Touhou: Fearless Frogslayer news & patch notes

To the Players

Exactly one year ago, Touhou: Fearless Frogslayer was released. To be honest with you, I as the writer of this post had no experience in marketing, design, publishing, releases, or anything else you'd need to put a game out there. In fact, I can tell you the majority of work done on this game was from a position of almost zero experience, so it was certainly a struggle to get it out the door, but I would say a lot has been learned in the process.Struggle though it may have been, it feels great to have accomplished something real and tangible, big or small though it may be, I can certainly say that my feelings before starting this project, compared to the time of release, and even more so, compared to now; are almost completely different.

While I certainly wouldn't say it was an explosive success that created immediate and great opportunities for the future, I am happy that the first ever project made a decent level of success, and was even able to have various videos made about it, pay for some translation and other work to be done, and receive a small following.

I want to extend my deepest thanks to various YouTubers, review groups, and of course, players like you, especially those who took the time to review, post on the Steam community, or report bugs and errors in the forum, for having supported the game and made this all possible. The launch was slightly rough around the edges with some issues that could not have really been anticipated for a game with such limited budget for testing on more than a couple of PCs and players, and many more questionable decisions of inexperience, but I have learned a lot from the positive, the negative, and the neutral feedback towards the game, so I would like to promise that in future titles, I will take even the the most disheartening of feedback to heart and learn from what they have to say.

And, last but certainly not least, I want to extend my special thanks to Zun, Team Shanghai Alice, for not only creating this series beloved by many of us, but for the graciousness to allow games such as this to exist in the first place, for without that, there would have been no game at all.

I don't have anything to show as of yet, but, after having completed most of the most pressing work I had intended to do on making this game fully functional and generally free of the bigger and more pressing bugs and problems; I have been diligently at work on creating something new... it is quite a different project, but hopefully it can be enjoyed nonetheless. More will be shown on that as soon as it is ready.

Sincerely, Silva Memoria.

P.S. - The game is now on a special discount. Enjoy! (In addition, as per an anonymous user's request, FLAC files have been added to the soundtrack.)

Hello, all readers! I hope you are thus far having a good year, I can say that my own has been well. I want to add before this announcement that this is a scheduled post!... well, that isn't something you should necessarily need to know, I just wanted to state that this is my first time using scheduled releases, in case I misunderstand the system and this message is released too early or late, just keep it in mind.

Anyways:

Sale Discounts

The game should be running at 33% off for the period of the Spring Sale, be sure to pick it up if you've been wanting to play. The soundtrack will also be discounted for the same amount, so you can pick up the combined bundle if you'd like them at a small extra discount!

Small Addendum - FLACs

I was recently requested personally by someone to include FLAC files in the soundtrack. I just wanted to address that this will be coming in the near future. An announcement will be made for that, of course.

Bug Reports

https://steamcommunity.com/app/3218680/discussions/0/598527550147298302/

Thank you for your patience and support!

Hello! This announcement comes from a small error, I had meant initially to set the game on a 20% sale upon the release of the Chinese language. Unfortunately, my internet router suddenly broke yesterday, luckily after most of the release work was complete, and was only fixed as of some minutes ago. Due to this, I could not actually access Steam's interface until now to trigger the discount. I apologize if anyone had already bought the game for the new event and could not benefit from the new discount. I have increased the sale slightly in compensation for the delay. Also, as a small note, the achievements were not localized, which is now fixed. Thank you for your patience.

Simplified Chinese Translation

With the release of this update, the first additional language is now added to the game. The entire game is now playable in Simplified Chinese, including dialogue, battle options and menu interfaces!

Thank you so much to ºKnow Team and their members for completing this translation and assisting me to spread this game out to an entirely new audience of Touhou fans! I hope you shall all enjoy it.

Activation

For users who have not set a language yet, the game will now open with a language selection screen for this purpose.

If you have already set your language as English in past and would like to change it, simply select the "Extras" button (Second option from right), and then "Language" (Second option from top) to easily change the language of the game.

Extra Additions

There were a few new unrelated features I was adding around the time when this translation was being made, which only made it into the game now:

• Autosaving now exists in the game, at various points an autosave will be created to prevent losing progress through accidentally not saving. A small symbol will appear at the top right to indicate that this is happening. (Autosaves do not overwrite your manual saves, if you make a manual save, both options will appear when trying to load.)

• The soundtrack has finally been updated with the songs from the Boss Rush update. Just be sure to wait a few minutes for the changes to take effect after this announcement is posted.

• A new song has been added for the Boss Rush's coloured frog enemies to keep in line with the techno tone of the event, also added in the soundtrack update of course.

Hello everyone! The long year is finally over, and the game is going on a 33% sale. Finally, at least something that will add up to 9 in some form...

Sale Discounts

The game should be running at 33% off for the period of the Winter Sale, be sure to pick it up if you've been wanting to play. The soundtrack will also be discounted for the same amount this time, luckily, so you can pick up the combined bundle if you'd like them at a small extra discount!

Extras

I've still been looking at the things I spoke about in the Autumn Sale, such as the art book, there were simply some delays due to real life circumstances, but they'll still be released whenever they're ready.

Anyways, that's all for today. I hope you enjoy the sale, and I hope you enjoy the rest of your year! See you Next Time!

Hello everyone! The Steam Autumn Sale is now on!

Sale Discounts

The game should be running at 25% off for the period of the Autumn Sale, be sure to pick it up if you've been wanting to play, especially with the new Boss Rush content added just recently to the game!

I want to mention however, due to the delays that required releasing the Soundtrack bundle late to Steam, they have barred me from setting a sale too close to its release, so I apologize, there wasn't anything I could do to circumvent that. Therefore, the soundtrack is not currently discounted.

It will definitely be discounted in future sales of course, and if you buy the bundle with both the game and the soundtrack, it does still include a small inbuilt discount no matter when you buy it, so at least there's that!

Other News

I wanted to briefly address a few other things while I'm here:

• While no date can be given yet, the current translations are still progressing in the background.

• I have been creating an Artbook for the game which had been requested to be made, it should be in editing soon, and will be released in some form for you to learn more about the game's creation process and see some of the game's assets in isolated high definition.

• I still wish to look at Steam Cards and Badges for the game after the above has entered editing, and would like to release those to give the game more external content as well.

• The new Boss Rush songs will hopefully be added into the Soundtrack package free of charge soon.

Anyways, that's all for today. I hope you enjoy the sale!

Softlock Error

This update is being made to address an error where, if the player deals too much damage in one attack while fighting NIT-FR-06 (Robo frog), the game would hang after the death cutscene played from that attack. It also addresses an error where, if the attack does NOT kill, the frog would behave in a glitchy manner. The phases should now progress as normal and not encounter problems like before.

Postgame Formatting

This is a minor change, but I realize that as a general user flow issue, most people would receive the "You have unlocked new items in the Extras menu" notification, and then go straight there from the game finishing. This means they would skip over the boss rush prompt, and may not realize you can re-access it by restarting the game, or forget to try do so. I added the option to enter the boss rush to the Extras menu with the other new options instead, so that should help players be more aware of it. It also helps with the general user flow between menus by giving a way to get from the main menu to boss rush easily. Due to this, I may later remove the opening the game prompt to access either game mode entirely, or at least confine it to only occur on the first boot.

Bug Reports

Please submit any bugs you come across to this discussion board, and I'll fix them in a timely manner: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3218680/discussions/0/598527550147298302/ Thank you for your patience and support!

Hello everyone, thank you to two users who reported the following errors.

Fixes

• The rare, previously fixed "teleportation glitch" solution gave way to a "sliding glitch" wherein Cirno would rapidly slide off the screen. This was fixed.

• The user's inputs being locked while holding down Z was fixed.

• A bug where animations would fail to work correctly after triggering an easter egg cutscene and then sitting at the pond in the shrine was fixed.

Bug Reports

Please submit any bugs you come across to this discussion board, and I'll fix them in a timely manner: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3218680/discussions/0/598527550147298302/ Thank you for your patience and support!

Hello everyone, this is a minor update for a few small issues identified since the release of boss rush.

(This patch was previously rolled back, but is now fully out. Two additional soft-lock opportunities have been addressed.)

Fixes

• A visual fix for a specific boss's death animation, whom would be half-unaffected by the boss rush death effects.

• An issue where setting audio too low in Settings wouldn't actually mute audio correctly was fixed.

• Clarification was added to the boss rush menu, so that it properly tells the player that pressing (X) or the equivalent input will quit back out to the main title screen, rather than just cancel menus after opening them.

• A bug where the cursor over enemy heads, their health bars, and their damage numbers would be misaligned, was fixed.

• An issue where achievements wouldn't properly back up the user's boss rush related save files was fixed.

• A rare error where, upon finishing the game, and immediately entering a battle in the same instance, the game could soft-lock in very specific circumstances. (For instance, if getting hit by the red frog fire attack).

Bug Reports

Please submit any bugs you come across to this discussion board, and I'll fix them in a timely manner: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3218680/discussions/0/598527550147298302/ Thank you for your patience and support!

Happy Cirno Day everyone!!

By the time this update releases it may have already passed for some users sadly, but I hope you'll be able to enjoy it nonetheless.

Boss Rush

This content update includes several things to talk about, and acts as a mini post-game epilogue story to play once the true ending has been completed. If you have completed the final boss of the main game, all you need to do to access this content is start the game on a finished save file:

New players will still go straight to the intro of the main game upon launch, so no major flow issues are introduced to the initial base game experience. Also, you can now hold the Z Button to skip the logo crawl, regardless of having finished the game or not, so anyone who prefers the former state has the ability to skip past them at least.

Content

While I don't want to spoil too much before you hop in and try it yourself, I will briefly outline what this update is:

There is a new mode, the aforementioned boss rush, which will test the player to defeat all the threats they have faced so far with new upgrades each time they play, but also one new one at the end...

This mode will be playable both independently (without dialogue, after finishing it once.) and as a small mini-story that takes place right after the conclusion of the main game, and will itself have its own ending to experience.

It also contains 3 more achievements, one of which is for unlocking all achievements at last, so hopefully you will all enjoy getting those. I don't want to spoil too much about the direct contents, but I hope you will all enjoy it!

Soundtrack

So, after the initial unfortunate delays, the soundtrack is finally being released in parallel with this update!

The soundtrack will be released on a discount running concurrently with the main game's discount, and will include all of the songs in the base game. In addition, the songs from the Boss Rush content update will be updated into the soundtrack soon for free to anyone who owns it; past, present, or future. This will occur within a couple days of release in an extra update.

Bug Reports

As always, for anyone who does encounter bugs, crashes, or unpleasant game behaviours, please submit any bugs you come across to this discussion board, and I'll fix them in a timely manner:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/3218680/discussions/0/598527550147298302/ Thank you for your patience and support!

I hope you'll enjoy it!

Sincerely, SilvaMemoria.

So, I have been mostly satisfied with the state of the game, and I wouldn't want to make major continuations in the form of DLC, etc. I enjoyed making this game, and it has been fun to share it with you all, some bugs aside.

However, I did note that many people felt it ended just a bit too soon, so I did want to add at least one small epilogue of content to the game. You can see the teaser here:

This Content Update should release on a certain special day for Cirno, 09/09, exactly a year after the original trailer for the game.

It will include: -The new content. -Some minor QoL improvements. -The soundtrack. -A new Final Boss for the end of the Epilogue. See you then!

Mysterious Teleportation

Bug Reports

Save File Error

Minor Fixes

• Sometimes, burning, freezing, etc. would not trigger even on moves with a 100% chance to trigger them. This has been patched.
• The 3rd basic enemy (non-boss) of the game had an error when inflicting burn effects more than once, this has been fixed.

Bug Reports

Hello everyone!

Framework for Localization

Now, you won't be able to see this change very much, but under the hood, every change necessary for localizing the game has been made to all the in-game systems. It was the first time I ever worked with such a thing, so I had some learning to do, but I'm glad the systems provided were robust and convenient to work with! I'll definitely try to do this work before or early in the release in future if possible.

Currently, we have two translations that are planned for the immediate future. On a first-contact basis of the translators who reached out to us, those will be Japanese and Chinese. I'll be working together with those translators and try to release a high quality localization when possible.

(Only one language available so far, of course.)

I do want to see if it's possible to translate the game into other languages, but as of right now, the only translators I have directly met with are a French translator and the two above. If they are successful enough to afford more translations, I will try to reach out to others in other large language groups.

That's all for now on that though.

Minor Fixes

Along with creating the framework, I did make a few other changes:

• The loading screen for starting a new game was made more subtle to preserve the original vision of the intro scene.

• A few attacks had minor readjustments made visually.

• A UI bug when getting specifically 10 turns of buff duration (no more, no less) was fixed.

• Some small changes were made to the extras menu for the Chapter/Battle select, to require fighting the final boss in the main story in order to re-challenge them in the Battle select menu.

Bug Reports

As always,

Please submit any bugs you witness, especially if you notice specific UI errors as of the localization framework's addition, to this discussion board:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/3218680/discussions/0/598527550147298302/

Thank you for your patience and support.

Loading Screens and Battle Lag

Fixes

Bug Reports

Controller and Joystick Improvements

Hello everyone! I was informed that the controller support I had added had a few issues in terms of joystick usage. I had mostly tested the D-Pad for precision, so I wasn't aware of some of these, and this update should patch notably: - Overworld movement on Cirno should be significantly smoother with the joystick. - The joystick will no longer be extremely slippery on the menus. I was much happier with the state of the controller after this update, and found a few other general optimizations in menu control as well as for battle menus, so I hope you shall all enjoy it more in future. (Addition - Some Battle replay blackscreens were fixed in a small post-update addendum several hours after this announcement)

Bug Reports

Please submit any bugs you come across to this discussion board: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3218680/discussions/0/598527550147298302/ Thank you for your patience.

Hello, this is the first non-bugfix update for Touhou: Fearless Frogslayer. I hope you enjoy the new additions!

New Feature - Battle and Chapter Menu

So, quite a few people liked the battles and some specific elements of the game a lot, but obviously were hindered by the simplistic save system which would require inconveniently playing through the entire game again to replay a cool battle or get a certain achievement.

In this update, the Options button in the title screen has become Extras, which now contains options inside it, and now, if you have finished the game, two new menus will unlock!

(This menu may also be used for future features, if any are added.)

Battle Menu

The battle menu allows you to replay any battle in the game from the convenience of the menu, and if you hold down Shift (Or the controller bumpers), you can skip any dialogue in the battles, as you've already read them by having finished the game. This should give players the ability to experience any battle they've wanted to retry without having to replay the entire game to do so, or show something cool off to their friends, without the inconvenience of all the replayed content.

Chapter Menu

Alongside the new battle features, you can now access any point in the game from the main menu as well, as long as you have completed the game. This will make anyone wanting to hunt for achievements they missed have a much easier and less tedious time tracking through the game again, even if it is rather short overall.

Both of these menus also allow you to see the frog book drawings and save screen drawings conveniently, now with something added for the final boss as well...

Summer Sale

A more minor element obviously, the game is now on its first sale!! I hope that many people will want to check out Touhou: Fearless Frogslayer, and enjoy the game that we have worked on.

The sale will be running from 10AM Pacific Time today (26/06) until the 10th of July, two weeks later.

Future News

So, as this is my first significant non-bugfix update, I would like to share some future plans with you all!!

Soundtrack

Firstly, I want to address the soundtrack, which I mentioned on my X/Twitter account (link embedded at the bottom of the page) would be released at some point after the game was first released.

Unfortunately, the composer's device had a fatal error in the process of uploading the soundtrack, so there was a rather big delay. Luckily, due to smart storage procedures, nothing has been lost in terms of sound files, but we can't upload it for this update as previously intended.

If you'd like to wishlist the soundtrack, you can find it here: The soundtrack will likely be ready at some point in July or August, so thank you for your patience.

Translations

While I technically cannot prove just yet that I'll actually be able to afford to translate the game, I have received many requests for it in some languages (e.g. Chinese, Portuguese), so I still wish to work towards that in the hope that it'll be possible to pull off. In the next few months I'll be creating a system to collaborate with people who have offered translations in past, and to test whether or not it is possible for the game's resolution to handle different scripts (Cyrilic, Kanji, etc.). (Note: I have not guaranteed yet that the game CAN handle these scripts, so I apologize if it ends up being impossible for certain languages.)

Anyways, that's all for today. Thank you to everyone who bought and played the game, as well as the many people who wishlisted and supported it!! I hope to make the game the best it can be, and then move onto even better projects in future! Goodbye!

Controller Support

Fixes

Bug Reports

Fixes

Bug Reports

Fixes

Bug Reports

Camera Fix

A small occasional error where, when starting/loading the game, exiting, and then starting/loading a new game in the same instance, the camera would be slightly less smooth; was fixed.

Bug Reports

Please submit any bugs you come across to this discussion board: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3218680/discussions/0/598527550147298302/ Thank you for your patience.

Save Game Warning

Some players brought to my attention that it is easy to exit without saving your progress, this minor update adds an additional menu to warn users that unsaved data will be lost upon quitting.

Additional Fixes

-A small visual bug in the final boss was fixed. -A small visual bug on Cirno during battles was fixed.

Bug Reports

Please submit any bugs you come across to this discussion board: https://steamcommunity.com/app/3218680/discussions/0/598527550147298302/ Thank you for your patience.