Recent content by Spongelash

Wriggle vs Can of Raid match-up of the century

Oh boy, I hope that we don't get a lot of fans that don't know the source material. Who could imagine that in the Touhou community... it'd be terrible. I find this to be a strange point. How could this now easily-accessible remake do any but increase exposure to the source material? Anyways...

If you compare it to all games in general, then no, there really isn't an easy Touhou game (unless you don't care about performance and use infinite lives in the upcoming 6 remake). In my own experience, all of the mainline games require persistence and learning through failure. You should feel...

Lol I didn't notice this until I was doing the Touhou vote how many of the songs I like have the choir elements. Border of Life like you mention, Ancient Temple, Plain Asia, Voyage 1969, Lunatic Princess (which has some really weird choir-esque sounds). Sometimes they are more subtle and other...

I've only listened to a handful of their songs but somehow they fall just short for me. In general I think they just don't push things as far as I would want. I listened to 砂の肖像 as you recommended. For my own tastes, the melody is sort of boring, and I'd like it more if it was pushed faster...

Alright so I played through Medicine's route in PoFV for the first time and I've warmed up on her a little bit. I liked how ZUN played around with the idea of her being created alone in that field and staying there for so long in that she needs to learn basic stuff like how to interact with...

Thank you for the write-up! It was well-written and I think it was a good collection of all the information that we have about Rin. Speaking about her being a nurse. My only protest would be wondering how her signs would fit in with that role. With Reimu Spirit fits in pretty well with being a...

This is what the book Perfect Memento in Strict Sense says about the Hill of the Nameless. So first of all it is a story so old that it is questionable whether or not it is true, and then if it is you'd have to question if Medicine had been there this long. And then, you'd have to question how...

This reply is much more measured. I don't think that the song is spectacular either, so I can sympathize with how you find it lacking. It's just that your previous diatribe was such an extreme admonishment of what is really just an alright song that it was hard to tell if it was even hyperbolic...

So this depends on how you like to experience your media, but personally I enjoy going through things in roughly release order, and to help with that endeavor the Release Timeline on the wiki has been very helpful to me. It only covers first-party releases, so those that ZUN created or was...

Reading your description here I thought I'd be in for some outrageous cringe but listening to the song it really is rather inoffensive. I'm surprised that you read the song as from the perspective of a "infantilized child spilling snot"; to me it seems to have much more of a searching and...

This was my first Extra stage clear.

Well, that's really all that you've got to show if you are just trying to give someone an idea, right?

The only media that necessarily needs to be connected to Touhou is the official releases. The nice thing about fan works is that if we don't enjoy it or if we find it objectionable then we can entirely write it off as the creation of someone unrelated to the real series. Which is to say that...

Or find somewhere else. There is a great variety of places to discuss Touhou all with different attitudes towards this sort of thing.