May 6, 2015 at 1:51 PM
Join Date: Dec 30, 2005
Location: Germany
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Age: 33
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I wonder why there are some threads about Touhou fangames here but no general thread about Touhou itself.
I'm mostly a fan of the older windows games (Touhou 6 through 9 were pretty much perfect in my opinion). I think I started playing somewhen after the relase of Phantasmagoria of Flower View (9) and the first game I played was Immaterial and Missing Power (7.5), which was running barely on 45 FPS on my crappy PC back in the days. For some reason I always had a strong feel of nostalgia for those games, even though it wasn't such a long time ago when I first played them. Especially Imperishable Night (8) makes me want to come back to it from time to time. Am I the only one who thinks it got a pretty melancholic atmosphere if compared to the other Touhou games?
From Mountain of Faith (10) onwards I noticed a shift/change in style and when I first played it, I didn't like it at all. Today I think it is okay, the music is pretty catchy but a lot of the characters are bleh. What I especially like about the direction the newest touhou games are taking is that the music has some electronic elements now. However I think that the characters in the old games were much more memorable, than the ones in the newer games. Regarding the newer games I think Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and it's addon are pretty outstanding, Subterranean Animism is very well made and Ten Desires is good, however the rest of the games are okay at best.
What's funny is that (and it's the same for most other people I think) it weren't the games that I first made "contact with" but rather flash animations with remixed versions of ingame songs. I remember IOSYS being extremly famous in the english community back then and it helped to advertise the games a lot. I don't really think Touhou would have such a large fanbase today if it wasn't for the fanworks based on the characters and the music. There are a lot people who are into Touhou but never played a single game though (not that I approve of that
).
So I just decided to play Imperishable Night today on easy mode (I haven't slept for 20+ hours, so I thought it couldn't hurt) but it turns out it was a pretty bad decision, as one does not easily fail in easy mode. I started with 2 lives and beat the game with more lives and bombs the hud could display, that doesn't feel very satisfactory at all. I guess they weren't joking, when they said, their old granny could beat the game in easy mode.
After all I'm a huge fan of the extra stages though (atleast most of them). The extra stage boss is usually the most interesting character and got the best music theme as well.
Sadly I got pretty bad at extra stages for some reason, I believe this is due to missing training. Just some years ago I could easily beat the extra stage in Imperishable Night and even manage to play through the large majority of the extra stage in Subterranean Animism. Now I even struggle with the one in Touhou 8, which I think is one of the easiest. For some reason I got better at the regular game though.
I'm thinking of maybe streaming some Touhou playthroughs in the future, once I've got a new PC.
Well actually, I'm aware this Thread exists but given that it is old as heck, not all Touhou games are bullet hell shoot 'em ups anymore and the thread itself is quite ambiguous (more centered about danmaku in general), I figured opening a new one would be a better idea than doing an epic necro bump.
But maybe someone can fix this mess by using his/her time machine and tell my old self to use a better title and start post... Anyone?
But maybe someone can fix this mess by using his/her time machine and tell my old self to use a better title and start post... Anyone?
I'm mostly a fan of the older windows games (Touhou 6 through 9 were pretty much perfect in my opinion). I think I started playing somewhen after the relase of Phantasmagoria of Flower View (9) and the first game I played was Immaterial and Missing Power (7.5), which was running barely on 45 FPS on my crappy PC back in the days. For some reason I always had a strong feel of nostalgia for those games, even though it wasn't such a long time ago when I first played them. Especially Imperishable Night (8) makes me want to come back to it from time to time. Am I the only one who thinks it got a pretty melancholic atmosphere if compared to the other Touhou games?
From Mountain of Faith (10) onwards I noticed a shift/change in style and when I first played it, I didn't like it at all. Today I think it is okay, the music is pretty catchy but a lot of the characters are bleh. What I especially like about the direction the newest touhou games are taking is that the music has some electronic elements now. However I think that the characters in the old games were much more memorable, than the ones in the newer games. Regarding the newer games I think Scarlet Weather Rhapsody and it's addon are pretty outstanding, Subterranean Animism is very well made and Ten Desires is good, however the rest of the games are okay at best.
What's funny is that (and it's the same for most other people I think) it weren't the games that I first made "contact with" but rather flash animations with remixed versions of ingame songs. I remember IOSYS being extremly famous in the english community back then and it helped to advertise the games a lot. I don't really think Touhou would have such a large fanbase today if it wasn't for the fanworks based on the characters and the music. There are a lot people who are into Touhou but never played a single game though (not that I approve of that

So I just decided to play Imperishable Night today on easy mode (I haven't slept for 20+ hours, so I thought it couldn't hurt) but it turns out it was a pretty bad decision, as one does not easily fail in easy mode. I started with 2 lives and beat the game with more lives and bombs the hud could display, that doesn't feel very satisfactory at all. I guess they weren't joking, when they said, their old granny could beat the game in easy mode.
After all I'm a huge fan of the extra stages though (atleast most of them). The extra stage boss is usually the most interesting character and got the best music theme as well.

Sadly I got pretty bad at extra stages for some reason, I believe this is due to missing training. Just some years ago I could easily beat the extra stage in Imperishable Night and even manage to play through the large majority of the extra stage in Subterranean Animism. Now I even struggle with the one in Touhou 8, which I think is one of the easiest. For some reason I got better at the regular game though.
I'm thinking of maybe streaming some Touhou playthroughs in the future, once I've got a new PC.