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Blue Angel doofus who is definitely an ass. Day 51: Mai Mai is one of those PC98 characters that I like for absolutely no reason. I think her design is neat, and that she generally has a cool look about her. In the games, she is quite rude, and generally she isn’t a good person, just doing whatever with Yuki. Overall, one of the characters I can’t explain besides “she’s neat.”

Touhou 19 had so much potential to be one of the greatest games, but it got too rushed. It's a very fun game and has many characters to play with and I'm enjoying it. It's sad because if only the game wasn't rushed it would have been amazing, because there are many positive things to talk about the game, but the negative aspects turn me off completely from considering buying it. The OST's original tracks are very cool and I like them, but the rest is just rearrangements of old themes and most barely differ from the originals. The pixel art is very cool, and the portraits are too. The new character's designs range from really cool to meh. I like Hisami and Son Biten more than the rest. Input delay is really good as always Finally my controller's analog triggers work. So many games don't support these analog triggers I can't talk about the story yet, because you progress through it as you play with each character, instead of each character being an isolated variant of the story. Then we have the strong downsides of the game: No score at all No replays (wtf!!!!!) No extra stage Online is fucked Some character portraits are worse than others, and generally all have the same energy to them, which doesn't help distinguishing character personalities Unbalanced portions of the game depending on the context (for example fighting certain enemies in lunatic) Some playable characters are very weak Main game is the shortest ever, with every run lasting around 15 minutes Versus mode takes forever for the enemy to get hit, feels very unfair In story mode, the enemy doesn't get hit, you just have to clear the spellcards. This is fine, but it's weird considering it's supposed to be a versus game. Also in the same mode, the enemy live indication doesn't lower when you clear a spellcard and doesn't represent the amount of spellcards you need to clear either, so you don't know how many are left to clear unless you know from memory This is the first Touhou game to crash on Linux when you alt-tab (if it's in fullscreen mode). I'm not sure if this happens on native Windows as well The card mechanic is not necessary and doesn't need to be in this game. You won't care about the cards and you can't even pick the ones you want. It just feels forced I assume the price increase to 14€ or whatever is due to zun hiring a pixel artist, but the game in its current state should not be this expensive. I hope zun patches it and improves it a little bit at least

Funky guitar girl Day 40: Benben Tsukumo Benben is a neat character. Really nice parts to her character that flesh her out well. I like the stuff she has with raiko, where she shows them how to keep themselves going with magic. Her design is really neat, and I think it’s good as a simple design. Honestly though, she hasn’t done much, but it’d be sweet to see her with the prismrivers more. Overall, good small character that could definitely show up again.

Good to hear Zun had something to release patch. Now, whether or not he'll address the issues, we'll see.

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It's not impossible; back when ZUN wasn't releasing his games on Steam (meaning everything was physical-only) he pushed out the necessary updates on his personal website. This went on all the way from EoSD (https://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th06.html) until LoLK: https://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th15dl.html

reganeet ytsgna Day 17: Seija Kijin Seija is a character that I feel is supposed to be hated. She has barely any redeeming qualities, cheats, and Stockholm syndromed shimmy to make herself stronger. She generally doesn’t have a great personality, and I hate the speech tick of saying a ton of opposites, as it just makes her more annoying than anything. She accomplished being a more villainous character, but I feel the fans lost that part of her and tried to make her into something she isn’t. I also don’t really like her design as well, but her theme is excellent. Overall, villain character that got fandom treatment in a bad way, coupled with her not being my favorite type of character.

Raspberries are so ungodly good.