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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #840 on: May 03, 2012, 07:20:59 PM »
23 hours but whatever, I've seen a lot of lesser cutoffs.

What is your favorite game in the series when it comes to separate aspects?

Let me clarify the aspects: BGM, story, spells, and general feel.

As far as BGM goes, my favorite is Mystic Square because it uses just the right instruments, the music fits the bosses perfectly, and it really tells you that you're in a fight and not at a fancy dinner party concert.

Story, my favorite is Undefined Fantastic Object because it goes away from the cliche "All protagonists think about other people and never their own thoughts and wants" and it has no plot holes that I can really detect.

Spells, my favorite is Mystic Square because they're just right in means of difficulty. Nothing too hard for a boss and nothing too easy.

General feel, my favorite is a tie between Mystic Square and Lotus Land Story because they both share the qualities of charming background music and fun battles.
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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #841 on: May 03, 2012, 07:21:31 PM »
Shot types: UFO > MS = IN

Gameplay: MS = UFO

BGM: MS > GFW

Story: ??? (probably SA)

Spells: DS > UFO > IN

Replayability: UFO > MS >  EoSD
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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #842 on: May 03, 2012, 07:38:03 PM »
BGM: IN
Story: UFO
Spells: ...EoSD?
General Feel: ...IN?

All of these are incredibly hard to decide on lol
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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #843 on: May 03, 2012, 07:40:18 PM »
Story - EoSD

The simplest stories are the best stories. None of these stories that require some kind of deep understanding of what's going on, or that require you to dig deep. Shit happens, you fix it, no complicated background whatsoever that make the story inapproachable.

Music - ?_?

By process of elimination: Not TD, not UFO, not PCB. Everything else is good in its own way. SA is the king of atmospheric music, IN is the king of catchy music, EoSD is a mix between the two but is somehow worse than both, but not by much. MoF is extremely solid at some parts so I'd put one of MoF/SA/IN up there.

Gameplay - SA

UFO and SA both have a wide array of challenging patterns but the UFO concept is unbearably counterproductive to this, making you focus on other stuff instead, just for the sake of survival. EoSD is second place for overall solid stages and bosses. IN and MoF would also be contenders if they weren't cheese-able via bombspam. (SA actually doesn't kneel over and die to a bomb or two!)

Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #844 on: May 03, 2012, 07:42:44 PM »
Shot types: Leaning towards PCB, for actually having a competent shot type that isn't needle Reimu.

Gameplay: MoF

BGM: SA or PCB. Can't choose between them.

Story: What's that? :V

Replayability: Probably Marine Benefit.

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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #845 on: May 03, 2012, 07:52:30 PM »
BGM: TD. It's got a lot of my favourites, and its place on the popularity poll is disgraceful. >_>

Story: I'm going to say TD solely because I tend to like characters who have good themes, which TD certainly has a lot of. See username.

Spells: GFW for a gimmick done right. On a normal game, probably UFO because they're hard yet fun at the same time, which Patchouli/Eirin/Utsuho/a bunch of others don't seem to get.

General feel: UFO. TD's music is better on its own, but UFO's works better with the actual gameplay, and music makes up pretty much the entire feel for me.
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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #846 on: May 03, 2012, 08:03:00 PM »
Gameplay: GFW --> MoF --> IN --> everything else > UFO -------> TD
Music: MoF --> SA --> IN -----> everything else
Replayability: IN = MoF --> everything else
Scoring: MoF -----> IN ----------> everything else ---> UFO ---------------> TD

Obvious favorites right  :V

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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #847 on: May 03, 2012, 09:01:31 PM »
Shot types: PoFV
Stages: UFO
Bosses/Spells: UFO, SA, GFW
Scoring: StB/DS
Overall Gameplay: PoDD
Music: EoSD
Story/Characters: EoSD
Appearence: GFW
Replayability: PoFV/PoDD
General Feel?: PoDD. It's the most fun, so I guess that counts.

Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #848 on: May 03, 2012, 09:12:13 PM »
Presenting the ultimate truth. Note: These opinions have been comtemplated for eons and have been approved of by the higher powers and the courts of justice so they are true and cannot be denied by people saying truth. Any person willing to deny these truths are traitors to ZUNs empire and will by full authority of the law be persecuted and forced to play Resurrection of Heavens Liquor.

No bias has been involved in answering this question.

Shot types: UFO
Stages: UFO
Bosses/Spells: UFO
Scoring: MoF
Overall Gameplay: UFO
Music: UFO
Story/Characters: UFO
Appearence: UFO
Replayability: UFO
General Feel?: THE FUCK*S DATS SUPPOSE TO MEAN!?

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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #849 on: May 03, 2012, 09:38:10 PM »
BGM: SA
Story: SA
Spellcards: MoF
General feel: If by this you mean "atmosphere", then MoF.
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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #850 on: May 03, 2012, 09:42:37 PM »
BGM: PCB > SA > UFO
Characters: PCB > IN > EoSD
Story: IN solely
Overall gameplay: GFW > LLS > IN
Spell: MoF > IN > UFO
General feeling: PCB > PoFV > HRtP
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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #851 on: May 03, 2012, 10:03:23 PM »
BGM - Mountain of Faith, (Gensokyo the Gods Loved, Princess Inada, Suwa Foughten Field, Faith is for The Transient, ect)  I love the whole soundtrack.
Story - UFO
Spells - MoF or UFO, they both have really pretty spells.  Then again, 10D has Mamizou who has the best spells ever.
General Feel - Eh?  PCB, I guess.  That's probably the easiest to jump back into after not playing for a long time.

Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #852 on: May 03, 2012, 10:46:29 PM »
EoSD, PoFV, EoSD, EoSD.  Evaluating 6-12 only.

Reasons:
-strongest compositions and a near-complete absence of zunpets (I can deal with the other instrument samples)
-ethics and metaphysics and stuff
-it feels more open than any other game in the series (micrododging is open-ended rather than confining) and it's the only game in which I can always see the bullets (aside from Illusional Misdirection but that's easy)
-it wins in most categories (though if we're talking about atmosphere, then that goes to SA)
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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #853 on: May 03, 2012, 10:55:55 PM »
Shot types: IN (<3 Alice solo)
Stages: IN
Spells: IN
Scoring: UFO
Gameplay: PoFV
Music: IN
Story: UFO
Appearance: UFO
Replayability: PoFV
General Feel: (wat) I'll just say IN.

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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #854 on: May 04, 2012, 02:23:10 AM »
BGM -- IN
Story -- IN
Spells -- UFO
General feel -- IN

Reasons :

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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #855 on: May 04, 2012, 04:24:22 AM »
Musical Aspect: IN (most of the music is very evocative, such as 1969/1970)
Scoring Aspect: MoF (scoring doesn't require extreme risk (SA) or a few last-stage explosions (UFO))
Story Aspect: UFO (I can't help but actually like the youkai cast and feel they were doing the right thing)
Overall Feel Aspect: PCB (the journey to Saigyouji Ayakashi is an epic one)

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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #856 on: May 04, 2012, 07:26:53 AM »
Music-wise, I'm a bit unsure. I like almost every games' BGM a lot, but I think SA and PCB stand out as the two of my favourite ones. From those two, it could be any, but I think I'll pick PCB.

Scoring? I like scoring in several games, notable being PCB (I'm bad at it), IN (I'm somewhat bad at it), and UFO (I'm really bad at it). From these games, every scoring system has it's own unique trait. UFO has the possibility to pick either rescources or score, and you have to balance between those two, especially if you're not so strong when it comes to the survival side. IN has the phantom gauge and timepoint farming system, and I really like milking time for some reason. PCB has the borders. Border timing and spell card milking and damn, hard stuff man. I'd be in a trouble with border timing alone, but milking Yuyuko in addition to that? Aw hell, this game's hard.  But it's fun, and the scoring system is indeed good. However, I think I'll pick IN, since I like it the most for some reason, even tho' I'm focusing on UFO at the moment.

Spell Cards? Both UFO and PCB have some strong ones in my opinion. PCB has a lot of scoring spell cards, and every card needs to be done in a reallly really badass way if you're aiming for good score. UFO has interesting Spell Cards, and has you moving around the screen on several cases, which I really like. I'd want to say PCB for Yukari alone, since I like her battle a lot, but I think I'll have to pick UFO for the overall cards.

Story? Uhhh. I did like PCB's plotline, and SA's storymode is fun to play every time when I'm not scoring. However, since I've mainly been scoring lately, SA has become a bit forgotten for me. But I don't think I'll pick either of these here. I'll pick IN. While I originally did not like the backstory that much, and the lunarian hazzle confused me, playing Magic Team easy made me realize how cute the dialogue and the endings were. Mokou's dialogue was also partially comedy gold, but it still didn't win Yukari's. But yeah, I'm picking IN because of subtext!

Shot types? I.... I like PCB's SakuyaB, IN's Youmu (even tho' it's hard to pilot her) and Magic Team, SA's MarisaB and..... UFO's MarisaA. Yes, I have no idea why I've been clinging to UFO MarisaA lately, since scoring with her is.... hard. I'm far from consistency in everything, but the game is enjoyable when I play her. I've been thinking if I should swap to some easier shot, but I want to try MarisaA more a bit. I like her, so I'm picking her here. I think I've been contaminated by Naut.

General feel? I... what's that? The mood? Well, in my opinion the theme always fits the games' and such. UFO is maybe not as tragic and not all the games are as serious business as others', but I still have to say, that every single game has rather good general feel around them in my opinion. It's really hard to pick anything here, so I'm letting this one fall empty.

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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #857 on: May 04, 2012, 09:33:12 AM »
When I said general feel, I meant the effect of every quality in one game counted competitively against the others.
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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #858 on: May 04, 2012, 07:33:31 PM »
Come on guys, post more, I had to double post just to get a daily question in and have it noticed!

What is your favorite arrange of any song in the Touhou Project, or song remixed in Touhou theme?

I don't know if that really counts as a question, but it makes sense doesn't it?

My favorites are Bad Apple MAXION's Sleeping Terror vocal, (Even though this is arguable to count) Marisa Stole the Precious Night of Nights, Horseplay in the Shopping District (FamilyMart remixed for Touhou), and RouzenSatorin/Drop's Satori Maiden ~ Third Eye vocal

That oughta suffice for a break from talk about the games themselves.

Arrangement, not arrange.

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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #859 on: May 04, 2012, 08:08:38 PM »
Gonna go with the one everyone expects, the DARK PHOENiX arrange of Plain Asia

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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #860 on: May 04, 2012, 08:21:20 PM »
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Best perfects so far include UFO 6, MoF 4 and IN 6A.

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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #861 on: May 04, 2012, 08:23:04 PM »
Floating Cloud's Because Princess Is Scolding

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« Reply #862 on: May 04, 2012, 09:10:11 PM »
My favorite arrange is Sound Sepher's Grimoire of Alice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WfWmUtboq8)

Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #863 on: May 04, 2012, 10:24:11 PM »
Arrangement, not arrange.

This time I'll go with Graduating by Maurits "Zen" Cornelis.  spctrm's "a field of clouds" still edges it, I think, but not by much.


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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #864 on: May 04, 2012, 10:32:22 PM »
Dammit Esu, who's running this show?

I kid. But I did want to run the thread for a while :qq:

I remember a Liz Triangle mix of Nazrin's theme that I really really loved.

Either that, or Demetori's metal mix of Suwa Foughten Field.


Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #865 on: May 05, 2012, 01:08:57 AM »
Finally a question that I know the answer: Dark Phoenix's Plain Asia
It's the first arrange I listen to and still really love it till now  :)
Of course I mistake it to be original. I was like "huh? That's it?" when I listen to the ZUN's original  :ohdear:
So yeah, both the memorable value and its quality :D

Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #866 on: May 05, 2012, 05:18:06 AM »
Gameplay aspects
BGM: MS
Story: The one where Reimu beats up lolis and drinks tea.
Spells: MoF
General Feel: PCB

Arranges - Can't really answer this one.  I haven't listened to any Touhou arranges in a really long time, and even back then I wasn't really into them that much.

Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #867 on: May 05, 2012, 05:45:11 AM »
Gameplay:
BGM: Mo- UFO
Story: what's tha- UFO
Spells: UFO
General Feel: UFO

I fucking love UFO

Arrangement:
楽しさ重視.

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Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #868 on: May 05, 2012, 05:58:58 AM »
Arrangement:
楽しさ重視.

I want to change my answer to that.

Re: Daily Touhou Best Topic Round 2 Part...2
« Reply #869 on: May 05, 2012, 07:09:45 AM »
BGM:  MoF
Story:  Wot?
Spells:  MoF/UFO
General Feel:  MoF/UFO


Arrangement:
Too many favorites to choose from so I'll just leave this here (may or may not be representative of my general taste in music).