天下制覇

Thanks to SkyReed for pointing this out to me. It looks like MBA’s getting another character upgrade in the coming months in the form of the three Rayearth knights. They’re really dedicated to these extra-classique characters. All this while they’re also working on some kind of crazy-ass Touhou thing too. It probably also bears mentioning that their spinoff group released Elemental Battle Academy at the start of May, but it was so buggy on its initial release that I gave it a pass after about 30 minutes of abject frustration. I understand it’s patched and much more stable nowadays, but they’re supposedly working on some kind of major update for the upcoming summer Comiket, so I was just going to give it a go then.

In case you hadn’t caught the news, the next Touhou game is going to be essentially a sequel to Shoot the Bullet called Double Spoiler. Is Zun trying to port this series to the DS or something? Touhou DS… terrifying. Well, I can’t really care too much since I really wasn’t a fan of the first STB, but c’est la vie.

The first thing I did when I saw that Werk was using the same format for this as BMW was open the files with the same tools, and be happy that they still work. Then I poked around for something to translate so that I could set some kind of record. Once that disappointing quest was over, I actually tried playing the ‘game.’ Well… it ain’t no Megamari nor RKS. Maybe when the full version’s out, I can evolve to Super Translator IV.

And yes, it does run a lot smoother than that when I’m not forcing my laptop to record at the same time.

I think I’ll just start going through all my assorted shelved doujin news a little bit at a time to stretch it out instead of just one big C77 post. It’ll give me something (else) to do over the break to break up the tedium of my family slowly driving me crazy. Anyway, first up is one of the games I’m most looking forward to for the upcoming Comiket, a rougelike from Aquastyle. It’s interesting that Aquastyle would make a game like this instead of an SRW styled game given all their previous work, but I like rougelikes too, so I’m not complaining. Touhou’s certainly already a series filled with enough player death anyway. What’s a few thousand more lives lost?

OH HEY, GUYS. COMIKET 77 SEASON ALREADY!?

In hindsight, I really should have made the rounds for the doujin news back when I saw the first announcement. Too late for that now, I guess! Anyway, Frontier Aja’s announced the sequel to Big Bang Beat, based on AliceSoft’s rather excellent SRPG Big Bang Age. Aside from big baddie Kamui, they’re also adding the most delicious Erika, and Kinako, both from the School chapter. I always felt bad passing up Erika. She was so strong through the first half of the game and such a fun character, but two good characters (Kendo and Kyuudo) trump one great one. Poor Erika. I have no pity for Kinako though. She was pathetic and weak while Burai was a beast.

Leaving aside the question of "What exactly does ‘Complete Form’ mean?" Looks like MBA’s getting another expansion for winter Comiket, adding StrikerS era Fate as well as a number of gameplay tweaks and modifications for netplay. Busy day for doujin game news. Although strangely, it appears that the MBA devs have split into two groups. One is still working on this, while the other is working on Elemental Battle Academy… which looks the same as MBA, just with all original characters.

http://www.werk-zwei.jp/railgun/
Thanks, Werk. After Battle Moon Wars, I knew you had ‘great’ things in you. At least it’s an action game so won’t require a translation. I’m off the hook. Whew. 
Mikoto doesn’t even wear panties though… what does she care?

Thank you and good night.

As far as the games from this one went, I’m pretty disappointed. The two new Touhou editions were really just about the only things that I found noteworthy enough to even mention. I still haven’t been able to try Alternative Sphere yet, but nothing else has so much as held my attention for more than three or four minutes. Maybe a couple years ago was just the renaissance for doujin games. I miss the times when stuff like Crescent Pale Mist, Guardian Heroines, Blood Over, Battle Moon Wars, etc etc was coming out ever single Comiket. Oh well, maybe in the winter.

At least there’s always the parking lot to marvel over. The Vita-Mobile is particularly frightening. How can anybody even drive that? The powder blue Rei-van covered in pink hearts is in a class all to itself. Shamelessly stolen from Senakablog (NSFW) like always.

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Just a reminder that it’s out in Moonland on PS2 now. It has to get ported to PC, right? RIGHT!? Hopefully only about 365 more days to go. 365 long Ryougi, school girl Akiha, and Archetype:Earth free days. *sigh*