Things you Hate/Like about Touhou

[Azinth]

*mumbles* I can't get them to work in my mame games either.. gah.

Wolfmame99.

Go crazy.

[Sinner]

Like:

- Pretty much all the characters, both personality and designs
- The music, oh my god the music
- Gensokyo itself and it's mythology
- The gameplay, even though I suck terribly at the games
- The fighters, I suck at them as much as I do at the danmaku ones but at least I can have a few fun matches with friends
- The fan base, yes it has more than its fair share of retards but without it I'd have never have heard of Touhou and it can produce some good stuff at times.
- The colorful fireworks
- Pairings, I'm a yurifag

Meh:

- Memes, some are funny as a joke once in a while but others ("Aya's a slut", Ran's pedo for Chen etc) get annoying quick.

Dislike:

- The UFO system, great idea but it gets me killed way too much ;_;
- Orin's boss battle, she's easily within my top 5 characters but the difficulty of it is too much for me, she rapes me every time and not in a pleasurable way either.
- McRoll, thanks to it I heard U.N Owen Was Her and ended up finding about Touhou in the long run but the fad is annoying.

That's not all of it, but it's a start.

[The Greatest Dog]

Likes:

Music
The character cast
Stage + Music Synchronization
Kaleidoscope patterns
Tackling things above my skill level but still winning
Generous life system and bombs can kill stuff
Fandom. Most of the time.

Dislikes:

When the solution to certain patterns is completely ambiguous
Perfectionist attitude leads to plenty of restarts
Scoring can be completely ignored for me.
Blindspots.

[Alice★f]

Likes:

Colorful Bullets and Cute Girls? (Including cosplayers)
Epic Theme   Music
Plotline and Freedom of   Expression to the Fans (Except in Anime, though.)
Creativity by Part   of the Fandom. (C'mon, there's only so much an underweight alcoholic can   do.)
The Insane Sadistic Difficulty of the Games.

Dislike:
Yukari not being a loli.

Like:
Yukari not being a loli.

Sakuya and Utsuho (not as pairing, though.)

Dislike:

Obnoxious fandom.
Some memes/commonly accepted ideas. Tenshi being a masochist? =/ c'mon...
UFO system (Everyone's been bashing that lately, though. =[
Sudden clippage, bad hitboxes (Remi's bubbles in her opener)

& WHAT ANIME IS THIS

[Sinner]

Likes:
Yukari not being a loli.

Oh yeah I forgot this one.

Dislike:

& WHAT ANIME IS THIS

I find this one pretty hilarious at times and at others it does get rather annoying. I mean sometimes the video might not have the word "touhou" in plain English so it's forgivable if some people get confused but people still seem to jump into "WTF U RETART ITS A SHOOTING GAME!!!11" mode a little too fast. Of course when the name is there clear as day and people still ask, wanting to slap them for not having any common sense and reading is  completely understandable.


Another one I forgot...

Dislike:

- SakuyaxRemilia, no, just no.

[Zengeku]

Dislike:
I find this one pretty hilarious at times and at others it does get rather annoying. I mean sometimes the video might not have the word "touhou" in plain English so it's forgivable if some people get confused but people still seem to jump into "WTF U RETART ITS A SHOOTING GAME!!!11" mode a little too fast. Of course when the name is there clear as day and people still ask, wanting to slap them for not having any common sense and reading is  completely understandable.

Just because the video gives the name in readable doesn't mean that people would know its a game would it? Unless you do research there is nothing about the word Touhou that indicates that its a game. And a lot of that fanmade material really doesn't say much about it being a game. I can understand why people gets confused if they have never heard about it before.

[Procyon-Vulpecula]

Am I the only person whose only dislike (if you can call it that) is how bloody difficult the whole thing is? (and that just makes it fun.)

I still like all the characters, the storylines of the games, the shooting games, the fighting games, the music, the remixes, the fanon, the fandom, the memes, the doujin manga and anime, the fanfic, the fanart... everything.
...I've been into Touhou since about November. Will I eventually learn to hate things?

[Sinner]

Just because the video gives the name in readable doesn't mean that people would know its a game would it? Unless you do research there is nothing about the word Touhou that indicates that its a game. And a lot of that fanmade material really doesn't say much about it being a game. I can understand why people gets confused if they have never heard about it before.

Apparently googling or even using youtube's own search function are strange kinds of foreign magic only few people know how to use.

[Tengukami]

"What anime is this?" can only make me laugh. It just can't be helped.

[Zengeku]

Just figured out that i hate everything that isn't easy mode or Call of Duty so Touhou sucks now. :]

Will I eventually learn to hate things?

Yes, you will. Once you get older you will find hate that makes you want to beat ZUN with a bat. Or his fanbase. Or maybe even ZUN's creation. Just have patience and you will find your thing to hate. (And a personal favor: Don't become a Yuugi hater.)

Apparently googling or even using youtube's own search function are strange kinds of foreign magic only few people know how to use.

Maybe people don't think too much of it. If they seriously wanted to know what Touhou is they would probably go look for it on google. Its just easier for them to leave the "what anime is this" comment. I suppose its laziness. My introduction to the Touhou games were a phantasm video so i wouldn't know.

[Sinner]

Maybe people don't think too much of it. If they seriously wanted to know what Touhou is they would probably go look for it on google. Its just easier for them to leave the "what anime is this" comment. I suppose its laziness. My introduction to the Touhou games were a phantasm video so i wouldn't know.

Laziness is mainly my problem with it I think. It's bearable though, as far as youtube comments go there's a lot worse that's for sure.

[Easy Mode]

I like the music, character designs, etc.

I hate the stupid fandumb theories.

[Bias Bus]

Will I eventually learn to hate things?

You're just getting into it.

I was the same way when I first started Touhou, but now look at me, I can't stand about half of the shit that gets put out for Touhou.

[Solais]

This Friday I'll have my first anniversary with Touhou and I still don't hate anything about it.

[Tengukami]

Wow, you remember the precise day? I know it was August 2007 for me but I have no idea what day.

[Solais]

Actually, no, I remember from the date I've downloaded the Apllocale installer... and I actually remembered it wrong, my 1st Anniversary was on the 10th, Goddammit, I wanted to celebrate it. April 19th was my fist Normal 1cc of a Touhou game, EoSD. ... and that's not Friday... I have a really bad memory as you see. :V
I'd be that kind of horrible husband who forgets the anniversaries. :V

[Bias Bus]

Yeah...that sounds about the same >_>

I can't remember the first time I downloaded the PC98 games either, then again I usually don't pay attention to shit like that. Although I can say it couldn't have been that long ago, maybe 2 years or so.

[Gpop]

I remember I first discovered Touhou around November 2007. First played it at December 2007.

I don't remember the exact date either though =/.

[Formless God]

- Sanae is a slut.
(waah waah she stole Sakuya's rightful place in UFO !!!1!!1! <fanboybitchmoancry>)
- Suppa-Tenko !
- CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Just fucking stop.

[Arcengal]

Like:

Music
Games
Flavour / background
Feelings of accomplishment based on games

Dislike:

UFO Lunatic
Lasers
DS 12-6
Yukkuris.

[Ghaleon]

- Sanae is arrogant holier than thou egomaniac bish.
(waah waah She doesn't deserve to be a playable character, sakuya or not rightful place in UFO !!!1!!1! )

fixt >=)

Seriously, reminded me that one of my least fave characters got that spot.. grrrr. >=P

[Chainsaw Guitar]

<fanboybitchmoancry>

This. This right here is one of the many reasons Yumeko is superior to Sakuya.

[Zengeku]

DS 12-6

Just in general when ZUN makes glitches. I captured that attack TWICE hoping to get a functioning replay but alas i didn't. Similar to MoF S4 and SA S6 this thing. Fucking annoying crap.

I was the same way when I first started Touhou, but now look at me, I can't stand about half of the shit that gets put out for Touhou.

Yeah, or look at me and my endless anti-UFO rants. I've been reduced to a bitter old man at the age of 17 who likes young girls too much and long for the good old days of Touhou. (Pre-MoF)

[KrackoCloud]

Phwoar. Lots of posts before I even got to replying to stuff.

1. Study your replays for mistakes.
2. Spam continues until you unlock Stage 4 in Practice Start.
3. Practice til you got that sucker down.

What I meant was that I don't actually start dying until Stage 4, so the first three stages feel like a waste of time. I can still usually get to Stage 6.

This, you realize Touhou is one of very very few shmups that has a practice stage mode? (talking to kracko here). I'm not really sure what you expect.

Yeah, I don't play practice much. But still, you can't really unlock anything except through the real playthrough. Practice helps, but it's the combination of stages and a net total of lost lives that cause my downfall, so unless I master the stages through practice... Or is that what you were getting at?

[Alice★f]

"THIS IS HOW THEY MADE IT"

Dislike:
Butthurt fandom

Comments on that page are just, horrible...

Kind of makes me wonder somtimes: What's worse? Twilight fans or Touhou fans?
Touhou fans can dodge bullets, though.

- Sanae is a slut.
(waah waah she stole Sakuya's rightful place in UFO !!!1!!1! <fanboybitchmoancry>)
- Suppa-Tenko !
- CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

Just fucking stop.

Sanae is a slut, what are you talking about?
j/k

<Not directed to anyone in particular>
Yeah, if only people would read the goddamn dialogue and realize that Sakuya says at the end of PoFV "Resolving incidents is the work of a shrine maiden."

(I mean, if you can bitch that much that your favorite character is not in the new game, you should know what already. I mean, you like Sakuya so much, don't you? You're probably the type that doesn't care about the Touhou unless Sakuya is in it.)

I would have loved for Sakuya to be in UFO (Her PCB shot is better than Sanae A's anyway =/

But it wouldn't make sense.

[Silent Harmony]

Kind of makes me wonder somtimes: What's worse? Twilight fans or Touhou fans?

Considering I've yet heard of a Touhou equivalent of this (at least western-fanbase wise), I think Twilight has the edge.

Oh god please don't let there be a Touhou equivalent of that....

[Tengukami]

What I meant was that I don't actually start dying until Stage 4, so the first three stages feel like a waste of time. I can still usually get to Stage 6. Yeah, I don't play practice much. But still, you can't really unlock anything except through the real playthrough. Practice helps, but it's the combination of stages and a net total of lost lives that cause my downfall, so unless I master the stages through practice... Or is that what you were getting at?

This is exactly why I said you should spam continues in Stage 4 until you unlock it in Practice Start, and then do Stage 4 runs in Practice Start until you got it down.

I don't know why people only save replays of their successes when they can learn from their mistakes by saving replays of their failures. I don't know why people completely ignore Practice Start and then complain that they always die at the same spot. There are tools there for you to use. You'd be surprised the difference they make.

[CarefreeCat]

I hate it when I die right after/before I capture a spell card.
I also hate how EoSD doesn't have a hitbox. But that's what patches are for, right? Right?!?

[Zengeku]

I hate it when I die right after/before I capture a spell card.
I also hate how EoSD doesn't have a hitbox. But that's what patches are for, right? Right?!?

Indeed. That's what patches are for. Don't listen to those elitists who claim that using hitbox patch is cheating.

[Matsuri]

But... it is cheating.