Completed Touhou Puppet Play ~ The Festival of Curses

brysoonye · Mar 12, 2021

Have been looking forward to this the most!

Dr Pisy · Mar 12, 2021

Ehi ^^ Where can I download The Mansion of Mystery?

DerxwnaKapsyla · Mar 12, 2021

brysoonye said:
Have been looking forward to this the most!

Hopefully you enjoy it, then!

Dr Pisy said:
Ehi ^^ Where can I download The Mansion of Mystery?

You can find it right here:

https://eeveeexpo.com/threads/186/

DerxwnaKapsyla · Mar 13, 2021

Quick Patch 1 has been released and contains minor bug fixes for AKokoro's stats being wrong and a softlock error on Nameless Hill.

AnonAlpaca · Mar 15, 2021

Honestly I'd read up on the Touhoumon wikia purely so I can see what's going on here

DerxwnaKapsyla · Mar 16, 2021

AnonAlpaca said:
Honestly I'd read up on the Touhoumon wikia purely so I can see what's going on here

How fortunate for you that reading up on stuff isn't strictly mandatory! You get a basic gist of the setting, the world, and the characters in the game itself! There's even a small segment in the intro where you can choose to have a small lore dump about the universe, as well as a link to where you can binge information at your own liesure.

ThatWelshOne_ · Apr 9, 2021

Hey there! I just finished the main story of The Festival of Curses. Despite me never having played a Touhoumon game or knowing anything about the Touhoumon universe, I really enjoyed your game. You were able to tell an interesting story without losing me in the Touhoumon lore, which I think is an achievement in itself. Here's some more specific feedback from a lay perspective.

I thought that the mapping was really well done. At no point did I find that an area was too open or too enclosed. One thing that stuck out in my mind was that the trees generally didn't have outlines, whereas most other tiles and characters did. I'm not sure if that's typical of a Touhoumon game, though.

I had fun seeing the sprites. I guess these aren't custom made for your game, but I enjoyed them nonetheless. Talking about sprites, I thought the battle introductions for key battles were glorious. Did you make those yourself? If so, nicely done!

I don't know if I expected the UI to be different to base Essentials. I didn't mind, though, since I've always liked the HGSS UI.

The game was a little bit of a trainer (fairy) gauntlet. I don't think I minded it as much here because there were a lot of new things for me to experience both in and out of battle. I do still think, however, that a few fairies could be reconsidered here and there. The battles themselves were fine. At no point did I struggle even with my non-existent knowledge of Touhoumon (although I was over-levelled for most of the game - see team screenshot). The use of mid-battle dialogue/scripted battles was good. I don't think it really affected the outcome of any battles for me, though.

Was there a speed-up button in the game? I think I saw Marin's script credited at the end, but I don't think I ever worked out which button was assigned to a speed-up.

The information you provided with the game download was super helpful, especially the type chart (not that I really knew what type anything was). It's a shame I didn't look at this folder more carefully - I've just seen that there's a file that covers stone evolutions which would have been useful!

I thought the festival stalls were a neat addition, and the fact that they used a different currency was cool. I didn't really capitalise on these stalls, though. Even by the end of the game, I'd horded all my festival points. I liked the option to buy more Exp Shares and Lucky Eggs. I think, in hindsight, I should've just bought more of those. One thing I wasn't clear on was the benefits of the items in Margatroid Puppet Boutique. I think these were held items to boost stats and the like? Maybe I missed it, but could you add a description of what each item does either to the shop UI itself or use the catalogues that were scattered about the place? As is, the only way to see what an item does is to buy it (I think).

During the fairy takeover of the Village, I liked the random fairies dropping from the sky and battling me. I was trying to work out if it was based on number of steps since the last battle or a random chance per step? I thought that the frequency of the battles was fine either way.

There was a LOT of dialogue. I read it all, but I can see less patient people skipping everything and missing out on the story.

As I wrote above, I think the story you told was good and didn't lean on Touhoumon lore much. I don't think there's much else I would say here as a non-expert. I loved how you were able to portray the fairies as mischievous using dialogue alone. I chuckled many times throughout the game.

Not too many here. Most of the bugs I spotted were typos.
1. Delicacies.
2. Last.
3. Delicacies.
4. Near the beginning of the game, this NPC does nothing when you interact with him.
5. Most of the NPCs in this room have no dialogue.
6. Received.
7. Reported.
8. Remember.
9. Perpetrator.
10. Won't.
11. Fountain is passable.
12. Afflicted (saw this one pretty consistently).
13. Persistent.
14. Shouldn't.
15. Tend.
16. I don't know what this invisible thing is. Was it a fairy?
17. Quite.
18. Tend to be kind and compassionate?
19. I think I caught adventure misspelt in the ending sepia tone bit, but didn't get a screenshot.

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For research purposes, here was my team by the end of the main story. I pretty much just over-levelled my starter as you can see. Spamming Wing Attack and eventually Soar proved to be mostly effective for getting through the game. I came in at just under 4 hours of playtime, for information.

Overall, I had a blast playing The Festival of Curses. I'd recommend giving this game a go even if you haven't played a Touhoumon game before.
Bye for now~

DerxwnaKapsyla · Apr 10, 2021

ThatWelshOne_ said:
Hey there! I just finished the main story of The Festival of Curses. Despite me never having played a Touhoumon game or knowing anything about the Touhoumon universe, I really enjoyed your game. You were able to tell an interesting story without losing me in the Touhoumon lore, which I think is an achievement in itself. Here's some more specific feedback from a lay perspective.

I thought that the mapping was really well done. At no point did I find that an area was too open or too enclosed. One thing that stuck out in my mind was that the trees generally didn't have outlines, whereas most other tiles and characters did. I'm not sure if that's typical of a Touhoumon game, though.

I had fun seeing the sprites. I guess these aren't custom made for your game, but I enjoyed them nonetheless. Talking about sprites, I thought the battle introductions for key battles were glorious. Did you make those yourself? If so, nicely done!

I don't know if I expected the UI to be different to base Essentials. I didn't mind, though, since I've always liked the HGSS UI.

The game was a little bit of a trainer (fairy) gauntlet. I don't think I minded it as much here because there were a lot of new things for me to experience both in and out of battle. I do still think, however, that a few fairies could be reconsidered here and there. The battles themselves were fine. At no point did I struggle even with my non-existent knowledge of Touhoumon (although I was over-levelled for most of the game - see team screenshot). The use of mid-battle dialogue/scripted battles was good. I don't think it really affected the outcome of any battles for me, though.

Was there a speed-up button in the game? I think I saw Marin's script credited at the end, but I don't think I ever worked out which button was assigned to a speed-up.

The information you provided with the game download was super helpful, especially the type chart (not that I really knew what type anything was). It's a shame I didn't look at this folder more carefully - I've just seen that there's a file that covers stone evolutions which would have been useful!

I thought the festival stalls were a neat addition, and the fact that they used a different currency was cool. I didn't really capitalise on these stalls, though. Even by the end of the game, I'd horded all my festival points. I liked the option to buy more Exp Shares and Lucky Eggs. I think, in hindsight, I should've just bought more of those. One thing I wasn't clear on was the benefits of the items in Margatroid Puppet Boutique. I think these were held items to boost stats and the like? Maybe I missed it, but could you add a description of what each item does either to the shop UI itself or use the catalogues that were scattered about the place? As is, the only way to see what an item does is to buy it (I think).

During the fairy takeover of the Village, I liked the random fairies dropping from the sky and battling me. I was trying to work out if it was based on number of steps since the last battle or a random chance per step? I thought that the frequency of the battles was fine either way.

There was a LOT of dialogue. I read it all, but I can see less patient people skipping everything and missing out on the story.

As I wrote above, I think the story you told was good and didn't lean on Touhoumon lore much. I don't think there's much else I would say here as a non-expert. I loved how you were able to portray the fairies as mischievous using dialogue alone. I chuckled many times throughout the game.

Not too many here. Most of the bugs I spotted were typos.
1. Delicacies.
2. Last.
3. Delicacies.
4. Near the beginning of the game, this NPC does nothing when you interact with him.
5. Most of the NPCs in this room have no dialogue.
6. Received.
7. Reported.
8. Remember.
9. Perpetrator.
10. Won't.
11. Fountain is passable.
12. Afflicted (saw this one pretty consistently).
13. Persistent.
14. Shouldn't.
15. Tend.
16. I don't know what this invisible thing is. Was it a fairy?
17. Quite.
18. Tend to be kind and compassionate?
19. I think I caught adventure misspelt in the ending sepia tone bit, but didn't get a screenshot.

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For research purposes, here was my team by the end of the main story. I pretty much just over-levelled my starter as you can see. Spamming Wing Attack and eventually Soar proved to be mostly effective for getting through the game. I came in at just under 4 hours of playtime, for information.

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Overall, I had a blast playing The Festival of Curses. I'd recommend giving this game a go even if you haven't played a Touhoumon game before.
Bye for now~

Thank you for playing and your feedback! Allow me to take this time to address your feedback!

- Aesthetic:
I think the trees outline is extremely subtle, which means it looks like there isn't any outline- I may be mistaken though! Regardless, all of the graphics, save for a scant few, came from Gensou Ningyou Enbu, so this isn't a traditional "Touhoumon" style- there isn't realy a traditional style, since the games are predominately Gen 3 Rom Hacks lol.

The sprites were not custom made, as mentioned above they came from Gensou Ningyou Enbu. The Vs. Transitions were all made by hand, with graphics coming from Gensou Ningyou Enbu as well. I'm glad you enjoyed them, I've been working on refining my Vs. Transitions for the past few years!

- Gameplay:
I will admit that, yeah, there are a lot of trainers. I planned to have a few more features to break up the monotony of trainers, but they weren't finished in time for the Game Jam. Please look forward to the Quiz Hall and the Haunted Mansion!

Balance is very difficult for me, but I tried to make it so it wasn't too hard to beat. I'm glad to hear that you were able to make it through without too much issue!

The Speed-Up Button was bound to the "F" or "T" key- off hand, I can't remember which. It should be listed in the readme iirc!

The Margatroid Boutique does indeed sell type-boosting items, similar to the Pokemon ones, except these only work on Puppet types. I'll take your feedback into consideration for improving it!

The Divebomb Fairies are indeed based on a number of steps; I believe it's between 40~70 steps per encounter? It generates a random number between those two, and when the player walks that many steps you run into a trainer battle.

- Writing:
Ahaha, yeah... I do tend to write a lot... When I'm passionate about something and enjoy doing it, I tend to let myself get carried away haha; I digress, there is a skip text button though, and all you'd have to do is hold the Esc key to blitz past text quite easily.

This story takes place after the start of the Puppet Era, so I didn't want to spend TOO much time delving into the backstory of why Puppets exist or what they are. I plan to do a bit more in my main Touhoumon project, Faith & Prayer Version, so please look forward to that!

- Bugs:
Ah..... Typos...... My favorite............. I will address these in a later update, so thanks for pointing them out to me!
Also, 16 is indeed a fairy. It's an intentional thing, the fairy goes invisible after you beat them.

- Team:
Yeah that sounds about what I expected honestly, levels are a bit lower than my own tests but powering through with AKeine and Aya seems feasable all things considered. 4 hours lines up with my own and playtesters playtimes.

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Once again, I'm glad you enjoyed it, and thank you for the feedback! Please keep an eye out for 1.1 sometime in the indeterminate future!

ThatWelshOne_ · Apr 10, 2021

Oh! A few more things I forgot to mention. Premier Balls are still called Premier Balls (rather than Premier Orbs, perhaps?) and the shopkeepers refer to them as such ("I'll throw in a Premier Ball, too"). The save screen has the number of badges on it. I guess you'd want to remove this? Similarly, the load screen has badges and Pokédex listed, and a Pokémon cry is played when you hit enter on the intro screen rather than a Touhoumon cry or no cry at all.

DerxwnaKapsyla · Apr 10, 2021

ThatWelshOne_ said:
Oh! A few more things I forgot to mention. Premier Balls are still called Premier Balls (rather than Premier Orbs, perhaps?) and the shopkeepers refer to them as such ("I'll throw in a Premier Ball, too"). The save screen has the number of badges on it. I guess you'd want to remove this? Similarly, the load screen has badges and Pokédex listed, and a Pokémon cry is played when you hit enter on the intro screen rather than a Touhoumon cry or no cry at all.

Premier Balls were niche and I forgot to remove/replace them, I'll do something with it in 1.1. As for the badges, yeah I forgot to comment those lines out. Whoops! Pokedex will be changed to "Puppets Seen". As for Pokemon cries playing, that's honestly something I can't bring myself to care too strongly about. Thank you for pointing these out though!

anh1092001 · Dec 31, 2022

Currently I am playing The Festival of Curse and I got a bug that I cat't proceed to the final fight of the game. How can I fix this ?

DerxwnaKapsyla · Dec 31, 2022

I... have never seen this bug before. You'll have to go into more detail about the state of your game up to that point.

anh1092001 · Dec 31, 2022

DerxwnaKapsyla said:
I... have never seen this bug before. You'll have to go into more detail about the state of your game up to that point.

I wish this could help having more insight about what may cause it.
Currently, I am at Mugenkan, I defeated Elly, enter the Mainsion, have a conversation with Yuuka, I tried to enter the final fight and bug appear.

DerxwnaKapsyla · Dec 31, 2022

Upload your save file and I'll try and look into it; I can't make any promises that I'll be able to fix or reproduce it, but this is the best way for me to try and do so.

anh1092001 · Dec 31, 2022

DerxwnaKapsyla said:
Upload your save file and I'll try and look into it; I can't make any promises that I'll be able to fix or reproduce it, but this is the best way for me to try and do so.

Where can I find it ? I have search blindly and then realized that I have no clue what a save file look like

anh1092001 · Dec 31, 2022

DerxwnaKapsyla said:
Upload your save file and I'll try and look into it; I can't make any promises that I'll be able to fix or reproduce it, but this is the best way for me to try and do so.

I don't know if this "States" file is the right one. Currently, I am upload an entire game folder on Google Drive and will provide you a link when I able. Sorry for bother you so much.

DerxwnaKapsyla · Dec 31, 2022

The save file for that version should be located in the following folder directory

"C:\Users\[YOUR COMPUTER USER NAME HERE]\Saved Games\Touhou Puppet Play _ The Mansion of Mystery"

anh1092001 · Dec 31, 2022

DerxwnaKapsyla said:
The save file for that version should be located in the following folder directory

"C:\Users\[YOUR COMPUTER USER NAME HERE]\Saved Games\Touhou Puppet Play _ The Mansion of Mystery"

Sorry, I got busy at work. Thanks for instruction, here the save file and the Google Drive Link about my folder just in case.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZRrfECIAAffwZJISTX40f5xIi3AOMb7q?usp=share_link

DerxwnaKapsyla · Dec 31, 2022

I've observed the bug on your save specifically, but on my own save I don't see it. I've examined multiple avenues of recreating it and have deduced the issue is somehow intrinsic to the map- but not so intrinsic that I get the issue on my save. I've purged every event from the map on a copy, and I still get the issue. I've tried warping to the map using debug tools and the bug pops up still. A fresh save can't reproduce the bug... The biggest oddity here is the fact that the "Main" script file doesn't even have 163 lines.

Did you notice anything else odd while playing the game? It may help in diagnosis.

Issue found and fixed thanks to Vendily.

5.4 KB file on MEGA

mega.nz

Drop the file in here into your Data folder. This should allow you to progress into Mugenkan's back gardens.

I will look into why this bug happened at a later time and fix it for a proper Quick Patch.

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