Your first experience at (any) Touhou game(s).

[Cadmas]

Imperishable Night -> Hard -> Instaraep in stage 1.

Now that one sounds more like me. 1st time EoSD Lunatic. Rumia ate me.

[Tenbatsu! Myon Rabbie]

Now that one sounds more like me. 1st time EoSD Lunatic. Rumia ate me.

ATE YOU, HUH?!

[Cadmas]

Yes, quite unpleasant as Rumia has a small mouth.
Man that sounds so wrong.

[Tenbatsu! Myon Rabbie]

No it doesn't.
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Yes it does..

[BoLaD]

Uh... my brother showed me Imperishable Night on Feb 25th, 2009. I tried it out with 7 lives to begin with, easy mode, border team.... I beat it.... I had no lives and no bombs left. I grew interested and I started playing Touhou regularly on Feb 26th, 2009.

[Kit Nezumi]

My first experience with a Touhou game was EoSD on May 24, 2009. Wait a minute...

That was yesterday! Oh man, what a relief. I was starting to feel bad because I can't beat the game on Normal with five lives and all continues.

[Ghaleon]

My first experience with a Touhou game was EoSD on May 24, 2009. Wait a minute...

That was yesterday! Oh man, what a relief. I was starting to feel bad because I can't beat the game on Normal with five lives and all continues.

heh, sounds like me like a week or two ago. I forget >=P.

[Ghaleon]

So I started playing PCB normal, just beat this violin boss with 2 other teammates. But I had to quit then because my dog needed out. I am not sure if the game seems easier so far, or if I'm just much better. I notice that bosses so far seem easier than they do in eosd, However they take forever to defeat, spellcards can last up to a minute instead of just 10 seconds, etc.

I feel weirded out about PCB so far though, the menu system and interface graphics are clearly better, but the actual sprite animations and such seem...well.. "clunky". I can't really explain it. Feels like you're playing something programmed in pascal instead of c++ or something. Is it just me? The character art seems a bit weird too. Doesn't seem as good imo.

I'm curious if I'm the only one who felt this way.

[Kanako Yasaka]

Well ZUN's art is notorious for being pretty bad.

[Ghaleon]

Well ZUN's art is notorious for being pretty bad.

Didn't strike me as bad in EoSD though >=p.

[Yukkuri]

Didn't strike me as bad in EoSD though >=p.

I know right?  He's a lot better then me at drawing.

[dustyjo]

My first game was EoSD (mostly because I figured I should play them in chronological order or something) playing on easy.

It pissed me off because you can't actually finish the game on easy because she's like "lol I'm tired" and goes home.

What a wimp.

Didn't strike me as bad in EoSD though >=p.

Eh, I always thought Sakuya looked kinda weird...

[Ghaleon]

Eh, I always thought Sakuya looked kinda weird...

yeah she does. But like 90% of the portraits in PCB look weird to me >=P. Heck even the title screen looks a bit strange. The ending scene when you 1cc it looks good though imo.

So I'm trying the extra stage on pcb for the first time today. I keep dying on chen (not all my lives, just 1..but I reset when I do), but I got 1 good attempt on her and proceeded onwards. I died when the pentagrams start shooting at you after they came in the shape of an X.. wasn't their shots that killed me. I just didn't really know tha tI was currently about to be on top of one when it spawned and bam.

I tried Ran for my first time and he doesn't seem as hard as flandre. I didn't do very well, died on..uhh.. I don't remember now lol. I did spellcards called something general gods, something laser, illusion princess..umms. prob another 1 or 2 but not sure. Anyway I felt pretty good for a first attempt. Oh yes, I didn't use a single bomb in the whole run >=).

wish I could just do ran instead of the silly level, blah.

[Yukkuri]

yeah she does. But like 90% of the portraits in PCB look weird to me >=P. Heck even the title screen looks a bit strange. The ending scene when you 1cc it looks good though imo.

So I'm trying the extra stage on pcb for the first time today. I keep dying on chen (not all my lives, just 1..but I reset when I do), but I got 1 good attempt on her and proceeded onwards. I died when the pentagrams start shooting at you after they came in the shape of an X.. wasn't their shots that killed me. I just didn't really know tha tI was currently about to be on top of one when it spawned and bam.

I tried Ran for my first time and he doesn't seem as hard as flandre. I didn't do very well, died on..uhh.. I don't remember now lol. I did spellcards called something general gods, something laser, illusion princess..umms. prob another 1 or 2 but not sure. Anyway I felt pretty good for a first attempt. Oh yes, I didn't use a single bomb in the whole run >=).

wish I could just do ran instead of the silly level, blah.

Spoilers Ran is a girl.

You probably did Wizard fox thoughts, 12 General Gods, Youkari Fox Laser, Charming seige from all sides and Princess tenko.

Oh yeah using bombs will make you live more.

[Ghaleon]

yeah I know about bombs. I'm really slack when it comes to using em lol. Generally I don't use them often enough and then I have a huge stockpile of bombs and lives that I abuse to hell on the last 2 or 3 spellcards for a hard boss..

it's just more fun to not rely on bombs imo. and for some reason with pcb, it never ever deathbombs for me, even when I know I did on time. it's so annoying.

[Ghaleon]

so I've done a decent amount of EOSD, PCB, and IN now. Now I'm working on MoF..

going back to a previous quote I was told that IM or MoF are probably the easiest. But I'm find MoF to be the hardest on normal so far actually. The bombing system I suppose is nice if you know when you get more power but when you don't. it's not really abuseable at all. I frequently find myself unable to replenish the power I used on bombs when I need them. Am I just doing something wrong?

[Ghaleon]

Yeah I totally suck at MoF. I tried 3 times and still can't even get past level 5 1cc style. After which I gave up and resorted to continues.. I couldn't beat the final boss after like 6 effing continues, how sad is that. I'm gonna look for replays and hope for people who beat her do something that never occured to me. So far I'm just dodging franticly. makes 4 of a kind from flandre look easy.

[Anonymity]

Gahleon

http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3482

It's not the best (it was like my second time on Kanako normal) but you could probably get the idea

[Ghaleon]

thanks but I just beat it myself lol. I'll check your replay anyway, I might learn something anyway.
http://replays.gensokyou.org/download.php?id=3483

[Zengeku]

Well ZUN's art is notorious for being pretty bad.

I don't think its that bad. Sure i've seen a lot better artwork but i have sure as hell also seen a lot which was worse. I am probably one of the only persons who thinks that ZUN's art is pretty good.

[Schpwuette]

I don't think its that bad. Sure i've seen a lot better artwork but i have sure as hell also seen a lot which was worse. I am probably one of the only persons who thinks that ZUN's art is pretty good.

It's just bad (or rather... strangely proportioned) by commercial standards.
He definitely has a knack for doing frills, though =D

[Ghaleon]

Yeah overall it doesn't strike me as bad either.. But the pcb ones still weird me out mostly for some reason. Letty looks like an ogre fairy (is the mod gonna ban me? lol >=P), reimu and marissa really don't look like how they did in esod, it's step backwards imo. Sakuya IS an improvement though. The end game art seemed fine as well. The menu screen shot looks like something from a grade 1 student though.. This is all pcb I speak of btw.

The art in IN and MoF seems fine to me.

PCB has the best music overall imo though. IN music is kinda cool but it's a bit of a letdown that there are no super songs.. I mean songs that really stand out. At least not for me, no un owen was her, or necrofantasia, or anything that absolutely pawns. so far MoF strikes me the same for the music.

[Anonymity]

so far MoF strikes me the same for the music.

How can you say that :O

Faith is for the Transient People is an awesome song!

[theshirn]

IN music is kinda cool but it's a bit of a letdown that there are no super songs.. I mean songs that really stand out.

Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke.

Get out.

NOW.

MoF has Stage 3 and 5, as well as the Extra, and Suwa Foughten Field.  I dunno, there's no accounting for taste, I guess.

[Ghaleon]

Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke.

Get out.

NOW.

MoF has Stage 3 and 5, as well as the Extra, and Suwa Foughten Field.  I dunno, there's no accounting for taste, I guess.

I like IN music. But none of the songs really make you headbang like U.N. Owen was her, or necrofantasia >=P.

[fallensoul]

PCB, easy, all lives, Marisa with laz0rs, 3 or 5 tries, 1cc.


I guess it was it...

[hiddenryuu]

I don't get why people love PCB music that much. There was a few good tracks here and there but all in all I don't think it's THAT much better than any other game.

My first experience? Not being able to beat EASY mode on IN. Come on you can bomb spam easy mode with max lives in stock and pretty much beat the game >.>

[Ghaleon]

I tried SA for the first time today. had to use a continue by stage 4 already. how sad is that... I told myself "this is sa patchy, nothing wrong". But I couldn't beat oren after 2 continues.. So I gave up, gonna watch a replay or two, see if it helps.. maybe I just picked the wrong character too.

I really hate the whole lose power when you bomb thing though like with MoF. It only promotes stage memorization even more imo, so you know when you can or shouldn't bomb. bleh.

[Gpop]

Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke.

Get out.

NOW.

Let me tell you, in all honesty, none of the Windows Extra Stage boss themes stood like some main game songs IMO.

Only song that did IMO was Grimoire of Alice from MS. And that's a PC-98 game.

[Zengeku]

I tried SA for the first time today. had to use a continue by stage 4 already. how sad is that... I told myself "this is sa patchy, nothing wrong". But I couldn't beat oren after 2 continues.. So I gave up, gonna watch a replay or two, see if it helps.. maybe I just picked the wrong character too.

I really hate the whole lose power when you bomb thing though like with MoF. It only promotes stage memorization even more imo, so you know when you can or shouldn't bomb. bleh.

You should use Reimu and Yukari. They are by far the best that game have to offer.

About the music. I would say that almost any Touhou song is either good or very good with but a few exceptions. Maybe it just hits me in my hit-box but i like the vast majority of ZUN's songs. And i like his artwork too which is weird because i'm the kind of person whose standards are around the level of the best available. (I dunno if that came out right...) See, i think FPS games are bad unless they at least are at the level of HL2 and Bioshock. Generally i don't accept anything as just decent. Its either awesome or terrible. For some reason though, anything ZUN-related has struck me with awesomeness. No matter how objectively inferior to other stuff it is.

Okay, enough dragged out explanations of my strange opinions.

Here's something a bit more related to the original topic. I didn't clear MoF Normal before several months of playing Touhou.