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Year: 2024
Touhou Gouyoku Ibun ～ Sunken Fossil World.
I finally got around to finishing this, which is good ‘cus when I first played it the final story wasn’t in (as it was added in the Switch ver and later updated in the Steam ver) and honestly it’s been a while but.
It’s. A game! A “horizontal side-scrolling danmaku water action game” if that means anything! I get what they were going for but it I now have cramp in my wrist oop. Conceptually the ideas work, but everyone (especially Murasa) either feels super sluggish or has feel like they don’t have much air control, or both!
Because of getting to the penultimate character back in 2022? 2021? I admittedly have forgotten a lot of how I felt about except just, frustration. Everyone would be fun to play as if the game didn’t seem to actively hate you. Oh well, that’s the last Windows Touhou game left on my list (that’s playable) now cleared. Finally.
On that note I could never find non-YouTube rips of the additional Switch tracks so I finally just did it myself here: No More Going Through Doors & Secret God Matara
Whoa did you know I do art?
Okay silliness aside why on earth didn’t I have more banners of my art that has backgrounds and fits widescreen????
I do now! :B
Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
Well I’ve got all the achievements now so that’s certainly time to write about this! I actually got this when it was in Early Access back in 2021 before it released, and beat it back then, but since then it’s gone gold and they added achievements to it. Well, more specifically to Steam, there are technically “achievements” in game but that’s getting ahead of myself.
On the surface it’s a fairly simple puzzle game as the aim of Potion Craft is simple: You’re an alchemist, you’ve opened up shop so you can research, create and sell potions. To do so you to chart a course on what’s called “The Alchemy Map” using your ingredients which all lay out their own path on the map, to reach a potion effect to brew a potion like so:
I’d joke this image is spoilers, but you’re given this by the tutorial
Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero – Part 2: The Indigo Disk
Official Site (Bulbapedia Article)
Mouthful of a title… TWO. Originally this was meant to be posted either on or a day or too after the 23rd of December but then TPCI had to go an announce an epilogue which released on the 11th of January. I kind of felt as a result that I needed to at least play that first, which good job ‘cus it does cap off the game!
A non-spoiler tl;dr: I enjoyed it! It has performance issues to no-one’s surprise but the story and music is great.
If you thought Part 1: The Teal Mask post was full of spoilers, boy howdy get ready for MORE. There’s absolutely no way to avoid talking about The Indigo Disk without some spoilers, especially as I theory-crafted in The Teal Mask post.
100 Percent Aurelion Sol
This is Aurelion Sol right?
In reference to Keliff’s ( https://www.twitch.tv/keliff ) “Draw With Roo” today, who was drawing Aurelion Sol on stream!
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Strange Horticulture
Next game already! Strange Horticulture is, to use their phrasing, an “occult puzzle game” which is another way to say “puzzle game but there’s witches and other magical things”. It’s about identifying plants and their properties based on customer requests, and finding them based on notes and puzzles out on a world map. It’s got a story that isn’t outright grand, but enough to feel like it has depth despite it being short (I hit credits within 6 hours)
It does have replay value in going to completion though. I got really drawn in by trying to identify the plants without hints (that’s an achievement in the main story) and enjoying the feeling of satisfaction of doing that, maybe if you did it with hints, try again with out ’em!
I suspect there’ll be another game here by Pokémon Day 2024 but I guess Pokémon Scarlet & Pokémon Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Part 2 – The Indigo Disk is potentially the next one and man I have a lot of things to write down for that…
東方魔宝城 ~ Book of Star Mythology
This isn’t a particularly big or long post, but given I’m making an attempt to have a post for each game I beat I want to get something down, even if short!
Book of Star Mythology (BoSM) is one of those fan-games I’ve known about for ages, but like all the other big ones I’ve never got round to even though I know it’s extremely good. And now I can confirm that I agree with that!
I never said I did good at it though! Tbh only 23 deaths on a first run, and the majority are stage 5+ I could probably do this as a proper 1cc on Legacy Mode, but I mostly just wanted to finally play through it despite never touching it for YEARS.
The entire soundtrack is fantastic though, like that’s probably not a surprise when the final boss theme is by Wanwan but seriously, all the composers that came together for what was originally going to be an album turned game did such a great job! Starry Wisdom hasn’t gotten out of my head since tbh :’D
I’d recommend it! It’s great! There’s an English patch as well, updated by Azure (who worked on Copy Kitty and some other damakufu scripts in the past if anyone remembers them. I do! They were rad!), so it’s really worth that look in 😀
Get Vamp’d Nerd
There was shenanigans on social media and they didn’t leave my brain so here’s the end result of that. I’m mostly posting this now ‘cus it was very sudden for me to do this at 2AM this morning so this is technically the first art of 2024 :’D
This all came from a series of doodles that I’m leaving below!
Loopy New Vampire Adventures
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