Touhou Pocket Wars Evolution: Difference between revisions

The game's premise is that of the player taking on the role of a [[Otaku|Touhou]] [[This Loser Is You|obsessed fan]] wanting to try out the newly released Touhou themed hybrid figure-collecting card-battling game. You are later transported to [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|Gensokyo]] itself and from there becomes something reminiscent of a fairly standard [[Self -Insert Fic|self insertion fanfic]].

For more information on the game and it's subsequent expansion please visit the [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Pocket_Wars_EVO English wiki page for it]

* [[AI Roulette]]: The ''only'' thing that makes certain fights possible without [[Level Grinding]] until you achieve a [[One -Hit Kill]]. Especially since many characters have limitless supplies of heal and null-damage abilities.

** [["Wake -Up Call" Boss]]: Tenshi, who will likely kick your ass without having a solid number of levels under your belt and a decent understanding of the combat mechanics. Also, Ichirin for the ''Plus'' content, who will do the same thing if you jumped straight into to the Plus story without any grinding done before hand.

* [[But Thou Must!]]: No matter what dialogue options you choose the story remains more or less the same, barring some choosing who the [[Boss Battle]] will be against.

* [[Damage Increasing Debuff]]: Holding the [[Power -Up|Red UFO will do this to you]].

* [[Fanservice Costumes]]: Plenty of the costumes exist purely for this purpose.

* [[Final Boss, New Dimension]]: {{spoiler|Makai}}

* [[Fetch Quest]]: The bafflingly anti-climactic way the Evolution Plus content ends, with a maze that requires you to go to a [[Luck -Based Mission|randomly chosen spot]] with [[Random Encounters]] all the way, just to retrieve some books. And you have to do this multiple times, the exact number varies, it can be as low as two ''or as high as six''. Your reward for doing this is to make the [[Final Boss]] playable, but by this point the game is pretty much over.

* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: Collecting the various figurines is a large part of the game.

** And ''even if'' you've worked out by sheer luck the combination to get the [[Infinity Plus One+1 Sword]], how are you going to know that you must have tried crafting something else at least ''thirty times'' prior to crafting it otherwise you'll receive crappy equipment?

** Unlocking {{spoiler|Mima}} can be this, first it requires you to access an event which ''is not visible on the map'' requiring you to either look it up or just know where it is, and this event occurs [[Luck -Based Mission|randomly]] so it is not always there. ''Then'' you have to do this event twice in order to even ''talk'' to this particular character, who has a third dialogue option ''that none of the other characters have'' to initiate a fairly difficult fight after which you unlock her. But ''then'' you would have to know that her figurine only drops from the ''very first vending machine in the game'', who's possibilities the average player would assume they exhausted long ago. [[Guide Dang It]] indeed.

* [[Infinity Plus One+1 Sword]]: The [[Item Crafting|synthesis]] combination of two Blue UFO's followed by one Red UFO, which when crafted with the [[Guide Dang It|right girl after certain conditions have been met]] will provide a 25% boost to every stat and provide more and faster recovery of [[Mana|SP]].

* [[In -Universe Game Clock]]: More characters are unlocked for play as the in-game days pass and other events also revolve around the passage of time, such as tournaments which only run on certain days.

** [[More Friends, More Benefits]]: Obviously, the more characters you do this to, the better.

* [[Last Lousy Point]]: Obtaining all equipment will likely be the last [[Achievement|achievement]] point you earn. It will also [[Randomly Drops|take the longest to get]].

* [[One -Hit Kill]]: Komachi and Yuyuko both have attacks that function this way, with a chance to instantly kill an enemy.

* [[One -Time Dungeon]]: The Hangar, which closes permanently upon completion of the above mentioned [[Fetch Quest]].

* [[Power -Up]]: Introduced in the form of UFO's in the ''Plus'' expansion. One [[Damage Increasing Debuff|increases the damage you take]], one heals your health if you don't get hit by the end of the turn and the other does the same but for [[Mana|SP]]. Additionally, attacking enemies (or going a turn without getting hit while holding them) who hold the powerups will allow you to "catch" them, filling up a gauge bestowing additional benefits when filled.

* [[Status Buff]]: Many characters possess stat buffs of the party-wide, single-target and self-target variety.

* [[Take Your Time]]: An especially [[Egregious|egregious]] example in that each plot event will take a quarter of a day and at the end of the day, you're booted back to your house to sleep. At this point you are free to do what you want before coming back to click on the event icon and start the plot again. This leads to the very strange scenario in which plot events that are clearly intended to run one after the other can be spaced several in-game ''weeks'' apart from each other. [[Fridge Logic|Does everyone just stand around waiting for you to come back or something?]]

* [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Cosmetic?]]: The achievements actually provide points which can be allocated to stats to give every character who has been used over 100 times a boost in that particular stat, or several stats.