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  • Re: Favorite Touhou game?

    From Kijin Seija@21:1/5 to Mima-sama on Sat Sep 23 14:06:03 2023
    Mima-sama wrote:
    I like Touhou 5 the most as it has the most polished gameplay out of the
    five PC-98 games, a good gimmick (rewarding more risk by encouraging
    players to collect point items as close to the top of the screen as
    possible) and has really great music (even includes all of the PC-98
    games). Touhou 2 comes close for me in the PC-98 era, since despite the poorly aged gameplay (doesn't even have death bombing which is just a
    pain), the music is fantastic, with some being better than TH05 in my
    opinion (stage 1 and extra stage theme for example) or coming toe-to-toe (stage 4 theme for example).

    Though if I'm gonna choose a Windows era game I'd say Touhou 8 for the classic era (seems to be similar to TH05 with TH08 being considered the
    peak of the classic era of Windows) since it has again very great music compared to other games (stage 4 is a fucking banger man), and has very
    great replayability (so many character options for the main story, the
    extra stage, and capturing each spell card and Last Word). For the more modern era, I'd say Touhou 14 for being the least gimmicky and closest
    to Touhou 6 (which is also well-received).

    P.S. I'm really surprised to see pretty much nobody talking about Touhou
    here in Usenet. Not even the japan.* hiearchy has a dedicated newsgroup, which you'd think it would have (even for a short time) considering how Touhou became very popular in the early 2000s in its homeland...


    I like Touhou 19

    Yeah it's very new and has balance issues but I'm having a blast with it

    Never really like Touhou 9's fast-pacedness

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  • From Mima-sama@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 23 13:52:15 2023
    I like Touhou 5 the most as it has the most polished gameplay out of the
    five PC-98 games, a good gimmick (rewarding more risk by encouraging
    players to collect point items as close to the top of the screen as
    possible) and has really great music (even includes all of the PC-98
    games). Touhou 2 comes close for me in the PC-98 era, since despite the
    poorly aged gameplay (doesn't even have death bombing which is just a
    pain), the music is fantastic, with some being better than TH05 in my
    opinion (stage 1 and extra stage theme for example) or coming toe-to-toe
    (stage 4 theme for example).

    Though if I'm gonna choose a Windows era game I'd say Touhou 8 for the
    classic era (seems to be similar to TH05 with TH08 being considered the
    peak of the classic era of Windows) since it has again very great music compared to other games (stage 4 is a fucking banger man), and has very
    great replayability (so many character options for the main story, the
    extra stage, and capturing each spell card and Last Word). For the more
    modern era, I'd say Touhou 14 for being the least gimmicky and closest
    to Touhou 6 (which is also well-received).

    P.S. I'm really surprised to see pretty much nobody talking about Touhou
    here in Usenet. Not even the japan.* hiearchy has a dedicated newsgroup,
    which you'd think it would have (even for a short time) considering how
    Touhou became very popular in the early 2000s in its homeland...

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  • From Mima-sama@21:1/5 to Kijin Seija on Sat Sep 23 14:08:08 2023
    On 9/23/2023 14:06, Kijin Seija wrote:
    I like Touhou 19

    Yeah it's very new and has balance issues but I'm having a blast with it

    Never really like Touhou 9's fast-pacedness

    Well TH19 is not too bad. Just really hope it gets updated by ZUN. Not
    just the balance but also bring back the replays.

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  • From Kijin Seija@21:1/5 to Takane Yamashiro on Sat Sep 23 14:36:13 2023
    Takane Yamashiro wrote:
    TH13 is my favorite. Very easy to play with! The resources you get sucks
    but if you play well enough (which the less dense bullets would allow
    plenty of newbies to do) you should be able to clear the game.

    Yuyuko being downgraded to stage 1 boss is pretty funny

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  • From Takane Yamashiro@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 23 14:27:50 2023
    TH13 is my favorite. Very easy to play with! The resources you get sucks
    but if you play well enough (which the less dense bullets would allow
    plenty of newbies to do) you should be able to clear the game.

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  • From Takane Yamashiro@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 23 14:37:09 2023
    Haha true! Doesn't help that her boss theme is pretty forgettable too.

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  • From Mima-sama@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 23 14:46:00 2023
    Hey TH19's music is pretty recognizable.
    Well that's why I said *lesser*. Doesn't mean there are games that have
    no memorable music at all. There will be one. Always, hopefully.

    As people say, it's not the rule, it's the exception to the rule.

    Reimu's theme? Zanmu?

    Well yeah but who remembers say Son Biten's theme? The girl herself is a
    meme, but can't really speak the same for her music...

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  • From Mima-sama@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 23 14:49:58 2023
    For me it's the scoring. Though I wonder if it's because there are just
    so many bullets in so many matches that ZUN decided to just not bother calculating for it

    Why would the number of bullets be a factor? And I remember TH09 having
    the same problem as TH19 too when it comes to the absurdly huge number
    of bullets being thrown at the screen.

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  • From Mima-sama@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 23 14:39:23 2023
    Doesn't help that her boss theme is pretty forgettable too.
    Newer Touhou games have lesser and lesser memorable music as time goes
    on unfortunately.

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  • From Takane Yamashiro@21:1/5 to Mima-sama on Sat Sep 23 14:51:44 2023
    On 9/23/2023 14:49, Mima-sama wrote:
    Why would the number of bullets be a factor?

    Grazing?

    And I remember TH09 having the same problem as TH19 too
    PoFV seems a bit more tame compared to UDoALG but admittedly I haven't
    played Flower View much.

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  • From Takane Yamashiro@21:1/5 to Mima-sama on Sat Sep 23 14:48:22 2023
    On 9/23/2023 14:08, Mima-sama wrote:
    Not just the balance but also bring back the replays.

    For me it's the scoring. Though I wonder if it's because there are just
    so many bullets in so many matches that ZUN decided to just not bother calculating for it

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  • From Kijin Seija@21:1/5 to Mima-sama on Sat Sep 23 14:43:21 2023
    Mima-sama wrote:
    Doesn't help that her boss theme is pretty forgettable too.
    Newer Touhou games have lesser and lesser memorable music as time goes
    on unfortunately.


    Hey TH19's music is pretty recognizable. Reimu's theme? Zanmu?

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  • From Mima-sama@21:1/5 to All on Sat Sep 23 14:53:34 2023
    Grazing?

    Don't implement grazing then. :P TH10 didn't have grazing as a score
    factor, so TH19 can get away with it.

    (Did TH09 even score grazes?)

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  • From Kijin Seija@21:1/5 to Mima-sama on Sat Sep 23 14:59:21 2023
    Mima-sama wrote:
    (Did TH09 even score grazes?)

    Doesn't seem so, TH17 also didn't score graze btw

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