instructions unclear, fought a vampier lady that controls fate and now I'm trapped in a cell with a voice in my head telling me if I eat a dead crow I become god
Touhou fan starter Pack. Agreed, Touhou is too big that some people think that the fan works are the official ones and the bullet hell game is the fan-made :D
I started with Subterraen Animism... It was... quite... hard? Well, i was dumb enough to insist to play it only on lunatic, but when i finally finished it, the other games seemed... easier.
@@blue_the_boy_kisser Well probably because i played it after about 6 other games it seemed a bit easier to me. I may have already understood some mechanics and got better in my reflexes trough training with previous releases.
I've been seeing Touhou stuff everywhere for a lot of years, but I never really tried to get into it. I tried once a few years ago, but there was so much stuff and so many games that I got overwhelmed and didn't really understand what was going on or where to actually begin. My main interest is to try and understand the story more than anything else, and to also get the memes and references you see from time to time, lol. This video (and like other 5 I've seen as of right now, haha) was really helpful, I'll go ahead and give it a try once more.
Ah very good point, Although don't forgot the Vocaloid Remixes of Touhou Covers like Bad Apple for an example... It was actually the Vocaloid Remixes of Touhou Covers that introduced me into the franchise... Thus I'm sure VTubers will be the next spark that will incuredge new fans to jump down the Touhou Rabbit Hole... 😊 Edit: Fixed a mistake that Nguyen Son Tung pointed out.... 👍
i find it so so cool that zun allows people to not only make fangames but make money with them and publish them on any platform with very loose rules. bro is evil nintendo
yknow sometimes i brag about being an undertale og and knowing absolutely every single tiny detail about that game all the shit related to it. but this? this is another LEVEL. i wanna get into touhou really badly and these video tutorials on how to do so are extremely helpful lol
My first exposure to Touhou was probably a hentai doujin. I truly got into Touhou through a TH-cam recommendation of "U.N. Owen Was Her?". TH-cam recommendations also got me here, and I'm thankful for that!
Hi! Coming from someone who's been a big touhou fan for a few years now, this video is great! However, I just want to say, for a beginner to the main games and bullet hells, I honestly don't think touhou 6 is the best place to start. The game is dated and feels rather slow, and the lack of the visible hit box whilst focused is jarring for beginners. Instead, I recommend touhou 8 and touhou 10 as the best starting points for beginners. I'm honestly surprised you didn't mention 8, it's the easiest besides 10, great dialogue, popular characters and a fantastic OST! For people that might have played bullet hells before, I recommend 17, the newest main game. It's great. For manga, I think the best (official) place for beginners to start and not get too confused would be either Wild and Horned Hermit or Forbidden Scrollery. Though I also love Silent Sinner in Blue, it's a bit more complex to understand without prior knowledge. And, last thing I swear, to all touhou fans young and old, please check out ZUN's music collection! It gets so overshadowed by stuff like EoSD... the music is great, the stories are really interesting and Renko and Maribel are adorable!
I just saw a tiktok about Touhou and wanted to learn about what it is. Immediately found your Touhou explained in two minutes video, and then watched this video. Entirely by chance, now I’m super interested and want to explore this, your content has been super helpful in getting me started. Thank you!
Coming from someone who's been a touhou fan for a month, I'm not sure if becoming a touhou fan was the worst or best decision I've ever made edit: Damn, I forgot I even made this comment edit 2: Yes, it was
This video helped me a lot with getting into Touhou. I started with Luna Nights, then listened to quite a few Songs. By reading the stuff on the Touhou Wiki, I was already pretty knowledgeable on Touhou when I started playing Azure Reflections later. I recently even managed to pull off a 1cc of AR on Normal with all 3 characters! I plan on trying to get my hands on an official game next and play either 17 or 18 next, and maybe even try something new and get 15.5. Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video! I wanted to get more into touhou for quite a while, I listened to a lot of touhou music as a kid and played a lot of touhou maps on osu! I’ll definitely buy the fangame on switch! 3 Weeks later edit : I just bought it, I'm so excited!!
ngl i wanna dive more into it. my introduction rn for it was the memes, yuyukos beautiful character design (and that SHE ATE ALL OF MY FUCKING WATERMELON) and that one like touhou game i bought on the ps5 when it was on sale (genso rondo). rn im just chilling, that and i unconsciously bought a fumo
I like that you emphasize games that left a bigger legacy as opposed to just ones that are easier to get into the gameplay. Touhou 6 is often left behind as being too difficult and wonky but it introduced me to so many bangers and the coolest characters.
I started on 12 before watching those video, haven’t been able to constantly play it because of how busy my summer has been but dang it’s hard but also rewarding when you finally master a boss that seemingly felt impossible to go up against before hand, although it only on level 5
Huge thanks to Jacoder23 for allowing me to use their piano covers for this video. Check out their channel here: m.th-cam.com/channels/dLQ-aSddS0WPnWQA87JNow.html
I got into Touhou with the most popular remix called bad apple and then watched a very good 3d fan animator Minus T. And then I am going to wait for the steam sell on Touhou Luna Knights.
Just watched this after your video on Bad Apple :) Your content is really nice so far and I'm excited to see you grow. I've been a mild Touhou fan for years (drowned myself in OSTs and TH 6, 7, and 11) and I think you just relit my passion for the series ^-^
I found out about this franchise through Fumos, lol. When i saw it was a bullet, hell, i was genuinely surprised and that it has so many games. I guess I'll start my grind today
this was honestly such a helpful video! ive been a huge fan of bad apple for nearly ten years now and i think it’s time for me to take the plunge into touhou :) also, side note: the “tomboyish girl in love” melody is very similar to a vocaloid song. i don’t remember which, but it’s the exact same melody lol
you're thinking of "Kasane Territory", with a few corrections, being that teto kasane is not a vocaloid, and the song "Kasane Territory" is a parody of "Tomboyish Girl In Love", not the other way around. hope this helped!!
@@DCminh-pe9wf There's the website "touhou project lovers". It's amazing, they have everything. I installed EoSD for the "authentic experince" and I mostly play 12.3/10.5 because I prefer fighting games.
i found 6 accidently and played it years ago then after a few years i played the fighting games where i really liked the first one and currently im playing Touhou Puppet Dance Performance and am loving it
Thank you for this video! I’ve always loved the Touhou designs since I was a kid but never really got into the series besides a few fanmade medias so I wanted to officially buckle down and get into it but was kinda dumbfounded :P
Thanks this guide, even though it’s already 3 years and I just started to interest it’s still a good thing to know that it has a fighting game too, that’s my fav genre
Touhou is the only series I've played that actually lives up to it's reputation of being incredibly difficult. To anybody else getting into Touhou: Please, start with Azure Reflections or Imperishable Night.
Appreciate you for making this video, now i have a few games to look forward to. I think I'll start with Touhou 10 since it's already on steam, also if you haven't checked it out Touhou Spell Bubble on switch is a pretty good game.
Thanks for the video. I wanted to enter the world of touhou but didn't know where to start. Thanks to you I started reading scrollery manga and gonna buy original and fan made games and vn. Thank you man of culture.
Man, I used to listen to Touhou music all the time back in the mid to late 2000's when I was little. I really miss the old internet days before it really popped off and now I wanna get into the games. Thanks for the vid.
Very nice introductory video, although I would've really liked the photography games to be mentioned for people (like myself) who enjoy shorter bursts of difficult gameplay as opposed to a longer storyline.
Didn’t talk about those because I don’t have much experience with them, but Jacoder was telling me how they started with Impossible Spell Card, which isn’t exactly a photography game but is in the same vein of “shorter burst”.
Oh my, I've always thought that the creator of Touhou only wrote/made the characters and soundtrack, but I had assumed everything else, including the official bullet hell games, were fan-made. Well then, both bullet hell and fighting games are just absolutely not my thing, and it's the same for just appreciating soundtracks.. Still, I'm glad this video existed. Cause now, I know better. ( Reaching your channel was a bit of a journey XD Found your channel from seeing someone remake the Rick Roll MV using the strategy game EU4 by editing save files. The same channel did one other video that was on Bad Apple. I watched it and thought: Oh, I've heard this a few times before. Might as well finally look up the original video/Touhou explanation on YT considering how much fanart and doujins I've encountered ever since I started watching anime back in 2016. And I saw your Bad Apple video at the top 10 results, watched it, and watched 4 of your explaining Touhou videos.)
Funny to think how I got into Touhou. First I just came across Night of Nights while searching some electronic music and ost remixes, then ytpmv's lead me to touhou ones, such as the one and only PhilipOnBread, which slowly devolved into looking up touhou remixes of popular songs and downloading them. Mostly just like the most popular 20 and having like 10 remixes of each lol. Then a full game's ost (Ten Desires I believe) sometime in highschool, and only then, years after only recently did I go full goblin and get into the lore. I also played TH6 and 7 at one point but gave it up after getting like halfway in each. Long way to go with no end in sight!
I think once I get my own PC I'ma start with Luna nights then play Azure reflections, 10, and 6. Then I'll go from there (btw thx for making such a good video you deserve way more than 3k subs)
Thank you so much for this video! I come from osu! and I loved some of the TouHou's tracks and remixes but I didn't know where to start and this video helped me out a lot
Got to know the series through a legendary meme video of McDonalds remix of UN en Owen was Her. Played the first two official fighting games. Had a lot of fun. Tried beating TH 6 for about a year. It traumatized me and made me give up on ever playing a shmup for 12 years. Snorted fan content and OSTs during the period of not playing anything main series related. Watched a guide by Shmup Junkie in how to become good in shmups in 7 days. Went back to TH 6 to give it another chance, and after 2 days I beat the game in 1cc on Easy, and managed to reach the final boss on Normal for the first time. I am so happy that I went back. These games look amazing, and 6 is already pretty fun. ZUN's idea to basically make his works public domain with some caveats is a practice I still wish to see more of in the gaming space. It worked wonders for the franchise, allowing all kinds of people to enjoy and get to know the series in many different forms and interpretations. Fumo~
I just discovered that the wallpaper on my desktop I've had for over 3 months is from the Touhou series. There are so many characters I've seen a lot everywhere, but I never knew where they were from. Thanks for sharing your opinion! I might try Luna Nights even though it's not the best to start with in terms of storytelling, because I am a fan of 8 bit-styled rpgs :D
Yo, thanks for the informative video! I remember dipping my toes into touhou when i was younger and just started getting into my weeb phase during puberty. I played the embodyment of the scarlet devil and enjoyed it, but it was too difficult and I moved on. I did however like the memes, music and characters, especially Marisa Kirisame. a year or two later when I was a bit confused about my identity, I wanted to go to the local comic con to cosplayas a girl in a cute dress, this girl being Marisa Kirisame. I had a great time with my friend, and the costume still hangs in my room today, quite a few years later. Alot has happend since, but I have recently gotten back into anime and trying out some new and old games again. I have a cute Marisa Fumo who I bought to remember that special day who I always see when on the PC, and decided to try and get into Touhou again. Your recommendations sounds very fun and you go very well about showing different options and explaining the pros and cons. I think I'm going to start with Azure Reflections as it looks very cool. Again, thanks for the great video, seeing Marisa and Touhou in general really brings back some fond memories in the weirdest way possible
I think Spell Bubble and Kobuto V Burst Battle were my first games. I know they are technically fan games but I really enjoyed them. Ever since, I've happily been a part of the cult! xD
One thing I'll say: my first touhou game was 08, imperishable night. The music, story, vibes, and graphics are all absolutely fantastic but you will learn _very bad habits_ with respect to the timing of bombing out of getting hit. Strongly recommend starting with 10 as mentioned in the vid! Subterranean Animism is also very fun.
I know this video is a year old, but I'll hope for a reply anyways. Great video, it's well structured and you make very good arguments both for and against each option. On the fangame front, do you think Puppet Dance Performance would do a fine job showing the world of Gensokyo to a newcomer? Now that game is a massive thing, containing locations and characters from every official work (PC-98 included :D ) at the time it was released-- and the Shard of Dreams expansion and SoD Extended mod add areas and characters from further works, keeping up to the latest ;) Plus, Pokémon-like gameplay is definitely more accessible than both danmaku and fighting games. I also think there's a print work you didn't mention that could also be nice for getting into the lore: Perfect Memento in Strict Sense. In it, Akyuu gives plenty of information on the various locations and characters appearing in EoSD through PoFV, and even the backstory for the Spell Card system. One may also have a look at Symposium of Post-Mysticism, where Akyuu adds further entries for the characters in MoF through TD. And you can read all of this in the Touhou Wiki, both in Japanese and translated to English. Of course, Akyuu's entries aren't for everyone; they might put off people who don't like reading much. They also do have the downside that Akyuu exaggerates some details to make various characters seem more dangerous than they really are-- might even give the reader the impression that Gensokyo is a bleak, deadly place rather than the fun, light-hearted setting it generally is in practice. Plus of course, HM onwards aren't covered because they came out later, so that's a lot of missed lore to catch up on later.
Thanks for the video pal! I've been meaning to play a touhou bullet hell type of game in a while after playing a random bullet hell game (app) with a piano rhythm game mechanics (which ngl, is addicting but did burned my eye a bit lol)
Some new things I could add: - TouHou 15.5 (the last fighter game) is now available on the Nintendo Switch! - TouHou Spell Bubble is also pretty good, most notably for the songs full of Internet Culture it introduces, lol. It's on Switch. - If you like Die & Retry's, I'll recommend TouHou 15 Kanjuuden. It's one of the harder TH games, but it has a chapter system that makes you replay the same shit again and again until you can beat it. It's really good to... well, get good at TouHou.
I find Night Of Nights as a cool song, I find out it's from Touhou, I feel like I've seen Touhou a bunch of times, I figure out it's a bullet hell game, I wonder where I should start. About 4 hours later, I think I have a headache now (btw I'm starting with Azure reflections but it took me so long to figure out where to start lmao
I started with a video of an Ice fairy showing some funky dance moves against someone called "Scarlet police", now I need to know more about this characters!
In all honesty I just want a guide on each character if there's a book I'll probably buy it I just want to read about one character and be obsessed with them
instructions unclear, fought a vampier lady that controls fate and now I'm trapped in a cell with a voice in my head telling me if I eat a dead crow I become god
Same but I got another voice that keeps singing dokidoki wakuwaku
_Jesus fucking god I cackled_
so did you become god after eating the steak?
This is too much to process
I need to go fishing
let me just drink mah sake to understand
Touhou fan starter Pack.
Agreed, Touhou is too big that some people think that the fan works are the official ones and the bullet hell game is the fan-made :D
Does that really happen? XD
I'd actually believe that could happen tbh
@@DevilRockso well some people thinks touhou is an anime
@@korn900ch that's a good point
@@korn900ch I mean if I didn't know better before hand, I probably would've believed that.
@@korn900ch I remember 2 years ago when I found fumos and I was desperatly searching for witch anime are they from.
Me who just finished getting into the Fate series:aww Shit here we go again
I’m so sorry
Same bro, my degree is crying
Ok now get into the kagerou project
@@user-ft4ev4qb3n oh god kagerou project
@@user-ft4ev4qb3n kagerou project took me around 3-4 weeks to understand it
I just saw your Bad Apple video and decided to look into where to start for getting into Touhou. Crazy timing.
The comment section of that video was probably the main reason I made this lol
I started with Subterraen Animism... It was... quite... hard? Well, i was dumb enough to insist to play it only on lunatic, but when i finally finished it, the other games seemed... easier.
That’s one plus to starting with harder games! Had a similar experience (though likely not as drastic as yours) from moving from Touhou 6 to Touhou 7.
@@Megapig9001 Yeah! somehow i've 1cced SA but not PCB? maybe its because of bombing is so easy to get away with in 10 and 11
What about LoLK? Pretty sure that one is consideree harder than SA
@@blue_the_boy_kisser Well probably because i played it after about 6 other games it seemed a bit easier to me. I may have already understood some mechanics and got better in my reflexes trough training with previous releases.
@@Megapig9001 i am playing th6,should i try arcade or lunatic mode only
I've been seeing Touhou stuff everywhere for a lot of years, but I never really tried to get into it. I tried once a few years ago, but there was so much stuff and so many games that I got overwhelmed and didn't really understand what was going on or where to actually begin. My main interest is to try and understand the story more than anything else, and to also get the memes and references you see from time to time, lol. This video (and like other 5 I've seen as of right now, haha) was really helpful, I'll go ahead and give it a try once more.
Y lograste entrar?
How did it go?
Touhou has one of the biggest and dedicated fanbases of all time. One should be proud of being a Touhou fan alone.
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no
@@luzchandias482What?
@@fluffynyasquirrelWhy?
@@kingabsalon21 there are a concerning amount of pedophiles but i dont see them anymore ever since touhou started getting popular on tiktok so yay
With the Vtubers playing or singing touhou songs, I believe more and more people might know about it more in the going days.
Ah very good point, Although don't forgot the Vocaloid Remixes of Touhou Covers like Bad Apple for an example...
It was actually the Vocaloid Remixes of Touhou Covers that introduced me into the franchise...
Thus I'm sure VTubers will be the next spark that will incuredge new fans to jump down the Touhou Rabbit Hole... 😊
Edit: Fixed a mistake that Nguyen Son Tung pointed out.... 👍
@@djcjfxyz5351 k but the original was sung by Nomico. So you should say Vocaloid remix of the cover instead of Vocaloid cover
@@ephraimium6755 Ah my bad, Thanks for the correction buddy! 🙂👍
@@djcjfxyz5351 im down to this rabbit hole coz of fubuki.
@@wintrywind Ah Nice to see a fellow Hololive Fan here! 😊
i find it so so cool that zun allows people to not only make fangames but make money with them and publish them on any platform with very loose rules. bro is evil nintendo
Nah he's nintendo but if they loved their fans.
@@Nikolas0269 by evil i meant oppisite yk
yknow sometimes i brag about being an undertale og and knowing absolutely every single tiny detail about that game all the shit related to it. but this? this is another LEVEL. i wanna get into touhou really badly and these video tutorials on how to do so are extremely helpful lol
this is so real
My first exposure to Touhou was probably a hentai doujin.
I truly got into Touhou through a TH-cam recommendation of "U.N. Owen Was Her?".
TH-cam recommendations also got me here, and I'm thankful for that!
Im both + fnf because um Ronald McDonald Jojo pose
When you scroll down in the 'boorus and Sankaku around the 2000s/10s, a huge amount of R18 pictures were of Touhou!
@@NCC-0000 most definitely, I noticed the amass of post on Danbooru/Gelbooru; it’s crazy
I was introduced when I first heard the Night of Night's remix, and later I decided to finally start playing the games.
Cringe
5:04 massive? you know what else is massive...
Hi! Coming from someone who's been a big touhou fan for a few years now, this video is great!
However, I just want to say, for a beginner to the main games and bullet hells, I honestly don't think touhou 6 is the best place to start. The game is dated and feels rather slow, and the lack of the visible hit box whilst focused is jarring for beginners. Instead, I recommend touhou 8 and touhou 10 as the best starting points for beginners. I'm honestly surprised you didn't mention 8, it's the easiest besides 10, great dialogue, popular characters and a fantastic OST!
For people that might have played bullet hells before, I recommend 17, the newest main game. It's great.
For manga, I think the best (official) place for beginners to start and not get too confused would be either Wild and Horned Hermit or Forbidden Scrollery. Though I also love Silent Sinner in Blue, it's a bit more complex to understand without prior knowledge.
And, last thing I swear, to all touhou fans young and old, please check out ZUN's music collection! It gets so overshadowed by stuff like EoSD... the music is great, the stories are really interesting and Renko and Maribel are adorable!
8 is a good starting point
as a beginner i don't feel like the lack of hitbox is jarring, it feels pretty intuitive imo
where do i play touhou 8 its not on steam?
That's EXACTLY WHAT *HE FUCKING SAID!!!*
I just saw a tiktok about Touhou and wanted to learn about what it is. Immediately found your Touhou explained in two minutes video, and then watched this video. Entirely by chance, now I’m super interested and want to explore this, your content has been super helpful in getting me started. Thank you!
Osana Reimu needs bigger disclaimer for the feels, I was not ready.
Coming from someone who's been a touhou fan for a month, I'm not sure if becoming a touhou fan was the worst or best decision I've ever made
edit: Damn, I forgot I even made this comment
edit 2: Yes, it was
Now that it's been over a year, was it a good decision?
@@jacobcain9008 pretty good decision
@@SleepyPj good to know! I'm determined to atleast beat remilia in eosd tonight.
I just started today, and I share your apprehension. (Might not play the games, but will probably watch the story on TH-cam)
It's been a year again, was it still a good decision?
This video helped me a lot with getting into Touhou. I started with Luna Nights, then listened to quite a few Songs. By reading the stuff on the Touhou Wiki, I was already pretty knowledgeable on Touhou when I started playing Azure Reflections later. I recently even managed to pull off a 1cc of AR on Normal with all 3 characters!
I plan on trying to get my hands on an official game next and play either 17 or 18 next, and maybe even try something new and get 15.5.
Thank you!
Thanks for your video! Really excited to dive into this universe!
I feel like a old man learning this lol 😅. You did a awesome job explaining!
i first found touhou from roblox funky friday, a friday night funkin' knock off game and was obsessed w the soundtrack, i love touhou sm now
That'd so real
Even three years later, I'm glad to see this video get put back in my recommended on every new YT account I make
I started with Lotus Land Story. Now I get absolutely pissed when someone knows Bad Apple, but has never even heard of Elly.
TYSM FOR THIS VIDEO!!! i had no idea what this series even was but now i definitely gonna try some of these games!!
the best way to start touhou is with koishi komeiji's heart throbbing adventure
i agree
*Please no*
wait no!11!1!1 start with amogus!1!!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!!1
You joke, but this is how I legitimately started
Thank you so much for this video! I wanted to get more into touhou for quite a while, I listened to a lot of touhou music as a kid and played a lot of touhou maps on osu! I’ll definitely buy the fangame on switch!
3 Weeks later edit : I just bought it, I'm so excited!!
ngl i wanna dive more into it. my introduction rn for it was the memes, yuyukos beautiful character design (and that SHE ATE ALL OF MY FUCKING WATERMELON) and that one like touhou game i bought on the ps5 when it was on sale (genso rondo). rn im just chilling, that and i unconsciously bought a fumo
14:48 I literally finished watching that yesterday and I cried SO MUCH on it
THANK YOU I've recently gotten into Fumos and found out about touhou through that, and I've had no clue where to start.
I like that you emphasize games that left a bigger legacy as opposed to just ones that are easier to get into the gameplay. Touhou 6 is often left behind as being too difficult and wonky but it introduced me to so many bangers and the coolest characters.
God I love your content, long live touhou.
I started on 12 before watching those video, haven’t been able to constantly play it because of how busy my summer has been but dang it’s hard but also rewarding when you finally master a boss that seemingly felt impossible to go up against before hand, although it only on level 5
CONGRATS ON 1K MATE, little late but to the future that lies ahead may you continue to Grow!
dude, your content is literally amazing, the way you structure your videos is 10/10. how are you not more popular than this???
Huge thanks to Jacoder23 for allowing me to use their piano covers for this video. Check out their channel here: m.th-cam.com/channels/dLQ-aSddS0WPnWQA87JNow.html
Someone recommended me to start from Lunatic Kingdom. That was ...quite an experience...
I told my friend to start with IN, and he somehow misremembered and got LoLK. Pointdevice at least makes it beatable in a day though
thank you very much, I've always wanted to explore the touhou universe and narrative and now I have the tools to do it, thanks
I got into Touhou with the most popular remix called bad apple and then watched a very good 3d fan animator Minus T. And then I am going to wait for the steam sell on Touhou Luna Knights.
Just watched this after your video on Bad Apple :)
Your content is really nice so far and I'm excited to see you grow. I've been a mild Touhou fan for years (drowned myself in OSTs and TH 6, 7, and 11) and I think you just relit my passion for the series ^-^
I found out about this franchise through Fumos, lol. When i saw it was a bullet, hell, i was genuinely surprised and that it has so many games. I guess I'll start my grind today
I started with the Arkanoid clone on PC98 and then I got a nice surprise near the end of Luna Nights
this was honestly such a helpful video! ive been a huge fan of bad apple for nearly ten years now and i think it’s time for me to take the plunge into touhou :)
also, side note: the “tomboyish girl in love” melody is very similar to a vocaloid song. i don’t remember which, but it’s the exact same melody lol
you're thinking of "Kasane Territory", with a few corrections, being that teto kasane is not a vocaloid, and the song "Kasane Territory" is a parody of "Tomboyish Girl In Love", not the other way around. hope this helped!!
A man has to stop lying to himself at some point.
I just want to get into Touhou because of the cute girls.
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I'll start with the Doom mod
Understandable have a nice day
@@DCminh-pe9wf
There's the website "touhou project lovers".
It's amazing, they have everything.
I installed EoSD for the "authentic experince" and I mostly play 12.3/10.5 because I prefer fighting games.
FBI OPEN UP
6:37 btw the medic was saying oktober fest idk why you guy keep mistaken with October first
i found 6 accidently and played it years ago then after a few years i played the fighting games where i really liked the first one and currently im playing Touhou Puppet Dance Performance and am loving it
Thank you for this video! I’ve always loved the Touhou designs since I was a kid but never really got into the series besides a few fanmade medias so I wanted to officially buckle down and get into it but was kinda dumbfounded :P
I keep seeing these plushies in my friend’s room, now I’m jumping down the rabbit hole
Thanks this guide, even though it’s already 3 years and I just started to interest it’s still a good thing to know that it has a fighting game too, that’s my fav genre
Touhou is the only series I've played that actually lives up to it's reputation of being incredibly difficult. To anybody else getting into Touhou: Please, start with Azure Reflections or Imperishable Night.
13 also has a relatively difficult but balenced difficulty, along with spell practice
I watched this video 1 year ago and now have become a touhou fanatic
Appreciate you for making this video, now i have a few games to look forward to. I think I'll start with Touhou 10 since it's already on steam, also if you haven't checked it out Touhou Spell Bubble on switch is a pretty good game.
Spell Bubble is so sick! I think I have like 30 hours in it
I was waiting for him to talk about doujins but he never did.
That's how i got into touhou.
Touhou used to be at the top of that before Kantai Collection arrived
because princess inada is scolding me is by far my favorite touhou OST ever
I got into touhou by richaadeb’s covers of many of the songs and omg i love them
Thanks for the video. I wanted to enter the world of touhou but didn't know where to start. Thanks to you I started reading scrollery manga and gonna buy original and fan made games and vn. Thank you man of culture.
I can objectively say this video is the best video on TH-cam to get into the touhou rabbit hole
If i play TOUHOU, i would likely to choose "precision" type than "aiming" or "scattered but painful" shot cuz why not
Man, I used to listen to Touhou music all the time back in the mid to late 2000's when I was little. I really miss the old internet days before it really popped off and now I wanna get into the games. Thanks for the vid.
Fun fact: I learned about Touhou because a few weeks ago I rewatched Bad Apple and I saw Touhou on recommended
Very nice introductory video, although I would've really liked the photography games to be mentioned for people (like myself) who enjoy shorter bursts of difficult gameplay as opposed to a longer storyline.
Didn’t talk about those because I don’t have much experience with them, but Jacoder was telling me how they started with Impossible Spell Card, which isn’t exactly a photography game but is in the same vein of “shorter burst”.
@@Megapig9001 ohhh yeah i always forget about ISC for some reason
well i just downloaded touhou 6 off of a website and i already love it. so good!
hope you purchased it
sooner or later
Oh my, I've always thought that the creator of Touhou only wrote/made the characters and soundtrack,
but I had assumed everything else, including the official bullet hell games, were fan-made.
Well then, both bullet hell and fighting games are just absolutely not my thing, and it's the same for just appreciating soundtracks..
Still, I'm glad this video existed.
Cause now, I know better.
( Reaching your channel was a bit of a journey XD
Found your channel from seeing someone remake the Rick Roll MV using the strategy game EU4 by editing save files.
The same channel did one other video that was on Bad Apple. I watched it and thought: Oh, I've heard this a few times before.
Might as well finally look up the original video/Touhou explanation on YT considering how much fanart and doujins I've encountered ever since I started watching anime back in 2016.
And I saw your Bad Apple video at the top 10 results, watched it, and watched 4 of your explaining Touhou videos.)
I wanted to get into touhou because everytime i think of bullet hell i think of this game, might try it now
Funny to think how I got into Touhou. First I just came across Night of Nights while searching some electronic music and ost remixes, then ytpmv's lead me to touhou ones, such as the one and only PhilipOnBread, which slowly devolved into looking up touhou remixes of popular songs and downloading them. Mostly just like the most popular 20 and having like 10 remixes of each lol. Then a full game's ost (Ten Desires I believe) sometime in highschool, and only then, years after only recently did I go full goblin and get into the lore. I also played TH6 and 7 at one point but gave it up after getting like halfway in each. Long way to go with no end in sight!
i downloaded touhou mystery reel bc it was the only free game but it REALLY still is in development, thanks this rlly helped me start!
thanks! im starting with touhou today and it was really helpful good work!
I think once I get my own PC I'ma start with Luna nights then play Azure reflections, 10, and 6. Then I'll go from there (btw thx for making such a good video you deserve way more than 3k subs)
“Touhou 6 run too fast on windows 10”
Suffering from success
Not for story but for gameplay. I really enjoy 12.8 I think it is incredibly satisfying
Thank you so much for this video! I come from osu! and I loved some of the TouHou's tracks and remixes but I didn't know where to start and this video helped me out a lot
Great video. Helped me a lot with my decission. Thank you a lot :D
why can i spend 20 minutes learning _how to begin playing a video game_ but not half that on homework
I believe I've played at least a good bit of touhou games as a child, but never knew I was playing Touhou
Got to know the series through a legendary meme video of McDonalds remix of UN en Owen was Her.
Played the first two official fighting games. Had a lot of fun.
Tried beating TH 6 for about a year. It traumatized me and made me give up on ever playing a shmup for 12 years.
Snorted fan content and OSTs during the period of not playing anything main series related.
Watched a guide by Shmup Junkie in how to become good in shmups in 7 days.
Went back to TH 6 to give it another chance, and after 2 days I beat the game in 1cc on Easy, and managed to reach the final boss on Normal for the first time.
I am so happy that I went back. These games look amazing, and 6 is already pretty fun.
ZUN's idea to basically make his works public domain with some caveats is a practice I still wish to see more of in the gaming space. It worked wonders for the franchise, allowing all kinds of people to enjoy and get to know the series in many different forms and interpretations.
Fumo~
After seeing all the Fumo memes and watching Bad Apple on practically everything imaginable, I had to understand what TouHou was. Thanks
one thing that I learned from being a fate fan is you can start wherever you want really, it hurts more if you think more
As far as touhou based music goes I've been listening to a lot of stack recently, love that artist
My favorite song by her is reverse rebirth trigger
this is a well made informative video. 5 stars
I just discovered that the wallpaper on my desktop I've had for over 3 months is from the Touhou series. There are so many characters I've seen a lot everywhere, but I never knew where they were from. Thanks for sharing your opinion!
I might try Luna Nights even though it's not the best to start with in terms of storytelling, because I am a fan of 8 bit-styled rpgs :D
Very informative, thank you sir.
Yo, thanks for the informative video! I remember dipping my toes into touhou when i was younger and just started getting into my weeb phase during puberty. I played the embodyment of the scarlet devil and enjoyed it, but it was too difficult and I moved on. I did however like the memes, music and characters, especially Marisa Kirisame. a year or two later when I was a bit confused about my identity, I wanted to go to the local comic con to cosplayas a girl in a cute dress, this girl being Marisa Kirisame. I had a great time with my friend, and the costume still hangs in my room today, quite a few years later. Alot has happend since, but I have recently gotten back into anime and trying out some new and old games again. I have a cute Marisa Fumo who I bought to remember that special day who I always see when on the PC, and decided to try and get into Touhou again. Your recommendations sounds very fun and you go very well about showing different options and explaining the pros and cons. I think I'm going to start with Azure Reflections as it looks very cool.
Again, thanks for the great video, seeing Marisa and Touhou in general really brings back some fond memories in the weirdest way possible
this is just like when i got into kagerou project a couple years back
I honestly would recommend 8 or 13, mostly because of the balanced difficulty and spell practice being really good for inexperienced players
I think Spell Bubble and Kobuto V Burst Battle were my first games. I know they are technically fan games but I really enjoyed them. Ever since, I've happily been a part of the cult! xD
where to start Touhou learning to control yourself and have good eyes and focus and dont get pissed off
I got into touhou through TPP. I really like pokemon and am having a great time with tpdp
Love what I’ve played of PDP. Too bad it’s a pain to install lol
@@Megapig9001 Agreed. I'm only using puppets of midbosses/bosses I've beaten starting with esod, and it's been fun. Too bad I can't beat Sakuya
One thing I'll say: my first touhou game was 08, imperishable night. The music, story, vibes, and graphics are all absolutely fantastic but you will learn _very bad habits_ with respect to the timing of bombing out of getting hit. Strongly recommend starting with 10 as mentioned in the vid! Subterranean Animism is also very fun.
I just got into Touhou after seeing picture of a Cirno Fumo on a roomba.
Hmm interesting series I'll try to get into it
I'm here because Night of nights
ABSOLUTELY agree with your starting lineup. 17 should be the next game, imo, as the animal spirit mechanics are extra super fun.
came to touhou from luna nights, also mainly because i fell in love with reimu
I know this video is a year old, but I'll hope for a reply anyways. Great video, it's well structured and you make very good arguments both for and against each option.
On the fangame front, do you think Puppet Dance Performance would do a fine job showing the world of Gensokyo to a newcomer? Now that game is a massive thing, containing locations and characters from every official work (PC-98 included :D ) at the time it was released-- and the Shard of Dreams expansion and SoD Extended mod add areas and characters from further works, keeping up to the latest ;) Plus, Pokémon-like gameplay is definitely more accessible than both danmaku and fighting games.
I also think there's a print work you didn't mention that could also be nice for getting into the lore: Perfect Memento in Strict Sense. In it, Akyuu gives plenty of information on the various locations and characters appearing in EoSD through PoFV, and even the backstory for the Spell Card system. One may also have a look at Symposium of Post-Mysticism, where Akyuu adds further entries for the characters in MoF through TD. And you can read all of this in the Touhou Wiki, both in Japanese and translated to English.
Of course, Akyuu's entries aren't for everyone; they might put off people who don't like reading much. They also do have the downside that Akyuu exaggerates some details to make various characters seem more dangerous than they really are-- might even give the reader the impression that Gensokyo is a bleak, deadly place rather than the fun, light-hearted setting it generally is in practice. Plus of course, HM onwards aren't covered because they came out later, so that's a lot of missed lore to catch up on later.
luna nights got me into touhou and i have no regrets, sakuya best girl
casually watching this vid knowing i'm not getting into touhou. your voice is quite relaxing though.
Ikr his voice is calm and nice
So you mentioned every reason to play Toulouse, except for mine where I want something harder than what I’m currently doing
Thanks for the video pal! I've been meaning to play a touhou bullet hell type of game in a while after playing a random bullet hell game (app) with a piano rhythm game mechanics (which ngl, is addicting but did burned my eye a bit lol)
Some new things I could add:
- TouHou 15.5 (the last fighter game) is now available on the Nintendo Switch!
- TouHou Spell Bubble is also pretty good, most notably for the songs full of Internet Culture it introduces, lol. It's on Switch.
- If you like Die & Retry's, I'll recommend TouHou 15 Kanjuuden. It's one of the harder TH games, but it has a chapter system that makes you replay the same shit again and again until you can beat it. It's really good to... well, get good at TouHou.
I find Night Of Nights as a cool song, I find out it's from Touhou, I feel like I've seen Touhou a bunch of times, I figure out it's a bullet hell game, I wonder where I should start.
About 4 hours later, I think I have a headache now (btw I'm starting with Azure reflections but it took me so long to figure out where to start lmao
I started with a video of an Ice fairy showing some funky dance moves against someone called "Scarlet police", now I need to know more about this characters!
In all honesty I just want a guide on each character if there's a book I'll probably buy it
I just want to read about one character and be obsessed with them