Time for the news roundup.
News and updates
On the Friday-to-Saturday night (at least according to my time zone), there has been a Dev Letter for LW Global. Quite a few things have been announced, given the game reached 2 million downloads. Looks like LW will not die out any time soon... Let's see what the game will put at our disposal. Keep in mind, the 2 million downloads celebration might be coming just in time with the 1.5 years game anniversary for Global. Last year, the 0.5 anniversary was celebrated by cutting some of the free features, so I wonder if we are gonna lose anything this time around.
The main features that have been announced:
guaranteed friend festival: from what I can understand, you are getting daily one Guaranteed friend ritual, which might also contain retro versions of the characters (compared to the classic ritual, which only contains general pool friends)
special tasks: my guess is that through these tasks, the players will receive either increased resources or special, rare ones
bonus for daily logins - music connected to the Hifuu universe versions of the SDM cast
battles will cost half the Sprit Points - finally, I was really looking to this one, as I am running dry on resources with the current event; I have not seen my SP count go below 20K since last year at least - to be fair, I am also using expensive units for farming
more x4 rewards for main story and Hifuu
x3 School XP for a week
Interesting they have decided to split the news into 2 parts this time:
Hifuu Patchouli and Koakuma are coming; unfortunately, they are separate banners
new 72H Newcomer banner
current event is getting the Extra stages - get ready for more Morby
the general friends pool is getting an update in regards to Guaranteed Prayers
more floors opened in the Scarlet Devil Tower
more characters are getting Fantasy Rebirth 2.0
Meanwhile, the colleagues from Scarlet Talk have decided to cover the news their own way. Get ready for more Remy & Patchy shenanigans:
The artist for Remilia and Patchouli actually has a Pixiv page, and can be found here https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/4972747 . He's got a lot of cute stuff
You can always find Remi & Patchy's news roundup here
Community discussion and memes
This time, an interesting video I would recommend. It is about the original game inspiration for Reimu's shot types and spellcards. Maybe the person has not used the best examples everywhere/could have used better images at times, but the effort is to be appreciated.
Also know your enemy: