Let's Play PokemonxTouhou! (the final episode) (complete!)

[aka Cthulhu]

Aw, yeah! Time for another episode! Kinda want to finish up as soon as possible so I can probably start LPing a new one... or try new games, at least. Typing along the episode while playing takes a ton of time.

Let's Play Touhoumon, episode 35


Previously, Yin met Kasen who asked to help in finding four items that puppets stole. Two of those four items have been found, and I reckon I ought to find the other two within this one episode, hopefully. Starting out at the Hakurei Shrine, I'll check the surrounding area if the items being searched for are in the area. Offscreen, I checked the mountainside and cave near the shrine, and found nothing, so now I'll go to route 1 and then to the Human Village and search there. After that, I dunno.

Also, during the previous weekend I trained some reincarnated puppets, and there was more than the six of them. So, back into the box the team I used on the previous episode, and in goes a new lineup.


Reincarnated Yuugi, for starters. Power style, 120 cost, fighting type. Her previous self was already pretty good, but I made her better by setting the emblem to focus attack, giving her a whole lot more power. At 302 focus attack, she's pretty much the strongest focus attack user I got. Her imposing stance ability prevents her from getting damage via recoil and status effects... though I wonder if that will be the case if she misses with transcend form. She has a move called latent ability which removes half her max hp in exchange for maxing out her focus attack in battle, and that does damage her.

Bought two expensive items that will more or less help her. One is the straw doll, which boost damage in exchange for doing damage to the holder. Imposing stance removes that flaw.

The other item is the black choker. When held, it gives a once-per-battle effect similar to indomitable. So, at full health, if the foe does something to Yuugi that'll KO her in one hit, she'll survive to at least make use of her focus attack - or if I'm lucky at predicting it have her use cross counter.


Rika. Power style, 90 cost, steel and electric type. Has pretty good spread attack, but her defense stats are rather poor and she's slow... so she's probably a better choice for holding the black choker. Her ability is nice, since the last move she learns is a high-power void-type move, becoming stronger and steel type thanks to her ability.


Tojiko. Speed style, 100 cost, electric type. Fast and fairly strong, but not very good at taking hits due to rather low hit points. Doesn't help that her last two moves do recoil damage.


Kana. Power style, 80 cost, nether and illusion type. Pretty decent stats for a 80 cost puppet. I'm a bit wary of nether types in generals... as the only type weak against nether is also nether, and they're weak against both light and dark, though in exchange they're immune to fighting. Having illusion type helps, since it removes the weakness to light and dark. Has some decent moves, too.


Hijiri. Speed style, 110 cost, fighting and light type. Somewhat okay attack, and good speed. I am a bit wary on her ability, as recoil damage attacks are already strong as they are. Still, could be useful if her recoil moves can do KOs in one hit.


Keine. Defense style, 90 cost, steel type. Were-hakutaku form is steel and fighting. Could be tricky to use. Her normal form has decent focus defense, and her moves are decent but are kinda weak due to having just decent focus attack. Going were-hakutaku adds a bit more power, but loses defense in the process. Here were-form gives her a speed on par with some speed style puppets. In general, so she could survive on her were-form (as it does require her to be below half her max hp, I could have her learn iron wall stance to boost her focus defense.

And that's the team I got for this episode. Again, it might change, as there's still a few newly trained puppets waiting to be used. For now, it's time to leave the shrine!


Nothing in Route 1, and aside from Akyuu congratulating Yin for resolving the puppet incident, it seems like there's nothing new in the Human Village. Of course, before we continue on, this is the perfect opportunity to get some new costumes for the team. Yeah! Gonna spoiler it, since this could probably be a real long one:

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Rika replaces her tank with that floating eye tank thing, which was what she rode as the EX boss of Touhou 2.


Tojiko becomes a bird. Futo and Miko also turn into birds for their alt costumes, because in the fighting games the two are playable characters, and Mamizou had a special move that transformed the foe into an animal, which were birds. Tojiko wasn't playable, but I guess her alt costume is a bird to match with the other two.


Kana trades away her hat for an umbrella. She kinda looks like Alice.


Hijiri gets more monk-like attire and a slightly altered attack animating.


Elis with a Harlequin hat, making her look a little like a certain Touhou character from the latest game.


Rumia chillin' in her ball of darkness. It somewhat feels fitting considering that she can't see out of it, which reflects on the accuracy drop of her brutality ability.


Yumeko still looks like a maid, albeit with a shorter skirt.


Like Marisa, Reimu goes back to her PC-98 look alongside her flying turtle, Gamera... I mean, Genji.


Much like Tojiko, Miko turns into a bird for her alt costume.


Mima looking like a yandere schoolgirl, I think. Her alt color makes her look very Marisa-like, which is somewhat fitting as she was Marisa's master back in Touhou 2.


Sariel covered in some sort of dark aura.


Lastly, Alice wearing her PC-98 attire. Alice is an odd case in the transition to PC-98 to Windows era. PC-98 era Alice was younger looking, and was a resident of Makai. Windows Alice was a human, and it's hard to tell if the two are actually the same person, but everyone more or less rolls with it and assume that she is.

So anyway, my plan is to check in on Eientei and see if the items Kasen lost are there. I'll check in on the Myouren Temple on the way there, and see if there's anything new. The NPCs I've run into don't have anything new to say, so I don't really have any sort of clue hinting at the whereabouts of the missing items, so there's no choice but to search for them on foot (or technically on bike).


At the Myouren Temple, the buddhist crew has some new things to say, but nothing in relation to Kasen's quest.


On the other hand, Shou is looking for a rematch, and a battle is initiated.


Yuugi doesn't get a chance to show off her high focus attack as she gets KOed by Kyouko in one hit. Tojiko repays the favor by KOing Kyouko with Gensokyo Typhoon. Tojiko gets to use that in one turn instead of two thanks to holding a haste charm. Unlike Reimu with economist, Tojiko won't be able to use the charm more than once per battle.

Tojiko probably wouldn't survive against Ichirin, but she's fast enough to get one hit in to do some damage. After that, Kana is sent out who uses sound attacks which are super effective but required two uses to finish Ichirin off. Without Tojiko doing damage to Ichirin earlier, Kana would have most likely been KOed.

Speed Nazrin out next. Freaking speedsters. No screenshots, as I pretty much lost the match against Nazrin. It was a crushing defeat... but at this point, I kinda figure out what to do.

I switch around the team order, remove a move here, add a move there, and change around the held items. REMATCH TIME!


So, first up is Kyouko. I had placed Tojiko on first so Kyouko is KOed by Gensokyo typhoon. Tojiko has the morale booster ability which increases her focus attack when she KOs a foe. Tojiko can't survive against Ichirin, but due to the slight power boost her Thor's hammer (which does recoil damage) attack lowers Ichirin's hit points low enough for Kana to finish her off, who's holding the straw dolls which do some recoil damage.


Speed Nazrin is sent out at this point. I actually lost twice to Shou, and I know for a definite fact that none in my current team is faster than her. So, instead of a futile attack effort I revive the KOed Tojiko instead. Kana is KOed, and I send out Yuugi. Naz has the attack clearing mist, which is steel type (Yuugi is weak to it) and the damage also increases the higher the cost of the foe compared to the one using it (Naz is cost 80, Yuugi is cost 120 - lowest cost vs. the highest cost). It would KO Yuugi... but I had her hold the black choker so Yuugi survives and KOs Naz with a fighting-type move (which Naz is weak against). That's one problem down. Next up is power Murasa.


I only got as far as Nazrin, so I'm not exactly sure on what to do. I heal Yuugi up to max hp, which proves somewhat useless, as Murasa KOs Yuugi on the next hit. The black chocker is a once per battle type item, I guess. On the bright side, Murasa's attack does recoil damage which takes a nice chunk of hit points away. Sent out Keine, and Murasa uses overskill again, doing recoil damage. Keine survives, and her attack does enough damage to KO Murasa, but even with the speed boost from her were-form is not enough to act first when Shou is sent out. Also, Keine is holding on to the food rations which heal a little bit of damage per turn, though obviously it wasn't enough.


Hijiri is sent out, and does decent damage... but even though she's speed style, Shou is able to hit first, and Hijiri is KO by the second exchange. Rika and Tojiko have no chance of hitting Shou, so they're used to revive and heal Hijiri who deals the final blow.

All in all, kinda a messy battle. The team wasn't exactly optimal to face Shou's team, and if I had used a different lineup the battle could have been a whole lot easier. Speed style puppets, or the ones with high speed stats in general, continue to be a problem. The ones with a higher level than my puppets will most likely hit first, and it always seems that they have the right move to KO my puppets in one hit... support moves, or status attacks, seem definitely valuable to slow the opponent down.


Well, Shou's defeated, but she doesn't have anything of interest to say. I was kinda hoping that somehow she'd have info on where to find Kasen's lost items. Still, the temple grounds have been explored, except for the cemetery and the cave beyond it. The cave leads to a doorway that won't open (and it won't open in this game - apparently the place is incomplete and was only finished on the expansion pack).

Still, might be worth a look.

I go back to the human village for some healing. A slight change in the lineup is needed, I feel, so Rika is removed from the team and back goes a recently reincarnated Remilia.


Power type instead of speed this time, and her stats have been rerolled so she would have both focus and spread attack with great potential so she could make use of both types of attacks. Her moveset is actually quite similar to speed style, though in this case it works a lot better for her since her focus attack is actually good this time around. 120 cost, and also, due to the emblem being on it, her speed is as good as some speed style puppets.


Back at the cemetery... well, there's nothing new around. During the time when Yin had to fight Hijiri, Naz was hanging around this place but she's gone now. The Touhou characters here have nothing new to say, so I'll just check in the cave to check around, then head straight to Eientei and continue investigating there.


Going through the cave, Yin finds an item lying on the ground. It wasn't there before, and picking it up causes Seiga to appear. She can tunnel through walls, which explains why she's standing on the rock walls of the cave. Anyway, in a stroke of luck, she does have the item that Kasen is seeking - though of course we have to fight Seiga for it.


Well, uh... it was an odd battle, needless to say. For starters, Seiga's team was all power Yoshikas. A 6 puppet team of them, and they all had the same move they used; body and soul. It's a powerful move that halves the opponent's focus defense before doing the move, but it has the problem of KOing the user as well. All of them used it. Yoshika (all of them) were fast, but on the first round Tojiko managed to hit first and KO one of them. After that, the rest of the Yoshikas suicide bombed Yin's team, and they actually KOed five of my six puppets from doing that move... though doing so KOed six of Seiga's six puppets in exchange.


After that odd battle Seiga gives the item to Yin and goes back from where she came from. Considering the fight, I could have probably easily won without getting a KO if I used moves like barrier option or nature barrier to avoid damage from the attacks.


Off to Eientei! (aside from Mystia now showing up in the bamboo forest, there was nothing new in Eientei)


...after all that nothing, I reckon I should go to Alice's side of the Forest of Magic. I reckon that Marisa would be on her side of the forest, probably itching for a rematch. I reckon that's where Yin will be going next, if Alice has nothing new to say.


Speaking to Alice once lets her know about the conclusion of the puppet incident, then speaking to her again makes her request a puppet fight with Yin.


Eh. Lost once, won the next round. No point in doing too many play-by-plays, as I reckon it will end up being too repetitive. Speed Marisa was the first puppet out, and like I said before... freaking speedsters. She also had a black choker of her own, which was the thing that more or less secured my first loss against Alice. Once I figured out how to deal with that (get Yuugi to survive to do the almost-KO move then have Tojiko do a fast attack) the rest of the battle went relatively smoothly.

Power Alice was infuriatingly resilient to attacks as well. Can't help but wonder that aside from the trainer puppets having great potential on their stats, if they have reinforced stats as well.


Alice compliments Yin on a good fight, but again, no useful information. I am getting somewhat impatient. In the main game there was more or less an idea on where to go, though for most part the plot felt rather aimless. The postgame feels aimless as well on progression. I more or less want to finish the post-game at this point, and I know where to go, but before that I gotta finish these last few side-quests first. Bear with this aimlessness for a little while longer, person reading this.

Calling it right now. After this episode, the next two episodes will be the last two. For this one Yin will travel across Gensokyo in search of Kasen's last lost item and fight anyone in the way. The battles with the screenshots will be like the Alice fight, short and sweet, with possibly one or two exceptions. Let's do this.


In the SDM, Sakuya is the only one who wants a rematch.


Won in the first encounter. Not too hard. Used one revive item, though.


Partially due to my puppets being KOed, not a lot of XP is given out for these battles.


At the Kappa Hideout, Nitori is also seeking a fight against Yin.


Pretty easy win. Puppets still got KOed, but all in all I didn't even have a need to use revives or healing items. Nitori had a power Aya that was brutal, though. Furthermore, so far it seems that all the enemy puppets are holding some sort of item to ruin Yin's day.


At this point, I'm beginning to consider what my team will be on the final showdown, whatever it is. Adding Koishi back into the lineup, since I really want to finish the game at this point.


After the hideout, planning to go and visit Muenzuka and the Road of Reconsideration for my search, and between that is Marisa's side of the Forest of Magic. Of course, she's looking for a rematch. Was in a hurry, so I didn't really take screenshots of this fight.


Another relatively easy fight. Koishi didn't get as much use in this battle as I had expected, but nevertheless she helped. There's also the fact that the team itself is slowly getting there to the same levels as the puppets they're facing, so they're having a slightly less problematic time in general now.


Finally, at Muenzuka, Yin stumbles across Kasen's last missing item. Searching for this took quite a bit of time, and frankly I'm somewhat happy that I'm done. Since there were no clues on the item's whereabouts, it was honestly kinda annoying to look for, and while they were optional, the fights with the Touhou characters are wearing me out, as shown by the sloppier than usual LP.


Warping back to Kasen's abode, the pink-haired hermit rewards Yin with the... rainbow magic stone. It's for reincarnation, to make rerolling for great stat potentials easier. Kinda useful, I guess. It's easy enough to reroll reincarnation with the default reincarnation equipment, so it's kinda meh.

Well, this leaves one optional place left: the cave in the Misty Lake. That'll be for the next episode, and while I'd like to end the episode now, there's just one more rematch I'd like to get done. To the Moriya Shrine!


Kanako's not looking for a fight, but Sanae is looking for one. So far, for the rematches, most of the Touhou characters uses the standard theme when Touhou characters are fought, while Reimu and Marisa uses their own themes, and the three fairies of light uses the PLF boss theme. For Sanae, it's the standard boss music in the game for this rematch.


Actually pretty easy. Used a bit of items, as it was a tempting tactic to use as speed Suwako and power Kanako liked using recoil moves. For some reason, Sanae had two speed Sanaes on her team.


Battles are taking less time to finish, though partially it's because I don't have to write so much right now. Well, all in all, I'd say that this was a pretty long episode, and I should start wrapping it up for today.


Still, might as well do one last thing. At the lake behind the Moriya Shrine, Yin discovers the third god of the shrine hanging around: Suwako Moriya, Sanae's great-great-(repeat multiple times)-grandmother.


She looks younger than Sanae, but she is the EX Boss of Touhou 10. Like the previously fought Sanae, she gets the boss music playing on her fight.


Probably for good reason, too. As the first puppet she has is Utsuho who's super powerful on both focus and spread attack. Even with field barrier, Utsuho KOs Koishi easily. The same can't be said for Tenshi, as it seems like all of Utsuho's attacks do little damage to the celestial. Utsuho goes down, and Tenshi is in turn taken out by Sanae. Tojiko is sent out, who then KOs Sanae in one hit, and gets quite a bit of damage due to the recoil of her attack.

It's an odd thing. I do a recoil move that KOs puppets in one hit, and my puppet gets half their hit points taken away (and on one occasion gets KOed from full health). The enemy puppet does a recoil move that KOs my puppet, and they only get a third or a fourth of their hit points taken away, sometimes a fifth... which really makes me suspect that enemy trainers use reinforce stats on their team.


Power Aya out next. Despite being power style, Aya puppets are one of the fastest in game, so no point in trying to make Tojiko attack. In fact, no point in trying to make the other puppets attack Aya, as power Aya loves using transcend form, and she gets easily KOed with a miss, then Keine using nature barrier which counts as a miss. Best tactic for Aya, really, since if it's not transcend form it's twister with salvo that KOs nearly everything. Kanako is sent out next, and Keine manages to get two hits in (one in normal and the other in hakutaku form) before getting KOed. After that, Koishi is sent out, who uses field barrier then catastrophe to do damage. Kanako uses peach bow arrow which does recoil damage... and due to that enough damage is done to KO Kanako with Koishi.


Suwako was... easy. Koishi set up field barrier for my next puppet. Suwako KOs Koishi, and I find out that she's holding the straw doll (which increases damage in exchange of doing damage every time to the holder when they attack). I send out Yuugi. Suwako is weak against fighting moves, so the plan is for Yuugi to almost get KOed (but she won't thanks to the black choker) and Yuugi will retaliate with vacuum rupture fist. What happens then is... well, Suwako misses with her attack, and Yuugi caves her in with one move. Easy.


Unlike the other matches Yin has been having, Suwako actually gives Yin something as a reward. Nice!


She also mentions that there was an item on the giant toad's pond. It's probably one of Kasen's items, which was already found by Yin, but I suppose it might be worth checking out again if there's something new there.

Anyway, the native grace is a holdable item that doubles XP and PP gain. Eh. I'm already tired of training puppets, but oh well, I suppose it's nice nonetheless.

And for now, that's about all of it. Next episode is the Misty Lake cave, and a few more rematches, then the final episode after that one Yin will head to an area in the map that you guys have never seen before, and maybe a rematch on Makai.

Until then, see ya all laters!

[aka Cthulhu]

So yeah. Here we are, at the possibly penultimate episode of this LP. I'm kind of rushing things, but honestly I want this game done. Not exactly tired of it, but there's really only so much to write about when the post-game story is so little with so many rematches. Here we go!

Let's Play Touhoumon, episode 36


Here we are, at the Moriya Shrine. Kasen's quest is done, and the next order of post-game biz is the cave in the middle of the Misty Lake. Still, before that I reckon I should finish up on the rematches so they can be over and done with. So yeah, that one will be done first, and that team lineup will probably be the one that'll bring me to the finish line.

Koishi, as usual, continues to provide great defensive support with field barrier and protect, and occasionally bring forth paralysis with thunder veil. The half speed drop is really a big factor when all is said and done. Aside from that, Tenshi is there thanks to her indomitable ability, and Yuugi functions the same way once per battle with the black choker.

In particular, I'm finding Keine to be rather useful. Her high defense in defense style has kept her alive for the first blow, then she gets the power and speed boost thanks to were-hakutaku. Basically, she hits last on normal form, then hits first on were-form, which is surprisingly effective.

As for the rematches, I'm not sure on where to find all the rematches, so I'll just go to the locations I remember that had Touhou characters hanging around. So far, I fought Reimu, Marisa, Sanae, and Sakuya, which are all the playable characters in the official games. Alice, Nitori, Suwako, Seiga, and Shou were fought as well. The three fairies of light as well. Not every Touhou character that Yin fought in the main game isn't out for a rematch, so really I'll just search for likely candidates before heading back to the Misty Lake.


Which brings me to Mayohiga. Chen was there and she gave Yin the always useful gap map, and while she wasn't fought in the main game perhaps she'll be willing to fight now in the post-game.


As it turns out, she does want a fight.


Cat fight! Har har. See, it's funny since Chen is using Rin, a cat, and Chen is also a cat. Anyway, it's a quick and easy fight. Koishi with field protect, and before that barrier wore off I switched to Tenshi. Earth moves easily KOed Rin, then next up is Shou. Easy opponent for Tenshi; Shou is earth and light type while Tenshi is the same types as well. Shou's moves don't do a lot of damage... and Shou is weak to the sole fighting type move Tenshi has.


All that's left is Chen. My initial plan was to use Yuugi, do the whole survive an attack that would KO Yuugi then retaliate with a powerful attack and all that, but Yuugi's attack didn't quite finish Chen off. Still, the battle isn't too bad - to the point that I managed to switch out my entire team so they can get double XP before Koishi finished Chen off.


The XP gain isn't that big. I'd probably have an easier time loitering outside Kasen's house and fighting a few easy battles. Still, it's useful.


Oh, dear, spoilers. But yeah, when I was checking out Makai I found a new section in the gap map that'll lead Yin to Yukari's house. It seems like an end game area, so my plan was to leave that area for last, once I'm done with the rematches and the Misty Lake. And so it will be.


Time for a few more rematches. The underground city will probably have some, but before that Yin steps into Route 6 via gap map. Yuuka is probably still at the Garden of the Sun, but on the way is the Suzuran Fields, where Medicine was fought. She disappeared in the area after the battle with her, alongside every PLF mook, but maybe she's back...?


She's back, and she's not too happy to see the person who crushed her ambitions with the PLF. Heheh... whoops. She comes fighting with her boss theme playing for the battle. Also, Su is a small doll that follows Medicine around, though her character portrait or her puppet sprite doesn't show her, unlike Alice's dolls.


First up, speed Kogasa on the chopping block. Kogasa didn't do any favors for herself when she began using arclight, which reduces her spread attack by two stages. After tanking those moves with some help from field barrier, it became the perfect time to switch out every puppet in the team for the double XP, before going back to Koishi who KOs Kogasa.


Speed Yatsuhashi out next. Koishi had set up field barrier and protect before KOing Kogasa, but Koishi will be in a slight pickle as she's weak against sound type moves. I make Koishi use thunder veil, crippling Yatsuhashi's speed, then switch out to Tojiko. Sound types are weak to wind, and Yatsuhashi uses Gensokyo typhoon to great effect.


Power Benben sent out. Relatively easy. She's weak against dark moves, and due to her speed Tojiko has the perfect move to take out a lot of hit points off Benben. It's not enough to take Benben down, and Tojiko's hit points are low, so she's KOed in that turn. Sent out Keine to finish off Benben with the quick attack strike shot. Power Kokoro out next. That puppet is good at both focus and spread attacks, but on her first turn she uses arclight lowering her spread attack, and afterwards she starts using the focus move burn strike. Keine is eventually KO, so I send out Koishi to take care of things a little bit. Mostly for support, as Kokoro is immune to Koishi's only damaging move. I revive and heal Keine, who gets switched back to finish Kokoro.


Power Medicine's the last one to fight. Easy. Back to Koishi, revive Keine, do the usual support move dance for Koishi, then send Reimu out to finish off Medicine with two Gensokyo Typhoons. Unlike Tojiko, who's also holding a haste charm, Reimu can use Gensokyo typhoon more than once for one turn only each thanks to her economist ability.


After the battle, Medi is less down compared to her previous defeat at the hands of Yin. I guess that's good. Next up is Yuuka, I guess.


So after a quick warp to the Garden of the Sun, Yin finds Yuuka outside her house, itching for a fight. Not sure why she calls Yin master, though. Her own boss theme is playing for this fight.


This is the first rematch where one of my puppets is actually higher in level that the opponent. Tempted to switch a team member, but right now my team just feels right... plus even though some in my reserve are a few levels over 70, the level gap is big which really makes battles rather annoying at this point.


As usual, starting off with support moves. Switch out to Keine, who does damage, but not enough and barrier or no barrier, she gets unlucky because Kurumi gets a crit in. Tenshi is sent out and finishes off Kurumi.


Power Elly sent out next. Tenshi's not the best choice, as earth moves do no damage to Elly. Instead, I use Tenshi's turns to revive Keine and heal Koishi. When Tenshi is KOed, I switch to Yuugi. Both puppets have abilities that remove recoil damage, and both have moves super effective against each other. Due to low defense, Yuugi is left at 1 hit points while Elly still has a little bit more left in her. Unfortunately, Elly is also faster, so you can guess who'd win in the second exchange. Instead of having Yuugi make a futile attempt at an attack, I use the turn to revive Tenshi.


Tojiko is sent out to avenge Yuugi. She also has a recoil attack, but Tojiko doesn't have an ability which removes recoil damage, though considering how little hit points are left in Elly, the damage to Tojiko is miniscule.


Power Mugetsu is the next opponent. Either she has brutality, or an ability which removes one of her type weakness, illusion. Amazingly, thor's hammer KOs Mugetsu in one hit. A little thanks to Tojiko's ability morale booster, which increases her focus attack with each foe she defeats. Since Mugetsu is in Yuuka's team, it's more or less a no brainer that her sister will be the next one. Speed Gengetsu.


Speed style versus speed style, but I know Tojiko is slower so no point in trying to hit a high-damage move on Gengetsu. Instead, Tojiko uses over ray; Gengetsu is very strong against light, but ah well. Tojiko is KO, I send out Koishi to use field barrier, hoping that Gengetsu will use a spread attack. She does and it takes out more than half of Koishi's hit points. Instead of setting up field protect as well, Koishi paralyzes Gengetsu to cripple her speed, enough that Reimu manages to hit first and KOs Gengetsu in one hit. That was easy; speed Gengetsu has pathetic hit points, and defense, and she's super weak against illusion types. Furthermore, Gengetsu is holding straw dolls which gives her weak recoil damage every turn.

Ya know, trying out half the puppets in the puppet book really made it easy for me to have a good idea on who's weak against what.


Power Yuuka out last. Reimu uses nature barrier to figure out what kind of moves she'll use, and it's thor's hammer. So many puppets using recoil moves... Still, it's crazy how so little recoil damage Yuuka gets, when Tojiko took out more than half her hit points KOing Mugetsu.


In general, trainer AI is hell bent on using the strongest possible move against their foe. That's why power Aya would use transcend form on Keine who'd use nature barrier, and that's why Yuuka will try to KO Koishi with thor's hammer even though the recoil damage will eventually KO her. I took the time to revive my team, and eventually Yuuka KOs herself without my team doing anything about it, just in time for the last puppet to be revived.


Everyone gets XP, and Yuuka drops off some highly pricey magic crystals. Thinking of purchasing a second black choker if I got enough cash, though I reckon I'll farm items in Kasen's house first, as power Kasens and Mikos drop gold coins.


With Yuuka defeated, I think these are all the trainers that can be fought in the general Gensokyo area. To the underground!


And we're now in the underground city! First stop, Yuugi.


Hrmm, I was somewhat expecting it, but Yamame could be trouble. Not for her attacks, but her infection ability. Attacks with a rating of less than 95 damage will pass on the infection ability. I let Yamame KO Koishi, but not before paralyzing her and doing a little bit of damage. Sent out Tenshi who uses the 100 damage shooting press to finish off Yamame before she could have a chance to spread the infection ability to Tenshi. Without indomitable, Tenshi loses out one of her big advantages.


Parsee next. Eh, simple exchange of services, with Tenshi showing who has the better product. Either Tenshi has higher attack or Parsee has lower defense. Both moves are super effective, though twilight infection has a higher damage rating than evil crushing arrow.


Power Suika sent out next. Eh. The easiest AI controlled puppet to fight, thanks to how easy it is to exploit her drunkard ability. Suika attacks, nature barrier, then next turn attack. I take this time to switch out and heal the rest of my team.


Then comes the amazing part for Reimu. After soundly defeating Suika, Kasen is out next. Reimu hits first but doesn't KO Kasen, but Kasen misses. Reimu KOs her on the next turn. Out comes Yuugi, and again Reimu manages to almost KO Yuugi. Reimu gets KOed, but the damage is done. Koishi is sent out, uses field protect, then revives Reimu, then finishes Yuugi off with catastrophe.


With Yuugi defeated, Yin checks out the road to the underground to see if there are any challenges. Parsee, Kisume, and Yamame aren't looking for a rematch, so that leaves Chireiden and the Remains of Burning Hell.


Satori doesn't want a rematch, and so does Rin after finding her in the Remains (getting lost in the area again).


Utsuho, bird-brain that she is, can't exactly remember Yin and fights again.


Speed Rin first. She was using purgatory flicker which does recoil damage, while holding the straw dolls. Couldn't resist. I let Rin hit Koishi until she gets KOed from the recoil.


Koishi unfortunately gets KOed after receiving the burn status on the same turn as Rin getting KOed. Sent out Tenshi, while Okuu sent out Satori. Tenshi holds the binoculars, which increase her accuracy. It works out quite well with the instant KO earth shaking, which due to the instant KO effect has horrid accuracy.


Power Koishi out next. I send out the recently revived Koishi. Koishi versus Nekoishi, heh. Anyway, I take this time to revive my puppets, and heal them up. The enemy Koishi has a lot of powerful moves... but they don't have much SP and eventually all that's left is tri-effect, a void type move that doesn't damage Nekoishi at all. Even that runs out and Koishi starts using desperation which does recoil damage which eventually KOs her.


Finally, it's power Utsuho. Somehow she misses all her attacks but one, and by that point she's easily KOed by Tenshi in the following turn.


And that's about every rematch I could think of. I'm wondering if Koishi can be fought, but aside from her one appearance in Chireiden from way back, I have no clue on where could she possibly be. Off to the Misty Lake!


Here we are, at the cave under the Misty Lake. There used to be an un-smashable rock preventing passage to the ladder down, but after the main game ended it's now open.


One reason why I didn't do this until finishing Kasen's quest is that it's a freaking ice maze. Still, so far navigating the place isn't so bad. Found several magical fragments on the ground. Kinda meh. While it's a required item for reincarnation, they're easy enough to get from wild puppets. Also found skill card 39, which has the move dancing rain. Sound type, focus attack, 75 damage and has a 50% chance of lowering the foe's special defense. At this point, I think only four skill cards are left that Yin doesn't have.


There's wild puppets in the area, and they give fairly okay XP at this point. No more point in catching them really, since I got all the puppets in the game and can get me one with great stats via reincarnation. Plus, catching high-level puppets takes a ton of thread. The last puppets I caught, in the Hakurei Caves and Makai, can take several threads for a success, and I don't even wanna know how many it'll take to catch the ones here. Besides, I sold all the thread Yin had for cash.


After a bit of sliding on the ice, Yin encounters a familiar face. It's Cirno, and she comes fighting with the standard PLF music.


Seems like an easy fight, I barely care and let Koishi get KOed and then have Yuugi KO Daiyousei. Compared to the rematches, Daiyousei is two levels lower than most rematch foes, so this should be an easy battle.


The hell? Dat level. Level 99 for the ⑨, huh... That Cirno managed to KO three of my puppets, before Tojiko finally manages to finish her off.


...and we get another level 99 on the loose. Oh damn. Power Cirno is fast, I know this because I trained one during the post-game but didn't use her on an episode yet. I also know she has an ability similar to brutality, which boosts focus attack instead of spread with the same accuracy drop, and due to that she misses on her first move. Dang. If I had made Tojiko attack with Thor's hammer instead of reviving Koishi, the battle would have been won. Still, after a few revives and one instance of paralysis, the battle is easily won.


Past Cirno, the ice maze layout becomes a lot more complex, much to my frustration. There are several ladders leading down which lead to a series of connected tunnels... hooray, more mazes.


Finding a lot of the reincarnation magic stones here. Kasen's stone I think is the best one, but considering that I managed to brute force my way using the default reincarnation items, they're really no longer needed at this point.


I'm just avoiding wild puppet battles at this point using the magatamas, so there's really nothing else to say aside from "I'm freaking lost" and whatnot. Anyway, after a few tries, Yin finds a ladder further leading down. Not sure if Yin has found all the items in the area, but at this point I wanna get things over with. The ladder seems to lead to the bottommost floor, where probably the boss of this area is waiting.


It's Letty, stage 1 boss of Touhou 7. After seeing stage 2 of Touhou 6 boss Cirno with two level 99 puppets, I am incredibly wary.


Got very good reason to worry, as Letty has a full team starting at level 90. Uh oh.


Koishi gets lucky, first hit from Eiki misses. Second hit is not very effective, which has the aftereffect of lowering Eiki's focus and spread defense. Koishi uses catastrophe twice to KO her. Power Minoriko sent out next.


Koishi doesn't survive, but Yuugi defeats a paralyzed Minoriko, whose attacks are weakened by field barrier.


Power Yuuka up next, and she only has recoil moves, it seems. Even though she's nature and electric type, she has no nature moves to easily crush Tenshi, so I take this time to heal the team up. Yuuka continues to damage herself, and eventually Tenshi adds some damage with her own moves.


Power Lily up next. She has no recoil moves, and has a nature type attack that KOs Tenshi. Sent out Yuugi, who hasn't used the black choker yet. She does now, surviving Lily's attack then KOing Lily with purgatory flicker.


Speed Shizuha up next. Healed Yuugi to see how powerful Shizuha is. Not too powerful, though the damage is still more than half Yuugi's hit points. Koishi is sent back into the field, and due to Shizuha's low attack and Koishi weakening it more with field protect, I switch out the team for the double XP. Due to a crit, Koishi manages to defeat Shizuha in two hits.


Finally, it's Letty at level 95. With field barrier set, I send out Tojiko, and with a crit she KOs Letty in one hit. Due to the crit, and being low in hit points, the recoil KOs Tojiko as well.


Pretty easy battle. Letty's team is pretty high leveled, but in general Yin's team was geared perfectly to finish them all.

And with that, Letty is defeated, and all the business in Gensokyo's main area has been done.


All that's left is the rematches at Makai and the Yukari's home. And for those two... or one, since I'm not sure if I'll bother with Makai, will be for the next episode, and it'll be the last episode of this LP.

So, until the finale, see ya all laters!

[aka Cthulhu]

Thirty-six and one-half episodes done, and here we are at the very end. Let's do this.

Let's Play Touhoumon, final episode! Cthulhu actually finishes something on the forum games section!

Ya know, I heard that this game has a tendency to crash and/or corrupt files, but honestly I have experienced neither while playing this game. Copied back ups just in case, but I never really got to make use of them.


So here we are, back at Makai. I was thinking of whether or not Yin would go back to Pandemonium for rematches, but I figure, might as well.


Like the previous episode, this'll be the team that'll carry Yin to the finish line. Once again I considered using reinforce stat to boost my puppets, but I never bothered with it during the main game, and I won't bother with it in the post game. On the other hand, since the post game I've become more willing to let my puppets hold items that'll actually help them during battle. So far the puppets that Yin's team have faced are holding them, and since they do it's only fair for team Yin to hold items as well.

Here's what my team is holding:

-Koishi has the flourite. It extends the duration of protection moves, so field barrier/protect will last more than five turns, which is quite substantial.
-Yuugi has the black choker. If she's at full health and gets hit by an attack strong enough to KO her in one move, she'll survive. Like Tenshi's indomitable ability. Can only be used once per fight, and it will not protect Yuugi (or Tenshi) if the move used against them is multi-hit.
-Tenshi has the binoculars. The telescope increases accuracy if the holder hits last. The binoculars increase accuracy without that turn requirement. Tenshi's holding on to that for the sole purpose of increasing the accuracy of earth shaking, which is a one-hit KO.
-Keine has the food rations. She heals hit points at every turn.
-Tojiko holds the straw dolls. Damage increases, but at the cost of damaging her when she uses moves. Tojiko is the most fragile in the team, and she more or less gets KOed, so might as well have her hit hard for one turn before she gets hit and KOed.
-Reimu has the haste charm. Moves that take two turns only take one. The charm can only be used once per battle... if the puppet doesn't have Reimu's economist ability. The only move Reimu has that works with haste charm is Gensokyo typhoon. The only other move that takes two turns, I think, is bright flowers. Gensokyo typhoon is focus attack and wind type while bright flowers is spread attack and nature type.


Well, no time like the present. Off Yin goes to challenge the Makai league!


Yin tries to avoid the first foe, but fails. Time to start the rematches with Yuki!


Hmm, Yuki has a full team of six instead of five when she was fought the first time. They're higher leveled, too - though my team now is no slouch. Still, the first one fought is a freaking speedster, one with high hit points.


You guys know by now how I start fights. Koishi uses her support skills and cripples the opponent with the speed sapping paralysis status effect... then the second time Mokou uses inferno it becomes a critical hit and KOs Koishi. Great start, haha...


Still, my team bounces back well enough. Mokou is paralyzed which halves her speed, which makes Reimu act first and hit her with Gensokyo typhoon. Aside from doing a lot of damage, it also can cause an opponent to flinch. Mokou isn't KOed, but she does flinch leaving Reimu with no damage. On the other hand, I didn't notice that Reimu's economist ability doesn't activate on that turn, so when she uses Gensokyo typhoon she has to wait a turn for it to charge, causing Mokou to damage Reimu. Thanks to Koishi's field barrier she survives, and hits the second typhoon to KO Mokou. Then economist activates. Go figure. Furthermore, due to Mokou's hate reincarnate ability, Reimu gets damaged a little more.


Speed Futo next. Water and wind type... and Reimu is weak to wind. No point in trying to attack, as Futo is another freaking speedster. I use the turn to revive Koishi. Koishi is sent out after Reimu is KOed, and she uses thunder veil to paralyze Futo. In general, I find that the best way to defeat speed style puppets is to destroy their speed, as they're usually no good with taking hits. Anyway, the paralyzed Futo tries to use macroburst on Koishi... and it misses. I take this opportunity as the best time to heal Koishi. Hell, Koishi's support time is also the perfect time to revive and heal Reimu as well. In between turns of doing maintenance with Koishi, I let her pelt Futo with attacks until that speedster is KO.


Out comes... speed Suwako. Freaking, freaking speedsters... don't tell me Yuki's team is all speed style puppets... still, Koishi is the perfect one to deal with it. Inflict paralysis on Suwako so her speed is no problem... Suwako also has the moody ability: random stat changes - her spread attack gets raised by two stages (not good), while her speed is reduced by one stage (good). That ability is dangerous; one time while training my puppets a power style Komachi got such a good roll with her moody ability that she managed to KO my entire team... and that power Komachi was a wild puppet.


Best thing to do is KO Suwako before her moody ability gives her really good stat boosts. I let Koishi attack and get KOed in retaliation, and send out Yuugi to cave in Suwako.


After that, out comes... speed Utsuho. Yep, definitely a team of speedsters. Still, I have a slight ace in my sleeves... and it turns out far better than expected. Thanks to the flourite Koishi is holding, field barrier is still in effect so Utsuho doesn't even one-hit KOs Yuugi, but in response Yuugi hits a crit that KOs Utsuho. Very nice.


Speed Youmu is the second to last puppet. Somehow, I take this opportunity to switch around the team so they get double XP. Hey, Youmu seems content to slowly KO herself using brandish, so might as well let her. Out goes Youmu and speed Flan is the last one in Yuki's team.


Flan doesn't do any favors for herself by using arclight, lowering her spread attack. After that, Koishi shuts down Flan's focus attack skills with field protect, then from then on it's a matter of just using Koishi with catastrophe. Koishi has pretty low attack power compared to the rest of Yin's team, but still Flan is low in defense and takes only two hits to be KOed.


One down, three to go. Yuki's team is completely different to the team she had during the first time she was fought, so I can only expect that the other fights would have different puppets as well. Hopefully there won't be too many speedsters after this...


Once again, Yin tries to avoid conflict, and fails. It's time for the rematch against Mai... I can't remember what her team was before.


In any case, it's probably the worse opponent for Koishi. Freaking speedster again, and I know Elis has the infiltrator ability, which ignores field barriers. Still, I use field protect since it'll last long enough for the next foe. Also, being an electric type, Elis is immune to thunder veil and its paralysis effect, so no point in using that move so I let Koishi get KOed by letting her use field barrier as possible insurance for the opponents after Elis. Yuugi is sent out, and Elis is weak against fighting type moves. She's KOed in one hit, though she does damage Yuugi - but not enough for the black choker to be used.


Defense Yuuka sent out next. Finally someone who's not speed style! Still, Yuugi has the strongest focus attack, and Yuuka has the strongest focus defense, so I'm not expecting Yuugi to KO Yuuka. Still, defense Yuuka is one of the slowest puppets in the game, so instead of reviving Koishi I let Yuugi attack. She uses transcend form... and I wonder if using vacuum rupture fist would have been better as transcend form almost KOs Yuuka. Yuugi is KOed, and Yuuka drains hit points thanks to power drain, but it's not enough for her to survive my next puppet, Keine. One super effective move later, and Yuuka is KO.


Power Raiko is sent out next. She's faster than Keine and would have KOed Keine with inferno if not for Koishi setting up field barrier during the fight with Elis. Keine goes to her were-form and attacks... and it turns out that power Raiko is actually power Nue! Keine's attack almost KOed Nue, and while Nue managed to attack first during the first exchange, were-hakutaku Keine has speed-style stats, so on the next turn Keine KOs Nue for the win.


Power Kasen sent out next. Another slow puppet, and I fought enough Kasens to know what she's weak against. I let Keine attack... though perhaps it would have been better if I had used the turn to revive Koishi. In any case, Keine does great damage, but she's KOed by Kasen. Reimu is sent out and KOs Kasen with Gensokyo typhoon. Four down, two to go. Speed Remilia is sent out... freaking speedsters. At this point, field barrier wears off.


Despite no field barrier, Reimu has decent enough defense to survive against Remi's inferno, and Reimu is strong enough, and transcend form is super effective enough, that it KOs Remilia in one hit.


Nue managed to preview who the last puppet is, and it's power Raiko. Possibly dangerous, as Koishi is weak against sound type moves, and Raiko is also electric type so she's immune to paralysis. What happens next is a bit of a mess that somehow turned out for the better. Reimu gets KOed before she could attack, with me mistaking that Reimu is faster than Raiko. Then I use Tojikos turn to revive Koishi, then I make Koishi use field barrier (and she gets KOed as she's weak against sound moves). Out comes Tenshi, and I risk it by using earth shaking, and it works. Instant KO.

For the record, earth shaking has an accuracy rating of 30, and I doubt that Tenshi holding the binoculars will raise the rating to somewhere above 50. My main plan for it was to use a move Keine knows: terrain - byakko, which makes all attacks hit in exchange for there being no criticals. I haven't tested it out yet if it works with earth shaking.


Two down, two to go. Gotta be careful on the next fight, and make sure that the puppets relearn moves that are low on SP. In particular, Reimu and Gensokyo typhoon.


Yin's in such a hurry that she tries to avoid a fight with Yumeko. Naturally, she fails. Fight time!


Heh, the Makai maid starts off with a fellow maid. Sakuya uses brandish, and even with field protect it takes out half of Koishi's hit points. Instead of paralyzing her, I feel that a better investment is to use field barrier for Koishi's second move.


However, instead of brandish KOing Koishi, she survives with five hit points left. Very lucky! Might as well, I let Koishi paralyze Sakuya. Koishi is KO, but Yuugi avenges Koishi with purgatory flicker.


Sakuya is KO, and out comes a familiar face... power Tenshi. Well, I can pretty much guess what her ability is. However, the AI shows no thought to that tactic. Tenshi uses brandish, and thanks to field protect still being in effect Yuugi is far from KO, and Tenshi damages herself with recoil. Yuugi then uses transcend form, and since Tenshi isn't at full hit points, she's KOed. Out goes Tenshi and in goes power Kokoro.


I'm not exactly sure if either field barrier or protect is still in effect, since I'm writing and taking screenshots while playing. Whatever, the fight is turning out well, so I'm hoping both shields are still in effect as I make Yuugi attack again instead of reviving Koishi. Field barrier still is, at least. Yuugi survives arclight, which lowers Kokoro's spread attack, and she almost gets KOed by transcend form. Next turn, I cut my losses and let Yuugi get KOed by using the turn to revive Koishi.


Koishi does the usual support moves... though she can't really do damage against Kokoro. Kokoro is void and light type, and one of the benefits of void is being immune to illusion. After I heal up Yuugi, Tojiko is sent out to KO Kokoro.


Power Miko is the next opponent. Despite being power style, Miko is as fast as a speed style. She's faster than speed Tojiko, so I use the turn to heal up Koishi. Field protect is still active, and Tojiko survives. So, for as long as possible, I heal Tojiko over and over. Due to her good stats, Miko has a glaring flaw in her ability, which halves her focus and spread attack when she's less than half her max health - which happens when field protect wears off and KOs Tojiko in one hit.


I use Koishi's turn to set up field protect, and revive Tojiko. Was tempted to fully heal Tojiko and set up field barrier as well, until I realized that Miko's attack lowered Koishi's focus defense. One use of catastrophe later, and Miko is out. Speed Hijiri out next.


The first opponent, I think, where I made use of the tendency of trainer AI to overuse recoil moves. Even with field protect, Koishi couldn't survive since Miko lowered her focus defense. She does get enough time to paralyze Hijiri, and when Koishi is KO Reimu is sent in. Since Hijiri likes to use transcend form, I make Reimu use nature barrier first to cut Hijiri's hit points in half, then finish her off the next turn with mirage edge.


Speed Yumeko sent last. I know she has salvo. She could have strategist but she'll definitely have salvo, making Tenshi and Yuugi and their one hit kill survival useless due to multi-hit moves. Still, field protect is still in effect, and with that Reimu manages to survive Yumeko's quick throw, which hits five times with two criticals, and Reimu manages to win it with a super effective transcend form.

Ya know, it's somewhat amazing. So far, transcend form has never missed for me during crucial moments. It missed lots during wild puppet fights, but against trainers it so far has never happened. One crucial moment, I guess, was against the wild puppet power Komachi who managed to KO my entire team. They couldn't escape, as that Komachi became faster than my puppets due to several lucky boosts by the moody ability.


In any case, there's only one trainer in Makai left. Onward!


Time for round two. Yin versus Shinki, the rematch of the century!


Power Mima at level 92 is Shinki's starting puppet. Hmmm, power Mima either has short tempered, or curse return. She had the latter during the first fight against Shinki during the main game, and while I'm not sure if that's the case here, no point in risking Koishi getting paralyzed.


Koishi does the usual support skill stuff, except for thunder veil, while Mima uses the recoil move midnight apparition. That move also gives Koishi the fear status effect, which halves her spread attack. I let Koishi get KOed, then send out Yuugi who uses the fire type purgatory flicker to KO Mima. Fighting type moves are useless against Mima due to nether types being immune to them.


Defense Yukari sent out next. Doesn't have the high stats of Power Yukari, but doesn't have the limitations of the allowance ability either. And like what the name says, she's got very good defense. Koishi is revived, then Yuugi is KOed and I send out Keine. Defense Yukari is weak against steel, which Keine has. Yukari tries to use inferno, but it misses allowing Keine to take out half her hit points. Next turn, Yukari again tries using inferno... and it misses! This allows Keine to KO Yukari with ease.


Power Toyohime sent out next. Have one that I trained during post-game, but never really used her. Anyways, she's super weak against electric moves, being water and wind type. Toyohime hits first on the first exchange with water cannon. Keine would have become KOed if not for the fact that field protect is still active. Keine goes were-hakutaku and nails Toyohime for over half her health. Next turn Keine is faster due to were-form and KOs Toyohime. On this turn field protect wears off, and on the next turn field barrier goes away. One sister goes down and out comes the younger sister, Yorihime.


Yorihime tries using arclight, twice, and it misses. This allows Keine to use two strike shots on her in a row, bringing Yorihime to low health. The third arclight KOs Keine, and I switch to Koishi. Because arclight lowered Yorihime's spread attack, she starts using the brandish instead, not caring about the recoil damage. With that, Yorihime is quickly KOed.


Sariel sent out next. Koishi sets up the support moves and pelts Sariel with attacks. Pretty simple, and as long as Koishi is healed she comes out on top.


Finally, Shinki's last puppet is, well, Shinki. Shinki puppets are the third strongest puppet in the game in terms of total stats, she's behind power Yukari and Suika by a kinda okay gap, but unlike the two Shinki has no ability that debuffs her. Koishi paralyzes her... but Shinki still has that healing charm which cures paralysis, like last time. Again, I let Koishi get KOed as she uses thunder wave again, this time paralyzing her for good.


After that, I let my puppets wail on her. Very close call with two mistakes. One, I let Tojiko use over ray. It's a fast attack, which wasn't needed since Shinki is paralyzed. Shinki KOs her. Tenshi is sent out, and I do a stupid risk by using earth shaking, which misses. She also gets KOed. My last puppet, Reimu, has a super effective move, and it doesn't KO Shinki. Shinki has a super effective move, and that almost KOs Reimu. If field barrier wasn't up this would have been my loss. Still, Reimu is just "almost" KOed, so that's enough for Reimu to use mirage edge one more time to finish Shinki off.


Yin has done it! She has beaten the final boss again! She did it with a little more ease than last time, too... though in the end I kinda got cocky and almost paid for it with a loss.


Well, Shinki invites Yin for another fight in the future, and the credits roll again. This time, the credits can be skipped.


Yin finds herself back at the Hakurei Shrine. Odd.


Upon checking, it seems like several of the rematches have been reset so Yin can challenge them all again. Eh. No point in that. A quick check reveals that there's no change in level in the enemy puppets, so there's not much of a point to go and challenge them again.


Well, time to finish up the last part of the game.


Here we are, at the Yakumo Residence. There's no exit out of here, so it can only be accessed via gap map. It's a fairly small area, as well.


The wild puppets in the area are speed Chens, power Rans, and defense Yukaris. No real point in fighting those anymore. Time to head on in to the house to finish up the game.


The inside isn't that big either. It doesn't take much time for Yin to meet Ran, and in order for Yin to meet Yukari face to face, she'll have to do the usual puppet battle. Well, fight time!


Well... it's just a four puppet team, and Rans' team isn't even close to the level of the Makai rematches. An easy fight, though I kinda just charged through and let my puppets get KOed.


I get the feeling that I should have done this first before the Makai rematch, considering the puppet levels of Ran. Oh well. Onward to her master.


And so Yin meets Yukari face-to-face at last. She seems to be offering to add something new for Yin, but of course she has to beat Yukari in a puppet fight first.


Perhaps for the last time, it's fight time! Standard boss music only, so I'm really assuming that I should have gone to Makai last. Yukari's first puppet is also level 82, which seems to be a cakewalk when compared to the puppets of Letty and the ones Yin fought at Makai.


Well, Koishi is enough to fight Chen. Chen couldn't be paralyzed, though, and her macroburst attack confuses Koishi, which made the battle take a little bit of time, but in the end Koishi wins. Power Tenshi is sent out next.


Cataclysm is a focus attack, and without field protect it takes out nearly all of Koishi's hit points. On the other hand, it's one of those moves that make the user unable to act on the next turn, so finding a way out of it is easy. On the other hand, Tenshi gets lucky with a crit and KOs Koishi. Keine is then sent out to deal with things.


Power Suika is out next. Don't even need to switch to Reimu, as Keine also has nature barrier, so the battle is easy. It's the perfect opportunity to revive and heal Koishi. Reimu is then sent out to finish off Suika.


Power Ran is sent out next. Ran's faster. Both Reimu and Ran have mirage edge which is super effective against both, and while Ran hits first Reimu's higher level helps in making her survive. Ran is not so lucky, and she's KOed in one hit. Four down, and I realize that Yukari doesn't even have a full team. One more to go.


Eh. Might as well finish it off with my starter and do it with the flashy earth-shaking. This actually took a couple of tries and required Tenshi to be revived once. Using Tenshi's standard damaging moves could have been a quicker finish. Oh well.


And so it is done. Yukari asks Yin to go outside, and Yin follows.


As a reward for beating her, Yukari opens up the online battle feature for the game. Yay.


Well, this is it. The game is more or less complete. Been a long run and now it's over... No point in recording online battles here since this episode was full of battles. It's been a long game, and I more or less managed to use more than half the Touhou cast in this game. There's really nothing left to now, you know? No more story to do, no more extra stuff to find. There's still some skill cards missing, but what's the point of trying to extend the LP searching for three skill cards?


So, this is the end of the road for Yin... for now. She'll just be drinking tea with Reimu, and all is well. Thanks, all, for hanging on to this sloppy LP until the very end. For my thoughts of the game, I think it was a fun Pokemon-like game that managed to add some features not seen in Pokemon. Story-wise, it's pretty bare. Not a long of things to say about it, and the little plot basically serves to get you from one new location to another. Basically, it generally feels like the plot of Pokemon Red/Blue - just basic plot for the sake of having one.

In terms of difficulty, it's really hard for me to say. Before this, my main tactic of playing Pokemon games is to level grind my Pokemon to the point where they steamroll through the opposition. Here, for the majority of the game, I kept my puppets at the level where they will have to work real hard to beat some trainers, especially the bosses. AI-wise, the fights are pretty basic. Wild puppets will be pretty random on what move they will use, while trainer puppets seem to just go with the strongest or most super effective moves available to them. Like, during the many trainer battles I did, can any of you remember trainer puppets using status or support moves? It becomes glaringly obvious when in the post-game trainer puppets would often use recoil moves or moves like arclight which lowers stats, making things easy to exploit.

That said, there's still some difficulty. For one thing, beating one trainer puppet won't give you the opportunity to switch out puppets, and you really have no idea what would be the next puppet until they're sent out. So while the first trainer puppet fought is weak against the puppet you use, the next puppet might not, and be strong against the puppet you have on field. Due to that, there's some degree of difficulty.

Furthermore, the puppet types are kind of more varied in trainer battles. The boss battles here are less restricted than the gym battles of Pokemon (haven't played most of the latest Pokemon games, so I may be wrong). Several boss and trainer battles here don't just stick to one type of puppet, which can make things a little bit hard.

On the other hand, there are some easy points in this game. Since every puppet gets XP after every battle, it's far easier to train a team. PP is gained every battle, so after a while you can relearn moves and whatnot, so you're pretty much free to experiment on which moves are best for your puppet. Skill cards, unlike TMs, can be used an infinite number of times which is another convenience. There's also the reinforce stat skill, and while it has a limit, it can still provide a pretty decent chunk of free stat points per puppet, and one reason why I never bothered using it.

Music is pretty good. Probably a bias for me since I enjoy Touhou remixes. Some areas have different battle music, or trainer music, which helps make things more varied for me.

As for graphics, the game really did a good job on making it Pokemon-like while portraying the entire Touhou cast. There's a lot of improvements of that compared to the romhack game, and this game and the romhack was made by the same guy.

And that's about it. I think I've said everything that needs to be said, so it's time to say goodbye to Yin... for now. Consider this a temporary farewell, as we will one day see her go through all of this again, once the English translation for Touhou Puppet Dance Performance Append: Shard of Dreams is available. Trailer!


Some of the new stuff in the expansion pack:
-New puppets from Touhou 15 and the recent fighting game.
-A new style change available to all puppets: extra style.
-Puppets now follow the character around like Pikachu.
-New areas to explore.
-Modified story, new characters to interact (and fight) with.
-NEW COSTUMES. RAAARRRRGH YEAH!

...*coughs* so yeah. Maybe in a year or so, perhaps less, we might see Yin step foot into Gensokyo again. For now, please wait as I make preparations for the next game I'll LP. Maybe it's another Touhou fan-game, though there's two old non-Touhou games in my mind right now.

So, until then, see ya all on the next LP! Cthulhu out! This has been an LP of Touhoumon, and thanks for reading!