Somewhat disappointing. I expected Werk to at least get a full roster of bosses, but there are only four and they’re all pretty easy. If you’ve played both demos they’ve released, you’ve already played 3/8ths of the game. Yeah, there’s ‘hard’ mode too, but the patterns are exactly the same. You just don’t regen health between rounds. The dash controls are also a bit touchy, particularly when Kuroko drops her lagdozer on the screen. Misaka was also a pretty lame boss, despite the humor of her being Protoman. Oh well. I’d say that you get what you pay for, but at a third the cost of BMW, I don’t think so. English patch will be out Tuesday. Not because that’s how long it’ll take me, but because Tuesday’s a slow day and I want to finish this BBA block tonight. 3700 lines to go~
Just because I know that people are curious about the new mechanics for TH12.⑨… here you go. Chain freezing bullets, more or less as expected, but Cirno actually has a shot too. That may be the most surprising thing. Original from here, complete in its resplendent 40 frames per second. This also counts as my obligatory post announcing that I am well aware that it’s out. Now if you’ll excuse me, I was in the middle of translating… well… let’s just say that I’ll be more than happy to be done with it and hopefully never have to be involved with a two-headed goat nightmare ever again.
Only Erika and Rouga are playable, but at least it’s something. They’re clearly still working on… well… everything. It still doesn’t have boosting… music… voices… a title screen. Hell, throws aren’t even distance sensitive yet. Tap 4/6 C and a throw’s coming out. They’re also apparently completely reworking the movesets along with the engine. Rouga’s still got his anti-air grab, but his delay mine is now a shockwave. Both appear to have only one super at the moment too. Eri is unfortunately a little bit more of a joke than I was expecting. Stupid Shorko and body flop specials… Sigh. Thanks Setra for the head’s up. You can grab it here. Edit: Looking through the sprites, there are a ton of moves that are seemingly not implemented yet, as well as sprites for win/lose/intro/etc. Hmm.
In what may just be the most fortuitous guess in the history of guessing, Cyber Botti, the longtime makers of the Battle Fantasia series of magical girl SRW parodies has announced that their newest animation short for the upcoming Comiket is going to be titled Ice Fairy vs Shrine Maiden about well… it should be obvious. A shame that Aquastyle isn’t also making more, but they seem to be going all-in with their Touhou roguelike with a ‘prologue’ or expansion or… who knows really. It does look pretty. And just to annoy Fettgans, Orange Juice posted the new PV for Sora above. It’s looking… remarkably familiar…
