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Touhou

| I want to get into Touhou because cute anime girls but how? where should I start. Do I start with the games or like manga or an anime?


| This is touhou:
https://youtu.be/_VaK9qlJRyY


| 2hu officially is only the numbered games, mostly bullet hell

zun, the guy behind it, doesn't mind people using his characters and world and such for fan projects which works be any anime or manga or often games you'd see



| If you want to get into the bullet hell games I think there's one on steam or you can try getting your hands on a copy another way, cough MoriyaShrine cough

I was recommended to start with touhou 6 embodiment of Scarlett devil and enjoyed it but it's useful to know later games show your hurtbox when you press shift

It's a little bead on the center of your character not your full character for note


| >>707851
There are some canon manga tho if my memory serves me right


| >>707817 You start with the hentai like everybody else. Then, 1 if you are a man, or 6 if you are a baby.


| Lots of ways! If you want the "official" way, some of the newer games are on Steam. You can get a patch for whatever language you speak at thpatch.net. If you're not into shoot-em-up, the fighting games are also really good.

Or you can play the fangames! If you like metroidvania, Touhou Luna Nights seems great.

The wiki (en.touhouwiki.net) has info on everything. The characters, the settings, all the games, comics, music albums, etc, both official and unofficial.


| For the official games, don't worry about playing in order. Just play whichever has the character/music/setting you like the most! Just know that the older you go, the more dated it is. Th13 is more-or-less the start of the current modern era, but th6-10 have bigger fanbase.

There are no official anime, but there are official manga! There are multiple series with different stand-alone stories each. The wiki has info about them and where you can read them.


| Uhh here's the link to the wiki since the one I typed earlier was unclickable https://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Touhou_Wiki


| cirno best gril


| I like the bullet hell games (tho never finished one) and the fighting games, tho rn I'm curious about the fan games actually. Wonder what other fangames got popular besides Luna nights


| If you only want to get into Touhou because "cute anime girls" just read some doujinshi and call it a day. But if you *do* want to actually get into the games, I'd recommend starting with 6 (with hitbox patch) or 7, they're older and kinda rough around the edges, but they're also the most simple and straightforward mechanics-wise. Also, controversial opinion, but those two have (some of) the best girls.


| ok ill try Touhou 6 first


| I told you to start with the porn damn it!

Oh well, baby it is then.


| There's porn? Weird theme for porn, but rule 34 I guess


| Touhou luna night is awesome experience, and is one of the only exception of the bullet hell franchise

Does "Gensokyo night festival" count as a touhou game/fangame?


| I'd recommend the official manga Silent Sinner in Blue, it's a little hard to follow but it shows a lot of the tone and core characters well and has a lot of really nice moments/character art

>>708002 there's possibly more touhou porn than any other franchise, hard to say


| >>707896
The fangames tend to be less accessible since only few of them are on Steam or have English patches, but *cough* there's always a way.

Koumajou Densetsu (also known as Touhouvania) is my fav, and it has a good official English patch. I also really like Touhou Pocket Wars and the Pokemon-hack Touhou Puppet Play.


| >>707940 how do you think I found out about touhou?


| try touhou 8 its the easiest one


| >>708391
Well yes, but also maybe actually no. Switching between real world and spirit world on top of having to learn all the usual bullet hell bullshit mechanics might be a bit much at first.


| >>708391 Idk I got stick at Reimu's boss stage.

Touhou 10 felt easier for me as you use the power you collect for bombs thus you basically always have a bomb when you need it, just don't spam it all at once and end up with no power.


| If we're going by the easiest, Th13 is undisputedly the easiest if we just look at bullet pattern and density. (at least I think so? I haven't tried 16-17 tho)

Th10 has the most forgiving bomb system, but the patterns get tricky. Th8, if you can get the hang of its system, is the easiest to get a Good Ending + Extra Stage.

Th8 and Th10 also have builds/glitch that will obliterate the enemies in a way that's not intentional by the dev.


| >>708155 Fine, fine. Doesn't change the fact that you will be a baby for skipping 1-5.

At least play 5. It will be funny later when you play 12.


| PCB isn't the easiest?


| >>708796
PCB is one of the easier ones, but Ten Desires is still easier.

If you want my rating, from easiest to hardest...

TD < PCB = IN = EoSD < MoF = DDC < SA < UFO <<<<<< LoLK

Haven't played the games after LoLK. PoFV is weird, so not included.

In other news, is it easier for you g/u/rls if we use numbers or the acronyms? I can do both, but honestly I prefer acronyms...


| >>708858 I use numbers cause I'm new to the series and don't know how most of the games after 12.3 are actually called.

Love the numbers cause whole ones so far have been only shoot em ups while decimal ones were fighters or other genres. So I can even know what type of game we're talking about with numbers, which is neat.

Tho ig fans use acronyms more often?


| >>708898
Oh never thought about it that way! That is neat.

I just prefer acronyms because I sometimes got numbers mixed up in my head, while with acronyms I already understand the context of the names and so what the game might contain.


| Once you get somewhat familiar with the characters, if you want to know more about them definitely check out the official print works (Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, Perfect Momento in Strict Sense, etc.)


| wait, touhou is a video game? i thought it was jazz


| >>709528 it's a series of video games, the music comes from them and one guy does everything


| there is a difficulty setting when starting a game right? does it affect the storyline?


| >>710064
Uhhh *pretty sure* easy difficulty lacks some stages and true ending, and everything normal and above is the same in terms of story. Also you have to beat the game without continues (known as 1cc) to get the true ending.


| >>710064
You can play all the stages and bosses in Easy difficulty EXCEPT in Th6 (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil), which locks out the final stage on easy.

Most games require 1cc on Normal or above to get the true ending, except for Th8 (which have its own system), Th11 (which can be reached on Easy), and maybe others.

That's just for the shooting games. The fighting games don't lock out anything.


| >>710104 fighting games do require 1cc for true ending still tho btw. At least till 12.3 personally dunno a bout the rest


| >>710105
... I just realise that, unlike the shooting games, I always get the true ending in the fighting games because I'm good enough at it to never play on Easy. Whoops!


| >>710108 same. I can do lunatic in fighters but die on normal in shoot em ups

Tho don't get cocky tho in MP you'll get wrecked either way

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