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[Anonymous No.]

What do you think of this game, /jp/? I really like the mechanics. It's simple, but fun. Maybe a little more challenging than I could handle at times, but still fun.

I wish there was another game in the series like this one. Are there any fan-made games based off of it?

[Anonymous No.]

I never cared much for it. The other PC98 games are great, I wish their OST's got more arranges. I like the arpeggio crazed, pedal note darkness ZUN had in the age before ZUNpets.

[Anonymous No.]

Kikuri was the coolest looking boss in my opinion.
I'm still surprised at how well draw she was for ZUN's skills back then.

[Anonymous No.]

I bear you no ill-will, but for the sake of my Mima, I must take your thread victim here.

thread is the new Mima thread

[Anonymous No.]

The game is almost as bad as SoEW and UFO, but it has the best music in the series.

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>>12016809
And THE BEST character in the series.

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>>12016852
wwwww

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>>12016852
No that would be luize/louise

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>>12016792
I wonder, why does she look like a school girl to some extent?

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It was pretty good, especially if you consider it was ZUN's first game. Great music, memorable characters and fun gameplay mechanics.

>>12014316
>I wish there was another game in the series like this one.
I second this.

>Are there any fan-made games based off of it?
There's a Danmakufu script called 東方偽異伝:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlgU3MhrML0

...and a short flash game 東方神異伝:
http://yuki.kitune.info/hikari/flash/kamuyden.html

>>12016809
SoEW was first of its kind, but what's wrong with UFO? Personally, I think it is one of the best games in the series.

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>>12014355
Do not blaspheme against the ZUNpets. They are sacred.

[Anonymous No.]

I have no idea why, but something about this game creeps me out.
Perhaps its the unusually foreboding music, the surreal backgrounds, enemy designs, and the lack of any real plot or dialogue, but I feel inexplicably unsettled every time I play the game.

And damn, the art looks really different compared to later games. I almost have a hard time believing ZUN drew it himself.

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>>12024811
There is something about FM synth that you can't reproduce with other styles. Like, a sinister atmosphere, maybe? I've noticed a similar feeling with other old games, too.

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>>12024826
>sinister atmosphere
Not the other anon, but I noticed the sinsiter tone in other themes, like in Mugetsu's theme; at the very beginning.
I never really hear it in any other touhou theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fluu5GOfy68&list=PL41KbZ8LkZLWwjgCtvhOX15TkG2GmBaL4

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>>12024746

ZUNpets are fine too, but the pc98 games had unique charm. Maybe it's the FM synthesis? The higher quality pc98 songs on akyu's untouched scores are maybe my favorite ZUN songs, especially SoEW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO96g3tERQ0

The last few tracks especially have darkness that's missing from the newer game BGM

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>>12024892
End of Daylight is my favorite PC98 song

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>>12024892
Speaking of Akyu's Untouched Score, think you could drop a link to where one could obtain them?

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>>12024960

I got them in the massive touhou pack on nyaa, you can select only the ZUN folder if you don't want everything. It also has other cool rare stuff like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khZ3rDGgzgM

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>>12024811
PC98 art is odd and unsettling to like at, but appealing all the same. I'm not sure what hardware limitations make it appear as it does, but it's pretty cool.

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>>12024988
You're most likely talking about the low color limit (256-color, I believe), forcing low palette compositions and heavy dithering, giving it that dull and oppressing atmosphere.

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Visually, HRtP is definitely one of my favorite touhou games. As others have noted, it's very unique and interesting to look at. Everything from the music to the art has this vaguely sinister feeling to it, that I can personally only classify as "Castlevania-esque"

For example, listen to the differences between Akyu's Blade of Banishment and the original. Akyu's is a fair bit more 'chipper' or 'cheerier,' whereas the original sounded like something you'd listen to in an NES-era dungeon level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6OzOV_AX4

I also really liked the gameplay. It was unique and very fun. The music was fantastic, too; Now Until The Moment You Die, Magic Mirror, Blade of Banishment, and Eternal Shrine Maiden are all excellent songs

A very fun game overall

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>>12024960
otokei-douj.in, under [上海アリス幻樂団] ZUN.

[Anonymous No.]

very good game i play dis game all day with my girlfriend very good

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>>12016809
Sariel theme is great. Elly, too.

ZUN should make another christian 2hu for windows.

[Anonymous No.]

I couldn't get into it, but mostly because I'm terrible at this type of game. I couldn't even beat normal modo. I like the idea though, it seems more interesting than others like Gunbarich.

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>>12024811
Of all the final bosses, Sariel is the weirdest.

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>>12024811
>>12014504
It is a mystery.

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>>12026181

>That phase of the battle where you find yourself in some kind of hellish landscape with flames erupting from the floor, or possibly really strangely drawn arms grasping at the open air

So fucking good. Nothing gets me pumped like the opening to Now, Until The Moment You Die

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>>12024811
That's not Reimu in the background, isn't it?
Who is she?

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>>12026467
That is definitely Reimu. If you look closer, you can see 東方靈異伝 written on the rightmost sphere. Basically, that background image reveals it was Sariel who destroyed the Hakurei Shrine.

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>>12014316

I don't want this thread to die!

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>>12032227
I agree
We should all bother ZUN to include Mima in the next touhou installment.

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>>12033057
How about a game where all of the PC-98 bosses come back to get revenge on Reimu?
It could go in reverse chronological order, starting with Shinki in the first stage, and then ending with either Konngara or Sariel, depending on the route you take.
Mima will be the stage 5 boss, and Yuuka the stage 4, but they'll also be playable, so you'll fight one of the other player characters at random if you're playing as Mima or Yuuka.

Reimu's mother is the EX boss