Thank you very much for playing! This script is well over 3 years old now, and although I don't look back on it very fondly, I think it turned out pretty well considering my inexperience at the time. The feeling that you got of "just throwing things at the wall to see what stuck" was very accurate -- at the time, I was just learning how to do a lot of new things, and I naively thought that something being hard to code must surely mean that players would be impressed with it. It practically became my dumping ground for a bunch of stuff that was hard to code for me at the time, but didn't actually fit very well. At least the dialogue was funny, that part definitely holds up. Except the really edgy intermission before the final spell. No idea why I thought that was a good idea back then, lmao The reason Reimu doesn't have homing is very simple -- proper homing amulets are very difficult to code, and I wasn't up to the task at the time. Even when I eventually did it for my next project, the full game Spellbroken Dream Festival, it took a very long time to make it work. (SDF has held up a lot better than this, imo, so I'm excited for when you do eventually get around to it. Though, with how slow full games go, that'll likely be years down the line, lol) When you mentioned not understanding how rank worked, I decided to take a dive into the code to see if I could explain it. I found something both hilarious and stupid. The factors that go into rank are graze, score, lives, and time spent. The timer never pauses, so taking time to show off the dialogue made your rank worse...reading is not allowed, apparently
In all fairness, ZUN's one comment on Kisume isn't particularly nice, either. In-game Kisume: Just some weirdo in a bucket ZUN: "She'd probably lunge at you, chop your head off and then go home with your head in the bucket."
And Kisume takes the starring role today! It’s nice to see scripts that focus/expand on the minor characters of Touhou, because it also shows just how enthusiastic Touhou fans can be, creating so much with just a bit of canon to be inspired from ~
"This could be any refrigerator. maybe yours. Deep within the frozen wastes it lurks. Ancient mayonnaise, fossilized cabbage, slowly mutating over untold eons, gradually achieving consciousness... Until that terrible day when it is unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. THE COLESLAW THAT TIME FORGOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Thanks videogame, very cool.
Honestly, my main complaint is just that spell cards take too long. 40 seconds on average is way too much for a regular spell, no matter how gimmicky it is. All else looks good and fair enough to me though. (also hey two spells from this had their idea and gimmick used again in a full fangame she made) 2:46 nice irisPC free trial
![Nearly 15 years later and I finally did it [Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom Phantasm Clear]](/img/n.gif)
Thank you very much for playing! This script is well over 3 years old now, and although I don't look back on it very fondly, I think it turned out pretty well considering my inexperience at the time. The feeling that you got of "just throwing things at the wall to see what stuck" was very accurate -- at the time, I was just learning how to do a lot of new things, and I naively thought that something being hard to code must surely mean that players would be impressed with it. It practically became my dumping ground for a bunch of stuff that was hard to code for me at the time, but didn't actually fit very well. At least the dialogue was funny, that part definitely holds up. Except the really edgy intermission before the final spell. No idea why I thought that was a good idea back then, lmao
The reason Reimu doesn't have homing is very simple -- proper homing amulets are very difficult to code, and I wasn't up to the task at the time. Even when I eventually did it for my next project, the full game Spellbroken Dream Festival, it took a very long time to make it work. (SDF has held up a lot better than this, imo, so I'm excited for when you do eventually get around to it. Though, with how slow full games go, that'll likely be years down the line, lol)
When you mentioned not understanding how rank worked, I decided to take a dive into the code to see if I could explain it. I found something both hilarious and stupid. The factors that go into rank are graze, score, lives, and time spent. The timer never pauses, so taking time to show off the dialogue made your rank worse...reading is not allowed, apparently
In all fairness, ZUN's one comment on Kisume isn't particularly nice, either.
In-game Kisume: Just some weirdo in a bucket
ZUN: "She'd probably lunge at you, chop your head off and then go home with your head in the bucket."
And Kisume takes the starring role today! It’s nice to see scripts that focus/expand on the minor characters of Touhou, because it also shows just how enthusiastic Touhou fans can be, creating so much with just a bit of canon to be inspired from ~
"This could be any refrigerator. maybe yours. Deep within the frozen wastes it lurks. Ancient mayonnaise, fossilized cabbage, slowly mutating over untold eons, gradually achieving consciousness... Until that terrible day when it is unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. THE COLESLAW THAT TIME FORGOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Thanks videogame, very cool.
The creator had fun with the loading text.
There are a variety of texts that can randomly appear there. That one is a quote from a really old Garfield comic
quite an interesting script, and i enjoy your commentary as always.
2:21 Mr. Ron Omega what the fuck did she mean by this, is she in my walls too
Just to be safe, I wouldn't pick up from any unknown numbers for a little while :)
2:16 Yay, she's back!
Once Koishi is stuck on something, it won't get out of her head for a long time.
0 death on normal would give you a rank around 84
WAS THAT A TOUHOU LUTUS LAND STORY EXTRA BOSS REFERENCE??? 5:11 - 5:14
I've just beaten that extra stage and also noticed right away lmao
Honestly, my main complaint is just that spell cards take too long. 40 seconds on average is way too much for a regular spell, no matter how gimmicky it is. All else looks good and fair enough to me though. (also hey two spells from this had their idea and gimmick used again in a full fangame she made)
2:46 nice irisPC free trial
4:11 Is that a yo-yo reference?