Touhou 20: Fossilized Wonders

[BulletMagnet]

To be released at Comiket in August, demo available at Reitaisai next month. Apparently it'll be something of a "back to basics" entry.

[To Far Away Times]

Very excited for this. A new mainline Touhou game is like a holiday.

[Lethe]

Going off demo impressions this is top 1% fangame tier, best canon game since the 12.x series. Not that demo impressions are ever a good barometer in the end, I had a very positive impression of LoLK's first 3 stages and then ended up hating the back half of it. "Back to basics" is not descriptive at all, it has a PCB+UFO+LoLK mashup system with a rank element. The stages have real pacing and Lunatic will bury you in shit if you leave enemies alive or summon at the wrong time. It has the way-too-many-shot-types problem again: 8 per character with drastic variability in usefulness, and the option to mix and match any combination of subtypes.

I'm sure the usual suspects have been complaining about power loss, rank, RNG etc (and anything else making the game fun). I hope the full release doesn't water any of those things down excessively.

[cj iwakura]

If I just decided and up and go over to Japan during Comiket, would I have a snowball's chance of getting in?

[PC Engine Fan X!]

If I just decided and up and go over to Japan during Comiket, would I have a snowball's chance of getting in?

Yes, you'd be able to get in but you'd have rush to the booth selling those demos only to find out that they're all gone. Hint-hint -- get in line earlier and you'd have a better chance of scoring one is the best & sage advice to take into consideration. Cool to hear that the Touhou 20: Fossilized Wonders dev team will release it on Steam later on.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[cj iwakura]

If I just decided and up and go over to Japan during Comiket, would I have a snowball's chance of getting in?

Yes, you'd be able to get in but you'd have rush to the booth selling those demos only to find out that they're all gone. Hint-hint -- get in line earlier and you'd have a better chance of scoring one is the best & sage advice to take into consideration. Cool to hear that the Touhou 20: Fossilized Wonders dev team will release it on Steam later on.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

I'd be happy just having got in, I'd figure out the rest afterward.