Enemies should definitely be making sounds when shooting bullets. Are you sure your installation isn't corrupt? Are you playing v1.00, v2.00, or v2.01?
Imo ZUN's spellcard declaration sound is pretty ridiculous compared to CtC's
IIRC ZUN's terms of service prevents doujin game developers from using his game assets (e.g. sound effects) in their games.
Imo CtC's sound design is more than adequate. They get pretty close to the source material while having their own style.
Keep in mind that half of what makes CtC is its presentation. Thus, if you haven't already installed the
English Patch (
source), I highly suggest doing that.
Yes I'm playing the translated version, and I'm still trying to decide if I can appreciate or not the plot... Not to say it isn't good it's
fantastic but oh my god it's so sad I don't know if I want to play Touhou and feel sad ahahaha.
Maybe I'm playing an old version I'll check it out but the main offender continues to be the enemies' explosion sound (which is danmafuku's default one I think? It's the same in other scripts from what I've seen in some youtube videos), it feels like I'm popping a baloon.
But instead of playing CtC I've spent the last days clearing both UFO on Normal (
here I wrote about my encounter with the last boss) and TD, and both of them were far simpler than imagined. UFO because it should be the hardest normal clear after SA from what I've gathered and SA made me suffer for
weeks, instead after switching from Sanae B to Reimu A (Sanae B is a beautiful shot type but Murasa is a pain with her if you don't shotgun half of her attacks and I played the fourth stage far too many time for the challenge in this very topic) it only took five serious runs I think? My clear was terrible but hey I still cleared the dreaded UFO it still counts.
And I knew TD was simple but even with my ridicolous experience with the game I still managed to 1cc it in less than a day and I did it with Youmu which is the trickiest character! The game is very fun when you make some good trancing routes and try to shotgun the bosses as long as possible but instead of spending some more time with both of these games I wanted to move up from Normal mode since I've got a 1cc on every single mainline game!
Goodbye Normal Mode and welcome EoSD Hard Mode, I'll play with you with a loooong time. I already made a 2 credit clear with Reimu B to unlock all the stages in practice mode and I think I can manage it without too much problems since I know the stages by heart but
it's so much fun. This is the second Touhou I'm playing on Hard after PCB but I'm enjoying myself to much, I'll definitely try to get a 1cc on Hard with every single shot type and maybe try to score a little bit, aiming for a fast 1cc with a single character and then moving onto the next game was fun on Normal now I want to consolidate my skills and try to become more reliable with full runs.
Also I plan to clear the Extra Stages of all games, I feel like both Yukari and Mokou were the easy mode of the Extra Bosses.
And to support my previous post, here's a Marisa B run of MoF Extra. I try to not use the glitch though, and I was entirely locked down to focus during the final spell card.T
http://replays.gensokyo.org/download.php?id=34732.
A few bombs used on the final spell card, but no deaths! On the other hand, I had two preventable deaths to Froggy Braves the Elements and one to Seven Stones and Seven Trees, so my score could've been a lot better.
I also finally beat Hard with Reimu C as well. Youkai Buster is the worst. But that also means I'm done with MoF for now, I'll probably go back and try to beat the Extra stages of previous games while I'm waiting for SA to come.
Congratulation on both your clears! And oh boy if you feel like MoF's Reimu C is bad (and don't get me wrong she's terrible) you'll have fun with SA.
Also known as: how is it possible that Reimu A is far better than every other shot type in every single aspect and the only other good shot type is Reimu C which btw is ridicolously difficult to use.
I'm curious to see how difficult will it be for you after MoF's Hard, SA's Normal clear was by far the most difficult for me and even now after a good month I think I'll still have troubles with the fifth stage's boss, she's mean. Also it seems like I can't do well with limited resources and SA's system may be the most cruel of all the series (long story short you gain life's parts if you don't die during spell cards and non spell cards. Play well and get a decent number of lives play badly and meet an horrible and premature fate)
EDIT: oh my god I wrote a wall of text without even noticing it. As always please pardon me for my badly-written ramblings, I hope I didn't write anything too ugly or uncomprehensible. :\
