Touhou Luna Nights by Sean_A in

[@gamesdonequick]

Runner introduction starts at 0:03 Run starts at 0:35 Couch commentary is provided by Killingpepsi and Remlerelyk fir_ is host This speedrun was recorded live at Awesome Games Done Quick 2020, a weeklong charity speedrun marathon raising money for Prevent Cancer Foundation. Awesome Games Done Quick 2020 is just one of the many charity marathons put on by Games Done Quick. For more information on AGDQ2020, find us at: gamesdonequick.com Looking for live updates? Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/GamesDoneQuick Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/GamesDoneQuick Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/gamesdonequick

[@arootube]

The year is 2020 and I'm still not convinced that Touhou is a real franchise and not a collective hallucination.

[@mrrp405]

What if it was all just a dream

[@PhazonOmega]

I know what you mean. And I love it!

[@SMD234WG]

I mean, it technically is…

[@calebo56]

i wish it was

[@DataProwler]

That Marisa fight: The moment you realize that you launched more projectiles than your opponent in a Touhou game.

[@swinnbv2186]

"Can you remember the number of times you've eaten bread?" "Thirteen I believe." This is my new favorite runner. Absolute god-tier donation and he picked up on the joke.

[@ansyyxux]

it's what marisa said in touhou 6 with remilia.

[@HyperVanilo]

It's actually "Thirteen, I prefer Japanese food."

[@TheYeetiest]

Marisa: I'll definitely defeat you now! Sakuya: *Chainsaw.* Marisa: What? Sakuya: *Lots of Chainsaw.* Marisa: Understandable, have a great night.

[@smol_hornet613]

This was really cool to see. Loved the commentary too

[@zer0legend109]

"The lore is confused right now" Serves you right, like touhou lore is not confusing enough.

[@supreme_xenon]

Touhou lore is not confusing

[@brendansage6876]

There is no canon in Touhou, because the canon is whatever any individual player or fan wants it to be. Touhou canon is basically Shrodinger's Cat, everything is canon and nothing is at the same time, XD

[@kyarumomochi5146]

​@@brendansage6876Litterally false lmfao wtf are you saying

[@FFXfever]

I want to thank you Sean, I played this game immediately after watching your first 10 minutes, and just finished it. Fantastic game, one of my favourite platformer.

[@ndaydudefinal7544]

And as always Sakuya breaks the rules of the world with her powers, just like in the main series XD

[@Dan-gs3kg]

The best part is that Sakuya is canonically an "Aloof Psychopath" or "Snarky Kuudere". Why break the world when you can have very vigorous walks for the sole purpose to laugh at disgraced stage bosses?

[@bensoncheung2801]

Ah yes, I definitely remember her wedging herself between her own time topped knives/yokai to clip through walls!

[@alice-pz1kf]

Yahoo, I love Touhou. Nice to see a run

[@benjibananas5175]

"ZA WARUDO" Commences to throw hundreds of knives

[@howdoifindaname2743]

I was waiting for the proverbial road roller

[@RayTC]

Never thought id see a touhou run, even if its for a fangame

[@RumiRemi]

20:45 that room took me an hour to beat with 100% items on my first playthrough and watching sean just walk past it makes me question reality

[@danlongname]

Is this really a fangame of touhou? The game devs also made an *official* game for both KonoSuba and Shin Megami Tensei. Did they start with this and then get recognition plus the rights to publish the game?

[@ascriptmaster]

Luna Nights is their most recent game AFAIK, and it's definitely a Touhou fangame.

[@Maestro_Gear]

They made a shin megami tensei game? If you don't mind my asking, which one?

[@MrPyroguy108]

ZUN is extremely liberal with the rights to touhou and fan content. He's basically cool with you doing whatever as long as you don't literally take content or use assets for the game. And even for things that might do that all you have to do is ask permission and he'll probably give it to you. Because of this touhou as a series has more fan content than actual content though, so an easy way to tell whether something is "official" is if it's developed by or in cooperation with Team Shanghai Alice (Zun's doujin circle). e.g. 東方紅魔郷　～ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil is an official game commonly refereed to as EOSD and was developed by TSA, but 東方幕華祭 (TouHou Makuka Sai) ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival is a fan game not developed by TSA. There are also several fighting game spin offs developed in cooperation with Twilight Frontier that are official games. If you want a more detailed explanation of the copyright behind touhou you can find an article on the touhou wiki with translated statements by ZUN.

[@doutchebags]

Anything that isn't made by "Team Shanghai Alice" (basically ZUN by himself) is a fangame. ZUN has been noted to support all fan works as long as they don't do things like crowd funding simply because he feels that getting money for a game before it's released is kind of scummy. Most fangames also look a lot better than the official games except for the fighting games and the platformer, but that's because he outsources to the fans for assets and coding for those games (he doesn't have much coding experience outside of SHMUPs).

[@zaphero5518]

@@Maestro_Gear Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue

[@teedeegremlin]

This looks more complicated than an actual Touhou Project danmaku game.

[@AnthonyNguyenlolz]

I feel like this man is invalidating all of my time I had used playing this game.

[@Ayanamiame]

yeah I was like wow the glitch travel is cool precise and all but let see how he fared against Reimu. And dem ! mind blown

[@jeremywilliams2928]

"It's basically a harmony of chainsaws" 17:27

[@PhazonOmega]

My favorite Touhou? The star of our show here, Sakuya Izayoi/Flowering Night! She was, after all, the main draw for me to this game, between the art, her abilities, her music named for her, and finally her gameplay in Touhou Luna Nights. She was my catalyst to the entire franchise, and is still my favorite!

[@susguyfromamongus]

Love the post-run fumo event

[@Mav_Video]

This speedrun got me into touhou. Thanks so much

[@SeanAyylmao]

:3c

[@warpspeedscp]

Didn't realize this game has the same visual style as cave story

[@KyanbuXM]

Wooh I really need to get this game. It looks so cool and I love this games visual aesthetic and Sprite work.

[@nhojemon]

nice SOTN stairs just before the nitori fight

[@PhazonOmega]

Wait...Luna Nights at a GDQ...is exactly what I wanted! *grabs popcorn from off screen*

[@psyidm]

*tip hat to the guy who said rin is his favorite

[@connorsweeten2953]

Reminds me of Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight

[@quocvietophu1627]

Same developer

[@SleepyDirty]

@@quocvietophu1627 Bombservice developed Momodora, Team Ladybug developed Touhou Luna Nights. That's not the same developer.

[@IsonDaya]

Ex Boss - The Highly Responsive to Chainsaws

[@ClearlyCold]

Sakuya is my favourite, hands down. Liked her ever since i started playing touhou

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

Can't donate, but my favorite is Alice

[@omicronalpha8827]

First 1 second has two chairs full of Fumos That's it, that's the best run

[@derpyfailz572]

The video convinced me to but this game and play others like it, thanks!

[@blatancyproductions8246]

Never thought I would see a touhou game in agdq2020

[@awetyoghurt6305]

just realised that the flashing lights on the timer are binary

[@yukineren7815]

Welp i played this game and this speed run makes me look like a Chump as i farmed So long to finish Reimu

[@lacqs9129]

wow, I tried it when it got released and had a hard time with this.. great run.. :D

[@Gobo_Dom]

Touhou touhou was there!!!!

[@Spaghettaboutit]

30:18 how does he get a recovery drink?!

[@rashrascal5304]

such a good game

[@Jcreek499]

Nice run!

[@LilBitey]

Really cool run.

[@stoutlager6325]

Great run!

[@Einzeilhandery]

Wait the real Flan holding a spear? Oh i thought it was the one to lower closest to the ground, cause usually it work for me

[@bensoncheung2801]

I don't see it. (Edit: I saw it, it's just an ever so slightly lighter shade of grey against the background, in her left hand, and you're right, the real Flan IS slightly lower than the fakes! I didn't notice that. And it 's easier to spot at a glance too...)

[@ayo1261]

I see this as a walkthrough

[@SilentVinyl]

Fascinating

[@QuirrelSquad]

I managed to do the clock tower bug thing but I didn't know how to go through the wall so I had to save and exit

[@RedGallardo]

The game is obviously inspired by Castlevania =3 Looks awesome

[@HyperVanilo]

It's called Metroidvania for a reason

[@jadebayoba7073]

Flandre doesn't have a 1-HIT KO attack tho

[@Ragnara5799]

Isn't there a boss missing? The Ice Fairy (Cirno i think).

[@russelldoty2743]

She's a midboss, so she apparently doesn't count.

[@HyperVanilo]

She's only available on Extra Stage update

[@pendalink]

i had no idea touhou had a cave story

[@HyperVanilo]

Nice joke

[@thedonatello1621]

Remind me SOTN

[@HyperVanilo]

It's called Metroidvania for a reason

[@AnssiVIH]

Don't kill neko, neko!

[@lowkeyobsessedngl]

man i love the art style of this game and how it's a metroid vania but the overcomplicated mechanics put me off.

[@izu..]

Overcomplicated mechanics? Is it tho? For me, it was pretty easy to learn. There isn't any complicated spell to learn like Symphony of the Night (God it's so hard to trigger a few spells at the beginning) At least this game is pretty straightforward (one spell at all times for one button)

[@Torikatchu]

It looks overcomplicated but once you try the game, it's actually pretty easy to get used to and it eventually just feels natural. If you ever find it on sale on steam then it's definitely worth getting!

[@ascriptmaster]

Casually it's not really that complicated honestly

[@MintJammer]

I mean, it's pretty much just putting yourself into as much danger without actually getting hit. It's way less hard to comprehend than it looks.

[@supreme_xenon]

Overcomplicated in what way?

[@LordLuthas]

Wait, the expected level for the second to last boss is 11? I’m already level 23 and haven’t even beaten the second one yet-

[@dougfoster445]

Cool game but very short Thought it was gonna be like 5 to 6 times as long as it was

[@sumrandomweeb5283]

Nice

[@roboslacker5593]

Aunn is best 2hu

[@xany407]

touhou

[@scarlaid]

I don't know why but LN seems like harder than Touhou itself

[@seasirocco3063]

Was this run done before Cirno was added to the game?

[@dededeisdosh4450]

I think so, since Cirno was just added recently

[@Cieln0va]

My favourite 2hu is Yukari

[@tsunamininja]

I don't think the runners ever talked about reverse boss order or why they do it. Is it any% that happens to be faster because of the reversed order? is it just a challenge category (do it because you can?)

[@ToyKeeper]

Just like with Super Metroid's RBO run, it's just because you can. It's fun to break the game, and to do it as fast as possible.

[@ghostflames1501]

Is it wrong that I watch commentary laced speedruns at 1.5x normal speed? Or is that a sort of homage?

[@choco8348]

damn..........How to play with that. better i am gonna delete this difficult game. Thank you for saving my mental energy

[@teamupleft7097]

Belmobt fight 16:40

[@derpyfailz572]

I don’t know what game this is or why it showed up in my recommended but this looks really fun, can someone tell what this game is called and where I can get it?

[@zack8994]

Heya! It's wonderful to see someone interested in it! The game is called Touhou Luna Nights, and you can find it on Steam. It's a fangame based off of the Touhou Project, which is a large multimedia project, which is essentially made by one guy. There are plenty of explanations of what it is, so I recommend looking up video explanations if you want to know more about it. Good luck!

[@beatrix4519]

I have never played a touhou game and I am deeply confused

[@supreme_xenon]

Like the runner said, this is a fangame, the official Touhou games are bullet hell shooter

[@lukasdeen6226]

Ah yes touhou

[@gamesthatiplay9083]

What is TouHou? I thought it was a shmup

[@Quintendo3ds]

Games That I Play it is, this is just a fangame made using touhou characters. this isn’t a normal touhou game

[@ThreeSpeeds]

You are correct, but this is a fangame.

[@qiang2884]

This game is a fan game of that series.

[@ICapybara_]

it is

[@kameronjohnson3888]

the main games are. this is a fan made side game.

[@LazurBeemz]

How did he heal at 30:19?

[@abrahamrangel2326]

He grazed the cannonball

[@Shinofeya]

37:24 fumo pile :)

[@bunturngdiao2767]

what is this game platform PC?

[@HyperVanilo]

PC, Xbox, and Switch

[@dee6561]

This... is a fan game?

[@supreme_xenon]

Yes

[@MrSonny6155]

Let's face it, this is the closest we are gonna get to a bullet hell game on GDQ.

[@DoomPhoenix13]

The very same GDQ had one of the most infamous bullethells ran during it, they had Gusto playing it.

[@HyperVanilo]

Touhou 9.5 was on GDQ, Touhou 6 was on another speedrun community