Labyrinth of Touhou 8F

[Pesco]

NG+ games lets you skip the recruitment events like Cirno since you already have the characters.

[Raikaria]

The main thing I have to say about that LoT2 image is...

Dat Parsee. Seriously. It sent shivers down my spine with the shadow and green eye glint.

[Validon98]

Dat Parsee. Seriously. It sent shivers down my spine with the shadow and green eye glint.

Maybe she'll be like she is in "Do the Right Thing" and have a split personality, one personality being somewhat nice and the other completely murderous.

[Battler]

I haven't looked too deeply, but from what I've seen it's almost the same as LoT. I could probably make a patch for it, if I had a willing translator. It looks like that guy wasn't a forum regular, so contacting him through there would likely be fruitless.

With regards to this, I would actually be interested in helping with translating this. I can't say I'm amazing or anything, but I could certainly contribute.

I actually completely forgot they were making a non-Touhou game until I randomly looked in this thread and had my mind exploded by this sequel announcement. I should see about playing it...

[Garlyle]

Get Hype, there's a Labyrinth of Touhou 2 announced!

[Serela]

...you do realize we've been talking about that for most of the last 30 posts in the thread, right? :getdown:

[SirChaotick]

Get Hype, there's a Labyrinth of Touhou 2 announced!

I imagine you noticed with that avatar and flavour text change   :derp:

[Gesh86]

Enter another latecomer to the big news. All I can say is: HECK. YEAH.  :]

The only thing that could make me feel ever giddier would be if Hina were confirmed (and turned out to be an OP-character in the end).

[Serela]

iirc one of the Special Disk bonuses talking about Wriggle said he was debating between Wriggle and Hina for the poison-specialist.

Actually lemme...

I wanted a character that specialized in poison, but there were other alternatives like Medicine
and Hina (in some interpretations) to think about.
In the end, thanks to StB which gave the impression that Wriggle was a poison-related insect, and that in production terms, I was working on the dialogue for the 12F boss (= the decision was taking far too long), I ended up just deciding on going with Wriggle.

The art for Wriggle (both the original and the alphes version I used) were kinda cute. She's very fabulous before poison starts getting resisted often near the end of maingame (and then completely drops off the charts damage-wise in Plus). And her moves are really cute looking/sounding! Comet on Earth is, at least :T I like using her a lot.

However, Hina I'm sure would have been nice as well. Hmm. I wonder who the cast will be~
...I also wonder if Labyrinth 1 will be canon. Maribel returning or more Mannosuke? Heheh.

[qazmlpok]

...I also wonder if Labyrinth 1 will be canon. Maribel returning or more Mannosuke? Heheh.

Rinnosuke is on the page, and it'd be weird to have him in the game without his powerup. Maribel, however, is less certain. Mary and Renko are sent back to the outside world after 20F boss, and they only appear in the plus-disk because the plus-disk is largely unrelated to the maingame plot.

[Validon98]

Rinnosuke is on the page, and it'd be weird to have him in the game without his powerup.

I think he'll still be powerful (thus I think the games will share continuity), but not join the party immediately. Either that or he loses some of it at the beginning.

That does make me wonder what is actually going to happen. Is Another Space going to return? Is it simply an incident within Gensokyo itself? Which Touhou is behind it? Or is someone new behind it? Gah, I can't wait for it to come out!

[Ikari]

...Labyrinth of Touhou 2?

...My entire life is now complete in the most opulent and wonderful way.

[Hinacle]

omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg
YES YES YES. I CAN DIE HAPPILY NOW.


Why do I get the feeling it might have to do with the underground people.....

[Starxsword]

I think he'll still be powerful (thus I think the games will share continuity), but not join the party immediately. Either that or he loses some of it at the beginning.

He had some kind of power up in this continuity, because of the tear in space or something. Renko and Merry are pretty weak and they still have good skills. So, if he doesn't have his power up, maybe he will be a buffer of some kind or a crafter of some kind, both of these scenarios would work.

[Ikari]

Speaking of which, and I feel terribly stupid for asking this, but what exactly gave Rinnosuke his powers and stuff? I never quite understood what the game meant.

[Pandaology]

I understood it as he collapsed the power of all possible outcomes into one reality, basically hijacking power from alternate timelines and stuff like that. I might be wrong though, It was just the explanation that made sense to me.

[Hanzo K.]

Essentially, he "Pulled a Zeltrech", to those who know the Nasuverse.

[Ikari]

I understood it as he collapsed the power of all possible outcomes into one reality, basically hijacking power from alternate timelines and stuff like that. I might be wrong though, It was just the explanation that made sense to me.

Oh yeeaah, that's right. Thanks for the summary!

That kind of explains why Rinnosuke's attacks are also a bunch of references.

[Pesco]

I think out of the entirety of the threads, this is the frst time there's a question about the plot :V

[Parallaxal]

I've always considered the game's plot more of an excuse plot anyway.

[SuccinctAndPunchy]

You people actually understand what's going on? I think I lost the plot around the point where they took the piss out of me for sequence breaking.

[Ikari]

I followed the plot for floor 12, 16, 18 and 20.

Everything else was quotes and references thrown at my face so hard it almost hurt.

[Validon98]

I haven't gotten too far into it, but it's mostly references and such until people who are suspected to have something to do with the plot start showing up i.e. Yukari, the Eientei crew, Rinnosuke, etc.
It's not supposed to be a very serious game.

[Mr. Sacchi]

I'm kinda/sorta back to playing this, I'm still stuck i nthe very beginning of the postgame, reimu level at 140.

I'm still one star away from acessing the Plus Disk. My choices for getting that third star are: Get every single item in the normal game (Rough and tedious but not impossible. Will have to rough it out on the boss rush, though), Bloodstained Seal bosses (AFAIK, they should only be done after a while in the plus disk) and V.2 Bosses (AFAIK, can't, since I'dh ave to beat the final boss v.2 as well, right?)

So my only real choice seems to be roughing it out on the boss rush, any tips? Aside from the usual "manage your TP/SP as well as you can" tips.

Party is Meiling/Iku/Reimu/Nitori/Mystia/Yukari/Kaguya/Flandre/Ran/Minoriko/Suwako/Komachi. It's worked well for me so far, but I dunno, feedback?

[Dr.Strafe]

Hm.. You're just about ready to handle any of those three stars that you're asking about. 20F grants a nice amount of experience, and grinding there for a bit should allow you to be powerful enough to defeat the v2 Bosses, or even Boss Rush for that final item. You don't have to beat Final Boss v2, as that is a star in itself for much later. You could also take a crack at the first two Bloodstained Seal bosses to see how well you fare on that challenge.

Hm.. I forget. Is the path to the "rest of 20F" blocked off by a star checkpoint? If so, that will hinder you trying to finish the v2's and Bloody Papa.. If so, then the Items star is your best bet for now..

[Parallaxal]

You should be able to beat most V2 bosses as you are right now. It's definitely an easier star than the Bloodstained Seals, as none of them are as strong as the Hibachi twins. As was said earlier, the V2 final boss doesn't come until you've already cleared the other stars. A few of them might give you some difficulty, but since they each give a ton of EXP anyway, you can just kill the easier ones first and work your way up.

The boss rush is not too bad, either. I'd finish that before finishing the Bloodstained Seals. You are already more than strong enough to defeat the first two Bloodstained Seals on the 1st and 6th floors, and you might (or might not) be strong enough to take on the ones on the 9th and 20th floors. But I'd save the final seal for after completing the V2 bosses and the boss rush.

[I have no name]

If you can beat Maribel handily you're ready for the Boss Rush.
V2 bosses are pretty easy as a whole, a few of them are kinda tough but mostly the multi-target ones.
First 2 Bloodstained Seal bosses are easy, 3rd is pretty easy too, 4th can be cheesed and Hibachi Twins are 0___0 (but that miiight have been due to my strategy of nuking both down with Kaguya and carefully tracking and manipulating HP loss combined with being underleveled...

[redlakitu]

I have abandoned my first attempt at the game and am about to start a second one, but before I do and mess everything up yet again, I'd like to ask a simple clarifying question regarding character building. Not any particular characters, but building in general. Does a sentence along the lines of "the best build for Marisa is a pure attack one" mean that absolutely every level up bonus should go into Attack, or is it still wise to allocate something into an universally useful stat, like Spell Points or Speed, once in a while?

And one more thing, does it matter if I raise skill levels before or after leveling up?

[Validon98]

I can't answer your first question (though I guess boosting things besides a characters main stats would be good), but it doesn't matter if you boost skill levels before or after leveling up, as boosting skill levels adds to a multiplier that multiplies your base stat by a certain amount. This multiplier grows also with level ups and level up bonuses. The base value is boosted only upon level up, and it will immediately be affected by the multiplier you have built up so far. So boost skill levels when you want, because it doesn't affect leveling up at all.

[Hanzo K.]

You actually want Magic on Marisa, not Attack. Attack is for brawlers like Remi and Flan.