#Violet Detector

[touhou-memories]

Violet Detector's Danmaku Dream 4 from Nightmare Diary starts with an attack that is very much like your shottype from the game. If you decide not to deal any damage to enemy Sumireko, the pattern will not change the whole fight.

However, if you start shooting enemy Sumireko, the pattern will change throughout the fight, although there aren't any HP markers to hint where this change will occur. The second phase of the attack consists of many orange and blue amulets, but they seem to be shot in two different ways, as seen as in the gif above.

In the third phase, the amulets are being shot at a lower speed, but Sumireko starts teleporting around. The fourth phase additionally has fireballs.

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[touhoutunes]

Title: Nightmares

Arrangement: Odyssey

Vocals: Odyssey

Album: TOHO EUROBEAT VOL.20 秘封ナイトメアダイアリー

Circle: A-One

Original: Nightmare Journal

[sylvyspritii]

Phantasmagoria of Lucid Dim. Dreamer (PC-98 FL)

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[musicalueion]

Nightmare Diary (Touhou Remix) - Violet Detector OST

Artist: akino estoy

Original Composer: ZUN

Original Work: Hifuu Nightmare Diary ~ Violet Detector. - Nightmare Diary

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Requested by anon

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I fucking love music

[tribow]

I did it! I beat Violet Detector!

Honestly, I found it easier than Shoot the Bullet. I was expecting to get bullied more, but ZUN really toned down the difficulty of many patterns when two bosses were at play. Some of the fights against a solo boss were harder than any of the duo boss stages.

It was a tad bit of a shame that many spellcards were actually recycled from previous games, but now you gotta dodge them under a whole new context!

Bosses don't share health bars, so you have to figure out which one to defeat first. When one boss is down, the other increases the difficulty of their spellcard. Which boss would you want to deal with last? Maybe you can defeat both at the same time!

The score chasing could be pretty fun if I cared...but I don't. I just wanted to complete it.

Anyway, spoiler-y talk from here on out if you care

So the Sumireko you play as the entire game is actually the one from the dream world. What a twist! This does explain Doremy's dialogue with Sumireko. It makes her words seem a lot more genuine rather than sarcastic, especially since she made herself be the last obstacle to overcome before Dream Sumireko learns that she isn't even the real one.

However, Dream Sumireko takes this news like a champ and decides that she'll just defeat the real Sumireko and take over! I like how Real Sumireko compliments herself. The confidence is on full display, character development intact.

Now, to my knowledge, Sumireko ceases to be relevant after this game so this currently concludes her story with Gensokyo. I guess now that she has dealt with her doppelgangers and has even garnered a little occult following online her ability to easily enter Gensokyo is gone.

Correct me if I'm interpreting anything wrong, but it seems like Dream Sumireko was entering Gensokyo all the time after the events of Urban Legend in Limbo. Since she fully believed she was the real Sumireko it was as if the real Sumireko was really there.

This only became a problem when Antinomy of Common Flowers started and this resulted in ANOTHER clone. Perhaps Doremy could have solved Sumireko's problem herself if not for that incident, cause now Dream Sumireko doesn't even make it to Gensokyo, she just stays in the dream world while still fully believing she's real.

So....Sumireko can't enter Gensokyo by herself anymore. Even after she defeats herself and ends the nightmares her means of entering Gensokyo are now severed. She'll dream like a normal person now....right? (I'm aware she shows up in Curiosities of Lotus Asia so I need to catch up on those chapters and see if she appears after the events of Violet Detector)

That must be why she's irrelevant as a character as of now, but it's not like she isn't aware Gensokyo exists. There are still some Gensokyo characters that can contact her, like Yukari. In fact, Yukari is probably the only reason why Sumireko could enter the dream world to fight herself.

But then....what was Okina's motive? It certainly appears like she was just instigating the problem for her own amusement, but that can't be it right? Did she just want Sumireko to be aware of her? How was she even keeping tabs on Sumireko that closely? Was she using her as a backdoor to outside Gensokyo and the Dream World?

Strange. Okina's actions are strange, but very interesting.

I wonder who even told Yukari what was going on. She couldn't have known unless Doremy or Okina said something...or Yukari talked to Sumireko herself after noticing something was wrong with her in the outside world.

Well, regardless of how things played out, that's Violet Detector! I finally get to try Wily Beast and Weakest Creature now. I've been wanting to know what the deal is with those characters and I'll finally find out soon!

[pinkcultgirl]

how is violet detector even real I just know sumireko loves yaoi

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Touhou 16.5 Hifuu Nightmare Diary ~ Violet Detector is a very functional game with no glitches at all

I have no idea is this is a known glitch or not but god its fucking hilarious

Tumblr won't allow me multiple videos but if you save this as a replay the game shits itself and makes her shoot in the replay anyway, causing sumireko to die but respawn as if this were a normal th game with lives. Nemuno stops shooting and restarts, and sumireko respawns with invincibility frames. This happens over and over until the replay just ends at the time it took you to win . Except nemuno doesn't even die it just fucking ends.

I love this game

[touhou-memories]

In Violet Detector, the size of the "Best Shot" thumbnail depends on which resolution you played the game when you took the picture: small thumbnail for 640x480, medium thumbnail for 960x720 and large thumbnail for 1280x960.

The size of the picture won't change if you open the game at a different resolution than the one you had when you took it. For example if you took the picture at 640x480, the thumbnail will still be small even if you open the game at 1280x960 to view it.

[touhou-music-twice-a-week]

Title: Next Dream (Beat Mix)

Arrangement: 和泉幸奇 (Kouki Izumi)

Album: Empathy Subliminal Psychokinesis

Circle: 荒御霊 (Aramitama)

Original Theme: Nightmare Journal

[touhoutunes]

Title: 交錯する夢の跡 (Traces of Blending Dreams)

Arrangement: silatory

Vocals: 柚木梨沙

Album: 今、誰が為のかがり火へ

Circle: 幽閉サテライト

Original: Lunatic Dreamer

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OP's tags:

#Can't kill her

#Can't express shock without it looking like concern

#You just have to deal with it

Ok so I've not gotten around to reading all of Curiosities of Lotus Asia nor Grimoire of Usami but like

Does anyone - shy of Reimu, Marisa, Rinnosuke, Doremi, & Kasen - know about the Doppelganger situation?

Because I feel like there's room for comedy with that just being unknown to most

[bookdragon-shenanigans]

No hate but Violet being a truthsayer sounds so ridiculous because why would Violet have the same signet as one of Varrish's cronies 😭😭