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Logging in to make an "I'm alive" post I suppose.  Still a bit burned out on Pokemon, especially since I got an urge after Reborn's final update dropped, made it through that Hellish Victory road, and started the Post-Game a bit......and a hard drive crash wiped the save.  Still have a backup from right after Episode 18 (along with Rejuvenation 12 and Desolation 5) so not the worst there.......but I hope someone has a way to teleport through the victory Road.  

Hope everyone is still doing alright.  See you when I log back in again.

PLAY HOLOCURE!  It's free and fun.   Also, Mystia's Izakaya, if you like restaurant sims with a touch of Stardew Valley (but this is ~$5).

Hey everyone, I guess it's been quite awhile. 

I don't really have a good excuse why I haven't at least logged in to let everyone know I was alright with Covid having been with up for at least a year and half. I'm honestly sorry about that.

I'm not really sure if I'll be on that much but I think I'll at least try now that I'm finally getting the awkward return out of the way. I've typed this quite a few different ways before, but I think just typing it quickly before I overthink and talk myself out again might be for the best. Thank you for messaging me @Gheist 

While a part of leaving had to do with me distancing myself with SwSh discourse while it was still fresh (and much of Pokemon for a bit), I did have some real life stuff to deal with. By the time everything was settled down, it felt a bit awkward to just come back.....so I procrastinated like usual and then kept at it. Not sure if I'll fully return, but I'll try to at least pop in more often.

Again, sorry if I genuinely worried anyone.

Still haven't finished Rejuvenation 13, despite starting it months ago. Pupppet Dance Performance SOD's new Extended mod took my attention there.

Another SRW game got a fan translation completed.  It's one of the side series that I never really played, but maybe I'll play this one eventually now that all of the W-series/Axel/Haken story is translated.   

It's still strange how the first Endless Frontier game got an official English release back then but the sequel didn't get picked up.  I guess it didn't do well, especially with only 2 other SRW games full overseas releases years earlier on the GBA.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-super-robot-wars-og-saga-endless-frontier-exceed-artema-translations.550014/

I never thought I would become somewhat attached to characters from a Sims 4 series called Meme House but I somehow did.......at least to one or two.

Lyrica Live strikes again with another great lyrical adaptation.  A quieter song than usual, especially for an active (???) character like Sanae,  though by NO means worse.  I like the overall message(??) though "Why haven’t you tried? Claiming impossibility... Without asking for help, everyone else is thinking the same" hits me the hardest for some some reason......

Sidenote, but I'm also doing another playthrough of Puppet Dance Performance: Shard of Dreams.  I doubt any gushing write ups this time, since I didn't even finish the very last one for last time.

Oh yeah, I forgot to post this required meme a few days ago

So Touhou 17.5 was announced........as an action platformer.  Definitely a surprise there, since it's by the same group that's been making the official fighting (side)games.  And one of the two screenshots show Kogasa, so double meta surprise there.

I'm trying to decide where my new profile pic should be the Aki sisters again (because Autumn) or the Three Fairies of Light (because their manga recently ened.......unless ZUN brings it back for another segment a forth time).

Well, the memes will live on, and at least this user finally did a remix of Nue's theme in BW soundfont so something non-meme related came out out of this day.

I'm not sure if you or anyone else would like it but this popped up on sub feed and it's 3 Houses related..........so

The strongest fairy's theme following THE STRONGEST fairy's day?  At least Cirno and Piece weren't fighting for the top spot on the same day.

Woops, didn't change anything for Cirno Day.  I'll just make this status as a celebratory reminder to call your local Ice Fairy the strongest.  Happy Cirno Day!

I haven't really been active this past week or so outside of a few trades, to the point I just noticed that I never even put anything for the final stage of Fantasy Maiden Wars: Dream.  I'm just going to post a few random things, and then the attack animations and music like I did for the last two important ones.   There are also the three bonus stages, but I didn't really take screenshots since there was nothing really noteworthy.

I don't know what most of the stuff here is, but Marisa finally broke the 40k damage barrier sometime in the last stage (though I missed a screenshot)  and Meeko hit one my units for a lot last stage.

I, of course, had Shizuha and Minoriko 'the not forgotten' Aki finish off the final boss with the power of Autumn! Not the best screenshots, but they'll do

They did a nice shot of PoFV's 'incident' though it's a bit strange ending on it.  

They even changed up the title screen with it to celebrate the end.

They really flexed their animation budget on a few of these attack animations.

The normal BMG for the last stage.  Very fittingly, it's a remix of "Children's Festival ~ Innocent Treasures" which ZUN usually calls his theme  and is usually noted to sound very 'finale-worthy'.

Final Boss' original theme.  The limited vocals makes the song stand out from every other FMW song.  Very dreamy.

In true SRW fashion, the theme that overrides everything in the last portion of the last stage is a remix of the title screen song  (though sadly Sanbando can't afford Jam Project).

The sheep was much easier to defeat than the flower, which is totally fair since Yuuka is Yuuka.  I will be hearing Meeko's theme in my dreams tonight, since it played for most of the stage.  Which brings up one of the best spell card names in Touhou (canon or fanmade):  

「Ｄｏｅｓ Ｇｅｎｓｏｋｙｏ Ｄｒｅａｍ ｏｆ Ｙｏｕｋａｉ Ｓｈｅｅｐ？」 

Even if I didn't name my crew 'Sheep Bullies' like the Translation LP team, the bullying still happened

Cute Kogasa blocking sprite to bring back the mood

I still love Reimu and Marisa's new endgame combo attack.  Really brings the "unload everything"/maximum daka effect out while squeezing in a few good mecha references

I've gotten tired of seeing these two words over the past day and a half.  I knew Yuuka's fight was BS incarnate from reading the translation LP, but wow did they bump it up on Hard mode; is it even possible on Lunatic?   After a bad first try, this time I'm just taking out her first and last health bars.....the rest I'll just time out.

Bunshin- basically autododge; Yuuka's rate is 50% here

Why did you have to start hitting so obscenely hard halfway through the stage, Yuuka?  I guess Akyu was correct here.

https://lpix.org/sslptest/index.php?id=152682 (translation LP's stage)

Well, I found out FMW Complete will allow save transfer from FMW 4, so I guess I'l be finally finishing that for the next few days.  Did stage 74 earlier.  Great Prismriver-centric stage.  I still love the new attack they get.   

I'll just post from excerpts from the translation LP of this stage that I like, just because, and the subbed major event vid.

Video does have subs on the captions if you want to watch/read

So, Steins;Gate is technically canon is a SRW timeline now? Cool

Finally some details and a few new screenshots of FMW Complete Box came over  apparently from a Chinese watcher of a random Japanese streamer......very vague.  It's definitely using some mechanics from modern SRW games (such as being able to use spirits commands on your opponents turn).  There's even pictures of new attack cut-ins:

Nameless midboss fairy who's had maybe had exactly one line in a side-manga, you finally got an attack cut in!  I guess that means The 9-ball Special will be slightly different late-game, and it means another nameless character and even the Lilies should get theirs.

An Elly cut-in to compete with the other gatekeeper

Kurumi cut-in.  Hopefully you'll still be top tier support late game.

Akyu seems to be a playable character and maybe not just a one-stage joke character this time.....though maybe still.  She has a unique personal skill this time, so that's a bit more 'long term' indication.  Maybe she'll juggle the 'playable character' and 'subpilot only' roles this time.  Even she has a cut-in.

Seems Kozazu is an NPC as well now.  I'm not holding out hope for Kasen, since she definitely wouldn't be playable even if she shows up as an NPC.  She's only a month younger than the first game back in 2010, so Keine took the 'mentor-ish/prodding Reimu off her ass' role. Funny in hindsight, but playable Kasen would be interesting.

Waiting to see if the new Touhous and the new music will be online soon.  It seems some people already got their copy of Touhou 17, so it will probably be an hour or three.

Minoriko/Shizuha, Aya, and Ran finally getting proper attack cut-ins in this PV:  it's the little things that sometimes get me the most hyped.  It doesn't help that I can't read the non-visual details.  This does give me hope of Yumeko, the Lilys, and Rei'sen/Raysen/'The Second Lockon' Reisen  will get them as well.

Oh, another Lyrica Live adaptation.  It doesn't feel like it's been a month since the last one, but I'll take it.

Seems like 'Fantasy Maiden Wars: Complete Box' isn't going to be available at Comiket until Monday, along with most of the Touhou stuff.......including ZUN releasing 'Touhou 17' to a clamoring fanbase.   Seems Lyrica will have at least 3 or 4 new character themes to make adaptations for.

I'm excited that Fantasy Maiden Wars: Complete Box should be coming out sometime in the next few days, possibly in less than a day if it's sold right when Comiket starts and will probably take some more days to be sold on team's site.  I never finished the last few stages of FMW 4, come to think of it....

While I still hold out hope for maybe a few new attack animations, it will probably just be touchups for everyone, which some characters sakuya still needed in the last game........and hopefully they will give Yorihime a 'Moon Knights' remix for a theme  I can dream

Well, I think I might be done with all/most of the sidequests/extra things in Rejuvenation V12.  I still  have some event/hidden Pokemon to find (and even more mons to evolve) but all the high points have been hit (and most of the items found....except for TM 49 because of version differences I think).

And maybe getting a bit more money since buying all those crests, TMs/RMs, and the Scholar District game corner mons depleted a lot of the funds.  I'm not sure what the best repeatable money making method, but hopefully Pickup will come through when I level up some mons for the dex. 

Goomy Kingdom best sidequest. 

A bit about another sidequest. Spoiler-tagged because it's best not spoiled:

Stupid labyrinth.  At least there is a video of it on Youtube for the Karen quest, though I'll have to go back for the other stuff later.

Seems a few of the Zygard cells left are bugged on my save, since they aren't appearing reguardless of time of day.  I know I didn't get them before (since I didn't unlock Lux appartments till a few hours ago and it wasn't there)  and I backtracked a few days to an older save where they appeared. 

After SR'ing for a few shinies and doing many sidequest, I'm not redoing all that again.  I guess I'll ask on the save fixing thread about it later when I'm not doing stuff.  At least I already got the 100 for 10% already.