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Touhou Mystia's Izakaya (2021)

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Touhou Mystia's Izakaya Base Game + DLC Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHQiszD5HINmfISi5jN3ft5fGnsksIjnE

The final DLC for Mystia's Izakaya is finally available in English. While the DLC has Mystia setting up shop in the Lunar Capital and Makai (from Touhou's PC-98 days) the main plot is about Mystia trying to catch Mizuchi (from Cheating Detective Satori). After completing the Lunar Capital Trials and progressing the story by talking to specific NPCs (like Reimu and Mima), you'll be allowed to take on Mizuchi herself. If you didn't watch the other video, basically:

-Mizuchi will go around possessing a random character. It's up to Mystia/the player to catch her.

-There are only two ways to tell if Mizuchi has possessed somebody. She either asks for a Dish or Drink that the person's she possessing would never ask for (e.g. Cirno asking for Meat, or Reimu asking for something Expensive)

-The other way is to use Mystia's new mechanic (which slows down time and lets her hyperfocus on a customer). If Mizuchi suddenly appears behind a character during hyperfocus, that means they are possessed.

-Mix the Jiguru Fruit into any random dish and give it to Mizuchi. You have to successfully feed the Fruit to Mizuchi 3 times to win. You only get 5 Fruits and 10 minutes to catch Mizuchi.

That's pretty much it. As I said in the other video, this boss isn't super difficult because 1) you can ALWAYS pause the game and double check if a customer is asking for their usual tags or not; and 2) you can always use the perception mechanic to check again. The hardest part of this DLC is remembering the specific dishes for all the customers. Luckily you "only" have to remember the base game customers (so the characters from the Youkai Trail, Human Village, Hakurei Shrine, Scarlet Devil Mansion and Bamboo Forest of the Lost) + three of the DLC5 characters (Ellen and Louise from Makai, and Rei'Sen from the Lunar Capital).

Once you've beaten Mizuchi, you'll unlock Yukari as a customer. You can also re-challenge Mizuchi by going to the Lunar Capital. The re-challenge comes with a few options to make the Mizuchi fight more difficult. "Will I be doing the harder Mizuchi fight?" Nah. It sounds really annoying. I didn't test it myself, but the game says the modifiers include stuff like "your controls randomly inverting" and "customers having less patience than normal". I don't feel like putting myself through that lol

...And that's it! DLC5 is supposed to be the final planned DLC for Mystia's Izakaya (they even waited until DLC5 to release the Switch version of the game), though somebody on the Steam boards said there might still be some content updates (some planned Rogue-like mode was mentioned).

Personally, I thought Touhou Mystia's Izakaya was a fun, cute little game. It's not my favorite Touhou fangame ever (it's a very formulaic game with some abusable mechanics and some oddly placed difficulty spikes), but I'm glad a more casual Touhou fangame like this exists. Not many fangames really let you explore the world of Gensokyo like TMI does, even if I still like all the difficult fangames and Danmakufu scripts.

Timestamps:
00:00 Cutscene
01:28 Showdown with Mizuchi
10:45 Cutscene
14:52 How to Re-Challenge Mizuchi
15:40 Makai Extra

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