Hello fellow Maidens! I've noticed that a good few Let's Plays are floating around on our forum, most in the Akyuu's Arcade section. While I have not published any of mine here before, I think my newest might appeal to you folks, given that it's about a 3rd party Touhou-fangame and our forum is mainly about Touhou.
Now before you watch, I want to prepare you in what awaits you style-wise: Let's Plays for me are not blind-playthroughs centered around reactions, which is a very dominant form nowadays, maybe the most dominant. What I do is post-commentary, more like a presentation, often informative, sometimes humourous. Really what a screenshot-LP would be, except converted into video-format. With that out of the way, here's...
The Tempest of Heaven and Earth - Suppression by Celestial, Lullaby for GaiaCover art of casing:
Example-screenshots:
Tenjou no Tempest is an impressive action-game by developer Lion Heart (known for other projects like Mystical Chain and Sanae (Fusion) Challenge), released for C84. It combines both melee-combat and strategic ranged-fighting. The gameplay is very rich with numerous moves and customization, which should give us a lot to talk about.
As for the story, Tenshi Hinanawi gets stuck on the surface of Gensokyo because of the works of Iku and Yukari. She takes it upon herself to investigate the recent series of earthquakes, with the hopes of getting back at those two and returning to Heaven where she belongs (although we know that she finds it exceptionally boring there).
Special thanks go out to the user Cogwheel! I can't read japanese, but he's given me very detailed information about the story and terminologies of the game that I'm going to weave into the commentary. I hope it'll make things more lively and relatable that way.
Additional information:- I've deleted my playdata.sav for this LP, meaning every move has to be repurchased. That way, I can give strategy on which moves are worth getting early on or even at all.
- I'll explain the pause menu, shopping and skill customization at the start of the 2nd episode. From there, any customization will be done off-screen, I'll just tell you for each stage what I bought and equipped.
- Due to me not confining my Let's Plays to Touhou, commentary does not assume that viewers are very knowledgable about it. Still, I don't think any of you will be bothered by it. It's not like I'm reciting the complete history of the franchise. Just warning that there may be parts where I tell something very basic about a character.
- Alternative spellcards not included in the playthrough will be covered in a bonus episode (if possible! There's one that I've encountered exactly once so far and died on). That episode will also have anything miscellaneous in it that I think is worth showing.
Video list:Playlist
Part 1 - She's your anti-hero
Part 2 - The War on Taoism
Part 3 - A forest by afternuen
Part 4 - Oh-ogres just wanna have fu-un
Part 5 - Native Face
Final Part - Those who live by the sword...
Bonus - Everything we missed and more in 3 steps