Japanese Gaming Thread

GAME: 幻想少女大戦コンプリートボックス (Fantasy Maiden Wars Complete Box)
PLATFORM: PC (Physical, DLSite https://www.dlsite.com/home/work/=/product_id/RJ268024.html)
PRICE: 4,950 円
GENRE: Strategy RPG
LEVEL: N2
REVIEW: One of the best SRPG’s (Fire Emblem, Super Robot Wars) I’ve played and one of my main goals for learning to read Japanese! Be wary that this game has a good 100+ hours worth of gameplay and an absolute LOAD of text for you to practice your reading on :slight_smile:. Also this being an RPG there’s plenty of time to read the text boxes, you control progression of the conversations in the game.

The Game
Pulling characters, musical arranges and lore from the とうほう universe made by a 1 man dev team (Team Shanghai Alice, consisting of just ZUN) which you may know about if you are somewhat familiar with Japanese video game culture or even memes, this is a Strategy RPG consisting of 4 separate games bundled into one, where each game builds on the progress of the last one. Made by dev team Sanbondo.

Gameplay
The gameplay is great with many interesting mechanics, while not being overly complicated. And can be very challenging on the harder difficulties.

You are on a tiled map, tiles affect your attacks/defense, some tiles have special characteristics, you control a team of units that you level and gear up. In some point of the game you have so many different characters that you have to start grouping them together into more powerful units, they get special combo attacks.

General Ingame Screenshots







MUSIC
The music(arranges of Touhou music) is as you might expect one of the highlights of the game. Each playable character/unit of which there are about ~70!! each with their own personalities and unique movesets, has 1 or more soundtracks of their own that plays during their attacks, one for regular attacks and one for super attacks! The OST is fire.

Game OST Playlist

Story
The story is great, the different chapters are based on the various original Touhou bullet hell games’ stories, which are quite light on story and very subtle in their story telling, so Sanbondo had to improvise their own filling of the story which I might say they did a great job with.

Characters have TONS of flavor text in battle and in the story cutscenes, attacking specific characters with specific characters gives you unique dialogue pertaining to them, I also feel like almost none of the ~70 or so characters are left behind and forgotten during the story.

Notes and Info
You’ll have to run this game in Japanese localization on windows.

If you want an English translation you’ll unfortunately have to follow this EN forum lets play where the player (BlitzBlast) and some helpers translated all the text on the go, the Complete Box came out quite recently and is yet to be translated. Fantasy Maiden Wars E Eternal thanks to BlitzBlast for this amazing lets play of the series.

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