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Yo, /jp/. f/a/g here. See, I was taking a look through all the boards, just to see what's going on and stuff, and I came across yours, which I'd largely ignored since the split (not sure why). And...

Er...yes. Can you recommend me a Touhou game please? I mean, I've never played any of them, and I'm lacking for games - good games - and I'd like to try one, just to see. But there's a fair few of them, and I don't where to start. And I hear that this is where I need to go for Touhou-related stuff (not /v/ apparently). If it's at all possible, any character or background info would be great. Yes, a Google search would probably net me all this from some wiki; I get the feeling /jp/'s info would be better.

If you don't want to, it's fine - just rage at me, and I'll delete the thread, there's no point in board clutter and all. Thanks.

An iqdb lookup says that this is Kaguya, in the pic.

>> No.4467290

Easy mode: PCB
Masochism mode: UFO

>> No.4467283

>>4467279
Shoot the Bullet, do it

>> No.4467294

Imperishable Night

>> No.4467303
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Just because you are willing to delete your thread, at this hour even,
start with Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, you can find it quite easily by googling the name along with "megaupload" or something.
Touhou wiki can help you with backgrounds and such, just don't take the "Trivia" section about each character seriously.

>> No.4467304

Just choose one at random.

>> No.4467313

>>4467304
Pretty much this, just look at the replies in this thread. Not a single agreement.

>> No.4467322
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But OP, that's not Kaguya, that's Mio.

This is Kaguya.

>> No.4467326

>>4467313
most of them are troll posts except
>>4467290

>> No.4467350

>>4467326
Hey, I'm not trolling, EoSD is pretty good for starters. It worked for me, at least.

>> No.4467391

Easy Mode: Imperishable Night w/ Border Team first

Normal Mode: In order starting with EoSD

Hard Mode: SA or UFO first

Lunatic Mode: SA (no ReimuA) or UFO (No SanaeB)

Extra ModePC-98 games

>> No.4467393

PCB has a good curve. You get a border bonus that temporarily shields you every 50,000 cherry points. Imperishable Night is also a good choice, due to easier patterns and a more lenient bombing window.

EoSD is a shaky starting ground. For one when you focus your hitbox, is not shown, making it great at learning to dodge bullets without forcing you to keep you eyes glued on your character's hitbox (which is a terrible idea).

>> No.4467395

>>4467391
The PC-98 games are quite fun, people should really play them more.

>> No.4467403

>>4467395
I loved the instantly spawning screen-wide Dual Sparks.

>> No.4467414

>>4467303
I've actually already got (AFAIK) all of the games; I found a 3GB~ish torrent - which was a single .rar file, bit weird - and got that rather than try to find the games piecemeal. I'll check the wiki too. And I'm always ready to delete a thread, especially when they take a turn for the worse.

I'll start with EoSD first - do the games differ significantly from each other, or are they simply successive improvements upon a central theme/mechanic?

>> No.4467434

>>4467414
Pretty much a new mechanic is implemented in every game, that replaces another one. PCB has the cherry system, but IN has the time and youkai/human system. theres a shift in the core mechanics at Moutain of Faith, because the Power and Bomb System were completely reworked.

>> No.4467440

>>4467414
Latter.

Also go ahead and post your experience after you play. And keep in mind this piece of advice: don't underestimate even Stage 1.

>> No.4467443

Forgiving tier: (max lives go, but stick to normal)
Imperishable Night
Perfect Cherry Blossom

Mid tier:
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Mountain of Faith

Stuck on stage 3 tier:
Subterranean Animism
Undefined Fantastic Object

Google any of the above + megaupload for instant gratification.

Also, Phantasmagoria of Flower View to play against normalfags, easy to get into.

>> No.4467450

>>4467414
Well, they differ significantly in that SA and UFO are shit, but other than that, it's just ZUN fucking around with scoring and shot types but leaving the basic "dodge this shit" gameplay the same.

>> No.4467454

Perfect Cherry Blossom is the best to start, Imperishable Night is good too but it is too easy.

>> No.4467505

Also, if you think you are having trouble with EoSD, download the hitbox patch. DO NOT donwload the retexture. Ah, it is good to patch your touhous to the latest version.

>> No.4467511

Perfect Cherry Blossom or Imperishable Night.

>> No.4467550

Seeing as though PCB has the shield system, I'll start with that then.

>>4467440
>Also go ahead and post your experience after you play.

Will do - how long is the average play-through? Will it take long enough that I'd have to start a new thread, or will this thread still be around when I'm done?

Also sorry for not posting quicker guys; I was gonna put my Steam profile into leave-me-the-fuck-alone mode, as I'm about to start playing a game that I'd like not to be interrupted while playing, and all my friends have disappeared off my list.

wat

>> No.4467542

We get the info from the wiki, too. Well, the minority of us who bothers to get the info on characters does. It has most of the supplementary books translated, go figure.

Now, if you've never played STGs before, start with Shoot the Bullet. Seriously. People keep saying it's too hard, but they forget that it's also the most beginner friendly.

>> No.4467657

>>4467542
I'll try that after PCB then, or sooner if I suck at it.

Back in a bit, then.

>> No.4467717

Mars Matrix

>> No.4467748

>>4467550
The games are pretty short, like most shooters, and /jp/ doesn't really move at all.

>> No.4467756

>>4467550
Don't worry, /jp/ takes it easy. A thread lasts 8 hours all the way from page 0 to page 10.

>> No.4468156

Back! ...I failed it. My stats:

Score: 3167993
Difficulty: Easy ;_;
Game Completed: 93.23%
Continues Used: 3 - two of which were on the final boss, goddamit (Yuyuko?)
Misses: 12
Bombs Used: 11
Spell Cards Captured: 13
Slowdown Rate: 0.04%

In general, I like it. I get the feeling a lot of the story is mangled by the translation, but at least it has a story in the first place (a lot of scrolling-shooters don't, from what I've seen). Visually I find it impressive, the random Engrish-y bits of text at various points, the BGM track names down the side, and some of the backgrounds are simple and effective. The actual bullet patterns catch my attention though, and it's difficult not to get entranced by what often looks like artwork-in-motion. The character art is weird though (but I'd already heard it was anyway). The music is interesting - a lot of the samples and synths used are cheesy as hell, but the actual programming/sequencing and chords are great.

All in all, I enjoyed it a lot. It's hard as fuck but not unrewarding either.

>>4467748
>>4467756
That's pretty cool. I miss the days of 'Marked for deletion: old' on /a/.

>> No.4468165

>>4468156
eh, easymodo?

>> No.4468169

>>4468156
Oh boy,

In before easymodo.jpg

>> No.4468177

>>4468156
>I get the feeling a lot of the story is mangled by the translation
No, it's not mangled, that's just the way it is.

>> No.4468182

>>4467290
My first touhou was UFO

Why exactly does this make me masochistic? Hell, it was easier than most of the games sans SA (on normal mode).

>> No.4468194

>>4468156
Not bad, I have seen worse, but try not to play on easy, you will never improve that way.

>> No.4468208

Don't know why you'd play touhou when we have crimzon clover, x.x game room and mame. Touhou is for picking a favourite character and looking for porn of her.

>> No.4468213

I hear the pokemon mod Touhoumon has the best background character info you can find in the pokedex

>> No.4468242

also you should really get 10.5 and then 12.3 (and to a lesser degree 7.5)
these are a Street Fighter style game that you can play online against others.
Also the art of the characters is much better than in Zun's games.

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>>4468156
>story is mangled

It's impossible to understand what the hell is going on just from the ingame dialog. Check the wiki for the story introductions and character descriptions.

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>>4468208
>hurp

OP, not too bad for first try, you might wanna switch to Normal now

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>>4468156

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>>4468267
NORMARU MODO?

>> No.4468298

Yuyuko is an old fat ugly bitch. She is the worst Touhou character. So then how did she become the boss of PCB?

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>>4468298
hurp durp what

Yuyuko is gorgeous, and besides, age = power level.

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>>4468265
Sorry for shooting my fact sauce from my truth cannon into your conniving face of deceit.

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>>4468321

>> No.4468347

>>4468321
Go back to fapping to grandma porn, fag.

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>>4468298
What's the matter, too voluptuous for you?

Also:
>worst touhou
That's not the Prismrivers

>> No.4468355

>>4468165
Yeah, I saw that one coming, should've called it beforehand.

>>4468177
Ah, ok. I had a vague idea of what was going on anyway, something about cherry blossom (duh) and flower-viewing.

>>4468194
>>4468265
I shall do so.

>>4468242
The torrent had those as well, so I'll take a look at them sometime.

>>4468252
I shall do this too.

Thanks very much for the help/info/'Eh, easymodo?"-ing guys, I really appreciate it.

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>>4468347
>I can't handle a real woman
Fascinating.

>> No.4468358

>>4468252

That doesn't make the story any less silly. Sure it explains it more but you'll never shake off the retarded crap.

>> No.4468368

>>4468355
You're a bro.

>> No.4468372

>>4468358
What retarded crap

>> No.4468373

>>4468358
Touhou game plots aren't (usually) silly. It's just that Gensokyo works differently to the real world.

The stories are creation myth type stories that make no sense unless you interpret them symbolically, and the endings aren't usually canon.

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>>4468321

OVER NINE THOUSAND!

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>>4468298
You best be trolling nigger

>> No.4468379

Playing Touhou for plot is like playing Megaman for plot, though.

>> No.4468400

>>4468379
A single Protoman appearance in any Mega Man game has more meaningful plot than all of Touhou put together

>> No.4468406

>>4468373
>Touhou game plots are (usually) silly. Gensokyo just works differently to the real world and the characters don't need serious reasons to shoot each other up.
>The stories are creation myth type stories that make no sense unless you remember they're all doing this out of boredom, and the endings are all canon.

Fixed you there.

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>>4468400
What.

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4468426

Play in Normal, not easy, you will never improve otherwise, and Practice Stage is your best friend.
>>4468406
>and the endings are all canon.
Wat.

>> No.4468427

>>4468406

Works for me.

>> No.4468437

I assume a lot of people in this thread are already finished with Mushihime-sama Futari and are just filling time until their Espgaluda 2 copy arrives.

>> No.4468447

>>4468437
No.

>> No.4468481

>>4468437
Your assumption is wrong.

>>4468426
Did you ever see anyone disregarding some event or information from the ending based on the fact that it's supposedly not the canon one? Did you ever see some continuity breach that an "incorrect" ending would cause?

There.

>> No.4468488

>>4468437

Wrong.

>> No.4468509

Touhou games suck

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>>4468509

>> No.4468545

>>4468437
If only the autistics and the NEETs could live in harmony somehow.

>> No.4468549

>>4468509
hatersgonnahate.jpg

>> No.4468568

>>4468242

This.
Check them out ASAP.

>> No.4468573

The fighters are flawed to shit.

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Bump for no apparent reason.

>> No.4468620

>>4468611

Go away, Danny.

>> No.4468640

Holy shit 67 replies? I know it's just OP and other f/a/gs talking to each other. But i'm still disappointed. I'm sad

>> No.4468670

>>4468640
WAHH PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT PLAYING TOUHOU INSTEAD OF JUST TALKING ABOUT DIAPERS OR WHY REIMU IS AN ARMPIT WHORE

Fucking die.

>> No.4468733

>>4468640
>I'm so angry other people are using my secret internet club!

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