The Touhou Alliance

I don't know, I felt that Subterranean Animism was much worse than UFO. If it's because of continues in SA being unlimited, then I'll change that to SA being harder to 1CC than UFO. It's actually said that SA is tougher than UFO on Normal, but on Lunatic, UFO is harder than SA. I don't play Lunatic myself, so I wouldn't know. Still, we're talking about recommending it to people who want to start getting into the series, so I'd have to say that UFO is easier than SA if they don't want to immediately leap into Lunatic.

What game should I start out with? :c

Touhou games have pretty self-contained stories, and they also require massive ADD to follow the dialogue. Don't worry so much on starting at a beginning.

Touhou 8: Imperishable Night is a commonly recommended one for many reasons. Not only is it one of the easier entries in the series, it also offers a spellcard practice mode. To explain why this is significant, spellcards refer to a specific attack used by bosses with the bullets (and lasers) arranged into certain patterns. It's very helpful for beginners learning how to survive a certain attack they may be struggling with and layer eventually learn to deplete the boss's HP fast enough during it to earn point bonuses called "spellcard bonuses".

Touhou 6: The Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil is also a popular starting point. The original 5 were for PC-98, this one was made for XP and beyond. Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil is a nice one to start out with too, because if you've come with prior exposure to Touhou project, chances are you'll recognize a lot of characters and music- like Cirno, Sakuya, and the Scarlet sisters (not sure how popular the rest of the Scarlet Devil Mansion crew fares in terms in how known they are to people without much exposure to the movement). Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil isn't terribly hard. The gameplay is probably the most basic, but not by much; considering most main entry games simply have a new extra scoring mechanism exclusive to each game. EoSD is the only one that doesn't have a sort of extra scoring mechanism, or soemthing special you need to collect to access some boss fights. However, EoSD does not show you your hitbox like Perfect Cherry Blossom and subsequent games do, but that can be easily remedied by a patch.

I don't know, I felt that Subterranean Animism was much worse than UFO. If it's because of continues in SA being unlimited, then I'll change that to SA being harder to 1CC than UFO. It's actually said that SA is tougher than UFO on Normal, but on Lunatic, UFO is harder than SA. I don't play Lunatic myself, so I wouldn't know. Still, we're talking about recommending it to people who want to start getting into the series, so I'd have to say that UFO is easier than SA if they don't want to immediately leap into Lunatic.

There's only four reasons why I rank UFO harder than SA on any difficulty:
- The UFOs. It divides your attention even more by having you keep track of the position and colors of the UFO.
- Auto-collect. Yeah, the UFOs can auto-collect for you, but it's leagues behind SA's auto-collect system. Not to mention they steal. :/
- Danmaku curtains. Sure, all Touhou games have this, but UFO takes the cake on having the most random of danmaku curtains. For most of the game, you'll find that there's no real pattern to the curtains in UFO compared to past Touhous.
- Curvy. pineappleing. Lasers.

These are probably the only reasons why my Normal 1CC on UFO took much longer than my Normal 1CC on SA.

Haha oh wow, so it looks like for danmaku games I started at quite a good place (Fairy Wars), since earlier I got into 12.3 after viewing a certain fansite (Then moved to 10.5, 7.5 and 1). I thought that they were all about the same difficulty, guess not...

UFO is definitely the hardest Touhou to date. Don't play it unless you're feeling adventurous.

Well, seen Fairy Wars already, might as well try UFO soon.

 Spoiler

Replaying UFO while Brink is installing. Can't fun.

Ladies, I've taken out their guard. Let's move it.

http://www.southperry.net/showthread.php?t=43613

i beat touhouvania one on easy, spending god knows how many lives, L> boss practice modeee

khoi, Y U DESERT?

I have a really bad habit of changing my avatar often.

I have a really bad habit of changing my avatar often.

That's why you make a different Touhou character!

That's why you make a different Touhou character!

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That's why you make a different Touhou character!

khoi, Y U DESERT?

Freaking out just because one person changes their avatar to a Touhou-less one?

Freaking out just because one person changes their avatar to a Touhou-less one?

taking my comment with a meme on it seriously?

taking my comment with a meme on it seriously?

Taking MINE seriously in that you think you can mock me back?

ITT: We spam the same reaction image over and over.

ffs

That didn't make sense.

Taking MINE seriously in that you think you can mock me back?

implying i was serious then

ITT: We spam the same reaction image over and over.

ffs

for shets and giggles

This thread:

This thread:

It has come to that actually

I have a really bad habit of changing my avatar often.

Same.

It's bad when the leader abandons his people.