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[Anonymous No.]

Okay /jp/, I played TouHou the other day for the first time at my brothers house. I loved it.
I want to start playing, but from what I can see there's about 12 or 13 different games
What do I start with?

[Anonymous No.]

The first.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926246
My brother told me it's hard to start with the first few because you need emulators. So I'd rather not/

[Anonymous No.]

Note that the first few games play nothing like the last few games.

[Anonymous No.]

doesn't fucking matter. Download all of them and play, once you get frustrated for dying you switch to another.

People should use the fucking archive, we have this thread every fucking day

[Anonymous No.]

one that is over 6 that is a round number and is not 9

[Anonymous No.]

Perfect Cherry Blossom. Best characters, best game balance. Not overbearingly difficult like Subterranean Animism, but not underwhelmingly easy like Imperishable Night.

[Anonymous No.]

12 Easy. It's harder than the others but should form enough skill for you.

[Anonymous No.]

Play either Touhou 6 or Touhou 7 first, then move on after that. Use the Touhou wiki for more reference.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926290
Nine is already excluded from your criteria, since it is not an even number.

Anyways, I recommend the seventh game, Perfect Cherry Blossom. It's one of the easier ones while maintaining a variety in shot/bomb types and characters, and though you get more lives handed to you than others you don't develop the bad habits that Imperishable Night gives you.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926322
>implying 9 isn't an integer

[Anonymous No.]

>doesn't fucking matter. Download all of them and play, once you get frustrated for dying you switch to another.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926348
probably the correct answer... just don't settle on IN as the first one you beat, you'll be super bad at deathbombing.

[Anonymous No.]

Touhou 6, Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil

Do not listen to anyone suggesting anything else

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926332
>>5926382
Same person and reported for implying.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926376
it's not like you can't get better later when you play a different game.

[Anonymous No.]

Everyone else is just opinions in here. It's best to start from the lowest difficulty, going to the highest. You should start with 2, and then move up from there, even though some of the bosses from 2 are harder than 3.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926393
>implying that is an reportable offense

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>5926436
Reported for implying and shitting up /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926442
Reported for excessive reporting.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926402
harder to undo bad habits than to learn them right the first time.

[White Ren !YLuFFdRcFQ No.]

>>5926487
Reported for stupidity.

[有希・長門~~ヽ（ ＾ω＾）ﾉ ｻｸｾｽ !f/akPANTSU No.]

when I started playing Touhou about 2 years ago I was under the impression that bombing made you a weak person and it was to never be done.

As a result, I find it incredibly hard to bomb even when it'd be a good move. My advice is to NOT learn like this...just now I'm getting into the practice of bombing when I'm backed into a corner but it's still really hard to figure out that exact perfect time.

Also, learn where your hitbox is. The game became 10x easier when I did that.

As for which one to start with, I'd say 6-8 or 10 or 11. 11 is hard though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926387

This. It's the first Windows game and the one most people started with.

The characters and the Scarlet Devil Mansion setting seem to be the most popular amongst Touhou fandom as well. You get to fight Cirno, Mei Ling, Patchouli, Sakuya, Remilia and Flandre. Besides the first stage boss, all the bosses are very well known characters.

The only reason I can see for not playing it first would be the difficulty, but it's not too hard. The only real problems are that you don't get enough lives in practice mode and that there's a jump in difficulty when you get to stage four.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926299
>IN
>Easy

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926945
Yeah I was like that too and then I realized it was wrong and stopped doing that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926957
>and that there's a jump in difficulty when you get to stage four.
Just like every game? FUCK THE PRISMRIVERS, FUCK MARISA, FUCK AYA, Satori's not that bad, FUCK ANCHOR BITCH.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926985
Is Aya a huge difficulty jump on hard and lunatic or something?
She's not hard, and I've never even 1CCed anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926995
Aya is hard until you get used to the whole MoF concept of BOMBINGISCHEAPBOMBFUCKINEVERYTHING.
Capturing her spellcards though is another story, as it actually requires practice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5927028
I don't think I bomb very much the few times I get to her...it's been awhile, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5927044
There's your problem with "never even 1CCed anything".

Mountain of Faith has the blessing/curse of a gynormous amount of bombs due to its bombing system. So when in, say, EoSD you said "ok, I'll keep this bomb until that spellcard I find hard or in case something hits me", in MoF you pretty much say "oh fuck I don't feel like dodging this one, I'll bomb". I mean, you'll get your power back later anyway, there is nothing to lose (except the spell bonus). Plus, if you keep the right range from the boss, MoF bombs are as effective as IN's deathbombs during spellcards.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5927066
I hear you...
I try to bomb liberally in most Touhou games, but almost every time I die I do so with bombs in stock.

[Anonymous No.]

EoSD, Lotus Land Story, or Mystic Square. Most of the Windows games are shit.

[A Certain Magical !HOMOfybeOY No.]

EoSD

[Anonymous No.]

EoSD with the hitbox patch

PCB.

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926995
Aya on Lunatic is just Aya on Hard: a bit faster edition.

Her nonspells can be point blank bombed, and they're all actually easy. The second one (fast onion rings) requires a bit of muscle memory though.

Also;
Easy tier: IN/PCB/MoF
Hard tier: SA/EoSD
Unplayable due to retarded gimmick tier: UFO

[Anonymous No.]

>>5926238
If you do start with game 6, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil(Tip: Type "Touhou 6" into the pirate bay for an english version all you have to do is extract) with a retexture mod. Or Touhou 7(Perfect cherry blossom).

Also, real men don't use mods to hack the game and make their hitbox visible(It's pretty much where the belt would be on your characters) and keep the original sound files(I think you still have to write over the original sound files with the "EOSD" sound files with the retexture patch".

Also, Play Hisouten, the 10.5th game in the series, Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. It's a very fun fighter and is worth playing.