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Gensou Ningyou Enbu (幻想人形演舞, lit. "Fantasy Puppet Dance Performance"), also known unofficially as Touhou Puppet Dance Performance, is a spiritual successor to the Pokémon FireRed hack Touhou Puppet Play, involving training and collecting puppets of various Touhou characters. The game was released at Comiket 87 on December 30th. The developer of the game is doujin circle FocasLens, which consists of HemoglobinA1C, the original developer of the Touhou Puppet Play ROM Hacks.

Touhou Puppet Dance Performance, unlike the Touhou Puppet Play ROM Hacks, is an entirely stand alone game, built with its own engine and mechanics, which draw heavy inspiration from the 6th Generation of the Pokemon franchise. The game puts the player in the sealed realm of Gensokyo, where they travel around trying to figure out how to get home and, in the process, deal with an incident of these newfound Puppets which showed up in Gensokyo out of the blue.​
We're in a golden age of Kiwi Pokémon Let's Spergs, and here's one more hat in the pile. We'll be playing Touhou Puppet Dance Performance - Shard of Dreams, the standalone Touhou Pokéclone following a huge number of ROMhacks. I'll be going in blind, although I did play a decent bit of the ROMhacks a number of years back, particularly Touhoumon Purple.
This game has a number of divergences from your regular Pokeymans, starting with a set of different types. I don't remember the regular games well enough to say if it's just a bunch of renames.
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Beyond that, you've got puppet versions of every 2hu from the first game through to the fifteenth and, instead of evolving, you get to pick between a number of styles once your puppet reaches level 30. There are also supposed to be a number of QoL changes, although we'll almost certainly not be seeing the ones related to the reincarnation system that replaces breeding.
It's a game of many words and questionable translation, but hopefully there won't be too many issues springing from either that or the game's stability in Wine.

Without further ado, let's get our salt, vinegar, lemon juice, copper coins and bleach and open up a portal to Gensokyo.
Hello, World!
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The game informs me that it's possible to import save data from the base game to this expansion, but I'm new to this and don't have any.
With WORDSWORDSWORDS to make Rich Burlew blush, I'll join others in incompetently stealing @Polyboros2's gimmick where applicable

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Mystery.pngHey. It's time to get up.
....​
Let's start with "Hello," shall we?​
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This Kiwi Pokémon Extended Universe really is something. A few screens in and I've already run into our very own @Yukari Yakumo.
yukarin_smug.pngMe? My name is Yukari Yakumo.
This is the first time we've met, yes?​
This might be a weird question for you, but have you ever heard of Gensokyo?​
...Not at all, eh?​
Is the portal finally opening? I've been blowing into the straw for almost ten minutes.
yukarin_smug.pngGensokyo, a place that belongs to all that has been forgotten.
A world where the abandoned gather.​
Including those who were only known through folklore...​
Hmm, looks like you're hooked already.​
Ufufu, what an interesting being you are.​
Let me in, hag. I don't have all day.
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No room for genderspecials in Gensokyo, even if certain 2hus are pretty sure they used to be men.
Regardless, while I'm not averse to either of these sprites, our identity is clear. What woman would make the sacrifices needed to get to Gensokyo? We can already see $WAIFU reaching out to us through the haze.
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Ignore for a moment that we're collecting fumos and not the girls themselves. We at least fancy ourselves a harem protagonist.
yukarin_smug.pngMC-kun, Such a pretty name
We're in, boys. :woo:
yukarin_smug.pngWhy would I ask these basic things, you ask?
Well, it doesn't hurt to ask, does it?​
Your name is what defines you.​
Keep it safe, all right?​
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yukarin_smug.pngWell, it's almost time.
Time always goes by so fast, doesn't it?​
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And with that, Yukari is gone and we're alone in a bus, which has ground to a halt.
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We have a word with the driver, who reveals himself to be an ESL.
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Regardless, he has nothing more to say, so we make our way outside.
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The bus quickly departs. On a lark, MC-kun heads on after it.
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He quickly changes his mind, realising just where he is.
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The bus won't be back any time soon either, so it's up the stairs for now.
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Passing through the torii feels momentous, a first step on the journey. It doesn't help that MC-kun has spent the last few years in his basement apartment and is hideously unfit, already out of breath as he climbs the stairs.
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Soon, however, he reaches the top, only to find the area fairly dilapidated. There are a few other tourists about, so MC-kun, ever the lothario, decides to have a word with the girl near the well first.
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She doesn't have much to say, so MC-kun takes a look around. The shrine has seen better days.
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Curious that even the well is dry with a pond right beside it. With that said, MC-kun has a word with the other tourists about.
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Ever-gallant, MC-kun looks around but fails to find even the slightest hint that we're in the late 21st century.
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There's also some girl sleeping on a bench. MC-kun doesn't wake her, although he does briefly consider stealing her hat.
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This boy might not be a girl, but he does have something useful to say. MC-kun is, after all, all about getting to Gensokyo.
There's only one visitor to the shrine remaining. This nerd.
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We're then presented with this screen, which lets us choose any 2hu that appeared between Highly Responsive to Prayers and Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom.
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This will determine our starter and can be literally anyone. I'll leave it to this thread to pick MC-kun's waifu.
If no-one has any preferences, I'll have a fallback of Mima. She'll be in Touhou 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18, I feel it in my bones.
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