Oh hey, a Touhou thread! I really want to get into this series, but I have a mac. Are there any recent Touhou games I can play on here? I know I can emulate the PC-98 ones (which I already have) but I'd like to try out the more complex stuff.
In all seriousness, Touhou games are all designed for Windows, but running mainline Touhou games on Mac is certainly possible. I've seen people on Youtube play Touhou games on what is clearly OSX. Heck I first started playing Touhou when I was using Linux on a crappy laptop.Oh hey, a Touhou thread! I really want to get into this series, but I have a mac. Are there any recent Touhou games I can play on here? I know I can emulate the PC-98 ones (which I already have) but I'd like to try out the more complex stuff.
After some research, it looks like they actually run perfectly fine in WINE, which I didn't expect for some reason.In all seriousness, Touhou games are all designed for Windows, but running mainline Touhou games on Mac is certainly possible. I've seen people on Youtube play Touhou games on what is clearly OSX. Heck I first started playing Touhou when I was using Linux on a crappy laptop.
Unfortunately I have no idea what it takes to run Touhou on OSX these days, and I'd recommend getting a copy of Windows anyways.
(I don't think this is would count as a 7.5 picture due to Aya's presence, but this is good enough)
Oh boy. This'll be exciting.8. Provincial Makai City Esoteria
Oh boy. This'll be exciting.
The fangame "Touhou Koubutou V" will have VR support.
Also, officially licensed Hori RAP4 fight sticks.
Ah you're right, will edit.Also to clarify, it looks like VR support is for another Touhou doujin game, Touhou Koubutou. Pretty cool imo.
Some news for ULiL PS4 came out today. Highlights include Reisen and a new OST CD.
Heard a lot about Touhou fangames being brought to consoles recently. Curious to know how they're doing tooShould I buy Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet for PS4? It's available on my regular local store, and I'm curious what's this all about.
Heard a lot about Touhou fangames being brought to consoles recently. Curious to know how they're doing too
Favorite Touhou fangame is still Concealed the Conclusion, due to its solid gameplay and fantastic soundtrack. The final boss theme, G Free ~ Final Dream, is still a favorite of mine.
Favorite Touhou fangame is still Concealed the Conclusion, due to its solid gameplay and fantastic soundtrack. The final boss theme, G Free ~ Final Dream, is still a favorite of mine.
But that's part of the funThat game seems too depressing for me to play
That's a good one too.
Personally my preferred Touhou fangame recently is Gensou Ningyou Enbu, otherwise known as "Touhoumon". It feels like it's a nice alternative to Pokemon rather than trying to build off of its existing gimmicks, using a new type chart and puppets to make a different, enjoyable flavor of creature battling. Plus, the soundtrack is great.
Speaking of great music, it is a crime that we haven't seen Yuuka since PoFV. I want more remixes of her theme from that game. Why couldn't she be in ULiL PS4 instead of dumb ol' moon ears?
But that's part of the fun
It's not all depressing; the game has a "good" ending after a 1CC, and that ending becomes even better after you.beat the Extra and Phantasm stages
That's a good one too.
I'm not quite familiar with PC-98 stuff, but they have some quality tunes for their time. My personal Touhou ost of the month is going to IN though, because I can't get enough of every song in it. Not a single stinker there in terms of music if you ask me.
Isn't CtC supposed to be crazy hard even by Touhou standards? You aren't alone there friend.I'm flattered you think I'm good enough to beat a Phantasm stage.
Ha ha.
;_;
all of the bolded tracks appear in CtC in some form.Nah. I much prefer her LLS stage and boss themes... though there aren't enough remixes of those either. There are a few good ones though.
LLS has my favorite soundtrack in the series. I think the PC-98 era in general was when ZUN was at the top of his game. So many classics and should-be-classics. Eternal Shrine Maiden, The Legend of KAGE, Swordsman of a Distant Star, Hakurei ~ Eastern Wind, End of Daylight, Complete Darkness, Vanishing Dream ~ Lost Dream, Strawberry Crisis, Witching Dream, Bad Apple, Alice Maestra, Maiden's Cappricio, Lotus Love, Dream Land, Cute Devil ~ Innocence, Romantic Children, Legendary Illusion ~ Infinite Being, Alice in Wonderland, The Grimoire of Alice...
more Yuuka, Normal Difficulty.And frankly I just want more Yuuka, when's her nendo coming out?
Isn't CtC supposed to be crazy hard even by Touhou standards? You aren't alone there friend.
I haven't even cleared any extra stages yet ;~;
Hey hey, how come nobody here's posted the good news yet?
"ZUN is expecting a second child!"
Well wishes to him and his family, here's to a potential new heir to Touhou! /s
Haven't played IaMP in a long while so if you want to steamroll someone.. Never played online but I'm sure the netcode runs better than our Aussie internet (Cmon NBN)I would love to play someone but I heard the bootleg netcode is pretty bad.
I completely forgot that Desire Drive was in this game, such a great track, Zun really knocked it out of the park with this one. But speaking of the difficulty, I managed to get up to Miko within an hour of playing which is lol-worthy (partially thanks to the Trance system). I haven't really had much trouble until I hit Tojiko though. The spell cards are a lot more creative here though, which is really nice to see. It's also nice to see Youmu reach coveted MC status (for one game).
I've also been playing through IaMP, gotten through Reimu, Marisa and Youmu's story. I feel like the input buffer on wakeup is a bit too short, and not having grabs be a standard move is super weird to me (I know a few characters have command grabs), but grazing through patterns is pretty fun. I would love to play someone but I heard the bootleg netcode is pretty bad.
Fairy wars is my favored of the alternate shooters, but I'm flat out terrible at Aya's games so that may be why. Unique system that a toned down version could totally work as Cirno's shot type if she ever made it into a mainline. Pretty great music in it too.
Haven't played IaMP in a long while so if you want to steamroll someone.. Never played online but I'm sure the netcode runs better than our Aussie internet (Cmon NBN)
So I was just testing it, and yep the opening non-spells are different per character. Not only that, but the order of the Prismrivers in the first spellcard is different per character too. It's annoying since I'm actually really bad at remembering which sister is which (like in general, not just in-game. They're next to the PC98 characters to me in terms of "consistently struggling to remember these character's names")
Desire Drive is a pretty good track yeah. But I actually like Let's All Live In A Lovely Cemetery over it in terms of Stage themes). I actually really enjoy Ten Desire's tracks, personally. Maybe they're not the best the series has to offer, but I find it rather fun to listen to when I'm either playing or listening to it on my phone (I just wouldn't, say, pick Shanghai Teahouse, Capital City of Flowers in the Sky or Faith is for the Transient People
My personal gripes with the soundtrack are just that I actively dislike tracks from TD. (for reference, from 6 to 11, there are tracks that I don't love but still like, while 12 has some rather boring tracks. 13, however is the one post-98, mainline game with tracks I just dislike).
True Administrator is incredibly bland for a final boss theme (at least the TD rendition; the HM rendition is bloody good), I dislike Kyoko's themes, the EX Stage theme and I just dislike Yuyuko's TD Boss theme. I also really dislike how bland some of the Trance remixes are (Yoshika is the only one with a Trance theme that sounds different. It also sounds great if you play it together with the original theme).
(I wasn't expecting to type up this many paragraphs on the topic...)
As for TH7.5, I actually played (and finished all of it) earlier this year. I wasn't bothered by the lack of grabs, though to be fair I don't instinctively go for them in fighting games (I'm used to playing against the AI, and I'm also used to AI always teching my grabs every time lol, which is why I tend not to use grabs)
Grazing is a pretty satisfying mechanic though, yeah. As somebody that prefers to play zoning in most fighting games, like Sagat in SF, it's pretty cool to see a fighting game with a projectile focus. I wish more games had some sort of graze mechanic, it's just really fun and satisfying.
Nice.So, I was checking out a Sofmap store's used PC games section after I spotted a cheap copy of Higanbana part 2 (which I was missing), and I stumbled across several Touhou games. Imperishable Night was just ¥360, and after checking back to this thread and reading it was considered one of the better games, I decided to pick it up.
Needless to say, I'm a complete newbie to the bullet hell genre, so I ended up wasting a bomb while figuring out the controls, and even ended up dying to the first boss... but I guess I'll get better over time. The few music tracks I got to hear were pretty good, and I liked getting murdered by regular enemies when I dared to check Lunatic out.
Still, it was kind of a pain that the video settings didn't allow for multiple screen resolutions, since my friend's laptop has a 4K monitor that makes the game either look awfully tiny when windowed, or has some weird issue where it doesn't even render properly in fullscreen mode.