Today marks three years since the release of Chuhou Joutai 3: Three Nights of Scarlet Abscess, and 2025 marks the fifth anniversary of the release of the original Chuhou Joutai. To celebrate, I released the soundtracks for those three games on Bandcamp for free streaming. You can also purchase them if you want to listenContinue reading “Three Years Ago Today, an Era Was Completed”
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The Beginning of a Dark Age – And How We Can Resolve It
The release of Touhou Chouhatsuyou ~ Burgeoning Tresses of Longevity has marked the beginning of a dark age for us. Originally, the “Dark Age” was intended to refer to the Early Middle Ages of Western Europe where there was a time of economic challenges and fragmentation after the Roman Empire’s collapse. Nowadays, the term canContinue reading “The Beginning of a Dark Age – And How We Can Resolve It”
State of Drillimation: Autumn 2025
It’s been nearly six months since the release of Touhou Chouhatsuyou ~ Burgeoning Tresses of Longevity. As you can tell from the visuals, we have certainly fallen into a dark age. Not just for me, but Studio Emiko as well. If you’ve played our newest game Shining Shattering Sky ~ Reverie of Breaking Unreality, youContinue reading “State of Drillimation: Autumn 2025”
Drillimation Launches Long-Awaited Sequel to Mythos of Phantasmagoria, Confirms New Chuhou Joutai Game in Alpha Testings
Drillimation Systems, the studio behind a number of story-driven danmaku experiences such as Chuhou Joutai, has officially launched the long-awaited sequel to their role-playing game Touhou Kourinden ~ Mythos of Phantasmagoria on Steam and itch.io, which released last May. The game was developed by Drillimation Systems with additional help from the Vietnam-based Studio Emiko andContinue reading “Drillimation Launches Long-Awaited Sequel to Mythos of Phantasmagoria, Confirms New Chuhou Joutai Game in Alpha Testings”
The Brands Associated With Drillimation Systems
I couldn’t think of what to post so I had to improvise this one. Drillimation has been associated with numerous brands throughout the years. This also includes my preferential ones. They include: For Myself: I’m on numerous social media services so I won’t list them.
Shining Shattering Sky ~ Reverie of Breaking Unreality Reaches 67% Mark
Drillimation Systems has announced that their new game, the in-development Shining Shattering Sky ~ Reverie of Breaking Unreality, is two-thirds of the way done. This comes just one month after the first third was completed. With the completion at 67%, this means 200 of the planned 300 stages have been finished, with ten bosses soContinue reading “Shining Shattering Sky ~ Reverie of Breaking Unreality Reaches 67% Mark”
Itchio Went Down a Third Time In Less Than a Week
A few days after a major outage over the weekend, itch.io faced yet another outage on Wednesday, September 17, 2025. It spanned several hours that afternoon, starting at around 11AM Eastern Standard Time and lasting a few hours, until another outage took place at around 2PM, spanning five hours, and the site didn’t get backContinue reading “Itchio Went Down a Third Time In Less Than a Week”
Itchio Went Down For Much of the Weekend Due to Bot Attacks, Affecting Thousands
Indie game distribution platform itch.io was hit with multiple major outages over the weekend, according to the website Down For Everyone or Just Me, which is another website that tracks service disruptions across the web. The site isn’t available on the more popular DownDetector, though Drillimation Systems has requested Ookla to add the site inContinue reading “Itchio Went Down For Much of the Weekend Due to Bot Attacks, Affecting Thousands”
Forty Years of Mario
My life came in at the turn of the millennium, and like the players before me, I grew up playing many of Shigeru Miyamoto’s games both old and new, particularly Super Mario. Being the largest video game franchise in history, it has had a profound impact on my life and millions of other players. I’veContinue reading “Forty Years of Mario”
The Casualty of Replacing Your Debit Card After a Scam
Over the weekend, the Prophet Driller of Drillimation Systems fell for a real surprise on Pixiv. While this incident resulted in no real damage being done, it could have left a scar on the company’s finances, and it did result in his debit card having to be replaced. Pixiv has since suspended the scammer andContinue reading “The Casualty of Replacing Your Debit Card After a Scam”
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