Uploaded May 2015 | Updated September 2026, 9 hours ago

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Here's a new face. I'm not sure which version he was added to, or when exactly you can first face him, so my folder may come from stuff that's gotten a bit later than when you can fight him (I have V3 navi chips for crying out loud).

So this is TankMan, Rika's navi. You know, that one friend of Alice's that you probably didn't recognize? A little history on these two for those that don't know, Rika's an engineer from the second Touhou game on the PC-98, Story of Eastern Wonderland (one of the two SHMUP Touhou's I've beaten as of this writing, but I'm working on doing more). Her navi is TankMan, and original character as she used a couple tanks in that game, and even has the tank she used in her boss battle in her room as her PC. I really like how the developer of this game isn't forgetting about the PC-98 games, as they have a certain charm that the Windows games don't.

TankMan's a pretty fun fight. He has three attacks. He can fire a number of missiles in the air that have a delay before they come down, much like MetalMan, he can fire straight ahead a couple times, and he has an attack where he goes through your initial 9 panels and attacks each one in sequence, which I'm sure someone from the Battle Network games does, but I can't recall who. Overall, he's a very fun, straightforward fight that really gets going when he starts raining missiles down.

Thank god he doesn't crack panels.