Hello, I've been looking around the web for places where I can have a discussion among Touhou fans for a fan game I'm making.
For the most part, I'm currently working on the character models and here are the ones I have made so far (faces not yet animatable) :
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http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/329/b/b/remilia_and_flandre_now_rigged_by_saijeehiguchi-d6vimvr.pngIn case you hadn't noticed, the art-style that I'm going for is not meant to resemble the manga/anime look as I wanted to go for a more western animation style. That said, apart from comments such as "touhou looks weird when it's not drawn anime style," I'd like to know if there are things about them that you think could be improved, and how so.
Also, I had a bit of fun making designs that have distinct differences than the way the characters are usually depicted. Somethings are for story telling purposes. For example, Scarlets come in 2 different sizes. That's because I wanted to have more emphasis on the relationship of Remilia as an older sister to Flandre, and I always thought that drawing them the same height makes them look more like twins than big/little sister.
Speaking of the story, It's going to be a retelling of the events of EoSD, told in a way modeled after Zelda OoT. In fact, I'm really hoping to get a Zelda OoT like gameplay/gameflow for the project as a whole. This game will be played using WASD+shift+space+mouse. where shift is dodge, space is jump, left click is melee, middle click and the wheel are your special melee attacks, and right click is shoot. While shooting the gameplay switches to being very similar to Kid Icarus Uprising, with the multiple ways to shoot using just one button thing and all.
I'm going to make the melee battles revolve around strong vectors and want to make playing Marisa and Reimu here feel quite the same as playing them in Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, except in 3D.
The story is not meant to be all that true to the original story, so even if you have beaten EoSD before, I plan to give you a number of surprises. Some events might not happen in the same order, and character motives are all changed.
I'm also hoping to get the game fully voiced in English.