Save states, as it seems the game is next to impossible to beat without them. Even with savestate help, things will be difficult to say the least.

A type-effectiveness chart.

An Excel chart where I will write down the typings of any elfs I encounter.

Probably at some point, a walkthrough of some sort because I just know I'll get lost somewhere.

this game makes no sense...

Greetings and welcome to Let's Play Touhoumon! This playthrough is brought to you by Amy (that's me), since I just love doing crazy stuff for the heck of it. Maybe some guys and girls remember my Let's Play Slash'EM Extended ( it's here, and the game is freeware and has a download link, in case anyone wants to play ); (oh my god a semicolon, is that a tentacruel that will drown and instakill our character?), but I also play other games occasionally. Among these other games, there is a bunch of Pokemon games that I play if I feel like it. Originally I had planned to do a screenshot LP of Pokemon Chinese Emerald, or maybe Pokemon Quartz, but then I stumbled across this apparently excellent mod of... Fire Red, I think it was? Anyway, this is mostly a blind run since I didn't get past that dark forest at the beginning of the game.And damn, is this a hard game or what! I'm actually quite bad at Pokemon, and I didn't ever play the original Fire Red (maybe I should do that someday?), but Fire Red is apparently based on Red (generation 1), which I played up to the Pokemon league and then got too lazy to backtrack for the Strength HM. For the heck of it, my team was a lvl 46 Rhydon, lvl 47 Dewgong, lvl 42 Gyarados, lvl 43 Machamp, lvl 48 Magneton and lvl 44 Nidoking, even though nobody probably wants to know that anyway. But at least the general world map layout of Touhoumon seems to be the same.Due to being such a bad player, I will however use the following:In my test run of the game, I got brutally killed by the first trainer battle (not counting the rival). I mean, the enemy was a lass - read: a little girl that's supposed to be easy to defeat! - but she kicked my butt so hard, my player character coughed up boot polish. Seriously, the game even rubbed salt in my wounds by broadcasting in big letters "AMY LOST TO LASS AMANDA OR WHATEVER THE HECK HER NAME WAS! AMY PAID OUT SO-SO MANY DOLLARS TO THE WINNER!"And going to the Pokemon League early is even worse, but we'll get there soon enough and then I'll show what happens...By the way, the game is speaking of "puppets", but ever since I played Pokemon Vietnamese Crystal (best edition that was EVER created), I can't help but call them "elfs". It doesn't matter if they're monsters (standard Pokemon games), abominations (Pokemon Quartz) or little girls (Touhoumon), even though I'd say the Touhoumon girls have the greatest similarities with actual elves of all of them. And I also didn't ever play a Touhou game, so suffice to say I know jack squat about the Touhou series. All I can say is that OMG ITS A SHOOTING GAME WITH LITTLE GIRLS TRYING TO BLAST EACH OTHER TO BITS FOR NO GOOD REASON! Anyway, time to move out? I think so. Let's get this party going!Hmm, why the hell are there still actual Pokemon displayed in the opening cutscene? I thought this game was about puppets!After skipping the annoying introduction, Oak appeared and confirmed that I was indeed playing the right game.Unlike other Pokemon games, it's not possible to choose between Male and Female; instead, I get "Rash" and "Calm" choices... what the hell? Usually I always pick the male protagonist (who will still be named Amy anyway), but since this isn't possible here, I'll go with the manly-looking "Rash" type. Yeah I know what people will be thinking, "you're a woman so you should play as the female character...", but for some reason I rather play males in Pokemon games. Maybe that's because their character sprites look like they're able to kick some butt, I dunno...We also have a rival that can be named. Usually I would always call him "Gary", but obviously the name-able rival is female in this game, so...Aura it is. I think it's a beautiful name. She also looks mighty badass, I must say. Maybe I'll even get to have some fun with her... anyway, finally I have control over my character, so I'll go to the options menu and set text speed to Fast. Why the hell does that always default to Mid, anyway? Usually I'd also set the frame appearance but it's purple already (my favorite color), so this doesn't need to be changed. Let's rock and roll!The PC held some Full Restores. But from what I've seen, the player will need every bit of help he can get, so I take them out. Mom (who was busy cooking with her adept arranging of volcano bakemeat) sent me to Oak, but first I checked out Link's house (YOU JUMPED INTO A SWORD, YOU RETARD!) and found an Oni Brace, a Demon Egg and some rations of fresh water.Oh, almost forgot to mention that: This game contains a lot of swearing and random profanities, unlike official Pokemon games. Every time we pick up an item, we'll be seeing this butchered template. Anyway, we item pocket fricked all the items; there are actually three demon eggs (they seem to boost experience?!) and twelve rations of water (restores 50 HP, I always call them "I-Tank", similar to the Mega Man series' healing items). The Oni Brace is apparently supposed to train EVs faster but restricts Speed. That's all for this house, so let's head out again.There's a map in Aura's House, but I can't pick it up...The only thing I can do is talk to her sister, but she doesn't have much to say. Trying to proceed north caused Oak to appear and forcefully drag me back (eek!), and he wants me to pick an Elf... but what if I don't wanna? Aura even says it's unfair that I get to choose first, so why can't I just let her come first instead? Screw it and screw you, Oak, I'm outta here!Arrgh! Oh well, might as well see what elfs I can choose: Kana, the gray/blue little girl; cSanae, the pink girl with wings, or cAya, the black/white evil-looking girl... and since I don't know anything about the game, I have no idea if any of them are actually any good.Yeah, sorry, no audience participation yet. In fact, I'll catch the first five elfs I find once I have some Pokeballs, and they as well as my starter will be my permanent team. However I'll also catch other elfs, and the thread's readers may suggest which ones are to be turned into HM slaves. I also won't be giving nicknames to the elfs I catch since I'm terrible at coming up with good names unfortunately, and also I'll be using my Excel sheet that shows the names of elfs along with their typing, so nicknames would just add unneccesary confusion. Anyway, I'll pick cAya, the evil elf.Then Aura got an ExGengetu??? WTF? I thought the other choices were Kana and cSanae?! Anyway, while I was about to leave, she challenged me to a battle.Huh??? It's also not an ExGengetu either?Anyway Oak decided to be annoying and telling me things I already know, but after skipping his dialogue I finally got to make a move! Also, check out the protagonist's awesome "GO AWAY!" battle shout that's supposed to intimidate the opponent. The first thing I do is check out cAya's stats page, where I have to skip more of Oak's useless blabbering to see my move list:Hmm. Lick is a ghost-type move, but it's weak, and Normal types are immune to it! Argh! And Doll SP I have already seen during my test run; is this the move that used to be Spit Up, which can only be used in conjunction with Stockpile (which I don't have yet)? Cause Doll SP didn't work at all in my test game, so that means the only move cAya has is the terribly useless Lick... let's get ready to get our ass kicked by Aura, our beautiful rival girlfriend!She started with EX Power (totally not an X Attack), and cAya licked her Momiji.Yay paralysis!It didn't do a lot of damage though... and she took me down to 4 HP in a single hit with Water Gun.Now the berry is gone, and the next Water Gun takes cAya down to 2 HP, but thanks to paralysis hax I get close to defeating Momiji. Come on, cAya! You can do it!*sigh* Yeah, cause this battle is so incredibly fair. I tried to do some savestate cheating but Aura was using so many Full Restores, in the end Lick's PP was empty and...Oh, forgot to tell you that cAya is Fire/Flying, so she takes extra damage from Water Gun. Also, who the hell is Rodin and why does she call critical hits "beautiful"?! So we already have our first GAME OVER, thanks to our hot girlfriend Aura.I already <3 her... *sigh*Tune in next time to see how Amy and her elf cAya fare in their Touhoumon quest! With only one usable move, and a terribly crappy one at that, this is gonna be lots of fun! See ya!