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English patches are available, however!įor any newbies: Scher had a short beginners' guide for the Touhou games back in the old thread. Fair warning: all of ZUN's shooters lack official translations. The games are also available on Steam now! As of mid 2020, all games starting from Touhou 10 can be bought from there (except for Touhou 14.5). They’re not too expensive, but obviously more expensive than they are in Japan. Whether you read up on it or get it through playing the game, it’s enjoyable.Īnd you can buy them! Classic Era and up, there are plenty of places selling them physically ( the Touhou Wiki has a purchasing guide here!). The stories are always fun and the dialogue is hilariously silly and charming. Sometimes she just beats people for no reason, too, but the important part is that they always deserve it.
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The series follows Reimu, a shrine maiden in Gensokyo, as she cruelly beats youkai into submission for messing with her. The main games are generally divided into the Retro Era (1-5), Modern Era 1 (6-9), Modern Era 2 (10-13), and Modern Era 3 (14-Present) Due to the nature of the series, not all of these characters are terribly important (with most serving as filler characters) but as far as the official works go, these are the two to be aware of: The Touhou Project series currently has very large number of characters. It’s safe to say that there are as many types of Touhou fan entertainment as there are types of entertainment in general. Some of them retain the original innocence and charm of the original series and some of them don’t. The charming art, setting and dialogue, and captivating bullet patterns and music, caught on with the Japanese doujin scene and Touhou became the subject of trillions of fan works, including music, manga, games, videos, cosplays, conventions, tropes, graffiti on abandoned walls in Mexico, and every other man-created division of entertainment. And true enough, the series remains fairly simple and consistent throughout. ZUN makes repeated comments that the Touhou games attempt to fight the persisting trend of STGs overly complicating themselves with options and features, opting to let players simply have fun dodging bullets. All games have difficulty levels, the easier ones being more like old school shooters if you’d add some more bullets and make them slower, and the harder ones completely filling the screen with fireworks. Originally, the games were made with inspiration from DoDonPachi and Darius Gaiden, designing shooters around a greater number of bullets in beautiful patterns.
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Touhou, or the Touhou Project as it is officially known, is a series of 2D Shooters (abbreviated STGs), all made by 1 person commonly called ZUN, from art, to music, to coding. It's a bit of a shame that on GAF ResetEra and most places, Touhou is only associated with porn and moe - the main series goes a long way back and it’s super fun and is worth the attention! This OP is here to hopefully present this subtler side of Touhou for the people who don’t know about it, or just satisfy the curiosity of whoever cares. The art and story are PG-rated innocence, charm and fun, the music is great, and the gameplay is tight and arcadey and refined to the maximum degree year by year since 1995.īeyond any fan material or ridiculous Lunatic 1cc runs, I think the games can stand on their own as a great franchise. The games are really good, even if you aren’t very good at danmaku bullet hells, on Easy and Normal - those crazy Lunatic-difficulty videos are intimidating, but if you ever played games like Gradius III, Touhou isn’t in an entirely different universe. When you hear “Touhou” on the internet, it's probably about the fanbase or fan content, and the characters are sometimes naked… and after that there are the ridiculous bullet-filled screenshots/videos that try their hardest to intimidate outsiders, but that's only the end if you want it to be! The image of Touhou in the eyes of passing observers is not even half of it. Welcome! This thread is here to talk about anything Touhou, whether it’s your experience with the main games, news, fan content, hamburgers, and MIDI trumpets.īut I know Touhou is about creepy porn/waifus and impossibly hard bullet curtains for masochists. (Thanks to shockdude for the part 1 image, and both upandaway and LeleSocho for the original community thread!)