Touhou 15.5: 東方憑依華 (Eastern Blooms of Possession) ~ Antinomy of Common Flowers

[martelefort]

"Anti-Characters"  or "Shadow Versions" are the last thing Touhou needs and if that is actually the final boss it might be the most disappointing reveal in the history of the game series

It depends. The final boss might be Linnah's idea, but it could be caused by another ( and new ) character whose power is to create those " shadow versions ", but is harmless on her own.

[PK]

Well, assuming this character can only make one "shadow version" at a time, it would explain why she can't be defeated by anyone alone.
The battle would always be "you" vs "yourself and her", so she would keep a X+1 advantage in most cases :V

[Fluury]

It depends. The final boss might be Linnah's idea, but it could be caused by another ( and new ) character whose power is to create those " shadow versions ", but is harmless on her own.

Even if, "Shadow versions" and the like have been so outdone by so many franchises, it would be awfully boring, unoriginal and uncreative.

[brliron]

v1.01 is out: http://tasofro.net/touhou155/download.html
And the th155arc I wrote for the demo works with the v1.01 th155b.pak. I'm really surprised. That just makes patching easier - and also suggests that they didn't add any anti-hack thing. I'm really optimistic about thcrap support now.

[Spotty Len]

And people are already digging through the patch, and they're finding neat stuff.

[game2011]

New girl(s) coming soon!

[CapTengu]

Here  we go! Comiket time!

[Fluury]

And people are already digging through the patch, and they're finding neat stuff.

Care to throw a link for those digged files? This thread is against spoilers afterall.

[gilde]

TWITTER PICS OF FINAL BOSS (BIG SPOILER TOWN)

e:

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Fortune goddess Yorigami Joon (依神女苑) and her sister, poverty god Shion (紫苑)

[Suspicious person]

Ayy

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pimp clothes

I foresee memes

[Kilgamayan]

ojou_laugh.jpg

[Polaris]

Going by the above linked screenshots, the motive behind the incident is apparently that

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Shion (the binbougami) wanted to possess her sister Joon to try and receive some of her fortune blessings.

[☆ Kana ☆]

Ohoho,

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Touhou has a Shion now~ Len'en who~?

Also, I'm presuming

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Joon is the one with the ojou laugh pose there. It'd be hilariously appropriate if so.

  :V

[gilde]

They're named after

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the daisy fleabane (himejo'on in JP) and Philadelphia fleabane (harujion in JP)

respectively. Antinomous common flowers

[CyberAngel]

Holy crap!

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Might be just me, but seems like the latest WaHH chapter hints at them to boot! Thanks, C-man! Guess we can expect them to show up in the next one or something.

[Critz]

Holy crap!

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Might be just me, but seems like the latest WaHH chapter hints at them to boot! Thanks, C-man! Guess we can expect them to show up in the next one or something.

I kinda doubt that seeing how WaHH is already past-HSiFS. Would be pretty neat though.

[gilde]

Boss songs are

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憑坐は夢と現の間に　～ Necro-Fantasia

and

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今宵は飄逸なエゴイスト(Live ver)　～ Egoistic Flowers.

JP sections translate to uhhh

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"The Yorimashi Sits Between Dream and Reality"

and...

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..."Tonight is an Easygoing Egoist?" "Tonight we're having a(...)"? "This Night Stars a(...)"? Sounds like a 'this gal's our performer tonight' sorta thing so I like "Tonight Stars an Easygoing Egoist". The "easygoing" part is pronounced hyouitsu-na in a pun on 'possession' (hyoui)

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2ch thread is wondering if Yukari's secretly the real final boss. might just be the midboss tho imo

[Polaris]

re: above post about boss songs

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I saw the spoiler about Necro-Fantasia and was confused how it connected to the new characters, but knowing that they have their own theme I guess it's more likely that Necro-Fantasia is a story mode theme for Yukari. (I'd totally be down for Yukari being the secret final boss though lol)

[☆ Kana ☆]

The

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(Live ver)

in the final boss theme title feels really fitting for

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someone like Joon

, tbh~ (even tho that's prooooobably not the reason for it being there  :V )

[gilde]

god what if

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zun made good on his 'give the final boss theme lyrics' idea from hsifs

. What If

[☆ Kana ☆]

god what if

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zun made good on his 'give the final boss theme lyrics' idea from hsifs

. What If

I read that as

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ZUN singing lyrics to the final boss theme in an "ojou"-type voice

and honestly, best late christmas present ever.

EDIT: Here's a stream~!

[KaiserKnuckle]

unfortunately, live doesn't mean a ZUN song with real singing; it's "live"

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in the sense that the final battle against Jo'on and Shion takes place in front of a live performance of the Prisimrivers w/ Raiko, which is The Best Oh My God

E!!!!:

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THE FINAL SPELLCARD SWAPS YOUR SLAVES SO YOU HAVE SHION TACKED ON AND YOU FIGHT YOUR OWN SLAVE WHAT WHAT WHAT

[gilde]

unfortunately, live doesn't mean a ZUN song with real singing; it's "live"

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in the sense that the final battle against Jo'on and Shion takes place in front of a live performance of the Prisimrivers w/ Raiko, which is The Best Oh My God

E!!!!:

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THE FINAL SPELLCARD SWAPS YOUR SLAVES SO YOU HAVE SHION TACKED ON AND YOU FIGHT YOUR OWN SLAVE WHAT WHAT WHAT

LMAO PERFECT

edit: oh my godddddd lolllll

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Joon's not a fortune goddess she's a pestilence goddess, she possesses people and steals their fortune for herself. they literally caused this incident so they can rob the crowd at a prismriver concert im cackling

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the crowd is cheering in the boss bgm i love this

[Shizzo]

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I friggin love the fact that Joon's 'spellcards' are credit cards she takes from her purse.  10/10 boss

[☆ Kana ☆]

edit: oh my godddddd lolllll

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Joon's not a fortune goddess she's a pestilence goddess, she possesses people and steals their fortune for herself. they literally caused this incident so they can rob the crowd at a prismriver concert im cackling

I'M CRI SO BASICALLY THIS WHOLE INCIDENT WAS JUST BECAUSE

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JOON (and shion maybe???) WANTED CASHMONEYS THAT'S SO ICONIC???

[gilde]

I'M CRI SO BASICALLY THIS WHOLE INCIDENT WAS JUST BECAUSE

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JOON (and shion maybe???) WANTED CASHMONEYS THAT'S SO ICONIC???

ya

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shion's tagging along bc a) she wants cashmoneys too and b) (hilariously enough) having shion swap w/ the player team's slave in the last spell card means the player pairs end up beating each other up. this is why the incident "isn't solvable through regular means"-- i imagine-- not because the culprit is super-powerful or A Big Plot-Twist Lady or anything fancy like in ULiL, but because!! it's a couple of petty-theft weirdos cheating in a really dumb and simple way!! i love it

[Nusp]

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Gameplay-wise, story mode is pretty boring so far. Most battles only have a single spell-card (including Yukari), some don't even have a single one, and all the spell cards are very simple and unimpressive. Again, emphasis on Yukari, her one spell card is incredibly lame.
It's a shame too because the premise of tag spell cards being a recurrent thing in story mode had a lot of potential, but they took the least creative route on that.
The AI is pretty poor too.

[Suspicious person]

Oh man, those music references.

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I love the fact that some of the music that play during certain parts of certain games were rearranged as themes for the fight with some of the characters from such or such other game in this. Like for Sumireko, what's with her fight theme involving parts of her ULiL pre-battle theme, or for Tenshi and her SWR pre-battle theme, or for Kokoro (in human viallge) and that HM theme. Pretty nice touch. And I swear I heard bits of voyage 1969 during the Reisen - Shinmyoumarufight

[Failure McFailFace]

so is the game out already? or is only the trial out now?

[shockdude]

ya

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shion's tagging along bc a) she wants cashmoneys too and b) (hilariously enough) having shion swap w/ the player team's slave in the last spell card means the player pairs end up beating each other up. this is why the incident "isn't solvable through regular means"-- i imagine-- not because the culprit is super-powerful or A Big Plot-Twist Lady or anything fancy like in ULiL, but because!! it's a couple of petty-theft weirdos cheating in a really dumb and simple way!! i love it

The story is sounding fantastically goofy. Very nice.

Though I'm having trouble understanding the significance of

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swapping partners in the final spellcard. Sure you're beating up your partner, but is there anything else that I missed that's special about the swap?