There something to note thought.
To combine SWR into this,you need to do this:
Excellence! Good to hear good things about this…
I’m extremely excited to play as Cirno-chan.
I’ll have to post up my thoughts after I go play on my brother’s computer since he got it today. 
i just dropped th123 into the SWR folder. It loaded up fine but I can only choose one person. Is this because it works by itself and what I did was pointless or do I have to unlock everyone first?
I’m gonna be mad if so cause I can’t even manage to get the English patch to work with SWR doubt it’d get these two things to work either.
Please refer to the SWR wiki: http://swr.mizuumi.net/index.php/Main_Page
If you read the NOTE under Hisoutensoku it will explain that you must edit your configex123.ini file in order to have all the SWR1 and SWR2 characters available.
Also you can only access the SWR2 characters in story mode, but everyone is available in arcade mode.
reimu is ready to oppress others again
NOW SHE’S GOT TOKI MAGIC
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FATAL KO
This game is somehow worse than SWR.
I assume you tried it then? Curious to know what you think in more detail.
I think the fights flow a lot better overall. The wrongblock pushback is as far as I can tell gone, you can invoke cards tactically, spirit can be manipulated much easier, guard crushing is a little more devastating (Unless you have Magic Potions, which are amazing since they regen spirit while you’re controlling now) and the new System Cards really add a lot.
I really hope this is improved from SWR somehow because after seeing that cirno + suwako match I am hyped or something <_> Blarg I love Cirno’s jazz remix.
Suwako reminds me just a little bit of Suika for some reason. Probably the rocks and stuff. She looks like an awkward but interesting character. I’m just annoyed that they haven’t given us the option to turn off the weather.
Suwako barely even plays like she belongs in SWR. She is completely nonsensical and ridiculously fun to play. But it’s gonna take some time before anyone really knows what they’re doing with her. Once that time comes, I bet she’s gonna be quite a force to be reckoned with.
If you’re expecting it to be more like IaMP, you’re probably not going to be happy. It’s still a completely different monster from it. But the flow of the match is much more fast and furious. Chains seem less air tight (at least to me; the jury is still out on that one), guard crushing is a lot easier and lasts longer, wrongblock pushback is gone and there is a whole lot more you can do with the cards.
Weather is gonna take time. On one hand, it’s way more intrusive here than it ever was in SWR. Mountain Vapor shuffles your cards, River Mist moves characters towards and away from eachother randomly now. On the other, the original really bad weathers have become less intrusive.
The new weathers are just weird. I don’t see them screwing with matches that much.
Eh. I may as well give it a go since I liked fuddling around with SWR even though it doesn’t have the competitive value that I like in my fighting games. It still feels like it does <_<
And also, lol, does Cirno suck? She looks kind of decent to me. That snowball move seems quite deadly.
Surprisingly, Cirno isn’t bad. Her damage isn’t great, but she’s got a large variety of speedy projectiles and attacks. She also floats on jump/high jump, which is really cool.
I don’t see her being joke character status unless her low damage ends up being too much of an achilles heel. She does have this other problem of certain spell cards doing nothing to the opponent on Typhoon though.
If she has icicle fall, does it have that massive dead zone right in front of her like in the shooters?
Putting Cirno in the game was tricky. Just seeing her is going to make some fans happy, but if she doesn’t feel weak then that oddly might ruin it for some of her fanbase too. Still I’m really glad they took her seriously and didn’t make her into a Dan character.
That’s the messed up thing: She doesn’t have Icicle Fall. When I saw that in the wiki I was like ‘What the hell’. Tasofro is usually on top of these things XP.
Here’s a casual match showing off some of Cirno’s stuff if you want to see one in action:
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On a random note, here are some matches featuring Utsuho vs. random chars that I rather enjoyed watching:
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Replays courtesy of sibladeko.
utsuho looks beastly but at the same time I can’t help but feel that her bullets aren’t all that satisfying despite their coverage. How is she meant to be played?
also from an artistic standpoint I would be interested in learning how they got the effect for her cape. That’s really cool.
Also, I do LOVE the new spellcasting system. Incorporating a bomb into every card declare is going to make it so much easier to get the moves that you need safely. It especially can only mean good things for Reisen. (who relies rather heavily on upgrades and buffing potions in order to be effective)
Tried to execute the game, I didnt understood those message errors:
Help D:
I just got this and it really does feel like an improvement so far, but I can’t exactly tell. I kind of wish I could configure the keys because my Z key is missing from my keyboard and it’s annoying to press the stump to do A attacks.
Cirno is fun but also frustrating to play. Her floaty jump is going to take some getting used to. she also does weak damage and has some rather bad lag on a lot of her moves. She has some good attacks though, like her 5C and I think her 623C and of course that snowball move.
I’m not sure I like Sanae. She’s not that exciting to play.
Meiling does feel more powerful. Her bullets are still a bit sparce but she feels like she’s more effective in this game than in IaMP.
The wiki says patiently and with a lot of space management. It looks like her big problem on top of her movement is that she has trouble shaking pressure up close. If anyone, I bet she’s the one that’s gonna have a lot of bombs and guard reversals in her deck.
That cape effect is really damn cool. I don’t know how they actually did it, but it looks like they overlayed a background behind her and made only the cape transparent enough to show it.
When you say ‘incorporating a bomb into the card declare’, do you mean the actual bomb card? Normally you can invoke skill cards by using the skill or by holding a directional button to do the ‘classic’ declare. If there’s a third way to, that’d be insane o_o.
You can configure your controls from the ‘Profile’ section. I don’t have the game in front of me right now, but click around there and you’ll find it.
I’m not too thrilled with Sanae either. That pentagram projectile of hers is pretty good but otherwise she’s kind of dull.
You’ll also be pleased to know the expansion was very kind to Reisen. Her charged 5C now does a rocket spread (which is awesome because it gives her an answer to dense projectiles) and she’s got all sorts of new tricks. I think Control Rods and Tengu Fans go very nicely with the Potion cards.
Sorry about the bomb thing, I was watching a video with an Utsuho using lots of bombs and for some reason I THOUGHT she was activating her upgrade cards and they had like a burst effect at the start to blow people away and activate safely.
But being able to use the moves while upgrading to them is also really nice.
Utsoho is my favourite of the new characters followed by Cirno. She’s so fun to play. I haven’t yet worked out which moves are the best for her but her lack of speed and mobility is going to need work. She makes up for it by being an absolute monster in just about everything else though. Her bullets stream through almost everything and she does have amazing space control not to mention power. Also I noticed she doesn’t have many good graze attacks, which is another weakness of hers. running 5C is an incredible move though, because it stuffs up so many characters who like to jump and then shoot downwards at you.
some vids are already popping up on nico
as expected, some folks love those Cirno vs Suwako matches
So when I open configex123.ini and edit in the appropriate lines, it won’t let me save the file for some reason. Why’s that?