Touhou 東方潮聖書 ～ Sapphire Panlogism || Lunatic No-Bombs 1cc (Marisa)

Let's get into new Touhou fangame from our Western fellows. Released just recently, SP has been in development for like 4 years. Very impressive fangame, gameplay-wise and technically too.
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[ OVERVIEW ]
東方潮聖書 ～ Sapphire Panlogism is a fresh new Western Touhou fangame made by Team Urban Magic, released on May 31, 2021. Being in development for 4 years, it's finally here, with a ton of content to play.
Besides 6-stage maingame and Extra stage, one can face Carrefour stage (aka 2nd Extra) and unlockable Last Words. Additionally, Stage 4 Boss has different spellcards for each of the four shottypes.
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[ DROPLETS SYSTEM ]
A special mechanism for Sapphire Panlogism - droplets and the whole system around it. One can call them borders, but they actually aren't - they won't give you additional free hit :v
On stages we have enemies with red, green or blue aura. Once killed they drop droplets of aura's color, with amount depending on enemy kind.
Collecting 10 of a given color will start a border (of color of collected droplets), lasting for about 10 seconds. Getting another 10 of other color will refresh the border timer (borders' colors gets then mixed). One can end it prematurely by releasing the shot button.
At the end of the border, all the items will be auto-collected, and the extra PiV and bonus score will be granted, along with resources depending on borders active at that time.
Red border grants 2 life pieces, green ones - 2 bomb pieces. Blue border grants 2 PiV items, each increasing total PiV by 1000. Mixing them results in bigger multiplier of bonus score (1x, 3x or 5x, depending on amount of borders active) and bigger resources reward (1x, 1.5x or 2x of them).
For the bosses, they also do have aura, which cycle between red, green and blue color. The moment you beat the spellcard, you get rewarded by 5 droplets of given aura's color, and equivalent reward.
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[ MY THOUGHTS? ]
So, basically, there's a lot of content in the game, so expect a few more videos in a short timespan. Extra stage, Carrefour stage, Last Words, and Stage 4 spells differentiating between charas. Variety of stuff, really.
About the game itself, I feel like it isn't super difficult, yet Stage 5 and Padma are super tricky, which might be an effective LNN killer.
The system is really fun, actually rewarding aggresive play. If you go for score, then you have to be truly effective at managing these borders.
For the cons of the game, I have to mention bullet visibility. Some bullets are super small, many of them on the other hand - too bright, maybe being additive and blending with others. While I didn't have trouble with them blending with the background, it was for sure not easy to differentiate each other sometimes.
If you want to get a video from it - I'd suggest to record it live, just saying.
For the other things, I wish there was boss and/or nonspell practice. It would certainly make some stuff easier. I hope it will become a standard in future games.
All in all - a great solid fangame, with some minor issues, which hopefully will be fixed with another patch (supposedly they're working on it :V). And guess what - it's free. So, why not to give it a try?
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[@korohacker]

The characters of this game have way more extreme personality traits than most fangames, even other Western fangames. That intense desire to punch stage 5 boss in the face is only rivaled by the same desire to plant a boot on Extra stage boss of SoHW's face. I agree with you on the tiny bullets visibility problem, and it can sometimes break the game for me. So much so that I got tired of playing midway and just bombed through a lot of spellcards at times. In any case, this is a fun game, the music has a very different vibe from recent fangames, well worth the wait (other than the issue with visibility)

[@baoq.b2287]

Glad someone agree with me on wanting to punch Padma in the face.

[@viiiderekae]

Padma has an indian name and looks french with spells in french. Its like.. oh god why 😅

[@prizmastarz742]

Padma really do be the Girlboss Gaslight Gatekeep I'm kinda fine being her like that, adds some nice spice to it

[@okguy167]

I like how the ending was just Marisa and Rinosuke going over stuff from D&D

[@-ArdhaniChandra]

Padma: One man garbage is another man treasure. But sometime, that other man is garbage himself, don't you think? Are you talking about Bullies?

[@El0fig]

damn... i thought this project was left to be forgotten, glad to see it came back to life 3 years later

[@frdla4124]

Ikr i was so surprised

[@servantofwrath7370]

You see, the plot about the rain was a ruse this entire time!

[@FrogmaskMusic]

DEV GROUP CHAT me: shouldn't we say something so people don't think the project is dead everyone else: yeah me: what should we do everyone else: me:

[@Nn.65juk]

I was in hig school when this damn thing was launched. The demo i mean. Now i doscovered it at college.

[@desempar.e9765]

27:07 Oh, jeez, a weirdo -- a weirdo

[@RaysonWilliams]

28:07 it was this moment Marisa knew, she fucked up.

[@rsg5314]

Okina sits on a chair but Ummu sits on herself (literally)

[@tiewploenploen]

ummu on ummu on ummu on ummu sitting on a rock

[@reddraken6366]

Padma was shook for a good moment

[@AkarisMouth]

29:53 A trip to the dentist

[@wagnersimoes6222]

the last spell is hella cool

[@youdonotcare]

I just noticed while watching this video, Ummu pulls up the time left on her penultimate spell while charging up her finale. Was it originally supposed to use the time left on it?

[@shaunfrost720]

Marisa pog

[@RealityMasterRogue]

Marisa pog!!!

[@tsuzyx9672]

No one noticed the sticky keys sound activate in stage 5?

[@Fishnberg]

why does the logo looks like a Chinese Dumpling

[@dreamingsoul4722]

i guess, my only complaint about this game (Other than the very poor bullet visibility), are th character portraits, and by that I mean Marisa's portrait, oh god wth is that

[@gaalxystar1873]

Ouch Marsia got trashed talk

[@floral1092]

what daw is used to make this ost, it makes such justice to ZUN's go-to instruments

[@unicity564]

이거 어디서 다운로드 하나요?

[@moodu.m.a1888]

First.