CAVE has acquired a license for Touhou

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CAVE has acquired a license for Touhou

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Yes, this is a real thing that has happened.

According to a document found on CAVE's website (under IR News, dated 2021年07月13日), CAVE has acquired the license to Touhou and will develop a game using the IP. Running it through machien translation, it appears the game will indeed be a shmup, and is set for release in 2022. No further information is given at the moment but more will be announced some time in the future.

Forum moderator edit: Changed CAVE has acquired the license to Touhou to CAVE has acquired a license for Touhou. Title implied that CAVE has acquired the license to Touhou in total.
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I would be more excited about my two favourite shmup things coming together if it wasn't for the fact that it's most likely just going to be a mobile game.
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Yeah, expectations aren't too high at the moment.
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Finally another mobile gacha game noone of us is going to play. Or wants to play.

Nice one, CAVE.
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But will it play better or worse than Touhou 18?
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I wonder if it isn't so much as "we own the license to Touhou" as "we have the permission to use the Touhou license in our own development" because the former doesn't sound realistic. Maybe the machine translation isn't clear on this part.

Echoing others in that it is almost assuredly a gacha/gothic otome game. cave cucks lose, yet again...

Congrats to ZUN though, the guy has been making license money like a madman the last few years and must be rolling in it now.
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EmperorIng wrote:I wonder if it isn't so much as "we own the license to Touhou" as "we have the permission to use the Touhou license in our own development" because the former doesn't sound realistic. Maybe the machine translation isn't clear on this part.
I just took a quick look at the document, thanks for the link, and you are correct. 'received permission to use the IP' (IP 許諾を受け) seems more accurate to me.
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Deathsmiles Vs. Touhou crossover. Make it happen.
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Plasmo wrote:Finally another Touhou game noone of us is going to play. Or wants to play.
Fixed. Never understood the fascination with this series.
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If Yagawa still works for Cave I'd be curious to see some lolis team edit with mass suiciding techniques.
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DMC wrote:If Yagawa still works for Cave I'd be curious to see some lolis team edit with mass suiciding techniques.
Exploding loli shrapnel damage FTW.
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OmegaFlareX wrote:
Plasmo wrote:Finally another Touhou game noone of us is going to play. Or wants to play.
Fixed. Never understood the fascination with this series.
I play em. No fascination other than enjoying really dense bullet patterns and the zen state they can provide at higher difficulties. Own em all, played them all to death.
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DMC wrote:If Yagawa still works for Cave I'd be curious to see some lolis team edit with mass suiciding techniques.
everyone i've talked to wants touhou garegga
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Hope they milk those 2hufans to no end with some gachashit full of microtransactions, and then use that money to make real shmups.
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I think it is more likely they get the funds from icycalm to make Guwange 2.
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I just found out the news elsewhere on the web, and found you guys already talking about it. :D

Too bad it might only be a mobile phone game. :|
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SAM wrote:Too bad it might only be a mobile phone game. :|
SDOJ came out in the arcades 9 years ago. It will be a phone game; there is no "might".
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Wouldn't be half as bad if only they'd release it to mobile stores in the fucking west.
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KAI wrote:Hope they milk those 2hufans to no end with some gachashit full of microtransactions, and then use that money to make real shmups.
Pretty rich comment considering ZUN has been making real shmups for the last ten years while CAVE.... hasn't
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Oh, Ebarrett! What cheers you up these days? :D

Maybe this license will be a way back to shooting games and out of the bullet cancelling point-of-no-return for CAVE. Never would I have imagined that Touhou would one day save CAVE. I remember, at the Swedish forum around 2006, a heated CAVE vs. ZUN debate between a cynical journalist and some doujin enthusiasts-- it made some ZUN fans so upset they even left the forum. If only the forum still existed and this Cave-Touhou game got realized, we could all rejoice and be friends again. :mrgreen:
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DMC wrote:Oh, Ebarrett! What cheers you up these days? :D

Maybe this license will be a way back to shooting games and out of the bullet cancelling point-of-no-return for CAVE. Never would I have imagined that Touhou would one day save CAVE. I remember, at the Swedish forum around 2006, a heated CAVE vs. ZUN debate between a cynical journalist and some doujin enthusiasts-- it made some ZUN fans so upset they even left the forum. If only the forum still existed and this Cave-Touhou game got realized, we could all rejoice and be friends again. :mrgreen:
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I wonder what it's gonna be like? Will Rina Sato or Ayaka Suwa reprise her role as Reimu?
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I don't want it to be a mobile game. Please.
Might as well give up on the shmup part of the Touhou fanbase in terms of videos if it is a mobile game.

I need to remember, time will tell if we will get a development preview of the game...
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Does anyone that's not a secondary care? ZUN hasn't made a great Touhou game in ages, Touhou is over, CAVE isn't going to change that. It's time to move on. The good games are still there and they're still underplayed considering their quality
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Are you saying Unconnected Marketeers was a bad game?
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xxx1993 wrote:Are you saying Unconnected Marketeers was a bad game?
It isn't, godly piece of shmupware
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I personally liked it…
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Plasmo wrote:Finally another mobile gacha game noone of us is going to play. Or wants to play.

Nice one, CAVE.
I think this is the general impression most folks have. Given where CAVE is at these days, it would probably make the most strategic sense for them, unfortunately.
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I find it funny that it's easier to license the brand to make games than it is to let a localization company translate the text in a story-dense series.
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