Times are altering and outdated boundaries are coming down. It’s straightforward to see, due to the likes of the Touhou sequence – as soon as almost unobtainable outdoors of Japanese import companies – seeing large worldwide success on Steam.
One of the most important spinoffs of the Japanese indie mega-franchise (which we explained the appeal of a bit here) is the preventing video games, co-developed by Twilight Frontier. The very newest, Antinomy of Common Flowers (formally the 15.fifth recreation within the mainline sequence), is ready for its bodily debut at large indie expo Comiket in simply two weeks, with a worldwide Steam launch two weeks later.
As with the previous Steam Touhou release (the chronologically complicated 16th recreation), Antinomy of Common Flowers will likely be launched completely in Japanese, however don’t anticipate it to remain that means for lengthy. If I had been a betting man, I’d wager that there will likely be a full english translation patch for the bodily model launched inside per week of launch, and it’ll be underneath 48 hours from the Steam launch till it’s tailored to work round no matter DRM the brand new model might deliver.
As you’ll be able to see within the gameplay trailer above, this isn’t an unusual preventing recreation. For starters, there’s no floor. The fighters hover in the midst of the display screen, that means you could ‘jump’ each up or down, making for some attention-grabbing methods that aren’t actually doable in some other preventing recreation. There’s additionally a powerful deal with projectile assaults and sprint strikes with invulnerability frames, making it really feel (appropriately sufficient) like a hybrid of shmup and preventing recreation components.
If it’s something like earlier Touhou preventing video games, 15.5’s story mode will play out extra like a boss-rush than a standard preventing recreation, together with your opponent escalating via waves of more and more spectacular spells as you attempt to memorise their patterns, and evade lengthy sufficient to chip away at their well being. Unlike earlier titles within the sequence, 15.5 is shifting to a 2v2 tag-team system, which appears to be a well-liked transfer throughout the style these days.
While a lot of the solid of the brand new preventing recreation are getting back from earlier iterations, the most important shock (which raised fairly a couple of cheers amongst devoted Touhou followers) is Doremy Sweet, caretaker of the dream-realm. You can see her and her intensely fluffy magic (Jeff Minter approves) within the screenshot above. Not too many preventing video games the place you’ll be able to declare to have overwhelmed your opponent into submission with a swarm of cloud-sheep.
Touhou 15.5: Antinomy of Common Flowers will likely be launched on Steam on January fifth, only a fortnight after its conventional Comiket debut. No western RRP has been introduced, however I’m hazarding a guess at between $15-20, based mostly on its ¥2000 Japanese price-tag. The recreation is ready to be a Steam unique launch, so you’ll be able to wishlist it here to get informed of when it launched.
