!
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Holy crap, Chloe! It's us, you know!
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Thankfully, she realizes its us and backs off. That's sort of disturbing, you know. I highly doubt that's how a shinigami would act. If, you know, you still were one.
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Angra, it's plainly obvious she isn't looking good. This was a state of existence you practically invented. I don't think Chloe likes it too much.
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I think Yukari insulted her too. I guess Yukari's replacing Nitori for "character who doesn't know when to shut up."
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And Chloe is ready to go! She's got "Causer of Ruin" (parallel power column attack with chance of inflicting Instant Death) and Shinigami Scythe. That surprises absolutely no one. She also provides 75% resistance to Darkness, immunity to Instant Death, and +10 attack. To Meiling with ye, very useful demon!
That makes one more.
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I'm starting to wonder if the save points/healing circles were made by these guys. That doesn't remind me of Chrono Cross at all!
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Otoha, we're leading a bunch of angry lolis on a quest to murder a green-haired wizard spirit thing. Will you join us in order to bathe in the... ectoplasm, I guess, of our great enemy?
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I'll take that very ominous look as a yes!
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More insulting going on, directed at Angra this time. Something about her being beaten by us. Otoha, we beat you too.
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Angra, we're not in the best place for fighting! Plus you're level one right now. I'd doubt that'll go over well.
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I wonder if Otoha was trying to have some fun by making us argue like that. Or something. I'm not exactly sure. Plus Deranged hasn't gotten to the expansion files, as far as I know. So I can't exactly say what happened here for sure.
Anyways, Otoha is more physically-bent than you would assume. "Wings of a Nightmare" attacks all enemies and might inflict Shock, and it's actually physical. She also has the almighty Fast Strike, which means that I don't necessarily have to have Aya on Patchy anymore for just that ability! She also brings 75% resist to Electric, immunity to Shock, and +10 Evasion. I'm putting her on Suika, though I might switch her with Chloe later on.
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Meiling, I didn't know you can go down stairs sideways.
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So satisfying to see it being used on enemies instead of me. Though to be honest, I sort of used Water Wall to tank this attack nigh-constantly. I hope I can show off Xia's second Spell Card when I get it (and I will get it much, much later on).
Anyways, where do we go to look for Mima?
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Right in that staircase on the Third Stratum! There's a chest up there if you've input an expansion-exclusive code. But I haven't. So I can't open it. Oh well.
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I thought it was summer. Well, where I am it's January (though it's January everywhere unless you don't use the Gregorian calendar, for whatever reason). And freezing. Because I live up north.
Enough about me. This area has Alice in Wonderland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlfGbgb7enE) as a theme! I like that song despite the fact that the stage it plays in is a bullshit stage. Mystic Square, sometimes I really hate you, even if you are a good game.
In terms of story, Angra mentions that she pretty much left this area unfinished because she was tired while making the first three strata. Mima must have found what Angra didn't include and made a Fourth Stratum out of it. This'll be interesting, I guess.
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I really don't want to mess with Angra right now. That evil chuckling is kind of unnerving.
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Thankfully Reimu is here to remind us we actually need to go do stuff in order to resolve the incident. So yeah, let's go!
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I took the picture a second too late, but yeah, five hours already. I still don't know how much time we have, though.
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You can barely tell that the Clock Towers of the End come down here. Does that mean we have to go in them again? Well, I know, but I'm not saying anything. Anyways, the Fourth Stratum has a lot of underground tunnels we need to use in order to progress. So, let's get on that, shall we?
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Before I say anything about the enemies, have an awesome Magus Night (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLePVyO1ZKQ) remix as a battle theme. Fitting considering I just unlocked Extra on Fairy Wars today. I don't know how I powered through the last three routes, but I did!
As for the enemies, we have the classic Creeper from Minecraft. Why the hell there are Creepers here, I don't know. I think one of the developers liked Minecraft or something and added them in. They're weak to Fire, immune to Light and Dark like all Artifact Spirits, and can sacrifice themselves to murder you like all good Creepers do.
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I love having Otoha on my team.
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Same with Chloe.
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Oh look, a new enemy. It's a Strong Makai Cactus. It's weak to Fire and Slash, and I think it might still use Porcupine like its weaker cousin from back on the Second Stratum. So kill it quick.
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I'm not exactly sure what to call that. It's appearance reminds me of Ahrimans from Final Fantasy, but we sort of have Ahriman in our party. So they'e just Evil Balls or Evil Eyes. They cast the basic elemental spells, which means they're pathetic.
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This is the beginning of the Underground Tunnel, if I'm translating the area name right. But that's it for today! What awaits us at the end of this tunnel? Are there any other familiar faces we've yet to see? Will it take me a while to update again? We'll see next time.
Summary:
Treasure: Makai Lodestone, Demon Illusion Gem, Damascus Steel (drop), Aviator Gem
Skills: Para Zapper (Chloe), Power Suction (Dark attack that drains from all enemies, Otoha)
TPKs: 0 this update, 0 overall
Yes, I'm resetting the TPK counter for the expansion. I guess it's for a comparison with the main game. Will it kill me more than the main game or not? I hope not.
Frustration: None. Getting back into the swing of things with some not too bad enemies.
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Fun Fact: Having
Mima
in your party causes her to say some lines during the recruitment scenes for the 3 demonic pillars.
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You already have Melon-chan, right? Input 24789066 and you'll keep Melon-chan, and be able to open that chest for Lemon-chan, too.
She doesn't carry anything partiiiicularly good until like, lv80, though, but at least she has an mp reduction passive and nifty debuffs. Ah well. Not really that interesting apart from having the best all-up buff, but lv80 is a pretty high level requirement.
...and yes, Angra's LW is pretty damn strong. If I correctly understand how damage addition from proficiencies and level-affected skills work, it's actually a significant difference if you level her Mystic proficiency, too. The damage is halved on bosses, but it's so strong that it's still great to use on them; in turn, it totally wrecks any randoms.
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If I correctly understand how damage addition from proficiencies and level-affected skills work, it's actually a significant difference if you level her Mystic proficiency, too.
Hence why I put PC-98 Marisa on her. Even if she doesn't get to act, she'll be leveling her Mystic proficiency nigh-constantly. Hopefully it'll go up pretty quickly as I head through the next area.
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Nice, I didn't expect the 3 demonic pillars-lolis to become equip-able shikigamis!
Aside from that, I've been thinking from day 1 that every single enemies in any of strawberry bose games are completely random and that they never, ever make any sense whatsoever, but I think those creepers sealed it for me. Only one thing is left for me to say, and that is lolwhat.
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Aside from that, I've been thinking from day 1 that every single enemies in any of strawberry bose games are completely random and that they never, ever make any sense whatsoever, but I think those creepers sealed it for me. Only one thing is left for me to say, and that is lolwhat.
Well, a lot of them are references to random things like SMT and so forth. But yeah, a lot of them are straight-up weird. You can thank Hachikuma for that.
Then again I've played a lot of RPGs with some strange enemies in them. Earthbound, Dark Cloud 2, Persona, Kingdom Hearts to an extent... yeah, people think of some strange things to fight.
Nice, I didn't expect the 3 demonic pillars-lolis to become equip-able shikigamis!
This is Gensokyo. Defeat Means Friendship is practically law here, even in the fangames.
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Well, a lot of them are references to random things like SMT and so forth. But yeah, a lot of them are straight-up weird. You can thank Hachikuma for that.
Then again I've played a lot of RPGs with some strange enemies in them. Earthbound, Dark Cloud 2, Persona, Kingdom Hearts to an extent... yeah, people think of some strange things to fight.
Yeah, I assumed a LOT were references (I even caught a few). Speaking of which... Seriously, the mining village or something monster/shikigami makes no sense; I laughed when you first encountered it.
This is Gensokyo. Defeat Means Friendship is practically law here, even in the fangames.
Sadly, Gensokyo is also the land of ''You shall fight someone once, and it shall become a background character forever." I'm glad they gave them a concrete role without making them party characters (which would be doing a bit too much). They look like really good shikigamis too.
Also I can't help but wonder where Sunny Milk is. She is best party member :derp:
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So, I screenshotted the next update. That's the good news.
The bad news is that as I finished everything up, my computer crashed. I didn't lose my progress (thankfully), but my notes? Gone. The entire second half of the update's notes are gone. So, that'll take some time to fix. I'll have to look up everything I found and/or made so that my summary is somewhat complete. It's not a complete loss, but it'll delay the next update a little.
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Fourth Stratum- Part 2: Absurdly Spacious Sewer
So, onward to the Underground Facility! Why we have an entire underground complex on the fourth stratum, I have no clue, but it's something that we can loot, so let's just get it over with, shall we?
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Funny, we never saw the original Sylph, and yet here we have a Sylph Princess? Okay then. It's weak to Earth and packs a mean punch like it's lesser cousin we could have encountered back in Bhava-agra.
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That was fast. I was hoping to get my first TPK sometime after this, but whatever. Let's try again, shall we?
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These are Gales. They're weak to Earth. Patchy has Kaguya on, who can set Hourai Jewel to Earth elemental. Not really a problem, these guys.
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Okay, so these are sewers. Why are there sewers underneath the fourth stratum? What is the actual point of these besides being filler dungeons until I get to wherever Mima is?
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Elite Tanukis here can buff people and don't do much else. I think they're weak to Fire. Not threatening by themselves.
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Damn, they locked the door. However can we get through?
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That door on the left was open, and beyond there was a switch that locks the door behind me yet opens the other door. Thankfully, it can be undone, so we can keep going.
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A Deep Deyusu, or whatever that translates to properly. Weak to Light like its other demon cousins.
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And Alien Roach can be found in the back, being all chill. Actually, being chill would be bad in its case, as its weak to Water. I forget what it does besides being annoying.
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There's a Hima Snake back there, and I think it can use Coil. I forget. Water. Kill it with. Now. Xia.
After a while, I stumble through a door and into a cutscene. I don't think cutscenes are physical enough to stumble into, but enough English semantics!
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Alright, it's the hermit herself! So, what's up, Kasen?
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She's out and about because obviously there's something wrong with Gensokyo. Like I couldn't already tell. So, despite the fact she's a hermit, she's willing to do something about the situation.
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For some reason, Reimu slips into her Wild and Horned Hermit personality, wherein she realizes that resolving this incident could attract people to her shrine since, you know, she'd probably get some good publicity for it. Why you haven't gotten good publicity for the previous incidents you've resolved I have no idea (canonically I believe it has something to do with an article Aya wrote about her and the fact she hasn't really given enough credit to Reimu regarding them).
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Kasen takes the time to talk to Reimu about her greed, and Byakuren joins in because, well, she can. You know, I'd expect Eiki to be the one to lecture her, but Eiki's sort of not with us.
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Reimu of course does not take it well.
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Uh...
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Uh...
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Some time later...
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So, uh, how long have you guys been talking? You made Yukari fall asleep. And Meiling and Angra are just kind of shooting the breeze. Why you two didn't stop the lecturing I have no idea, because we sort of cannot waste time on this sort of thing. After this, however, Kasen joins our party! She's about debuffs, starting with Thorn Bind and Flash as well as +5 to the success rate of Variety effects, +15% to the effect of Variety Effects (whether this is both positive and negative or just negative I don't know), and 25% resistance to Variety effects. I'm not sure if I'm going to use her or not. Not now, though.
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So, where does this go?
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More sewers. Wonderful. This is the actual Underground Waterway (not the one from Final Fantasy IV, mind you), and it has Oriental Dark Flight (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W8EaViZKc8) as a theme. So, which of Marisa's themes have we not heard remixed yeah? A couple, I know that much.
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We are filling in more of the map, though, so that's good, at least.
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Here's two new enemies. The High Succubus up top can inflict Charm, which is bad. Worse, she can do it to the ENTIRE PARTY. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY...
Ahem. She's weak to Light. The Hell Viper (or Jigoku Viper, if you prefer the traditional word) is weak to Water and does... something. I usually get off "Dancing Spray of Blood" before they do anything major.
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The Ivaruti at the bottom has some pretty dangerous Blunt skills, and I think its weak to Light.
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Besides the darkness which makes it a bit hard to navigate, there are these pillars you need to push in order to open up passageways. Not too bad.
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In the back is another annoying enemy, the Pteranodon Rongikepusu, or something like that. Weak to Electric, but it has some pretty devastating attacks, so be careful.
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That's a Mr... uh, crap, this is where my enemy list stops. Stupid computer crashing...
According to the wiki, it's a Mr. Heitai. What the hell that's supposed to be a reference to, I have no idea. It has devastating poison that can one-shot you, but he's weak to Electric. Go Otoha, then!
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There's an Amazon. At least I remember her. She has pretty much a lot of the skills that Eirin had when we fought her. So be careful.
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An Electric Catfish lurks in the back, threatening to TPK the party with devastating Electric attacks. We've got Earth attacks, though, so we can put it in its place. Maybe.
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Is that...?
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It is! Back to the good ol' surface, where Alice in Wonderland plays. I really like that song. Even in its original form. You can't beat the classics.
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Settle down, game, I'm not really for that quite yet. Maybe some other time.
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We're going to have to go back underground, aren't we? Damn. Also, what's up with that modern-looking chain fence?
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What could be off to the right?
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Yukari notices something. What are you talking about?
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She's referring to that shadow... I don't know what it is.
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What!? What are you doing here... crap, I forgot which one you were.
Okay, she's Toyohime. Still, what're you doing here?
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This incident hasn't escaped the attention of the Lunarians. Granted, how you can even tell something was up in Gensokyo or the fact that you care is beyond me, but okay.
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Eirin?
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I missed the biggest exclamation mark ever. It literally spanned from Toyohime's head to the top of the screen. Maybe if it shows up against I'll screenshot it.
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I know, you haven't seen your master in a very long time. Granted, she's kind of a fugitive now. It's kind of hard to return when you are responsible for, you know, murder.
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They exchange some pleasantries and Eirin explains what's been going on. So at least Toyohime knows what's up now. She also agrees to help us out! Well, that's actually good. Granted, you and your sister cheat at Spell Cards (summoning gods to manipulate your opponent's bullets is against the rules, in my opinion, which makes Cirno a cheater as well), but I'll overlook it for now.
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She asks Eirin if she can come back to the Moon. Eirin says she cannot. Of course she can't, she's a wanted criminal. Why you haven't dragged her off in chains is beyond me, but I guess she kind of quelled the whole situation on the Moon regarding invaders, despite the fact that she made it possible for Reimu and the others to get to the Moon in the first place. But it was all part of some plan I didn't really follow. That's what I get for not reading Cage in Lunatic Runagate. Meh.
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Toyohime? Any reason for holding Yukari back?
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She asks if she had anything to do with the missing sake. I remember that! Yuyuko took that. I'm sorry Toyohime, but it's sort of been passed through some girls' digestive systems. In other words, you aren't getting your really old sake back.
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Run, Yukari!
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Don't let her catch you, if you don't want to be bound by that fiber stuff again.
As for what Toyohime can do, she's got Professional Vacation, Immortal (a field effect that has a chance of reraising dead characters), and Dispel. She also offers a +1% increase to casting speed. Not worth it, in my opinion.
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So, where does this go?
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According to the translation, the Institute of Magic. Huh. I don't get how that fits under the ground, but I'll go with it.
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We've already gotten through quite a bit, haven't we? But what awaits us beyond the Institute of Magic? And who is that boss that I neglected to fight? And will we have to reenter the Clock Towers of the End? All that will hopefully will dealt with next time!
Summary:
Treasure: Mercury Drop x3, Veil of Night, Viking Shield (someone, I forget who I gave it to), Keystone x2, Platinum, Magic Light Stone x2, Fuyuitoabusoriyu, Liquid Iron (drop), Ancient Disk, Bio Guarder, Mystery Bamboo, Anointofureiru, Crystal Skull, Dark Crystal, Light Crystal, Damascus Steel, Eikushiruniru (Angra), Large Mirror
Skills: Demonbane (Suika), Mass Element Barrier (Xia), Stone Shower (Suwako), Emperor's Brandish (Meiling), Comet Sword (Suika), Active Mental (PC-98 Marisa)
Passives: +20 Defense (Suwako)
Recipes: Ice Sword, Gurishiza, Soul Hammer, Maple Leaf Shield, Solar Eclipse Shield, Great Sage Robe, Exorcism Armor
Synthesis Done: Water Crystal, Ice Sword (Meiling, just like my first run)
TPKs: 1 this update, 1 overall
Frustration: Rising a bit. I didn't expect a TPK THAT early. But it happens, I guess.
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Ohai. Sorry for the necropost, but I was wondering what happened to this Let's Play.
I'm actually playing this game when I have some time, though I'm a bit stucked at the three pillar demons before the Angra fight (mainly because I'm under levelled I guess as I can tank Chloe quite a bit but can't deal enough damage per turn to end the fight).
I also know the game is quite old but I have the expansion too and plan to start it as I finish the main game. I'm not asking for you to continue the PT where you left it, just a bit bit curious ^^;
Have a good day !
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Whoa, necrobump. I didn't even notice!
The rest of this LP actually was finished a LOOOONG time ago in another thread. The link to it's here (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,14383.0.html). I don't remember why I made a second thread for this game. Maybe I thought this thread was locked or something. *shrugs*
I'm glad though that someone else is interested in this game! Good luck against Chloe, she's probably one of the harder ones of the refights.
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Whoa, necrobump. I didn't even notice!
The rest of this LP actually was finished a LOOOONG time ago in another thread. The link to it's here (http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,14383.0.html). I don't remember why I made a second thread for this game. Maybe I thought this thread was locked or something. *shrugs*
I'm glad though that someone else is interested in this game! Good luck against Chloe, she's probably one of the harder ones of the refights.
Chloe was easy for me in the refight to me Otwa and the bloody water boss were a pain ESPECIALLY THE WATER BOSS.
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...Yeah, Xia was a bit of a pain, the only thing with the refight is that for me it just felt like it was way easier to deal with her attacks compared to her first fight. I don't know. I will agree with Otoha though that Luxion Edge sucks. Massively.
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...Yeah, Xia was a bit of a pain, the only thing with the refight is that for me it just felt like it was way easier to deal with her attacks compared to her first fight. I don't know. I will agree with Otoha though that Luxion Edge sucks. Massively.
And don't get me started with getting a face full of 1,000 needles if you hit Otoha's weakness of Ground also, the reason Xia was a pain for me was because I had to rely on damage dealing with fire and then water wall/Alice shikigami to weather her damage even then she has blunt damage that HURTS LIKE AN ARMORED SEMI-TRUCK ON 24S. I'm still traumatized from it.