Touhou 14.3 - Danmaku Amanojaku ~ Impossible Spell Card

[Lord Satori]

I'd like to point out that unlike the other Touhous, the characters of DDC have been in Gensokyo the whole time, and therefore do not need to "adjust" to anything. She's the first character to attempt to unleash a truly evil/serious scheme since the windows series began.

Since she's said to be really weak without the power of the miracle mallet, perhaps this is her point of view of danmaku. Similar to how Marisa was really difficult in Fairy Wars despite having said to have gone easy on Cirno. Storywise, your guess is as good as mine. Maybe she's trying to gather an uprising, and her only way to do so is to survive the strongest spellcards or something. Whether or not I show interest in this game depends entirely on who's in it, for me.

[Red]

She's the first character to attempt to unleash a truly evil/serious scheme since the windows series began.

You're forgetting Utsuho's plan in Subterranean Animism.

[Lord Satori]

That wasn't really a plan, it was more of a spur of the moment impulse as a result of excess power.

[Laurel_McFang]

http://blog.livedoor.jp/tohomemory/arch ... 04017.html

New screen shots and pre-order above.

[Formless God]

I'd hazard a guess that the invincibility items will be weaker when it comes to score optimization. The lantern for instance is single use and lasts 7 seconds, but these scenes seem to last around a minute and apparently reward grazing, so surviving for a very long time against them will likely be the goal, and accomplishing that would probably require getting creative with the less potent multiple use items (like the statue or the camera), or, taking it even further, outright sacrificing these items for supergrazes instead of safety, leaving you to deal with the fiercest parts of the attacks on your own.

So I just recently thought about this.
There is an end-of-scene bonus (most likely based on graze). If the boss is killed too quickly, you won't have any graze. If you stick around to supergraze, you won't have any spell bonus. Do you then have to find a balance between the two things? Note that the graze count isn't shown during the scene so there's no way to know how you're doing.

Also just wanna point out that the spell bonus remained intact when the player got hit and used up an "extra life" item in the trailer.

i also don't really understand this hate for "gimmicks", when they're the only reason the spell card system means anything, but let's not go there.

When people say gimmick they're probably referring to attacks that wreck your shit until you figure out a simple trick to it, at which point it becomes completely trivial (Mokou, Koishi). There's no reason to hate on gimmicks though. DS is basically made of gimmicks and it's a masterpiece.

[ARF]

Best game 2014 confirmed.

[Lord Satori]

I had a dream about this game. There was a new character with red-ish hair who could transform into some sort of distorted snake/eastern dragon/elongated thing, but her head remained the same.

Best game 2014 confirmed.

What?

[Doctor Butler]

I had a dream about this game. There was a new character with red-ish hair who could transform into some sort of distorted snake/eastern dragon/elongated thing, but her head remained the same.

What?

"What!?" indeed.

[Despatche]

he wasn't having a dream about this game, he was having a dream about ibaraki kasen... who might be in the game, i don't know. edit: wow these character selections... no ibaraki, weird combos, yuyuko just got hella downgraded

but yeah this is out. did anyone actually order it? kinda wish i could, i need to start this "buy touhou already" thing at some point...

She's the first character to attempt to unleash a truly evil/serious scheme since the windows series began.

You're forgetting Utsuho's plan in Subterranean Animism.

that wasn't utsuho's plan at all (plans are non-existent to her), that was all kanako and to a lesser extent suwako, in what is basically an attempt to transition from gods to ceos. i think hisoutensoku mentions more, as do certain manga.

[Formless God]

Cleared a huge chunk of it with a gamepad. What.

I wonder what's up with the "impossible" word thrown around everywhere. This is the definitely the easiest one out of the spinoff games. Fuck, try Fairy Wars Normal without ice.
The rehashing is disgusting. What are Suika and Tenshi doing here? Tsukumo sisters's attacks are pretty much "oops i forgot to put overdrive in ddc".
I was a bit let down that this ultimately didn't manage to beat Fairy Wars seeing as every spinoff game released so far completely trumped the one preceding it. It's still a fun game though; pretty much a huge collection of Last Words. I know I like it more than StB.

[Lord Satori]

Well, I expect there to be at least one or two more spin-off games given the number this one was given.

[Kuroonehalf]

People generally didn't like Ten Desires from what I've heard, but yeah DDC was great and UFO is probably one of my favorite shmups.

Although I'm generally not too in touch with what the shmup community thinks of games, I had no idea TD wasn't well regarded. Personally, it's my favorite one. I thought the spirits mechanic was really cool, and did a good job of making you move constantly and encouraging you to play on the upper half of the screen. It also doesn't punish you terribly when you die by taking away all your accumulated bombs. That's probably the one thing I hated the most about DCC. You do a perfect 4 stages, bombs up the ass, then you get hit by some stray bullet and there goes all that advantage that you spent the last half hour fighting for. I felt TD had a better tuned risk-reward.

[Despatche]

people didn't like ufo, td, or ddc when they came out. later on ufo became the second coming of christ, people eventually started warming up to td, and i expect the same will happen to ddc. aside from that, i generally like ddc better than td, at least.

and yes, we will probably get an expansion to hm and maybe another game like fw, idk. fw was pretty weird, so i get the feeling we'll get a different kind of weird.

[Bananamatic]

people eventually started warming up to td, and i expect the same will happen to ddc

td was always shit and so is ddc

the issue with ufo was that the western touhou players all sucked back then so everyone thought it was too hard

[trap15]

td > you

[Formless God]

making you move constantly and encouraging you to play on the upper half of the screen

This along with a modest lives count and bullet patterns that are not fucking flowers for once are the coolest things about TD. Now the bad part is it decided that the player should have loads of invincibility because point-blanking things is hard and unfair.

so is ddc

Naaaaaah man DDC is only shit to play for score. It's hands down the hardest formal game yet.

[Doctor Butler]

It's been released.

[AntiFritz]

It's been released.

Yeah, like two days ago.

[chum]

I've been playing this game for two days now and can't say I like it much. It does feel kind of half assed and the whole leveling up items thing is definitely a bad sign. Still the major issue I have is just that there's not much meat to the game, especially not when compared to the photo games, and the scoring tends to boil down to ramming things and grazing during the invulnerability period.

There's a lot of rehashing in this game. Of course, many bad games still have good things about them and I'm pleased to say that some scenes are fun to run, but unfortunately the scene that I find the most fun is directly copied from TD and the method of scoring here is... pretty much identical, unless I'm mistaken? Referring to 8-3.

These are some of the scores I've managed so far (Challenge is how the game refers to attempts)

1-4: 1,047,950 - Challenge: 65
1-5: 1,757,230 - Challenge: 227
2-4: 2,502,730 - Challenge: 64
3-2: 2,231,370 - Challenge: 14
4-2: 3,368,900 - Challenge: 28
4-4: 2,845,610 - Challenge: 13
5-5: 574,200 - Challenge: 35
6-4: 2,258,520 - Challenge: 45
6-5: 4,831,670 - Challenge: 32
7-1: 2,491,770 - Challenge: 28
7-2: 2,673,310 - Challenge: 25
7-5: 1,379,860 - Challenge: 18
8-1: 1,067,840 - Challenge: 28
8-2: 3,495,410 - Challenge: 57
8-3: 3,023,730 - Challenge: 29
8-4: 7,386,420 - Challenge: 68
9-4: 2,050,330 - Challenge: 64
9-8: 3,459,240 - Challenge: 66
10-2: 14,365,300 - Challenge: 131
10-3: 5,457,390 - Challenge: 132
10-4: 6,806,180 - Challenge: 67
10-10: 4,699,290 - Challenge: 29

The scoreboard opened up recently so anyone who has this game should submit their stuff and fill up the boards!

Overall, I like it more than DDC at least

[Cagar]

What if DDC didn't have grazing and bombs also destroyed all score items?

[chum]

I don't see how that would improve anything. The grazing is almost useless anyway, bombs would still rack up the PIV in boss fights, and all the tedious parts would remain tedious

[Formless God]

You won't rack up any PIV if you don't have bombs though.

[Chacranajxy]

It's like Regalsin made a game.