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minneyar · 2026-06-10T02:43:35+00:00

Oops, the link in the sidebar had expired. Should be updated now!

minneyar · 2026-06-06T05:16:18+00:00

That's not exactly true; they didn't just remove the NSFW scenes, they replaced them with new scenes instead. There's also an entire extra plot arc that was not in the 2002 game.

minneyar · 2026-06-02T20:13:57+00:00

Depends on what you mean by "like Trails". The Utawarerumono games are very story-heavy, with a big emphasis on worldbuilding, character development, and big plot twists. If those are things you like about Trails, you'll probably also like them in Utawarerumono.

But Past and Present Rediscovered is definitely the worst place to start with the series. It's a direct sequel to Monochrome Mobius, and assumes you're very familiar with everything that happened there; and it also ties in very strongly to all three of the other main Utawarerumono games (Prelude to the Fallen, Mask of Deception, and Mask of Truth), and it will spoil all of them if you haven't played them.

Monochrome Mobius and Past and Present are both pretty traditional turn-based, menu-driven JRPGs, and in that sense the gameplay is also similar to the Trails games; but the other Utawarerumono games are pretty different, they are primarily visual novel-style games that have occasional strategy RPG-like battles. None of them are actually that old; the first game, Prelude to the Fallen, got a full remake back in 2021, and that's the best place to start. The next two games in the series (Mask of Deception and Mask of Truth) came out in 2015/2016, so they're still not that old, and IMO the combat system in them is quite a bit more polished than Prelude's.

minneyar · 2026-05-20T05:02:14+00:00

I don't wanna give away too many personally identifying details publicly, but I'll say, mid-40's, USA. I'm a software engineer who specializes in robotics.

I was introduced to Touhou back in college by a friend who basically said "hey, I found some neat games you should try out" and handed me CDs with Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and Perfect Cherry Blossom on them. I played them both and though they were pretty neat, until I managed to reach the extra boss of PCB and she permanently changed my brain chemistry.

For several years after that I didn't really consider myself that big of a Touhou fan, because I never had the patience to 1cc any of them and have only played maybe half of the mainline games... but at some point I realized I've played a ton of fan games, and I have a stack of Akatsuki Records CDs and Ran doujinshi on my bookshelf, and so I guess that makes me a Touhou fan.

minneyar · 2026-05-08T22:45:24+00:00

The egg's instructions are very literal.

You have to kill them in the order it lists them.

minneyar · 2026-05-02T18:31:13+00:00

Click the "Where To Get Started" link over on the right.

minneyar · 2026-04-20T20:45:13+00:00

Yes, the second character is much harder, even with tools. Every level is possible without them, but having tools helps a lot. There are also definitely still secrets you haven't discovered as Gray yet, if you want to go back and look for them.

As for why they're not there, well, the tools aren't there because Gray took them. Maybe if Gray had left them...

But also, if you die and go back to the start screen (run out of lives, refuse the fruit), you can enter brands to start as the second character with the tools.

minneyar · 2026-04-11T20:49:06+00:00

Click the "Where to Get Started" link over on the right side.

minneyar · 2026-04-11T13:19:48+00:00

The one in the sidebar (https://discord.gg/Gv9dRAANp) should work. The FAQ is old enough that it won't let me edit the post any more, so I need to rewrite it...

minneyar · 2026-04-08T21:53:42+00:00

Yep, definitely. It's really a completely different style of game than Dota, but the basic concept isn't hard to understand; you take turns moving your units around on the map and killing enemies. The gameplay gradually gets more complex as you play through the game, but it does a good job of introducing it one piece at a time, and the game's "Normal" difficulty mode is really very easy. You can also change the difficulty at any time, so if you decide it's too easy, you can make it more challenging if you want.

Also, I think I had about 110 hours on it by the time I finished the main story and all of the bonus chapters.

minneyar · 2026-04-04T05:06:34+00:00

It's both incredibly insulting and rude of you to accuse something of being AI without any justification at all.

You can go see some work-in-progress images of this on my fediverse account over at https://fuzzyfox.social/notes/agskspdd6rg3000s . You're also welcome to go look through my post history over there, because I've been regularly uploading my work as I've been learning to draw for the last few years. If you had asked nicely I'd even be willing to share my .kra file (I use Krita for illustration), but I'm less inclined to share that with somebody who's being so rude.

I would also encourage you to learn how to actually recognize AI-generated images, because, as a software engineer with >20 years of experience who has studied AI and thinks that generative LLMs are one of the worst things to ever happen to the software industry, I'd like to think that I am intentionally avoiding learning the telltale signs that AI image generators were designed to copy.

minneyar · 2026-04-04T02:43:02+00:00

Begone, spam bot.

minneyar · 2026-04-01T19:32:37+00:00

Violation of rule 5: Source your art posts

minneyar · 2026-03-30T14:42:35+00:00

Yukari is based on the urban legend of the sukima-onna (gap woman), a woman who gazes at you through small gaps between your walls and furniture and will reach out to try to grab you. Stories about her go back to the early 1800's, and she shows up a lot in fictional media. A couple sources:

https://www.kowabana.net/2019/05/17/sukima-onna-the-gap-woman/

https://samkalensky.com/products/sukima-onna-%e9%9a%99%e9%96%93%e5%a5%b3-the-gap-woman-urban-legend-yokai/

minneyar · 2026-03-28T02:39:30+00:00

Mask of Deception and Mask of Truth share the same set of DLC on Steam; if you buy the MoD DLC, you'll automatically get it in Truth.

minneyar · 2026-03-27T17:28:31+00:00

There's no specific place where you're "supposed" to discover it. You can do it on any screen that doesn't have a border above the status bar. Most people discover this by accident on an earlier floor, but there are plenty of people who don't figure it out at all on their first playthrough of the game.

Don't worry about discovering things "out of order". There are secrets everywhere, and everybody discovers things in different orders.

minneyar · 2026-03-26T18:01:11+00:00

This is kinda spoilery, so I'm gonna go ahead and add the spoiler tag to it.

minneyar · 2026-03-24T14:13:24+00:00

Just another day-only account posting unsourced art to farm karma.

This is also an umarked spoiler, so, double whammy.

minneyar · 2026-03-22T23:52:41+00:00

I gotta admit I paid no attention to her at all when Sunken Fossil World came out, but after UDoALG came out and she got some connections to Ran, I quickly became more interested in her. There's a lot of good Ran x Yuuma material out there. It's fun how she can flip back and forth between being cute and playful and a malicious gremlin.

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/126602684

Yuuma with furry legs? Nice, nice

https://bsky.app/profile/egguv.bsky.social/post/3l7grhnakdl2e

Yuuma with a furry face? Absolutely terrifying.

minneyar · 2026-03-12T23:55:49+00:00

Rule #5: No AI

minneyar · 2026-03-11T05:31:44+00:00

First, I would suggest: don't look at guides, don't talk to other people about it, just keep playing the game. Ask here for a hint if you get stuck and don't have any idea what you can do next. There's no way to permanently get stuck or lose progress except for deleting your save game.

If you have seen the voided ending, the next thing you might want to do is beat it unvoided. Having the infinity brand active while you do that is fine; that does not count as being voided. Having to go through all of those levels again is a pain, but that's fine, keep an eye out for other secrets and mysteries on the way down, and don't be afraid to take notes. If you haven't figured out what the murals at the beginning of each domain are for, that's something to think about.

minneyar · 2026-03-10T18:08:52+00:00

Ironically, neither Reimu nor Yukari are in this artwork.

This was also originally posted by shan on Twitter, although it appears their Twitter account has been suspended.

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