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VERY nice, possibly my favorite anime I've ever watched. How far in are you? Personally, I've been getting back into Fairy Tail lately, I'm around the Oracion Seis arc, really liking it so far. Also started reading Naruto recently, if that counts (I've heard the anime adaptation apparently isn't...

As great as an in-person one sounds, I don't really tend to go to conventions at all, so I'd likely only join one personally if it was held online, and even then it's unlikely. It's a really cool idea, though, and I hope it takes off in one way or another.

This is true, regardless of how you feel about UFO in practice (and it seems like I'm actually in the minority with liking how it plays), it at the very least tried something new, which is commendable. This is fair, I personally like the SA system quite a bit and find score lives a little...

I think this is an interesting comparison. To me, SA and UFO have always seemed similarly difficult, but for different reasons; SA is simply a difficult and punishing bullet hell, while UFO is at a similar level of raw difficulty in its patterns, but exchange for a more forgiving bomb system...

You're right about the soundtrack, aside from Fires of Hokkai I didn't have much to say about it but it's all consistently great, and I agree with everything else here too. It's a shame you didn't enjoy the gameplay, though, and since it's one of the most fun games in the entire series for me...

GRAGAGAGAGA I LOVE UFO I LOVE UFO- As you can tell, I really like this game, and while it's not my absolute favorite in the series, it does come close, so I'm probably just going to spend this entire post gushing about how great it is. Starting with the gameplay, Undefined Fantastic Object...

I haven't played as Reimu/Yukari that much, so I can't comment on the quality of the writing there, but I agree that the Marisa/Alice writing is great, I love their dynamic. Especially the part in stage 2 where Alice is trying to explain to Marisa that caves don't have floors like video game...

Next on the list is Subterranean Animism, which was a weird one for me to cover, because at first, I didn't really have a whole lot to say about it. The characters are all decently likeable to some extent, although Yuugi and Okuu are the only ones that really stand out to me (even if I can...

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I get what you're saying, to some extent, it's just that none of this really changes my mind. When I beat MoF using continues for the first time, it still felt like I'd accomplished something, which isn't something I can really say about any other game in the series. Being 100% honest, I somehow...

Yeah, this is fair, I can see where you're coming from. Admittedly the system does annoy me way more in SA, and it never bothers me that much in MoF, so it's not the worst change. My issue with it is honestly with how it lays the groundwork for the SA bomb system already (doesn't help that SA is...

Moving on from what most consider "early Windows" Touhou, we have Mountain of Faith! After PoFV, Mountain of Faith was intended to be a kind of "soft reboot" for the Touhou series, keeping the same characters and continuity from before but going back to the very basics of what the series was to...

While I put the series of posts I was just doing on hold for a while, since I can't decide if I want to cover Shoot the Bullet next or skip straight to Mountain of Faith, I figured I'd make this post asking people what fanon versions of characters they actually enjoy, keeping in mind that when I...

Yeah, same. It's the only game in the series where I'm willing to play it on easy mode, since that makes the gameplay feel just kinda whatever as opposed to actively infuriating, and I'm not really here for the gameplay to begin with. Anything else I'll play on normal or harder, but this one in...

Moving on from Imperishable Night, the next game on the list, Phantasmagoria of Flower View, is a bit of a weird one, in that I love almost everything about it except having to actually play it. Like Touhou 3, Phantasmagoria of Dimensional Dream, PoFV takes on a 1-vs-1 gameplay format, with...

I'm aware of what she does, I just wasn't quite sure how to describe "the bullets become transparent for a bit and then you can move through them, while they're transparent they usually move in a direction for a bit before going back to normal". Yeah this is true, I really like her in this...

IMPERISHABLE NIGHT IS SO PEAK AAAAAAA- Ok, calming down for a moment, I really like this game. I'm not sure if I'd call it my favorite game in the series, but it's by far my favorite of the early Windows games. Apparently, ZUN's plan was to end the series here, and given that this feels like a...

That is true, although I feel like the subsequent games are all pretty good at establishing what's going on. In HSiFS and UM, the seasons incident and card market respectively are both clearly established very early on, and in WBaWC, you don't really get the full picture of what's going on until...

Interesting stuff, I like it! Although, it does highlight one of my main issues with early Touhou writing, that being ZUN's inability to convey the story of the games through the actual in-game cutscenes and dialogue alone, and reliance on external text files to have any clue what's going on...

Yeah this is true, I never liked that they changed it.