Touhou 15.5: Antinomy of Common Flowers - Yukari/Reimu Story

[@forceedge2005]

Happy New Year! Yukari must have been having some pent up aggression towards those two sisters seeing as she couldn't resolve the problem for a while. I guess Yukari is the type that while smart doesn't like to solve problems that take up more time than she wants. That or she was VERY cranky that she couldn't hibernate due to the incident (plus seeing Tenshi) Shion: How? Why aren't you affected by my poverty aura!? Reimu: You made one fatal mistake you poverty god! One simple mistake! And that is because...I'm already poor! (Holding back her tears) Shion: Nani!? Joon/Yukari: Now I want to cry...

[@hjt091]

Something that never gets addressed that much is that Joon is also poor because, as Shion says, as soon as she gets any money she spends it frivolously. It doesn't really affect her tho, because she's super adept at mooching off other people.

[@asdfkljlkjdfkg2290]

Dad? is that you?

[@roslidarose9666]

money fountain, she says

[@kr3533]

I know this is a 5 years old comment lol, but it's funny because that implies that both of them have a really powerfull power that has a strong drawback: They will always be affected by her powers as well. Shion can bring misfortune to anyone, but she is also cursed as hell with misfortune, poberty and bad luck. The same goes for Joon, she can make anyone go out of their way to make their life misserable by thenselves, take bad decitions and also be reckless(I'm asumming this bc of the final battle where people just didn't notice they were fighting their allies instead of Joon), but Joon will also be affected by it and will spend everything and she would also be reckless and take bad decisions that bring misfortune to herself, just like her victims do. I didn't notice until now that Joon was also affected by her own power just like SHion lol, maybe because in her case, given that her power is weaker(That's probably why she is the younger sister), it's treated only like a character trait, rather than something actually stated like SHion.

[@gabrielwright-dunn9355]

Reimu vs Poverty God. What a poor matchup.

[@TheDevNell]

Yet it's so fitting I'm surprised Reimu didn't think Yukari was poking fun at her.

[@ZakkiRei]

@@TheDevNell that's Marisa's job. Yukari pokes me, not Reimu

[@user-nx9xf5tv9x]

_poor_

[@qwertix4003]

Funny

[@andreychen6523]

Small note: the whole "positive aura" gimmick is that your spell cards charge WAY faster in the last segment, and you're apparently just supposed to spam them. That also explains the automatic card declaration at 13:53. That said, congrats on the NMNB overdrive stage clear!

[@dawk7]

>"Yukari is really slow" That's because she has teleport moves. >"Man she looks like she's swimming through molasses" _That's because she has teleport moves!_ >Approaches boss on breakdown slowly flying towards her _Telepooooooort!!!_ ...okay but joke offense aside, boy does Yukari hit like a goddamn truck. And dear _lord_ her Final Word is the most amazing thing in the whole game. First time I got to see her, the actual song stopping made me reel back. EDIT: You... you actually went through the entire last portion without bombing. The part that's practically a cutscene victory by giving you unlimited bombs. _You absolute madman._

[@alphamoon8367]

Wow, Just in time for AoCF's one year anniversary. Very fitting.

[@HyperVanilo]

Already 1 year?! Time flies by too fast

[@dirtkiller23]

And there is no PS4/Switch version,like what happened with ULiL.

[@PeruvianPotato]

@@dirtkiller23 Good news!

[@lunatic0verlord10]

5:48 Well I guess that's one more detail of KHTA that is now canon : Yukari cutting people up with her gaps.

[@lunatic0verlord10]

2:27 It's clear to me that the two of them have *NO IDEA* who they're speaking to.

[@korohacker]

Ah, so in the end Yukari just invokes her ability to switch the borders. Surprisingly simple actually. Shion snapping after being ridiculed for so long is something I wish I could do (sans the poverty and aura thing). Never thought that there is another episode after this, but it makes sense all things considered. Also I never really knew what Yukari's Urban Legend is, but that is seriously creepy xD Happy New Year Omega, Bee! Have a good 2019~

[@Flygoniaks]

I have this crack theory that I've keeping in my head where Joon represents the rich and Shion represents the poor. When the rich oppress and mock the poor, the uninformed masses revolt and everyone loses. It's symbolic!

[@PureLunari]

Yukari's Urban Legend is Teke-teke. Go look it up or something but the gist of it is it's a female torso ghost or something.

[@supposedlyanepplayer6346]

Yukari's Last Word timed perfectly with Lunasa's Solo.

[@roslidarose9666]

its the uh EP player

[@Maxime_Martyr]

10:38 "I'll show you a world where we all suffer together!" What a terrifying final attack! She is going to turn off our computers and force us to look at the real world! 😰

[@Wizzard220]

Is it wrong of me to like Yukari's happy portrait? Because she is cute, even though I know she's thinkin 300 different ways of murdering the person in front of her. On a side note, Shion is so adorable

[@killyo5302]

No

[@SM853]

So let me get this straight, since you've canonically lost to Joon and Shion with the other characters, does that mean that they've robbed the audience multiple times before the final battle?

[@Flygoniaks]

Correct. They apparently spent it all on stupid things, though. That's their nature: being able to take money but at the same time not being able to hold onto them because of Joon's bad habits and Shion's bad luck.

[@SM853]

One would think those people would be smart enough to stop going to those concerts

[@Latency345]

SM853 but this is Gensokyo. Nothing makes sense.

[@envyreanilarsa]

9:35 I Love how its just Sync to the theme too

[@IllusionistsBane]

Honestly, when I saw the "No one wins, no one finds happiness" line, I kinda wished Shion would say "We will all suffer together!" next.

[@yuyukosaigyouji2665]

If you pay VERY close attention to Shion’s projectiles one of them says the words: Vile, Loss, and Pain. Very hard to see though because they spin.

[@GUMPAAful]

One of the best final nosses of touhou , together with Sumireko , this battle jist feel so good , a serious battle with an actual string oponent.

[@johanstenfelt1206]

Now with dramatic speeches like that, it kind of makes this one of those times when i wish that there were voice acting in these games.

[@popcioslav]

Wasn't Yukari Top tier of this game? Like, she was the Meta Knight from Brawl? Kind of fitting honestly

[@lunatic0verlord10]

0:37 She really was holding back as a boss : I can clearly see the train and she didn't use it at all as a boss.

[@yuanamat9335]

What will you do on your old annotation videos now that annotations from your old videos are gone

[@lunatic0verlord10]

0:19 If she's that slow, I don't want to imagine what Yuuka would be like...

[@acanine8526]

"A Name Cast Off from the Edge" fits surprisingly well with Shion's solo fight, if you think about it.

[@MaskedBeeX]

Happy new years, you weebs watching Touhou videos! Here's hoping 2019 has LESS Len'en!

[@katapan9034]

There's a BPoHC-styled Len'en fangame coming on the horizon... I'd reeeally watch my words if I were you. (I'm scared, too. I asked them for less dialogue but I don't think it's happening.)

[@AugustA447]

It wouldn't be Len'en if it wasn't 20 minutes minimum of dialogue xD

[@Flygoniaks]

Oh, I'm not if sure you'll see long dialogue or not... But I think you might get a bit bored on the repetitive parts of Violet Detector, just saying. Though I don't think that's nearly as bad as Len'en for you, so cheers!

[@ricokurniawan5636]

So far, only a fangame is in the horizon. No official game to be released in the short term.

[@prizmastarz742]

Are you sure There Might Be(TM)

[@lunatic0verlord10]

16:33 He's yet to read *THAT* certain chapter of WaHH, I bet...

[@DiceDsx]

A good way to start 2019!

[@lunatic0verlord10]

10:50 Now that I think about it, Reimu's the only character to have two pre-battle portraits. If I remember correctly, the last time she used this one was when she was about to fight Sumireko. So I guess this is "Serious Reimu".

[@lielledemivamp3564]

Happy new years! Brought to you by Exploding Mokous in the sky

[@Flygoniaks]

[5:55] *Sliced in half, bleeding on the floor as the crowd panics and runs* "You're not too bad." [9:40] Fun fact: that's actually Reimu's animation for when she loses via timeout in versus mode. Since Shion only showed her true power at Joon's prompting, I guess you could say she quite literally _should have won the match faster._ [13:53] And this is why I'll stick to the official translations. I dunno, but this kind of thing just really bugs me... [16:04] So... does this mean we're allowed to show the endings now Tasofro and ZUN? Cause you can't really edit that out.

[@MegamanOmega184]

13:53 What, the overlapping spell card declarations? That _is_ from the "official" translation. Part of why I had to use it instead of just the fan-patch is cause the fan-patch didn't take care of spell cards. 16:04 And I mean... some of the slides from some of the endings aside, that second is still the Staff Roll, not the ending. So I figure it's fine.

[@Flygoniaks]

I suppose my main issue with the fan translation is that it makes story mode look much too messy, with text going outside the dialogue boxes and spellcard names having the potential to overlap. I just really like it when the game _looks_ good. I think I might be content with it in versus mode, however, and I have no cause to object to anyone who prefers it. It has its merits! You, for example, have an easier time putting the card names in the description. Again, everything I'm saying here is personal preference. Though I honestly wish they did a few other things with the translation. Maybe instead of putting English in the text boxes, leave them in Japanese and touch up the subtitles (which I think are stored as images in the game files? I haven't checked). I would also like to truncate the spellcard names so they don't overlap, even if it's a slightly less accurate translation. Oh, and about the credits? That was a joke. I suppose that since the credits were meant for once you beat the game, they wouldn't really be a "spoiler?" I dunno, but it seems to be some weird logic like that.

[@MegamanOmega184]

@@Flygoniaks Yeah, I prefer accuracy myself, but all the accuracy in the world doesn't mean squat when you can't read the bloody things Though, for what it's worth. It's my mistake, it was the fan-patch that had the spell card names overlap like that. However there's a bigger issue in the "official" translation. Said translation didn't even _translate_ the spell cards. You can set the game to English but all the spell cards are still left in Japanese. As much as the "official" translation may be easier to read it's still both inaccurate and incomplete. So I still _really_ don't like it, but begrudgingly keep it up cause after a year, the fan-patch is _still_ obnoxiously hard to read

[@lunatic0verlord10]

9:45 I think that's the first time the sprites have done more than fly in, switch from Master to Slave, vice versa and fly out... In this game at least. I remember the SWR and Hisoutensoku sprites being a lot more expressive during dialogues.

[@baldkiwi444]

one of the few times where the older sister is the more powerful one

[@lunatic0verlord10]

13:56 I think you're supposed to spam Fantasy Seal, judging by how your meter keeps going up on it's own. This is why I learned to stop worrying and love the Bomb.

[@moobloom1798]

The Most Powerful And Fortuitous Shrine Maiden Of Incident Resolution *'s God Of Destitution And Poverty*

[@VICHEL1]

Merry christmas, happy new year, thanks for the upload and wish you the best :)

[@danieleduardomorenoperez1886]

its kinda cute that everything gets resolved because shion has a bright aura as her real self

[@supernintendosp]

I've noticed you didn't use a spell card. I played through this game last night and today, and casting Fantasy Seal saved my hide multiple times in the final phase of this scenario, and it was satisfying to use Yukari's finisher. It makes me wonder if you intentionally handicapped yourself. On the other hand, I didn't know to dash through the bullets. Thank you for pointing that out.

[@lunatic0verlord10]

15:09 Are you *THAT* much against using your, may I remind you, *auto recharging* Spellcard?!

[@yoggysothy2512]

I liked the part where Joon roasted Shion

[@chuddhisattva]

i feel bad for shion, honestly.

[@Flygoniaks]

You know what? Why not! I commented here at the end of 2018, and I'll do it again at the beginning of 2019! I really wish we were given more time to play with Yukari. It would have been really fitting to have 3 fights before the duel against the Yorigami sisters so we could actually adjust to how she plays. These fights would have been against the Pure Fun Duo, Strength-Seeking Duo and Super Strong Duo, in that order. Each would have come to rematch the Yorigamis, and that would be a roadblock in Yukari's plan. Simple but functional filler plot. This reflects the very first story of this game, that of Reimu/Kasen, and it gives a sense of how far the player has come. In fact, give each of these teams two spellcards instead of one, just to show how the player's skill has improved! (And make the final story actually challenging!) Unfortunately, it appears this game was rather rushed for unknown reasons. I'm sure we all heard the story of how the game released without a complete story mode. I have to admit that seems pretty unprofessional, even by Touhou standards. I'm always surprised when games like this are rushed, as there appears little reason to do so. At least they updated it! On a slightly related note, I would also like to emphasize that this game lacks any sort of tutorial, a feature that was present in ULiL. Since this game is even more complex, it would be much better to ease players into the game rather than just throw them into their first battle with no idea what to do.

[@lunatic0verlord10]

9:07 So she knows who Reimu is but not who Yukari is?

[@newfacepaula]

next week oh boy.... i can't wait to see ol' mafia golden hatate aka joon beat up those who escaped their taxes... especially a giant fish

[@daybreaker_9]

Next week, when you play the final stage, there will be quite a pleasant surprise for you in the final stage.

[@lunatic0verlord10]

15:29 I'll take that as a "yes"...

[@paintbrushtape]

I'm just sad that Yuuka(cuz antimony of common *FLOWERS* even dough the game has nothing to do w/ flowers) or Yuugi( cuz urban legend and oni) did not appear( I just wanna say my opinion)(also clownpiece, I mean cirno was playable, why not the other idiot?)

[@gypsysprite4824]

also Nue should have totally been in ULiL and Antimony

[@ichinoshina2738]

Well the antimony of common flowers name is based off from Joon and shion's name origins, 2 flowers that apparently is cursed or something

[@paintbrushtape]

@@gypsysprite4824 yeah but at least she was shown to have an urban legend in wahh

[@paintbrushtape]

@@ichinoshina2738 I know, am just disappointed

[@paintbrushtape]

@@ichinoshina2738 but Yuuka has way more to do we'd flowers

[@rockyraccoon1001]

5:40 Now that is pretty dramatic ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

[@elegant_lilligant]

And with that, only thing that's left is the Extra Story. You know, I've realised that all the other stages you've done has been no death. But I really, REALLY want to see you do the true final battle without dying.

[@lunatic0verlord10]

17:04 Have Yukari manipulate the border between Urban Legends to switch them?

[@lunatic0verlord10]

1:43 I wonder why she never did that in IaMP or SWR, though...

[@TheNerfer]

Honestly I'm wondering if Jo'on was deliberately pissing Shion off with that excessively long insult so she'd get serious.

[@polloveider1175]

Shion can also be the goddess of hidden potential

[@Flygoniaks]

I... I think Okina has that covered? Her servants do, at least...

[@marthedge]

Not so much hidden potential as it is "making so much shit luck that it cannibalizes itself into good luck for all". Kind of like ripping the band-aid off compared to slowly removing it, only with luck.

[@Flygoniaks]

I want to randomly show this response to someone who does not know the context and say "this is what we talk about in the Touhou fandom."

[@juliaxde55]

HAPPY NEW YEAR OMEGA!

[@MedicJigglypuff]

Protecc Shion at all costs!

[@dachranoipolote]

6:39 *SURPRISE BITCH*

[@WishMakers]

Happy New Year! I don't say it often because you play how you like, but use your bombs on that final spell, because holy crap it looked ridiculous trying to cut through that with your talismans - that's the intended way of doing it too, as your spell meter continuously refills. Regardless though I am looking forward to next week. That's the one Story mode I can't beat on Overdrive, so I'm curious to see how you handle it.

[@mt4376]

Nappy new years everyone

[@pinkypuma18ify]

This video was really helpful! So far, I’ve gotten the hang of Shion’s first two phases, but I’m having trouble with the last one (hopefully the last). For some reason, there are more projectiles in her third spellcard than the ones in this video (might be different versions) Also, I can’t help but notice your Reimu shot looks different from the one in my game. Maybe it’s just the same but with a different texture. Also, how do I last word? I heard every single bar has to be full, and then x+c, but it didn’t work for me. Maybe my copy is glitched? Also, can you spellcard with Reimu during this? Sorry if I’m asking a lot of questions, I found this video really helpful. Thank you for continuing to make playthroughs!

[@pinkypuma18ify]

Oh, figured it out! Thank you again!

[@MissingLure]

Happy new year!!! That you get more subs and that Koishi appears more in your nightmares :v

[@KKYY12]

But I'm nice

[@MissingLure]

@@KKYY12 say that to omega

[@KKYY12]

@@MissingLure aawa

[@moh.syafrianabie8899]

Ah yes Goddess of Poverty vs Goddess of Poverty

[@hanzfordy3037]

Sorry, i'm not too understand about the twin sisters power. Can anyone explain to me? :D

Happy new Year! please play kioh gyoku~

[@sanstheskeleton679]

Um, can you give me an example of those few things more terrifying than a happy Yukari? Because I can't think of anything

[@KasugaChousensha]

Depends. You reading Touhou Ibara Kasen? Or are you one of those people that thinks Flandre is crazier than she actually is?

[@sanstheskeleton679]

@@KasugaChousensha I haven't read Ibara Kasen that much but I certainly know Flan isn't that insane

[@KasugaChousensha]

Well, 1. it’s free to read (go to the Touhou wiki and use the Mangadex link), 2. heavy spoilers if you really wanna know

[@axell15thewispmaster79]

Bro you had "Infinite Spellcards Magic" (as I like to call it) in that fight and didn't use Reimu's Spellcard at all!

[@steveluvscows2490]

Touhou 15.5. Another fighting/ Danmaku crossbreed.

[@alexqq7607]

I like this

[@lethalshed2272]

Is this the old version? cause the menu on this one is very different from the antimony of common flowers I'm playing today

[@MegamanOmega184]

How far have you gotten in the story? The title changes slightly as you continue to complete the story modes up to four times. This one's the last one you get after completing every story mode (you have to do so to unlock Overdrive difficulty, which is why you never see the earlier versions on my videos)

[@lethalshed2272]

rn I'm playing futo and ichirin's story and the newest one I've unlocked is Sumireko and doremy

[@ayuumi568]

Can u just tell me how u patcged it english jdjdjdjjdjf

[@MegamanOmega184]

There's a program called thcrap that's used for patching all Touhou games into English. Though be forewarned, because of the nature of 15.5, that one's a bit more finicky wit hit's English patch (as you saw by the results I got) www.thpatch.net/wiki/Touhou_Patch_Center:Main_page

[@AOGood]

Seriously... I was just waiting for Omega to spam the bomb so I could shout "MUSOHOEN" at the top of my lungs... T_T That's it! 2019's RUINED!!! T_T (I'm joking... Seriously, though... Didn't think that was possible...)

[@gaalxystar1873]

lmao really dormey sweet XD

[@paintbrushtape]

Not first

[@theraptorguy87]

1st