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Looks like we breathe a little longer, boys. Though not by much.

Letter sitting in darkness, lit only by a slatted pattern of lights. Cut to a letter's-eye view of someone in shadow, lifting the cover off the donation box.

I gotta say, I don't envy the last DLC character. Doesn't matter who it is, they're gonna be scapegoated by salty people who didn't get what they want, and get their big reveal overshadowed by the fact that it's all over. It really is a heavy cross to bear. Reimu continues to be a long shot. I...

Even so, that's a wide, wide net. I would question how valuable it is for Reimu specifically, except to note with relief that she's one of the many who aren't excluded by it.

A couple of the Touhou fighting games use a midair battle system to mimic the main series' ubiquitous flight. I wonder if this could translate into a unique mechanic for a Touhou stage. Maybe some kind of invisible platform gimmick where the fighters are counted as being in the air while they're...

It'd be such a Sakurai joke. He's like "and now, here's the music list" and the screen cuts to a single image that's unreadably small because there's a couple hundred track names crammed onto it. Sakurai does an exaggerated double take, starts talking about how he asked for some music and ZUN...

Reimu is, was, and always will be an outside chance, unfortunately. Same is true for most individual character hopefuls, honestly. Don't let hanging out on this thread cloud your perception of that. But that's why it's fun to hope! If it comes true, it's such a big rush. Some combination of...

Just between you and me, I think it'd be an absolutely hilarious cherry on top if Reimu came to Smash and Mima was a spirit or stage cameo. First official appearance since forever ago and it's not even in an actual Touhou game. Reincarnation needs to be on the track list, though.

Basically two groups: Chance 1% ("and I'm being generous lol") Want 0% Chance 30-90% Want 100%

That's really the most relevant bit. I think it's Takamaru that sometimes gets cited as an example of a character who was too Japan-centric to make the cut. But even by the most conservative of estimates, Touhou's western presence is light years ahead of that level of obscurity.

If anything, the more interesting question to me is whether or not it matters that a lot of Touhou's popularity is centred on the non-video game aspects of it. I don't think it matters, but it's a more genuine point of contention than whether or not the series is "popular enough". I can't think...

Well, mostly fan games, which some people contest the validity of - though the nature of Touhou makes those fan games a smidge more relevant than in other IPs. A Switch port of Antinomy of Common Flowers, the latest official fighting game, was announced quite a while ago but still doesn't have...

In the end, Rate Their Chances is still "how much I want this character". Always has been and always will be. Just look at how well peoples' given % chance correlates to their % wanted, except in standout cases. It's nothing to set store by. If you think about it, putting a % chance on these...

I'm still partial to the idea of Reimu Kirby being a yukkuri.

The only issue I had with Puppet Dance Performance was the map design sometimes got too pointlessly mazelike in dungeons. Places like SDM, Forest of Magic etc have a lot of nested branching paths with really samey visuals, and not much reward for exploring them.