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You should play Embodiment of Scarlet Devil first.
Don't listen to anyone else.

>>8223415
Is that actually the full name?

th01

>>8223414
Mars Matrix

>Which Touhou game is the first
I dunno, probably the first one.
Or do you mean the first one for Windows?
In that case, number 6.

>>8223418
It's called Highly Responsive to Prayers.

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil starts the windows Touhou games.

If you have a bitgamer account, there's a torrent with all of the games.

Start with the windows games, which begin at 6 - Embodiment of Scarlet Devil

>>8223420
no dude raiden was the first toohoo

>>8223422
>>8223419
>>8223417
Am I going to need a plot summary to understand it if I start at Embodiment?

Imperishable Night.
Its easy mode will teach you how to perfect your skills gradually, honing them to fit your technique. Its superb bombing system also allows you to learn a lot about how danmaku games in general work.
In all seriousness, you should probably get EoSD.

>>8223425
Now you're just trolling

First Touhou game (To my knowledge) is Highly Responsive to Prayers.
Don't play that one first.
Listen to >>8223417

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil is probably the best one to start at.
Protip;
The following Touhous are NOT danmaku
Highly Responsive to Prayers (TH01)
Immaterial and Missing Power (TH07.5)
Shoot the Bullet (TH09.5) [Technically]
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (TH10.5)
Unthinkable Natrual Law (TH12.3)

There's one more, but I forgot it's name

>>8223425

No plot in Touhou.

Have fun.

>>8223425
No. You play Touhou for the music and characters, not the plot.

>>8223425
No, I'll summarize it for you right now.

A thick red mist is over Gensokyo. The heroine investigates, beating up innocent little girls on her way.

>>8223431
>There's one more, but I forgot it's name
Double Spoiler

>Best one to start at
>EoSD

Definitely not. Start on one of the easier ones, like Imperishable Night. Also don't be afraid to use continues or play on easy, since you'll probably fuck up a lot since you're unfamiliar.

>>8223441
Of course I'm going to play on easy, I suck at games in general.

Is this your first time playing games like this? If you are already familar with these games start with Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

If you are not then don't do that because it does not show you your hitbox and is just confusing for beginners. Start with either Imperishable Night, Perfect Cherry Blossom or Mountain of Faith instead. They're very easy on normal and give you a ton of lives and bombs.

>>8223431
Double Spolier?

>>8223425
No. Only the last few games have had any threads between their plots, and even then it's in passing.

Most of the time it's just "An incident has arisen, Reimu and Co. go to loot houses". The rest of the plot is self contained for the most part. If you really want to know it in stunning detail, try the touhouwiki.

It's a little convoluted, but the first that was written for normal computers is Touhou 6, Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. Basically, no one really cares about the first five, although I'm sure you'll find some people on here willing to work themselves into a blind rage after reading that.

The first one I played was 7, and I'm happy that that one was my first. EoSD is extremely good; the only reason I would hesitate to tell you to start there is that it feels a little clunky compared to the later ones. It's probably not going to stop you from getting into the series when you otherwise would have, though. Really, either EoSD or Perfect Cherry Blossom should be fine.

Screw Touhou, get this instead.

HIghly Responsive to Prayers

>>8223455

>Screw Touhou

>>8223462
Yeah, says the emailfag.

>>8223462
i screwed you're touhou

>>8223451
>Reimu and Co. go to loot houses

No. A sarcastic quote that only appeared in one game is nothing, don't mind it.

>>8223470

Look at this guy, he doesn't have oneechan installed.

>>8223475
Autism.

>>8223431
>Unthinkable Natrual Law (TH12.3)
ITS NOT UNL.
SERIOUSLY. GODDAMN.
ITS -GUIGNOL QUEST-, GET IT RIGHT.

>>8223475

You're terribly quick to disregard the parts of the touhou canon you don't like.

That's your right of course, but you shouldn't act so defensive when others choose to not ignore them.

Play either 6 (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil), 7 (Perfect Cherry Blossom), or 8 (Imperishable Night) first. It doesn't really matter which one of these you play first, as long as it's one of these. Just keep switching between these 3 when you get bored. Once you can 1cc one of them (or at least get close), move on to 10, 11, and 12.

Whatever you do, don't play 9.

>>8223491
He does have a point though. The dialogue is mostly just insults and random claims. Hell, Meiling even wants to eat Mikos and a second later she's starting a proper spellcard duel instead of just breaking the rules and actually eating her.

>>8223513
>Whatever you do, don't play 9.

What's the matter, can't handle random bullets?

>>8223529
They're uninteresting, not beautiful, and entirely miss the whole point of danmaku.
But hey, dodging dots until the computer decides you've won is cool sometimes too I guess.

>>8223529
I dont like playing against the CPU in PoFV because its just "whenever the AI decides to take a dive" is when the match is over.
Netplay is pretty fun if you can manage to not get a laggy game, though I always get hit by the shitty little white pellets that just zoom out of nowhere.

>>8223491
Oh, okay then, I guess Sakuya was killed and she's now a zombie.

It's sarcastic, bub, anybody that reads the context should be able to see that.

>>8223475
>>8223491
>>8223558
Relax, I was joking too. Kind of poetic how you missed that yourself.

I meant it interchangeably as "gets to the bottom of it". I just take screenshots of the funny lines. They come in handy surprisingly often.

>>8223545
>miss the whole point of danmaku.

You don't know shit about the point of manic shooters.

>>8223640
No, I've very nearly 1cc'd the first loop of Dai Ou Jou, I know a fair bit about manic shooters.

It completely misses the point of Touhou games and doesn't make up for it in the level design and ferocity of non-Touhou games, how 'bout.