Post subject: Touhou Megathread v2: Girls, Bombs, and Guns
Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 8:58 pm
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What is Touhou?
The Touhou Project (東方Project Tōhō Purojekuto, lit. Eastern Project) is a Japanese series of top-down bullet-curtain games made by the one-man developer Team Shanghai-Alice. The sole member, Jun'ya Ota (ZUN) is responsible for most of the graphics, music, and programming. Notable exceptions include three fighting games co-produced with Twilight Frontier.
Besides games, ZUN has also produced music CD's, books, and comics. Also notable is the prodigious amount of derivative works, ranging from music, to art, to videos, and even to fan-made games.
I've heard the music was good?
One thing that the series is well known for, and also brings many people into the series, is the originally composed music. Some of the more well-known original songs are:
Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom ~ Nuclear Fusion
U.N. Owen Was Her?
Doll Judgement
There's also a very large amount of doujin music, more notable arrangers including IoSYS, Silver Forest, and dBu.
Tell me about the PC-98 games
ZUN's first foray into making games resulted in five Touhou games for the PC-98. While they may be a little unpolished, the charm still shows up in the music and bullet patterns. The five games are:
From Mystic Square onwards, ZUN started programming for Windows, starting with TH06 - Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, and instead of improving little by little, mechanics would improve by leaps and bounds. They are released at a rate of about 1 per year, and currently the most recent game is TH13 - Ten Desires.
There are 8 "main" games, focusing on top-down bullet-hell gameplay and all having 6 stages and one EXTRA stage, each with its own mini-boss and boss. The Extra stages are unlocked by completing the main game under certain conditions. Each game has 4 difficulty levels, Easy, Normal, Hard, and Lunatic.
If you ask anyone, they'll probably tell you that you should start with Imperishable Night. This is best if you have no experience with SHMUP's, as it is generally seen as the easiest. My personal preference is Ten Desires.
And what is the point of this thread?
To talk about anything touhou-related. It's a place to post any touhou art, arranges, experiences, comics, theories (to a reasonable extent), thoughts, and news. And mainly, to keep it out of every other thread.
Please mark Danbooru links as NSFW. Not everyone uses adblocker.
Post subject: Re: Touhou Megathread v2: Girls, Bombs, and Guns
Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 10:50 pm
Joined: Tue Feb 22, 2011 10:39 am Posts: 3603 Location: CONNIE SAYS ᴊᴇsᴜs WAS A WOMAN
DrSunshine wrote:
It's a Desert Eagle refitted to accommodate the small portable singularity that Marisa uses to power her magic.
There's a story behind this. When I first saw Marisa using "master spark", my first reaction was, of course, glee. Then I wondered to my friend -- "How does she get the power for that? She must contain a portable singularity inside that Hakkero thing she carries." My friend balked saying "You just want her to be more powerful than she really is. I mean, a black hole??" To which I replied "Yes."
Post subject: Re: Touhou Megathread v2: Girls, Bombs, and Guns
Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 10:58 pm
Joined: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:16 pm Posts: 5859 Location: Often forgotten
Indeed they do.
I can't remember how I found out about Touhou. I think I saw it on a forum board once and started reading into it. Didn't become fully invested until about 2 months ago. However, I had heard U.N Owen was Here a long time ago. I just didn't know what it was from.
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