It's been a long time coming, but the new free update of Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy—Hero Mode—is now in public beta! Experience the fun of a HoIF roguelite for youself! (This beta is available for all players—no registration needed. You can try out the gamemode once the game updates.)
● Thrilling Boss Rush
In Hero Mode, you'll be fighting every boss that has appeared in the game one more time. If you lose a battle, you fail the challenge!
● Resting Area
When a battle ends, you'll be able to return to a safe resting area. Each area will have various random amenities. Interacting with them will have different effects! (For example, the food cart, pictured above, allows you to regain health, while the television allows you to take part in a trivia contest)
● New Currency
For the first time ever, the game now has a shop and currency system. Every time a boss is defeated, you'll be awarded Gold Coinsbased on your performance in the battle. These coins can be used in resting areas to buy brand new items and spell cards!
● Tons of New Items
We've added more than 20 new items for Hero Mode, allowing you to try out different builds and synergies during the course of your adventure!
● Additionally...
Hero Mode also includes random events that appear during battle, toggleable challenges, taking items into a new adventure, and much more for you to discover!
● Final Words
Hero Mode is our first time making a roguelite gamemode, therefore, you may find that some parts of the design aren't really be up to scratch through the course of the game. However, rest assured, we'll be here to address any flaws or imbalances, as we plan on providing long-term support for Hero Mode. (Hero Mode and all its updates will be completely free)
If you encounter any bugs, or have any suggestions to improve the game, please email us at 728434587@qq.com or join the game's Discord, or contact us via any other means, and help us make the game as best as it can be!
Cirno, the Hero of Ice, receives a mysterious letter which turns out to be an invitation from the super popular idol, The Underworld Rose. Egged on by the idol-loving rabbits, Cirno heads to the performance stage where she meets with unexpected danger...
★DLC Content★
A much anticipated Character
Two spectacular Battles
Three exquisite Songs
Four entertaining Spell cards/Items
*This DLC includes the Original Soundtracks of the new songs
Hope you'll continue to keep Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy on your radar. Thank you!
Practice Mode And New Features Now Available!
Practice Mode Is Here!!!
In practice mode, you can freely choose any phase of any boss to hone your skills in. No longer do you need to beat all the previous phases every time you want to practice a boss's final phase!
Practice mode is unlocked after Story Stage 4
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The follow new features and changes have also been added to the game:
● New Language Selection Screen
We've removed the language selection screen that appears on game startup and ported it over to the settings screen. Now you don't need to go through the language select screen every time you boot up the game!
● Toggleable Controller Functions
Added toggles for aim-assist and vibrations for controllers. You can now turn these features on or off as desired.
● New Ways to Shoot for the Mouse
A new toggle for the two ways to shoot. You can now freely swap between hold-shooting and toggle-shooting to shoot. With toggle-shooting, you no longer need to hold down the mouse to shoot!
● Extra Stamina Bar
Added a new stamina bar at the bottom of the screen. It can be freely turned on and off. It's a good way to know how much stamina you have left during intense battles.
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Additionally, this update contains two new items:
● Esper Cape
Creates a frost barrier which dispels bullets when used. Also boosts the hero's attack when inside the barrier. (Obtained by talking to Wisebit after clearing Story stage 6)
● Rabbit Charm
Allows the hero to jump in mid-air. Also grants a small frame of invincibility when jumping. (Obtained by talking to Wisebit after clearing Story Stage 7) =============================================
Finally, Clown-phobia, Clownpiece's theme, as our very first battle theme, is something special and significant for Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy as a whole. Ever since our game's release, we've received a lot of feedback and support from players, so in other to show our thanks for that support, we've decided to remake Clownpiece's theme—Clown and the Seven Fairies!
You can now enjoy this new song in Clownpiece's challenge stage! (The New Supporter Pack DLC will also have this song added to it)
We've built on top of the original song with an even richer band, as well as adding elements of funk, swing, Latin and blues. Furthermore, our writer is the main singer with additional vocals by our artist!
We have more styles of music prepared for the roguelite mode coming in the future! Please look forward to it!
Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy's points shop and trading cards are officially live! Included are 11 cards, 5 backgrounds, 7 emoticons, 1 mini-profile background and 2 animated avatar frames. If any of them are to your liking, you can now freely redeem them!
The points shop and trading cards were originally supposed to come out on May 24, but due to circumstances surrounding the Clownpiece and Suika card (the former was too "cultured", the latter due to promoting consumption of alcohol), and nothing we did being able to remedy the situation, we've had no choice but to remove these two cards to pass review. Our deepest apologies!!
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Lastly, we are currently developing the post-game content of Hero of Ice Fairy. Here are some early teasers:
↑ Free new gamemode with roguelite elements ↑
↑ The first paid DLC with new characters and battles ↑
Patch note 2024.5.6
This update contains the following fixes and adjustments:
Optimizations
Optimized cache usage, decreasing load times and slightly remedying the freezing that occurs when loading resources.
Fixes
Fixed an issue where yin yang orbs would sometimes clip into the ground in Reimu Hakurei's boss battle.
Fixed an issue where controller aim-assist would bug out during the final boss's transformation phase.
Fixed some typos in the Kappa Rocket minigame.
We sincerely appreciate everyone's bug reports. We'll continue to address various issues in the game and continuously optimize its performance.
If you encounter any problems during gameplay, please feel free to provide feedback via email! Email address: 728434587@qq.com
Development plan of Touhou hero of ice fairy
As of today, the number of reviews for Touhou hero of ice fairy has officially surpassed 2900 ！ Without continued support from all players, we would never have achieved something this amazing !
The following is the development plan for Touhou hero of ice fairy:
In progress
Move the studio to a new location(We are going to Gensokyo)
Game performance optimization and problem fixing
Steam Points Store Content Production
Planned
A Free new [Roguelite Mode] update, expected to be released during this autumn
Several [Paid DLCs] with new characters, new battles, new story and new music. The first DLC is expected to be launched in the second half of this year.
In addition, if you can't get enough of the game, don't forget to try our free-to-play game Touhou hero of ice fairy: Prologue released in 2021, in which you can challenge [[b]Remilia Scarlet] and [[b]Flandre Scarlet], who don't appear in the full release!
