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RETRO ALICE IS FINALLY COMING!!! She's coming on my birthday too!!! I'm so excited for her!! Although, if I'm gonna be honest, seeing the 1st anni update picture makes me feel overwhelmed af ^^;, I don't know how I'm gonna keep my seal crystal count above 1000 lmfao

Due to some reminiscing over Stone McKnuckle in the Musical Discoveries thread recently, here are some of his MMX remixes!

UPDATE We have received the chart for the First Anniversary (ft Dark Myon Fumo). Let's see what it gives us: new "Everybody Wins" campaign; this time, we are getting 600 God Cubes and 50 Seal Crystals Forever Prayer (Part 1 - it was not mentioned clearly why it is "part 1", there might be a new one back-to-back with it once it's over) - this time, we also get retro Reimu, Marisa and Sakuya Flandre Scarlet Ultra FES, just as the one for her sister ends rerun for the Mysterious Sword Master Ultra FES Lucky Bag banner until 27th of May PCB Yukari and PCB Alice retro alts getting their own banner (the two are separate banners) Story Card Collection banner Lunar War Collection banner Challenge Event - Witch of Scarlet Dreams Fire EX is coming back SP cost per battle reduced by 50% and x4 XP and drop rate for story levels Errand XP x3 Anniversary costumes available Apparently for joining the LW Discord you are getting 5 Seal Crystals Hakugyouku Arena Phantasm the already existent Festival Collection will continue some very interesting login bonuses, including 1 Normal and 1 Divine Paper Doll (starting with 27th of May) New event - Masked Dancer Rebellion, coming with related costumes and banner (Benben, Yatsuhashi, Mai, Satono and Kokoro - no Mystia or Kyouko sadly) Fantasy Rebirth 2.0 you can play a Mirrors of Rebirth stage 6 instead of 3 times a day x3 School XP Week Login bonus for the above-mentioned event

personally I'm really liking Lost Word. The gacha system seems much more fair than other gacha games I've played. in most gacha games trying to get characters without spending money feels like a complete shot in the dark with pretty unclear pity systems being the only reprieve. with Lost Word I feel like I've gotten every character I've really focused on and while I feel like the pity system is much less forgiving than other gacha games (to the point that I've only ever gotten to use it 3 times) it's at least very clear and obvious about exactly when you're going to benefit from pity and you get to choose exactly what you get when the pity points reach the required numbers. I feel like the gameplay is more fun than people give it credit for (then again I do often challenge myself to do 1 character runs of levels, often when that one character is below the recommended level. this might be why I feel the game is also more strategic than others give it credit for, of course there'll usually be more strategy in a challenge run than a normal one). also while I do see the point about alternate versions of characters being more powerful I notice that this is only really the case with the Super Festival Characters. post-Fantasy Rebirth my L1 Reimu and L1 Marisa both have higher stat totals than their A1 (the EoSD version) counterparts (granted, this is just stat totals, I'm not aware enough of the meta or whatever to understand if the A1 versions have some other trick to give them the edge). I've not yet leveled up my Fantasy Rebirth Sakuya and Cirno to see if the same is true for them but I suspect it might be, my Fantasy Rebirth Youmu is pretty close to the A7 version despite being over 20 levels below her so I'd suspect that this is pretty universal for all Fantasy Rebirth characters to be stronger than their non-Super Festival variants. if Byakuren and Aya get Fantasy Rebirths I suspect they'll also be stronger than their A12 and A9 versions respectively. since most Fantasy Rebirth characters are from the normal wish pool (only Yukari and Kasen have been from Festival prayers) I'd say this is a good thing. Super Festival characters will probably always be the strongest (which I'm fine with as long as they're given a plot reason for it, I'm a little iffy about the fact that all the Lunar War versions are stronger despite having their powers sealed. if anything I feel like that should make them the weakest version of the characters. the same applies to the new Remilia, she's established in the story to be extremely weakened, seemingly unable to even stand, but she's somehow far stronger than L1 Remilia) purely due to their rarity but as long as we keep on getting some normal units in the high tiers I see no problem with that at the end of the day I'd say that if people don't like something they just shouldn't play it. no need to keep on dragging it out as something to hate (and while I don't think this particular thread is doing that I do see people in other places doing it a lot. Lost Word and Memories of Phantasm seem to be the punching bags of the Touhou community. I understand that some people might not like the overly fanon aproach that both works take but they both still clearly have plenty of work put into them and if people don't like the product they can just find another game (I understand that there are slim pickings for another Touhou anime so people are mostly stuck with Memories of Phantasm), perhaps even make one themselves to give the rest of the Touhou community something to enjoy.) wow, this turned into quite a rant. I only intended to write 1 or 2 lines at most...