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>>13563226
For the Windows game, I agree entirely.

EOSD, PCB and IN (and PoFV) all have really particular feelings in their composition, but PCBs, is almost transcendent in this regard. Also, this stage is probably the best pre-boss stage in the game, from the changing aesthetics which highlight the arrival of Spring, to the boundless energy of the fairies.

There are a few PC-98 tracks I prefer more, like Phantasmagoria, Dream Land (LLS), Maple Wise, and "Vanishing Dream ~ Lost Dream," but that's another story.

>SoEW challenge:

SoEW is the only Touhou game which I would call mediocre. The music is not very well composed, the color palette is lacking, and the controls are both jerky and delayed, at least in comparison with later PC-98 titles.

However, I feel SoEW does a few things right which other games do not:

1. It has a real surreal, apprehensive, and psychedelic feel to it, which is lost in later games. The bosses range from a red herring with a katana to some magical cannon-like rocks to an anachronistic, magical tank, all of which come and go with the intensity and transience of an opium dream. I think it is the game which deserves the title "phantasmagoria" more than any other, and the best thing I can compare it to is Yume Nikki with minimal dialogue and bullets.

2. The varied levels. The later games, especially after the PC-98 series, tend to carry a certain shtick which all the mooks and bosses possess, increasing with intensity until the final boss, even ignoring the changing score systems. You have an overload of byzantine bullets in IN, a new, faster pacing in SA, etc. Each level in SoEW truly feels like a different world, advancing into another, more esoteric domain one after another.

3. The subdued soundtracks. Not every song has to be symphony, and I think this game does it best, especially in songs like "Genmukai."

>>12140680
Trendy kids in Shibuya are buying enka recently.

On cassette.