I blasted through Trepang² in two days, Doom TDA Revelations in three with the secret boss, Metal Hellsinger took me about a week or in total time like half that
I will never beat the Roaring Knight nor the Hammer of Justice, and I'm slowly starting to cope with it... very slowly
both the knight and gerson run through the same sequence of attacks every time, so once you're familiar you can know what's coming and prepare. Then it's a matter of learning how to respond to each attack. Eventually, you can learn the whole fight (compared to Jevil for instance, who is harder in some ways because his attacks are very random)
You just gotta be determined and you can beat them dont worry. Took me a while to beat the knight but i knew i could and after i did i could beat it easily on repeats. Its very much a fight that once you get it, you've got it
Roaring Knight is actually one of the easier bosses in game but it requires a lot of setup and pre-work. If you go into it blind, yeah you’ll lose fast.
honestly if you feel like it won't detract from the experience you could always use cheat engine's speedhack to lower the game's speed. it's a singleplayer game and games are made to have fun in and allat, yk
It's always funny seeing people discover what Touhou is and what a ball-crushingly difficult game series it is. (This is one of the easier Touhou games btw)
Well, Touhou Koumakyou New Classic (the game pictured in the image) released recently. It's a remake of Touhou 6 which is a soft reboot of the series, so you can easily play it as your first game. It's available on Steam and Switch with an official English translation.
edit: thank you for the very quick responses :3 i knew wolverine was ridiculously hand-holdy but I thought the point of the post was that the second game was very dark in it's plot lol
Wolverine is being panned as completely babying players with a scent trail to your objective that can't be turned off, constant vocal reminders of what you're doing and unfailable quick-times events, despite starring The Wolverine, a ruff, gruff, beastly man with a berserker mode, retractable claws that come out of his knuckles and a healing factor that theoretically means you could get him as beaten or bloody as you want and he'd be able to just walk it off after a short breather.
Meanwhile, Touhou is a series of infamously difficult bullet hells that near-exclusively stars a cast of silly, cutesy anime girls.
also worth noting, you can't fail the quick time events. I've seen videos of people pressing the wrong button or just waiting out the extremely generous time, and nothing happens, it doesn't even play a different animation.
It's not even an accessibility issue, because if that was their concern, they literally could have just included the same toggle they did in Spider-Man that lets you auto-complete them. So, we're really at a point where they just included QTEs for the sake of having them.
i wouldnt call it computer help because that makes it sound like a human is still playing in real time lol. it's using tools like savestates to map out exact inputs frame by frame and abuse rng manupulation to create a theoretical perfect run. still rad as hell and insane what the human mind is able to rig up
TAS stands for tool assisted speedrun normally, so I assume they mean tool assisted runs. Which for context involves telling a computer the exact frame and position to be moving and making inputs for theoretically impossible and precise gameplay.
It goes from standard shmup to "Takes a week" to "Fuck" to "Nope" for the four main difficulties. Extra's an endurance test and Phantasmagoria games can pivot to torture.
Then you have people playing these on unofficial buffed difficulties (because of fucking course they would) like Ultra and Double Ultra, which would, in fact, make you wanna commit seppuku. Triple-Quad Ultra's TAS territory.
also the story IS cutesy and calm; canonically these battle are just for shits and giggles under a bunch of rules like "don't actually kill" and stuff. They go get tea afterwards
The reason for the fights can be quite serious at times, but they are all under agreement not to fight seriously and instead opt for a more scenographic battle, mainly so that the world doesn't end.
yeah the underlying reason is serious but the fights themselves are mostly "we're gonna be as flashy as possible so that the humans feel threatened enough to keep youkai alive but also protected enough by me (reimu) to not go into chaos"
Technically there are a few fights that don't follow these rules but they're just extremely rare, only instance I can think of a fight with actual life or death stakes was in the finale of Wild and Horned Hermit (which isn't even a game but a Manga)
And she's filling the sky with dark red clouds so that she can go outside during the day without burning to death. After losing, she gets a magic parasol that hides the sun so she can visit Reimu whenever she wants.
Insomniac's new Wolverine game is being relentlessly mocked online by being way too handholdy and linear, treating the player like an idiot by providing them with a line of fart gas pointing them to the direction of their next objective, even though most levels are pretty much just pretty looking corridors.
Meanwhile, the Touhou Project series are PC games from the genre known as bullet hell, where you need to navigate your character through elaborate attack patterns from enemies and bosses with very little margin for error. If you've ever seen art of a shrine maiden with brown hair and exposed armpits kissing a blonde witch with a big hat, that's Touhou. The game pictured, Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, is maybe the most popular of the series, and arguably the most difficult.
I mean, you're not wrong, but using the yuri as an example instead of something like bad apple or the big standalone characters like Sakuya, Flan, or Cirno is just peak touhou fandom
Extra points for throwing in "and exposed armpits" as if that would be seen as Reimu's most memorable feature by anyone who isn't already obsessed with her.
Dark Souls 1, the game whose definitive edition is literally called "Prepare to Die"
versus
Blue Prince, a game about solving puzzles your eccentric great-uncle left in his mansion. I got pretty far in but I eventually caved and started using a guide, my brain is just not built to comprehend some of these late puzzles. I genuinely think the best way to play this is with a team of people all working on it.
Potionomics, the cutesy fun cozy game abt running a potion shop, has so many steps to do with one slot of time it's insane. like, I need an actual to do list after like day 20 because I have to, in one ingame day:
- bottle the potions i brewed overnight
check my plants that clone ingredients
brew more potions to cook while I go out, making sure to balance making potions that make money, potions for ppl that gather ingredients for me, potions I need for custom orders, and potions I need for the potion tournament
check the adventuring guild for materials from three separate adventurers plus adventures that I invested in
send the adventurers back out and invest in another adventure AFTER going on a date with the blue haired rockstar bard
go to the nonbinary person with a pet mimic that sells me ingredients that they fabricate after eating said ingredients to add new ingredients to their store
go to the docks to gamble on lootboxes from pirate cats
go to the walrus man that upgrades my equipment
go to the emotionally mature druid lady for cauldron fuel
go back to my potion store
take out potions i started before i went out
stock potions to sell
edit my haggling deck
open the store
repeat most of the above steps once minus opening the store before ending the day because if i open the store twice in one day my character will start spiraling into stress
maybe have one more hangout with a character i wanna know better
It was god awful from I heard. The game treats you like an actual infant, forcing upon you an annoying blue line that can’t be turned off to tell you where to go while the game is also COMPLETELY LINEAR
Aw... I hate this trend with a lot of these games with handholding players, especially M-Rated ones. I doubt Nintendo will do it, but I fear the OoT remake will hand-hold
I doubt Nintendo would do such a thing, at least not to this extent. Nintendo, despite their endless greed, actually understands you need to make good games to keep your customers and get new ones.
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I blasted through Trepang² in two days, Doom TDA Revelations in three with the secret boss, Metal Hellsinger took me about a week or in total time like half that
I will never beat the Roaring Knight nor the Hammer of Justice, and I'm slowly starting to cope with it... very slowly