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Touhou 12.8: Sangetsusei - Great Fairy Wars  


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Release Information
Type: Bullet Hell Freezing
Developer: Team Shanghai Alice
Publisher: Team Shanghai Alice
Release: Comiket 78 on August 14, 2010
Language: English-Patched (ThCrap Self-Updating Standalone)
Silhouette On Cover: Cirno (Sole Playable Character)

Character Information
Playable Characters: 1 (Cirno)
Shot Types: 1
(With Level Up System)
 
Description
Cirno has challenged the three mischievous fairies to a fight! (Or did they challenge her? She can't remember.) The winner gets to declare themselves the strongest, and able to terrorize humans in the name of fairies everywhere, so off Cirno goes to freeze everything that gets in her way!
 
Unique Gameplay Mechanics
Freezing
* Hey, the enemies fire way too many bullets in this game, don't they? Yes. Yes they do. So not only can you fire back as usual, you can also freeze enemy bullets.

What You Can Freeze and How It Works
* You can freeze normal bullets (the vast majority of what you'll see). Charge your Ice Barrier by holding the [Z] (Freeze) button, then let go; you'll envelop the immediate vicinity in ice. Nearby bullets will freeze, which causes bullets close to them to also freeze; if you do this correctly, you can cause chain-freezing the entire way up the screen.
* Ice Barrier Potency: Your Ice Barrier's potency is the percentage displayed above Cirno's head. It charges slowly, similar to Aya's camera in the photography games. You can charge it faster by hitting enemies with rapid-fire shots and by performing successful freezes. The percentage determines how powerful the effect of your Ice Barrier will be if you use it right at that moment; using it at a full 100% can easily freeze the entire contents of the screen when done right, whereas using it at 30% (the lowest charge you can use it at) affords barely enough time to give you an extra moment to think.
* Perfect Freeze: Cirno's spell card freezes absolutely everything onscreen that can be frozen normally, and has the added effect of also freezing fireballs (see below). You charge Perfect Freeze energy the same way you charge Ice Barrier energy (hitting enemies with rapid-fire shots and performing successful freezes).

Hazards You Can't Freeze
* You can't freeze fireballs, at least not with your standard Ice Barrier; the only resource you have that can freeze Fireballs is Perfect Freeze. Fireballs will start appearing in stage 2, and you'll be reminded of their presence.
* You can't freeze lasers. In fact, lasers break ice, turning it into bullet shards that will hurt you! Lasers will start turning up in stage 3.
* You can't freeze beams, which are a hazard only present in the Extra Route. Ice will only act as a shield against them. Any time you spend in beams gradually drains Cirno's Motivation.

Motivation
* So by now you're wondering where your life count is. The answer is that Cirno can go on as long as she's sufficiently motivated; the Motivation count is Cirno's "lives" counter, with 100% being one life.
* How do you keep her motivated? Why, success of course - hit enemies with her shots, and freeze bullets with her Ice Barrier!
* Max Motivation is 1,000%, or 10 lives.

Level Up System
* There aren't any Power items in this game, so instead, Cirno gains Experience by defeating or freezing enemies. When she gains enough, she levels up, and gains more firepower icepower, up to a maximum of Level 16. (Who knew Cirno could count past 9?)
* On Easy, you start at Level 3, but on any other difficulty, you start the game at Level 1.
 
Scorefile
* This scorefile was provided by Wolfdragon Rex and CKenshin.
* It unlocks the Extra stage, which is also cleared.
* It has all routes cleared on Easy, and has all routes cleared on Normal; there are no clears on Hard or Lunatic.
-> You can help get this scorefile to 100%! If you have a scorefile which improves upon the progress in this existing file, please submit it to us!

 

Th12.8 (FW) Scorefile [Wolfdragon Rex & CKenshin].zip

Steam Release
If you would like to support ZUN, you may buy Great Fairy Wars on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1100180/_/?snr=1_7_7


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This is without a doubt the most overlooked Shanghai Alice Bullet Hell.

Short, yet entertaining,

Fun, yet not easy

And... Speedrunnable! Plus, the art style is really visually high-quality, and reminiscent of an Isekai Quartet show. Don't overlook this game as a quality choice.

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On 9/9/2019 at 7:58 PM, latiasred said:

i dont really understand how to use the scorefile

 

haha me too

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For anyone having issues with the scorefile, the scorefile is no longer placed in the game's folder. Instead, you need to go into your %appdata% Roaming folder, after running the game to generate the folders. Inside should be a ShanghaiAlice folder and in that is the th128 folder which is where you place the scorefile.

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The Below image shows up when I launch the game after the translation patch thing finishes it's job just fine.  It also happens instead of the game actually running & I don't understand what it is telling me or how to address it.  BTW I installed the already patched version above...

VpatchError.png

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On 10/25/2020 at 10:25 PM, Marx The Galactic Jester said:

I cant run the game because there is an error that always pops up saying that d3dx9_43.dll was not found. How do I fix this?

having the same issue here. surprised no one has come forward with a fix yet.

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On 9/10/2019 at 6:58 AM, latiasred said:

i dont really understand how to use the scorefile

 

putting it in the folder of the game doesnt seem to do anything

theres a file that named score123 replace it with the new one

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On 10/26/2020 at 10:25 AM, Marx The Galactic Jester said:

I cant run the game because there is an error that always pops up saying that d3dx9_43.dll was not found. How do I fix this?

extract the file then put it in a file(?)

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On 12/12/2020 at 12:56 AM, iloveTouhoubecauseyes said:

Is it a virus? Because on the virustotal page it's detecting a virus called "BScope.Trojan.Bitrep"

It isn't a virus, I didn't get any virus warnings about that

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On 10/25/2020 at 9:25 PM, Shadow The Hedgehog said:

I cant run the game because there is an error that always pops up saying that d3dx9_43.dll was not found. How do I fix this?

I used to get the error all the time, there are websites that offer downloads of d3dx9_43, d3dx9_42 or d3dx9_31, whatever one you need, I have no guarantees they are completely virus free, however those d3dx9 things are pretty much required to run modern Touhou games, especially on Windows 10, hopefully this is helpful

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