why did zun make reimu no longer have small hitbox

[Buwako]

i guess touhou 16 onward reimu lost her special ability to have her small hitbox. how come zun made that decision? (also does this mean marisa lost her ability with the item collection thing or whatever she had?)

 

[Patchy :3]

idk, however, in shot type files the hitbox size cvar still exists, despite the "_u" at end of them which stands for "unused"
my guess is that when ZUN wanted to bring series back to basics with 16, he also make characters have same hitbox size as Reimu/Marisa had in EoSD

 

[Byakuren Enjoyer]

She grew up

 

[Patchy :3]

She grew up

What if Junko secretly gave her donations after events of th15?

 

[violet november]

a continuing trend in touhou game development seems to be zun figuring out how to balance workload so as to not cause health issues or creative burnout. even when he was young he almost destroyed himself with the high workload he put on himself with the early games, and as he's aging he's almost certainly having to find new limits for this sorta thing. that's why the games are never as big as IN anymore, why there's somewhat less variety in nonspell attacks than the earlier games, and why they've gone from more than one a year to one a year to one every other year

I think the reduction in differences between characters is probably related to this. there's less difficulty-balancing testing needed if both characters have the same size hitbox and other things like that