Author Topic: Touhou Project 12.5 ~ ダブルスポイラー (Double Spoiler) announced, girls are preparing.  (Read 232846 times)

Helepolis

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ZUN surprised most people again. While probably half the universe was speculating on Touhou 13, our Hakurei Priest actually announces a Shameimaru comeback.



That is right folks, Aya is back with Shoot The Bullet style game, going by the version 12.5 and carrying the name: 東方Project 第12.5弾 ダブルスポイラー ~ 東方文花帖 (wish I could read japanese). Of course as BunBunMaru I will have to get my hands on it and write an article about it eventually. Oh right, I also hope that this game leads to Perfect Memento in Strict Sense II and Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red II. Now that would be awesome.

RELEASE DAY UPDATE! Confirmed girls so far:

Spoiler:
Shizuha   
Minoriko     
Parsee   
Hina           
Kogasa 
Kisume     
Yamame
Nitori         
Momizi     
Ichirin/Unzan
Murasa   
Suika       
Yuugi 
Nazrin     
Shou           
Rin         
Utsuho
Satori
Koishi     
Tenshi
Iku     
Kanako   
Suwako               
Byakuren 
Nue       
Reimu   
Marisa
Sanae       
New girl: Hatate Himekaidou

Here is the translation for ZUN's announcement:
Translation by: Nazerine.

Quote from: ZUN
Touhou Project 12.5 Double Spoiler ~ Touhou Bunkachou (StB)

Right now, I'll give you a behind-the-scenes look at this, the second StB.
The people who think "I don't need any new story or plot development. I want something I can play during my lunch break" find themselves enjoying longer games as well, when they play them, so they can be bullied with danmaku.

If I had to describe the game in one sentence, it would be something like "Shameimaru Aya, the Tengu reporter, obstinately captures Youkai, humans, and others with her camera, and creates overblown dramas to put in her newspaper."

The Tengu can cut away danmaku by capturing it in her camera. Using that, she can find ways to avoid her enemies' carefully-prepared danmaku patterns, giving the game something of a puzzle feel.

This game will have completely new characters and scenes from the previous Bunkachou, Shoot the Bullet. The finished product will be sold at the Shanghai Alice booth at Reitaisai (planned to be ?1000). Anyone who's interested, please come!
I'm feeling better about a lot of things.

Below are screenshots.
(These shots were taken during the making process.)

*Warning: Compared to the other works in the series, the difficulty level of this game in terms of full completion is rather high, so be prepared.


Start hiding your ecchi/H collection. Secure your bank accounts. Do not make any phonecalls for the time being. Cause Shameimaru Aya is on you all. Ayayayayayayayaya.


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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2010, 08:31:21 PM »
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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2010, 08:31:58 PM »
東方文花帖: it's just touhoubunkachou again. that was the title on StB, and BAiJR too.
Regarding score threads: For the time being, I'm not going to be online much; I would suggest that you simply do as you normally do, because I will come back and I will want those threads when I do.

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2010, 08:35:21 PM »
Maybe two Touhou games this year? As the first bunkachou took him like two months to make. At least, he should release a new book.

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2010, 08:35:25 PM »
This is just...

...what a shock to me at least.

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2010, 08:36:57 PM »
This is the worst announcement since... well, Touhou 9.5.

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2010, 08:37:59 PM »
Maybe two Touhou games this year? As the first bunkachou took him like two months to make. At least, he should release a new book.
that's what I think. there's just going to be a new Phantasmagoria announced later.
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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2010, 08:38:46 PM »
i wonder who the final boss will be... it might be tenshi or iku... as they were the only characters not appearing in a danmaku game. like shiki and komachi
*hopes that pc-98 characters return*

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2010, 08:39:15 PM »
--Reserved for Ruro's orgasm :V--

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2010, 08:39:34 PM »
Huzzah~!  I was never any good at the original, but I always liked the idea...  Also in before Rurorgasm.

Ahem~
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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2010, 08:40:37 PM »
Running the article through Google Translate, it looks like this is sort of an StB remake. Refurbish old characters, add new characters and so on.

Also the release at Reitaisai seems like it'll be the full game, not a demo. So there may still be a 13 on the cards...though it's not like ZUN to be so productive keep it under wraps. :/

Still sort of disappointed he's going back to StB - it doesn't come across as the sort of idea you could make more than one game out of. Eh, guess Reitaisai will reveal all.

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2010, 08:41:56 PM »
I see nobody here actually cares about the mystery shrouding all the characters that have been introduced after MoF. I must be one of the few that actually care about the background story and profile of each character. There for a PMiSSII / BAiJRII could be arriving around the corner. Especially because 9.5 also covered all EoSD to PoFV chars (including IaMP).

My opinion but if you only care about overhyping speculations about Th13 then I am wondering what kind of Touhou fan you might be? Really, that is just bad imo. Also so many raging on going on IRC and forums now.


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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2010, 08:43:28 PM »
What, Helepolis. I CRAVE for something like PMiSS2! Or BAiJR. Or even CoLA!

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2010, 08:45:33 PM »
I see nobody here actually cares about the mystery shrouding all the characters that have been introduced after MoF. I must be one of the few that actually care about the background story and profile of each character. There for a PMiSSII / BAiJRII could be arriving around the corner. Especially because 9.5 also covered all EoSD to PoFV chars (including IaMP).
Except that, well, he DIDN'T announce PMiSSII. He announced a sequel to a game which he didn't properly finish in the first place. Where are those Phantasm stages, again?

What's the Japanese response to this, anyway? Obviously the entire Western fandom (save the Aya fans) is descending into raeg.

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #14 on: March 02, 2010, 08:49:17 PM »
We already established that Touhou 13 will come this year, maybe winter instead of summer. There is no need for raeging.

SO CALM THE FUCK DOWN!

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #15 on: March 02, 2010, 08:50:06 PM »
Only thing I can hope is that ZUN doesn't make Touhou 13 a Phantasmagoria. :|

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #16 on: March 02, 2010, 08:51:05 PM »
This is my reaction.
FUCK. LONG-HAIRED. AYA.

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #17 on: March 02, 2010, 08:52:05 PM »
YEAAH!~ StB.2

This is what I hoped to see. 12.3 just didn't look like a number chosen just for fun. Their had to be a 12.5 or 12.7 after it.

I never liked Aya much but always liked StB because it's time consuming, good practice and 100% rage inducing!
Let's get the spells rolling ZUN! Heart Bullets, Suns, Anchors, I'll take them all again~
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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #18 on: March 02, 2010, 08:52:21 PM »
This is my reaction.
FUCK. LONG-HAIRED. AYA.

With pleasure~  Mmmm, long hair~<3

Uh... Ahem~

Now, hopefully we'll also get another Phantasmagoria game sometime soon... Then everything would be just wonderful, ufufu~
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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #19 on: March 02, 2010, 08:53:08 PM »
New game. Cool story, nice work ZUN.

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #20 on: March 02, 2010, 08:54:12 PM »
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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2010, 08:56:36 PM »
I liked StB, insofar...

YAY, new Touhou game!
Old Danmakufu stuff can be found here!

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« Reply #22 on: March 02, 2010, 08:57:12 PM »
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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2010, 09:02:20 PM »
We already established that Touhou 13 will come this year, maybe winter instead of summer.
Where did we find this out? It's just theories atm, ZUN hasn't announced anything.

Anyway, by now my initial fanraeg has just about dissipated. Apologies for my initial being pissed, I'll probably accept this game with open arms like everyone else.

How is the camera gonna work in this one, anyway? Look at the screenshots on the blog - the shot being taken of Nitori is at some weird angle. Do you get to spin the camera now?

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #24 on: March 02, 2010, 09:02:39 PM »
I see curvy lasers. Fuck. Time to prep rage.

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #25 on: March 02, 2010, 09:09:40 PM »
Btw,

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RED LENS DETECTED. SPEED OF SNAPSHOTTING INCREASED BY 300%

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« Reply #26 on: March 02, 2010, 09:13:01 PM »
Wow. This is the worst announcement in history.

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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #27 on: March 02, 2010, 09:15:13 PM »
...what the hell is up with that flesh-colored blob resting on her leg.

Anyway, this isn't so bad, I guess. Seeing old characters again is fun! And this means a full version release instead of a demo, right?
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Re: 東方Project 12.5 ~ 'Double Spoiler' announced, girls are preparing.
« Reply #28 on: March 02, 2010, 09:15:40 PM »
Parsee-eared Aya!

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« Reply #29 on: March 02, 2010, 09:16:54 PM »
RED LENS DETECTED. SPEED OF SNAPSHOTTING INCREASED BY 300%

That's the only chance I have at beating this game. :V