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Touhou Project 17 announced
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love the art. Zun is one of my favorites, I'll always play his games.
I'll give this a try, but I feel the quality of the latest games has been getting significantly worse, so I'm not very optimistic about this one.
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Disagree, last game was very solid. Touhou 15 was also very cool and hard.
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Yeah!! My favorite game series, wish Era appreciated it more!! Its fun, good (if not the best) female characters, fun story, and great music!!
Legit. Hope the music is just as quality. The series as a whole has to have one of the most consistently excellent soundtracks in all of gaming. Too bad it isn't appreciated enough over here.
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They've always had an English subtitle
15 and 16 are on steam. So will this.
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Yeah, that's how I got 16 (and will get 15). I haven't actually played 15 yet, but that one looks reallly tough lol
I'd lie if I said I'm anywhere near being up-to-date with the franchise, but my time with past Touhou games has been mostly excellent (the danmakus, anyway, don't care for the spin-offs), so I'm glad there's more coming out. Wish they also arrived on consoles, but since they run on potato PCs as well it's not that big of an issue.
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Typo, i mean newtype from gundam series.
The bullet and beam is everywhere.
Normal difficulty isn't crazy hard if you know the genre. A lot of videos around are played on lunatic, the hardest difficulty.
"Normal Mode is titled "Shiba Inu Level"
"It's a story where animal spirits from Hell are scheming to take over the surface world by force, and you join forces with friendly animal spirits that have come to warn you in order to stop them before it starts.
The ones going towards Hell are Reimu, Marisa, and Youmu.
It's going to be a shooting game that's darker than usual, filled with animal themes, and just a tiny bit aggressive."
relinked from shmup discord
https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=23363.msg1423375#msg1423375
"It's a story where animal spirits from Hell are scheming to take over the surface world by force, and you join forces with friendly animal spirits that have come to warn you in order to stop them before it starts.
The ones going towards Hell are Reimu, Marisa, and Youmu.
It's going to be a shooting game that's darker than usual, filled with animal themes, and just a tiny bit aggressive."
relinked from shmup discord
https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=23363.msg1423375#msg1423375
I'm with you there. 16 was alright, and 15's final boss theme is a top tier bop, but the last few entries haven't been living up to the glory days of 8 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 14.
That's said, I've actually been seriously getting back into Touhou lately (mostly because Fantastic Danmaku Festival 2 is on Steam and it's amazing!!), so this couldn't come at a better time! That subtitle is peak quirky Touhou also.
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The OST of 16 is really great. I enjoyed 16, I love its theme. It's a bit on the boring side, but it was intended to be a straightforward game.
Also, it's always good to go back to Touhou! Great series, wish ERA appreciated it more. It's everything we love!
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I love ZUN's way of titling stuff. Feels like chapters of old ass books.
Only if you're playing on the hardest difficulties (which you don't have to do, Easy and Normal modes exist)
I'd never even touched a shmup before 2014 (when I started to get into the series). Now I can convincingly do Easy mode for most entries after 1 or 2 tries, and I've been able to complete a few games on Normal (though I usually have to practice / focus a lot)
That's a fangame (and some fangames go crazier on the bullet count than the official games)
Though I still get your point
Touhou titles are fine, despite what (former) SBF would have you believe
They usually refer to something about the game's plot and final villain (e.g. "Wily Beast" in this game's title already seems to reference the use of animals in this game), it's just usually done in a really poetic manner; all the titles do make sense in context. The only weird parts are when the titles rely too much on esoteric references (like with Touhou 15.5's title, explained here) or when there's no good word for a Japanese concept in English (like for Touhou 12.5 and its usage of "spoiler")
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So for those who are interested in the story, seems like the game takes place in Hell.
The denizens of Gensokyo Hell in Touhou is:
Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu - Judge of the Dead
Komachi Onozuka - Carries Dead Spirits to Eiki
Rin Kaenbyou - Carry corpses to the former Hell of Blazing Fires to regulate its heat. Though, she was in Former Hell (This was in Touhou SA)
But there's also Earth's Hell which has:
Hecatia Lapislazuli - Goddess of Hell
Clownpiece - Fairy of Hell
But then there's more, for in the PC-98 canon (Touhou 1 - 5 which may or not be canon at this point):
Konngara - No idea what she does there
Kikuri - No idea what she does
Mima (Formerly) - Vengeful Spirit, playable in Touhou 4 and 5
All in all, this will be very interesting to see where it goes.
The denizens of Gensokyo Hell in Touhou is:
Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu - Judge of the Dead
Komachi Onozuka - Carries Dead Spirits to Eiki
Rin Kaenbyou - Carry corpses to the former Hell of Blazing Fires to regulate its heat. Though, she was in Former Hell (This was in Touhou SA)
But there's also Earth's Hell which has:
Hecatia Lapislazuli - Goddess of Hell
Clownpiece - Fairy of Hell
But then there's more, for in the PC-98 canon (Touhou 1 - 5 which may or not be canon at this point):
Konngara - No idea what she does there
Kikuri - No idea what she does
Mima (Formerly) - Vengeful Spirit, playable in Touhou 4 and 5
All in all, this will be very interesting to see where it goes.
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That's probably my favourite Touhou title screen ever already. Hopefully this one manages to hook me again. Both 16 and Violet Detector were incredibly unmemorable to me, and I love games like Double Spoiler and Impossible Spell Card so me not really enjoying Violet Detector was kind of a surprise to me. Anyway, let's see if I can actually tell the final boss apart from the previous one this time around.
Nice to see.
Like a lot of people, I wasn't too fond of some of the later titles. But I actually found 16 to be a pretty decent return to form, both in gameplay and in music. Not as great as the old ones obviously, but still much better than some of the more recent ones. Hopefully this one will be at least that good.
As for the rest, it's kind of a shame that the series seems to have this reputation for being super impossible (going by online impressions and this thread). I get why, since everything you see on youtube from it is just people posting videos about how hard the insane difficulties or extra stages are. But on normal (and sometimes hard or even insane in some games), I've always found the series to be one of the easier shmups there is. Mostly because it's super generous with bombs and extra lives, so you get a ton of chances to screw up. Certainly much easier than most Cave shmups I've played, and way easier than something like Ikaruga (which people consider to be the golden standard for accessible casual shmups for some reason but I can't even get past stage 3 in it).
Like a lot of people, I wasn't too fond of some of the later titles. But I actually found 16 to be a pretty decent return to form, both in gameplay and in music. Not as great as the old ones obviously, but still much better than some of the more recent ones. Hopefully this one will be at least that good.
As for the rest, it's kind of a shame that the series seems to have this reputation for being super impossible (going by online impressions and this thread). I get why, since everything you see on youtube from it is just people posting videos about how hard the insane difficulties or extra stages are. But on normal (and sometimes hard or even insane in some games), I've always found the series to be one of the easier shmups there is. Mostly because it's super generous with bombs and extra lives, so you get a ton of chances to screw up. Certainly much easier than most Cave shmups I've played, and way easier than something like Ikaruga (which people consider to be the golden standard for accessible casual shmups for some reason but I can't even get past stage 3 in it).
Don't be. You start on easy mode and work your way up. You would be amazed at what your brain can adapt to. Plus, Touhou is one of the most accessible shmups out there.
Surely this will be the time when Mima makes her glorious return.
There's actually more than that. The spin-offs are just appended with a decimal, and are things like fighting games and photography games that ZUN made so he could laugh at people.
You'll still need to practice to get a clear, of course, but the lower difficulties aren't too bad. A lot of it is just staying calm and a good bit of memorization.
(also, actually use your bombs)
There's actually more than that. The spin-offs are just appended with a decimal, and are things like fighting games and photography games that ZUN made so he could laugh at people.
You'll still need to practice to get a clear, of course, but the lower difficulties aren't too bad. A lot of it is just staying calm and a good bit of memorization.
(also, actually use your bombs)
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Yeah, I'd say play on easy if you really want too. Atleast if you're in it for the story.