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| Ghaleon:
I'm jealous I didn't know about this series sooner like the rest of you guys, so I'm wondering how you guys were introduced to the series. I personally learned of it partially thanks to a internet flash gaming website known as kongregate. On the forums someone opened a thread along the lines of "hardest boss ever". Naturally I was interested because I'm always interested in hard games, I've beaten plenty of games that are known for being notoriously hard on its hardest settings such as Unreal tournament (godlike bots I mean not the actually setting on campaign, I haven't tried, the campaign sucks), ninja gaiden, I wanna be the guy (well very hard, I don't have the time for impossible, which is more about not screwing up once over a very long period of time more than anything), I wanna be the fangame, etc. Someone posted a youtube link of some japanese shooter game (I forget the name, something futuri or something). Obviously this was sourced by being the #1 match in google for "worlds hardest boss", match #2's boss is actually from the same game and the boss afterwards which is only unlockable by beating the previous mentioned boss without dying, durka. So I said to myself "gee that looks like fun, I gotta try it". But discovered it was for a japanese arcade that could not possibly be imported, or purchaseable with my resources.. So I said dang. But while researching this game I learned the term "danmaku", so I started looking for "danmaku" games that WERE accessable for me. Touhou it was >=). So what's your story? |
| Kit Nezumi:
About a year back, I was browsing the Something Awful forums. Out of pure boredom, I checked out the Touhou thread in their anime section. What I discovered was a relatively obscure shooter with a surprisingly strong fan scene. The concept just really lit up my lights for three reasons: 1) I love derivative works. Remixes, fanfiction, stuff like that. 2) I love flashy bright things. The danmaku patters looked like a rave with more killing and less love (and also less college frat boys trying to pick up drugged out girls. natch) 3) I love challenging games. I fell in love with the concept instantly and couldn't wait to download and play my first Touho-- wait.. Windows? I failed at using WINE for emulation and didn't have access to Bootcamp at the time, so I couldn't run any Touhou games on my mac. Needless to say, I was a sad panda. So for about a year I sustained myself on IOSYS videos and fan drawings. No real reason except they were enjoyable. So, it wasn't until a couple days ago that I managed to snag a copy of Windows XP and Embodiment of Scarlet Devil and give it a shot. Actually playing the challenging and addictive curtain shooter opened my eyes and now I am slowly aquainting myself with my new obsession (and lots and lots of death). |
| Vile Lasagna:
I bumped into this and then it was death by shiny |
| Helepolis:
Doesn't this thread belong at the addict center? Hmmm I don't want to rewrite entire story from the old forum. Basicly comes down to this: - Helepolis decides to download MUGEN after a year hearing from a friend. - Helepolis downloads tons of characters. - Helepolis discovers Hatsune Miku. - Helepolis plays hours to see all parody moves. - Helepolis' interest is sparked by a bunny girl smirking, wonders who it is. - Helepolis asks on a MUGEN forum about it. - Helepolis gets directed to youtube for "Inaba Tewi". - Helepolis bumps into IN Stage 4b replay. - Helepolis normally hates these type of games but gets addicted to the song and pattern of the bullets. - Helepolis does more research and finds Touhou. - Helepolis downloads IN and plays. - Helepolis gets addicted for the rest of his life. Thank you ZUN. |
| trancehime:
4chan's /w/ several years ago. Yeah, pretty embarrassing, but whatever. |
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