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Despite this website having a forum, it's main activity still is piracy. Even ignoring the main games, the website is distributing free copies of paid products made by people, and a lot of them aren't from zun. (downloads > fancontent) Since this is the main image of the website, it is understandable why people would come to despise it. I remember this website always being seen in a bad light, despite being somewhat essential before, but, now that the DMCA strike happened, people are more vocal and direct about their hate for piracy, as they do not want the "touhou community" to be associated with piracy. This is also reinforced by the fact more and more games are available on Steam, which means that should have no trouble getting the games by paying for them. Of course, not all of the games are on steam, and they do not come pre-patched the same way they do on moriyashrine, which means you are expected to use thcrap by yourself(really impressive work on their part in my opinion). I would like to know, do your friends play the games, or any fan games? If so, how did they get them? Do they also listen to pirated music on youtube, when the albums are mostly supposed to be paid for, or do they pay for the albums? Happy Holidays and have a good day.

I was getting bored and decided I would try to play a few shoot them ups. Then I remembered hearing a long time ago about some games that are good to ease people into the genre, called "touhou". After playing the games for a while, I thought I would try interacting with the community, which is why i'm here.

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The problem with this is, if we assume that you jump at the perfect height to not hurt yourself on your way down, and we ignore the helicopter hitting the ground, you still need to jump with enough strenght to counteract the helicopter's speed let's say the helicopter is going down at 125 mph (~= 200km/h , close to human terminal velocity because i'm lazy), you would then need to be able to jump with enough strenght to completely couteract that speed, which means you need to jump at a similar speed. According to random sources, a height of 15 meters with a starting speed of 0 is a 50/50 chance of dying surviving probably means being crippled permenantly/ for a long time 15 meters means you hit the ground at around 60 km/h (~=37mph) Can you imagine doing a jump where you instantly go 140km/h (~=87mph) upwards? Hopefully you won't need to be worrying about such things when you fall, and will have a parachute if that happens.

Hello, I would like to preface this by apologizing if my post is not up to standards, or if it is in the wrong place, as it is my first time posting here. Before I decided to try out the touhou games, I noticed that there are 2 vocal opinions on the official touhou games' difficulty. One of them is that they're pretty easy games for begginers (which is how I discovered this franchise and started playing it, and I am thus biased), while the other opinion is that the touhou games are extremely hard games. I would like to know what you think of this, as I have very little experience in shoot them ups. Nonetheless, I will try to bring up a few points. What I noticed, is that most people who say the games are "hard" are people that never(or barely) had any exposure to shoot them ups before. I've seen a lot of people try to apply their game habits from other genres (most notably first/third person shooter games) to shoot them ups, which often results in people misunderstanding how to play such games (a common example is people strafing quickly like they would in a first person shooter) Thus, this leads me to believe that maybe the touhou games are simply considered "hard" because of a "lack of exposure" to this genre, as shoot them ups are now considered a niche genre. On the other hand, I also noticed that people that have played a lot of shmups tend to say touhou is "easy", and try to steer away from them, which may be somewhat biased as they are very used to this type of genre. This phenomenon will happen with everything, if someone is experienced in something, they will think the average knowledge/abilities of other people are higher than they actually are, as some things that are now second nature for them, still aren't known by most people. Some other argument I see used by people saying "touhou is very hard", is that "the patterns are denser" Despite being true, something else to keep in mind is, that, in touhou, your hurtbox is very tiny, and the bullets' hitboxes are smaller than they look. In other shmups, your hurtbox is usually bigger, and for the few that I have played, your whole ship is your hurtbox, and the bullets' sprite is about the size of their hitbox Then, there is also the question about scoring, and being competitive about that. Sadly, I can not comment on this point, as I do not have enough knowledge/skill, nor information from others to comment on this. By having very little, but still some experience with shmups, I did find touhou to be easier than most shmups, thanks to the visuals that make it easy to see everything, and every sprite having a smaller hitbox/hurtbox than it actually does, making you dodge some stuff without expecting you to do so. There is also the ressources which I will not comment about, as I have not played enough shmups to see a trend in ressources (the few I have played were either very generous, or gave almost nothing) But then, there is aslo the ability to memorize a lot of the stages and boss' patterns in touhou, which I find interesting, as I like to think of it as puzzles to solve when you get stuck. Overall, I wouldn't say the games are too easy, but I wouldn't say that they're that hard either, I just think they are slightly easier than most shmups if you have the time for it. Unfortunately, I do not have anything else to bring up about this, which is why I would like to hear your opinions and arguments about this topic. I do hope what I said hasn't caused any confusion, do not hesitate to tell me if it did.