Jump to content

Touhou 19: Juuouen - Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost [Trial] 0.01a & 0.02a(Patch)


5 Screenshots

  • Like 7

User Feedback

Recommended Comments



This slaps, tho never click back to title it's bugged and crashes the game. If anyone want's to play after demo comes out on steam hit me up on discord.

Edited by Deiffu
Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, Deiffu said:

This slaps, tho never click back to title it's bugged and crashes the game. If anyone want's to play after demo comes out on steam hit me up on discord.

Nevermind problem solved itself idk why.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

43 minutes ago, drphilly21 said:

When I get to the player select screen all of the buttons stop working :(

If you have a controller plugged in, configure your inputs in the in-game settings first.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

> Return to Title crashes game
> Seiran's name is shown to be Nazrin's for some reason

I am praying to god ZUN releases the actual demo on steam because I'm pretty sure this torrent is actually a virus :/

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 hours ago, IVBOY said:

> Return to Title crashes game
> Seiran's name is shown to be Nazrin's for some reason

I am praying to god ZUN releases the actual demo on steam because I'm pretty sure this torrent is actually a virus :/

I'm seeing these bugs reported by legitimate buyers- it's just the usual batch of initial trial bugs.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

They are still making these? wow, The last one was published in 2021 so i guess this is or was a yearly release

Edited by Creeper of Doom
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I've so far played about 12 hours of version 0.01a, played all characters on Lunatic and got a No Bomb No Focus No Hit 1cc with Reimu. Overall I find the game better than expected. The game will however die very quick if netplay isn't introduced in the full game in a workable state and to a lesser extent if the game keeps scoring absent. In that case the game will be a fun enough, but short-lived experience. That said I will stay cautious regarding how the full game will turn out. These are my more detailed experiences with the demo of this game:

Spoiler

Characters/balancing
Reimu
- Easily the hardest opponent to play against. She can create undodgable walls due to there being no noticable cap on yin-yang orbs
- Surprisingly strong Charge Attack
- Super-broken Level 2 (both offensively and defensively) - makes her the best character to play

Marisa
- Very strong Charge Attack
- Has to fight Reimu in Stage 3, which makes clearing with Marisa surprisingly hard
- When fighting against her, her lasers form fast and her spell pattern can be quite troublesome

Aunn        
- Very weak charge attack
- Unfocus pointblanking is somewhat strong when coupled with bombs

Seiran
- High movespeed which is useful
- High damage output with basic shot and Charge Attack, especially when pointblanking
- Almost on par with Reimu in terms of difficulty when fighting against her. Her EX Attack summon is very dense. When you fight her in Stage 3, her triangle pattern (nonspell) is insanely fast and wide - misdirecting is at times not possible to do when there's too much on screen to maneuver through.

Nazrin        
- Insanely slow focus speed (by my estimation almost 4x slower than unfocused speed)
- A bomb that's really bad when there's alot of stuff on screen because it homes in on the closest target instead of the boss
- The scope also tracks nearby targets which can be unreliable and can sometimes get you killed when not expecting a projectile to slow down/speed up

tl:dr - playing as Aunn and Nazrin makes the game hard, the others are strong. Reimu, Seiran and Marisa are the hardest to fight against (in that order) but Nazrin and Aunn are much easier. The difference between easy and hard opponents doesn't appear balanced though.

Difficulty
The game mixes the density of PoFV and some of the fast bullets from PoDD. This game in it's current state in terms of dodging is among the hardest official games. You can totally die (effectively Game Over) on the first stage. I've also had some situations against Reimu where I got completely walled and against Seiran the patterns got so dense that I could only get through with alot of luck. This is like PoDD Shitstorms except in this game they can be hurricanes. I personally appreciate this high difficulty in the earlygame as earlygames are often too boring to want to replay through after alot of resets.

Visual design
This is easily the cutest ZUN game that is a shmup. The sprite design is top tier. Very expressive, cute and alive! All sprites are updated and while I don't find that a dealbreaker if it didn't happen, seeing something that's so much better than the outdated blurry sprites definitely improves my impression of the game and experience. ZUN should let others make art for him more often and for that matter let more people playtest and suggest ways to polish the game.

Music
Catchy and good as always. It is also nice that ZUN decided to not blatantly recycle existing themes this time.

Technicalities

  • There are no reversals like in PoDD and PoFV. This means bosses have to be killed through shooting, which I'm somewhat mixed about as it can become very difficult to recover from mistakes during a boss pattern, but at the same time you do end up taking (non)spells more seriously.
  • UDoALG's custom.exe doesn't function because it tries to assign changes to th19.cfg instead of th19tr.cfg.
  • There are no replays. I don't expect these to be there in the full game and thus people are required to record/stream, possibly under worse conditions because fullscreen gives me consistent slowdown everywhere. Alot of people aren't gonna wanna deal with that.
  • For me recording the game (and just having OBS open at all) in fullscreen slows down the game to 45-58 FPS. In Windowed this became 57-60. Playable but unstable framerate. 100BM performed identically.
  • Sometimes the game will freeze and close itself during loadscreens. This happened by far the most when playing Reimu (95% chance after quitting out of an attempt)
  • There's no netplay. It would be disasterous for the game if this feature isn't present (in a reliable state) in the full game as that would kill most of the incentive to replay the game alot.
  • There's no scoring. This would also kill alot of the replay value given the potential that shows itself when playing as Reimu in particular, but I think netplay is much more important. That also means there are no Spell Points.
Edited by KirbyComment
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

This game is hard compared to the other titles and is harder than both of the previous phantasmagoria games.

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

For some reason when I attempt Human vs Human, the controls freak out if both players attempt to move at the same time (the focus flashing, movement being weird, etc) like the game is fighting itself. If anyone has a fix, that would be handy. Also, even if this game has no legitimate netplay, that didn't stop PoFV from getting "Adonis2" and people coding netplay into it. Hope we don't have to resort to that though.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hey, the game is absolutely FANTASTIC!!! It is getting all the vibes from PoFV. I am too excited to know who will be the boss.

Also, most probably Yuuka Kazami can do a comeback in this game but I am not sure about Mima.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 6/16/2023 at 2:47 PM, itan-sha said:

I'm dumb. How do you apply the patch?

if you mean how to play the english patch, simply download the second file that has "patch" on it and play the second file, it should probably say Touhou19 instead of TH19!

Link to comment
Share on other sites


Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Add a comment...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.