Reimu, one of the secret bosses in this game, is legit one of my favorite bosses in any metroidvania I've played. You should give her a try if you've got the time! She's also, like, way harder than the last boss, so hold on to your butt.
This game lets you do the anime thing where you teleport behind someone and have like a thousand daggers thrown at you But fr tho letting you completely stop time, including the bosses as a main mechanic, makes this metrodvania somewhat a unique experience Since its a fan game, there're definitely some rough parts of the game but the bosses, the enemies and all the sprite animations are so well done~
If it makes you feel any better Luna Nights was my first Touhou experience and I also had no idea what was going on or who anyone was; now I can name most of the 100+ characters. Some notes/advice on the game: • As many other people have mentioned you missed the extra stage, a whole new level unlocked after the final boss with 2 new boss fights. There is also a boss rush mode, unfortunately the earlier bosses don't have increased stats, so they die in a few seconds. • 1000 Knives is a pretty terrible ability to use while time is frozen, because you can only throw a limited number of knives while time is frozen, so that ability loses most of its damage. This mechanic is actually a small nod to the lore, where Sakuya (the player character) doesn't have infinite knives, so she has to use her time powers to go around gathering her knives once a fight is over. You can do the same in game, if you miss a shot you can run over and pick up your knives for a mp refund (or generate mp by jumping once you have the double jump ability). • The floating sword skill allows for passive damage but devours mp, and has a bad mana to damage ratio. • Grazing enemies/projectiles (getting close to them without touching) can restore hp, if time is frozen the graze range is increased and it restores mp instead. • The enemies are most either a reference to castlevania enemies, japanese mythology, or from Touhou itself. My favourite is that the "lizardmen" enemies are a reference to Tupai; Remilia's (boss 4) pet Chupacabra. • You can farm enemies to collect gems for stat boosts, you need a lot for any noticeable effects.
spamming 1000 daggers both outside and inside time stop is the easiest way to s rank boss rush lol. you lose nothing using 1000 daggers in time stop because it uses time, not mp, so after your time ends you can still use it in normal time
The holy light sword is one of the main reasons I was able to beat the final bosses, what I would do is during moves like the land mine, drone, and saw attacks I would stop time and let the sword deal with said mines, drones, and saws, as they count as enemies so the sword will attack them, while I threw knives at the actual boss
4:41 Those are the most pogged out skeletons I've ever seen. 6:07 That is strait up a chupacabra, and is canonically a pet of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
@@internetlurker1850 Exactly. Which makes gamers like TheAnimeMan say its harder than Geometry Dash. Tbh the Cave shmups are much more difficult. But still...if it's that easy, post a 1CC of Touhou 11. We're waiting!
I’d say “the devs know about it” is pretty obvious for a mechanic they made, but there are some games where proper use of basic mechanics makes the whole thing trivially easy.
Welcome to Touhou… and enjoy your stay. It’s extremely easy to fall down the rabbit hole. Take me for an example: the music was enough to make me fall down the hole deep enough to never get out.
@@cartooncritique6625 honestly, that might be just a translation thing because she fits almost *all* of the criteria for being a witch. She’s got the hat, she uses mushrooms in some of her spells, she lives in a forest that’s known in Gensokyo as “the Forest of Magic,” and she rides a broom (which she doesn’t actually need to fly). So it really might just be a translation thing where the Japanese word probably translates to either magician or witch depending on context perhaps. Take that with a grain of salt because I idk Japanese nor did I search up the translations.
@@theemeraldenderman3007 You can't really mistranslate magician and witch unless it's a rewrite called "localization". But in tohou, iirc, people with magic abilities is called a magician, hence she's called a magician, despite the witch theme.
Do it like him and record your gameplay. Studying boss patterns with your own recorded footage instead of just tackling them over and over is a lot more efficient and less fraustrating because it gives you time to cooldown.
What I learned from this game is that slowing down time is actually better than stopping it. Grazing while time is slowed refills your Time and heals you, so it's pretty op for bosses. I only stopped time to get out of the way of some really nasty attacks.
Some attacks are more cooldowns or resets where you get to heal back a portion or even your whole hp bar. One of Remilia’s attacks is the one that always comes to mind.
@@HyperVaniloHalf her character is a jojo reference. She can stop time and she attacks by throwing time, like DIO. Also, whe works for a vampire, and DIO was a vampire.
This is one of my absolute favorite metroidvanias. Like second to only Bloodstained ROTN. The time mechanics are incredible, it looks so damn good, and the music absolutely jams. My only problem with it was that it ended and I want more.
Ah. Touhou Luna Nights. If you know Touhou, it's a fun story. But even if you never heard about Touhou, the gameplay itself and music will capture your heart and senses.
holy shit joe zombie, haven't thought about it in years. First few episodes were kinda normal right? Guy becomes zombie, starts eating people. But then it gets like, holy shit big anime fights and deep lore and the animator just went nuts with it
Reminds me of the secret to dodging in Touhou games. It becomes easier to dodge if you don’t panic and keep your movements tight and not erratic. Generally staying in a set area and barely moving is the best way you can dodge, and watching the video I realized that they emulated that mechanic well
@@zzzmeta4555 Yeah. That's the case for most of them. Plus, you get health back for taking those tighter dodges. It really rewards risk, but only if you don't use the time stop.
My brother, final boss, My Toxic Avenger - My Only Chance, Maus knows how to lean in and get serious time with the proper music theme. Props and great video as always.
Heads up dude! There's two other bosses in the game you didn't beat, which actually brings the game to a proper close. So glad you played this game though!
Welcome to the Touhou project A game series mainly run by it's really dedicated, talented and weird fanbase Originally started as bullethell games, but now include basically every single possible genre you can think of And now that you're in, theres no way out and trying to understand the world is futile, beacuse it's just too convoluted and/or deep So just enjoy the professionalism and waifus, beacuse theres a lot of them
@@Builderguy2001 Touhou 1 and 2 both released the same day, so it wasn't really a shift in genre as much as it was a decision to go with SoEW's gameplay over HRtP's gameplay.
@@spiceforspice3461 I was actually unaware of this fact. Thank you for informing me. A good deal of development time would have been required for both games, so why were they both released the same day? You would think the earlier game (HRtP) would be released after its completion and the later game (SoEW) in a similar fashion. Maybe it's possible they were developed as personal projects, which only were properly released once he felt confident enough in his work? (I'm not sure where or how ZUN released them) Either way, I'm sure that the development of the two fundamentally shaped the direction and style of Touhou.
As a huge fan of the character at 4:43, I had a stroke when you called her a "maid on a broom", especially since when I showed my sister the game a while ago she said the same thing
I love when indeimaus pick a song on what is relevant on what he's doing "my only chance-by the toxic avenger" while he was fighting the final boss 15:22
Thank you. I never managed to look the song up after watching a vid and never posted a comment askin for the song. Now sittin here at work i was determined to get it, sadly i cant have his version of blinding lights on Spotify.
You MIGHT want to use the shop more after seeing this. But also, collecting gems passively powers up your stats, if you didn't notice, so keeping a lot on hand is helpful.
So, very basic Touhou background: There's a pocket dimension called Gensokyo that all Youkai have moved to, the tech level is basically feudal japan, but there's some out of place stuff like Tengu running Newspapers and Kappa making Mecha. Anyway, some of the Youkai are ridiculously powerful and have decided to conduct all battles with barrages of non-lethal attacks. Remilia is one of the major players in Gensokyo, Sakuya is her Maid, Sakuya gets trapped in the Matrix at the start of this game for...some reason. It was real fun to play through.
The only experience I have with Touhou is Mistia's Izakaya so I'm also pretty lost on the lore. It's one of those rare worlds that you'll learn something about no matter how hard you try to avoid it. Edit : So... you throw knives at a target while time is stopped. Hmm. I see no references can be made here. Nope. None at all.
Pretty much the only spoilers for Touhou are the new characters whenever a game comes out. That’s how little the story impacts one’s ability to enjoy the series.
Hm... yes, there are parts of the timeline you can only guess if you already know everybody. For example, a major hint as to what's actually been going on throughout is at the very beginning of the game: it's raining. If you didn't realize from the start how this is almost totally at odds with what you've just been told and how important the rain must be, you wouldn't catch Patchouli's admission she's responsible for the rain and that things were going seriously off-script even before your arrival: you may not be the "main character" of this story. I think the good part of this is that a decent and clear story is provided for you to follow while leaving most of what's actually going on off-camera in the form of supposition (rather than massive exposition dumps), but it does mean that you also won't realize there's no way the story could really end the way it initially appears to. This does have the plus of leaving most of the hardest parts of the game to Touhou players who will not only be looking for them but are the most likely to enjoy them the most. One really fun note about the gameplay: when Remilia implied she designed the "intended" game here around the idea that Sakuya wouldn't be able to use the "time stop" power, it's true. She really did expect Sakuya to make it all the way to her without access to that specific ability... and it is possible. Incredibly difficult, and not at all obvious at times, but it is within Sakuya's skillset.
great video as always, but MAN every time I hear the song at 15:15 it reminds me how amazing furi's soundtrack is and makes me want to go play it again. such a good game.
Payphones are equivalent to floppy disks; in a few years, kids will not know what either of those were, other than thinking of them as "just save points, innit?"
I was hoping he'd fight reimu, but it's fine, looks like he figured out you're invulnerable while using 1000 knives anyway, so that makes the fights significantly easier.
the "problem" with Indeimaus videos is that you like to play the same type of games as I do, so I often cant watch them at release. Doubly so during metroidvania month. But for once I played and finished a game you played later! Oh and don't worry fam, I got you. Even if I don't watch the videos I do play them muted on release to give that early view!
Awesome video, this looks like a seriously hardcore game! I love your edits though, these videos are so entertaining to watch. Putting this game on my masochist wishlist, thanks :)
So who's gonna tell him he didn't fought the two secret bosses
Also he was missing like most of the max HP/MP/Time power ups, but arguably that makes getting as far as he did slightly more impressive.
I still haven't beaten Reimu lol
no.
Probly a weeb
THERE'S FUCKING TWO????
Reimu, one of the secret bosses in this game, is legit one of my favorite bosses in any metroidvania I've played. You should give her a try if you've got the time! She's also, like, way harder than the last boss, so hold on to your butt.
Hold onto the what?
@@ED-gw9rgI love imagining what they said before it was edited
You should try ender lillies then
@DerpyTC My reply was just a Lego Movie reference lol
@@DerpyTC I edited it within seconds of posting, just to fix some typos. Sorry to disappoint.
Ah Luna Nights, a gateway to the suffering of actual Touhou
Can (kinda) confirm, Dio Maid got me to at least look into Touhou.
@@jedimike7622 What got me into touhou was the music lol, haven't actually beat any of the games once I've only tried the 6th game I think..
I got that this was from Touhou when In heard the "U.N. Owen Was Her?" at 14:43. An "actual banger" as some old weeb would say.
@@plainlake Oh you sweet summer child. You haven't even begun to hear all that Touhou has in store.
@@Boomblox5896 I dunno; I'm quite familiar with Touhou but "bad apple" and "U.N.OWEN was her" keep being top favs of mine as well...
Indie not fighting the true ending boss is such a shame, so much of his suffering was avoided.
in any game that stars a side character, most time the true final boss is the main protagonist of the main series.
to be honest, i finished Reimu on my second try, late at night, so i don't see her as a difficult challenge at all
and dont forget the pain
I do like how the running animation is based off of Alucard's. Really shows you where the inspiration came from.
Legit half the level designs are ripped straight from SoTN.
@@griffinjones6378 Dang, it would be cool to see a sequel use more original ideas.
Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-
as well. same devs :)
Look up Scarlet Symphony. Another castlevania tohou.
@@ghosthuntermike2592 You're talking about Touhou. The entire IP is unoriginal ideas. (That's not to say it isn't good.)
This game lets you do the anime thing where you teleport behind someone and have like a thousand daggers thrown at you
But fr tho letting you completely stop time, including the bosses as a main mechanic, makes this metrodvania somewhat a unique experience
Since its a fan game, there're definitely some rough parts of the game but the bosses, the enemies and all the sprite animations are so well done~
I mean the Jojo part 3 manga might have introduced the stereotype, but Touhou 6 made it popular
You literally play as dio za wardo
If it makes you feel any better Luna Nights was my first Touhou experience and I also had no idea what was going on or who anyone was; now I can name most of the 100+ characters.
Some notes/advice on the game:
• As many other people have mentioned you missed the extra stage, a whole new level unlocked after the final boss with 2 new boss fights. There is also a boss rush mode, unfortunately the earlier bosses don't have increased stats, so they die in a few seconds.
• 1000 Knives is a pretty terrible ability to use while time is frozen, because you can only throw a limited number of knives while time is frozen, so that ability loses most of its damage. This mechanic is actually a small nod to the lore, where Sakuya (the player character) doesn't have infinite knives, so she has to use her time powers to go around gathering her knives once a fight is over. You can do the same in game, if you miss a shot you can run over and pick up your knives for a mp refund (or generate mp by jumping once you have the double jump ability).
• The floating sword skill allows for passive damage but devours mp, and has a bad mana to damage ratio.
• Grazing enemies/projectiles (getting close to them without touching) can restore hp, if time is frozen the graze range is increased and it restores mp instead.
• The enemies are most either a reference to castlevania enemies, japanese mythology, or from Touhou itself. My favourite is that the "lizardmen" enemies are a reference to Tupai; Remilia's (boss 4) pet Chupacabra.
• You can farm enemies to collect gems for stat boosts, you need a lot for any noticeable effects.
I mean, you can cycle 1000 dagger spam set them up in time stop, let it go, rinse repeat.
spamming 1000 daggers both outside and inside time stop is the easiest way to s rank boss rush lol. you lose nothing using 1000 daggers in time stop because it uses time, not mp, so after your time ends you can still use it in normal time
If you use 1000 daggers while time is not stopped, it also allows you to graze through attacks. It's pretty op
The holy light sword is one of the main reasons I was able to beat the final bosses, what I would do is during moves like the land mine, drone, and saw attacks I would stop time and let the sword deal with said mines, drones, and saws, as they count as enemies so the sword will attack them, while I threw knives at the actual boss
I CAN´T SCAPE FROM TOUHOU FOR GODS SAKE
Better accept your fate friend.
Need to learn to dodge those bullets.
remember to graze the bullets for extra points.
Touhou is no escaping from! We'll chase you until you succumb.
Once you're here, you're here forever. The Great Hakurei Barrier is designed to keep us humans inside...
4:41 Those are the most pogged out skeletons I've ever seen.
6:07 That is strait up a chupacabra, and is canonically a pet of the Scarlet Devil Mansion.
Pogged out skeletons lmao
Saying Touhou is brutal is like saying magma is a bit too hot, as Simon Whistler put it.
EDIT: No...what the games actually are....are LUNATIC.
And yet they are STILL one of the easier japanese bullet hells
Touhou Luna-Tic.
@@internetlurker1850 Exactly.
Which makes gamers like TheAnimeMan say its harder than Geometry Dash.
Tbh the Cave shmups are much more difficult.
But still...if it's that easy, post a 1CC of Touhou 11. We're waiting!
@@v.emiltheii-nd.8094 Unfortunately my skill is comparable to a fairy's
@@internetlurker1850Same here except replace fairy with Stage 1 midboss.
I’d say “the devs know about it” is pretty obvious for a mechanic they made, but there are some games where proper use of basic mechanics makes the whole thing trivially easy.
I've had Touhou Luna Nights in my Steam library and on my to-do list for ages now. I really should play it already.
this proves that anyone will eventually be exposed to touhou at any point of their lives
Welcome to Touhou… and enjoy your stay. It’s extremely easy to fall down the rabbit hole. Take me for an example: the music was enough to make me fall down the hole deep enough to never get out.
5:13 That one is not a maid on a broom. She’s a magician…on a broom……with thieving tendencies……
No, just "borrow"
A magician? And here I thought she was just a witch. 😄
@@cartooncritique6625 honestly, that might be just a translation thing because she fits almost *all* of the criteria for being a witch. She’s got the hat, she uses mushrooms in some of her spells, she lives in a forest that’s known in Gensokyo as “the Forest of Magic,” and she rides a broom (which she doesn’t actually need to fly). So it really might just be a translation thing where the Japanese word probably translates to either magician or witch depending on context perhaps. Take that with a grain of salt because I idk Japanese nor did I search up the translations.
@@cartooncritique6625she is but uses the title magician
@@theemeraldenderman3007 You can't really mistranslate magician and witch unless it's a rewrite called "localization". But in tohou, iirc, people with magic abilities is called a magician, hence she's called a magician, despite the witch theme.
I don't know much about Touhou, but I do know those games are bullet hells, so in that regard it appears to have lived up to its name.
There's non bullet hell games that are canon in the series such as Hopeless masquerade and urban legend in Limbo. Not all the games are bullet hells.
@@NicoNicoNessieSub The main ones are.
There are a lot of things I don't expect on this channel. I REALLY did not expect to see Touho here.
Encountering touhou is inevitable. You cannot escape
why not ? its an indie metroidvania after all!
You're a stronger man than me.
When I reached the final boss, I said to myself; Well, I think i did pretty good to get this far.
That isn't the final boss there are 2 more after her.
why did you quit there?
Normal final boss
Not the secret real final boss
Do it like him and record your gameplay. Studying boss patterns with your own recorded footage instead of just tackling them over and over is a lot more efficient and less fraustrating because it gives you time to cooldown.
What I learned from this game is that slowing down time is actually better than stopping it.
Grazing while time is slowed refills your Time and heals you, so it's pretty op for bosses.
I only stopped time to get out of the way of some really nasty attacks.
Some attacks are more cooldowns or resets where you get to heal back a portion or even your whole hp bar. One of Remilia’s attacks is the one that always comes to mind.
you still have to fight the two extra zone bosses, they give you the best skill in the game "run"
Him calling Marisa "Maid on a broom" caused me indescribable amounts of pain.
She does dress like a maid, it's the witch hat and the broom gives her witch impression
Same
She's not a maid, she's just an ordinary magician!
to be fair she looks like one without the hat
true@@stephaniejohnson5361
Yeah the main character didn't crawl as a baby, she just sat there until one day she stood up and walked 😂
That sounds like Sakuya. The very image of perfection.
Sakuya is the best Jojo reference.
She really is. DIO but maid, so *almost* better.
its better@@jedimike7622
In reality only one spell card is a Jojo reference
@@HyperVaniloHalf her character is a jojo reference. She can stop time and she attacks by throwing time, like DIO. Also, whe works for a vampire, and DIO was a vampire.
@@madengineerkyouma
She is working for a vampire is not a Jojo reference, she is not just stopping time she manipulates time and space
A maid's life is always difficult if you got... quirky Mistresses. 😂 Thanks for playing this game! Always so fun seeing it being played.
Oh shit this game's one of my favorites
Stay awesome Maus
(There's an secret area and boss btw)
if you like this one you may like RabiRibi on steam
This is one of my absolute favorite metroidvanias. Like second to only Bloodstained ROTN. The time mechanics are incredible, it looks so damn good, and the music absolutely jams. My only problem with it was that it ended and I want more.
Ah. Touhou Luna Nights. If you know Touhou, it's a fun story. But even if you never heard about Touhou, the gameplay itself and music will capture your heart and senses.
holy shit joe zombie, haven't thought about it in years. First few episodes were kinda normal right? Guy becomes zombie, starts eating people. But then it gets like, holy shit big anime fights and deep lore and the animator just went nuts with it
The outro song doesn't just slap, it beats me within an inch of my life. Gah what a banger.
12:00 Everyone loves the puple key.
You finally covered 2hu here!
That Remilia lazer is pretty brutal. You can stand centered on Remilia and jump and float down to avoid it.
Reminds me of the secret to dodging in Touhou games. It becomes easier to dodge if you don’t panic and keep your movements tight and not erratic. Generally staying in a set area and barely moving is the best way you can dodge, and watching the video I realized that they emulated that mechanic well
@@zzzmeta4555 Yeah. That's the case for most of them. Plus, you get health back for taking those tighter dodges. It really rewards risk, but only if you don't use the time stop.
This game was my gateway into the larger Touhou series, so it's very close to my heart. It was fun watching you enjoy it too!
Maus is such a good guy, not abusing his time powers nearly as much as he could have. How inspirational
There really aren't enough games with chainsaws
After buying at least 5 different touhou fumos seeing indei upload a playthrough of luna nights is a gift from the divine lol
My brother, final boss, My Toxic Avenger - My Only Chance, Maus knows how to lean in and get serious time with the proper music theme. Props and great video as always.
>anime
>is Touhou
>Maus is playing a Touhou game
>Is playing the Touhou metroidvania spinoff with Sayaka
weird day
also, yeah makes sense to be confused. This is a spinoff to a franchise with like 20 something mainline games.
Bro didn't even realize there's another area and two more bosses after Flandre.
I love this game, the timestop and graze mechanics are so cool.
Heads up dude! There's two other bosses in the game you didn't beat, which actually brings the game to a proper close.
So glad you played this game though!
Welcome to the Touhou project
A game series mainly run by it's really dedicated, talented and weird fanbase
Originally started as bullethell games, but now include basically every single possible genre you can think of
And now that you're in, theres no way out and trying to understand the world is futile, beacuse it's just too convoluted and/or deep
So just enjoy the professionalism and waifus, beacuse theres a lot of them
* Originally started as an ATARI BREAKOUT GAME, transitioned to a shmup (shoot-em-up, and a bullet hell game), and then had a few fighting games.
@@Builderguy2001 did not know that. Thank you for this information
@@Builderguy2001 Touhou 1 and 2 both released the same day, so it wasn't really a shift in genre as much as it was a decision to go with SoEW's gameplay over HRtP's gameplay.
@@spiceforspice3461 I was actually unaware of this fact. Thank you for informing me. A good deal of development time would have been required for both games, so why were they both released the same day?
You would think the earlier game (HRtP) would be released after its completion and the later game (SoEW) in a similar fashion. Maybe it's possible they were developed as personal projects, which only were properly released once he felt confident enough in his work? (I'm not sure where or how ZUN released them) Either way, I'm sure that the development of the two fundamentally shaped the direction and style of Touhou.
As a huge fan of the character at 4:43, I had a stroke when you called her a "maid on a broom", especially since when I showed my sister the game a while ago she said the same thing
He is half wrong actually. In Touhou 6 Sakuya knows Marisa is a magician but she also thinks if Marisa was also hired to be a maid
This Touhou metroidvania looks sick, might have to pick it up
Your editing is so unique, rarely see such on youtube
I love when indeimaus pick a song on what is relevant on what he's doing "my only chance-by the toxic avenger" while he was fighting the final boss 15:22
Thank you. I never managed to look the song up after watching a vid and never posted a comment askin for the song. Now sittin here at work i was determined to get it, sadly i cant have his version of blinding lights on Spotify.
You’re a true hero for this. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this!
Luna Nights is unironically one of my favorite metroidvania's ever, the time stop/time slow mechanic and graze mechanics are so fun it's surreal
0:31 eh dw about it for this one Indeimaus, it's Touhou. Almost nobody fully gets the story for this series.
I’m surprised youve never heard of Touhoe before
"The "nightmare twist" luckily only happened on the first boss and since then when I defeat one I immediately go to my previous checkpoint by paranoia
Man really hit me with the JOE ZOMBIE reference... gahd DAYUM. Right in my angsty early teens.
You MIGHT want to use the shop more after seeing this.
But also, collecting gems passively powers up your stats, if you didn't notice, so keeping a lot on hand is helpful.
My mood when Touhou is mentioned even last remotely: 😊
I bought the fear of blood shirt and I absolutely love it, nothing like repping one of my favorite horror characters and indeimaus merch
So, very basic Touhou background: There's a pocket dimension called Gensokyo that all Youkai have moved to, the tech level is basically feudal japan, but there's some out of place stuff like Tengu running Newspapers and Kappa making Mecha. Anyway, some of the Youkai are ridiculously powerful and have decided to conduct all battles with barrages of non-lethal attacks. Remilia is one of the major players in Gensokyo, Sakuya is her Maid, Sakuya gets trapped in the Matrix at the start of this game for...some reason. It was real fun to play through.
Song at successful final boss scene is "the toxic avenger-my only chance"
The only experience I have with Touhou is Mistia's Izakaya so I'm also pretty lost on the lore. It's one of those rare worlds that you'll learn something about no matter how hard you try to avoid it.
Edit : So... you throw knives at a target while time is stopped. Hmm. I see no references can be made here. Nope. None at all.
Sakuya is the long-standing Jojo reference of the series. EVERY Japanese series of great value has to have one... EVENTUALLY.
@@buffcode It is such a powerful work of art XD
@@buffcode literally was made just to be that
Pretty much the only spoilers for Touhou are the new characters whenever a game comes out. That’s how little the story impacts one’s ability to enjoy the series.
What?! I played this game like 2 years ago and I was sure I only did it because indei had made a video about it. I'm losing it bros.
LUNA NIGHTS SPOTTED
Who would win?
Ancient Holy Sword
or
1000 kitchen knives
Hm... yes, there are parts of the timeline you can only guess if you already know everybody. For example, a major hint as to what's actually been going on throughout is at the very beginning of the game: it's raining. If you didn't realize from the start how this is almost totally at odds with what you've just been told and how important the rain must be, you wouldn't catch Patchouli's admission she's responsible for the rain and that things were going seriously off-script even before your arrival: you may not be the "main character" of this story. I think the good part of this is that a decent and clear story is provided for you to follow while leaving most of what's actually going on off-camera in the form of supposition (rather than massive exposition dumps), but it does mean that you also won't realize there's no way the story could really end the way it initially appears to. This does have the plus of leaving most of the hardest parts of the game to Touhou players who will not only be looking for them but are the most likely to enjoy them the most.
One really fun note about the gameplay: when Remilia implied she designed the "intended" game here around the idea that Sakuya wouldn't be able to use the "time stop" power, it's true. She really did expect Sakuya to make it all the way to her without access to that specific ability... and it is possible. Incredibly difficult, and not at all obvious at times, but it is within Sakuya's skillset.
The addition of Fury music got me
Every time I watch an Indeimaus vid I remember why I enjoy them so much. Always so well done. TY Maus
Uh oh....you know its serious when he pulls out "My Only Chance" for the final boss.
aw, you didn't play the rest of it. still awesome that you played this very cool touhou game.
Now you MUST fight, the Strongest Fairy and the Perpetually Broke Shrine Maiden.
he’s already getting accustomed to bullet hells, now he has to play one of the schmups
2:12 historically accurate tanuki with the nuts
Really appreciate the Furi soundtrack at the end. 'My Only Chance' is one of my favorite songs great choice 👌
great video as always, but MAN every time I hear the song at 15:15 it reminds me how amazing furi's soundtrack is and makes me want to go play it again. such a good game.
13:49 the split second Mana Khemia student shop theme caught me off-guard. I was not ready for a nostalgia whiplash like that
They even have "Classic" Castlevania games called Koumajou Remilia I and II if you are up for more Stage Based experiences.
Finally, indeimaus 2hu
Payphones are equivalent to floppy disks; in a few years, kids will not know what either of those were, other than thinking of them as "just save points, innit?"
"Phase 2, now this is some bullshit. You try and work out how to dodge it."
That's the Touhou experience, baby~!
14:52 for those wondering, this song is Make This Right by The Toxic Avenger
Hell ya man. Amazing job on this one. Glad you enjoyed it. See ya on the next one.
I'm so excited for Shoctober spooky games!
Literally anything related to Touhou: "If you're here for the story, I don't know, man"
Also the phrase "HOW MANY GAMES?"
What there is story to touhou, you just have to look for it. This is coming from a touhou lore fan
@8:23: Hey, thats the Deadbolt OST! Id love to see a playthrough of that
Just bought a malenia shirt! I am stoked to support you brother!
"I-ZOE"
"Maid on a broom", like this guy doesn't know what a witch is.
"Luigi bot", like this guy doesn't know what a kappa is.
This takes me back. A couple years late, neh?
hearing the words "Joe Zombie" in the year of our lord 2023 was like a slap in the face
Thanks for restocking Indei. Now I got them all. These shirts are metal af
do you know how little that narrows it down.jpg
In a game where you stop time and throw knife it a crime for not including a single Zawarudo
"That one time Dio stopped time and threw a bunch of knives," the game
"This genre is oversaturated." People say.
Yes, but have you played these games? Keep 'em comin'!
I was hoping he'd fight reimu, but it's fine, looks like he figured out you're invulnerable while using 1000 knives anyway, so that makes the fights significantly easier.
imagine playing touhou game and not using touhou music for the boss fight montage :P
Always nice to see one of my favorite Xbox Metroidvanias be played more.
Touhou is truly a blessing!
Watching non-touhou knower reacting to luna nights is my new favorite genre
Bro didnt exploit the thousand knife invencibility, respect
Hell fuckin yeah! I've been waiting for this for forever.
the "problem" with Indeimaus videos is that you like to play the same type of games as I do, so I often cant watch them at release. Doubly so during metroidvania month. But for once I played and finished a game you played later! Oh and don't worry fam, I got you. Even if I don't watch the videos I do play them muted on release to give that early view!
You know shit is real when this song hits 15:22
From the title I thought the game was Afterimage.
Great game btw, I played on vacation.
Ahhh... My favorite metroidvania youtuber has uploaded a new video 😙
Awesome video, this looks like a seriously hardcore game! I love your edits though, these videos are so entertaining to watch. Putting this game on my masochist wishlist, thanks :)