Faries finally lost.

>>1667013 >no fairies Akyuu, who let you make the thread...

>>1667035 OH SHIT THIS IS A GREAT IDEA

I find it funny how Nina basically slurp up all of the discarded data and she turned into the goddess of Venus, it's one of those bullshit things ZUN writes but is very endearing.

I love this spellcard lore-wise it has all kinds of bullet types from various games fitting the character that collects data perfectly. We've got EoSD knives, IN stars, SA hearts, TD arrows, rhombuses from this game and uh circles and pellets from bunch of other games I guess

>>1667046 That means she most be pretty fucking strong to carry those things.

>>1667065 must"

>>1667051 Kek why would someone turn into the goddess of truth and beauty from consuming the content (((lunarians))) filtered I wonder

>>1667087 Maybe she consumed so much bad stuff it cancelled out.

Oh yeah another thing... We HAVE space for more than 6 newhus but 2 midboss fights are just buffed up pyramid fights! What the hell what a waste of opportunity, Stage 5 mid could have even been Rei'sen sure but stage 4 could easily have a newhu bringing up the total to a nice 7. Instead we got this, lowest newhus total since PoFV that's so disappointing.

>>1667108 No, the lunarians are life-denialists so having a character turn into a Promethean figure because she consumed everything they hate makes perfect sense. the only issue is she ONLY had the filtered information, so is completely Yin

>>1667118 I wonder if the pyramids are going to make it to next year poll.

>>1667118 I thought less newhus and actually having oldhus return is what people wanted...

Oh shit, the extra stage has the PC-98 thing where random bullets appear just before the boss fight. That hasn't been seen since PCB.

>>1667132 Return as what, as fuggin stones lmao No but seriously some people want newhus some oldhus and I think it's VERY neat that each ending has different oldhu associated with selected stone but I think we can all agree that the pyramid midboss TWICE are two wasted opportunities

>>1665462 I guess Yukari did pop in one of Marisa's LoLK endings before but man I really had hope for Alice this time around, guess Reimu's PCB stone will also have her

>>1667142 I think 2 pyramid fights is lame, but I also think that being disappointed by there only being 1 or 2 less newhus than usual is a little silly. And then ZUN reveals in 20.5 that the pyramid was actually a newhu all along who was disguised

Also this Patchy ending slide is just fantastic she looks very OOO-HOHOHOHOHO not how I would usually picture her

>>1667166 She looks very pretty in this ending art lol I'm gonna try one Okina's stones and see who pops up since no one is playing Okina's stones

>>1667139 When I was watching the chinese stream I got baited hard thinking it was Mima or a PC98 hu returning as my heart started pumping adrenaline.

>>1667166 Isn't Patchy a bit smug in SSiB?

>>1667186 I'm gonna do Marisa okina eventually and I fully expect for, well, Okina to show up since she likes to groom Marisa, but I think there are many strong candidates considering Aunn would fit Reimu scenario, Narumi would fit Marisa, and of course Nemuno could show up having a discussion with Ubame since similar thing happened in Marisa/Sanae ending >>1667195 she is very passive aggressive from what I've seen in all her depictions yes, but shoe wouldn't be quick to just do very loud over-the-top laugh

>>1667013 How're you guys enjoying the new 2hu?

>>1667210 Bleh First one was meant to reply to >>1667176

>>1667214 I will when I get home after work.

I probably should've asked this when demo released, but what the fuark does first green gem do as support slot? I was almost sure support slots gave meter ability of corresponding stone, but apparently only main stone matters. Also, NEVER pick red2/green1+yellow2 support, this shit gotta be most useless combo ever as balls are in the back, but never dense enough to make good rear protection like Okina's card. >>1667118 Better less but better. Honestly I'm glad ZUN doesn't spam literally hus like pc98hus/Koakuma anymore.

>>1667221 Same.

>>1667186 He did it again. >PCB is about a ghost antagonist, fans think it's Mima >ZUN trolls by bringing back Alice, having the ghost antagonist be Yuyuko, and the extra bosses being Ran and Yukari after the PC-98 spawning bullets >IN is about an eternal night? PoDD Mima's ending? MIMA?! >Nope, it's about the Princess Kaguya mythology >PoFV has a returning character from PC-98? A GREEN HAIRED GIRL?! MIMA?! >Nope, it's Yuuka. >TD is about going into a mausoleum? Gimmick is about spirits? Mima? >Wrong. >UDoaLG?! of all Living Ghosts?! A new Phantasmagoria game? MIMA! >No.

>>1667233 I think he's doing it on purpose.

ACTUALLY responding to >>1667186 yeah same, I knew it's not gonna be but PC98 bullets definitely made my heart skip, especially since i was doing heavy pc98 grind for the past half a year. ...and hen I just raged a bit seeing the extra boss FUGGIN NAME I swear he is doing it on purpose jsut to troll all of us

>>1667210 Marisa sure is popular among the sages..... on a different note Marisa's Okina stone damage is so fucking bad I had to switch it up both shoot options with the PCB stone

>>1667176 Good thing I had several children with the Kyuun before she passed away. And its also a good thing we already agreed that I would impregnate her next incarnation too

>>1667214 It's alright

I hope Shinki comes back first

>>1667268 Well, Makai was brought into current canon and Byakuren has spellcards that reference her so it's far more possible for her to come back first. ZUN just needs to lay off the beer and remember Makai exists in Windows canon since UFO.

>>1667240 Now the question is WHY the fuck did he do that. He could have looked at the older games, saw older characters and instead of bringing one back he fixates on the funny non-spell thing. Or by pure coincidence he did that thing again.

>>1667258 >popular I'd like to think she is under observation, she is definitely an odd one and much more interesting character than Reimu. Just a normal human, not even magician, can't even fly on her own, yet always in the thick of things, having an ability to use magic and resolve incidents as well as Reimu despite no shrine maiden's divine powers.

So, is this an incident aranged by the lunarians? Or by the sages?

>>1667293 Lunarian niggers spying on your data.

>>1667293 Eirin also played a hand in the incident so that Marisa/Reimu would rescue Yuiman.

>>1667279 He also needs to remember how hot Alice's mom is.

>>1667279 tbf MS was such an epic showdown that I don't really want him to touch it, it would be best for all the PC98 stuff if ZUN simply started selling windows ports after the german brony does all the hard work

>>1667282 I'm gonna say, that at least with the endstage bullets it wasn't malicious since VERY similar bullet patters were at the end of PCB Extra/Phantasm stages so it's possible he just wanted to reference that rather than PC98. As for NINA instead of MIMA I have no idea, the character has no business being called that there wouldn't be anything wrong with calling her Venus, unless ZUN is that strongly against using western names in his works. Awful, awful names such as Marisa or Alice for example no way ZUN would ever do that. ...yeah he just trolling for the sake of ORORORORORO YOU RIKE? and keep the Mima meme alive I don't know man

>>1667317 Hecatia is already a Western deity with a western name, maybe Venus is just too western for him

>>1667307 True. It'd be more fun to imagine that MS is canon but that the final fight ended with the entirety of Makai being consumed in flames and turning into an empty post-apocalyptic ruin.

What would you think if touhou games stopped here? There are some ominous clues in the game that it might be final one. It also might be machine mistranslation too but disregard that for the time being.

>>1667340 it can't be all of it, just most because extra stage is in makai isn't it? but it would make sense for Alice to flee afterwards and live in the human world if most of Makai is destroyed like is depicted in UFO

>>1667355 The only time Touhou was going to end was with IN. Ever since, ZUN has said he'll make touhou games until he dies.

>>1667233 >>1667235 I feel like even that's a cope. I think that the thought of Mima hasn't crossed ZUN's mind in decades, except when people mention her to him, which visibly upsets him. It's either entirely coincidence, or the vestigial remnants of the concept of Mima in his subconsciousness, subtly manipulating his creative decisions.

>>1667355 Nah, ZUN is smart enough to know he shouldn't stop making them until he dies. ...Oh yeah he will die one day.

>>1667355 Ending the game with a mediocre story, 3 of the newhus being fake, AI genned slop, and the Lunarians getting away with being assholes once again would be quite the ending

>>1667385 There's no explicit statement anywhere that stage 1-3 newhus are AI beings, that's just some bullshit people are spewing and spreading. There's just the THEORETICAL IMPLICATION that it could be true because of Yuiman's powers.

>>1667394 Speaking of 'em here's Okina's stone ending with Mari

>>1667394 I saw a few Japs talk about it so I'll believe them. Also because it's funny to believe it.

>>1667355 I think I would be incredibly sad no matter when it ends. Touhou is the *last* long running franchise I have any interest in, everything else I ever loved was ruined by either studios getting shut down, greedy publishers or the more recent one "modern-audience-ing" it. When ZUN and/or Touhou dies for me it will be seriously something like losing a close family member, I know it sounds silly and cringe to have such a strong connection to a stupid videogame franchise but I dunno, I spend at least 1/3rd of my time when not sleeping playing videogames and very often 2hu videogames so it's a big part of my life no matter how much of a loser it makes me. And I'm OLD so 2hu has been with me for a very long time. As for if it's a good stopping point... I think it's not. Celebration of your old entries is all good and well but it doesn't bring any finality to the story, I think we'd need some more "happily-ever-after" finality put into it first.

>>1667398 Bwuh? No oldhu? that's really unusual, ZUN could have at least put Nue into the conversation and it would fit... How weird. He keeps subverting my expectation he must have had Sandro as a ghostwriter

>>1667355 MS is still the only game I would be fine with being the end

>>1667431 >"must have had Sandro as a ghostwriter" >characters are entirely fathomable >no wall to be scaled >the razor is thin >no party or tragedy >we only got some of it wrong >no horribly unspeakably evil villain who's just the worst even thinking about who I'm referencing is making me shake with rage I hate that guy Nah

I really hope ZUN rebalances the game so that life pieces that you collect when max on lives gets turned into bomb pieces, the amount of life pieces that go straight into trash when you are having a good run is insane to the point I actually considered intentionally dying a few times just to refresh my 2 bomb stock. Also would help NM attempts not gonna lie Anyway Marisa Creature Red ending oldhu is so obvious and predictable it's painful compared to other ending slides

>>1667480 I'm happy to see her again I wonder what she will say when translators get off their asses

>>1663230 What is this and please don't be futa/gay.

>>1667385 >3 of the newhus being fake, AI genned slop What's the context behind this claim?

>>1667506 Some anons from 4/v/ have been playing Metal Gear Solid too much

>>1667506 they are sussy

>>1667535 >>1667394 Then again, everything needs to be translated first. If it is true, I'll eat my words. and do my JP reps

Even if the newhus are fake AIs what does that even mean? There are still around after the events of the game it's not like they were virtual reality constructs and then suddenly disappear... As far as resident of Gensokyo are concerned the are just new different type of Youkais unless Kappas manage to reprogram them or something If it's true I think ZUN just made it because it sounded cool in his head and they are gonna be treated as any other Gensokyo resident if they appear in the future.

>>1667580 > Even if the newhus are fake AIs what does that even mean? This, Gensokyo is already fraudland. You can't make up "fake" youkai since they all are made up in the first place, so it's literally means nothing to call anyone fake.

Trying the game now, and some anons were right, the game feels much more easier now and I think it's because of the P items not being as scarse so when you die you can get full power fairly quickly. I just made it to Toochan and died (lol)

Also the newhus wouldn't even be the first robot/AI hu in Gensokyo... THAT'S RIGHT BITCHES IT'S ANOTHER PC98 REFERENCE, MIMA WHEN??

Can't say I'm a big fan of Beast Hardness stone since you can almost max out on bombs *by the end of stage 1* and then all the bomb fragments you collect go straight into trash for a while - at least gimme a few bonus points for it ZUN dammit - but I'd be damned if it doesn't immensely help surviving the later half of the game. Also another predictable guest "old"hu, this one fits pretty well and is much better guest than in Reimu ending for same stone. Done for today, will try to finish Marisa and do couple of Reimu runs tomorrow. Hopefully the translation will hit soon...

>>1667422 Look at this fag. >>1667398 What's faputa doing there? >>1667301 I still can't help but think Okina is involved due to the four seasons appearing in several stages. >>1667580 Touhous aren't robots though. I think there is some mistranslation. Please remember what gensokyo means. And do not forget that Suika is the strongest touhou around, besides Cirno

>>1667684 Congrats anon I havent touched the green stones yet but they seem pretty busted Anyways this is who pops up with the WBaWC stone in Reimu's ending

Outside of memes and shitposts, it's not a fine idea to bring Mima back over clapping like a seal. I understand why she's popular, but here's the thing: I'm certain that ZUN will fuck her up on purpose like how he did with Reimu's balls in UM, because both didn't fit his "current vision".

>>1667750 It's kinda weird because in WBaWC endings Marisa was a bit more pro Keiki while Reimu leaned towards supporting animal spirits and here the oldhus endings are reversed... I'm sure ZUN just forgot or something...

>>1667760 > Reimu's balls

>>1667764 I'm just happy we got to see the cake again Who knows what they are talking about

>>1667804 FUCK YOU

>>1667784 It does look nice on her I understand her jealously

>>1667784 speaking of MoF stone Reimu ending

>>1667874 Who's that girl at the first pic?

>>1667704 What does Gensokyo mean?

>>1667809 Well fuck you leather head

Halfway done with Extra. Fairly difficult, took a few tries. It was fun learning all the gimmicky spellcards. I'll definitely be coming back to it after I'm done with the rest of the game. By the way, Yellow2 was forced to time out two spells. It really does no damage.

>>1667784 I need to have jealous hate (love) sex with Parsee >>1667804 Woah its Nina!

>>1667883 Fantasy/Illusion Land

>>1667889 Oh you meant like literally

>>1667684 >you can almost max out on bombs *by the end of stage 1* and then all the bomb fragments you collect go straight into trash for a while I've had this problem for Extends in HSiFS. If you score well enough, you HAVE to intentionally kill yourself to avoid missing an Extend. It's very annoying when doing LNB. The game doesn't reward for good survival in the early game so you can't stockpile Extends for the harder parts

>>1667883 WHAT DO YOU THINK IT MEANS?

>>1667898 DON'T ANSWER MY QUESTION WITH ANOTHER QUESTION Also pretend I wrote that in bold red too

>>1667905 Here's a cool script to improve your imageboard experience https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/533268-8chanss

>>1667880 Stage 4 newhu pretty sure Kanako is telling her backstory

>>1667874 DO NOT HARM THE DEERS!

>>1667959 Kanako had such long hair and hunted animals? She must be apex predator.

>>1667627 For some reason I was expecting VIVIT, despite her never going to Gensokyo

>>1668020 But VIVIT did go to Gensokyo in Seihou 1's extra

>>1668031 But that happened in a Seihou game, not a Touhou game, which means it's canon to Seihou but not Touhou.

>>1668020 VIVIT could very well exist in Renko and Maribel's time period. They have the tech.

are there particular characters or VAs that imagine would fit certain 2hus? I always liked to think that Patchouli sounds like Mako from GuP or Nanachi from MiA

>>1667013 Here's a slightly more up to date archive of the previous thread: https://archive.ph/cWzYL

>>1668252 >VA Touhous have no voice and any other opinion is blasphemic. They all communicate by reading each other's balloon text

>>1667885 >By the way, Yellow2 was forced to time out two spells. It really does no damage. Yeah I think ZUN expects you to modify your shottype at some point, by the time Extra starts i think it is even expected. I think it even says in the game somewhere that white mimic stones are weaker than assigning a stone to that slot even when of same type as main stone

>>1668083 It's as canon as the PC98 games that aren't even remotely alluded to in windows, it happened but it's never mentioned directly Reminder ZUN has gone on record saying Yuuka is a "guest from the old work" meaning that in PoFV she served the exact same purpose that she in did Seihou 2.

.............I forgot to spoiler

>>1668710 ok thats better Reimu's PCB stone ending features:

I don't like the new game's soundtrack. ZUN is washed

>>1668712 I like how she almost does fingerguns on second picture like "Eyyyyy"

God I wish I was this haniwabro...

>>1668712 Yuyu's headwear ghost thingie being alive is something I didn't know I needed but I'm glad that we now have it.

>>1668746 I didn't even notice that! That's new lore as far as I'm concerned

Oh neat thcrap started the work, you can patch the full version with the demo translation already

Ooooooooh... VENUSian alien I get it now... Very cheeky ZUN, very cheeki breeki...

Oh and it looks like all BGM tracks and spellcard names are already translated too so we can try to dig some info from those, the dialog past stage 3 remains untranslated for now sadly

>>1668816 Reimu's Red1 route is fully translated in patch center https://www.thpatch.net/wiki/Th20

>>1668819 Oh that's neat thanks for the info gonna play it later. For now we can also read the DEEP DEEP LORE of the new music tracks

>>1668826 Ariya's comments mention something about including a vocal track so chances are we could have gotten more mongolian screams again lol

The endings mention that all of the energy released from the fight with Iwanaga was poured into the Outside World with hints that the next game will also have to do with the Outside World. Could that mean a new Tasofro game? A new spinoff game with Sumireko that isn't bugged and rushed to shit?

Guys wait hold on I think I might be schizoing out but I think I'm into something here.. - Asama has a spellcard where she shoots arrows at you called "Beautiful memories of Just Hunting Deer" - her theme is called "Reminisence of Deer-Hunting" - She might be inspired by Green/Roman godddes of hunt Artemis - Artemis is also considered PERSONFICATION OF THE MOON and she works for moonies - she also shows up in Extra stage as Venus sidekick which also makes perfect sense because Venus has a Artemis Chasma on it's surface not to mention obvious reference to Venus&Artemis from Sailor Moon

>>1668905 Enough with the outside world ZUN I don't want more crypto in my Gensokyo Unless ZUN decided to bring THE SECOND BEST and THE THIRD BEST PC98 characters back thanks to it then I'm all for it But to answer your question... both options feels equally possible as LoLK is a continuation of a storyline that started in ULiL which was a Tasfro Sumireko game, so it would make sense to follow up LoLK 2.0 with more of both.

>>1668905 >that isn't bugged and rushed to shit? Now now, why would we do that?

>>1668921 ZUN could just make both of them students from the same university as Renko and Maribel

Oh hey, turns out that Nareko was indeed a creation, she was created by Chimi. She just didn't know that Nareko became self-aware.

>>1669008 But I thought Chimi is an AI as well? Are the story leaks all bullshit then?

>>1668907 You are onto something >>1668921 Ability cards fightan soon :^) Anyways here's my first hard clear and Reimu's Yellow1/SA stone ending according to the google translated ending Yellow1 stone has the same power as Satori and that's why she came to investigate to the surface a joke is made about her doing detective work again inside the pyramid >>1669013 Put it simply people misunderstood Asama's dialogue

>>1669018 Congrats on you Hard clear! >spoiler I dislike CDS a lot but that is a cute reference, well done >people misunderstood Asama's dialogue DAMMIT JAPS WITH YOUR MISINFORMATION AGAIN

>>1669018 She looks very smug

>>1669022 I just hope Mizuchi makes it to a game someday >>1669024 It's only natural, she is an 11 point youkai after all

Couple of details I noticed from my run of Reimu R1... First of all if >>1669008 is true then it's neat how Nareko when thinking about Youkai is thinking about a Nue which Chimi is kinda supposed to be from what I understand. She is thinking about her mom how sweet. It's really neat how many little details ZUN put into the dialogue. Second of all >>1667704 yup absolutely this is getting suspicious, the center room of the pyramid is called a Pit of Four Seasons? And Okina is somehow nowhere to be found in this game? Yeah, uh-huh not likely I bet the plot of the next game or manga is gonna be all about how Okina was working with moonies all along. Lastly BASEDmu absolutely refuses to acknowledge any past associations with the moonies. Stone cold, love it.

>>1669141 Okina does appear in the ending where Reimu talks with Nareko, Ending 4. https://www.thpatch.net/wiki/Th20/Reimu%27s_Endings/en-google#Ending_4

>>1669198 >>1669141 Also, Reimu doesn't remember Toyohime because they never met. She only met Yorihime.

>>1669203 Still kind of baffled Yorihime wasn't even included as an alternative boss or something, sisters normally come in pairs in touhou

>>1669198 >sages didn't know anything about it My 4D chess conspiracy is ruined.

>>1669141 Is the name of the white hair porn bait Asama or Yuiman?

>>1669244 Honestly don't know either because people keep spouting one or the other and I haven't bothered to check which one is her last name

>>1669244 I call her Asama since it's easier for me since we don't really have any names or words in my language starting with Y so it's a bit unnatural for me but I'll adjust once it's universally decided. Sorry for causing confusion, we are still in the uncovered territory here. And people still call Nareko "Michigan" just because its easier to remember, maybe she'll get a nickname eventually too.

>>1669318 >>1669333 Exactly, I keep seeing people calling her by both names Im confused

>>1669333 >still call Nareko "Michigan" What? And Yuiman is very easy to pronounce. But why would you call Nareko Michigan?

>>1669141 >likely I bet the plot of the next game or manga is gonna be all about how Okina was working with moonies all along. I'm surprised that ZUN hasn't done a sage civil war plot yet. Between Yukari abusing her powers to fuck with the Lunarians in SSiB, Kasen sending Reimu to the shadow realm in WaHH and Okina fucking with the natural balance as part of an elaborate job interview in HSiFS you would think that the other sages would be pissed off. I enjoy plotlines like that, the ones that are natural conclusions of ongoing conflicts, rather than "Touhou + current thing".

>>1669365 >Pic There's literally NOTHING wrong with a plot of Remil- I mean Lyra Redrock causing trouble because she wants ice cream

>>1669351 Nareko's full name is Nareko Michigami, very quickly after demo released people gave her a nickname of Michigan due to her surname and her being an apparent non-jap'hu. Idk man I've seen it everywhere and I still see people refer to her that way on halfchan >And Yuiman is very easy to pronounce. yes it is but... it's really hard to describe I'd have to somehow explain how my brain is wired due to my native language subconsciously preferring not to try to use words starting with Y. it's like, I dunno, you see Spanish sentence starting with upside down question mark at the beginning and you know that it just means that the sentence is a question and you could say and understand that sentence if you know Spanish but it still feels wrong to you if it's not your native language.

>>1669365 That's what I meant with the increase in seriousness. I liked the silly stuff where they kept almost killing each other over wanting a normal day or a frog. Also Okina did not only fuck with the natural balance, she also purposefully spilled oil into all of Gensokyo.

>>1669365 sensible kek

>>1669398 Never heard of it. Probably because it's cuckchinz. Meanwhile language: Just learn the proper sounds of each letter. I really do not understand why some languages decide not to pronounce letters the same way they are. Italian and Polish are the only languages that come to my mind that pronounce things as they are without bullshit. Actually, no, I don't really know that feeling. I know that feeling when something sounds weird in one of the languages I know, because it does sound weird. But I have yet to encounter anything that would be weird by being weird.

>>1669203 No, Reimu lived at their place for several weeks. They ate together and played together. Reimu actually just doesn't give a fuck.

>>1669413 I should reread SSiB+CiLR then. It's been 10 years since I did.

>>1669413 Reimu only remembers people she fights

>>1668618 >the PC98 games that aren't even remotely alluded to in windows But that's wrong, they're alluded to multiple times. From references to the LLS incident in PoFV to referencing Genji in 19, they're at the very least "remotely" alluded to. >>1668746 Pyonta has competition...

>>1669485 I meant games like PoDD or HRtP, I know MS's Makai appears in UFO and Yuuka exist, I didn't mean PC98 as a whole

>>1669601 Well, Mima exists in both of those, and Mima's been referenced, so both of them have been referenced! Another decisive victory, thank you Mima-sama!

>>1669615 Mima? No no i'ts Nina now

>>1669621 Ninaccino?

BREAKING Drunk Oni Loli BROKE moon Residents of Gensokyo are very festive

>>1669650 I will drink in her honor

Me after spending the entire day reading about the entire games through multiple sources and altchans.

>>1667784 Why is her brain full of static?

>>1669836 Read the lore.

>>1669904 I don't know how to read

>>1669836 She wants the D

>>1669994 And I will make my solemn duty in life to give it to her

>>1669365 Lyra a cute.

>>1669960 What the fuck did you just write, fuck you.

>>1670044 >"Give me all the ice cream or I will make the weather too cold for ice cream forever nyeheheh!~" >Said Lyra, as she flapped her adorable long sleeves too big for her arms around

>>1669994 These are Youkai, Anon. They do long for humans. And it's not the D. It's the E.

>>1670089 The eagle?

>>1670089 The eyes?

Can't get Toyohime's new theme out of my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iEKwsjrdgc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOkeTMoCgg I have become a moonie worshipper..........

>>1670089 eggs, she can't fertize

>>1670232 That's what you think kiddo

>>1670112 >>1670122 >>1670232 The entirety, everything. Stupid fucks.

Jumpscare inside don't open

>>1670044 Cute Lyra

>>1670294 I have a better jumpscare.

>>1670302 AHHHHHHHHHH! You can't show this to people!

>>1670302 They are so big...

>>1670302 I agree. Tits are pretty scary.

get real

>>1670313 Can't believe Reimu is finished

>>1670400 What the fuck is this

>>1670257 HUH?

I can't be the only one that saw Iwanagahime and thought she looked like pic related.

>>1670257 Eiku-sama would not say something so mean!

>>1669783 god I love this little truth nuke

Got my first FW 1cc. Almost every death was to Toyohime. I think she might be the new hardest stage 5 boss in the series now unless people figure out some cheesy strats.

>>1671049 >Lunatic I kneel I can't even get past stage 3 on Hard

>>1671049 Ometetou

>>1671049 Very nice. I'm not sold on using moon for that since both stage 5 and 6 bosses have a lot of spellcards that use non-perishable bullets so the hyper mode of moon will do literally nothing. Maybe you would do better on those bosses with different stones?

>>1670446 Only word I got out of that was Fuego/Fire. Some mexican news piece but I have no clue where to start looking. >>1670865 Yes she would. Her whole job is judging you and making sure you're on the right path to heaven, nobody said it'd be nice and easy.

>>1671361 Sex with Eiki should be "nice and easy".

>>1671361 >"-would have suffered severe burning injuries trying to turn into a fire fairy, it should be pointed out the original game-"

Choose your destiny

>>1671470 I would never chose left

God I wish Marisa had a real bomb

>>1670242 lol

>>1671049 BASED

>>1671592 Ikr the damage between Reimu and Marisa's bomb is night and day Also kinda feel Reimu's shot options got a huge boost compared to the demo

AAHHHH IT'S THE FUCKING MOOON NIGGERS AGAIN

>>1671640 While Reimu got better bomb I think Marisa have better DPS over all with her shottypes, nothing Reimu has can quite compare to the amount of wrecking Marisa with Shintoism Wind on focus can do

>>1671646 Everytime.

>>1671648 Idk have you seen what Reimu can do with Red1 unfocus and Blue1 passive? Feels almost like MoF Marisa lasers I really need to try more builds with Red1 passive too >>1671646 The people who correctly guessed moon niggers because of Seiran's dialogue in 19 must be ecstatic

>>1671463 >>1671646

>>1671686 No you won't. Moon is already broken >>1669650

What are the ribbons around Asama's body supposed to be? strings of corrupted/mass produced data?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxUEWvDh5T4 I love this song. It speaks to me.

>>1671889 I think she would've looked hotter with a complete mask on her head

>>1671891 Half-masks are hotter desu

>>1671910 I beg to differ.

>>1671910 Absolute and total disagreement Also see >>>/vb/5319 for such more videogame content

>>1671470 I choose sex with Minoriko and end my turn.

>>1672015 I don't think a card like this exists even in the Lunatic deck

>>1672017 PROMOTIONS!

>>1667013 OHIO FAGGOTS

Reimu shilling campaign against Moriya.

>>1671987 Oh shit

>>1672150 Oh shit

>>1672155 You haven't seen anything yet.

>>1672015 She's a fat country bumpkin who doesn't even put on shoes

>>1672339 Shoes are kind of expensive in Gensokyo anyways

>>1672366 Nowadays"

>>1672150 Rare instance of Reimu practicing evangelism.

It's kinda funny that the majority of the 20hus don't wear any shoes

>>1672621 ZUN knew what he was doing. He always does

>>1671987 Heihachi can't keep getting away with this... >>1672621 We all know that barefoot hus are the trend these days, but can anyone predict what the next pervasive ZUN design element will be?

Someone should steal ZUN's drawing tablet so he's forced to manually draw and scan pictures again

>>1672868 It's especially bad for the endings, those digital doodles feel awful compared to the old scanned stuff.

Oh fuck she IS stacked as they say.

ALSO WHAT THE FUCK DID ZUN FEED THIS GUY

>>1673161 > ALSO WHAT THE FUCK DID ZUN FEED THIS GUY That's what happens when non-heroine eats 1UP. Honestly, I have no idea how are you supposed to dodge red wave, especially as it transitions into blue one without stony border/yellow stone for tanky balls (provided your balls are in front of you), this one of rarest places when I don't even try anymore and bomb on sight.

>>1673185 On one run I had the moon stone that removes bullets and manage to beat him without bombing, only once.

>>1672857 Enormous breasts

>>1673206 Imagine the damage sprites

>>1673231 Come ooooonn it's a great idea! Everybody loves enormous breasts

>>1673231 epic jitsu wa watashi wa by masuda eiji reference

I NEED TO CREAMPIE A FAIRY

>>1672621 Don't forget returning character randomly getting red eyes >>1673206 shorter skirts

I fucking love this stage theme so much. https://youtu.be/8B5_ILdyJSs?si=uv4kkyx9VEoquz8d

>>1674216 sounds like Mystia's theme

>>1674216 Sounds like a subdued version of Clownpiece's theme

>>1674259 Really? what part?

>>1674288 the very beginning

>>1674288 https://youtu.be/t4y-pQb-UDA?t=7

>>1674352 Oh shit I can hear it, it comes close to >>1674216 at the 0:20 mark, ZUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mystia is a moonie confirmed

I like this deer hunter.

>>1674586 Love me some titcows

>>1674352 That's neat

>>1670044 She reminds me a bit of the Toby Fox 'hu >>1671470 God I need sex with her >>1671987 TACTICAL NUKE >>1672339 >She's a fat country bumpkin who doesn't even put on shoes God I still need sex with her

>>1674586 I kind of want a picture of her 'deer hunting' in Vienna (but it's actually Venice) and Reimu being on a boat in the background.

>>1671987 The other newhus have big lore implications, but Nina is so much dumb fun, she is the perfect reaction image 2hu

Hunting deers is NOT allowed!

>>1675298 First Momoyo, than Aunn, and now a deer hunter KWABchie can't catch a break

How do you guys think her outfit works? Commando? Leotard? Lingerie underneath?

>>1675355 Leotard

>>1675355 More rocks.

What makes Nina more popular as a conspiracyhu compared to Sumireko?

>>1675509 Her spellcards directly referencing conspiracy stuff I guess A lot has rained since Sumigreggor's debut game in the form of 16.5 and various printworks and she became more of a stand in for zoomers rather than a suicide bomber We'll have to wait for all of Nina's routes to be translated to see how much of a nutjob she really is

Endings are slowly getting translated, at least in Reimu scenario the talk with Ariya has been translated. Also Okina's ending achievement is called "You're watching aren't you?" Because of course she is.

>>1675694 The new cast for this performance of The Book of Mormon looks incredible!

>>1675694 For a moment thought it was welcome to NHK reference with Aunn-Misaki...

>>1675694 Oh no, the pizza delivery girls are here, but I don't have any money. I guess I'll have to pay some other way...

>>1675355 Every single touhou wears incredibly small and sexy lacy lingerie. No exceptions, they are usually just very good at hiding it.

>>1675694 Oh boy, who could it be at SIX IN THE FUCKING MORNING...

>>1676420 Serves Mystia right for siding with moon fascists

>>1676424 Implying they weren't aware of this fact.

>>1674565 Fucking hell the site is dying.

>>1676447 Serves Mystia right for siding with moon fascists

>>1676447 Working fine for me so far

>>1676447 It worked for me

Rate the cast

>>1676862 7, 5, 10, 8, 1, 5, <haven't 1cc'd extra yet>

>>1676862 Nemuno/10 Faputa/Sozu Nareko Punchcard/IBM Toyohime/Why is she here? Persona/5 Classic art/but Touhou but Classic art

>>1676994 >Why is she here? EVEN IN YOUR MAINLINE GAME LUN! AR! IAN!

Wednesday is little friday, which means weekends are near, thus, we need to decide if and how will 8hu multiplayer gaming happen this sunday! Semi-planned suggestion: Smash CMC+ which has sizeable touhou roster. I'll host it if I get at least someone, but the more the merrier. https://strawpoll.com/6QnMQX7J3ne

>>1676862 Nemuno 2 What the fuck Blue Rika Nemuno 3 Moon Yukari Yatsuhashi gets tired of being the plain Jane of 2hu and goes off the edge Blonde Eika

>>1677011 Oh, it's this game... Aren't some of these characters only half-functional?

>>1677011 >Sunday Fuuuug I have work...

>>1676862 VERY sexy/10

>>1677011 >wide collection of portraits lacking any form of consistency >there's even a couple of random pieces of official art in there Soulful....

>>1677011 Why is Akyuu there? Does she fight? Or does she just falls over?

>>1677011 Also this game is of rarest kind where keyboard is somewhat uncomfortable to play with, so hope you goobers have a spare gamepad. >>1677034 Uuuh I guess we'll have to find out! I tested a few and they did have full kit of normals and specials, so at least some of them are functional. >>1677046 We can have it on saturday too unless wild soku tourney shows up. >>1677079 It's mostly stylized Dairi's arts, but yeah, most of these and other characters have been made separately by different people, they even have own declaration sound. >>1677096 Yeah she's a fighter just like others.

Moon cunt gets her own ending?? What the hell why not Kaguya or something??

How the fuck do you beat Toochan's non-spells.

>>1677166 Like Junko's survival spell, by constantly moving out of the circle. On last one you gotta move in a way that doesn't lock bullet spiral and you inside, e.g. if you want to move to the right first you have to move down (so that you get a passage instead of bullet clump).

>>1677166 Make sure it starts somewhere near the edge of the screen and once it starts try to slowly get out of the center and once you are out get to the other edge of the screen to bait the bullets away and start another entrapment. That gives you little time to attack her but if you have wide enough shot or she moves somewhere near the edges you should be able to deal enough damage to kill her.

>>1677151 grd

>>1676862 >Hag Queen Forgettable. I like her color scheme but the dress is ugly. ZUN should have designed it after Nemuno, similarly to what he did to Biten. Character wise, introducing a big shot within a faction doesn't work well when said faction is so irrelevant. She feels more like a misplaced manga character ala Chang'e or Tenma. 2/5 >Nue's mom Easily the ugliest design in the game. Weird seagull wing hair, the bloody banana peel and dragon scale shirt. What the fuck am I looking at? It also looks way too busy around the chest area. Character wise, I'm indifferent. She just feels like a filler boss like Urumi or Letty, except that she doesn't have a good design to save her from irrelevancy. 0/5 >Curse of Ra I'm always down for ZUN's takes on different cultures and the first thing that caught my attention was how he didn't go for the usual tanned Cleopatra-looking Egyptian girl design. The blue and gold work well for her but I wish her clothes looked less modern to reflect on her backstory. Speaking of which, her backstory is pretty amusing. It reminds me something out of an early windows game. I like her. 4/5 >Moon slave Her design feels gimmicky, like ZUN thought about the accessory first and them drew the girl around it, rather than the other way around (see: Kogasa). It's specially noticeable in his usage of neutral colors. The girl fades into the background so your attention is directed to the snake belt scroll thing. The way it looks like her clothes are disintegrating is kinda of neat but I can see it being a pain in the ass to draw multiple times. Character wise, she makes me wanna hate the Lunarians more. 3/5 >Princess Toyota It's hard to shit on a classic design, she looks like a Touhou character. People shit on the lunarians but I think they're an incredible faction. It speaks volumes when they manage to be such unbelievable pieces of shit in series with so many characters that are assholes, malicious or dangerously stupid. 5/5 >Persona Second ugliest, easily. What a mess of a design. Turning Iwanaga-hime into a 2hu shouldn't be so hard. Just design a regal-looking girl and represent her association with rocks through patterns and accessories. Basically, repeat what was done to Yuuma's dress patterns. The weird fossil appendages make her look like an endgame MMO character. Them there's her eternity deal which frankly just takes away some of the coolness of the Hourai elixir. Eternity didn't needed a face. 0/5 >Conspiracy Venus She's okay. I'll admit that it took me a while to grasp what she was based on but now I see that ZUN did a good job with her. I really feel like the white dress could have been another color, just so it would stand out more from the clam. Maybe soft pink or aqua, I dunno. I like her role in the game. Definitively one of the more memorable characters in the game. 5/5

>>1677300 >She's okay. >5/5 Calm down there, IGN.

>>1677326 She ain't my favorite but there's nothing particularly bad about her either.

>>1677151 ZUN doesn't give two shits about Kaguya I can literally only recall like 4/5 times she did stuff/had a speaking role after IN in the whole series. I'm more surprised Reisen didn't pop up in an ending considering her connection to Toyohime and her ability of creating illusions with sound waves mirrowing Nina's. Guess ZUN forgot

>>1677300 >Chang'e mentioned >lunarian hate Wait a second-

>>1677011 Is it safe to assume that this has a player cap of 4, or does it go up to 8 like modern Smash can?

>>1676862 I like chimichan

>>1676862 Ubame is cool but sadly as she has no concrete relation to any of the TH20 cast as well as being a hag, she won't be very popular. 3/5 Chimi really grew on me A LOT and this gremlin being a wise old mom is very cool and she made Nareko too : D. 4/5 Nareko is THE dorkhu and I love dorks, nuff said. She's a very fun character and I hope people stick with her. 5/5 Yuiman is also another cool character and seems to be the fan favourite newhu. She has a tragic backstory but she is very cheerful after Toyohime rebooted her from her programming after (You) fight her. She also has huge lore implications alongside Iwanagahime so I hope to see more of her in the future. 5/5 Toyohime is someone I think NO ONE expected but makes sense given the entire plot. A lot of people hate on the Watatsukis but I personally enjoy them a lot even if they rely on Eirin most of the time. Hating on the loonies(junkoposting) is very fun though and they make a great villain for the series. 4/5 Ariya Iwanaga. Well damn, her design had to grow on me and it sure did very quickly. Very surprising to see THE Iwanagahime being in a mainline game. Funny to see her as another looniehater and she's pretty chill. Her whole subplot with her heart wavering (being the god of unchanging permanence and all) about wanting to save Yuiman from Lunarian control reads like a cliche love story and I love it. Being a part of the Shinto family of gods will get her intertwined with many of the established characters Yuiman is friends with Kanako and Sanae was sent to fetch her/ the whole Mokou backstory/ apparently being sisters with Chimata so I hope she isn't forgotten but stays important as part of the lore given TH20 is very lore-heavy. 5/5 Nina is really an Extra boss, being completely unrelated to everyone else by being a newborn youkai from all the slop. I did read somewhere else that she and Yuiman had some connections through the Greek inspirations but I'm unsure. Speaking of Greek inspirations, her sprite is literally the birth of Venus albeit not her directly as she is a clam youkai. The conspiracy gimmick about TRUTH NUKES and BEING AWOKEN TO THE TRUTH is definitely a jap and boomer thing but its really funny and she has great reaction images. Sadly her meme portrayal simply ends at the end of the Extra since ZUN is a boomer. I hope to see more of her trvth nvkes in the future. 5/5

Interesting writeup by the CDS translator (Levander) about Yuiman: https://chireikiden.tumblr.com/post/792304891175600128/some-idle-thoughtsresearch-on-the-stage-4-boss-of

>>1678184 >>1678449 I like gremlin grandma too.

>>1678604 kill lunarians

>>1678924 AAAAA SCARY FISH!

>>1678924 There's hundreds of shoeless 2hus out there and the ones that manage to afford them do THIS? The world is so unfair.

>>1678927 >The skirt is short Of course it is.

>>1677733 Locally it can take up to 6 players, online lobby can hold me and 4 bots added, but has total of 7 slots, and even if I change to spectator it won't let me add more bots so I assume it's just bot restriction and lobby can hold 6 players and a spectator.

>>1678927 ZUNart Kasen looks cute I wish I had that one WBaWC ending screenshot at hand

>>1678924 bombardiro crocodilo

>>1678985 tung tung tung shaur

>>1679034 PRÖÖÖHHH!! :DDD

Welp finished Normal Mode with probably my most solid run so far. Time to wait for full translation before jumping to Hard.

>>1679073 >PR-

>>1679085 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

>>1679079 Nice job, how broken is that setup? you have a lot of lives on hand.

>>1679155 It's not really that broken, shinto incident stone is much better on Marisa than on Reimu since Marisa tend to spend more time on the bottom of the screen, a lot of time the Incident Attack was wasted, but it has a very low charge time and provides both offense and defense so if you can time it right its pretty good. The rest is simply adjusted for my playstyle - I tend to spend like 90% time focused so Scarlet Devil on passive works best for me. Because of that I need good damage and spread on focus so Creature Red fills both criteria decently. As for unfocused it's Snow Blossom because it provides homing shot as when I'm unfocused that means I'm rushing towards POC and back and i don't have time to aim. Having that also helps with spellcards where it's hard to stay in front of the enemy, last boss has bunch of those so it's helpful. So it's basically Swiss army knife build, I think I could easily double the Dps of this build with Blue Season shotgun build but I didn't feel like I need to do anything so drastic for normal mode.

>>1679173 If I wanted maximum damage in the shortest amount of time even with high risk what's the best build?

>>1678927 >The skirt is short As they all should be

Obamabros.........

>>1679316 Translate it, weebs.

>>1679318 @grok can you translate it

>>1678959 >6 players max Now that's just bizarre. >>1679318 >weebs Any of them worth their salt would tell you that it's crying about fake war crimes and comfort women. If you want an accurate translation you should probably ask the k-pop fans though.

>>1679367 >kpop fans Hell no.

>>1679376 Well good luck finding anyone else who knows Korean, maybe you can hunt down some Lobotomy Corp autists

>>1679319 Here's what it spat out. It doesn't know about the new game yet and thinks they're just stuff from fans, but was still able to get that it was Touhou. Also it thinks Ariya is a boy. I don't know a lick of Korean so I can't say if any of this is at all close. >The image appears to be a hand-drawn meme featuring chibi-style characters (likely inspired by the Touhou Project series, based on their designs) arranged around a triangle diagram. The triangle represents "crazy aggro" (a gaming term for drawing attention or hostility), with three corner attributes contributing to it. There are speech bubbles, labels, and smaller doodles with text. Below, I've translated all the Korean text into English, keeping as close to literal meanings as possible while making them natural. I've noted positions for clarity and added brief explanations where slang, wordplay, or ambiguity might affect understanding.Main Triangle DiagramCentral label (the triangle itself): "미친 어그로" >Translation: "Crazy aggro" >(Aggro refers to attracting aggression in games; here, it's portrayed as something extreme or insane.) >Bottom-left corner label: "미친 캐릭터성" >Translation: "Crazy character/personality" >(Refers to an over-the-top or eccentric character design or traits.) >Bottom-right corner label: "치 미친 패션" >Translation: "Insanely crazy fashion" >("치" likely intensifies "미친" (crazy), similar to "deadly" or "extremely" in slang, implying outrageously wild style.) >Bottom-center label (near the crying character): "존재감 신화의 참극지와" >Translation: "Presence: the tragic disaster of myth – Jiwa" >(This seems abstract or meme-specific; "존재감" = sense of presence/existence, "신화의" = mythical, "참극" = tragedy/disaster, "지와" may be a proper name or term like "Jiwa." It could be a dramatic way to say "mythically tragic presence.") >Character Speech Bubbles and LabelsTop-left character (blonde with white hat, red eyes): "안녕 에도란 다들 나 알지?" >Translation: "Hello, it's Edoran – do you all know me?" >("에도란" appears to be a name or nickname, possibly "Edoran" or a playful variation; the phrasing is casual and attention-seeking.) >Top-right character (purple hat, excited expression): "이제부터 17년만에 인게임에 출현해서 울큰맨들 마리오 턱딜걸거야" >Translation: "From now on, appearing in-game after 17 years, I'm gonna deal chin damage to our big man Mario!" >(Gaming slang heavy: "인게임에 출현해서" = appearing in-game, "울큰맨들" = "our big men" (possessive "our" + "big men"), "마리오" = Mario, "턱딜" likely "chin damage" – "턱" = chin, "딜" = deal/damage – perhaps a meme about attacking Mario's chin as a weak point.) >Center character (brown-haired boy crying): "난 죄송소" >Translation: "I'm sorry-so" >(Cute/slurred version of "난 죄송해요" = "I'm sorry"; the "-소" is informal/cutesy.) >Label next to center character: "홍진 자랑 세" >Translation: "Hong Jin boast world" >(Possibly a reference to Hong Jin-ho, a famous Korean gamer/Starcraft pro known for memes; "자랑 세" = "boast world," implying a world of bragging or pride.) >Bottom-left character (yellow-haired with green outfit): "지구온난화 가짜야. 유튜브에 진실이 있어!" >Translation: "Global warming is fake. The truth is on YouTube!" >(A satirical take on conspiracy theories.) >Bottom-right character (white-haired with colorful collar): "요우무키 위포" >Translation: "Youmuki Wipo" >(This looks like nonsense or a playful mashup; in Touhou context, "요우무" = Youmu (a character), possibly "Youmu key wi po" as a silly phrase or typo/meme.) >Smaller Doodles and Text (bottom of the image)Small blue-haired character (left, with hat): "난 이제서 기분이 안좋아 사탕이 그랬더라" >Translation: "Now I feel bad – the candy said so." >("이제서" likely "이제서야" = "only now"; whimsical or absurd, like blaming candy for bad moods.) >Another small blue-haired character (right, crying): "888도" >Translation: "888 too" >(Korean net slang: "888" mimics "짝짝짝" (clap clap clap) for applause; "도" = "too/also," so "clapping too" or sarcastic praise.) >The overall meme seems to poke fun at attention-seeking behaviors (aggro) through exaggerated character traits, gaming references, and absurd statements. If this is part of a specific series or context (e.g., a viral Korean post), more details could refine the translations!

>>1679474 >Mario Kek

>>1679474 >Insanely crazy fashion Yes, grandma still has it going on!

>>1672621 If you don't count last game with the sheer volume of its cast, this was tied for the highest number of exposed feet.

>>1679927 Now why on Earth are measuring just by the number of bare feet, instead of finding the percentage of the cast per game that's barefoot?

>>1675355 >First picture Damn didn't know I wanted this Lewd woman

Hard mode Reimu, complete. Previously I said Green2 was good but in truth, it's the worst shot in the game. <always shoots at the closest target (vertically) <moves too slow to hit fast moving enemies So it happily spends most of the stage portions shooting its entire load offscreen, leaving you nothing but the basic talisman shot to actually kill enemies with. And when the MoF bomb is active, it takes away even that. Tardwrangling this piece of shit took me more attempts than the other 7 stones combined. At least it was good against Toyohime's nons.

>>1680215 Very nice, congrats! What's next, hard mode marisa?

>>1680233 Next up is Lunatic time. I'll probably have to start using upgrade stones now.

Is .se down again?

>>1679927 NUMBERS NUMBERS NUMBERS I miss socks :(

>>1680426 I'm checking and it's up for me

>>1680444 A youkai is stealing all the footwear and socks

>>1680215 Damn...

>>1680426 Works for me but now it's triggering the browser's "you are in a dangerous site" pop-up

>>1680426 Works fine on my machine. There have been numerous times recently where .moe hasn't worked but .se has. But both are just fine right now.

>>1680426 Works on my machine

When do the popularity vote results come in?

Kululu tomorow.

>>1680543 SEX

>>1680543 YACHIE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!