ZUN himself says that this track is special to him personally, as a beginning point. I myself have been a fan for 5 years and not one of my days afterwards has Touhou not been involved in my everyday life somehow. Fans have made daily content, whether it be art, music, or games. I know one this is for sure for me. I'm going to be enjoying Touhou for as long as I live. At some point and time. This wonderful Touhou PC-98 series is going to be nostalgic.
this was posted back around 2013 and 5 years before that was 2008 (so when SA released). Hard to believe that was about 13 years ago even though the number of games are still in the 10-20 range
And then you're playing IaMP and you're like "Wait... Reimu has a slide kick attack... a charging stab attack... a back flip kick attack... swarms of bouncing yin-yang orbs... oh god what game am I playing here?!"
Hands-down the best version of this theme. There's an elegant simplicity to it that none of the later versions have. I don't quite know how to describe it, but there's this emptiness to it that feels fitting for the beginning of HRtP, and the beginning of Touhou as a whole. It just feels right that the massive and vibrant world that ZUN has created should start out feeling so empty in the beginning, before he's had a chance to fill it. The entire experience of Highly Responsive to Prayers makes me feel like I'm standing beside ZUN and watching him create Gensokyo before my very eyes.
This or the DiPP version honestly, kind of a bit of a tangent here but I don't like how some uploaders use the Akyu's Untouched versions and try to pass it off as the ingame versions.
I cant believe Touhou is only 1 year younger than me, makes me feel special. I also can't believe that Something that started out as a school project turned into a indie shooter game that has reached the mainstream media that even CNN showed it on the News. That is what every video game programer wants that only a few can ever achieve. Zun is one man everybody wished they could be, start small become big thanks to your fans and not selling out.
@@Chitose_ They were the old English patches. Makai was Heaven and Jigoku was Hell. I think they came out in 1998? Had no idea about the other three until 2002.
Ah, the old chiptune paradox. The more limited your hardware, often the more focussed the work becomes. The spirit comes through more, without so many obfuscating bells and whistles.
Since spell card fights weren't existent (Reimu invented those in order not to kill the Youkai), the first 5 games were more of a death battle than the later ones
Any old retro game that wasn't not in the early stages always had a serious and meaningful tone in their songs. Or if you really felt it, back when creating a game was more than creating a game.
I've heard in other comment sections, and I agree, that PC-98's soundtrack gives off a sense of melancholy or nostalgia, even if you've never heard it before.
I think ZUN's musical talent goes seriously unrecognized. Sure, touhou has it's own fanbase, but imagine how famous he would have become if he had made music for some really mainstream titles, like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest.
SửperKợnaŧẳ The main, most important factor to touhou's massive popularity is that Shanghai Alice is not a big corporation. They allow fan art, comics, videos to flourish, and that's what acts as advertisements to most new people. Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest genuinely doesn't have a more proactive fanbase.
What a piece. Sure it wouldn't surprise me if any person who plays this game for the first time would want to play this song irl with his favorite instrument. So did I. It's just so beautiful and the fact ZUN wrote and or composed it being so young merely indicates how he was born to bring these outstanding pieces of sound into the world or, should I say, our side of it? Majestic. Magnificence indeed.
For some reasons, I feel nostalgic about Touhou PC-98 games, even though I first played Touhou 1 a month ago (and before playing Touhou, I didn't even know what a PC-98 was, I thought it was just Windows 98). 8-bit vibes I guess
Lol, the thing about PC-98 just being Windows 98 is so relatable. For me it's that whenever I mention the PC-98 era games to my dad, he always is like "What's a PC-98? Is it just a PC running on Windows 98?" And I just have to be like "No dad, you ask this everytime, it's not, it's own kind of computer."
Why does every playlist for the PC-98 games use the MS version of songs? The originals are nice too. I like HRtP's original soundtrack more than the remixed ones.
If I remember right, HRtP uses an older PC-98 music format that is a pain in the ass to extract on modern computers. Hoot and other PC98 software can play the files from 2-5 easily, 1 still is hard.
One day, I want ZUN to remake the PC-98 games, or at least make the older characters come back. Touhou games are amazing the way they are now, but still. It's a good idea, after all--tobehonest--I'm getting a little bit bored of new characters over and over (they're still cool though), and I'd like some of the older ones to return. Maybe some characters come back for revenge? Maybe they become playable and help solve an incident? It'd be awesome!
Mima is the big one i agree on, like Mima, in the pc-98 days was literally the third most important character, with Reimu in first and Marisa only beating her due to Touhou 1's (Mima's first appearence) lack of dialogue. also, Mima is tied with YuugenMagen for being the 3rd touhou character to exist. and yet she was shoved aside and most of her character traits were absorbed into Marisa
This feels a lot more like a bittersweet conclusion than anything else. I can easely imagine the border of gensokyo slowly falling apart and returning to a dream while everything fades into white with this song as the background music.
I like this version of the soundtrack a lot. It serves as a great companion to the version Akyuu hasn't touched. I need huge cuts around 10 kHz to listen to it, but it's an amazing piece of work.
When I listen to this piece, I get so many chills. It's so nostalgic and somewhat melancholic. It is as if I feel Reimu's burdens as the Shrine Maiden of a fantasy realm whenever I hear this piece. But at the same time it is dreamy; the phantasm that is Gensokyo embodies Reimu and vice versa. The piece seems so fragile as well, for Reimu is only human. Marisa will eventually become a Youkai, that's fairly obvious, Sanae a goddess and Sakuya manipulates time. But Reimu? Sariel is waiting for her.
Damn. I'm fucking speechless. Before loading this up the only song I'd heard from the PC-98 games (as in the original song, not an arrange) was Bad Apple! and I wasn't really expecting much since this is from the first game, but ZUN has proven his awesomeness to me. Even from the beginning this man was a fucking God at making music for his games. Going to go get an emulator for this right the hell now.
I was rewatching NakaTeleeli's awesome Let's Play of Touhou Mother. In the game, when Reimu was "in her mind", this song started to play. It was so fitting so I had to go back in the video to see the title of the song. Then, I found the original. First of all, I'm not usually a huge 8-bit song lover but... THIS. This is simply amazing. DOWNLOAD ALL VERSIONS OF THE SONG!
beyond a doubt, this has to be one of my favorites in the pc-98 series. even though I've tried the Pc-98s on emulators only a few times, and i've known the windows touhou mostly, this song still fills me with an unusual, nostalgic feeling, of something wonderous and beautiful that I've once known yet cannot recall...
I have to agree that this is my fav in the PC-98 era of th. I one had this, Mystic Square, and Doll in Misery on repeat all day long on my mp3 player. It's amazing he did all this with just the FM board
When this is the second song you hear in the game, you know you are in for a treat (I liked HRtP). It gives a nostalgic feeling, seeing as how I actually beat HRtP...
Technically, it exists. The ending, I mean. CtC, a fanmade game, made that clear. And the last stage IS a remix of this one. But Gensokyo will never cease existence~
Something I noticed that I thought was a bit interesting, and it may just be me, but: Alice in Wonderland, the theme of the final (extra being the last stage in the game you would be able to play) stage of the PC-98 era, is in the same pitch and has about the same tempo as this, the first stage theme of the Touhou series, and by extension the PC-98 era.
I don't know what it is. The other pc98's are impressive, but they seem (understandably) limited by the program. But this song has something only newer or more complex songs should have. From the first notes I get that feeling of something powerful and almost sad, that only seems amplified by the old program. I still come and listen to it, and it's still one of my favorites, just as it is. It's a perfect example of why touhou is so beloved. This song is magic.
This song is great and all but, this seems almost more fitting for the end of an emotional roller coaster. Don't get me wrong I love listening to it, but in more in a sense of 'It's all over now' kinda feeling.
I can imagine that Reimu about to die in Hell. So she sees her entire life in fantasy... I don't think the Hakurei maiden who worked before Reimu is Reimu's mom, or sister. I think the maiden who worked before picked Reimu for next maiden when Reimu was younger. And she taught a lot to young Reimu. After Reimu grew, somehow she gone and Reimu trying to find her. It's my theory about HRtP. Sorry for bad english
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ZUN was 19 or younger when he composed this... What a god.
+suikaMUSIC A truly God indeed ~
And now he's over 40. Time goes fast...
ZUN and Touhou are Eternal
Mega Jared X I hope ZUN will not die soon ;-;
@@ShaffySwitcher He Might Tho And Probably Give Ownership To Someone Before He Dies
Kind of sad,
And nostalgic.
But you don't have to worry, because you are *THE STRONGEST!*
I feel so bad that I missed the Cirno day this year
ZUN himself says that this track is special to him personally, as a beginning point. I myself have been a fan for 5 years and not one of my days afterwards has Touhou not been involved in my everyday life somehow. Fans have made daily content, whether it be art, music, or games. I know one this is for sure for me. I'm going to be enjoying Touhou for as long as I live. At some point and time. This wonderful Touhou PC-98 series is going to be nostalgic.
I learned the piano version of this song because it's amazing but also because of my respects to ZUN and Touhou itself
+Kanako Seltzman who would think it was a start of a global phenomenon
I wonder if you're still here with us. I hope you are.
@@raccoonchild they will never truly escape
this was posted back around 2013 and 5 years before that was 2008 (so when SA released). Hard to believe that was about 13 years ago even though the number of games are still in the 10-20 range
And then you're playing IaMP and you're like "Wait... Reimu has a slide kick attack... a charging stab attack... a back flip kick attack... swarms of bouncing yin-yang orbs... oh god what game am I playing here?!"
Touhou
omagah
No waaaaaaaaay
Everybody gangsta till a remix of this starts playing in Reimu's reveal trailer of Smash Ultimate
You read my mind lmao ✨✨
Kicking in right as they show the primarily white pallet for Reimu
We need this now!!!
With Steve in, the door's open for indie representation. Here's hoping...
If Reimu gets in, this better be a remix! It's too good to not get in!
2.
Reimu's shrine, destroyed;
A melody begins that
Endures eternal.
Hands-down the best version of this theme. There's an elegant simplicity to it that none of the later versions have. I don't quite know how to describe it, but there's this emptiness to it that feels fitting for the beginning of HRtP, and the beginning of Touhou as a whole. It just feels right that the massive and vibrant world that ZUN has created should start out feeling so empty in the beginning, before he's had a chance to fill it. The entire experience of Highly Responsive to Prayers makes me feel like I'm standing beside ZUN and watching him create Gensokyo before my very eyes.
Konami code ⬇️⬇️⬆️⬆️↔️↔️🅱️🅰️ start Music on Roblox?
@@andrevital2480t
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This or the DiPP version honestly, kind of a bit of a tangent here but I don't like how some uploaders use the Akyu's Untouched versions and try to pass it off as the ingame versions.
Eternal, eternal, eternally, I'll make it
Eternal, eternal, eternally, shine for me~
Those lyrics from somewhere
@@captainmega6310 yep, they're from lyrica live's english cover of this song!
@@mizuukiiiii cool
and I realize that this is the FIRST Touhou bgm that plays.... ( ™_™)
Well... Technically the second. You need to get past the title screen.
..and the last
Thank god CtC isn't canon
@@shisones yes, that one...Is dark and I nearly cried playing it.
@@shisones CtC sad is just on another level of sadness
@@laurasantana4583 public one?
When you throw ghast fireball at itself in minecraft...
HRTP moment
I cant believe Touhou is only 1 year younger than me, makes me feel special. I also can't believe that Something that started out as a school project turned into a indie shooter game that has reached the mainstream media that even CNN showed it on the News. That is what every video game programer wants that only a few can ever achieve. Zun is one man everybody wished they could be, start small become big thanks to your fans and not selling out.
zun began work on highly responsive to prayers 4 years before family guy’s first episode released
I remember playing the English ROMs for the first two on my neighbor's old PC in the late 90s.... had no idea it was Touhou until later
@@MarthaRoseQuartz WAIT WHAT
@@Chitose_ They were the old English patches. Makai was Heaven and Jigoku was Hell. I think they came out in 1998? Had no idea about the other three until 2002.
@@MarthaRoseQuartz isn’t makai shinto hell?
Is it me or is it that the music from the PC-98 era have a more serious feel to them?
Ah, the old chiptune paradox. The more limited your hardware, often the more focussed the work becomes. The spirit comes through more, without so many obfuscating bells and whistles.
Since spell card fights weren't existent (Reimu invented those in order not to kill the Youkai), the first 5 games were more of a death battle than the later ones
@@oozypilot8467 it was rather the youkai invented those to appease reimu and avoid extinction
Any old retro game that wasn't not in the early stages always had a serious and meaningful tone in their songs. Or if you really felt it, back when creating a game was more than creating a game.
I've heard in other comment sections, and I agree, that PC-98's soundtrack gives off a sense of melancholy or nostalgia, even if you've never heard it before.
One of the best video game music ever made...
0:03 a p p l a u s e (turn on captions)
I think ZUN's musical talent goes seriously unrecognized. Sure, touhou has it's own fanbase, but imagine how famous he would have become if he had made music for some really mainstream titles, like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest.
SửperKợnaŧẳ The main, most important factor to touhou's massive popularity is that Shanghai Alice is not a big corporation. They allow fan art, comics, videos to flourish, and that's what acts as advertisements to most new people.
Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest genuinely doesn't have a more proactive fanbase.
Oh hi DeRockProject, small world isn't it?
Timestoppa I got here from YOUR link dumbass. kappaEmoji
But Team Shanghai Alice only consist of 1 member. And that person is none other than ZUN himself
@@redacted8983 isn't that the point though
Its just 1 person, but said person allows any type of fan creation, even making money with it
When ZUN's talent began to show
"Final" Touhou?
Gensokyo is undying, it will exist forever.
(but I agree)
What a piece. Sure it wouldn't surprise me if any person who plays this game for the first time would want to play this song irl with his favorite instrument. So did I. It's just so beautiful and the fact ZUN wrote and or composed it being so young merely indicates how he was born to bring these outstanding pieces of sound into the world or, should I say, our side of it? Majestic. Magnificence indeed.
That happened to me with the piano, I failed though, cos I was just learning for the first time, I may try again soon though.
For some reasons, I feel nostalgic about Touhou PC-98 games, even though I first played Touhou 1 a month ago (and before playing Touhou, I didn't even know what a PC-98 was, I thought it was just Windows 98). 8-bit vibes I guess
I think the pc98 was 16bit, but I guess 16bit is nostalgic anyway.
Lol, the thing about PC-98 just being Windows 98 is so relatable. For me it's that whenever I mention the PC-98 era games to my dad, he always is like "What's a PC-98? Is it just a PC running on Windows 98?" And I just have to be like "No dad, you ask this everytime, it's not, it's own kind of computer."
the pc-98 is windows 98 just a localized version
@@stevenbaker3362 it's the 98th version of Windows obviously
I can't help but make lyrics up in my head for this song. Every time they make me sweat and cry a little.
Hearing this again in Touhou CTC is instant tear jerker.
Even the music's name is good...
Goes hard
The *real* first stage theme.
While Ground Cherry is good, this one kicks its ass to another galaxy.
Eternal Shrine Maiden sounds like something you'd hear in a Game Gear Sonic title or one of the first six Rockman games.
this sounds so good i love this track
touhou has come so far yet i love the pc98 era deeply
Why does every playlist for the PC-98 games use the MS version of songs? The originals are nice too. I like HRtP's original soundtrack more than the remixed ones.
Me to
If I remember right, HRtP uses an older PC-98 music format that is a pain in the ass to extract on modern computers. Hoot and other PC98 software can play the files from 2-5 easily, 1 still is hard.
@@nefer-trebeledfomp-4129 Nope, FlandresOldWorld uses the versions from Akyuu's Untouched Score.
The first song of a legend
*second
The theme that started it all.
Best ost ever❤
One day, I want ZUN to remake the PC-98 games, or at least make the older characters come back. Touhou games are amazing the way they are now, but still. It's a good idea, after all--tobehonest--I'm getting a little bit bored of new characters over and over (they're still cool though), and I'd like some of the older ones to return. Maybe some characters come back for revenge? Maybe they become playable and help solve an incident? It'd be awesome!
Phantasmagoria style game where the only playable character is Mima, and she goes around kicking people's asses for forgetting her
Mima is the big one i agree on, like
Mima, in the pc-98 days was literally the third most important character, with Reimu in first and Marisa only beating her due to Touhou 1's (Mima's first appearence) lack of dialogue. also, Mima is tied with YuugenMagen for being the 3rd touhou character to exist.
and yet she was shoved aside and most of her character traits were absorbed into Marisa
I'd be cool to get the old floppy discs back in production for a minute or something like that just to help preserve to original 5 games easier
This played in Hell Stages 16-19
This feels a lot more like a bittersweet conclusion than anything else. I can easely imagine the border of gensokyo slowly falling apart and returning to a dream while everything fades into white with this song as the background music.
yes yes, we've all played Concealed the Conclusion
YOU... ur comment completely screwed with me liking this song
+Silver Pumpido The remix in DiPP is described by ZUN as a suicide song, so you're not too far off.
Honestly, you could've told me this song was from World of Horror and I would've believed you. What a vibe.
I somehow really enjoy listening to this music.
Back here again.
This song still hits hard.
A piece of paper, which was ZUN’s talent, unfolded started with this.
I like this version of the soundtrack a lot. It serves as a great companion to the version Akyuu hasn't touched. I need huge cuts around 10 kHz to listen to it, but it's an amazing piece of work.
+Sherkel If anyone wants to download it, I found it at a site called "VGMPF".
>google searched it
>results are varied
which url was that site?
vgmpf . com / Wiki / index . php ? title = Touhou_Reiiden_~_Highly_Responsive_to_Prayers._(PC98)
the page doesn't exist
Yeah, weird, it doesn't seem to work when copied directly from there...it's definitely there though, shouldn't take long to find it.
; v ;
Touhou has come so far.
My life would be complete if the final stage theme of the final Touhou was a remix of this song.
Jesus Christ, this is stage 1? Sounds like some endgame stage to a Megaman X game.
Feels especially nostalgic to me, even though I've never heard this before. I think this is the true charm of ZUN's first tracks.
Man, this game was hard to get used to the first time I played it.
Never heard this theme before, yet it's so nostalgic...
i never played this why is it so nostalgic
best song ever
WHY IS THIS SONG SO GOOD?????
+kwehknight9001 Touhou, thats why.
When I listen to this piece, I get so many chills. It's so nostalgic and somewhat melancholic. It is as if I feel Reimu's burdens as the Shrine Maiden of a fantasy realm whenever I hear this piece. But at the same time it is dreamy; the phantasm that is Gensokyo embodies Reimu and vice versa. The piece seems so fragile as well, for Reimu is only human. Marisa will eventually become a Youkai, that's fairly obvious, Sanae a goddess and Sakuya manipulates time. But Reimu? Sariel is waiting for her.
Maybe then Highly Response to Prayers is the last journey then, instead of the first. After all has passed, Reimu goes to meet Sariel.
Well, mima in a ending of mystic square wonders about reimu becoming a goddess on her own, sooo who knows
Every time I listen to this, I almost cried...Every time...
That's me with this and theme of eastern story
So, this is art.
I like the part where Mima said "The Touhou Project is real"
Damn. I'm fucking speechless. Before loading this up the only song I'd heard from the PC-98 games (as in the original song, not an arrange) was Bad Apple! and I wasn't really expecting much since this is from the first game, but ZUN has proven his awesomeness to me. Even from the beginning this man was a fucking God at making music for his games. Going to go get an emulator for this right the hell now.
I was rewatching NakaTeleeli's awesome Let's Play of Touhou Mother. In the game, when Reimu was "in her mind", this song started to play. It was so fitting so I had to go back in the video to see the title of the song. Then, I found the original. First of all, I'm not usually a huge 8-bit song lover but... THIS. This is simply amazing. DOWNLOAD ALL VERSIONS OF THE SONG!
The first...
The very first level of a legendary saga
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beyond a doubt, this has to be one of my favorites in the pc-98 series. even though I've tried the Pc-98s on emulators only a few times, and i've known the windows touhou mostly, this song still fills me with an unusual, nostalgic feeling, of something wonderous and beautiful that I've once known yet cannot recall...
Still fucking epic...
I have to agree that this is my fav in the PC-98 era of th. I one had this, Mystic Square, and Doll in Misery on repeat all day long on my mp3 player. It's amazing he did all this with just the FM board
I honestly really like the beat this song has going for it. The repetition is awesome. Nice song.
do I see Binah
🙂
In the beginning Zun created this theme
And it was very good
Epic Motivating Music, but these ‘original’ themes are kinda earrape
When this is the second song you hear in the game, you know you are in for a treat (I liked HRtP). It gives a nostalgic feeling, seeing as how I actually beat HRtP...
Easy to learn, yet so amusing and awesome... it's like "Romantic Children".
This is the best song in the entire game XD
Technically, it exists. The ending, I mean. CtC, a fanmade game, made that clear. And the last stage IS a remix of this one. But Gensokyo will never cease existence~
This is the GENESIS
The PC-98 and genesis have a similar sound chip
Best theme of the game ever...way better than emulated. Thank you very much for uploading this!
Something I noticed that I thought was a bit interesting, and it may just be me, but: Alice in Wonderland, the theme of the final (extra being the last stage in the game you would be able to play) stage of the PC-98 era, is in the same pitch and has about the same tempo as this, the first stage theme of the Touhou series, and by extension the PC-98 era.
more FM things....
This sounds so lonely.
I noticed that instantly. It's one of the reasons I think Concealed the Conclusion is the best non-canon spinoff there is.
i still say this is the best song in touhou
I don't know what it is. The other pc98's are impressive, but they seem (understandably) limited by the program. But this song has something only newer or more complex songs should have. From the first notes I get that feeling of something powerful and almost sad, that only seems amplified by the old program. I still come and listen to it, and it's still one of my favorites, just as it is. It's a perfect example of why touhou is so beloved. This song is magic.
YES!
The original's definitely the best version.
True!
Also.. are you still alive?
Comparing this to ZUN's newer works you can really tell how much his style has changed and improved
This song seems like the one song I can't find a remix which sounds just as good or better...
Some parts in this song remind me of 'Drag Me Down' by One Direction.
almost 100k views
he started touhou to make music after all ^^
من هنا بدأت قصتنا مع توهو
Here, The beginning of all this.
Huh...
Guess that means that Magical Astronomy's "G Free" was a remix of this, then?
(Because Ultimate Dream was a remix of that as well)
This song is great and all but, this seems almost more fitting for the end of an emotional roller coaster. Don't get me wrong I love listening to it, but in more in a sense of 'It's all over now' kinda feeling.
I can imagine that Reimu about to die in Hell. So she sees her entire life in fantasy... I don't think the Hakurei maiden who worked before Reimu is Reimu's mom, or sister. I think the maiden who worked before picked Reimu for next maiden when Reimu was younger. And she taught a lot to young Reimu. After Reimu grew, somehow she gone and Reimu trying to find her. It's my theory about HRtP. Sorry for bad english
A Turtle, i believe called gengi raised Reimu and thaught her though, so that's obselete.
Is this the original FM + PSG arrangement? It sounds/feels like it. Possibly even straight YM2203 instead of 2608...
As the ending to said game shows. It just (SPOILERS) ceases being just Reimu's dream...
ZUN is among the elite VG composers. Even the number of views says so.
*1337 ftw*
So what I noticed isn't being discussed here despite the song being very good? It's Touhou's 1-1 equivalent.
This music kind of reminds me of sega genesis
Because IT'S sega genesis
The PC-98 and genesis have a similar sound chip
@MrSpellcheck Probably why he got such a good following so early on- what better way than to start off the series with a song like this?
thumbs up is naka teleei brout u here
I suppose those kanjies (kanjies, right?) mean the Yin and Yang on the Yin Yang Orb.
Nope, they aren't Kanji
I think the bottom one is the Greek letter 'Ψ'. Not sure what it means in this case guessing not water potential like I know it as.
@ilovemarioparty7 true
if she's eternal then where's she in eosd
i reverse-engineered the MDRV format so that i could port this to PMD somehow
puu.sh/7TtAT/4b8ca18d74.M2
Uhh... The puush seems to have vanished. I've never heard of puush, so could someone explain?
+Renne165 Puush is a file uploader and after 6 weeks without anyone accessing the files, they're deleted
@DakolahsBar leetspeak dood nobody needs to spel on teh internets
all i can imagine is armpits ♥️