Day 60: Tank maker

[Juuni]

She’s making some Devious Machines

Day 60: Rika

Rika is a very neat little character. She hasn’t really gotten any fangames(besides one notable exception) and is actually intriguing within the game she is in. Her whole mechanic thing is really uncommon, but there’s something really funny about thinking about a boring brown haired girl driving a tank or a ship shaped like an eye. Her character is pretty undeveloped, but I see most interpretations go for the excitable and curious kind of way, and I think it’s fitting and would be a cool contrast to nitori. Her only notable fan work is Shanghai.EXE, where she is a part of the main group of characters. She is really fun in that game and I wish she’d be used more as a character in other works. I don’t know her theme, her design is pretty boring, and generally the only thing holding her back is her lack of presence. Overall, cool concepts, very little execution.

[Gri]

The returns of the bingos



(Yeah. I really got nothing to say about Rika)

Edited September 26, 2023 by Gri

[NetsumuNico7]

I like to call her "funny tank girl"
(not much to say too)

[Pentastar]

opinion on the extra stage design , my fav character also what'sShanghai.EXE

Edited September 26, 2023 by Pentastar

[Eulogous]

Apparently Rika is the one who made the enemies on Touhou 2's Stage 1, which includes the Bakebake (the tongue ghosts you see everywhere in the PC-98 games). I doubt they are artificial, so I imagine she probably uses some sort of invocation/magic along with traditional engineering. A human mechanic is especially interesting to me for the opportunities it'd bring to a fan work, given that we also have the Kappa. I always like to imagine she'd do business with them, or share schematics or something.

For a type of fan work, the first thing that came to my mind is a Tactics game like Advance Wars (it's the tank imagery). She doesn't seem to be affiliated with anyone but is also kind of eccentric, so you could go either the protagonist or antagonist route with her character. Sure, there's a ton of gaps to fill in regards to how you'd write for her, but writing (especially in the constraints of making it canon-friendly) is a rewarding experience for the creative types.

[Juuni]

3 hours ago, Pentastar said:

opinion on the extra stage design , my fav character also what'sShanghai.EXE

It’s a fangame that plays like the Megaman battle network games