What would make a Touhou game even harder?

[KLH]

The suggestion is still sorta solid. More lolis will make it harder to focus on the game aspect of the game.

This has to be one of the funniest things I've read all day.

[Zengeku]

Yeah well it'll only work for some people though.

For the rest of you, I suppose playing with a nice juicy steak next to you (that you may not eat) while you are starving is an option if you desire to experience an equivalent of the heightened difficulty :3

[BT]

Or we could have double, triple, quadruple bosses! The world needs a Double Meister.

[Oh]

Double Green Books

[TrueShadow]

More curvy lasers. That straightens only when they're 9/10 down the screen.

Or hell. Curvy Master Spark!!

[Blue]

More screen-limiting lasers, like the ones in Shou's second spell. Just have them be there for the entire game or something.

[チソウ タイゼン]

I've asked this very question myself, and turned the result into my own series of games.



I think Jaimers managed to clear the first with only a couple of extra lives left over. You get seventeen of them.

To his merit, though, it's really freaking unbalanced.

[MewMewHeart]

A spellcard or gimmick that disables focus.

[Drake]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wy0buXRNIQ#t=10m59s

[MewMewHeart]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wy0buXRNIQ#t=10m59s

So many unfair spell cards <3

[Drake]

mitori fight is half great and half stop that scripter

[Zork787]

no visible hitbox....

Spoiler:

frickin LLS Extra Stage BS...

[Bang Jan]

If all bosses were like this.

[Propman]

Make it so that the boss will occasionally break focus by making focus center on the boss!

Also strategically placed bullet lines with low bullet counts that look easy, but are actually randomized to make them impossible to remember.

[RegretDesi]

I'm actually working on a fangame, where through the Extra and Phantasm stages, the Ph-boss turns into other bosses. He has about 80 spellcards through the whole game.