Touhou Koukishin aka "Dat3DRemilia+SakuyaActionRPGSequel"

[Gesh86]

I've seen a good few people import this game in N-Forza's Kourindo thread, so this shouldn't be too obscure  .

"Touhou Koukishin - Adventures of Scarlet Curiosity" is Ankakesupa's C86 release and a game very much in the vein of their other, Youyou Kengeki Musou ("Dat3DYoumuGame"). With level-ups and equipment, it's now a lot closer to the Ys-series which they're spoofing. I've played through it as Sakuya and will likely soon start a new game as Remilia. Apart from a few minor gripes I have with it, it's a lot of fun! I'd recommend it (which is why this thread exists).

Well, it also exists because I have a question about it. For anyone who has the game and figured it out or is just able to read Japanese, what does the character stat on the very bottom right of the pause menu mean? This one:



At first, I thought it might have been your movement speed, but that seems to be pretty consistent. My best guesses now are a) Item find rate / finding items of better quality or b) the rate at which your charge-meter for spellcards fills up.

Also, for anyone who might be put off by the game being untranslated right now, it's not too inaccessible because of language barrier in my opinion . I wouldn't say it's more complicated than the Katsugeki Kidan series. Not that I'd mind a translation...

[Heartnet]

It means Item drop (rate).

One of my all time favorites. I haven't start on Sakuya's story yet because i didn't have the time, but I'll get that done one day.

[Mew seeker]

Katakana is relatively easy to translate as long as you have access to a chart to know what means what.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=katakana+chart&client=firefox-a&hs=thx&rls=org.mozilla:fr:official&channel=nts&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=rPwVVKbjNoG1sQTWxYGQDw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1440&bih=740
If you keep playing game in Japanese, I suggest you to print one, it's a good investment. ^^

[Gesh86]

Thanks you two! And I see what you mean with that chart. Did it just for fun on that one. "Aitemutorotsufu". With a bit of imagination...

[Soul Devour]

While on this topic, what's the second to the top one do? I've been casually speedrunning the game and it would help a lot to know what each thing does.

[Yookie]

That should be the energy for Skills. It increases with level. Maybe there's some rare equipment that raises it as well.

[Mew seeker]

While on this topic, what's the second to the top one do? I've been casually speedrunning the game and it would help a lot to know what each thing does.

Skill recovery amount.
When you play a lot of Japanese game, you learn that 回復 is used for "healing". : P

[Validon98]

Thanks you two! And I see what you mean with that chart. Did it just for fun on that one. "Aitemutorotsufu". With a bit of imagination...

Actually it would be moreso "Aitemudoroppu," or "item drop." You can barely see the little modifer on what would normally be "hu/fu" to change it to "pu," and the tiny "tsu" is used to double the next consonant.

[Darth_Sirov]

So it's item drop rate?

*I finished Remi's story a while back, still working with Sakuya, but too busy to keep playing. Remi's really fast with her jump attacks, allowing you to hit/avoid enemies much faster.

[Gesh86]

So it's item drop rate?

*I finished Remi's story a while back, still working with Sakuya, but too busy to keep playing. Remi's really fast with her jump attacks, allowing you to hit/avoid enemies much faster.

Yup, it's exactly that.
I've started playing as Remilia yesterday. It's true that she is a lot more mobile than Sakuya with her moves, especially with that aerial divebomb. However, still getting used to her and being more used to Sakuya, Remilia's quickness also comes off as more uncontrollable. There are a good few times when I wish I had a simple attack in mid-jump. I would jump over a boss's danmaku in her face and attack before hitting the ground out of habit. With Remi, I kind of fling myself who knows where doing that  . Her second spellcard though is ridiculously badass to make up for that.

[Darth_Sirov]

Sakuya is more like Youmu... but I guess I'm just used to Remi's moves that I prefer her more than Sakuya.

[Helepolis]

Oh a thread for Adventures of Scarlet Curiosity.

Like said above: Critical rate/chance, Critical damage, Item drop change are the ones listed there. You will find many many items that will alter any of these stats. You really want to achieve a high critical rate so you don't have to keep grinding the aura fairies or stronger enemies in latter stages.

Too bad the game has no difficulty settings. I've played through Remilia on streaming. Usually equipped high % item find to find better crit items then near bosses or certain areas equip the crit dmg and crit chance items. Makes bosses pretty easy that way.

Remilia can put enemies in stunlock if you abuse her 4-hit into SpinToWin skill. You can easily pull off a major damage combo if you keep repeating this and then finish with the aoe spiked multi hit thing (I forgot all the names to be honest). Honestly the whole RPG element was daring but contributed little to the actual game play.

The entire game I used: SpinToWin + Needle pit. For the snake and hisou boss I used Gungnir (needle) shot. Spell card: Spear the Gungnir. All the other skills are fun to see but provide almost no effective play through. Like the Demon Road or the giant silver cross.

edit: I'll see if I can reload my savegame and upload the names of all the attacks she has.

[Darth_Sirov]

Hah, Hele, that's pretty much how I finished with Remi.

I have a friend who did a pacifist run (no killing normal enemies), he ended up @ lvl 18 against the final boss.

[Helepolis]

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Top to bottom (spell cards are the ones costing --):
- Vampire Turn (spin to win) 100
- Vampire Spin (slower spin) 200
- Heart Break (needle/mini gungnir. Easy to spam) 100
- Demon Lord Cradle (drilling dive) 300
- Scarlet Accelerator (blink/dash) 0
- Stigmatise (tosses cross. Slow to fire) 200
- Trident Break (three way needle/mini gugnir. Slightly slow to fire) 200
- Thousand Needles (spike pit multi hit, stuns enemies. Remilia cannot move entire duration) 400
- Scarlet Bomb (GRENADE!) 200
- Vampire Cradle (extended drilling dive)  400
+ Divine Spear - 「Spear the Gungnir」 (really, do I have to explain this? A Charismatic LARGE SPEAR is going to THRUST into the enemy) Spell Card
+ Destiny - 「Miserable Fate」 (AoE chains of fate dealing damage) Spell Card
+ Scarlet Sign - 「Red the Nightless Castle」 (AoE Charisma~) Spell Card

As you can guess, almost all are based on her SWR moves.

[monhan]

Also to note, there are special skills. You can get them by equipping certain equipments.
They are:
360 degree mini-Gungnir spears
Mokou's Phoenix
Alice's dolls
Mishaguji's Stone Spikes
Okuu's Sun Bullet
Charisma Guard

They'll be available in certain chests and gold urns when you can revisit previous stages.

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+ Divine Spear - 「Spear the Gungnir」 (really, do I have to explain this? A Charismatic LARGE SPEAR is going to THRUST into the enemy) Spell Card

As you can guess, almost all are based on her SWR moves.

グングニィァル

[Helepolis]

Also to note, there are special skills. You can get them by equipping certain equipments.
They'll be available in certain chests and gold urns when you can revisit previous stages.

Oh sweet didn't know that. If that is the case, then I need to play this game a little longer as I had ditched it after playing through as Remi.

グングニィァル

Oh you  :V

[Gesh86]

Also to note, there are special skills. You can get them by equipping certain equipments.
They are:
360 degree mini-Gungnir spears
Mokou's Phoenix
Alice's dolls
Mishaguji's Stone Spikes
Okuu's Sun Bullet
Charisma Guard

They'll be available in certain chests and gold urns when you can revisit previous stages.

Didn't know about those as well. Now I feel bad knowing that I probably got some of them and sold them to Rinnosuke out of ignorance. They are of yellow/gold-quality, right?

Also, wow to people beating it as a pacifist-run. I do think as well that the game isn't particularly challenging if you use all the means that it gives you. One could always try to beat it with those 3 garbage items that make all your stats worse from Rinnosuke, though. By the way, what are those in English anyway? I imagine they're some sort of joke or at least cursed or something.

[Darth_Sirov]

My guess is that those stat weakening items have a hidden effect or something that is more beneficial, but because how easy it is to spam Remi's moves, all you need are stat boosts and nothing else. Still, would be nice to have an english patch so I know what all those stuff means and those special effect items.

[Helepolis]

I too might have accidentally sold them to Rinnosuke as some of them were low value but yellow/purple etc.

But if such an item grands an ability. Does it instantly becomes visible when you "carry" the item or you really need to first equip the item before it is listed in the skill set?

[Jaimers]

This game needs a Nightmare difficulty badly. 

Or Inferno.

[rsy_type1]

This game needs a Nightmare difficulty badly. 

Or Inferno.

yeah you really need the three gold  equipments  in Kourindou. :derp:

[Leon゠Helsing]

I'd really like to play this game, but sadly I'm currently stuck with watching playthrough videos as my laptop overheats like it's on the receiving end of Wing Zero Custom's BUSTER RIFLE spam when I tried to play. :V Any recommendations on who I should watch? I prefer someone who's at the very least decent and shows off neat secrets if there are any.

[Gesh86]

This game needs a Nightmare difficulty badly. 

Or Inferno.

I kind of view the unlocking of all stages near the end of the game as somewhat of a Nightmare difficulty, or New Game+. Even better would be a harder mode that you selected right at the start.

Browsing through the inventory of my first playthrough, I noticed that I did actually still keep two of the special items, the ones of Mokou and the Mishaguji. The items are for the weapon-slot and are indeed of gold-quality. They're pretty cool looking, but so far I was only able to test them out in Patchy's library  :3. Don't know if they're actually strategically worthwhile or just a novelty.

Something important: Patch 1.05 became available on Ankakesupa's homepage on this very day! It doesn't seem like a huge update, at least I haven't found any Extra Stage on the map or anything. One new thing is that you can adjust the volume of bgm and sound on the title screen. A more relevant change that I found is that there's another option on the pause menu where you can look at articles of the Bunbunmaru, adding to the story and all. I think they gradually unlock as you go through the game. On my clear-file, I have 8 of them.
The patch notes look long enough to make it seem that there's more than these two things. Bugfixes, maybe?

I'd really like to play this game, but sadly I'm currently stuck with watching playthrough videos as my laptop overheats like it's on the receiving end of Wing Zero Custom's BUSTER RIFLE spam when I tried to play. :V Any recommendations on who I should watch? I prefer someone who's at the very least decent and shows off neat secrets if there are any.

The 2.4 GHz requirement is pretty crazy for a Doujin-game, yeah. As far as complete playthroughs and not just sample videos go, I could only find two silent playthroughs and one Let's Play in Spanish on Youtube. Game's still pretty young though, so maybe some Touhou-enthusiast LPer will do it in a few months. And maybe even post it on this forum. Could happen...

[Phasm]

Is someone working on an english patch for this brilliant game?

[Leon゠Helsing]

Seeing as this game's only been out for a relatively short time, I guess not yet.
Just be patient and wait though, didn't the previous game with Youmu eventually get a translation?

[Mesarthim]

Apparently something is funny on my end in that all skills and items display in question marks but everything else is fine. I can't determine why that is.

[Leon゠Helsing]

Did you try setting the system locale to Japanese before playing?

[Mesarthim]

I figured that's the first thing that'd be asked. I'm always in Japanese locale. First thing I do almost after reformats. That's why I'm puzzled.

Edit: Reinstallation does nothing. Literally everything is displaying correctly except skills and items (even the text by spellcard names is in Japanese but not the spell itself!)

http://i.imgur.com/g59stR9.jpg in a nutshell. I cannot on the life of me find out why this is occurring. Japanese locale, reinstallations, etc. No dice. Still question marks for items and skills.

[Heartnet]

I used to encounter this problem too. What I did to fix it was changing the date and time format to Japanese (Japan).
(In case you didn't know where that is, go to the Format tab of the Region and Language window.)

[Helepolis]

Odd, I'm running standard English OS with Dutch location. Game is running in JP through applocale and no issues with the text.

An idea which I have no idea if it might work. Have you installed the game with AppLocale too? Run the setup as JP language AppLocale and then boot the game in JP Local too.

Otherwise I am pretty clueless.