What difficulty did you start at?

[Zengar Zombolt]

PCB easy.

This too. PCB is not too hard or not too easy, which makes it for a really good introduction to Touhou. It took me months to 1cc, however.

[Grand Octopus]

Normal, albeit briefly. The only shmup I can remember playing on easy was Ikaruga, because of that [redacted] return fire mechanic.

[Alice★f]

I can give a protip that might cause a lot of "ew-----

EWWWWWWWWWWW

What's HaxEngine?

[Formless God]

The trainers :ohdear:
You don't have to, but they helped me immensely.

6am typo >_>

[Turtlesaur]

PCB Hard. I actually managed to make it to stage 2 (nearly 3!) before having to use a continue. I went down to Normal after that and miraculously 1CC'd it (using most of my life/bomb supply at Prismrivers). Then I figured that normal for the other games would also be fairly normal and went back to easy after playing SA Normal for about thirty seconds.

[Gandalph]

Easy's still the only difficulty I can clear, except for UFO, there I can't even clear easy.

Yeah, I'm really bad at danmaku.

[Alice★f]

Easy's still the only difficulty I can clear, except for UFO, there I can't even clear easy.

Yeah, I'm really bad at danmaku.

Everyone knows UFO's difficulty is BS anyway
/lolijustsuckatresourcemanagement

[Treasurance]

PCB Easy Slow. Beat all of them on Easy, then moved to normal with almost no hassle. But that doesn't matter anymore, right?

[CarefreeCat]

I played Lunatic and epically failed several times on the second stage to get myself ready for Normal mode.

[Helion]

Everyone knows UFO's difficulty is BS anyway
/lolijustsuckatresourcemanagement

It's all over the place. At times it's lots of fun (see a good part of Murasa), at times it's borderline possible (see Kogasa) and at times it's either easy mode or total bullshit (see Shou).

[Pai!]

Easy...

Which is still too hard for me, for I am fail at Touhou : D

[CarefreeCat]

Easy...

Which is still too hard for me, for I am fail at Touhou : D

I was fail at Touhou in the beginning too, but as I got better I grew into a perfect cherry blossom!
...That was the worst pun I've ever attempted to make.

[Demonbman]

I jumped into normal because of poeple on youtube going "Easy modo is for blah blah blah..." Which I was intimidated at first and I got over it.
 
 
My Sis on the other hand jumped ino EoSD Lunatic and got to the Stage 3 Midboss :X

[Pai!]

I was fail at Touhou in the beginning too, but as I got better I grew into a perfect cherry blossom!
...That was the worst pun I've ever attempted to make.

How long did it take you to get better, out of curiosity...? XD

[CarefreeCat]

How long did it take you to get better, out of curiosity...? XD

It took me some practice dodging bullets(and dying to Rumia) on Lunatic, but after getting used to that insanity, Easy's a breeze. I can't really say how long it took me to get decent at Touhou, but if you can get to Koakuma(Stage 3 midboss) on Lunatic, or Sakuya or Patchouli in anything below Lunatic. then you'll do pretty good. Just don't expect beating it with 1 continue yet, 'cause Patchouli cheats on every difficulty.