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Touhou 16 「東方天空璋(とうほうてんくうしょう) ～ Hidden Star in Four Seasons」 announced
Phasm:
That might just be the "Aura" ( that thing that most final bosses have like Yuyuko's Fan and Byakuren's Lotus ) that the Culprit has this time around.
TrueShadow:
I doubt the game would be that dark considering you can play as berserk Cirno. Heck, I can see the final boss portrayed as a butt monkey since she got defeated by something she caused in the first place.
Alrysc:
Quoting the interview with ZUN in BAiJR here: "For Phantasmagoria of Flower View, the theme I made was "enjoyable while playing and after playing". Usually, you may think "playing is fun", and it's exciting to do so, but if playing is all there is, then it's unexpectedly not fun." If this game is enjoyable while playing but not after, then maybe it has something to do with the overall atmosphere and story in addition to the negative character art. My guess is that those three factors will be overall depressing, as opposed to PoFV's "Feel-good quality".
gilde:
I went and found a transcript (+recording) of the Nikenme stream since I was interested. ZUN's not so much saying that it'll be depressing or dark, so much as it'll be, like-- unexpected, I guess is the word? A curveball? Some quotes that stand out to me:
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* You probably won't understand it even after after you play it a bunch.
* Like "wait, *that's* what the whole jade scepter thing meant? Huh?", that sort of thing.
* You've got people predicting that the storyline will be about such-and-such, you're expecting a certain kind of world based on the trial version, and then you see this totally different world opening up and it's like, what? All of a sudden. It's gross like that.
* (Buta: Of course it all makes sense in your mind, though.) Yeah-- if anything, I set the world up to make sense from the start, really. Like, "oh, so *that's* what that means...!". Still kind of incomprehensible, though.
* Or "I thought I'd be able to beat the game really easy, but..." (Buta: *laughing* Oh god, I'm getting more nervous with every sentence.) But I've still got time to tweak that sort of thing, so it's fine. (Buta: You're still working on it though, right? Still working on it.) There's in-universe factors to consider too, though...
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i'm looking forward to the same feeling i got when i found out that lolk's stage 5 boss was named clownpiece but, like, times 10. unironically
e: going back through a couple of other recent shows, he said that he tries to make the CD silhouettes guessable on purpose; it's part of the fun. Junko's is the sole exception cause he wanted to make LoLK "difficult" in every respect, lol
edit 2: vvv IM DUMB
Kafuu:
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