Touhou Project

[swift dune]

I've heard that GFW Marisa and the PC-98 extras (Evil Eye Sigma, Mugetsu/Gengetsu and Alice) are also pretty tough

https://twitter.com/DanmakuEN/status/1588726269503766530?s=20&t=zbjYjpCpLVfa8s_LJ6WSkA

Touhou Danmaku Kagura EN (@DanmakuEN)

A thank you to everyone who's decided to contribute to the crowdfunding thus far!

As a result of the exceptional support, development for Touhou Danmaku Kagura: Phantasia Lost on the Nintendo Switch is confirmed!

Please stay tuned for additional stretch goals!
#Touhou #ダンカグ

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lol dankagu would technically be stream legal

[quaint kelp]

Since this fits here

Neptunia Sisters Vs Sisters managed to add their own maker character for touhou ;o

Named Shanghai Alice

[ionic trench]

the Shanghai Alice

the one and only

mhm the inspiration is pretty clear 😛

[ionic trench]

gave it my own spin

hmmm maybe I should play these extra stages again, considering this is mostly based on memory lol

I guess I could also give LLS and MS a shot... I do have their extra stages unlocked

[jolly dock]

Made a tierlist for final bosses on lowest difficulty.

[jolly dock]

Ranked difficulty.

[swift dune]

Okina being ranked so low there is genuinely interesting, because I feel like on Normal, she's a genuine challenge for me

but I also remember her being piss easy from when I first beat HSiFS on Easy a while ago

[jolly dock]

I only failed against the second to last spell.
And unlike Miko all her nons are really easy to avoid on easy.

I think Okina is the only final boss I could capture all the spells (in one season at least)ö

I think Sukuna too, but my performance against her is always very wacky.
Usually I rather do fairly bad overall.

Keiki is definitely another one I could do if the spirits didn't distract my view in her final spell.

As for Miko I captured all of them in my first and only attempt aside of the final one, but only because my finger slipped away from slow mode.

[swift dune]

Keiki's final set of spells aren't so bad if you can chain together bombs and roaring mode

[swift dune]

I'm trying to think if there's a final boss on Normal where I could cap everything..

I think Kanako might be the closest for me

[jolly dock]

I didn't capture any final spell aside of Sukuna, Junko (yes!!!) and Okina.

[swift dune]

[jolly dock]

Therefore I cannot capture her micrododge spell.

Actually I think I also captured Kaguya's final spell, but my recordings about that are lost for playing on a former device.

[swift dune]

..If I happen to have Danmaku Ghost and Backdoor, I might be able to cheese a full capture run for Chimata

Okina's Backdoor utterly ruins some of Chimata's stuff, while Danmaku Ghost randomly deleting bullets generally makes everything much safer.

[swift dune]

Oof..
I still need to backup my own stuff, so that doesn't happen to me at some point.

[swift dune]

..Hecatia being that high up there is worrying me.

[jolly dock]

Hecatia's nons are the worst...and....oh, and you also have Junko's nons.
And most spells aren't easy either.

[ionic trench]

Yuyuko being next to Junko sounds insane to me, I ought to try these fights on Easy 🤔

I'm guessing for Remilia you did Normal, would make sense for her to be higher on the tier list then

[ionic trench]

ehhh tbf I'm exaggerating a bit with that one lol, but ye.... 💦

[jolly dock]

I have to leave this place for personal reasons (mainly focusing on work and study exams), but I'll be back before Christmas.

[willow solstice]

Aw, see you Zanny

And good luck

[onyx axle]

Alrighty. Wishing you luck Zanny c:

[swift dune]

Good luck on all that, Zanny.

[swift dune]

I whipped up my own final boss difficulty tierlist, based on what I remember going through on Normal mode :>

There's only one boss who deserves to sit at the very, very top like that..

(also, the people in C tier still have attacks I struggle with, I'm not like, perfect at beating them on Normal)

[willow solstice]

Koishi lore is sad

I feel bad for her

[ionic trench]

indeed 😢

she needs a hug

[willow solstice]

I wonder if anyone tried writing it down their meetings with Koishi...
But they'd have to know about what happens first, so I guess there's no way it could ever happen.

[ionic trench]

:c

[ionic trench]

gave it a shot as well, my memory on PC-98 is a bit foggy though..

it's also difficult to rank Eiki and Yumemi compared to the rest since you're essentially fighting against a timer

[ionic trench]

oh! see yaa hopefully soon again Zanny!! I wish you luck with your work and studies!

[willow solstice]

Remillia being in B only scares me

Actually, speaking of...
I'm gonna see what other Touhou games I can get a hold of.

[willow solstice]

NO WAAAAY

I have exactly enough money for ONE Touhou game

Maybe I should wait until I beat FDF first

[ionic trench]

wait I thought you did already

[willow solstice]

I haven't beaten the Extra yet

[ionic trench]

:0

that's quite the undertaking

[willow solstice]

I'm gonna try it anyway

I feel like I can do it

[swift dune]

Good luck on your grind for FDF 1 Extra, that one seems tough as heck.

I've not beaten it myself, Flan's got some insane spells, and that stage is absurdly long

[willow solstice]

FDF does something mean to you.
You can only play the extra stages with characters that beat normal difficulty or higher.

I tried last night to complete it with Sanae so I could have a slightly faster character to try with.
And then Sakuya ate through all my lives and I was too tilted to finish Remillia

[swift dune]

That's actually the norm for Touhou games, where you need to get a normal 1cc or higher to unlock Extra 😅

There's only a couple of games in mainline Touhou where beating Easy is enough (ie. Double Dealing Character)

[willow solstice]

Oh wow

But I didn't know you had to do it for each character

[swift dune]

You can do it, you can get that 2nd clear

It's something you've done once before, the 2nd time shouldn't be as long of a grind

[willow solstice]

I actually got all the way to Remillia on my second try

I'm gonna try again later today

[swift dune]

I considered making a separate tier between A and B just for Eiki because of how different of a game PoFV (and PoDD) is from everything else, but I opted not to 🤔

[swift dune]

Oh yeah, you have any idea on which one you want?

[willow solstice]

I haven't decided, but my birthday is coming up really soon so maybe I'll wait until then

[ionic trench]

I finally got back to FDF and tried the extra stage..

I really

really like it wow

got to Flan on a few attempts and she's such a fun fight <3

~~albeit very difficult 💦 ~~

I think I got about halfway through the fight on the best attempt(?)

it's.. gonna take a while

[willow solstice]

You got halfway through on your first attempt

How did you even make it past her first spellcard?

That is very impressive work Mart

[ionic trench]

on the best attempt, not the first one lmao

thank you tho 😊

[willow solstice]

Oops mb, I accidentally said first

But that's still an incredible run

I've never had enough lives or bombs to get past the first spellcard

Sucks that you can't practice them either.

[swift dune]

I managed to reach Flan's survival spell, which I think is her 2nd to last spell in FDF1

Mart's right in that the fight is actually really fun

[willow solstice]

I did it on my second try today

Remillia is defeated

Later will being trying the extra again

[ionic trench]

I guess all three of us are on that extra grind now

[quaint kelp]

I still need to get back to the only touhou game I can play atm

That being Thousand Night Anamensis

[ionic trench]

I got to the FINAL SPELL AAAAAA

..... and ofc she has two survival spells why am I not surprised

first of the two kinda sucks but the second one is fun!

and that final spell... holy

[willow solstice]

Impossible...

You're really good at this

[ionic trench]

well, it helps that Flan consistently supplies you with more life pieces :p

and I guess I've played a few extras already, that helps too lol

[swift dune]

oh my god

The fact that Flan supplies you with life-pieces and she lacks a bomb shield makes the fight manageable

[willow solstice]

Wait she doesn't have a bomb shield?
Guess it doesn't matter, with how long her spells are

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/Garabagory/status/1514300868119699470?t=k8aG_Ccvn_cn1kP9nniCzw&s=19

Magory (@Garabagory)

After posting my Sanae drawing a lot of people were mentioning "La Reimu verde" or "Green Reimu" and to that i have to say
Poor Reimu verde tbh
#touhouproject #fanart #東方Project #東方イラスト #touhou

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Twitter · Apr 13, 2022, 5:53 PM

[willow solstice]

Let Sanae be happy Reimu

[willow solstice]

Oh yeah, before I head to bed, Happy Birthday Mana!

Lmao, now the bot goes off

[swift dune]

Thanks, and happy birthday to you as well Flip!

https://tenor.com/view/plushie-dance-gif-25907262

[ionic trench]

:O

happy birthday Mana and Flip!! 🥳 🍰

https://tenor.com/view/happy-birthday-fumo-fumo-touhou-fumo-plush-fumo-dance-gif-23937681

no way you two share the same birthday

[willow solstice]

Yeah it's crazy

[swift dune]

I'm really surprised we share a birthday as well yeah, yeah 😅

[willow solstice]

[willow solstice]

I decided to try Lunatic FDF just for gun

On my last attempt I got to Sakuya and burned up all my continues

I have been encouraged enough to try Extra

[swift dune]

Maybe I should give FDF1 Hard a shot, I feel like I'm nowhere near able to land SA Hard right now
and I don't think I want to touch TD Extra again for a decent bit

[willow solstice]

I don't think anyone wants to do that

Also, I showed my dad a Touhou Extra boss

He said it was impossible

[swift dune]

oh my god

which fight did you show your dad?

[willow solstice]

EoSD extra

[ionic trench]

showing Touhou to family can be funy

I made one of my siblings suffer through Seija DDC >:)

felt liberating lol

[swift dune]

I remember my cousin watching me play through SA Normal, thought it didn't look too bad until he realized I had to dodge everything on screen

[swift dune]

That is simply devious omg

[willow solstice]

I showed my sister FDF Lunatic mode an hour ago

She questioned why I would do that to myself

[willow solstice]

This is the greatest thing I've ever read

[ionic trench]

a

it

is over

[willow solstice]

NO WAY

How

Impossible...

[swift dune]

Congrats Mart!!

[willow solstice]

Mart is truly going crazy over there

[swift dune]

Reached Flan's final spell for the first time, and died.

https://twitter.com/speargsun/status/1587881125187178496?s=20&t=IlJGv4J1yVyxcvQmoxJICQ

Spear (@speargsun)

https://t.co/ItJjsdnGQN

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Twitter · Nov 2, 2022, 6:55 PM

[willow solstice]

Lmao

The fact that C is something I've done before is killing me 😅

[swift dune]

How do you even manage to sit on a tripod

[willow solstice]

You set it up at a fairly low setting so that it doesn't fall over, then you can sit against two sides and put the last side behind you so you don't fall down.

Marisa is doing it wrong, it's very likely that she'll just slide down or push it over if she does it like that

[swift dune]

I think I'd be too scared of breaking the tripod if I tried

It also does not look like a comfortable seat

[willow solstice]

Oh yeah, it's definitely not.
But you can do it.

[ionic trench]

not untrue hehe :D

[ionic trench]

when I first got to Flan's final spell I thought "oh this is kinda hard ig but surely dodgeable"

then the second time my brain had to make the unfortunate connection to Junko's final spell

and now I get really anxious and can't get myself to dodge it lmao

[willow solstice]

Oh no

[swift dune]

5 lives, 1 bomb, I'm on Flan's 2nd survival spell

here we go..

WOOO

[willow solstice]

Impossible

I can't believe this

[ionic trench]

YOOO

congratss Manaaa!!

[willow solstice]

👏

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/nanaironokabi/status/1591347567639420928?s=20&t=Rbs_-C8SkzCyfRZ05CkJXQ

なないろのかび (@nanaironokabi)

最強のふたり
#毎週土曜は隠岐奈の日

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Twitter · Nov 12, 2022, 8:30 AM

[willow solstice]

Flandre and Yukari?

[swift dune]

That's Okina Matara, Flip

[willow solstice]

Oof

[swift dune]

She's a hidden god and one of the Sages of Gensokyo, and in 17.5, secretly warped Flan out of the basement in order to go take out Yuuma

[willow solstice]

Oh wow

[willow solstice]

I can't decide between SA and UFO

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-flandre-thinking-gif-8780846

[swift dune]

Hmm, between those 2 only, I'd probably pick SA, the UFO mechanic can be quite frustrating at times 😅

[willow solstice]

UFO has a new mechanic?

[swift dune]

Most of the games have their own little gimmick
In UFO's case, it's the UFOs that can sometimes drop from enemies.

[willow solstice]

Oh

[swift dune]

(btw if you're considering a game to pick up, consider Mountain of Faith too, I like that one a fair bit)

[willow solstice]

Oh, alright 👍

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/BANDOmizuki0630/status/1587471919497953280?t=bOfLRyjCl07luZwfMzYTxg&s=19
https://twitter.com/BANDOmizuki0630/status/1591045091401281537?t=YtgN7kX1RcocXM31ZX-HVQ&s=19

ミミミ・ミミ (@BANDOmizuki0630)

秋静葉

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Twitter · Nov 1, 2022, 3:49 PM

ミミミ・ミミ (@BANDOmizuki0630)

秋穣子

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Twitter · Nov 11, 2022, 12:28 PM

[swift dune]

Servants of Harvest Wish, normal 1cc with MarisaB.

Fun little game, leans more towards the easier side due to being generous with lives/bombs, never being able to drop below max power and easy deathbombing.

Bullet patterns and music are pretty sweet though

[willow solstice]

All Touhou games should give you that kind of window for deathbombing

It feels like it's frame one for all the others

[swift dune]

You usually have around 6-8 frames (0.1-0.133 secs at 60fps) to hit the bomb button after dying to deathbomb, I think?

Servants of Harvest Wish certainly gives you way more time than that to deathbomb, to the point that you can reactively do it consistently, probably

[willow solstice]

0.1 seconds to react

The average human reaction time is:

[swift dune]

In Imperishable Night, Reimu has 15 frames (0.25s) to deathbomb, which is certainly doable with practice

[willow solstice]

Oh nice

I guess deathbombing in other cases just relies on having incredible reaction times (or knowing exactly when you're getting hit)

[swift dune]

Oftentimes, a deathbomb happens when you were already planning to bomb anyways

the deathbomb frames gives you a bit of extra time to hit your bomb key

[willow solstice]

Ah, that makes sense.

[willow solstice]

Mountain of Faith Marissa C is literally the boss shredder

Just set up your danmaku near the top of the screen and watch the boss's health consistently drop down to zero (unless you're Tengu and you get rushed).

[willow solstice]

I have just realized that that is a terrible strategy and you shouldn't do it

Don't

Do ir

Later bosses will wipe you instantly with their spellcards

I'm dumb

[swift dune]

🤔 Haven't really used MarisaC in MoF that much yet

It's a funky shot type

[willow solstice]

It's really weird

[willow solstice]

I just realized the two are inverse (or at least pallet swap) of each other

[ionic trench]

true! it's a neat little detail 💚

[willow solstice]

It is 💜

[swift dune]

...Huh, my Minoriko cosplay may not arrive in time for a con I'm planning to go this December, due to China being in lockdown.

At the very least, I've got the grape prop for her hat + prop veggies to put in a basket ready for it..

[willow solstice]

Ooooh

[swift dune]

I

I DID IT

TEN DESIRES EXTRA

CLEARED

LETS GOOOOO

[willow solstice]

No way another Extra down?

Well done

[swift dune]

😭

Thank you Flip

Good god, Mamizou..

I guess it's time

to take on a certain drummer now..

[ionic trench]

let's gooo 👏 congrats!

no lives or bombs left, too 💦

[swift dune]

I was going into her final spell with only 1 life, no bombs too

I was able to survive long enough to reach her final spell's rage phase, then burn a hit + 2 bombs to reach the end

anyways ty Mart

[swift dune]

I've been having a weird issue for Touhou games 14 and beyond where tabbing out of them while in fullscreen essentially crashes the game. 🙃

I have no idea why this is happening

...Never mind, playing at max resolution + full screen is what causes the issue apparently.

[willow solstice]

Weird

[swift dune]

From what I've looked up, it's apparently due to some Windows shenaniganry

Oh well, I guess I'm playing windowed for these newer games, I would rather have them at max res.

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/morinohon/status/1593194639464402944?t=c7oWWkf8aO-l1zYEdGtTfw&s=19

もりのほん (@morinohon)

東方輝針城の堀川雷鼓です

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Twitter · Nov 17, 2022, 10:49 AM

[willow solstice]

No way, drumming!

[willow solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/raiko-horikawa-shinmyoumaru-sukuna-touhou14-touhou-double-dealing-character-gif-25974005

Raiko is incredibly fast

[swift dune]

Raiko unleashing her inner Nyango Star

(side note: the source of this gif is really well done: https://youtu.be/NGas2NjVHWM)

[willow solstice]

Ah, now this seems familiar

[swift dune]

Picked this up recently
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1140150/__Lost_Branch_of_Legend/

Steam

东方光耀夜 ~ Lost Branch of Legend

The Princess of the Moon, Kaguya Houraisan, held the Moon Manifestation exhibition was ransacked by thieves. It is time to move to solve the mutation and recover the precious exhibits of the moon.Lost Branch of Legend is a turn-based deck-building game that combines Rogue-like, collecting different cards and exhibits on the adventure.During the ...

Price

$29.99

Recommendations

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▶ Play video

[willow solstice]

Turn-based deck building game

I like how this sounds already

[swift dune]

This seems to be a card-based Touhou roguelite, and considering Slay the Spire is one of my favorite roguelites of all time, it's something I'm pretty interested in

English localization for it dropped very recently, so I'm giving it a shot now.

Do note it's still in Early Access, though.

[willow solstice]

Oh

[swift dune]

🥲 She's so happy to have scared someone

[onyx axle]

Adorbs c:

[willow solstice]

The umbrella looks kinda scary ngl

[onyx axle]

o h

I just realized that rn

[willow solstice]

Yeah

I thought it had two tongues for a second

[onyx axle]

It's so cruel
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_WzPAErd4xk

That this song isn't available on Spotify 😔

[swift dune]

Akatsuki Records is on Spotify, I'd be surprised if they didn't have this

https://open.spotify.com/track/7c7U1uJimbPQAEq04zINsR

[willow solstice]

Ooooh

[swift dune]

With that, I've got a normal 1cc in every mainline Windows game, ending it with a LoLK Legacy normal 1cc as Reisen

[willow solstice]

Wow

[swift dune]

Reisen is ridiculous lol

[willow solstice]

I can imagine

[willow solstice]

I just realized that most Touhou bosses don't look that threatening, and then they're incredibly strong.

And then there's the ones that look/are threatening

And they go straight to the Extras

[willow solstice]

[swift dune]

The closest thing I can think of for this is one of Patchy's cards in EoSD extra, "Fire Water Wood Metal Earth Sign ~ Philosopher's Stone"

where she's tossing 5 different elements into a single attack

[willow solstice]

Oh wow

That's incredible...

I need to play EoSD

[willow solstice]

Oh my gosh

There are actual spell card rules

No wonder Sakuya doesn't literally just...
Decide you lose.

Oh

[willow solstice]

Koishi's theme is perfect for last-minute anything.

[ionic trench]

ok I know I'm late but

[ionic trench]

HWAT

WHA

howwww

h*cking

well done!!!! 👏

[swift dune]

Thank you Mart!!

[viscid fog]

Recently picked up Danmaku Dancers
Easy to pick up, yet hard to master
Beat pretty much everyone on Easy except for Okina

[swift dune]

Yoiyami Dancers is a great fan-game, I think it's in my top 3 Touhou fangames I've played overall, alongside Luna Nights and Mystia's Izakaya

[gloomy garden]

exactly what kind of state is the copyright for this series in, i checked the steam store and there's a ton of fan games being sold like official products

[willow solstice]

I have absolutely no idea

[swift dune]

ZUN is very open to fan-content for Touhou.

Basic gist is, as long as you get in contact with Team Shanghai Alice first (a.k.a ZUN, since it's a one-man company), and follow a few guidelines, you're allowed to sell your fan-work as a product.

A good amount of Touhou fan-games are like fully-fledged indie titles, and I think that's extremely cool

https://touhou-project.news/guidelines_en/

Here's a page about said guidelines.

(by the way, if you're looking for the official games on Steam, then here: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=上海アリス幻樂団&ndl=1)
All of the official bullet-hell games are the ones developed by Team Shanghai Alice directly.

[gloomy garden]

that's super cool honestly

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/shirayuki_epe/status/1595243089521971200?s=20&t=DZTbTqwrTBGt-cp0ImiR-g

白山ゆーき (@shirayuki_epe)

静葉さま

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Twitter · Nov 23, 2022, 2:29 AM

[willow solstice]

Minoriko

[swift dune]

That's her sister, Shizuha

[willow solstice]

Oh

Wow, they look really similar

[swift dune]

Minoriko's got a different hat and dress compared to her older sister

[willow solstice]

Oh

[swift dune]

..Man, Otter spirit really does make this Hard 1cc pretty easy

You just get so many bombs to use with the Otter spirit 😭

[willow solstice]

Oh yeah

[ionic trench]

oh snap, nice!

goodmornn Flip

[willow solstice]

Morning 👋

[swift dune]

AAAAAAAAAAAAA

SA HARD 1CC

CLEARED

WITH MARISAC OF ALL THINGS

😭

Thank you Nitoriii

[swift dune]

..Huh, I managed to get a clear on 18 Extra today as well.

Momoyo has some really cool looking attacks, this one was really fun :o

[ionic trench]

ma

na

wh

at

:O

aw, I would've loved to see your first reaction to UM extra :p

truly a wacky one

still, congrats holy

[swift dune]

thank you Mart 😭

UM Extra is wacky, but it's really fun
Momoyo's spellcards all look really nice, too

like
I love how much she leans into the whole miner theme with her attacks

As for how SA Hard, the majority of my lives were lost on Stage 5/Orin, I entered Stage 6 with 2 lives, and Okuu with 1

[willow solstice]

Mana is just on a mission to beat every extra stage

You're slowly solidifying yourself as the best Touhou player

[swift dune]

I still have a long way to go as a player, considering I've yet to beat Lunatic in any game.

much less do a LNN/LNNN lmao

[willow solstice]

I call beating one stage on lunatic a success

[swift dune]

The only games I've attempted Lunatic on are PCB and IN
I couldn't get past Stage 3 on either

..Granted, that was a while ago.

[willow solstice]

IN is one of the harder Touhou games anyway, isn't it?
I'm surprised you tried that on Lunatic.

[swift dune]

Touhou 8/IN's considered one of the easier titles, actually 🤔

I think it's due to the sheer amount of resources the game gives you, and the generous amount of time given for death bombs

[willow solstice]

Ah

[willow solstice]

https://youtu.be/fpHGyRZkgRs

WHAT

THE

HECK

HOW DOES THIS WORK

[ionic trench]

hehe~ 💚

that actually sounds better than I remember

[willow solstice]

It blows my mind

I can't understand

[swift dune]

I
wonder if ZUN even intended this song to sound like this when reversed

That's amazing, I never knew this omg

[willow solstice]

I'll be very surprised if that wasn't intentional.
It is incredibly hard to get songs to sound like that front and back.

It's not a perfect palindrome but still

[swift dune]

I see, that's really impressive on ZUN's part then..

[willow solstice]

Mhm

[jolly dock]

t o u h o u i s b e s t s e r i e s

[ionic trench]

ZANNY

wbbbbbb!

[gloomy garden]

TOUHOU ACQUIRED

i got the free fan game off of steam

looking forward to trying it in my spare time

it took me a while to find the mainline games, i didn't realize right away that the titles for the main ones are all japaneese

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/smug_suriipi/status/1597347632141434881?t=RoLvNj7Q5u1GKq9IsBRHUQ&s=19

Suriipi | Commissions Open (@smug_suriipi)

Kogasa and Minoriko outfit swap

Twitter · Nov 28, 2022, 9:52 PM

[willow solstice]

That umbrella still scares me

[swift dune]

Kogasa would be very happy to know that

[willow solstice]

I forgot that the Youkai really want to scare people

They seem too nice to each other for me to believe that

[jolly dock]

hiiiiii

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/zetumame/status/1597168883219038213?s=20&t=xuxAuvIGVlQVYMEaR1Lptg

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Clownpiece Iono..

[gloomy garden]

so i tried the game for the first time

and died on stage 2 of easy mode 🥴

[willow solstice]

Which one did you try?

[gloomy garden]

uhhhhhhh

one sec

servants of harvest wish

[willow solstice]

Oh okay

That one is fun

Good challenge 👍

[gloomy garden]

it is definitely fun, it'll take a while for me to get the hang of it though

i like how they say the easy mode is a relaxing challenge or something and its still one of the hardest things i've played

[willow solstice]

Just wait until you try normal

[gloomy garden]

i know lol

[willow solstice]

Fun Fact: When I was new to Touhou and picked up my first Touhou game (Fantastic Danmaku Festival), I mistakingly played Hard the first time because I assumed the Hard difficulty was Normal.

I was extremely mistaken

[gloomy garden]

hahaha

[willow solstice]

I only played one attempt

[gloomy garden]

i'm looking forward to playing more, I love challenge in games, and touhou gives that in spades

its arcade-y too, which i absolutely love

[willow solstice]

That's the best part about Touhou games

[gloomy garden]

the game design and snappy style of arcade games is super appealing to me for some reason

[willow solstice]

There's basically no penalty for losing

I wish I grew up near an arcade

I love arcade style games

[gloomy garden]

same dude

like there's something so charming about arcade games, i can't put my finger on it

i wonder if touhou has ever been an arcade game, it would fit right in as one

they'd certainly get a lot of quarters out of people lol

[willow solstice]

Mhm

Tons of quarters

[gloomy garden]

sick

surprised it took them until 2021 though

[swift dune]

First I've heard of a Touhou arcade game, oo.

[willow solstice]

Yeah, I didn't know there was one either

[swift dune]

I was about to say though, arcade shmups are something Touhou definitely took inspiration from for its gameplay, I think?

[willow solstice]

Is it based roughly on games like Asteroid?

[swift dune]

The term 1cc is even an arcade term, meaning "1 credit clear".

[willow solstice]

Oh yeah

I'm glad Touhou isn't primarily an arcade game, I'd go broke

[gloomy garden]

true

i just wanna say that its low key terrifying that i've played just shapes and beats and enter the gungeon to death, and then i play touhou and game over on stage 2 of easy mode

[willow solstice]

Touhou is a different kind of bullet hell

One hit is all it takes...

[gloomy garden]

true, its still absolutely brutal though

[willow solstice]

We should sign a petition to make Touhou its own category of bullet hell

[swift dune]

It'll take some getting used to, but soon enough, you'll get the hang of Touhou too if you've grinded out games like Gungeon 😅

[gloomy garden]

i'm looking forward to it

the sheer challenge is very refreshing

[swift dune]

The closest thing I've played to a bullet hell before Touhou was really just Binding of Isaac, I think.

and like
4-5 hours of Gungeon

[gloomy garden]

epic

i have 200 hours in EtG lol

it was my first bullet hell game so i really went at it lol

[swift dune]

I should get back to Gungeon myself, I bought it on Switch ages ago but was bad at it lol

maybe
that's changed now

[gloomy garden]

its really fun when you get into the meat of it

also yeah gungeon is definitely a lot easier than touhou (mostly)

[willow solstice]

https://youtu.be/5rt1xDiCplU

I'm sorry, I had to do it

[swift dune]

Either way, good luck with getting a clear in Servants of Harvest Wish.
That game's actually pretty nice with how many resources it gives you, so it's not a bad intro to these ganes.

Flip pls

[willow solstice]

Don't worry, it's only Lunatic

No sane person would try that

[swift dune]

I mean, it's a TriUltra patch, of course not

[gloomy garden]

i see no issue here

all you have to do is not die, its not that hard

[willow solstice]

Exactly!

[gloomy garden]

and if you die to that then frankly i don't think you're good enough to be playing video games

[willow solstice]

True statement!

[gloomy garden]

ok the second run went much better, got to stage 5's boss before i had to quit and do stuff

[willow solstice]

Nice

[gloomy garden]

i almost 1cc'd easy mode but i lost on the final phase of the final boss

[willow solstice]

Ah yes

The most feeling in Touhou games

Getting right to the end and realizing you're gonna be there for a while

[jolly dock]

I don't need to play SA's extra stage anymore since Phantasma Dream offers pretty much the same for no effort.
Koishi is the boss of second stage in Marisa's route, and this is pretty much the same bossfight, even if the difficulty is called "easy" in the fangame.

[gloomy garden]

I CLEARED NORMAL DIFFICULTY WOOOOOO

...and got bad ending 2 apparently, thanks game

[willow solstice]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Oof

Yeah, the only way to get a good ending is to 1cc it, if I remember correctly.

[gloomy garden]

yeah that's what the game says

i don't care man i'm just happy i won

[willow solstice]

Touhou players beating their first Touhou game in a nutshell

If you want another good fangame, Fantastic Danmaku Festival is awesome

But it costs about the same as the official games, so it's up to you which to pick

[gloomy garden]

that one isn't free, right?

ok yeah

i'll get around to it someday probably

[willow solstice]

[gloomy garden]

having a blast so far so i probably will check out more games in the future

[ionic trench]

awesome Slim!

glad to hear you're having a good time with these games

I should give that harvest themed one a look as well at some point

[swift dune]

I opted to revisit 100BM today, after not touching it after beating the final boss
|| I kinda.. don't enjoy how much grinding you have to do to get all these cards ||

|| My brain feels a little fried after doing the 4th market over and over to get every card there, using Junko's card to skip to the boss ||

also congrats Slim on the clear!!

The good ending is usually locked behind a 1cc, so that's something to try and strive for, if you want.

bombs are your friend

[jolly dock]

I still have no idea how to configurate FDF.
I played it once on keyboard by not having any button for focus.
Made it till stage five's boss with Patchy somehow.

[willow solstice]

Focus is defaulted to the shift key in FDF

[jolly dock]

ah, thanks!

still stucks to play it with using Z for shooting

though at least I have all the keys now I need

[willow solstice]

I thought z was standard for shooting in Touhou games?

Maybe I was wrong

[jolly dock]

oh, I never played with keyboard aside of IN because gamepad cannot synchronize with game
I guess I changed the button commands there

[swift dune]

Z (shoot), X (bomb), Shift (Focus), Arrow Keys (movement) is the standard controls for keyboard.

(with C getting used for anything extra, like TD's Trance Mode, or UM's active items)

[jolly dock]

thanks

[swift dune]

The Minoriko outfit arrived today

I don't have the grape attached to the hat yet, but
I'm happy with how it turned out.

I'm planning to buy a magnet to attach to the hat here, since the grape prop I bought has a fridge magnet.

I'm planning to go to a con in ~2 weeks where me and a couple of other people are planinng a little Touhou gathering, I'll be going as Minoriko 😅

[willow solstice]

👏 👏 👏

[jolly dock]

Does anyone know how to change buttons?
I tried literally any button for confirm and swap buttons, but nothing worked.
With default controls it's impossible to play because shot button is way too far away of the other essential ones.

Also my run ended to the final phase of the final spell of the game because I didn't press the right button for the bomb because of this.

[willow solstice]

I don't know how to change key configuration

[gloomy garden]

So I managed to clear hard mode in SoHW somehow

I thought for sure it would be a long time for me to do that but then I discovered that deathbombing with Reimu is absolutely busted

Still no 1cc on any difficulty though

[ionic trench]

yooooo that looks great! ❤️

even has a little fruit basket :o

[ionic trench]

isn't the shot button right next to both bomb and focus?

hm, I think you can only change buttons if you're using a controller

huh weird

I can't get key config to work at all

[swift dune]

The in-game key config in FDF1 doesn't seem to work for me either, be it on keyboard or controller.

[willow solstice]

https://youtu.be/RO7TYfMyPPw

[swift dune]

Only way I was able to rebind on controller is via Steam. (Shift+Tab > Controller Configurations > Edit Layout)

[willow solstice]

Weird

[jolly dock]

Z is shooting, and according to previous message standard.
I would like to have all three command buttons next to each other.
Also gamepad is not even synchronized in this game.

[swift dune]

wait
Zanny, is your keyboard using the QWERTZ layout?
because (Left) Shift, Z, X are all next to each other on QWERTY, but not QWERTZ

[jolly dock]

yes, qwertz for me

[swift dune]

From what I can look up, FDF1 has no way of rebinding keyboard controls 😔
I think you have to use an external program like AutoHotKey in order to rebind, sadly

[jolly dock]

Then I can only hope not to mispress again later.

[swift dune]

As for connecting the controller, can you check whether you have Steam Controller Configuration enabled?

If it's enabled, then Steam should automatically load in a control scheme for you when you open FDF1 with a controller connected

[jolly dock]

You meant this?

[swift dune]

yeah

[jolly dock]

In the game's menu the gamepad is dead.

[swift dune]

Is the joystick/d-pad bound to the arrow keys in that menu?

I think you'll have to manually bind each button here

[jolly dock]

Don't see a way to do it.

Gamepad is dead either way.

[swift dune]

Mm, once class ends (in ~25 mins), I might be able to better help you once I have access to my own laptop/controller again

I think you're able to bind the arrow keys to d-pad/joysticks on the Steuerkreuz/Sticks tab?

[gloomy garden]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO HARD 1CC

just barely too, i was out of lives AND spells

[swift dune]

OOOO
Congrats!!

[gloomy garden]

also i tried the extra stage and uh

https://tenor.com/view/sad-spongebob-alone-gif-13266819

[swift dune]

The Extra Stage is
a thing

I've yet to come back and clear it, I've only gotten a Normal 1cc in SoHW

[gloomy garden]

i expected it to be hard, but not THAT hard y'know lol

the extra stage boss really throws me for a loop cause a lot of the spells aim directly at you, forcing you to move a lot. Meanwhile the rest of the game you can stay generally in the middle and be fine most of the time

[swift dune]

For anything that's aimed, you generally want to:

• stream the bullets by slowly going left/right
• misdirect them to the side of the screen
  It depends on the attack, I don't actually remember too much about the extra boss in this game 🤔

(The only spellcard I remember is || the one where you play Simon Says ||)

[jolly dock]

It doesn't matter all anymore 1cc'd FDF somehow.

[swift dune]

oh congrats as well Zanny!

[jolly dock]

thanks

[gloomy garden]

yooooo nice

[swift dune]

You were a fun extra boss, Mamo.

This extra stage
was neat

Now, how much worse is Lunatic Extra, I wonder..?

[willow solstice]

Well done on another extra stage clear

I knew you were going for all of them

[swift dune]

also ty Flip!

[willow solstice]

[jolly dock]

congrats, Mana and Slime

Despite the control issues I liked FDFI more than II because more interesting character designs and way better music imo.

Resource system is the same as in SA, but at least power isn't used for bombs here which makes it a lot more bearable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7eVBW9K950&list=PLk6H3m3lpS_nDPW7MzJVFG6T6McDkRMWF&index=8
my new earworm

[willow solstice]

It's a bop on every level

[ionic trench]

wowowowow so many clears, congrats all of you! :o

[jolly dock]

1cc'd FDF with Patchouli

[jolly dock]

my first LoLK experience with Marisa today:

• captured Clownpiece's double laser spell instantly
• only needed three attempts of capture first survival
• captured the majority of Junko's spells
• lost all the bombs except for one to the micrododge crap spell
• cannot beat the final spell with just one bomb because I did not know how weak Marisa A is
  => I will never beat a Touhou game with Marisa

Oh also speaking of Marisa:
Phantasam Dream on easy is like extra stage in terms of difficulty, so no way to beat that.

[jolly dock]

Wow, in my 60th I captured Junko's final spell.
rip my bomb
anyways first time I ever beat a Touhou game with Marisa

just need 1cc a game sometime...

Maybe keyboard is the way to success here since I only needed three attemps to do it.

Aside of final spell this run was not that bad, at least better than the recorded run with Sanae.

I did fairly well against Junko minus fourth and final spell.

[ionic trench]

Ayo? Junko final spell capture!! 👏 👏

I don't think I have the patience for that one..

Nicely done

[jolly dock]

thanks

I did it before once with Reisen of like 100 attempts.

[jolly dock]

I tried a bit pointdevice mode in lunatic - made it to the first boss

at least it's a good mode to learn how to stream

[willow solstice]

SA is very fun

[swift dune]

Oh you've moved on to SA? Yoooo

[willow solstice]

Just picked it up to have fun with alongside MoF

[willow solstice]

I played MoF earlier
I somehow managed to 'Capture' Momizi's only spell card and capture Aya's last one

I am very happy about this

Watching non-touhou players play Touhou for the first time is such a confidence boost

Describe Touhou for me is what I asked
I got: "Hard, boring, and dumb."

The only true statement here is hard

[swift dune]

lol

I was dying on Stage 3 on Easy mode when I first touched PCB, I think?

[willow solstice]

Touhou is deceptively hard, even on easy.

It takes so much focus to be able to do anything.

[willow solstice]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1019762451140579439/1046046007856742460/image0.gif

[jolly dock]

I still haven't 1cc'd PCB on easy yet
the only game I can't beat on lowest difficulty

[willow solstice]

Parsee has the best theme out of all the Touhou songs I've heard

I'm going to learn it on the piano

It's beautiful

[ionic trench]

I've heard PCB has ironically one of the hardest easy modes

and yea, it didn't seem that different from Normal when I tried it so I can see why

[willow solstice]

Which is PCB again?

[ionic trench]

Touhou 7

Perfect Cherry Blossom

[willow solstice]

Oh okay

[ionic trench]

PCB is a pretty good one to start with if you're new to the series

but it's not on Steam yet unfortunately :(

[swift dune]

EoSD, PCB and IN are all games you should absolutely check out at some point, Flip

also Parsee's theme, Green Eyed Jealousy is pretty nice, yeah

[willow solstice]

If I can get my hands on those, I definitely will

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/Maletoh1/status/1557455851820032000?s=20&t=Q5RZ7OiJhclrvpIVRnI53w

Maletoh (Working on Commissions) (@Maletoh1)

Shanghai finds a strange device
#東方Project

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[willow solstice]

Gameboy!

Those are classic

[jolly dock]

Parsee's theme is my favorite theme from SA.

[willow solstice]

This makes me wanna play SA

[jolly dock]

speaking of Parsee - this was hilarious
her theme was played by RNG during a muted recording

SA's gameplay is very unforgivable
you must not die to any attack of a (mid)boss to get heartpieces
the second hardest Touhou game overall objectively
(for me the third hardest one)

[willow solstice]

Wait, you stop getting heart pieces after the first time getting hit?

Geez, that's brutal

I love it

[jolly dock]

it's like in FDF

[willow solstice]

But you could also get heart pieces during the stage segments in FDF

If you defeated one of the tougher enemies/midboss

[jolly dock]

though bomb resources is different, but Idk exactly how it works (I think collecting point items?)

[willow solstice]

The bombs in FDF are also dependent on items

Star pieces

[jolly dock]

there are also very few enemies which drop a heartpiece in SA

[willow solstice]

I've noticed

[jolly dock]

as is MoF you use your power as bomb

however limit is four with the exception of Marisa A

[swift dune]

If you lose a life during a midboss/boss attack, you lose the chance to gain the heartpiece for that attack.

Because of this, getting hit during those attacks means you effectively lose 1.2 lives, which is part of why SA's a tough game.

[swift dune]

Oh yeah, this reminds me of a moment in CoLA where Rinnosuke tried to smash a Game Boy with a mallet because his ability told him it had the ability to "create and destroy worlds" 🙃

and then Yukari blocks the mallet and yoinks it away from him

[jolly dock]

the reason I don't like SA is much that the heart piece system takes the player's motivation to capture spellcards
for me I despise this kind of resource system - unless the game has spell practice or enough lives for stage practice what this game does NOT have, and using power as bomb makes it even worse

I believe it is also the game which unlocks stage practice only after beating the stage
(could apply to an other game but I know one game has this stupid gimmick)

[swift dune]

Thankfully, thprac exists to make sure spell practice is available in every game, in some way..

That patch is a godsend for practicing these games

I get what you mean by the resource system discouraging going for spell caps, tho

[willow solstice]

Touhou music is so good that Mom actually approved of it (despite not liking videogame music on basically any capacity)

Zun is an amazing composer

[willow solstice]

MoF came before this and it let you practice a stage as long as you got to it

I haven't tested the practice in SA, but if you have to beat a stage to practice it, that kind of defeats the purpose

[swift dune]

Yeah, you have to beat a stage to unlock it in practice normally in SA, it's frankly a little stupid..

I don't remember how it works in games beyond SA

[jolly dock]

oh alright
never needed to do stage practice for 1ccing MoF, so Idk that

[willow solstice]

Oh wow

You're good at Touhou

I haven't even gotten close to 1cc MoF

[jolly dock]

I also assume that only two lives stage practice is the exchange for having infinite continues in 10-12 since a continue also gives two lives.

[willow solstice]

I haven't beaten Kanako

[jolly dock]

I played on easy though.

[willow solstice]

oh

Apparently her last spellcard, Mountain of Faith, is harder on easy than on normal

[jolly dock]

YES, it is

and I hate that spellcard so much

[willow solstice]

🤝

[jolly dock]

since the amulets don't fall in lines unlike in harder difficulties, it's harder to see the gaps

Kanako is even worse than Junko in easy mode for me

Junko has two very difficult spellcards, but also four I usually capture instantly

though that said MoF is fairly easy on easy aside of final boss

I lost six lives in the final stage in my 1cc

[willow solstice]

Sanae and Kanako contribute to 90% of my pain when playing MoF

As well as stage 3

Well, I think it's stage three

Whichever one has the waterfall

[jolly dock]

stage four

[willow solstice]

Ah, thank you

[jolly dock]

I love that music in this stage so much.

[willow solstice]

Easily the best song in that game

[jolly dock]

agreed

[willow solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-music-gif-22476731

[willow solstice]

I underestimated how difficult this is.
I'm going to be practicing this one for a while...

My hands need to be more b e n d y

[willow solstice]

Wow, it's actually not that bad

I like this

[swift dune]

Ooooh, nice one Flip!

Out of curiosity, you ever try playing any of Patchy's themes on piano, too? (Voile, The Magic Libary/Locked Girl)

or if you're insane, Native Faith

[willow solstice]

I haven't heard any of those, ironically.
But I don't mind taking a listen to it.

[swift dune]

Both of Patchouli's songs are among my favorites from EoSD's OST, I think

[willow solstice]

oh I have heard the magic library before

Yeah, this one seems tough for all the wrong reasons

[swift dune]

You've been playing Luna Nights, right?

[willow solstice]

I have been

[swift dune]

That song is also Stage 3 in that game

[willow solstice]

Ah, that's why it sounded familiar.

I didn't know the name of the song.

The left hand in Locked Girl isn't hard but

It's fast af

I see where this is going

Parsee first, then Patchouli for a major challenge

[swift dune]

😅

[willow solstice]

Soon I will become the musical embodiment of Touhou on piano

Except Meiling's theme

I'm sorry

[viscid fog]

Stumbled across this fanmade bop recently: https://youtu.be/DAJEuWZvo9Y

[jolly dock]

Phantasma Dream's easy mode with Marisa is the hardest easy mode in existence.
It's even harder than Scarlet Sisters on normal.

[jolly dock]

1cc'd MoF with Marisa
same ending like Reimu - no lives and bombs left

honestly I take back Junko being the hardest boss, Kanako is on easy at least

Junko has at least a "free" non and spell

and final spell is not even as terrible as Kanako's

[swift dune]

One of these days I should look at Kanako on Easy again

also congrats on the 1cc Zanny!

[jolly dock]

thanks
final spell speaks for itself

[swift dune]

I've stumbled upon this before, I like it

[swift dune]

https://youtu.be/_YnwnxSE2UA

Learn (electronic) music genres with Flan!

[willow solstice]

I didn't know there were that many different genres of electronic music

[swift dune]

Surprised me too, this arrangement's neat for showcasing that

The 4 Flans in the video are also adorable..

[jolly dock]

I played Luna Nights today.
||needed more than 30 min just for Marisa||

[willow solstice]

Luna Nights, niice

And yes, Marisa is fairly tricky

Took me a couple attempts too

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/YutoZin/status/1600447612154703872?s=20&t=AW3hhgOULpXKMVbg5fGITQ

ファルケン＠skeb・お仕事募集中 (@YutoZin)

【skeb】ぱちぇじょおん

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[willow solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-patchouli-knowledge-tea-sip-gif-25413070

[swift dune]

https://tenor.com/view/joon-yorigami-touhou-touhou-project-touhou-canonball-joon-gif-16124185

[willow solstice]

Hmm, this is a new character from me.

[swift dune]

She's Joon Yorigami, she's actually a character that originates from the most recent spinoff fighting game. (Touhou 15.5: Antinomy of Common Flowers)

One half of the Yorigami sisters, she's a god of pestilence who can essentially get you to waste money.

[willow solstice]

LOL
Joon has truly stood the test of time.

Unfortunately, I have made many a poor financial decision

[swift dune]

Along with her sister Shion (who brings misfortune around her), they both go around Gensokyo as a scam artist duo

[willow solstice]

Oooh
Imagine Shion and Hina in the same room.

[swift dune]

They're both pestilence gods, actually!

[willow solstice]

Oh-

[swift dune]

Both of them have a bunch of misfortune absorbed within them, the main difference is that Hina does it for the benefit of humans, while Shion, uh

[willow solstice]

Oh boy

[swift dune]

That being said, Shion herself is also cursed with misfortune, she's a poverty goddess

she is the poorest girl in all of Gensokyo

[willow solstice]

I was about to ask why her sister doesn't help her financially and then I remembered what her sister does mainly.

[swift dune]

Shion only really has one friend who can hang out with her for a while, and that's Tenshi.

Her superluck lets her completely ignore the misfortune surrounding Shion

[willow solstice]

Ooooh, nice!

[swift dune]

Also, side note, all that jewelry that Joon has?

According to a bit of dialogue from Sumireko, a high schooler from the Outside World, all that jewelry may be fake

[willow solstice]

oop-

[swift dune]

Joon is very vain

like, extremely

she does not want to be seen as poor

[willow solstice]

I can only imagine what happens when Reimu runs into her

[swift dune]

On a separate note, the bits of dialog that everyone has from beating each other can have some neat bit of info.

For example, Koishi casually mentioning that underground kappa are a thing that exist when beating Nitori in Hopeless Masquerade

or Koishi in the same game referencing Murasa's connection to the Hell of Blood Pools years before 17.5 ever came out

[willow solstice]

Hmm, interesting

[willow solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-touhou-project-bomb-hit-gif-17200562

This is a wonderful creation

[willow solstice]

Guys, I've succeeded

I tricked my brother into playing Touhou (and he enjoyed it for a while)

He got mad at Meiling/Nitori (he wanted to play FDF and MoF)

Completely understandable

[swift dune]

Haa, been a while since I've first cleared anything..

Clearing this extra was a nice break from endlessly grinding IN Lunatic 🙃

[willow solstice]

Double dealing character?

Nice

[swift dune]

ty!!

[ionic trench]

congratss!!

I think you've every extra done now?

well, almost I suppose

[ionic trench]

also nice

[swift dune]

I've got Hecatia, GFW Marisa and every PC-98 extra left 😅

[willow solstice]

You did almost all of them wth

You're too good at Touhou

[swift dune]

The extra bosses I have left there are really tough, so it'll be a bit before I get them all..

especially

[ionic trench]

I gave Hecatia a shot with infinite lives with thprac and it was

very fun™️

(I'm never beating her lmao)

[swift dune]

I've done attempts at it before w/ both Sanae and Reisen

ZUN why :(

[willow solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-jumpscare-hecatia-gif-24495566

Eight spellcards

Yeah no, I'm out

[swift dune]

It is really hard to read the gaps for that specific non

In fact, most of Hecatia's nons are hard

[dense wind]

mokou

[willow solstice]

Mokou sleep

[jolly dock]

Mana sleep

unrelated but I ordered a few more fumos 👀

[willow solstice]

Fumo 👀

[willow solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/remilia-undertale-battle-girl-red-eyes-gif-17747619

Undertale players are not prepared

[ionic trench]

oh Remilia

the background is just.. white huh

[willow solstice]

Pretty sure this GIF was designed for light mode

[ionic trench]

o I see

[willow solstice]

Yep, definitely designed for light mode.
It fits perfectly of you use it.

Don't worry, my eyes are fine

[ionic trench]

oh light mode

[dense wind]

GIFs can be transparent smh smh ......

But I dig this

[willow solstice]

I don't know how people get this stuff transparent without making it transparent first

Especially with video/GIF

[jolly dock]

Does anyone know how to configurate keyboard controls for SA?
Or does it share the same issue with FDF?

Playing with keyboard feels way better than with gamepad for me, especially for micrododging.

[swift dune]

From what I can look up, there's no way to rebind keyboard controls in SA either.
You'll have to use something like AutoHotKeys for fully rebinding your keys, I think.

https://youtu.be/SoV4K-00vnU
https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/remap-keys-without-autohotkey-windows-10/

..Actually, this method for keyboard rebinding seems easier than using AutoHotKeys, might be working checking this out as well.

[jolly dock]

ah, thanks!

[swift dune]

npnp, may you rebind your controls to your heart's content

[onyx axle]

I see nothing

||It's a Koisi ref for those that don't get it 👁️||

[jolly dock]

I just received the fumo.

[onyx axle]

It's adorbs c:

[jolly dock]

Yeah, it is.
Satori is on the way.

[onyx axle]

.:o

[ionic trench]

it's HER

I SEE HER

💚 💚 💚

[willow solstice]

Koishi fumo real

[onyx axle]

frfr

[swift dune]

💚

[jolly dock]

I will probably never ever face her in game, so this fumo equals it out.

[swift dune]

they have turned my veggie basket into a fumo basket

[jolly dock]

too many for that basket

also sukusuku 👁️

and Sakuya clip

[swift dune]

It has progressively grown over time

I'm currently sat with a couple of other Touhou fans at Comic Fiesta, gonna be attending a Touhou cosplay gathering in about an hour

Somehow, someway, it has lead to the fumo basket

[jolly dock]

nice, have fun!

[swift dune]

An iconic moment in Touhou history, recreated

[jolly dock]

O K I N A

[jolly dock]

||I purchsed a personal event, means Touhou music in stream will become real.||

[willow solstice]

Let's gooo

Oh my gosh Okina is terrifying

[swift dune]

I'm back in my hotel room from CF Day 2, the Touhou gathering today was so much fun 😭

I'm just gonna
quickly dump some of the pics I took from it

Here's a big group photo we took with the plushie pile

[willow solstice]

Cirno cosplayer holding a 99kg dumbell LOL

I don't know why that's so funny

[swift dune]

Oh yeah, here's a video of Okuu dancing while the nukes drop~:

There's a couple more group photos we took, but I won't have access to them until tomorrow, I think

[swift dune]

Cirno is simply that strong

[willow solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-cirno-pumped-excited-punch-gif-17552731

[swift dune]

Aah, now I'm tired..
Getting to meet and talk w/ a bunch of Touhou fans there was a genuinely fun time

It more than made up for CF Day 1 being kinda lacklustre for me

[ionic trench]

so many fans.. :o

you love to see it

really glad to hear you had a great time! looked like a lot of fun!! ❤️

[swift dune]

ty Mart!!

There was a 2nd Alice cosplayer that showed up a little late to the gathering earlier, and this was a little moment that happened 😅

Now that a bit of time has passed since yesterday, I think one of my favorite parts of this whole thing is both the number of cosplayers that showed up, and the sheer variety of it.

There's a good range of characters from EoSD (6), all the way to HSiFS (16), with only a couple of games missing in between.

and even one PC-98 character with PC-98 Reimu

[willow solstice]

Marisa will never escape Alice

[jolly dock]

so many people I'd love to cuddle

[swift dune]

Photos from the first group photoshoot

[willow solstice]

Okuu is about to end the cameraperson

https://tenor.com/view/touhou-utsuho-reiuji-gif-21705019

[swift dune]

omg I just noticed Junko was holding onto my Clownpiece during the 1st one

Clownpiece went on a whole adventure that day

The only thing left is for me to find an actual Clownpiece cosplayer and give them the plushie

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/teubeken/status/1605397217262546944?s=20&t=ktHibMrgAk91nAOApuRXFQ

404番® (@teubeken)

スクナチャン

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Twitter · Dec 21, 2022, 2:58 AM

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/KangaerunaMiyo/status/1346246255538683904?s=20&t=pvyT1ddy9jlgx6dfNO5z0g

考えるな、見よ！(Don't Think, Look!) (@KangaerunaMiyo)

We've translated this short manga by Mikadukimo (@mikadukimo777). Enjoy! https://t.co/c51zgudbba

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Twitter · Jan 5, 2021, 12:04 AM

[jolly dock]

have all good christmas day(s), Touhou chat!

[willow solstice]

Thank you

[ionic trench]

you too, Parsee!

[swift dune]

Merry Christmas, you guys.

[viscid fog]

Merry Christmas, y'all

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/rakugakiinuno/status/1606591847325143040?t=eYjbQkIbttHp82LzH8KJxg&s=19
https://twitter.com/pp_kousei/status/1606643883005575171?t=vMG8pwXKW-ZuEYFJDvW-yg&s=19
https://twitter.com/is8811/status/1606603640659390464?t=33r8wQ_3xyPO-GHHEb5-yw&s=19

犬野ラクガキ (@rakugakiinuno)

少女準備中…
メリークリスマス☆

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Twitter · Dec 24, 2022, 10:05 AM

公星＠冬コミ二日目/西い24a (@pp_kousei)

クリスマス袿姫

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Twitter · Dec 24, 2022, 1:32 PM

イス (@is8811)

めりくりこがばん！

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Twitter · Dec 24, 2022, 10:52 AM

So much great Christmas 2hu art on the timeline today..

[willow solstice]

That first one is so great

Meiling is really having fun being a christmas tree

It's even better if you're familiar with her Danmaku

[swift dune]

Haa, didn't think I'd find any of the official printworks available for purchase here in Malaysia..

I
have no money to afford all of it at the moment though..

I did, however, pick up Aya Azuma's artbook from Kinokuniya today, I absolutely adore her work in Wild and Horned Hermit + the various 2hu doujins she's made.

[willow solstice]

Woah no way

Amazing find, Mana

[swift dune]

I sometimes wish
I had a phone w/ a better camera

[willow solstice]

Wdym, these are fine

[ionic trench]

lovely art ❤️

[jolly dock]

cute art

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/moiwool/status/1607770084252200966?s=20&t=gwXpWo2nzTP7vnrUSKNKvw

Wool (@moiwool)

context: recently i went to a touhou meetup at a con, a chen cosplayer freaked out after knowing who i am... it was fun meeting up with fans(?) lol

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Twitter · Dec 27, 2022, 4:07 PM

I can't believe I knew exactly who this cosplayer was

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/richard_effendi/status/1608444501131137024?s=20&t=zxsvjxQcrYErmwKfT1RfKw

IceFairy (@richard_effendi)

There will be an extra category for the Touhou Popularity Poll to be held sometime in March of next year, 2023.
The extra category will be "Best Rivals". More information will be unveiled at a later date.

Twitter · Dec 29, 2022, 12:47 PM

This feels like the easiest sweep for KaguMoko

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/Futa313255/status/1609516296957489154?t=aqp0oSpg_ZapzqTI_nq7yg&s=19
https://fxtwitter.com/EdgyCat/status/1609528034234896384?s=20&t=H72hmc0uNHLs62RYjoGRtw

futa＠C101（土）西き11a (@Futa313255)

ちょっと遅くなりましたがC101の御礼も兼ねてのあけましておめでとうございます絵をば
脱兎

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Twitter · Jan 1, 2023, 11:46 AM

year of the buny...

[swift dune]

I decided to spend my evening today just playing through every Stage 4 boss on Normal, and ranking them based on how much I struggled to fully cap all of their attacks.

It uh

it took a bit

Additional rankings for each version of Patchy and Satori, from hardest to easiest:
Patchy

1. ReimuB (Kinda scary)
2. MarisaB (Doable)
3. ReimuA (Doable)
4. MarisaA (Easy peasy)

Satori

1. Nitori (kinda scary, Extending Arm can eat my ass)
2. Suika (kinda scary/doable?, I dunno, Deep Fog Labyrinth lasts for a while)
3. Yukari (doable, I love Border of Wave and Particle)
4. Aya (doable)
5. Alice (doable)
6. Patchy (doable)

[jolly dock]

I usually prefer A shottype in DDC just because of Benben
I find her way more bearable than Yatsuhashi

Sagume is one of the very few LoLK bosses I don't consider as being hardest of their stage
still tough, but I find Marisa and Prismriver Sisters harder

her nons suck, her spells are all fine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3BzcQQEXk4&list=PL8Ii1aIahqCTdBrdvAugJ_EcIGAYfYhsB&index=10
this goes so hard

speaking of Gensou Skydrift: it's on sale for about 7 $ on Steam rn

please get it, so we can play against each other

[swift dune]

Benben's nons are what kills me here, they're dense, somewhat fast and are filled with hard to read note danmaku.
Yatsuhashi's nons on the other hand, are also dense with notes, but they're nice and slow.

Both of their spellcards are aight ig

[ionic trench]

I don't remember Yatsuhashi and Benben being that different for me

this is interesting though I might look into making my own tier list

Sagume certainly deserves to be at the top lol

[swift dune]

Hmm.. upon looking at Benben and Yatsuhashi again, I'm starting to realize I might've just been using a bad method for Benben's attacks.

It's.. tough, but not as scary as I thought.

The main thing I didn't realize till now is that Benben's notes are somewhat aimed, so I can misdirect them off to the side and make my life easier

[swift dune]

I take it back this is easy

[swift dune]

There they go, that's where I think the Tsukumos go now.

[ionic trench]

ah pff

I guess they weren't that bad then

[swift dune]

I kinda wanna keep doing this for all the other stage bosses, refighting and ranking them like this is kinda fun.
I have a feeling LoLK is gonna be at the top for like, all of them tho

because LoLK is just like that

[swift dune]

I slightly moved around the people in Kinda scary, I think I'm happy with where this stands for now.

[willow solstice]

Are there two Marisa's?

[swift dune]

There's Marisa, and PC-98 Marisa

and then there's Yuki who looks like modern day Marisa, but

isn't

[willow solstice]

The hat and the hair are the only things that make it easy to tell who's who

But I still got confused the first time

[ionic trench]

took a bit but gave it my spin

now for patchy and satori hmm

Patchy:

1. Reimu B (doable)
2. Marisa B (doable)
3. Marisa A (easy peasy)
4. Reimu A (easy peasy)

Satori:

1. Reimu A/Yukari (shaking and crying)
2. Reimu C/Aya (doable)
3. Reimu B/Suika (doable)
4. Marisa A/Alice (doable)
5. Marisa C/Nitori (doable)
6. Marisa B/Patchy (doable)

ye that looks about right

[swift dune]

Aya being pretty low on your list is pretty neat

Nice to know we agree on Seiga being the easiest, too

[ionic trench]

I've put a lot of practice into MoF NMNB, tho tbf Aya is still the biggest obstacle in that run 😅

well aside from Momiji

I clearly am missing something with the Tsukumo sisters though lmao

they were not easy at all

[swift dune]

waa you've put practice into an NMNB run of MoF? That's really cool

(and explains the Aya placement)

[swift dune]

Welp, Stage 5 bosses didn't take as long to rank

[jolly dock]

Sakuya is the reason I can't 1cc EoSD

[willow solstice]

Doesn't she have a spellcard that's literally designed to make you waste a bomb (or life)?

[swift dune]

Eternal Meek's the spell she uses when she's a midboss in Stage 6

Fun fact, that spell has a very funny safespot: https://youtu.be/J25mW_kFU0Q?t=51

[swift dune]

Another game to add to the list of Hard 1ccs..

This felt like it should be really easy with the sheer amount of resources you can get, but god I kept being so greedy with that point of collection line 😭

Shinmy's You Grow Big is also

one of the spells of all time

That specific spell is way harder than everything else she has

[viscid fog]

looks around
If you didn't get a chance to see,
New update announcement for Yoiyami Dancers shows ||Cirno being added as a scenario
Means new music and everything 👌||

All would be for sometime around this year

[gloomy garden]

Imagine knowing who ||cirno|| is

[swift dune]

I've heard, looking forward to it~

https://twitter.com/EoSD2002/status/1603177739011227649?s=20&t=aYDnl6NUB8n83C_UxvrH2Q

Satroz 🍤 (@EoSD2002)

Tewi did a big oopsie

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Twitter · Dec 14, 2022, 11:58 PM

[ionic trench]

wha Kosuzu? :o when does she appear?

also DDC Hard 1cc wowie

[swift dune]

she is simply there for the heck of it, nothing more

Kosuzu could totally, definitely solo every Stage 5 boss

[swift dune]

@blissful ruin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=livReBXdiek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjAgP-Gdn0c&t=2127s

These 2 videos by AspreyFM helped me tremendously w/ getting into Touhou when I was first starting out, I'd recommend checking them out for sure, if you have the time.

[blissful ruin]

Oh yeah these look like great starting points. Thanks, Mana! Will definitely check them out when I get the chance

[swift dune]

npnp

[swift dune]

https://twitter.com/richard_effendi/status/1612447570198163456?s=20&t=MC97vJPe9UyJoRb0FwPfsg

IceFairy (@richard_effendi)

Going to do a brief look through the results of the Touhou Popularity Poll. Namely among the top 10 to see which characters are popular with which demographic. Mind the Google Translate. 1st place Flandre seems to be very popular among girls from 10-19.

Twitter · Jan 9, 2023, 1:53 PM