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I love Touhou
7 years ago
Touhou is honestly the only video game I've really played for a while, a few months ago I quit playing online non-browser games (except I've had a few games on Paladins just to see if I'm missing anything) and I also haven't played a lot of single-player games. Except for Touhou. I've played a whole lot of Touhou, and I love it. The gameplay is probably the high point for most, it's very interesting and intense at times, and the music is wonderful with masterpieces like A Maiden's Illusionary Funeral. The music is what brought me in but the rich characters and lore are what keep me coming.
The franchise has well over 100 characters, most of which are pretty well-designed. They have personalities, abilities, their own music themes, lore, and lots of signature moves in the form of Spell Cards. They all fit within this amazing world, it's basically a fantasy world called Gensokyo located in the real world but sealed off so as to protect the inhabits and make the place it's own type of reality. Japanese mythology is the dominant force in the universe even though the lack of belief in myths during modern times threatens their exist. Gensokyo is a safe haven for Youkai, which make up most of the characters, and unlike Yo-Kai Watch these Youkai are pretty authentic, but made into anime-like girls and given ZUN's unique spin.
My favourite Touhou character is Ran Yakumo, because she's got a lot of what I love in characters. She's a tall and adorable motherly character but she's very smart and powerful. My headcanon is that the Yakumos are all a happy family, despite Chen being Ran's servant and Ran being Yukari's servant. Speaking of headcanons, despite being so rich, the dialogue in the game and the stated facts about the characters are fairly small and not concretely defined. This leaves the player with a lot of questions and lets them interpret a character themselves, so each person in the Touhou userbase has probably come to radically different conclusions than other people. This is great, it means you have a lot of fuel to interpret the characters however you like, some people view Gensokyo as a fun happy place while others view it as grim and chaotic. That's part of what makes the fanbase so dedicated, and I'm glad to be part of that.
I very much recommend playing these games, Touhou 14 is on Playism and Touhou 16 is on Steam so it is now more accessible to Western players. Touhou is the only media franchise I'm really interested in now, it used to be Pokemon but Pokemon didn't have enough for me. I love this series over even Cave Story, though when comparing Cave Story to any single Touhou game I still like that more. Touhou being a series with so many games and characters makes it very special.
The franchise has well over 100 characters, most of which are pretty well-designed. They have personalities, abilities, their own music themes, lore, and lots of signature moves in the form of Spell Cards. They all fit within this amazing world, it's basically a fantasy world called Gensokyo located in the real world but sealed off so as to protect the inhabits and make the place it's own type of reality. Japanese mythology is the dominant force in the universe even though the lack of belief in myths during modern times threatens their exist. Gensokyo is a safe haven for Youkai, which make up most of the characters, and unlike Yo-Kai Watch these Youkai are pretty authentic, but made into anime-like girls and given ZUN's unique spin.
My favourite Touhou character is Ran Yakumo, because she's got a lot of what I love in characters. She's a tall and adorable motherly character but she's very smart and powerful. My headcanon is that the Yakumos are all a happy family, despite Chen being Ran's servant and Ran being Yukari's servant. Speaking of headcanons, despite being so rich, the dialogue in the game and the stated facts about the characters are fairly small and not concretely defined. This leaves the player with a lot of questions and lets them interpret a character themselves, so each person in the Touhou userbase has probably come to radically different conclusions than other people. This is great, it means you have a lot of fuel to interpret the characters however you like, some people view Gensokyo as a fun happy place while others view it as grim and chaotic. That's part of what makes the fanbase so dedicated, and I'm glad to be part of that.
I very much recommend playing these games, Touhou 14 is on Playism and Touhou 16 is on Steam so it is now more accessible to Western players. Touhou is the only media franchise I'm really interested in now, it used to be Pokemon but Pokemon didn't have enough for me. I love this series over even Cave Story, though when comparing Cave Story to any single Touhou game I still like that more. Touhou being a series with so many games and characters makes it very special.
