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Good thing my entryway was Touhouwiki because I know nowadays almost every franchise has their own wiki page, though most of them are on Fandom

As someone who started with HRtP and went strictly chronologically (skipping fighting games) I am, in retrospect, surprised by how well it went. I don’t think I would actually recommend it, but I regt nothing and it made me experience/appreciate certain things in a way that I couldn’t have otherwise

As someone that started with EoSD as my 2nd game i regret it, that game is unbelievably hard in a weird way, though i never understood the fps issue people seem to mention since mine just runs like normal in 30fps

So you're telling me I was a trooper, and a fool, for somehow playing Embodiment of Scarlet Devil first, and after finally getting it to not run at 999 fps, I got my ass kicked in easy mode for one of the harder games?? No wonder why it scared me from ever downloading the other games😭

This is a really solid video I personally started with Ten Desires, which I don't think is a good entry point. While the patterns are on the easier side, the resources are difficult to obtain, and even when you know how to get them, they're still quite scarce. Generally more resources are what makes a good entrypoint imo, as it gives more leniancy for beginners when they screw up, and also lets them bruteforce harder sections with bombs. I think Touhou 17 could also make a good starting point, as the patterns (on easy mode) aren't that difficult, and the game has quite a few resources, plus the beast spirits Roaring Mode is similar to the Cherry border, allowing you to take a hit, which makes the game more leniant on misteaks. Although the Beast Spirits themselves can be a bit of a beginners trap and can encourage reckless play, so its understandable why it isn't here. Aside from that, I agree with the rest of this video, I do think 18 is the best starting point, with the ability card system being both fun and letting the player either become very powerful or gather a ton of resources (especially with the ability to buy lives at the end of a stage).

Window size seems like an odd thing to note - don't most people (want to) play in fullscreen? (or am I just weird?) (If fullscreen is tiny with huge borders, too, (or super stretched or cut off or something) that's not the game's fault - need to change the scaling mode in your GPU settings ("preserve aspect" or "integer" is what you want). Not sure why some PCs default to dumb settings) As a scrub-tier player I can confirm the TH10 continue system really just kinda sucks. Not getting to practice the last couple spells much is one thing, but I think the combination of being able to replay the same stage over and over but loosing that "progress" if you quit the game just isn't very fun. It lacks that natural "that's it" moment where you have enough of the game and come back later. And to me that's really part of the appeal for this sort of game. I still love TH10 though, so idk.

I actually revisited this game on my own time earlier this month alongside ULiL and so the title definitely grabbed my attention. I love this game. I didn't get to enjoy it very much my first time around because I got into the series in 2015 and can confirm that yes, the game did have trouble running when I first tried to play it, usually being completely engulfed in a black screen (granted I was also a Linux user at the time, so not exactly a completely fair way to look at it). I think the story for this game is excellent stuff. Kokoro is probably one of my favorite characters in the series and she's easily one of my mains in all three of the floater games, with my main team in AoCF specifically being Marisa and Kokoro. On the topic of it's soundtrack, shout out to "Morning Clouds", the ending theme. I think that one is incredibly underrated, I listen to it a lot. Personally I will say I disagree on the art of later Twilight Frontier titles not being as good in comparison, Moe Harukawa's style is my personal favorite of all the Touhou art styles, but to each their own. I did run into an issue that wasn't mentioned in this video. One thing I'm glad they toned down in the two fighter games after this is gimmick fighters. Gimmick fighters either felt way too empowered by their gimmick or way too punished by it. For example, Nitori's gimmick of being super overpowered but having limited ammo, and then when the ammo drops she becomes garbage. A gimmick so bad on both ends they had to just balance her in the next two fighting games and remove the gimmick altogether. I'll also mention that when I first got into the game in my teenhood I was also originally disappointed they moved away from the Soku gameplay style, but currently I think I'm actually glad they decided to try something new. Another fighting game series I used to be into was Smash and I'm honestly super bored of it's formula now six entries in, the games stopped feeling unique after the 3DS one. Meanwhile even after six Touhou fighters, I feel each one is unique enough from each other to stand out as a game on it's own merits, and I feel like the significant change between Soku and HM really helped with that. HM may be rough but it wasn't afraid to do something new. Not really something I think enough people appreciate I guess.

Nice video! ❤️ just watched this vid then got addicted to your content lol. Maybe you can do a 2hu character ranking based on your likings of them in the future?

the trial has begun

A rite of passage for a Touhou fan.

Thanks for the informative video. Miko looks super cool and was surely worth it!

You're not a woman

is this an official collab? because this definitely didnt seem like something i would ever see coming

WAIT, ywnbaw + 50%, bruh.

Cool

Touhou is unrivalled.

kasen

Randomly was recommend this video and, well, now I know what I'm going to do during the day between Comiket and my flight back home. Any info for someone visiting?

Watching the video on my ps4 rn but I just had to get my phone to say one thing.... *_SUMMER SUIT MOKOU!_* FREAKING FREAGIDITY FUCKITY YEAH MAN! Im not simping just to clarify 🙏.

This almost reminds of when fnaf had the fright dome in Vegas

They had a TOUHOU AMUSEMENT PARK?!? WAS IT IN JAPAN?!? Were kids allowed? They gotta, right? Were there any 30 year old grown nerds there, OBVIOUSLY there would've! Were there meet&greets with the touhou characters LIVE, if it's in Japan, did they understood English? Were there any Non-Japanese weebs there? Were there old people there? And WHY was there an education center there?!? Also, this feels SO SURREAL...also, Are you Japanese yourself? And did they have a haunted house? If not, THEN WHY?!? THE WHOLE GAMES ARE ABOUT MISHEVIOUS YOUKAI GIRLS!! ALSO, WHY NO PHOTOS OR VLOGS FROM YOUR VISIT?!?....so..PLEASE ANSWER ALL OF MY QUESTIONS!!! (Also, if THERE ARE VLOGS OR PHOTOS or videos of people going there...CAN YOU SEND ME A LINK PLEASE? ♥)

Nice informational content, good work :)

Dude

You are so lucky. I wish I could visit the park too.

Now I need to make some weeb friends just in case events like this happen nearby! Or turn my existing friends into touhou fans but that already failed...

They were selling a HIFFU CD at Yomiuri??? wtf. thats awesome!! I'm glad you had fun!!!

Thank you for the vlog! It is an interesting experience indeed, wish I could go there someday.

im glad you enjoyed it but bro please cut your nails

This collab sounds amazing lol. They should add some more touhou decorations to the rides, add a touhou theme to the haunted house, and sell more touhou merch and food. I think they could make a decent amount of money doing collabs with amusement parks since touhou has a large portion of the fanbase that is under 19 (around 40%). Also I'm glad they didn't put cirno in the educational section, they would have turned the kids into idiots lol.

i see fellow kasen fan!

Can you show it when the collab’s over?

Thanks for this video, I listened it to keep me calm during 14.3's penultimate spellcard, finally beating it just as the outro music was playing

Thanks for sharing this- as an American Touhou fan and theme park enthusiast, I was curious to know how this event turned out. Seems like it was about what I expected from it (that is to say, a bit underwhelming). What are your top five theme parks, by the way?

I agree that the soundtrack is amazing, and I really love the popularity boom tracks for each character. (I also love the touch that each seems to feature a unique instrument.) While there are definitely certain moves and features I miss from the previous games, I had fun going through the story despite being bad at the game lol

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2:09 Now that you mention It... you forgot to mention how Touhou Koumakyou ( Eastern Scarlet Devil Land ) was originally supposed to be Touhou Kouchakan ( Eastern Scarlet Teahouse ) since Teahouse is supposed to be a reference to Stage 3 and It's Boss Meiling... but then changed it in development to match the Game's Story since well... The SDM isn't EXACTLY a Teahouse for say ...

congrats bru 105th sub from me :)

Played this game religiously since it came out until it died. Honestly the main reason the game died was because of how the mobile market environment works; essentially paid games do not do well on phones and you need to make "free" apps with lots of microtransactions and scummy business practices (to promote whaling, for example). The live service model is a popular one, but it requires people to play as long as possible through the form of 200 inconveniences and waiting and energies and a million materials you have to grind etc. Also the second you decide your game needs servers to function you're basically killing your game before it even launches, because servers are not eternal and you need money to mantain those. It is hard to figure out how many of these decisions were DenA's and how many came from Unknown X themselves, tbh. I'm just saying that if Unknown X was the one who decided this game had to be a gacha then they're the ones who pulled the trigger on the game, lol. Anyway it should have been a paid release from the start. There are a lot of those in phones, pc and consoles, so glad to see the game is saved from live service hell.

Like I Really Like Touhou 17.5 and Consider that My Favorite Touhou game but I'm fine on your opinion on 17.5 not being the same sense it more of a Action Boss Rush than a Fighting game

whoever said its one of the worst games in the whole series probably hates fighting games

its a p good game

4:14 also no replays and scoring in100th Black Market plus Touhou 19

Back when I first played MS, I had to increase starting lives just to get a simple 1CC, and this was a pretty useful feature. However, when playing EoSD, I didn't use this feature for whatever reason. In a way, having less lives led to me getting better as a whole since I would constantly have to practice the early game and eventually progress further and further with each run. I guess less lives could potentially lead to more practice, and this leads to more skill gain. In general, increased lives is good when you don't want to deal with endless struggle, while the default causes more struggle with the reward of getting much better at the game in exchange. Swag video!! :D

Zun didn't actually "forget" the spell practice. In IN it was (according to the afterword) a cautious experiment, in TD it was brought back as a form of fanservice (yes, once again, according to the afterward) and then for LoLK it was deemed unnecessary due to the existence of pointdevice mode.

"bullet hell" is a somewhat misleading name. it's not actually a genre but rather a sub-genre of shoot-em-ups. it's called as such not because it's necessarily difficult (touhou is actually one of the easier ones and was even meant to be a starting point for beginners as stated in ZUN's eosd afterword) but because it just simply has a lot of bullets. the earliest shmups, often called classic shooters or "dad shmups", had few bullets due to technical limitations, so to compensate, they'd typically have large hitboxes and super fast bullets. examples would be gradius, raiden or r-type i'd guess ZUN removed the ability to alter starting lives because he realised that you get a ton of resources to begin with anyways. hrtp has infinite score extends, lls has 10 lives and 31 bombs, pcb has borders and a shot type with 4 bombs per life, and in has easier deathbombs. even at default settings you can make a ton of mistakes in these games and still 1cc. it's no wonder that the first game to remove this feature is also the same game that lets you spam bombs with its generous power system having more lives isn't really accessibility. it doesn't make the game any easier to learn or play, it just allows the player to make more mistakes. had ZUN truly cared about accessibility he would've added solid practice modes, but even his most recent entries still don't let you practice individual stage sections or nonspells. if it wasn't for thprac players wouldn't have improved as fast as they did lowering lives for a challenge is pointless because you could just attempt to beat the game with more lives remaining at the end. the games even reward remaining extends with score so why should starting with less lives increase score? i don't see how a new player could ever accidentally start with less lives. this just seems like a score file issue to me this is a tangent but ZUN did not "forget" to add graze in mof. even though it can be beaten in only 21 minutes, it actually has the longest spell timers of any game in the series, so if it had graze, it'd take forever to complete a score run. just because it lacks graze doesn't mean it's inherently less interesting or deep (i personally dislike graze) shot slow was meant to recreate CAVE's control scheme but unfortunately due to ZUNgramming there's lag when going from unfocus to focus and vice versa slow mode also exists in soew, lls and ms. i consider it the equivalent of playing at low fps which is a terrible method of training

Good content, wish you more subs!

we need more good content like yours, touhou has been going downhill recently

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The th12 UFOs have literally no RNG though. You can control them 100%. It's just really hard. But hey, everyone has that one game they hate. I'd vote th7 down to F. Also another SA+UM enjoyer Edit: spelling

As much as people like to bash on the game for being the worst from the official fighting genre options on Touhou, it is actually my favourite, the range of things you could do by changing your character's faith(playstyle) is what gives it that edge over its successors that went down the easy route of 'no more thinking required anymore.'