Lurker > UF8

andylt posted...

Touhou fans seem like they're on another level. I can't think of another fanbase with so many fangames relative to the official series' overall popularity.

i think the series popularity is probably proportionate to the fangame count tbh, its fan album (and just general arrangement) count remains even more extreme and of that a lot ends up on youtube with millions of views to their name.

that said, there may well be more touhou fangames than non-touhou doujin games period (i'm pretty sure it has to at least be close since they're both well into the thousands) and from that perspective, yeah, there probably is too many lol

i think it's really interesting how such a culture developed, how so many hundreds of independent teams would solely dedicate their creative output to the world of one of their peers. arguably a testament to how inspiring his worldbuilding methods are... though also to their own efforts (and every other facet of the fandom) in further broadening the audience. especially nowadays, where some of the fangames are reaching more people than zun's works combined (eg. million sellers like luna nights, mystia's izakaya). but i still think that without him at the core further developing and reinforcing the lore and worldview of the core series, melding so many obscure folklore/religious concepts into every new place and character, it wouldn't still be going on like this, decades past the point where it first really exploded in popularity. and i think that's neat

Wordle 1,602 3/6*




drawl
rebel

andylt posted...

There are simply too many Touhous

it's funny because i'm pretty sure i ended up including every touhou game that i mentioned in the past 3 months of topics EXCEPT touhou 20 (you know, the actually official one lol). fangames have simply been more well received apparently

it is simply not fated to come out lol

End of the

UF8 posted...

also shoutouts to the surprisingly large games from the last few months on my radar that, despite having no professional reviews or opencritic pages to begin with lol, have been maintaining very good review scores on steam currently

i didn't have enough time to actually say what those games were (or fix that very obvious typo/omission, i meant large number of games) before i had to post the edit so i'll mention them here instead
the games in question were:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3585630/this_game_will_end_in_205_clicks/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3857590/Wish_Upon_a_Cat/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3675470/The_Aquarium_does_not_dance_Special_Edition/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3411510/Stellar_Code/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3829880/Touhou_Kouzougi__Flickerframe_Shutter_Festival/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3442880/Touhou_Farming__Minorikos_Homestead_Harvest/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3081840/Chrono_Gear_Warden_of_Time/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1575810/Wander_Stars/ (which actually does have an opencritic page and review score so whoops lol)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3462730/Disaster_Arms__Impact_Project_BAHN/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3091010/_/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3005930/BatteryNote/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3575980/Fantasy_Maiden_Wars__DREAM_OF_THE_STRAY_DREAMER/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3054820/DevilConnection/

probably should've included this one too, i just skipped past it assuming it'd have no players at all
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c1cc7e99.png
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3265060/__Touhou_Dystopian/

man nobody wants to release in november huh lol

certainly looks high but also not a huge number of reviews (also it's not a november release lol). but yeah definitely surprised to see a release topping blue prince as the highest rated raw fury release for now

edit: actually just got curious what kinds of scores some of the recent ones from my radar would be rated at if their low review counts were included
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e3586041.png
def surprised mamorukun wasn't actually counted with that many, it's technically double what blake manor has

also shoutouts to the surprisingly large games from the last few months on my radar that, despite having no professional reviews or opencritic pages to begin with lol, have been maintaining very good review scores on steam currently
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/7/79697b2d.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOHGTKzChSI
also just came out (well, it left early access)

i heard pretty good things about it when it first dropped last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R397YlcIggo
so this just came out. looks neat tbh

finally, just a simple heads up that other than emulation, the device actually should be able to handle actual android games like a champ too lol. though the dual screen part may make it less favourable compared to just a high-end phone, i cannot stress enough how good it is to get to actually play stuff like (these aren't exactly the most popular examples but they're ones I've actually tried) wuthering waves or smartphone mmos like legend of neverland without being limited to touch controls... of course, both of those are also on pc these days too lol but it's still not a fundamentally bad way to play them

anyway on stuff not on clamshelds (original term do not steal)

Anything else in the burnout series on ps2 (and legends on psp. 3 is the best one but definitely try the rest, especially revenge, which notably has easily the best crash mode in the series)
Every ace combat game before 6 lol (the sky crawlers and the later handheld entries should be doable too, other than assault horizon legacy (the ac2 remake on 3ds). actually, i'm not sure how sky crawlers would even feel like without wiimote+nunchuk tbh)
ps2 armored core games are also worth
insert ps2 gust and nis games here lol (i rec nis's non-disgaea stuff more)
dragon quest v ps2 (there is a fan tl)
asura's wrath might be a struggle but one that i've been playing recently (though not on my odin2) that i think may be doable is nobunaga's ambition: sphere of influence, which is still the best nobunaga game tbh
also the classic naruto ultimate ninja series (1-5 and heroes 2 on psp) is one of my all time favourite series so i'm obliged to shout it out lol. not confident the storm games would work, probably unsurprisingly considering they essentially work the same as asura, and they have modern remasters anyway lol

oh yeah regarding games i rec knowing it's a clamshell...

Solatorobo
Hotel Dusk and Last Window
Insert gen 4 pokemon games here
don't play black 2 if you haven't played black recently imho
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers series (most would go for sky nowadays but i prefer time/darkness' pacing)
FE: Shadow Dragon and New Mystery of the Emblem (with a tl patch)
Etrian Odyssey (all of them, including the 3ds ones if you can handle them. origins collection remasters are overrated)
Radiant Historia (3ds version is probably better overall but i personally think the original holds up better in some regards)
I'd say insert Ace Attorneys here but ngl the modern remasters are just better (about the only one on ds or 3ds i think plays better is apollo and specifically on the 3ds version and pretty much only because the 3d works really well so it's a moot point here lol)
7th Dragon (they're locked to ds/psp/psp/3ds respectively so hopefully they work fine, fan tls do exist though)
Infinite Space
Suikoden Tierkreis
Sonic & All Stars Racing (specifically the ds version)
Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans (legit underrated one-off rpg)
Shiren 1/2 (DS) (the latter has a fan tl. 4 and 5 are also on ds but idk if they have translations and you can play them on other platforms anyway)
Nostalgia
Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition if dsi is supported on android emulators i haven't actually checked yet lol)
also on 3ds, it doesn't have 3d and should be more than easy enough to run so i'd rec the Parascientific Escape series

edit: back on dsiware, gonna throw in X-Scape too (though i'd also recommend playing the original X on gameboy first. the unreleased localisation (Lunar Chase) came out in one of the nintendo gigaleaks in the past couple of years)

edit2: also chrono trigger ds still the best version

nice! i've been getting a lot of use out of my ayn odin2 mini (the vita-looking one) recently and can report that you should also be able to handle a decent chunk of the ps3 and switch libraries too (haven't checked wii u or wii lol)

poor Frankenstein

Wordle 1,599 2/6*



been a while since my last 2 let's go

Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

the real mystery to me is how did me3 make it this far (i guess it just isn't an antivote magnet like it used to be)

also another bad day for kenshiro too

Crab

I mean yeah? It's one of the longest running detective adventure game series out there, and it also started getting localised at the same time as all the other popular ones on the DS

Wordle 1,598 3/6*




blink
drake

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ee86f5ea.png out of 10

Continuum

7th Dragon

i was hesitant to count it, but across all fiction, probably Dragonlance actually

Wordle 1,597 3/6*




exist
----- (too much of a spoiler, should be easy enough to work out once you know)

personally would've classified Feldherrn as being from Senko no Ronde Rev. X, aka. WarTech (while i think that it probably did also get added to the arcade version, that would've been in the "Senko no Ronde SP" overhaul, which came out after rev.x anyway. and i'm still not even sure if it did tbh) (the reason being that it's an ending theme from the overhauled story mode in rev.x. it is said that sp added in all the updates from rev.x but idk if that included the story)

edit: had a look at some gameplay of sp and the story mode (which is also the score attack mode) was unchanged from the original release, and every character only has Confetti (song on the original senko no ronde soundtrack) for their ending themes. so yeah it's strictly a rev.x song

Wordle 1,596 5/6*






retry
sated
often
h----

of all the poll options it's definitely the one i feel the most conflicted on being there considering it already has a console release lol
that said it is still a more deserving game to make the poll than most of them lol

honestly fair, it may be a borderline remake but it's still functionally just an existing game, from the 90s. and also honestly who wouldn't just get kirby on that day lol

it was mostly unbeatable and possessors i was trying to get onto the poll tbh (and to a degree the new inazuma eleven and bubble bobble games) since i felt like they were the actual biggest ones of note for here after air riders (which is a very damning thing to say about the month but it is what it is lol)

re: possessors, i liked the sgf trailer for it more so here's that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlCncwv5V2k&t=1376s

(overall, i think if there's any one game i'm likely to get... well, detective instinct might actually be the top priority, but it's a close second. and then alice's world and maybe the berlin apartment. sadly unless i get some very generous birthday gifts this year i yet again don't see myself being able to afford anything this month whatsoever really) (i'm unsure if i can even get more than like $40 for food for the whole month ngl)

NOV 6
Unbeatable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkvi71znX_Q
(rhythm action game that saw a prologue release (subtitled White Label) a few years back. i'm not sure if it's really retained the hype or not but it was very well received at the time so i think this might be a hit)
Syberia Remastered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZhcC0N3_Gs
(pretty notable release for the year as far as adventure games go. modern microids releases tend to be pretty hit or miss but i haven't heard much negativity around this one yet)

NOV 11
Possessor(s)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP9BlGyBmrU
(new game from the hyper light drifter/breaker devs, was pushed a bit during summer game fest mostly. it didn't get much talk but i thought it looked promising)
Bittersweet Birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTA-t4teUto
(i've heard people i know mention this game before though i don't really know much about it myself. similar to unbeatable it's had a prologue release (in this case just a normal demo) for several years. seems to me though that it's pretty much a top down action game under the partial guise of a 2d adventure game with a pretty involved story)
Windswept
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRHIc2C-zIs
(i don't really know anything about this one, i just know that it's another game that people have already checked out the demo for. looks like a decently charming precision platformer with some very clear DKC dna on it)

NOV 12
Million Depth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1TbFeXUbv8
(anime sidescroller roguelite where you get a lot of customisation for your weapon. seems to also be very plot-driven)
Winter Burrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlQo0Buvv-4
(not really a game on my radar, i just remember this one from some game showcases earlier in the year)

NOV 13
Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zES6cye4xD4
(this is the one that had a global beta test on steam and consoles about a year and a half ago. kinda surprising it took this long to come out, i was sure it already had by now)
Assetto Corsa Rally
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1_7q_gHrTo
(car game, i don't think there is a world where this would be considered a real snub for a topic here because nobody would be voting it anyway but it is probably good. early access though)

NOV 17
The Berlin Apartment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdYuJNZXo6M
(i meant to check out the demo of this one myself but i haven't got around to it. no clue what it's deal is but judging from the trailer... i like it)

NOV 20 (oh hey that's my birthday)
R-Type Delta: HD Boosted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPbg3d_E3PE
(I honestly wouldn't say I'm an R-Type person as far as shmups go to be completely honest. definitely looks like a solid remaster though, and the arrange soundtracks are already shaping up to be great)

NOV 25
Alice's World
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2439560/Alices_World/
(gives off the impression of a simple indie sidescrolling puzzle game, but apparently there also seem to be 4th wall-breaking horror elements? the titular character is voiced by Bocchi's VA so that's also neat)

NOV 26
Detective Instinct: Farewell, My Beloved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2LEvgj6iUo
(detective adventure game inspired primarily by 90s japanese detective games, with a more western art style. this was one of the games on my radar during the boom of ace attorney-likes last year)

NOV 27
Bubble Bobble Sugar Dungeon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUma2zdhOMU
(i'm not looking it up but i haven't even got a clue when the last new bubble bobble game came out, so... neat)
The Last Ninja Collection + Bonus Games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMagnuQ9oLo
(the only revivals of 80s pc games i can think of in the last few years i can think of are all from atari, so it's nice to see a shift from that trend finally)

NOV TBD
Wavekin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tooPUSGWps
(november has hardly even started but i already have my doubts this is actually making it out before december, but i guess we'll see. neat game though, feels like something somewhere in between Aquaria and flOw)

unfortunate to see all of the games i specifically suggested for the topic last week snubbed lol

like Unbeatable would probably get votes (maybe not the rest but still)

Wordle 1,594 3/6*




scrum
b____

Rayman Legends

Cereal
Toast
Smoothie
Pancake/Hotcake/Pikelet

was on the fence on the last one being that or crumpets but i think crumpets are more niche even if i prefer them. also maybe a bit bold to count breakfast smoothies but they're one of the more iconic options for this in my book. plus it at least feels safer to me than my initial considerations for jams and milk lol. (whatever the case though i'll be disappointed if cereal isn't the clear #1 considering i realised that not only encompasses all branded items (and just the obvious generic corn flakes, puffed wheat etc) but also all mueslis and porridge too)

I can't decide if i should just broadly count all cereals as just, you know, cereal, or just make my vote all cereals lol

in any case i can't handle eggs, mushrooms or bacon (and i'm also just not a waffle OR porridge fan) so it'll be a very biased vote lol

Buster

Wordle 1,592 4/6*





bring
stake
pouch

Flying

does crossworlds even run well on xb1 lol

Leonhart4 posted...

Sounds like magic but with us instead of ic

i do this one

same principle with magil too of course

also to recap some more and provide a slightly updated list

here's the end of the month (at least as far as stuff that was on my radar goes) now

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3639970/KAMITSUBAKI_ACADEMY_NEWSPAPER_CLUB/ (thought i already covered this one, it's another kamitsubaki game (following Ensemble last year, Regenerate earlier this year, and a LOT of associated titles all around them. an adventure game with simulation (stat-raising) and (very lite) roguelite elements, taking inspiration from a lot of very particular japanese indie/freeware games from the last few years, including titles of their own)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3287600/DC_Retune/ (Da Capo remake)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4071250/Make_it_Yakiimo/ (budget title from SAT-BOX)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3357980/_/ (Kairu! Hacker Tantei) (doujin adventure (detective mystery) game with net hacking gimmick. no translation in the works. looks pretty inspired by Urban Myth Dissolution Center, which isn't very surprising considering that was by far one of the most successful japanese indie games of the year. i STILL see playthrough streams of it in my youtube feed on a daily basis which is ABSURD for something as far from the AAA realm as it)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3882350/Resonance_Solstice/ (gacha game pc port. i only really know this game for its soundtrack, since Hiroyuki Sawano was jointly responsible for it)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3837380/Majogami/ (the obligatory new "one-off inti creates platformer that isn't gunvolt because they're still determined to gaslight people into believing that they aren't actually going to make another gunvolt" title. they've gotten into a real habit of making games like this pretty much since umbraclaw last year, or arguably gal guardians or the love live (yohane) metroidvania the year before)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3649490/Stray_Children/ (obviously between the original announcement, the japanese launch and now this localised release i've spent a lot of time expressing my excitement for this one but for those less in the know i guess i might as well explain it for once. It's the sequel to Moon: Remix RPG Adventure, the game that inspired Undertale the most. takes a lot of inspiration from it in return, as well as many other titles (eg. OFF, Ib, Yume Nikki, Anodyne, and a lot of the other titles Kimura worked on himself, including Chulip, Black Bird, Mon Amour, and others))
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3523840/Harvest_Moon_Home_Sweet_Home_Special_Edition/ (mobile port LOL)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2893570/DRAGON_QUEST_I__II_HD2D_Remake/ (still the biggest snub of the topic tbh)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3054820/DevilConnection/ (i'm not sure i even want to know what its wishlist count is like now)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2246670/Tales_of_Xillia_Remastered/ (you know, i finally got around to setting my ps3 up again the other day, and i still had the disc for xillia in there (meaning it was in there when i moved)... oops)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3756520/PIXEL_DASH_Toast_of_Destiny/ (breadrunner. tbh this kind of game shouldn't cost anything above like $2 or it's a straight up robbery, but something tells me it's definitely going to be more)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2693410/The_Reason_for_Your_Smile/ (i'll be honest, this is probably an actual h-game, but i'm still mentioning it because i think it's really funny to release an NTR game for halloween)

PS.
while i'm still bumping this topic i might as well say that i looked at next month now and it looks downright dismal on the major release front outside of kirby air riders (and i don't even have a switch 2 so lol) so here's some i think are worth including
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkvi71znX_Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP9BlGyBmrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTA-t4teUto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1TbFeXUbv8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zES6cye4xD4
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2439560/Alices_World/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2LEvgj6iUo

finally got pacman (as if the 2 week delay in au/nz wasn't enough, the suppliers apparently decided to throw in another one lol)

shame i still have no money (and won't for a solid few months under current circumstances) so i'm definitely not getting anything else this month (no matter how much i want stray children)

also to recap delays
UF8 posted...

apparently three of the four games listed under october in general that i posted are no longer in october lol (one even released *before* october)

make that all four

also utaware ZAN pc got pushed to december too

Wordle 1,589 3/6*





WordleBot
Skill 97/99
Luck 59/99
strip
glade

Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
Resident Evil VII: Biohazard
-
-

(I can't) Believe It

Does Roblox count lol

also haven't played most big sports franchises (only really racing ones (like one 90s f1 game, one of the oldest codemasters ones, a couple of wrc games, also a tour de france game on psp if we want to go there lol)... i played one smackdown vs raw game once, and also a few fifa games (generally only their actual world cup series games though, not the yearly instalments), plus very briefly one of the pes games on ps2 lol. oh yeah and a fair share of golf games (tiger woods ones and microsoft golf being the main ones). but have never touched any other more inherently american mainstream sport series before... well, other than in wii sports games lmao)

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
Pokmon Black and White
Return of the Obra Dinn
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

sad about sacred stones