Touhou: Bubbling Imaginary Treasures (v1.02a) || Lunatic 1 Miss No Bomb No Special Clear

Touhou BIT is out for some time, and I have finally some spare time to jump into Touhou universe again! So then, let's make some runs.
To be fair, I was aiming for LNNN, but when making 1.02a update, Gore though it would be a great idea to uncomment some code for the ultimate spellcard, and make it ultra difficult compared to the rest of the game. Good job man, I feel betrayed lol.
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東方門殊銭 ～ Bubbling Imaginary Treasures is a third... I guess? Touhou fan-game made by Gore/Corey. Full game was released at 11 November 2021. As with the other of their games, this one also mixes several Touhou games by partially imcorporating their mechanics or boss' patterns. There are many references to Touhou 11 SA and Touhou 12 UFO, even as to tell that Extra stage is a kinda reproduction of one known from Touhou 11 (at least stage-portion-wise).
Two updates were rolled out, improving performance a little, as well as changing some patterns, like ultimate spellcard.
There are four playable characters to choose from: Reimu, Marisa, Sanae and Komachi, each with three different shot-types, bombs and special abilities (aka Skills or Assist Spirit Strike). Gathering enough money enables the player to use a skill, and depending on player character it can have various effects.
For the record, there is an achievements/trophies system known from recent Touhou games.
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[ HP system ]
As with Gore's previous game - Franticallt Forbidden Fruit - here we also get HP bar. Once you get hit, your HP decreases. If by any chance your HP would be decreased to zero, it will be set to 1 HP, but then the next hit will result in a miss and losing a life.
HP taken from a hit is not random. It depends on a hitbox of a bullet (in pixels I assume) x4 + skills level x2. When it is a laser, it is fixed to 100. When player is not in focus mode, damage is doubled up.
Sanae can halve the damage when in skills mode.
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[ Mechanics of the game ]
Game borrows mechanics known from Touhou SA and Touhou DDC, and it's very apparent. The multiplier from gathering items can go from x0.50 to x5.00, eventually getting much higher when PIV multiplier is applied, up to x9.99.
It has several thresholds, at which selected number of resources are dropped (from 1 to 4) depending on items collected and multiplier achieved. It will also make clearing circle bigger. At x5.00 and higher, it will cover nearly all the screen, even with the player at the very bottom of the screen.
Players' skills can be activated once one gather enough money. They can be collected through grazing, clearing the bullets, dropped from killed enemies and at the end of stages when your performance is calculated. The effect of skill depends on shot-type chosen.
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[ My thoughts on BIT? ]
Honestly? I expected some better fangame coming out from them. I mean, this being half a rip-off of patterns from official games is just a part of the problem. I mean, we still have Stage 5, 6 and Extra stage bosses with more unique patterns. Notice I have said "half a rip-off".
For the biggest problem out there: there is no survival play here. Not in this game. Seriously. Since the only option is a HP system (no insta-death mode), plus one is provided with "Assist Spirit Strike"/skills system which is powerful on its own, and pretty much unbalanced characters that can take off most of bosses in an instant... well, where is a difficulty in it then, when anyone can beat this game effortlessly?
Sure, I have taken some hits here and there (guess I had enough of the game already), it's not like it's ultra free so anyone can pull off a perfect run instantly. And yet, it is that easy given that system. It's horrible.
And the second biggest problem: performance. My 7yrs old PC and Win10 system cannot handle it such that it wouldn't lag every so often. So, I had to use my Win7 build from TWC to handle it, and even then there were lags during recording, even with some effects cut. Plus, memory leaks all over there, which eventually slows down the game dramatically. Like, please, it's the first thing you should have fixed instead of the ultimate attack...
Otherwise, the game would be fine. Quite average, compared to the rest of Touhou fangames out there, even some Western ones. But still a fangame :V
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[@MathyOld]

Ah yes, Subterranean Volcano, also known as Sit In The Corner For 40 Seconds, my favorite spell card

[@thinglet2478]

Recollection "Sit In The Corner For 40 seconds and think about what you've done."

[@dolphin550]

How about this? Corner of Reason "Bodhidharma's Stare"

[@DJruslan4ic]

Safespot sign "worse than icicle fall"

[@neetamoori8690]

Gore try to do an actually balanced and fair game system challenge *(IMPOSSIBLE)*

[@davidli6931]

That's already the least crucial problem in the game

[@Grgrqr]

27:10 By the way, the things behind her are “elements” (moving clockwise from the top) 土 earth, 火 fire, 木 wood, 水 water, 金 gold

[@InfinnacageMusic]

This is all lifted from the original touhou games. What's even the point of making such a game?

[@GarryDumblowski]

...is Komachi just *really* powerful or are the bosses *really* fragile?

[@Grgrqr]

I can’t believe it’s not Len’en!

[@x-nimator9997]

Nope, bosses have vry low HP. Every shottype can melt away bosses quickly, some more quickier than others. Just watch any run with Sanae A and you'll see what i mean.

[@pureplatinumkiller5546]

Gore balancing for you

[@astralabyss8]

both

[@Eredom]

Typical gore... Not much creativity, most of the patterns are either direct copies of the original or VERY CLOSE to them... His games look nice, but there isn't much new to see that you didn't see before...

[@woxlee7323]

Can't agree more... These patterns are too easy and not creative

[@davidli6931]

Never understand why someone can make things so bad with so much effort. Not to say there's little improvement throughout of his work.

[@akenohononiku916]

Aww, come on... I wanted to see the Yorigamis' danmaku patterns finally, since the only time they've ever showed up in a shmup format is from fangames But their healthbar melts too quickly and I can't see most of the patterns to its fullness

[@x-nimator9997]

well, there is a mod for violet detector that adds the yorigami sisters and gave both of them fully new spellcards

[@loafofchihuahua]

It feels as if every single Touhou game was mashed into one °-°

[@generalokuu]

Murasa looks so masculine, to the point that it's scary.

[@sasukcool8357]

it took me not more than 20 minutes to complete whole game, as Marisa(A)

[@korohacker]

So this is the new game by Gore. Kinda intrigued, but after seeing his recent tweets, I'm gonna have to give a hard pass on this one

[@GarryDumblowski]

What were some of his recent tweets?

[@-anomaly186-3]

@@GarryDumblowski Sent popfan a death threat for criticizing his game, also called him a xenophobic slur. When people called him out for it he went private, changed his bio to "I'll cut you down if you come close (or if you don't)" then later changed it to "Don't interact (especially if you're a foreigner)" so he's actually just xenophobic. He also traces alot of ZUN assets which is against doujin guidelines.

[@OkamiKai6980]

@@-anomaly186-3 he even traced his own art lol

[@x-nimator9997]

@@TheTsuyuki yep, phantasmagoria of imagine breaker. That's the same guy.

[@x-nimator9997]

@@-anomaly186-3 that's..........very childish. Like i said in another video, this type of behaviour i would expect it from indie fandoms like fnaf or fnf, but not from touhou.

[@TrappedBowyer9684]

I'm gonna be honest with you: BIT is the EASIEST touhou fangame ever.

[@simonkompe2164]

Yey

[@AsianRailgun]

Oof kinda hurts that your only death is on the final.

[@tsumori4ever]

I really want to make a fan made touhou game.

[@Fishnberg]

same here, even I know drawing and music, I still can't code : ( (wish one day I can make at least something someday)

[@tsuzyx9672]

@@Fishnberg Are you doing commissioned art or arent there yet?

[@MariusKennedy]

Me too. I want to draw something for a Rainbow six siege X Touhou Fangame where the Operators and the White Masks are bosses.

[@King_of_Fools]

The pain of not knowing how to code

[@Snowstriken]

If you ever feel your games are bad,just look at this one and remember your at least trying and doing your best instead of tracing

[@touhouguyII]

oooh, so close to a perfect, must suck

[@vostoca]

Gore, I want legacy mod in this game 😑 game is very easyyyy! Nice video creppyninja!

[@ningensan8198]

Can you please do a run on touhou dream logical world demo? Its on steam and really underrated! It has interesting patterns and characters

[@TrappedBowyer9684]

The full game is out

[@x-nimator9997]

Oh, so now the final spell is changed? It was much more easy before, lol. Yea the game's.............too easy. I'm very surprised that even on LUNATIC is fairly easy to go. Tho i'll give gore just one teeny tiny bit of points. At least the later stage bosses were entirely new, rather than just pull stage 2 bosses and give them a powerup (looking at you, ringo). Also it still bothers me that most of the spellcards are just copy-pasted from official games.. Outside of the yorigami sisters, who never really were in danmaku games before, although their spells are from 15.5. .....tho he should really improve a bit more his drawing skills. Those hands are tiny. I know it's not an easy part to draw (i myself still struggles when drawing hands) but still, a bit more of practice is in need. Cause the original 2hus have pretty designs.

[@IrohThemBtchesInThePond]

Hey, man. Do you plan on playing Gore's phantasmagoria of imagine breaker?

[@ilovekatsumi]

is this game just a random touhou boss rush thing where you play as komachi? all the artwork, ui etc looks beautiful but stages and danmaku are straight taken from the offical games.. which kinda disappoints me

[@akenohononiku916]

The frick is Satori's boss sprite doing? Flailing?

[@balneor]

26:45 is there something I'm missing here ? (Welp, judging by some other comment...)

[@DJruslan4ic]

There are safespots in the top corners

[@balneor]

@@DJruslan4ic I know. It was a nontraditional way of asking : is the game really that stupid ?

[@DimaStark-nt3ux]

The final spell is ugly, why does it even exist in this world.....

[@lib6194]

BIT Satori rush when?

[@DJruslan4ic]

2 nons + 1 satori spell + 3*4*3= 36 mind read spellcards= 39 attacks in total All of these are just copied from official touhou games. Gore had deleted his conscience, why tough?

[@phoxeniz9457]

feels like we are playing touhou 19

[@NeoNickz]

Touhou 19 is ass then

[@davidli6931]

Is it just me or the whole game look ugly?

[@loafofchihuahua]

The gameplay is pretty ugly too IMO There's so many mechanics and gimmicks mashed together in this game so it's just hard to process. The bosses also die WAY too quickly and the game itself is way too easy...

[@kirbymexicano7]

2hou

[@moodu.m.a1888]

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