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Legalized nuclear maid (bomb) Day 4: Ruukoto Ruukoto is a PC98 character that I wouldn’t mind seeing again. She only really was introduced along with mimi-Chan and was only in that ending. She simply doesn’t have much, and is locked in PC98 jail, so she doesn’t have much character at all. Maybe one day we will see the literal ICBM and nuclear maid again someday.

I go raw and simple with VLC with custom settings, but recently I have been trying Elisa which is the music player in KDE Plasma's software suite

Windows Music Player(I prefer the old one to the new) and VLC Thats all

using audacious, unsure if its on windows but its on linux for sure (installed via apt), mainly use it to play MIDIs but got touhou 6, 7, and 9 osts but whats most important it has a support for a winamp layout and skins which i honestly prefer over the default theme and layout might go and check out QMMP later tho, mainly for a friend

Bird who shows up like one or two times and never again Day 3: Tokiko Tokiko is a less existing character than Reisen II, but at she’s a neat enough concept. I feel she should show up more with rinnosuke to give her some character, and I feel she could do some neat stuff with that. Unfortunately, she’s unnamed and only gets fanon stuff, most of which aren’t notable and not too major to note. Kind of a shame, with her having potential to at least be a satisfying bit part character.

Fantasy Maiden Wars OST 2010.12.30 - Fantasy Maiden Wars Scarlet [OST] 2012.12.30 - Fantasy Maiden Wars Mystic [OST] 2014.12.29 - Fantasy Maiden Wars Eternity [OST] 2017.12.29 - Fantasy Maiden Wars Dream [OST] Shinra Banshou 2023.04.30 - リカレイド

My condolences to all sumireko fans for what I’m about to say Day 1: Sumireko Usami This is the only character I actively dislike in all of touhou. The first issue with sumireko is her personality. I get the fact that she’s supposed to be a cringy teen, but she honestly is way too overdone in that aspect. It could have been something we could have related to easily, where she’s kinda like how you were as a teen, but instead it feels very forced and not very natural as a character. She basically feels like if you took an anime phase teen and cranked it up to 11, instead of a more normal teen with a healthy amount of eclectic nerdiness, which I think could work better and accomplish what I think would make her more tolerable. Secondly, her specific character interactions feel very fake. First things first, most of the characters she interacted with are the incident resolvers, yukari, and mokou. Each of these interactions besides yukari boil down to the gensokyo native treating sumireko as a basic friend, and nothing much deeper. Like, there’s no hesitancy to a human from the outside world essentially invading gensokyo, even though it’s treated as serious in every other case. Sumireko feels like a weird self insert, getting along with anybody she really meets and not having any clashes despite the entire nature of her character being a dangerous thing to gensokyo. I do like her bits with yukari though as yukari actually does treat her with caution, which is how mainly reimu should have responded to her presence. Finally, some things I like about her. Sumireko has an excellent design, and honestly fits her type of character really well despite my dislike towards her type of character. She also has a good theme. Overall, sumireko ends up feeling like a self insert fantasy character to me, not really meshing at all with other characters naturally and honestly holding herself back with how her character is. I feels as though she missed the mark of what a character of her nature could have been, which would be someone regarded with heavy caution to those higher up, but treated like a human to anyone not, which is why her interactions with mokou are probably second best because they make more sense character wise. I wish I could find a way to like her, but she just has so many flaws that I can’t find myself really saying much positive about her.

This is definitely the character of all time Day 2: Reisen II Reisen really just never does anything notable. To me, she only exists to pad out the personalities of the lunarians by painting them as more insane. She replaced Udonge after she deserted, and this Reisen became her replacement, because the watatsukis couldn’t deal with losing udonge and just replaced her like it never happened. This ends up with a character that never really matters, not doing too much in her book and never showing up again. Reisen II is the most nothing character in the series, as she has barely any personality given to her in her book too. Overall, Reisen II was used to pad out another characters lore and lost all of her interesting stuff because of it. I wish she got any chance to do something, but we also haven’t dealt with the moon since 2015, so I don’t think she’ll be able to be relevant for a long time.

Favorite OST: 10, with 11 being a very close 2nd place. The overall lineup of 10 and 11's tracks are strong. There's only like a song or two from both I'd consider forgettable. Least Favorite OST: 12 (Probably controversial, so I'll explain myself), with 2nd place being 16. The game might have my favorite Stage theme in the series ("Rural Makai City Esoteria") and Byakuren's theme is amazing, but I have to weigh them against the rest of the OST, which has a ton of "Meh" tracks like Stages 2 & 3. Stage 1 has a really good hook but I can't remember much after the first few bars, both Stage 4 and its Boss track are just okay for me, and I feel like Shou's theme takes a while to get to the good bits. The loud clanging metal in "Fires of Hokkai" is off-putting in an overall decent buildup song to the final boss, and "UFO Romance in the Night Sky" is my least favorite Extra Stage theme in the series (I hate the laugh sfx and the song kind of meanders in the beginning too much). I think "UFOwen Was Her?" is pretty good, I like the part about 1:20 in that's "Divine Bloodlines" from Castlevania: Rondo of Blood.

Oh man, Depends. Usually I use Gmusicbrowser(Linux Only). As you can see, It looks rather, plain. No special effects, no blows and whistles. It might also a bit of a pain to set up at first, but after that, I'd say It's pretty good. Another Music player that I do like is QMMP(Windows/Linux). It's meant to replicate Winamp, and indeed it does replicate it well. A major advantage of it is that it uses Classic Winamp skins with ease. So if you had a kool Goku skin for Winamp back in the day, you can use it on it with no problems whatsoever. The last one is a bit of a wild card, I'd say. and that's MPV(Windows/Linux/Mac/BSDs). MPV runs and recognises everything, it runs fine, it supports .cue files, and a good amount of albums do come with them. On my phone, I use Poweramp. There aren't any really good free music players on Android sadly. You need to pay for Poweramp, and of course you can find modded APKs of it, but at least, it's probably the best out of all the music players for Android.

Alright, let's see how this works. There have been quite a lot of updates and additions when it comes to fan games and whatnot on this site since the beginning of this year. I'll try to list them all here. Downloads fixed/updated: New downloads: Fixed downloads for albums: New albums: Also, on another note, the tutorial on how to set up Neko Project 2 has been fixed. The Images have been added back in. In addition, the emulator didn't have a FONT.ROM file, which might be required for some to display text properly ingame. The file as been added into the archive that has the emulator.