Touhou: Fading Illusion News

Hello again! Have you checked out our latest update yet? Did you like the musical accompaniment? If you did, then we are happy to inform you that from now on you can buy all this wonderful music in normal and high quality!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2505610/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol2/

Also, in honor of the release of the second part of the soundtrack, a 20% discount will be set for the first part for the next two weeks. Feel free to buy it too!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2216760/Touhou_Fading_Illusion_OST_vol1/

Hello friends! Today, we're happy to announce that the first day of the Destitute Chapter is finally complete, reviewed, and released to the public! You can enjoy it right now and completely free! New content awaits you:

• 1-3 hours of reading (depending on your desire to see all new scenes).
  
• 2 choices leading to 3 different outcomes.
  
• 6 new characters with their own detailed sprites.
  
• 10 new CGs (some have variations).
  
• 13 new tracks.
  

Apart from that, we added a gallery, slightly changed the interface and fixed minor bugs that remained from the previous version.

If you like the update or have any comments, feel free to share your impressions in a review or recommend our game to your friends. You can also support the development of the game on Boosty or by purchasing game's OST. We are very grateful to all those who supported us or are just about to do so! Our game is free, so we wouldn't have been able to finish the update without all your support!

Given that we've been a little behind schedule with this update, it's possible that the next update will also be finished later than we originally planned (late 2023). Some time later, we will write about our future plans, but if you are interested in watching the development progress in more detail, then I suggest subscribing to us on Twitter.

See you and hope you enjoy!

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Hi guys! Today we are happy to inform you that the first update of our game is almost ready!

The first day of the Destitute Chapter awaits you, the story of which will be presented from the point of view of Reimu and the characters close to her. Already in the first day there will be two choices that will lead you to one of three radically different outcomes, which will later result in a significant plot branching.

Yeah, we were a little late with it and deviated from the originally set schedules, but if you are subscribed to our socials (by the way, highly recommend you to subscribe), you may have heard about the translation problems that we suddenly faced back in early May. However, despite of everything, we still finished our work! So stock up on some yummies and wait - we need only a few more days to check everything!

See you and hope you enjoy!

Hello friends! Hope you all have a good start of the year!

Today I would like to tell you about the choice system in our game. As you may have already read in the description of the game, we promise you completely different experience when you play the game again. Here is a rough demo of how choices will affect the plot:



As you can see, events will depend not only on the choices themselves, but also on the order in which the chapters are read. Some choices will affect only the events of the current chapter, some will only affect the events of one of the other chapters, some will affect the events of all chapters, and some will override the consequences of the choices made in other chapters. For example, the choice you make in the Prologue regarding Rinnosuke's actions will give rise to two completely different beginnings of his chapter and will affect the entire subsequent plot. Here is what all the routes look like at the moment, described by scenes:



At the moment, the degree of their elaboration varies, but in the Destitute chapter (the leftmost branch), on which we are currently working, three different outcomes can take place and some additional scenes can be found, which, among other things, result from the choices made in other chapters.

As for the development, now everything is going as scheduled, no shifts in terms are planned yet. As soon as the release date of the update becomes clear, we will definitely tell you. So, we'll keep you posted and you don't lose sight of us, okay? See you later!

Hello fellow Touhou fans! Today we are ready to present you a plan for further action!



By spring, we plan to finish the first day of Reimu's chapter (in the game it will be called "Destitute Chapter"). It will take approximately 3-4 hours to read (with all the variations) and will feature two choices leading to three different outcomes, all of which require text, visuals and music to be completed. Besides, if there are enough funds, the game will be translated into Japanese or Chinese (or both languages).

The key word here is "funds" because our team does not have a full-time translator. Unfortunately, amateurs cannot be relied upon in this matter, because the text of the novel is its main element, and people without proper experience can turn it into a chaotic something that no native speaker will read. Accordingly, funds are needed to pay for the services of professionals. Therefore to my calculations, the translation into English (without which we will not be able to release the update) costs about 400-500$, and into Japanese - about 1000$ (because the Prologue is not translated into Japanese). The numbers are a bit too big for us, so we turn to you and remind you of the opportunity to support us on Boosty.

Of course, we do not rule out the possibility that there may be a foreign Touhou fan who is a native speaker of the target language, but we should not count on this. Better safe than sorry. We also remind you about our Twitter, where we will post finished works.