Uploaded August 2010 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"Surprise strike. Tease, tease, tease"
So, what is this ominous light that engulfs us all? Is the Unknown Playthrough. And I literally mean ominous light. Look at that cheeky bastard, being all bastardy and stuff. Although, this being Touhou and all, bastard is colloquially incorrect. But those are other twenty bucks.
So, I've been announcing this for... like four months already. That and the RKS run, which I really want to do. Sowie Tia. Sowie Freud. Sowie Schwer. Sowie all the other girls I don't like enough to mention personally. I promise you I will make you more than justice. I will make justice... with ice cream... and sprinkles on it. Except for Trauare. She can die in whatever personalized Hell she has reserved. Although that Freudenstachel outfit looks nifty. I don't really mind her attitude and persona (except the aggressive "I'm the best" attitude.) Is her boss fight. Her hard and horrible water boss fight. Water levels: making men weep since 1985 (b'.')b
But this is a Touhou vid, not Rosenkreuzstilette's (HA, I didn't copy/paste that! And no I'm sad I can spell that...). Although I do wish RKS would gain the same fame as Touhou. But as things are going, it will gain fame not for the same reason as Touhou, but for being a doujin Megaman clone with Duke Nukem Forever aspirations.
Back to Touhou. I recall when I said this run would be very hard to do. Well... it wasn't. It wasn't easy, but things didn't go as awry as I anticipated. I sometimes think creating the videos is harder, since the cast doesn't have same amount of arranges and artwork as the rest of the series. One reason to stay at least half a mile away from PC98 ^_^
However, I loved making the videos. Or to be more precise, the text on the images. I could practice some new technique as well as train my ability to create my own effects. I hope you like them. Trust me, I know there's at least one you guys will find, at the least, "good". =)
Well, the teaser is pretty straightforward. We have 8 videos: 6 for the Lunatic Playthrough and 2 for the Pacifist run. Yeah, even with the 15 mins limit, I cannot fit a pacifist in less than 16. I'll post them one by one over the period of whatever is left of August and September. Other than that, enjoy.
Music:
Title: 天空昂進曲 ~ The march over sky
Circle: dBu
Album: 星弾奏結界 天空航進曲 March over sky
Original Track: Heian Alien (平安のエイリアン)
Artwork:
あさぎ: Nazrin: pixiv.net/member.php?id=138802
mille: Kogasa (Gallery is NSFW)
Aとし: Ichirin and Unzan (Gallery NSFW)
偽音姫XSK: Murasa: pixiv.net/member.php?id=1483756
michi(×): Shou (Gallery NSFW)
みふる:Byakuren: pixiv.net/member.php?id=488766
シロガネウサギ:First Nue: pixiv.net/member.php?id=193757
燗汰朗: Second Nue(Left) (Gallery NSFW)
Hagiwara Rin: Third Nue (Right)
For more info on the Touhou Project, check the wiki:
touhou.wikia.com
"Surprise strike. Tease, tease, tease"
So, what is this ominous light that engulfs us all? Is the Unknown Playthrough. And I literally mean ominous light. Look at that cheeky bastard, being all bastardy and stuff. Although, this being Touhou and all, bastard is colloquially incorrect. But those are other twenty bucks.
So, I've been announcing this for... like four months already. That and the RKS run, which I really want to do. Sowie Tia. Sowie Freud. Sowie Schwer. Sowie all the other girls I don't like enough to mention personally. I promise you I will make you more than justice. I will make justice... with ice cream... and sprinkles on it. Except for Trauare. She can die in whatever personalized Hell she has reserved. Although that Freudenstachel outfit looks nifty. I don't really mind her attitude and persona (except the aggressive "I'm the best" attitude.) Is her boss fight. Her hard and horrible water boss fight. Water levels: making men weep since 1985 (b'.')b
But this is a Touhou vid, not Rosenkreuzstilette's (HA, I didn't copy/paste that! And no I'm sad I can spell that...). Although I do wish RKS would gain the same fame as Touhou. But as things are going, it will gain fame not for the same reason as Touhou, but for being a doujin Megaman clone with Duke Nukem Forever aspirations.
Back to Touhou. I recall when I said this run would be very hard to do. Well... it wasn't. It wasn't easy, but things didn't go as awry as I anticipated. I sometimes think creating the videos is harder, since the cast doesn't have same amount of arranges and artwork as the rest of the series. One reason to stay at least half a mile away from PC98 ^_^
However, I loved making the videos. Or to be more precise, the text on the images. I could practice some new technique as well as train my ability to create my own effects. I hope you like them. Trust me, I know there's at least one you guys will find, at the least, "good". =)
Well, the teaser is pretty straightforward. We have 8 videos: 6 for the Lunatic Playthrough and 2 for the Pacifist run. Yeah, even with the 15 mins limit, I cannot fit a pacifist in less than 16. I'll post them one by one over the period of whatever is left of August and September. Other than that, enjoy.
Music:
Title: 天空昂進曲 ~ The march over sky
Circle: dBu
Album: 星弾奏結界 天空航進曲 March over sky
Original Track: Heian Alien (平安のエイリアン)
Artwork:
あさぎ: Nazrin: pixiv.net/member.php?id=138802
mille: Kogasa (Gallery is NSFW)
Aとし: Ichirin and Unzan (Gallery NSFW)
偽音姫XSK: Murasa: pixiv.net/member.php?id=1483756
michi(×): Shou (Gallery NSFW)
みふる:Byakuren: pixiv.net/member.php?id=488766
シロガネウサギ:First Nue: pixiv.net/member.php?id=193757
燗汰朗: Second Nue(Left) (Gallery NSFW)
Hagiwara Rin: Third Nue (Right)
For more info on the Touhou Project, check the wiki:
touhou.wikia.com

![Me vs Utsuho Reiuji (SA Final Boss-Normal)
Ha! Even a fool that possesses great power cant cause too much harm, even if its the power of dreams.
A video of me fighting and defeating, live!, the hellish yatagarasu, Utsuho Reiuji
High Quality (Highly recommended):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx3Kp7uRiBI&fmt=18
Utsuho Reiuji (nicknamed Okuu by her fans and Zun alike ^_^) is the Final boss of the game Subterranean Animism, the 11th installment of the Touhou Project. The Touhou Project is a series of danmaku shooters that is not like other bullet hells given the focus on characters. For more info, check the wiki at the bottom of the description.
What can I say about Utsuho? Shes awesome. Like other SA characters, I originally disliked her, but grew on me the more I played SA and read doujins. Still not a fan of her fight, though I do recognize the epicness behind it. NOTE: Even though her official nickname is Okuu, I like to call her real name simply because Utsuho sounds more formidable and majestic than Okuu.
Utsuho is normally depicted as an idiot in fanwork due to a quote from ZUN which I based the first line in this description. Parallel to Cirno who is called ⑨, Utsuho is called ⑥. As an Utsuho fan, I recognize the existence of this belief but decide to completely ignore it (the same goes with Cirno). As a matter of fact, my favorite interpretation of Utsuho in a doujin so far is in Listening to Each Others Hearts Voice by Hero Bear, [SKIP TO THE END OF THIS PARAGRAPH IF YOU DONT WANT SPOILER XD] a short doujin where Utsuho along with Orin are seeking to make Koishi happy by making a bird she found sing. How do they make this happen? They trick her (couldnt trick Satori though, but shes frikkin Satori, so is okay). Goes to show how intelligent she can be.
Same goes for Cirno. Back to Okuu. She has one of my favorite character designs in the series (Her cape thingy reminds me of Count Bleck O.o). I guess I dont really dig the lolita style, probably why her, Aya, and Reisen are some of my fav characters.
As for the battle itself, a note: This is not my best playthrough but there is nothing I can do about it. This was record at the instant while I was playing. Why? SA has a glitch in its replays where whenever you play a replay against Utsuho, your character will freak out and kill herself. Goes to show how scary she is. Normally this is bypassed easily by starting the replay on Orins stage, but after tweaking with the configuration of SA, this stopped working for me, so I had to play a practice. This is the reason why I had some many lives and full power. No worry though, I normally have two lives for Utsuho, gain one life during the fight and get there with full power, so I barely beat her with no extra lives left.
The fact that her power is manipulation of nuclear fusion and that she, along with Orin, are servant to Satori speak a lot of their power. I find her the second hardest final boss in the series (Yuyuko wins). No worry, Remilia (my fav. char. In the series) comes in a close third place. Like I mentioned in Flandres vid, bosses tend to show their non-danmaku ability in their bullet hells. Utsuho is not the exception (Flandre is). ALL of her attacks revolve around the idea of the sun, the ultimate source of nuclear fusion. All of her spells are gargantuan in their size. Is fun I guess, just too hard for my personal taste.
More info about the Touhou series can be found in this wiki page:
http://touhou.wikia.com Me vs Utsuho Reiuji (SA Final Boss-Normal)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vx3Kp7uRiBI/mqdefault.jpg)



![TD Demo: Touhou Ten Desires (Hard Mode)
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A video of me blasting and slashing, and slashing and blasting my way through the Ten Desires demo as our half-ghost gardener, Youmu Konpaku.
Ten Desires [東方神霊廟~ Ten Desires (romanized: Touhou Shinreibyou, lit. Eastern Divine Spirit Temple)], is the thirteen game of the Touhou Project series. The Touhou Project is a series of games where the artwork is much like life, which at the same time is much like a rollercoaster: it has its up and down, is short and sweet, but ultimately let you feeling you could had employed those two hours making the line in something more productive, leaving you hollow and empty. Oh, and flying lolis fight to save the land.
Before the rant, I want to say Hey there, long time no see. As you can hear (or will hear if youre anything like me), this time around I added the regular vocal Lets Play. This will NOT be a normal feature for many reasons:
A) English is not my main language.
B) Playing and talking at the same time is distracting.
C) I cannot give the same depth I give to annotations, which I ended using anyways.
D) English is not my main language.
I added my, oh so cacophonic, voice to the video due to the nature of it. Since it is merely a demo of the game, which hasnt been released, I considered this a nice chance to try it out. Since Fraps hates my guts, I have to run Audacity on the background in order to record. This causes my PC to go on a psychotic breakdown. So yeah... FML.
Anyways, lets talk about the game. Ten Desires take a page from Fairy Wars and keeps part of the interface used in that game. Mainly the whole Circle of Life thing. It combines this with aspect from previous game. Now, call me old fashioned, but I found the original system -128 Power, Individual bombs, Life bar on the top left corner- to be the best. I dont particularly mind the 4.00 system (except when it was linked to the bombs), but the Circle of Life kind of bugs me. Personally, it destroy a little of the immersion for me.
This game has a heavy focus on spirits. After all, the incident this time around is Weird spirit coming out of bodies. Shoot things until you find the culprit. This time around the gimmick is the divine spirit and trance system. Keep in mind I didnt knew this term while blindly playing through the demo because I dont read Japanese. And even if I did. =/
Basically, instead of colored UFOs, we have colored spirits we must collect. 10 pieces of either red or green gives you a life or bomb. Blue ones give you points while white ones raise your spiritual realm bar faster. The spiritual realm is, more or less, a substitute to the deathbomb mechanic. As in, you cannot deathbomb in this game if you have at least one spiritual realm. That sucks.
Getting hit while having at least one Spiritual bar full will activate Trance Mode, where your character will go berserk until the timer runs out. Apparently you can activate Trance Mode if you have full bars or something. All in all, the game mechanics were fun to play with. I particularly loved Youmus slash mechanic. Even though it forces you to play unfocused on long range, it injects freshness to the game. Too bad the other three heroines are a little more of the same.
Overall, the game looks promising. Maybe a little too standard. I dont really like that Im seeing a lot of characters from previous games. The music wasnt anything spectacular, but Im sure thats because I was talking while playing. And I had to let SA music grow on me for me to start liking it. The game is pretty rough and I hope ZUN will polish it more. Too bad this wont happen for the art, which I find a step backward from UFO. Also, is a little on the easy side.
Well, space here is running out. Im looking forward to this game. A lot. Other videos will still have to wait. My teachers are being merciless. I took a Physics test yesterday and I have another one the Monday after Holy Week. And I still have to more tests plus the final exam before the end of the semester on June. And that is only one class. Fun times. Ill try to do as best as I can, but right now Im also hooked with a MMO, Rift... so yeah.
For more info the Touhou Project, visit the wiki:
http://www.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Wiki TD Demo: Touhou Ten Desires (Hard Mode)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x6XrgmL02lE/mqdefault.jpg)


![Me vs Fujiwara no Mokou (IN Extra Boss)
My time is unlimited. Thats why I must treasure this limited time.
(One of my favorite fanmade phrases Mokou says)
High Quality (Highly recommended)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl17uhqSuqc&fmt=18
A video of me fighting and slightly less barely defeating the immortal phoenix girl, Fujiwara no Mokou
Fujiwara no Mokou (even her name depicts greatness) is the ex-boss of the game Imperishable Night, the 8th installment of the Touhou Project. The Touhou Project is a series of danmaku shooters. Danmaku is a term than can be loosely translated (and quite aptly in my opinion) into curtain of fire or bullet hell, thus denoting game were high density in bullet is more important that a lot of enemies. The series was created and is managed by the one man team Team Shanghai Alice, composed only of ZUN.
A little Touhou/Japanese folktale history lesson: Mokou is the disliked daughter of an aristocrat. Said aristocrats was humiliated by Kaguya Horaisan, a commoner, when he asked for her hand in matrimony and she responded by giving him an impossible request. Kaguya, being actually a Lunarian princess, went back to the moon and left behind with the emperor the Japanese version of the fountain of youth, the Hourai Elixir. This elixir was scheduled to be destroyed by the emperors order, but was stolen last minute by Mokou, who had made her objective in life to avenge her father and kill Kaguya. This is how Mokou achieved her immortality and created a bitter rivalry with Kaguya, who happens to also be immortal due to the elixir, therefore creating a vicious cycle. [Kaguyas story is HEAVILY based on a Japanese folktale called The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Wiki for it]
Back to Mokou. Some fans argue whether she is really possessed by a phoenix or not. Personally, I believe she is possessed. This would explain how she gained the ability to manipulate fire. You can clearly see in her spellcards this manipulation, as well as her immortality after each spell since you technically kill her each time...
Another thing about Mokous fight is that her non-spellcards are, IMO, more difficult than most of her spellcards. They move at such an insane speed is absurd. I had captured both Honest Mans Death and Fujiyama Volcano before, but I had never survived without bombs her last non-spellcard. I believe shes unique in that department. Still, out of the three ex-bosses I had battled, I enjoyed this battle the most. It keeps you in your feet with fast paced action. She wasnt as difficult as I expected... but not by much.
More info about the Touhou series can be found in this wiki page:
http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Touhou_Wiki Me vs Fujiwara no Mokou (IN Extra Boss)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xl17uhqSuqc/mqdefault.jpg)

