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1 hour ago, SoundOfRayne said:

I'm just gonna go ahead and shoot down this line of thinking immediately, and loudly for everyone in the back:

Yes, you can be a Touhou fan and not play the games.

Touhou Project is more than just a few space shooters. You've got fangames that cover pretty much every genre imaginable, tons of printworks (both official and doujin), full-blown anime made by some seriously dedicated fans, on top of the years and years worth of fan art and fan music. That is Touhou Project.

Sorry if that's not exactly what your post was trying to ask about, but considering the fact that gatekeeping is a real thing, I don't want to leave any ambiguity on this. There is nothing wrong with deciding that the games aren't really your thing and just enjoying Touhou for the stuff you actually like.

 

I wouldn't blame you in the slightest for not being "interested" in the shoot-em-up games. I also had a time when I was getting into Touhou, so I tried the official games, and I did have a good time with them. I had fun. A lot of fun, even. It was during a time when I specifically wanted to play something simple and arcade-y and I didn't mind that I was going through the same motions over and over again to try and get a little further than before. But, my tastes changed over time. I wanted to try something new, and moving from Touhou 7 to Touhou 8 isn't gonna give me that new experience I was craving. Now I only go back to them every now and then when I find myself in that certain "Touhou" kind of mood, and there's nothing wrong with that. So no, don't feel like playing the official games is some kind of necessity for keeping your membership card. If you feel like picking them back up, do it. And if you don't, then don't. The important thing is making sure you're enjoying yourself in whatever area of the fandom you're spending your time with.

Basically this ^^

As someone who's beaten the games on lunatic, I really want the perspective of every new fan (including you) on the original games to be one of recognition but not compulsion to play. That is, it's important to know about the original games to see where the phenomenon of Touhou blossomed from, but ultimately the fanbase is what makes Touhou so special!

as long as it has 2hu music it's cool in my book

On 7/26/2022 at 9:08 AM, ScarletCyro said:

@Isaacyes! I do! I really love celeste too, it was when i was doing a speedrun of the game, the level design is absolutely spectacular, though the game isn't as hard as everyone says it is. It is absolutely still one of the best indie games I've played in a long time

Agreed, and I'm glad harder games like Celeste have been getting the spotlight recently. One of my fav things about Touhou is the sense of accomplishment as your practice pays off, and that passion definitely carries over into other games like Celeste

Now that you're able to pursue your goals in life with the peace of knowing that you helped keep this forum alive, give it your all! One of the most important factors in a course of study is your interest in the subject, and given you've dedicated so much of your life to Touhou, you've definitely got it in you to learn Japanese.

P.S. If you feel like it, definitely post about your Touhou pilgrimage in Japan - that sounds like it'll be super cool

thprac and a will of steel

Urumi passes for an adult imo

The IOSYS classics like Cirno's Perfect Math Class and Marisa Stole the Precious Thing mesmerized me as a kid for some reason. Then, one day I found out that these IOSYS vids are actually based off a Japanese indie game and it all spiraled from there

look at this bird

On 7/30/2020 at 10:34 PM, speedcodes said:

finger guns. (not the type that Inaba has, those are a lot more different)

Basically, my fingernails would be fired from my fingers so fast that it could just dig a hole in a rock. I think that's balanced even without the gimmicks.

Johnny Joestar would approve