Touhou x Kirby: Dream Land Rift by Akemi Yume (Danmakufu ph3) 

The terrible visibility and super-distracting player shots give this a very PC-98 vibe.

5:44 I wonder what Hecatia would think if she knew her fairy was hanging out with a world-conqueror.

Kirby eventually got back to Dream Land and brought ZUN's penchant for esoteric song titles with him. (Seriously, you cannot tell me 'Vagrant Counting Song Of Retrospection' wasn't pulled directly from ZUN's grey matter.) But yeah, this one might not have been fully balanced but I think that can happen when you go in knowing the player has infinite lives. Aside from that, I really liked this one. And now you've got me curious about the successor...

I love this script! The creator did a fantastic job, especially on presentation~

I'll be perfect honest. I didn't know this game existed, but I'm also shocked I didn't find this sooner.

13:43 I was just thinking: Elfilin knows a thing about rifts, too... I wonder if the script writer took that into account. And then you cut to that as soon as I finished that thought. ... Yeah, I guess they did, didn't they? Heheh... uh oh.

TBH, I think Morpho Knight is more Eternity Larva's type.

14:29 The best part is that the Kirby cast is large enough to cover most major Touhou Girls.

Now I see why it placed that high. Marx's attacks look so faithfully recreated in danmaku form.

4:01 HAHAHAHAHA THAT FACE IS PRICELESS XD

5:19 Yeah, he demolishes cosmic horrors every other day.

Flan and Marx would go on to found the Four Letter Rainbow Wing Alliance (even though Flan is just a nickname), attracting such literal luminaries as Ho-oh and nobody else because those criteria are way too restrictive.

And Here We Are!

Akemi is seriously so good, I can't wait to see more from them

3:03 Now *THAT* would be quite the power disparity. Though Eternity Larva's also a pick for Morpho Knight.

3:20 If she wants to know more about portals, she should ask Magolor about it. He might be hanging out with Eirin.

the background here is super cool, love it

6:35 Oh hey, that's where Marx was fought in Super Star.

1:34 Which amusingly sums up how Reimu is, these days.

If that one got 2nd place? Who got 1st place? I swear, if it's Lily White again...

1:27 A mode she hasn't been in for a long time, unfortunately for her.

how to perfectly affect the lore : two clowns and not seeing Clownpiece one youkai old hag being "consumed" by one youkai old rat

13:47 So Fecto Forgo/Elfilis possessed Yukari? Unless Kirby can get here in time, we're doomed.

1:09 Considering what Meta Knight can do with his sword...

14:32 Well, considering what happened to him, I think Nitori'll have to do with his daughter.

2:59 W *T **_F?!!_* For those not in the know, Galacta Knight is *_FAR_* more powerful than Marx. So Remi got the lucky pick, this time.

Wow, this script is very well made, I like it I forgot who Marx was until he showed up (I don't play much Kirby, the only one I did was Amazing Mirror) I do have one complaint however That first spell The warning makes it seem like you need to get away from the center, when you're actually supposed to stay in the center Very counterintuitive, it's giving IBP Sekito vibes, with egregiously bad telegraphing Oh and also that last attack Pinning you down, and forcing wide streaming is a terrible combination Aside from that, I have no complaints Spells are very pretty, their interactions are cool, etc.

oh fuck Forgo Yakumo. That's not a good sign... (But it is cool as heck tho)

1:17 What did Marisa feed Kirby with to give him her ability?

9:24 Wait, that was from Smash.

As critical as I tend to be about Kirby (seriously do NOT talk to me about the series storytelling holy shit), as I still enjoy it a lot, there's something that's so oddly cool to me about crossing Kirby over with specifically Touhou. Always been thinking about Kirby attacks and how they'd translate into danmaku attacks, and honestly, this script pulls it off so well. That'll also be a talking matter for a spell card in a fangame that has yet to be played here, and probably won't be for another 2 years... Also, it helps that Kirby and Touhou do have quite some overlap in fanbases. So imagine my disappointment when I see this cool script, download it to my computer and... Look I'm not gonna pretend my PC, _or_ Danmakufu, are any good, but goddamn, what is this script's optimization? I can't even go through the _dialogue_ without it dropping down to under 50fps! What the hell? And those Marx stars have god awful visibility too. At least from what I remember, visibility did get better in the sequel script... Not testing the performance again though, nope... (Seriously. My friend is making a 3-stage game/script and I'm basically hired as a performance tester so that if my PC can play it, so can anyone else's. It's that bad. So bad that the term "IrisPC" is a term some people in the fanwork community are unironically starting to use. A picture of my PC is even a sticker on the FnC server.) Anyway, time to get into my Kirby nerd mode. -Kirby _is_ called Kirby of the Stars in Japan (and in fact that's the full series name over there), so him as a duo with Marisa truly is a no-brainer. Also, there IS a witch enemy in Kirby's Dream Land 3, though all it does is give him the ability to swing a broom on the floor. -No! Don't piss off the Twitter Kirby fanbase! I swear those people get so pedantic over the smallest stuff, and Kirby saying "poyo" is a huge pet peeve for them. Kirby CAN talk, but chooses not to, I guess. So they kinda just use his speaking from the anime for this. If I'm not mistaken, he did say other things mostly in the original Japanese version (which I guess also is seen here to an extent?), but his vocabulary did get dumbed down in the dub. Also, he actually did say that word in like 3 spin-offs too anyway so I don't know why Kirby Twitter gets so mad about it. Trust me, when they get mad, they are relentless. "ough i hate kirby being portrayed as a dumb little baby" who cares -Marx's Japanese name is just Mark (マルク, maruku). Hence why Kirby calls him that here. -I think the giant Marx at the end is meant to be a reference to how he appears in Kirby Brawlball, a pinball minigame in Kirby Mass Attack. Funnily enough that game also had a shmup minigame mode, called Strato Patrol EOS. I'd still love to see someone expand on that. Heck, you even got your work cut out for you, there's a literal bomb button in that. Pretty sure Kirby's bomb here is even a reference to that! -Also lol funny Marx Soul scream. (Did Bee's annotation there duplicate or something?) -Sequel script teaser...Yeah, uh, there's few things more terrifying than Yukari possessed by Fecto Elfilis. -OH MY GOD YOU GUYS GET ME IN MY FINAL THOUGHTS, YOU JUST SUMMED UP WHY I LOVE THE IDEA OF TOUHOU/KIRBY CROSSOVERS. -Also damn, there's blurbs in the pause screen? Shit, this script really copied everything to a T. Even the things I hate about Kirby. WOO, I can't wait until Least Connected Marketeer. One of my favorite scripts out there.

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"What is this Undertale bullshit" my good dude, have you ever played a Kirby game???