Touhou-A-Live: Ponga 1: Bang!

Shoulda bombed... Instead, she crowked.

You may believe that I had it easy doing this chapter. Sir or madam, I find this notion INSULTING. (But seriously, dialogue doesn't take as long as all the other stuff can...)

The head crow and his underling are supposed to look like the Pokemon Honchkrow and Murkrow, yes.

According to a blog post, the left crow in the bullet-dodging segment is Qwad and the right is Kurun. Why did Koki name those random crows? HMM.

The "ILLUSTRATION" (which I believe is at the start of all the chapters now) actually refers to the guy who drew Ponga (and the guys who drew the other protagonists) for the TAL "boxart" a month or so ago.

...Huh? What do you mean, "@"? What do you think this is, Twitter? (Yeah, yeah, I fixed it. How was I to expect that Koki would use a message box for timing when there are perfectly good wait functions?)

GENERAL TOUHOU-A-LIVE LINKS
Original Japanese videos (Nico Nico Douga):
http://nicovideo.jp/mylist/6587121

Japanese beta page:
http://geocities.jp/mahodenn/thlal.html

Translation page (including blog translation):
http://vgboy.dabomstew.com/other/touhoualive.htm

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• evil
• eye
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• sacrifice

[Youjuu]

Hmmm... I've noticed a weird bug while fighting Yia- Errr... A certain wyvern. It used a fire breath attack and it made my game crash? Do you know how to fix this? Also, when fighting the hidden boss, it used the Nu- Errr... a certain skill and the battle animation was still on-screen even after the battle. Is that a feature or a bug?

Oh yeah, Pongo's Byun Byun is overpowered as well as some equips.

[vgperson]

@Youjuu Yeah, I found both of those and they're fixed in my beta. For the former, he accidentally deleted a fire image. (When it happened to me, I was like, "wait, I didn't do that, did I?") You can fix it by getting the 炎1 picture from an earlier beta.

[Youjuu]

@vgperson Oh, ok! Many thanks!

By the way, do you know anything about a certain "Watanabe parent and child" event? I remember people on niconico saying "Watanabewwwwwwww" or "Watanabeeeeeeeeeee" during certain events in the game.

[vgperson]

@Youjuu Koki's apparently made it a goal to have some kind of reference to Watanabe in every chapter (whereas I think LAL just had it in most of them) - Rumia kills a kid's dad, WATANABE systems go offline after their "parent" REI-IJI dies, Watanabe's dad gets turned into a Death Knight, someone off-screen takes damage when you use a full-screen attack against Letty. The one in this chapter is before the final boss.

Come to think of it, I'm not sure where it'll be in Wild West or Fantasy yet...

[Shadow9808]

ROFL, Velociprey as enemies! I wonder if I'll see more Monster Hunter refrences in this chapter?

[vgperson]

@Shadow9808 Wait, they're called Velociprey in English? Man, why did I see so many people using "Ranpos," then?! GOOGLEEEEE (But yeah, I'll fix that for the beta, then.)

[Pixel777Productions]

Oh my god this is adorable. I lold when ponga kicked the speech bubble :D

[Curaine886]

BAM BAM!

SHUBAHBAH! >:O

BAMABAM

YEE HEEE

HEE YEE

INDIAN YAAAAAA

HAAAAAA

YEAAAA

* cough * Ahem.

[rubino83]

I think I just found my Final Chapter hero, assuming this game gives the choice.

That's assuming Reiji isn't usable. Attack/Pass/Item/Armageddon plzthx.

[Shadow9808]

@vgperson Oh yea, Velociprey are the first monsters in Monster Hunter you fight that openly fight back. Those blue raptors are nowhere near as agresive as their FAR larger leader, the Velocidrome; the Drome, AKA pack leader is noted for being bigger and having a large red crest and long, red claws. They are his leader marks. I thought I'd share that n the event the Drome is in this story arc. If any other Moster Hunter cretures show up and you miss the name, I'll be sure to let ya know.

[Youjuu]

@vgperson Ah I think I get it, thanks. I haven't found the one in the Youmu chapter and there are more than on in Mokou's chapter(Takeshi's father).

This is kinda cruel, lol.