Touhou difficulty ranking

[Anonymous No.]

Quite often when someone asks which game is better to get familiar with touhou, IN is suggested as one of the easiest. But how would you rank difficulty among all touhou danmaku games you played?

[Anonymous No.]

I dont know I'm still on easy modo

[Anonymous No.]

>>10127586
The difficulty varies. Memorization is more important in some games, and important period if you're playing for score. Dodging is critical always, but not as much in games like SA where most bullets are streamed.

As an introduction game, IN is far too forgiving and also too complicated. Something like EoSD or even LLS are much better starting points.

[Anonymous No.]

it's all just memorizing mazes

what's hard about this? it's a grind, like leveling a character in an mmo

[Anonymous No.]

>>10127854
>>10127860
Well, maybe it would be better to rephrase the question - reflex-wise difficulty. It's possible (at least it looks like it) to memorize patterns if you take enough time, but I guess it's hardly possible to improve reflexes if you lack them from the very beginning.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10128256
If anything it's close to synchronized swimming.

[Anonymous No.]

For general survival, IN is one of the easier ones. UFO has the hardest Lunatic mode and SA has the hardest Normal and Hard. For scoring, IN (and PCB) is arguably the most challenging.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10128381
>SA has the hardest Hard.
Wrong

[Anonymous No.]

>>10127860
EoSD has a lot of random patterns. Also execution.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10128381
UFO has the hardest hard by far!

[Anonymous No.]

>>10128381
MOF's Hard is pretty difficult... I don't think that SA is any harder than it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10128715
MoF is piss easy, except Kanako last card since the bombs do jack shit.

[Anonymous No.]

Fairy Wars is the hardest. UFO is the second hardest. Then StB/DS, then SA, EoSD, then the fighting games because I can't play them well, and then the rest.

[Anonymous No.]

Can almost beat Yukari here -
Easiest to Hardest (based on clearing (not 1ccing) the normal modes of each game)

Modern vertical shooters only

IN
EOSD
TD
PCB
MoF (no using MariB cheat)
GFW

UFO, SA (equal difficulty, UFO is more fast bullets and SA is more but slower bullets)

[Anonymous No.]

Hardest?

Easy: PCB
Normal: SA (if you don't know how to bomb)
Hard: UFO
Lunatic: UFO

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bErq2e5MKAM#!

[Anonymous No.]

I always thought EoSD to be one of the harder ones because you can't see the hitbox.
Same goes for the older games, but I haven't played them much.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130001
there's a hitbox patch you know

[Anonymous No.]

I'm just so frustrated to see that so many people easily finish Lunatic with 1CC and ever compete with scoring. For now I finished only EoSD on Hard losing all continues and now when I see that EoSD is one of the easiest for survival, I fell so retarded. I don't have good reflexes so I guess touhou isn't my kind of game.
Well, I still try playing those games at least for survival on Hard (PCB for now).

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130040

And it's slightly off, so kind of pointless.

Still, I'd rate EoSD as fairly difficult, all things considered. Lots of fast random patterns and such, so you can't memo it to death.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130056

Play SA or PCB extra/phantasm, those are more about precision than reflexes

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130087
IIRC, extra requires 1CC playing. It seems I have to play Normal to do that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130117
1CCing PCB normal isn't that hard, it's just a resource collect fest up until stage 4-5 and then resource management until the end of the game. Start with max lives it will allow (it will still count for your 1cc) and watch yourself be maxed on resources by s5 if you can figure out the easy bosses up til then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130149
>3
No, I meant playing Normal instead of Hard. I'm just trying to avoid Normal and Easy because I don't want to get used to (it's like if you want to play Lunatic, it's better to play Lunatic from the very beginning, not Normal->Hard->Lunatic).
I read about that resource management in PCB and find it a little bit complicated. Well, maybe playing Normal instead of Hard allows to think about such things.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130149
No, I meant playing Normal instead of Hard. I'm just trying to avoid Normal and Easy because I don't want to get used to (it's like if you want to play Lunatic, it's better to play Lunatic from the very beginning, not Normal->Hard->Lunatic).
I read about that resource management in PCB and find it a little bit complicated. Well, maybe playing Normal instead of Hard allows to think about such things.

[Anonymous No.]

Check the archives.This question has been answered 1000 times before.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130192

Don't think of it as playing on normal, think of it as warm up to go fight the most powerful being in Gensokyo

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130200
I tried if you want to know. I found only one thread which was about difficulty ranking but it has quite a few posts about difficulty and not something else.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130192
Probably should've just played on normal to build up your reflexes unless you have prior STG experience.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130209
I just find it doubtful to be able to build up reflexes after a lot of playing. I'm not sure that I got any after playing EoSD.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10130225
>I just find it doubtful to be able to build up reflexes after a lot of playing.
You need some Ketsui, son.

[Anonymous No.]

It's quite late for that but anyway. Give your vote for games which gave you a headache most of all. It doesn't matter if it's scoring, 1CC Lunatic, collecting spell cards or something else, as long as you had moments when you wanted to break your keyboard.

http://poll.pollcode.com/lzf74u

[Anonymous No.]

why people ven play in normal..that is BOOORING

at least hard is a little challenguing

[Anonymous No.]

>>10132114
>lol es noob to play normal jajaja

I'll outscore you in any touhou game on lunatic and break your neck in real life for having a shitty attitude.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10132231
You're the hero the Touhou STG community needs.