/jp/ - Otaku Culture

I'll just copy-paste what I said on /v/ regarding the franchise. This is just my opinion, though.

Boss and Ex-Boss are getting weaker each game.

First we have death incarnate and causality manipulator, eternal moon princess and super-ancient co-founder of advanced moon civilization, omnipotent judge of afterlife and ancient goddesses.
Now we only have saints, tricksters and tsukkumogami as final bosses.

Having hax character as final boss gives more intense feeling while playing for me, and it's not like powerlevel really important in Touhouverse.
I feel shit's just get real whenever I fought ghost princess who can manipulate death, even if she didn't use said power. It's just different than meeting a magic saint or genderbent emperor.

I try to look at the other aspect such as backstory, but nah, Yuyuko and Eirin still have the best backstory so far.
Though, I like Byakuren and Miko's.

I think ZUN's peak was at 8 and still consistent up until 10. From onwards it seems ZUN started to have to come up with ideas.

To summarize I always speculates that ZUN intended to make 2hu games with hax bosses, but it strayed since TH10 and it seems to me that now ZUN just want to make games with nice music and expand the world building. That's why we got plenty of manga now.