I like all of the books Zun so far. The least enjoyable one for me was Curiosity of Lotus Asia. The others are good, Silent Sinner in Blue, Cage in Lunatic Runagate, Inaba of Moon/Earth, 3 Fairies manga, Wild and Horned Hermit. Of course, those are only interesting if you enjoy mainly slice of life stuff.
@PapillonReel:
Zun might reintroduce PC-98 characters, but as for remaking the games themselves, I don't really see that happening.
Maybe Zun will make another game that uses the Highly Responsive to Prayer's mechanic...
this reminds me of
this game, though I haven't played it yet
Don't even say that!
HRtP is unfairly underappreciated, probably due to the unintuitive gameplay (getting used to dashing for movement and getting the timing for maneuvering the orb with the ofuda, maybe getting used to bombing for score and suiciding for lowering rank and gaining bombs), but it was a nice concept and execution (the patterns are designed around the gohei and ofuda, and chaining tiles with either bomb or orb is fun).
As for a fighting game, I may be repeating myself (about wanting a game that satisfies people who want deep fighting games) but a new system which optionally allows the player to mix elements from IaMP and Soku (IaMP's autofire shots, melee options, startup speed, emphasis on bullet zoning combined with melee, defensive bomb system, Soku's chargeup shots, and maybe some elements from more recent games like roman cancel, just defend -- doesn't have to be like Garou's JDs, maybe just lower the chip damage or spirit damage or increase pushback or reduce blockstun --, EX attacks -- that would maybe require more than 4 buttons not counting shortcut keys --, normal throws/throw breaks and finally some elements from the Touhou shmups like shot types, spell card boss modes, graze meter.. I'm just throwing ideas, hoping that they could be possibly balanced and not need to be cut out as much. Would like to see characters have unique abilities -- example: Cirno freezing bullets like in GFW -- or some sort of character customization like Arcana Heart's Arcanas -- could be even a partner, for example --, I like the idea of how the gameplay would look and play like, though it's difficult to think of something that hasn't been done before.)
