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Easy, because /jp/ doesn't play Touhou to begin with.

>>4029079

I can believe that.

The Yuka fight was surprisingly easy (on normal), but I still shat bricks the very first time she Master Sparked me. I was totally expecting it too, like, "alright, she's going to spark me sometime soon, I'll just be sure to move over a--

HOLY FUCK WHAT THE HELL IS THAT IT'S FUCKING HUGE OHMYGOD I JUST DIED"

>>4029066

I would talk about them if I had them. My regular Touhou websites appear to be down and I've been too lazy to google for other sources

They're decent fun and have nice atmosphere & music. The stages are painfully boring on normal mode though.

>>402910
Pic is from my first run, I never saw it coming.

>>4029145
That should be >>4029107, obviously.

>>4029107
What did you expect? She has the ultimate magic.

>>4029190
I thought she got that in Dim Dream.

>>4029202
Yuka wasn't in PoDD. She got the magic after Mystic Square Extra.

>>4029107
I can imagine Marisa's reaction now.
OH HOLY FUCK I'M GOING TO FUCKING STEAL THAT SHIT

Honest answer, because they are not very good. The controls are not very tight, the sprites are larger, the bullet patterns aren't as detailed. It's just like comparing atari 2600 games to SNES games. I mean, I appreciate them as the roots of one of my favorite franchises and having good music, but I'm not going to try and sound l33t by claiming I really enjoyed playing them when they are blatantly inferior to the later Windows games.

But we do talk about them. Just not that often, which is what you'd expect considering how long they've been around and the fact that the fluff is completely neglected in newer works.

I kinda liked LLS, but I thought its difficulty was horribly balanced. The 5 and 6 boss fights were bizarrely easy, while the *getsu sisters are just bullshit. They don't even have interesting patterns, it's just "super tight maneuvers at ultra-high-speed required" stuff. MS is sex, though.

>>4029221
I appreciate your honesty; however, being completely honest myself, the only controls I had a problem with were the controls for HRtP and SoEW. The controls for PoDD, LLS, and MS felt perfectly fine; hell, SoEW would've been fine with its incredibly slippery controls and lack of focus were it not for the fact that right as you're trying to get used to it ZUN throws motherfucking Meira the swordbitch at you.

I seriously have no recollection of a 2nd stage boss frustrating me nearly as much as Meira did.

>>4029241
The main problem with the PC-98 games are simply that; the mechanics hurt the actual gameplay.

That said, Lotus Land Story is probably one of my more favorite touhou games.

>>4029213
Hahaha, and really, can you blame her? If I had the capacity to steal even just one spell and I happened to catch a glance of the Master Spark (much less bear the brunt of it), I'd be all over that shit. The Double Spark is cool too, but the Master Spark wins just for being so gratuitously huge.

My only 2 complaints for the PC98 games is that sometimes it's really hard to see the bullets because the background is to bright and/or flashy and there's no practice mode.

Because Bad Apple.

>>4029294
The background of the third stage of SoEW pissed me off all over the place. I remember getting hit by bullets I had no idea were there. And, of course, for LLS I had the obligatory death to the very first time Elly threw her scythe, and also a death because I thought I could graze one of those stupid blocks that come out.

>>4029309
I never got why people thought Elly was difficult. It's incredibly obvious when she's going to throw her scythe, at least to me, and the rest of the fight is just standard dodging.

>>4029331
The only difficult part I can think of is when she makes a tunnel of white bullets that closes in on you.

>>4029359
Actually yeah, that I can agree with. It's even fucking harder when Yuka does it to you in Stage 5.

>>4029307
only good thing about the PC-98 games.
Except for Highly Responsive to Prayers of course, that shit is awesome.

>>4029331
I never really found her difficult, I was just stupid and was like "hurrrr look at that scythe flying at me, I better sit here in surprise looking at it instead of just dodging it". Now that I think about it, I've died from quite a few really stupid deaths (most notable: hey, I wonder what happens when the yin-yang orb hits me in HRtP, Meira dashing right into me in SoEW, getting completely distracted by Yumemi's crosses and letting myself get trapped, "...holy fuck that Spark is huge", WRIGGLE KICK, etc.).

>>4029331
It gets me whenever I'm playing at 3 in the morning and don't have all my attention at my disposal, because the visual effect of my bullets hitting it makes it difficult to see that it's an actual scythe.

>>4029377
Bad Apple isn't even in the top 20 of best PC-98 songs

>>4029396
That's how I spot it. Hey, what are my bullets hitting? OH SHIT MOVE

It's not hard except there's one point where she flings a whole lot of crap out and then it plows into me from the side.

Speaking of WRIGGLE KICK, is it just me or is Keine a fucking bitch for that kind of thing? Stage 3 Keine, not extra stage (I keep well down on extra stage, I'm never as overconfident) she always runs into me whenever she appears on the screen and I get a faceful of ass and one less life.

what the fuck

>>4029419
oh my god what the fuck is--

>>4029419

Cool Photoshop, bro.

Oh hey, why did her bullets stop movi- FUCK

>>4029416
I didn't have as much of a problem with it with Keine. It happened like once or twice and then I just made sure that I wouldn't get the whole ass-to-die-for thing. I think WRIGGLE KICK happens so often just because Stage 1 is mind-numbingly easy, so you're just dicking around and then all of a sudden BAM IT'S MOTHERFUCKING WRIGGLE.

And then you go back to sleep.

>>4029404

What would you characterize as the best PC-98 songs?

>>4029480
Stage 1 in the pre-MoF games is basically characterized by rushing around the screen collecting every item you can, so yeah easy to be up at the top and WHAM a cute little bug shoe collapses your skull.

>>4029487
Not that guy, but I like Selene's light, witching dream, Romantic children and a bunch others more than I do Bad Apple.

>>4029416
An faceful of Keine's ass is never a bad thing

>>4029404
bad apple just has a kickass shadow art thingy with it...thats all

>>4029566
It wouldn't be a bad thing if Touhou was in first person, but it isn't so I never get to see what my playable Touhou is seeing when Keine slams her ass into my character's face.

>>4029404
Surprisingly, Bad Apple on the game isn't as good as the one people abused too much on Moon/Jewtube recently

>>4030273

>Alice
>Witch of Death

>>4029145
>screenshot
>FFFFF

>>4030273
Mima is too goddamn awesome. Most people just defeat whoever it is they're fighting and move on.

But Mima? Mima makes them her fucking servant.