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As far as I know, ZUN's still only going to sell the demo on Reitaisai, to raise money for the disaster relief. We still need to wait for C80 for the full version.

YES. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES. KOGASA. AND YUYUKO. AND A BUNCH OF LOLIS. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS. eDe

Ran's basic explanation on how TH13 works:

The game has coloured orbs that you collect by getting close to them. Going above the auto collect point will not catch them. The blue orbs increase the blue chips point value and are most numerous. They are for points but don't ignore them thinking they're not needed for surviving. If a boss takes them she will regain hp. Green orbs are for bombs. I've been having trouble deathbombing, I wonder if they removed it? Purple orbs are pieces to give extra lives, 4 make an extra. Hm, these seem to vanish rather quickly compared to other orbs. Grey orbs raise your trance gauge. Even though there's a trance button you will still go into trance if you get hit. Trance boosts your speed and power for however much you filled the gauge. I haven't been able to manually activate trance yet, looks like the gauge may need to be maxed for it to activate. When you're in trance the enemies you shoot down drop time extensions for your current trance. They look like silly cartoon faces. Get near them to collect them as you cant auto collect. You're invincible under trance by the way so don't be afraid to get in a boss' face with it.

Now let's talk characters briefly. Reimu has her homing amulets from MoF and the persuasion needle under focus. Focus fire changes your shot type. I think focus fire does more damage but I haven't had any way to confirm it yet. It's definitely more damage for Youmu, however her focus shot is a charged slash that goes out in a wave for about half the screen forward and 35% width (estimate). Sanae...well I didn't touch her. Marisa's shot is the illusion laser, she has a penetrate on that again and it has a spread at power level 3 and 4. Her focus shot is magic missile (Nittori?) It has impact damage where the missiles explode on enemies so nearby targets get hit.

Master spark locks on to enemies. So you can be defending in a corner and it will still hit everyone aiming at you. Sanae's bomb is a rotating pentagram that seems to revolve around her, I think this may be defensive, I haven't tested further. Youmu's bomb is a slash (shocking?) Probably does the most spike damage. Reimu has Fantasy Heaven but I haven't used her yet.

Basics: BLOW UP EVERYTHING! (I like Marisa). On the bottom left corner you can see the trance gauge. It's the skull with the 3 ghost swirls next to it. I confirmed it needs to be full for manual trance mode (3 ghost swirls is full), but only 1 swirl must be full to auto activate trance when you're hit. After trance mode ends you are already dead.... your character will drop about half a swirl with of gray orbs and a small amount of p-chips that won't be enough to give you a power level up. Your life count is the purple heart containers to the right, 4 purple orbs give you an extra, same for bombs: the green stars and 4 green orbs for one star. The three numbers below are fairly obvious stuff: red is the power level (4 max), blue is the current blue picchun chip worth and the gray number is your trance level.

Note on orb drops: they appear to be fixed drops and I don't see a way to change they're color before or after drops ~ as you would with a UFO. It's a bit of a pain but make the effort to get orbs, especially the ones that auto drop from bosses.

That's all, go forth and laugh your a** off at the stage one boss.

Eeh! You sooo beat me to posting this, by like forever. But the mall was worth it since I got a new skirt so yeah :3c

I must admit, I really am dissapointed with the bosses so far.. They look so random, like there was no time put into them, and for a lot of them ZUN just used his old characters. *whine* So I wont want to make fanart :<

The one boss Miyako...she just looks crazy. @,@ Im sorry to be hating on the demo thats just been released, but its just a big dissapointment...I mean Touhou 13 let down a lot of people but I thought the designs were cute, and now this game so far is crazy. D; The songs are alright though from the ones I heard so far. I like the character select music.

It is not be my hand that I am given flesh once again.
Actually yeah it is.

Anyway, basic thoughts also:
-Too easy, but ZUN warned us about that. Didn't expect to 1CC it on Normal on my first go without using any bombs though.
-Way too gimmicky for me. Orin meter is pretty dumb IMO.
-Looking pretty PoFV with that focus shot, Youmu.
-I second Wotan. Youmu's new hair is still <3
-My how the mighty have fallen. Notice that Yuyuko isn't all beat up though when you beat her, so she's just messing around. Still, I am saddened.
-Kogasa actually scares people now. There goes all of the jokes.
-New character designs I find very boring so far. Kyouko's hair is nice though. I'm hoping the later characters will be better.
-No music I'm particularly fond of but it took me a while to enjoy UFO's soundtrack too.
-Touhous starting to seem more cartoony with this and Fairy Wars. Not sure how I feel about that.
-Fairy Wars health bar. Please die.
-ZUN doesn't have the rights to Mima, so her odds are slim to none.
-Komachi, do your damn job.

So yeah, overall I don't like it. I'll be watching Tron instead of trying it out with Marisa or Sanae.

After Yuyuko and Kogasa, I'm already kind of sick of old characters coming back, but I won't mind if Komachi shows up in the extra stage as the midboss or something, especially since she's never been in a standard Touhou game (PoFV isn't exactly standard).

I didn't listen much to the menu theme, so I'll give it a listen tomorrow. I trust your sense of themes.

I don't think ZUN takes Touhou seriously at all~