/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

Just a little /jp/ poll.

State your favorite Touhou game and give a short description of why it's your favorite. I'm curious to see what game is most popular with /jp/.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394257
I don't pick favourites but 11 was my most played by far.

[Anonymous No.]

Perfect Cherry Blossom.

Because it's PERFECT.

[Anonymous No.]

eosd because it first one i play and it have nice character xD

[Anonymous No.]

I only play EoSD every few months for a couple hours than cry myself to sleep because of my ineptitude, so I guess that's my favorite.

[Anonymous No.]

I only play EoSD every few months for a couple hours then cry myself to sleep because of my ineptitude, so I guess that's my favorite.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394291
Are you me?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394294
Are you me?

[Anonymous No.]

Mountain of Faith without a doubt. Not only do I think it has the best characters and music, but it's outstanding from the rest of the games because it's beautiful. The scenery and backgrounds just look so natural and beautiful, I sometimes forget I'm playing a shooting game.

[Anonymous No.]

PCB, but rather than being my favourite, it's the only one that I don't have any problem with.

EoSD is too unpolished.
IN is too easy.
MoF is too alien and bomb-happy.
SA is too memorization-heavy and too hard.
UFO is too retarded with the ufo system.
TD? Are you fucking kidding me?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394422
What's wrong with TD?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394428
Retarded scoring, retarded gimmick, retarded bosses, retarded Youmu, etc.

It has the coolest Marisa, though, I'll give it that.

[Anonymous No.]

StB because uniqueness.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394447
All of that is subjective, you could say that about any game. Although Youmu's charge shot is pretty retarded but eh, he tried something new.

[Anonymous No.]

IaMP because I love fighting games and I can't play past normal diff on the other ones.

If I had to pick one of the danmaku ones I'd say IN since I love the characters in it and it's the only one I'd say I'm decent at.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394422
>MoF is too alien
Huh? Could you elaborate?

[Anonymous No.]

The fighting game. The only Toho game I've played.

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>8394447
>retarded Youmu
TD Youmu is awesome.

[Anonymous No.]

They're all fun and I'm terrible at all of them.

Maybe I'm hurting myself by refusing to play on anything but Lunatic.

[Anonymous No.]

Imperishable Night is the only one I've played.

[Anonymous No.]

Subterranean Animism because I love to graze.

[Anonymous No.]

Soku and PCB because they have most of my favorite theme songs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394475
no

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394447
I can't play Marisa in TD because the sound the laser makes kills my brain.

[Anonymous No.]

IN, wasted the most time on it. Followed by PSB.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394458
I don't know how to explain it. It feels... strange to me. The atmosphere feels too different than the rest of the series. I don't know why.
Maybe because it's the first of the full-Windows era game (6, 7, and 8 still has trace elements of PC98 in my opinion), so it feels a bit awkward. The lack of graze doesn't really help, either.

>>8394475
Explain how that shot type is not retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

SA because I find it's plot strangely charming and extremely awesome despite its simplicity, also the best characters. Second best music (after UFO) Played all of them for at least 20 hours.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394549
What are you talking about, anon? They sound like mini master sparks, don't you think that's awesome?

[naitoknaito No.]

Kanako.
I can't tell you a favourite game without descomposing all them in music, gameplay, characters, gimmick. I'll say MoF due to having best music and characters for me but it's gameplay, gimmick and everything else is below average compared to other games.

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>8394592
It's interesting, it's fun once you get used to how it works, it's powerful, and http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/High_scores#Ten_Desires_world_records_.28.E6.9D.B1.E6.96.B9.E7.A5.9E.E
9.9C.8A.E5.BB.9F.E3.81.AE.E5.85.A8.E4.B8.80.E8.A8.98.E9.8C.B2.29

It's like how Youmu was in IN but even moreso.

[‪‪‪‮‪‪‬‬‬‬‬‬ No.]

Mountain of Faith has the best music

Objectively

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394643
nope.
IN :
best stage 2 theme
best stage 3 theme
best stage 4 boss theme(s)
best extra stage theme
best extra boss theme

[Anonymous No.]

7, because it's easy and I like the way Sakuya plays.

[Anonymous No.]

TD, because it's the only one I can 1cc in easy mode.

[Anonymous No.]

SA because great soundtrack, characters, difficulty, story and spellcard patterns, it has all.

[Anonymous No.]

EoSD because Remi and Flan are just too cute.

[Anonymous No.]

IN because I wasted the most time in it.

[Anonymous No.]

GFW.

It's short, cute, has a fun gimmick, and frustrating as fuck to play.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394712
woah i love it too!
I've been trying to do a 1CC lunatic run this week but fairy overdrive is just too much for me in lunatic difficulty ;__;

[PRINNY !nLFbzB/0pw No.]

Imperishable Night. It has my waifu in it.

[Anonymous No.]

SA because of the characters, sound track, and the difficulty which was perfect for me. Not too hard, but not easy enough to breeze through without effort. But mostly, the characters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394629
They sound like it's drilling into my brain and I can't take it easy at all, have to quit almost immediately.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394775
come here bro!

[Anonymous No.]

EoSD because I think it's the only game where Marisa Love shooting type is worth using. So I can play hours with Marisa.

[Anonymous No.]

OP here. A rough tally of the games mentioned so far, if anyone is interested.

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: 4
Perfect Cherry Blossom: 4
Immaterial and Missing Power: 1
Imperishable Night: 3
Shoot the Bullet: 1
Mountain of Faith: 3
Subterranean Animism: 5
Great Fairy Wars: 1
Ten Desires: 1

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394795
Noone has UFO as their favorite?

All is right with the world.

[Anonymous No.]

Perfect Cherry Blossom. Partly because it was the first game I played. I spent so many hours learning the game and when I finally 1cced it, it was such a great achievement. I was hooked.

[Anonymous No.]

Imperishable Night for me.

Cool characters and best OST in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.]

Eosd was the first I've played and always remained my favourite.
Great music, great characters, nice variation, hard as fuck, has a mysterious charm of its own.
I play with the hitbox patch, but I despise the graphic update ones, the sprites are perfect the way they are, no need for fucking sunflower fairies and yinyang orbs

My second would be TD, I know, it surprised me too, it just feels great, I didn't like very much MoF, SA and UFO, but TD has an old timey feel, nice music, a couple great characters and some memorable spells, plus shaggy hair youmu could be my favourite playable characters of all time, integrating the charge system of the aya and fairy games was nice, over all it's the funniest game to play and the easiest to get good at. And I guess this is why it's hated.

[Anonymous No.]

IN
Eirin has the best fight and theme in the entire series.

Last spell was also a great idea. I spend a lot of my time in practice mode just doing my favorite spellcards rather than doing the boring parts of the game.
Teams are also great. It would be pretty cool if the shot switch would be added to every game, with an explanation like it were einhander style weapon switching.

[Anonymous No.]

7

I love every freaking song in there
Yuyuko and Yukari are also in my tohou-top5

[Anonymous No.]

My personal favorite has to be PoFV. It had great music, great characters to choose from, net play, and pretty dynamic gameplay.

I don't know why people have such a problem with it.

[Anonymous No.]

SA, because it doesn't fuck around difficulty-wise.

DS is probably a runner up for me. Beautiful patterns and smooth gameplay, goes straight to the bosses. Only problem is the lack of variety in music.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394795
Updated.

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: 5
Perfect Cherry Blossom: 6
Immaterial and Missing Power: 1
Imperishable Night: 5
Phantasmagoria of Flower View: 1
Shoot the Bullet: 1
Mountain of Faith: 3
Subterranean Animism: 6
Great Fairy Wars: 1
Ten Desires: 1

[Anonymous No.]

SA.
My favourite characters, favourite music, favourite story.
Damn I wish there were more doujins about the undergroudn

[Anonymous No.]

SA

Everything about it.

[Anonymous No.]

IN for great combination of gameplay, soundtracks and characters

[Anonymous No.]

UFO

I like the music and almost all the girls, I don't like that tiger thingy

[Anonymous No.]

LLS because it has a simple objective, an enjoyable soundtrack and good boss fights.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394997

[Anonymous No.]

I don't like any of the shooters, they aren't fun at all. It's only frustrating and depressing.

[Anonymous No.]

One of the Seihou games since they're Touhou done right.

[Anonymous No.]

妖々夢
My favorite boss fight (Yuyuko), great harmony between bullet patterns and music.

[Anonymous No.]

The football game is my favourite touhou. It's really fun and feels less like work.

[Anonymous No.]

PCB. hands down.

The game has a great mixture of feeling, gaming and music.

Even today I get goosebumps when I hear "Border of Life"... when you feel you're done with yuyuko... she slaps you in the face and does so with the amazing arrange of the boss theme.

overall I feel PCB has the best harmony between overall game feeling and its music... and has one of the greatest themes everyone usually misses... Phantom Ensemble.

[Saegrimr !SHIELDM.mE No.]

Mountain of Faith.
The music is extremely fitting for each stage, and the overall autumn theme just feels like an adventure. A quick flight through a dark forest canopy, opening up to a wide river, the ascent straight up a waterfall just puzzles together. Also the lead up to Kanako makes you feel tense, like you know shits about to go down.

Not many of the other games synchronize to the music as well as this one. PCB has its moments. I never really noticed any synchronization in IN. PCB was my first game though.

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>8395022
But Samidare isn't technically a Seihou game.

[Anonymous No.]

Subterranean Animism, because it was my first Touhou game.
Plus it has Koishi in it.

[Anonymous No.]

SA.

1. I really like the 6 options there are in the game.
2. Satori is pretty fun due to the point above.
3. Patchouli gameplay is pretty unique.

Bomb system was fucking shit though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394889

And here I was thinking I would be the only one saying PoFV. Although it's just because I enjoy the duel mechanic more than the usual Touhou mechanic. And because Yuuka is playable.

>>8395048
Indeed, Phantom Ensemble should get more pride; just because it's a theme for forgettable characters it's not any less good. And PoFV has it too - another point for it.

[Anonymous No.]

PCB

Sakuya was odd to play, but is very OP when you learn her ways. The music is simply gorgeous and passing from one stage to the next feels like the parts of a concerto... something neither SA nor IN could... EoSD ... EoSD is the first of the windows era so... I can understand that.PCB perfected everything EoSD did, after that the rest of the games always felt lacking, tho IN had a great story and UFO had a very fun system.

[Anonymous No.]

Undefined Fantastic Object

-Playable Sanae
-The "gimmick" actually adds a lot of depth if used properly. Not sure why this is often cited as the worst aspect of UFO even though you can easily just ignore it.
-Atmosphere
-Awesome characters with interesting relationships. Since the bosses aren't really a 'household' in the traditional sense, they have a cool sense of individuality whilst at the same time acting as a collective for a common purpose. Sweet.
-BYAKUREN. Beautiful backstory, beautiful boss theme, beautiful Touhou. Everything about her is just perfect.
-The music. Many gems in the OST for those with patience.

[Anonymous No.]

Perfect Cherry Blossom I say

if only for the whole Prismriver Sisters - Youmu - Yuyuko part. Phantom ensemble is a rythm trip you enjoy, "Hiroaki..." is full of tension and "Bloom Nobly..." is a mixture of those... you are tense all the time but enjoying a wonderful show... a true cherry blossom in many ways.

there's also that the Extra and Phantasm stages suit eachother (logically) like consecutive sections of a musical piece.

IN comes in a close second because of the well planed story and enjoyable characters. (tho PCB has superior charas IMHO)... the whole extra stage plot twist was quite fun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394916
Updated.

Lotus Land Story: 1
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: 5
Perfect Cherry Blossom: 10
Immaterial and Missing Power: 1
Imperishable Night: 6
Phantasmagoria of Flower View: 1
Shoot the Bullet: 1
Mountain of Faith: 4
Subterranean Animism: 10
Undefined Fantastic Object: 2
Great Fairy Wars: 1
Ten Desires: 1

Seihou Project: 1

>The football game
Be more specific.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8395157
I think he means Touhou soccer, likelly the 2nd.

as for my personal vote?... hmmm tough.
my first game was EoSD and I keep playing it everynow and then... but I gotta say that my vote goes to PCB. mostly because of yuyuko's theme... and that final spell card dammit! I have beautifull nightmares with that theme!

[Anonymous No.]

Imperishable Night, seeing as how it's the only one I've ever played.

I'm horrible at Touhou, but dear god do I love the music so fucking much.

[Anonymous No.]

I like UFO the best because it has Murasa, Kogasa and Nue
also its fun

[Anonymous No.]

My favourite must be PoFV. It is quick to get into but you'll still have a hell of a time beating all the computer controlled characters on lunatic match mode. Without resorting to dedicated cpu-killers, that is..

[Kudryavka !!wEyYEw5OlKU No.]

EoSD because it has the best music and I like the more randomized dodging patterns.

Also, vampire lolis.

[Anonymous No.]

Hisoutensoku.

[Anonymous No.]

Shoot the Bullet. I'm not actually sure why, but it's the only one I've played to any real depth or with score truly in mind. I still wonder how I'm still the person with the highest score in the Western community.

EoSD's the second in that regard in that it's the only touhou I've ever bothered to lunatic 1cc.

I ponder if I ever will start on DS scorerunning. I seem to have fallen away from playing actual touhou shmups for the most part.

[Anonymous No.]

SA takes it in every field: charming cast and soundtrack, pretty and challenging danmaku starting at stage 1, and the autocollect gimmick is also neat. It doesn't even get easy fast at all unlike PCB, which takes 2nd place (it would rank 1st in audiovisuals, but the gameplay makes the difference).

[Anonymous No.]

EoSD

I like all of the games after it, they just have a feel about them that makes the game feel too smooth in a sense. Hard to explain exactly what I'm trying to convey, but I hope you get the gist of it.

[Anonymous No.]

Probably either Hisou or UFO. Hisou because it's a great fighter and UFO because I just really like the setting/music/crew.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8395157

There's two votes for PoFV, not just one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394405
I kinda agree with this guy here. Mountain of Faith is my favorite because it has my personal favorite characters and music, and because of the environments. ZUN did a great job on the backgrounds.

When I first saw the waterfall in Stage 3 with The Gensokyo the Gods Loved playing, it instantly became my favorite and hasn't changed since.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8395157
Updated.

Lotus Land Story: 1
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: 8
Perfect Cherry Blossom: 10
Immaterial and Missing Power: 1
Imperishable Night: 7
Phantasmagoria of Flower View: 3
Shoot the Bullet: 2
Mountain of Faith: 5
Subterranean Animism: 11
Undefined Fantastic Object: 4
Touhou Hisoutensoku: 1 +2
Great Fairy Wars: 1
Ten Desires: 1

Seihou Project: 1

Touhou Soccer/Moushuuden: 1


For those who picked two (danmaku and fighting) or couldn't decide on a single game, I tallied the danmaku and added a +1 for the fighter. Replies such as "The fighting game" are not tallied if I don't know which game you mean.

[Anonymous No.]

PCB definitly. Gotta love them' ghosts. also the music is definitly the most polished of the windows series... everything afterwards was as a whole composition, somewhat of a... letdown. great single pieces everynow and then, but composition as a whole like in PCB? never.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8395387
after your last update there was one more vote to PCB, check your counts again dude.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8395387
Half the votes from SA are from the same person, check the writing style of these blocks of text about SA.

Vote for MoF.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8395396
Updated.

Lotus Land Story: 1
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: 7
Perfect Cherry Blossom: 11
Immaterial and Missing Power: 1
Imperishable Night: 7
Phantasmagoria of Flower View: 3
Shoot the Bullet: 2
Mountain of Faith: 6
Subterranean Animism: 11
Undefined Fantastic Object: 4
Touhou Hisoutensoku: 1 +2
Great Fairy Wars: 1
Ten Desires: 1

Seihou Project: 1
Touhou Soccer/Moushuuden: 1

For those who picked two (danmaku and fighting) or couldn't decide on a single game, I tallied the danmaku and added a +1 for the fighter. Replies such as "The fighting game" are not tallied if I don't know which game you mean.

>>8395396
You're right. I mistakenly counted that as EoSD.
>>8395403
I can do nothing about double posts. Take the truthfulness of the poll as you will.

[Anonymous No.]

SA

I really love the music (especially both of the Komeiji's themes, Last Remote and Solar Sect)

I like the new characters it introduced

I like how it's challenging even on Normal, while not being insane and unfair shit on Hard like UFO is

[Anonymous No.]

>>8395157
Updated.

Lotus Land Story: 1
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: 7
Perfect Cherry Blossom: 11
Immaterial and Missing Power: 1
Imperishable Night: 7
Phantasmagoria of Flower View: 3
Shoot the Bullet: 2
Mountain of Faith: 6
Subterranean Animism: 12
Undefined Fantastic Object: 4
Touhou Hisoutensoku: 1 +2
Great Fairy Wars: 1
Ten Desires: 1

Seihou Project: 1
Touhou Soccer/Moushuuden: 1

For those who picked two (danmaku and fighting) or couldn't decide on a single game, I tallied the danmaku and added a +1 for the fighter. Replies such as "The fighting game" are not tallied if I don't know which game you mean.

>>8395396
You're right. I mistakenly counted that as EoSD.
>>8395403
I can do nothing about double posts. Take the truthfulness of the poll as you will. I would ask people to refrain from posting a game more than once but this is /jp/ after all.

[Anonymous No.]

PCB because delicious Youmu, I dare to say that vs Youmu is my favourite battle in a shooting game, you are never 'safe' against Youmu.

[Anonymous No.]

EoSD. There's not a single character that I don't like greatly, difficulty level is just right, and the music fantastic.

[Anonymous No.]

I can't really say. probably PCB, it was my first game and it felt tight, controlers music and overall experience.

[Anonymous No.]

EoSD and Hisoutensoku
EoSD I love it because it's hard as fuck and also it was my first touhou, and hisoutensoku is the best fighting spinoff
>dat fell when there will never be a spellcard as hard as Scarlet Meister.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8394405

Oh wow, a good /jp thread?

Anyway, I have to agree with this guy here. It has great music and it just beautiful. Of course, it has Nitori in it, so it is already the best game.

[Anonymous No.]

HRtP because it's original (and quite a bit frustrating).
If it has to be a Windows game then Shoot the Bullet.

[Anonymous No.]

Either EoSD or S.A.

[Anonymous No.]

I really can't make up my mind between EOSD, PCB and IN... i like all the chars and the patterns... so my vote goes to Concealed The Conclusion, since it feels like playing a mix of them.

[Anonymous No.]

PCB is my favourite, but IN, MoF and EoSD are very good in my opinion also.

IN is the most well made, has really amazing music, a lot of extra content but the gameplay is very dark and boring.

PCB has very pretty attacks, backgrounds, interesting shot types and fun stages. Overall a nice experience, with the cherry system and all. Also dat feeling while unfocused grazing a ton of bullets while in a border.

EoSD is the one that I started from, it's worse than PCB and IN in every way except that the patterns are fun to dodge because they are RNG bullshit, but that also makes the game kind of unfair and not that fun.

If I had to go with one game, I'd say PCB is my favourite. I also think MoF is a decent game, kind of like PCB, but I don't like the gameplay that game offers (clipdeaths, bomb spamming etc).

[Anonymous No.]

>>8395595

>EoSD worse music

fag

[Anonymous No.]

my money on PCB... mostly because the yakumos. Chen is a fun character and carries pretty original set of cards. Ran because mommy extra stage and Yukari for hag... I mean 18 years old level awesome necrofantasia.

[Anonymous No.]

UFO. It's got an amazing soundtrack, cool characters/spellcard patterns, and Byakuren.

[Anonymous No.]

IN

A variety of usable characters only outnumbered by PoFV. An absolutely stunning atmosphere that's only beaten by UFO. Fun bosses, god tier music, Last Words, Spell Practice. I probably replay this game more than any other.

[Anonymous No.]

PCB for me. cherry system is simple and fun, music is melodic and entertaining, also fitting, characters are likeable, even... midboss cirno.

[Anonymous No.]

It used to be PCB/SA, but now I have to say UFO.

It has the most fun scoring system, in my opinion, in individual stages, full runs, and Extra. It's a little unfortunate that it's still supergraze based, but the supergraze shenanigans aren't even problematic until you get to Hard/Lunatic where the safespots shrink to almost nothing. People complain about UFO having a shitty scoring system, but none of those people are ever scoring players, though.

The patterns are also the most fun and difficult in the Windows series, so the challenge hasn't faded like it has with the previous games.

Voting EoSD or TD as the worst for having the worst patterns and scoring systems.

[Anonymous No.]

I never played a Touhou game, bullet shooters never interested me, ever.

I come for the lore, the art and the fantasies. Touhou is the reason I wish to be a little girl. I am a bigger fan then 90% of the faggots that play the game and try to act superior based on that alone.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8396149
I only play the fighters for the money involved at tournaments, soku easy game easy money. Same goes for IaMP. Though, IaMP is a bit more difficult, still easy coming from an ex professional Testament player from GGAC.

If anything, I'd have to vote for IaMP as my favorite. Smooth mechanics and great music.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8396149
>I am a bigger fan then 90% of the faggots that play the game and try to act superior based on that alone.
Secondaries like you aren't even fans of the same thing, so comparing yourself to primaries is pretty silly.

[Anonymous No.]

MoF was the first game I really got into, and that's why it's my favorite. Every moment felt magical, memorable, each part of it felt in tune with the music, each time I got a little bit further and a little bit better. My battles with Kanako were unforgettable, it felt like a beautiful struggle, and the first time she wiped out what should have been an easy 1cc with a single spellcard really made me realize that I shouldn't count anything as an easy win. It doesn't have the extra frills that the other games have, it doesn't have the best scoring system, and the bomb spam can be downright ridiculous. But every time I start playing it I'm reminded of why I love it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8396157
>>8396166
Jealous? I dont blame you.

[Anonymous No.]

The only part I dislike about SA (besides Reimu and Marisa's portraits) is how murderously difficult the extra stage is, sandwiched between the relatively easy Suwako and Nue makes the contrast particularly jarring

[Anonymous No.]

Th04 is best.

[Anonymous No.]

PoFV

[Anonymous No.]

Perfect Cherry Blossom, because it's the one I played the most and it has my favorite music from the games.

[Anonymous No.]

UFO. The system is fun (took me a while to stop hating it though) and overall the game is well designed. Good stages, boss patterns, and difficulty. And I like the weird cast and Buddhist theme.

[Anonymous No.]

EoSD, simple is beautiful. Minimalist mechanics, loads of fun.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8395415
Updated.

Highly Responsive to Prayers: 1
Lotus Land Story: 2
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: 9
Perfect Cherry Blossom: 17
Immaterial and Missing Power: 2
Imperishable Night: 8
Phantasmagoria of Flower View: 4
Shoot the Bullet: 2
Mountain of Faith: 8
Subterranean Animism: 12
Undefined Fantastic Object: 7
Touhou Hisoutensoku: 1 +3
Great Fairy Wars: 1
Ten Desires: 1

Seihou Project: 1
Concealed the Conclusion: 1
Touhou Soccer/Moushuuden: 1

[Anonymous No.]

PoFV

Because Shikieiki

[Anonymous No.]

>>8396815
It could do without all the random walling.

[Anonymous No.]

Embodiment of Scarlet Devil easily.
My first Touhou and it has the best characters.

>UFO: 7
seriously guys...?

[Anonymous No.]

Mystic Square, great atmosphere and intensity.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8396885
I know, it's disappointingly low.

[Anonymous No.]

Fairy Wars. It's original for a Touhou game and I've always liked the gimmicks where you have different things happened based on your choices in the games. In this one, you can just outright choose your path.

[Anonymous No.]

IaMP because it's not a shmup and it's not shit.

[Anonymous No.]

MoF. Probably the best soundtrack of all the games, especially Sanae's theme and Kanako's theme.

Everytime I hear those two songs while I play I get massive goosebumps.

[Anonymous No.]

MoF it's the nicest looking game, also Nitori and Suwako are in it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8395526
>EoSD
>hard

I think it's the easiest by far

[Anonymous No.]

PCB
It has the best music, the best boss fight and most of my favorite touhou in it. (Sakuya, Alice, Youmu, Yuyuko)

[Anonymous No.]

Great Fairy Wars because it's fast and relentless as fuck. Graphics-wise, the color scheme is easy on the eyes and the pattern design is fresh.

>>8394447
Youmu is pretty much what makes the difficulty retarded. It wouldn't make sense to dumb down the difficulty when there's already Trance, it was dumbed down to balance the game for Youmu.

[Anonymous No.]

PCB
Game has good atmosphere, warm colors, music matches stages well

[Anonymous No.]

PCB, because I find it the most soothing to play.

[KOS-MOS !!EGaZwla24Ri No.]

MoF

Faith is for the transient people
Autumn waterfall
Suwa foughten field
Mysterious mountian

Momiji
Aya
Nitori
Kanako

I liked the stage backgrounds a lot more and how bombs are subtracted from your power level makes using them a bit more strategic.

[Anonymous No.]

I tend to enjoy the games primarily based on their OST. I don't really care for scoring or gameplay mechanics so much, and characters huge deal to me either.

So with that in mind I think my favourite Touhou game is EoSD. After that it would probably in (be approximate order) MoF, UFO, SA, IN, PCB, PoFV. I can't remember how i feel overall about the PC-98 OST but Sleeping Terror is my favourite Touhou theme, and Eternal Shrine Maiden is my second favourite.

[Anonymous No.]

SA
MoF thematically fits together very well in my opinion and EoSD has a special place in my heart, but SA is where it all came together. The difficulty is high for me 'cause I suck, but I enjoy the challenge. Had I a keyboard that didn't ghost and felt comfortable, I'd be playing it tons more. What clinches it for SA is the fights with Okuu and Koishi. Hartmann's Youkai Girl is perfect; her spellcards are perfect; and I can fantasize about her playing around with Suwako. Powerful lolis, dude. And as much as I love that whatsit card where Remilia just goes apeshit and flings red orbs at you real fast like she just became the Machine Gun of Tepes, nothing feels quite as epic as dodging fucking suns being thrown at you by a nuclear hellcrow with that theme playing. Surviving the gravity card at the end is such satisfaction. Also Orin H doujins. And Marisa cracking RPG jokes. And Suika and Nitori playing supporting roles.

[Anonymous No.]

PCB.
Is this even a contest? Still the most beautiful Touhou game to date.

[Anonymous No.]

PCB
I like everything about it
it's relaxing with it's soundtrack.
I like the scoring, it's probably the only touhou game I actually gave a shit about the score.
everything after 10 is just BS in my opinion, can't beat anything on 1CC-normal after touhou 10, and I can't even beat touhou 13 on 1cc-EASY!
also, the first touhou game to ever have 2 player co-op will AUTOMATICALLY be my favorite, i'm not a fucking loner like 99% of 4chan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8396818
Highly Responsive to Prayers: 1
Lotus Land Story: 2
Mystic Square: 1
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: 12
Perfect Cherry Blossom: 22
Immaterial and Missing Power: 3
Imperishable Night: 8
Phantasmagoria of Flower View: 5
Shoot the Bullet: 2
Mountain of Faith: 11
Subterranean Animism: 13
Undefined Fantastic Object: 7
Touhou Hisoutensoku: 1 +3
Great Fairy Wars: 3
Ten Desires: 1

Seihou Project: 1
Concealed the Conclusion: 1
Touhou Soccer/Moushuuden: 1

[Anonymous No.]

PoFV would be my favourite. It doesnt have great themes like SA or PCB but I like it's gameplay. Cute little imba passive skills Tewi is also fun to play.

[Anonymous No.]

Deciding on a favorite is a difficult task, given that I enjoy most of the games and suck at making decisions.
I'd have to say PCB. The way that so many connections or groups are placed into one game actually impress me. Letty doesn't really connect to anyone (unless you count Cirno, but I'm not getting at that). Aside from that, you have Chen, Ran, and Yukari, as well as Alice who gets reintroduced to the series and reappears in a few of the next games. The Prismriver sisters all appear in one boss fight, and then you have Youmu and Yuyuko. So that's about two groups and two other characters with connections.
Call this a wall of text if you will, but I still find this pretty damn impressive.
Also the game was beautiful and the music was an eargasm.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8398860
>and I can't even beat touhou 13 on 1cc-EASY!
You're just pathetic

[Anonymous No.]

>>8399597
Scratch that, I meant three groups. Went full retard.

[Anonymous No.]

The ones I like the most are PCB, IN, MoF and EoSD, in that order.

[Anonymous No.]

Mystic Square
best everything

[Anonymous No.]

>>8399618
Sorely needs a remake.

[None !Nipaa0mi0. No.]

>>8394257
SWR because I prefer its gameplay to that of most Touhou games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8399607
same here only SWR and 12.3 instead of EoSD

[Anonymous No.]

12.3 Hisoutensoku because:
1. Not sure I like the shooters. I'm just not willing to put in the time it takes to win on anything beyond easy.
2. Suwako's flying animation.
3. Playable Sanae.
4. The art style.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8400041
You should just try them. Maybe you'll be one of the naturally talented that can clear Lunatic on their 10th try.

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>8399622
Dude, it got an amazing remake, what are you talking about?

[Anonymous No.]

EoSD, It's the first one I was able to 1CC on normal (after 100+ deaths and a fuck ton of level replays, I 'Fuck Yeah!''d like I won the lottery).

IaMP, because the last boss is a drunk horned loli, with infinite liquor, that makes the HUD explode, and if I couldn't beat it (story mode) on normal, I could rage my way to Yukari on hard and then switch back to normal and breeze through (or finish it on hard if I could).

[Anonymous No.]

PoFV
Favorite music tracks (new and brought back)
Favorite characters
Fun game play

[Anonymous No.]

Mountain of Faith.

Love the music, great visuals and Suwako.

[Anonymous No.]

Favorite STG is Subterranean Animism.

Favorite fighter is Hisoutensoku.

[Anonymous No.]

Subterranean Animism. A combination of fun character choices (except Reimu C), great music that knits well into the stages (especially Satori's theme) and consistently fun bullet patterns in general makes it stand over the others for me.

[Anonymous No.]

Actual Playtime (not runtime):

Touhou 7: 30 hours
Touhou 8: 10 hours
Touhou 9: 20-40 hours (I play netplay a lot)
Touhou 10: 13 hours
Touhou 12: 10 hours


7 remains my favorite so far. Something about it just feels perfect when I play it. The music, the graphics, the bosses, the thick patterns. Fantastic music.

8 was very easy with Reimu/Yukari and the levels were very dark. I couldn't give a shit about most of the characters. The extra mode wasnt too fun because it was hard, then after a few hours of memorization it became way too easy. Fantastic music though.

9 is great for netplay. It has a nice set of characters but the campaign is pretty boring after 30-45 minutes. It's best to play in short bursts. Fantastic music

10 is ok, but like an earlier poster said it makes me feel like a bomb spammer with these frequent "mini bombs". stage 4 is a tremendous kick in the ass for because of all the random crap thrown around, so i have to bomb a good 5-8 times to avoid dying on lunatic even after FOUR hours of solid practice. fantastic music

12 was very fun, the difficulty jump was very large. I had a blast in the extra mode. I used to think the music was a step down, but it quickly grew on me so... fantastic music.


If I had to rate them in order:
7
12
9
10
8

[Anonymous No.]

>>8400972
I understand not listing 13 but have you not played 6 and 11?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8401087
I'm a bit new to the series. 6 and 11 are said to be the hardest, so I'm hitting those last. Actually, after I 1cc 10 on lunatic I'm thinking about going back to get a hard/lunatic from 12. I like to play a decent amount of a game before moving on to something else.

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>8401374
12 on hard/lunatic is far harder than 6 and 11. If it's the difficulty that's holding you back from those two, then you should definitely give them a shot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8401382
Ok. I will play 6 or 11 next then and put off 12 until I get better.

[Anonymous No.]

Why don't you fags like Ten Desires?
Holy shit it's not even bad. I always tell you guys but you never listen.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8401599

But I don't. I think it's a fine Touhou game, just not really a favorite of mine no matter how much I love Youmu's shot type.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8401599
Watch a score replay, especially a Youmu one. It's nauseating. If you don't care about that, that's fine and you should enjoy it, but the games are made to be played that way and it's fair to judge them based on it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8401599
I think it's a damn fine game (as long as you don't play for score compete for the WR of course; even then, scoring is much easier to grasp than the other games). I'd go as far as comparing it to Dodonpachi thanks to the simpler danmaku, the difficulty and the gameplay where you zoom around the screen. ZUN only needs to boot Youmu and Trance out and fix the difficulty to make it more perfect than PCB.
From what I've noticed, a lot of the hate seems to come from a) secondaries who feared the new cast might dethrone their favorite, b) people with shit taste who would simply bash the new music because it's new, c) elitist fucks who think it's too easy for their 3 years of experience.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8402319
It's actually

D.) All of the above

[Anonymous No.]

I like all of the games, but by far, my most favorite is Phantasmagoria of Dimensional Dream.
The music, the characters, the gameplay... I know a lot of people don't like the Phantasmagoria games, but I think they're pretty damn fun.
Also, playable Mima, and dat Reincarnation. Just sayin'.

[Anonymous No.]

I actually like Lotus Land Story, quite a bit.
It's one of the few without spell cards, yet not quite like SoEW

[Anonymous No.]

>>8398892
Highly Responsive to Prayers: 1
Phantasmagoria of Dimensional Dream: 1
Lotus Land Story: 3
Mystic Square: 2
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil: 13
Perfect Cherry Blossom: 26
Immaterial and Missing Power: 3
Imperishable Night: 8
Phantasmagoria of Flower View: 7
Shoot the Bullet: 2
Mountain of Faith: 12
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody: 1
Subterranean Animism: 15
Undefined Fantastic Object: 7
Touhou Hisoutensoku: 2 +4
Great Fairy Wars: 3
Ten Desires: 1

Seihou Project: 1
Concealed the Conclusion: 1
Touhou Soccer/Moushuuden: 1

[Anonymous No.]

>>8402570

>PoFV: 7

This makes me unexpectedly happy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8402570
1. PCB
2. SA
3. EoSD

Interesting

[Anonymous No.]

>>8402319
>ZUN only needs to boot Youmu
But I love TD Youmu!

[Anonymous No.]

I love all Touhou games, each one has its unique, brilliance and shit. But my favourite?

MoF.

Reason: The Gensokyo the Gods fucking loved.

[Anonymous No.]

Imperishable Night.
Because i've played nearly every Touhou-themed game and Imperishable Night always sticked into my mind, throughout everything i've played so far.
I would immediately compare everything with Imperishable Night, it was my standard.
The only game who nearly reached Imperishable Night was Mountain of Faith. Well.