[] General Touhou Discussion thread

hm.. since it is allowed here might as well start.


I'm quite sure the anime community are aware of a distinct game known as the Touhou game series. In the case that you don't have a blazing thing in hell what is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touhou

http://www.pooshlmer.com/touhouwiki/...hp/Touhou_Wiki
The above link is for those who want a little more indepth look on the actual characters rather than the game though there is an abundance of info about the game too.

Quote:

The Touhou Project (東方Project, Tōhō purojekuto?), also known as Toho Project or Project Shrine Maiden, is a series of curtain fire scrolling shooters made by Team Shanghai Alice. They are notable for being successful dojin soft because of their intricate bullet patterns, their greater focus on characters than most shooter games, and being a one-man project.

That pretty much sums it up for the general gist of it.

This thread is meant for the discussion, bragging rights scores, sharing replays and other miscellaneous things related to it.

Now, which game brought you folks to the touhou world?

Me it was Imperishable Night, the 7th one in its series. I was completely suprised at the difficulty of the game even on easy difficulty. And now I still can't clear extra modes. Maybe some of out fellow users can care to enlighten us on how to be a god.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yknow its IS alot bigger than I thought. I had quite a substantial amount of images that I wasn't even aware it was touhou related.. >.>. Very prevalent. If you are interested in playing again I suggest Touhou 10: Mountain Of Faith, personally it seems to be much more forgiving in the bombing department.

Though you will lose one power-up for it. But hey as long as you got 1.00 power bomb if you feel the need!

As for Reimu's pits? Up till this day I still don't know why but this image can explain or at least give some odd reason.. >.>:

Bah.. I'll find it eventually..


@ Taco

Go clear Phantasm mode, no miss, no bomb, unfocused and I will.

@Zero

Don't worry I feel your pain too. ><, damn Sakuya, I ended up throwing my old keyboard against the wall at one point. And IN is indeed the 7th one in the series, Immaterial and Missing Power is 7.5, and 8 is Phanasmagora of Flower View, and then StB(Shoot the Bullet) is the 9th, then lastly Mountain of Faith the latest one. SWF is debated to be 9.5 though for some reason.

How ya doing, buddy?

Heh, I see the phoenix in you.. :3 However if you take Mokou be prepared for a Hakutaku as well.

One who controls fate, check
One who can make you die, check
One who can control time, check
One who can alter history, check..

The list goes on and on.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Here I just made a craptastic replay practice run on Stage 4 of PCB, feel free to laugh at any time.

We can upload attachments here right? >.>

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Ah, Marisa Stole the Precious thing. Great choice to start the invasion, or rather more invasive things. Touhou Hijack, XD.

Funny thing Styphon, it was the game what led me to the fan-made things like this..
Not everyone will find it admiring but it netherless is quite amazing to a point, I don't mind getting me a touhou based design.

How ya doing, buddy?

Rather intriguging...

EosD: I play with Marisa A and B with this one. The B is weaker but makes up for with the awesome Master Spark Bomb.

PCB : Again with Marisa A and B. Same reason.

IN: Magic Team, Scarlet Team. I like Remilia's focus mode it allows a bit of ease since you dont have to focus dodging too much.

PoFV : I like using Aya for her Mini charge power. Quite Powerful. Yuka is a fun char to use since she has a 3-way attack.

MoF : Marisa A, B, and C. C is good since it somewhat resembles Remilia's Focus mode.

Notice how I dont mention Reimu at all? Personally I don't like to use them due to their EZ mode( Homing), and yes I know that they have alt mode as well, but yknow. As we all know:

Easy mode = Kids

@ Zero

There really isnt a better char. Just a preference in your play style. If you like power with Sacrifice of accuracy, Go for Marisa. If you like accuracy in place power go for Reimu or Sakuya.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Touhou 10 is out on torrents!!!

Though you will need to get a serial code, from what I've tried to install.

FELIPE NO

, Man this suck, but now I found the real torrent.

Are we allowed to share torrent links here? I don't wanna violate any ToS..

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

It is?

I thought it was pretty well done here. What may be easy for you may be hard for others, though I feel each difficulty jump is one step way above the previous one.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Bah.. anyone cleared Extra mode already? I'm still having trouble with Stage 4 on normal.. god I swear its not normal mode...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Your'e the only one besides me who think Marisa C is good.. XD

Man, I guess some folks can't use it correctly.. And indeed Marisa B is indeed broken.. >.> Normal Clear here I come!! XD

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Elixir

No.. I said Marisa was useless. I don't like using her at all. I guess if you centre Marisa A properly on bosses, she'd be good.

I'd appreciate it more if ZUN actually PLAYTESTED HIS OWN DAMN GAME before releasing it. Stage 4's most annoying bullet patterns are the blue/white ones, which use a trapping technique. I don't really have a strategy for those.

For the mid boss, start far left or right, and scrape around the edges of the larger blueish white circles. I've pretty much figured that out. It's the gigantic spam of faries which shoot blue orbs that are annoying, don't you think?

After playing Lunatic (I can get to Stage 4, but I have to bomb like hell on Nitori) I've gotta say Reimu A is really useful. Like, REALLY useful. Her damage is just a slight bit under Reimu B providing you're shotgunning the enemy. That doesn't really happen much but it does happen, like on Shizoku's second pattern.

EX is fun, minus the extremely annoying survival patterns. It reminds me of Mokou's pattern where she disappears, and orbs appear from each side of you before exploding.

Oh, here's a video of someone beating Suwako with Marisa B(ugged):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=705EpnTjtxk

Not sure what to make of this.. it's not a true EX clear considering Marisa B is bugged. In any case, I'll work on Stage 4 a bit more. I have more issues with the stage itself than Aya herself.

Indeed the stage is harder than Aya herself, though her 10sec survival card is a tough one to beat. For that little "waterfall" danmaku( I assume you meant this spot) you actually stay near the bottom-left corner and move as the blue round bullets falls down, and follow those, the "waterfall" danmaku part isn't as hard as those round one to avoid.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Elixir

After playing around with the scoring of mof, I don't know whether ZUN is a genius or not.

Like, getting the first extend on stage 1 for example. And bombing in the appropriate places for score, despite failing spell cards in the process. In any case, I can pretty much do the first two stages flawlessly on Hard, getting an extend on each, and another extend on stage 3 shortly before or after Nitori mid-boss where she leaves a 1up behind.

I'm randomly victim to Nitori's first spell card, and it's pretty different from Normal (instead of just crossover bluish white bullets, it also has orbs) and her mid-attack which has them coming from both sides in a wavy pattern (in Normal, they're not wavy at all).

Stage 4 I'm still unsure of. I still have to bomb when I don't want too at times. I guess I'll wait for some videos to pop up that deal with that part.

If I'm not playing for score I can easily make it up to Kanako on Hard, but it's not like I would want to do that. Scoring is much more fun. Kanako isn't.

If anyone wants to purchase Mountain of Faith, paletweb are now taking preorders (I bought EoSD, IN and PCB, and they arrived the third day <3)

I take you bought MoF already?

Anywho, I can't clear Normal let alone Hard. XD I'm having trouble with Sanae now.. Stage 4 is easy now, but there's something about Sanae's 2nd or 3rd spell, the one that has spear like danmaku thrown at you in a wavy walls next to you, I don't know why, I keep dying on that card..

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Elixir

Yeah, I preordered mof.

I'm only having problems with these spell cards:

Nitori's final card with green spikes.
Sanae's card with white spikes.
Kanako's "huge red and blue bullets that transform into smaller bulltes" card.
Aya's survival card.

Aside from that, sometimes I have issues with Aya or Kanako. I pretty much have Sanae, Hina, and all that, down. I hit 700k faith on Hard before fucking it up at Aya.

I don't have a problem at all with Aya's survival card.. I thought it was rather easy. Nitori's Green spike card is giving me problems too.. I swear they auto-aim.. Kanako's card was somewhat easy, it was her little "path of doom" spell card that got me.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Aw you quitting? I'm still having problems clearing normal mode and you already cleared lunatic!? You bastard.. XD I can't help trying to get scores sometimes.. it's as bad as smoking except its not bad.. really.

FELIPE NO

Flandre is going to dominate the competition for sure. She won on our Hongfire's Tou-Moe 07 against the finalist Patchouli. Man it was decided by one vote.. such an epic battle..

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Damn.. I thought Remilia would be running first... Udonge is sweeping the competition.
Yukari, this is a heavy contender. We'll see how it turns out.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Elixir

Here is the rofltastic 1cc Lunatic run I did of Imperishable Night. It's terrible, and I did it on a bad day, but if you want to watch it be my guest.

Heh, at least you can clear IN 1CC. I can't even do EoSD extra.

As for the other news..

Seimoe's tournament is getting rougher and rougher each run.. Remilia Scarlet vs Keine Kamishirasawa. My two favorite char.. Wah.. who to choose, who to choose..

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Elixir

Don't worry, EoSD Extra is probably the hardest Extra available. Followed by PCB, then IN, then MoF. I haven't spent all that much time on EoSD in comparison to the other games. Though, EoSD is probably tied with IN in terms of favourites.

The thing about EoSD is that it has rank, and planning only takes you so far because of it. Patchouli is horrendous if you're on Lunatic and using Marisa A. If you're using Marisa A you're going to have difficulty with capturing Lava Cromlech or Emerald Megalith.



It's actually a pencil board. And they scratch easily.

Ironically, I died around flandre's last 2 Spellcards ( Q.E.D Ripples of 495 years, and Forbidden Barrage "Catadioptric". I thought she was much easier than the other extra bosses. Or maybe I'm playing EoSD too much. XD At one point I had her to [ ] that much before I died.. Let's just say my keyboard went through physical therapy.

@Slayer25k

Meh, I'm not gonna use it like that. More for collecting than being practical. XD

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Elixir

Patchouli Knowledge (50%, 485 Votes)
Remilia Scarlet (50%, 484 Votes)

Holy. Shit.

I said the same exact thing. XD I never thought I'd see the day that someone or something wins by exactly one vote. Poor Rem...


@Slayer25k

Which difficulty? Normal at least right? or Lunatic?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by slayer25k

On Normal - Stage 5 - Death - without continue

Aarrrrr Patchouli!

After a continue.. it seems that I can't get back to my 'normal' state of mind - It's like .. I wouldn't care what's going to happen afterwards..and I just stop playing seriously.

I feel ya. After I died in stage 5 of PCB on my attempts of a 1cc run. I just.. give up. I don't feel like grazing, then bomb my way through.

Patchouli?
Youre talking about IN or EoSD? If its EoSD I can understand.. XD. I had to practice Patchy's stage over and over till I got the hang of it. Then I get obliterated in Stage 5(well this was back when I was a new to EoSD).

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Elixir

Patchouli is only in EoSD.

No, its not that. I know patchouli is the Stage 4 boss in EoSD. Slayer was mentioning Stage 5.. I got confuzzled.. :/

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by slayer25k

Well..

Patchouli takes all my lifes in Stage 4 and Sakuya gives me the rest in Stage 5 afterwards!

That's the message I was aiming for -

Hehe, The first couple fairies that appeared obliterated me when I first got to stage 5.. -_- so many bullets..

And I finally change the text sig to something a little more friendly.

FELIPE NO

Er.. I don't mean to point out the obvious but the only time I hear that is when my sound is turned way too high. Maybe you turned your sound too high via Windows or physical means? Perhaps it might be the game itself, but has it happened to you in just IN or all the touhou games?

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Unfortunately I don't know enough beyond the answer I gave you. Maybe one of our fine Members in the Technical Assistance sub-forums can provide a more definitive answer.

on a ontopic note:

I'm doing PCB normal score runs now. I'm failing miserably.

Jam it back in, in the dark.