Touhou Super Smash Battles On Indiegogo

[LiteralGrill]

A unique project has found its way to Indiegogo. Indie game developers From Soy Sauce are trying to create a unique game that combines Touhou and Smash into one experience, Touhou Super Smash Battles.

For those of that may not know what Touhou is, it is commonly know as the "Touhou Project" and is a Japanese dōjin game series that is focused on "Bullet Hell" games. These have all been developed by ZUN, the one man behind Team Shanghai Alice. The series is even in the Guinness World Records for being the "most prolific fan-made shooter series". These "Bullet Hell" games, also known as manic shooters require the player to dodge overwhelming numbers of enemy projectiles and take extreme reactions times to be able to play.

Currently on Indiegogo, Touhou Super Smash Battles looks to "Touhou-fy" Super Smash Bros as others have done to various games like Super Marisa Land, Touhouvania, Nitroid, Tacoman, and Megamari. The game is set to include wave dashing and lag canceling mechanics as well as some unique mechanics of its own like Free Float where all characters can float around similar to Peach, wake-up grabs, air grabs, Spell Cards, and a unique grab mechanic called Overwhelm. All of these are shown off in the video for the project.

They have also mentioned they are interested in a console release, and it seems they may even try to bring it to the Wii U eshop. The project has a goal of $10,000 and will end on February 6th. It will be interesting to see if it meets its goal and if it does how it will play and be distributed in the future.

SmashCapps was very intrigued when he saw the video and is curious to see how the game turns out. Tell him your thoughts on the game by following him on twitter.

 

[LiteralGrill]

Getting first post on my own article to be ironic.

 

[Metarai]

What.
Was not expecting anything like this. Kinda cool, I guess.

The projectile spam is real.

 

[Jahnathan]

I smell weebs.

 

[Jiggly]

wii u eshop, with the clear intention of being a smash clone??? idk, there was meme run...

 

[JipC]

Looks like fun, but egh, those graphics make my eyes hurt.

 

[arcticfox8]

shoutouts to the title being incorrect even though its named correctly in the preview image and in the article itself

 

[Beach]

Looks like a lot of projectiles to me, don't know how that'll play out.

 

[Cactusblah]

To anyone who hasn't realized yet, the game is in a very early development state. Take a look at the previous videos on the channel.

 

[Darulio]

"Look! It has L-canceling! Instead of a game that is competitive by it's nature, we're going to mimic a game that became competitive by an incredibly lucky coincidence of bugs and physics quirks!" :I

It still looks pretty neat, though. It's an ambitious project, but I might check it out for the mad Touhou jams.

 

[OnFullTilt]

Looks like a lot of projectiles to me, don't know how that'll play out.

Kind of makes sense since it is based on touhou haha.

 

[Pit_Icarus]

Finally, something that could cancel out the utter trainwreck of a game, Meme Run, on the Wii U eShop.

 

[Ral]

"Look! It has L-canceling! Instead of a game that is competitive by it's nature, we're going to mimic a game that became competitive by an incredibly lucky coincidence of bugs and physics quirks!" :I

It still looks pretty neat, though. It's an ambitious project, but I might check it out for the mad Touhou jams.

That seems like an entirely ignorant way of looking at things. If you want to get technical Street Fighter and all fighting games are mimicing a game "not competitive by nature." Combos were never intended to exist. At all.

 

[Sol0ke]

Usually, I don't care about graphics, but the characters do look like rag dolls. Other than that, this is certainly an interesting project.

 

[Brickbuild101]

Woah, a decent-looking fan game.

 

[FerrishTheFish]

Why didn't they prioritize Marisa and Alice so they could get extra publicity from cookies and the theft of precious things?

 

[Puppyfaic]

If they change the name and the UI to not make it look like a Smash ripoff I'll buy it day 1.

 

[Darkjolly]

Still seems better than PS All stars

 

[Naoshi]

"Look! It has L-canceling! Instead of a game that is competitive by it's nature, we're going to mimic a game that became competitive by an incredibly lucky coincidence of bugs and physics quirks!" :I

ugh can we NOT do this for once?

 

[PLATINUM7]

I'd be more interested if they made it seem more original. Although I suppose they were aiming for a Smash clone with bullet hell elements but still.

 

[ATH_]

As I do like touhou, this still just looks really...awkward? I dunno? I know it's not finished, so I won't judge.

 

[Claire Diviner]

An intriguing project, though it's doubtful Nintendo would be interested or willing to have this game released on their eShop.

 

[Naoshi]

As I do like touhou, this still just looks really...awkward? I dunno? I know it's not finished, so I won't judge.

Yeah, from the looks of it. It's super early in development. They started on it a few months back (maybe August?) and they have been frequently posting progress. It actually evolved pretty fast. Here's hoping it'll look a lot better than it does now. They really need to work on the faces a tad.

 

[tarmon2121]

I guarantee this game will have a competitive future. Take THAT, Sakurai!

 

[Xermo]

Lookin more promising than Air Dash Online. Oh wait.

 

[Naoshi]

I guarantee this game will have a competitive future. Take THAT, Sakurai!

...Let's not do this either .-.

 

[DexstarGAMER]

At least is better than Smash Flash, it looks awesome and competitive, if it comes to the Wii U i´ll buy it.

 

[The Slayer]

ugh can we NOT do this for once?

Might as well play a drinking game to every asinine insult to Melee in the News section. Have two drinks if it's the first page. Aside from that, the game looks ok. Like SSF, not too crazy about fan games.

 

[Space Stranger]

I can't wait until this and Cartoon Network's Punch-Time Explosion hits Apex 2016, guys!

 

[Zzuxon]

Wow, looks really interesting, with all those projectiles.

 

[Pikmin1211]

Looks cool! Fan projects are always super awesome (erhemProjectMcoughcough) so this is hype. Plus I love flying (Brawl Minus Meta Knight anyone?)

 

[Redd500]

Might as well play a drinking game to every asinine insult to Melee in the News section. Have two drinks if it's the first page. Aside from that, the game looks ok. Like SSF, not too crazy about fan games.

Really, just any insult about competitiveness of a Smash game. Doesn't even matter which way it's directed, any time someone brings up an insult and it's based on the competitiveness of any Smash game, take a drink. Hell, down a whole beer or whatever drink your using every time and shorten the wait before you pass out and forget about it.

 

[Squii The Fish]

"Look! It has L-canceling! Instead of a game that is competitive by it's nature, we're going to mimic a game that became competitive by an incredibly lucky coincidence of bugs and physics quirks!" :I

It still looks pretty neat, though. It's an ambitious project, but I might check it out for the mad Touhou jams.

Its literally been 15 years 14 years since Melee came out and the lack of clones bug me to a degree. so i am happy this is coming along with a fresh twist and mechanics

What.
Was not expecting anything like this. Kinda cool, I guess.

The projectile spam is real.

Dude wat. Its touhou.

Looks like fun, but egh, those graphics make my eyes hurt.

It's a team of three people.

I smell weebs.

OHIO GOMAZUMAZDA

 

[JipC]

It's a team of three people.

I guess it's impressive that they got this far but it's still ugly af

 

[Cthulhu_MD]

Kawaii desu desu ne?

In all seriousness, I still thought this was a weird idea and wondered why it's even being made. At least it's going to be more coherent than Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale with the characters and art design.

 

[Squii The Fish]

I guess it's impressive that they got this far but it's still ugly af

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PClrS6BKhBU

keep in mind this is before the indiegogo campaign started so they are probably going put more effort into the graphics.

 

[Deleted member]

The last place I thought to find a Touhou related article is Smashboards.

 

[Jahnathan]

OHIO GOMAZUMAZDA

I don't know what this means.

 

[Deleted member]

I don't know what this means.

It means good morning in Japanese.

 

[Redd500]

It means good morning in Japanese.

I mean, yeah, if you spell it correctly, but Squii spelled it in true weeaboo fashion to really drive the joke home.