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Has ZUN forgotten about the PC98 games?
Dollywitch:
It kind of feels to me like he has. I don't think we'll ever find out what happened to Mima :( Also from a lot of what's said about Marisa in CoLA etc. it doesn't make any reference to her relationship with Mima which is a little sad.
AntKiller:
LLS is still my fav touhou game :V
Stuffman:
ZUN doesn't like talking about the PC-98 games in interviews. It is safe to say they are no longer canon. EoSD was likely a reboot of the setting, and seeing anyone from PC-98 again is wishful thinking; the only characters that have made the transition are ones he'd mentioned were his favorites. Mima is a possibility since I think she falls in that category, but don't count on it.
Why he doesn't like referencing the PC-98 games is anyone's guess. Perhaps he thought events like the ones in PoDD and MS didn't fit with the new canon he had in mind.
nintendonut888:
It's clear that PC-98 contradicts the new canon in many ways. It's safe to say it's a reboot of the setting, but I disagree with it being retconned. After all, Alice and Yuka make references to their encounteres in PCB and PoFV respectively.
Dollywitch:
--- Quote from: Stuffman on July 20, 2009, 09:03:36 AM ---ZUN doesn't like talking about the PC-98 games in interviews. It is safe to say they are no longer canon. EoSD was likely a reboot of the setting, and seeing anyone from PC-98 again is wishful thinking; the only characters that have made the transition are ones he'd mentioned were his favorites. Mima is a possibility since I think she falls in that category, but don't count on it.
Why he doesn't like referencing the PC-98 games is anyone's guess. Perhaps he thought events like the ones in PoDD and MS didn't fit with the new canon he had in mind.
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Aside from Mima I don't think it really contradicts the new canon that much. it's just a bizarre black hole in the series' past.