Touhou 11 - Subterranean Animism

Re: Touhou 11 - Subterranean Animism

HOLY **** YES.

Awesome, can't wait.

Re: Touhou 11 - Subterranean Animism

I gave my shot at a rough translation. Note for those not aware, the linked blog is the official blog of Team Shanghai Alice (ZUN). The announcement revolves around the trial version of the game:


Touhou Project 11th Story
"東方地霊殿　～ Subterranean Animism (Trial Version)"
(Note:
東方 = Touhou, but the part after that I'm not confident enough to guarantee a direct translation. I fear this is a poetic use of kanji, which is generally not my forte)


As always, the setup is 3 coins at 300 yen (arcade release?).
This is a trial version, so we don't want to make too big a deal out of it.
Trial limitations are the usual:
* Ends at the 3rd stage
* Practice and Extra stages are disabled

The story is a (this was kind of weird, so I somewhat winged it on parts):

"Guysers and earth apparitions have gushed forth from the ground. Reimu and Marisa thought this was okay since they'd have a hot spring, but the other apparitions did not approve. They put a panel underground, sealing the underground apparition and the hot spring away. How will this affect the fate of our two heroines?"

kind of feeling, as usual.

This time, you select your favorite apparition, then challenge enemies using their support separated from above ground. In the previous Touhou guides, there wasn't really much of a difference between characters. In order to stress the importance of the quirks of the apparitions special abilities, strengths and weaknesses of the characters are separated out. (FIXME) This one was also weird, it seems as though it's saying that the scenes you get after battling bosses will change with the level difficulty, capturing how hard you had to work for it. The apparitions you select will also interject comical dialogue into conversations.

As for system updates, you will be able to select from a few window sizes. Through the specs, you'll be able to double the window size you play in. You will also have a few options to adjust the keyboard response rate (YES!).

Now for a few snapshots:


The last part just mentions that the trial version will be publicly released for free at some point (doesn't say when though). That's about it. Feel free to post any corrections if you have them so I can update the content.