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Well.

The game is out, finally.

Touhou 11, Subterranean Animism is finally out, after a night of waiting, and of course, the whole thing is available. Doujinstyle hasn't updated yet so you won't get it there.

Story seems to vaguely connected to Mountain of Faith, another Touhou installation (earlier), so it is very good I guess. The gameplay has become significantly harder, spell cards and graphic support is upped in ante, so expect some CRYSIS degree of support or else.

TOUHOU is a series of CURTAIN FIRE (bullet patterns/mass-spamming projectile) shooting games (like Dodonpachi/Darius/1945 etc) that has quite good stories, and uses little girls to shoot rather than jet planes from the freaking future.

It is massively known for its fan art and fan music, but more so, without the games, there will never be a fanbase. It currently ranks as one of the top games in Japan, simple gaming = best gaming.

Try it out, you won't regret it.

_on second note,
if you already played it, describe how it feels, is it any good?
- the game is really hard this time, how and when (which stage) did you die the most?
etc.

My friends are obsessed with this gaming series, and it does sound really fun and interesting. Maybe I should give it a go and see what the hype is about. :)

The hype:

Subterranean Animism features two playable characters (Reimu and Marisa), each with three weapon types representing a youkai assisting them from above ground. Like Mountain of Faith, collecting power items adds up to four "option" satellites around the character (or eight for the Marisa/Alice combination), which behave differently according to the character and weapon type, and can be sacrificed for a bomb effect. However, unlike Mountain of Faith, each bomb has a different behavior, and some cause special gameplay effects to occur.

The scoring system is once again based on grazing, coupled with collection of two types of items dropped by enemies. Overall, the system resembles some of the core elements of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil fused together with the Tension Bonus System from Shikigami no Shiro series. As such, the player is urged to actively graze at every possible opportunity in order to increase the point item value and not let it drop. Grazing large amounts of bullets in little time is rewarded by the temporary effect of autocollecting all the freefalling items at their maximum value (identically to the POC effect, but without regard to the character's location on the screen), letting the player concentrate entirely on the act of dodging bullets.


well: it is from here, but I felt it needed to be posted directly, since wikia loads absurdly slow

http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Subterranean_Animism

Oh, thanks for the info! Just one question though: do I've to download both of the files? I'm guessing yes, but just to make sure...

Only one, contains the full game
Depending on which windows setting and windows you are using, the game may have difficulty running.


Vista should not run on Vista platform, switch to compatability for windows 95/XP set up.

Direct X is newest one and must have.

Do not extract folder to separate folder drives from direct X or it won't work. (my problem)

Patch is to be released in 2 weeks, there is a bug on one of the playable characters.