Which Touhou Games Should We Get?

[juonryu2nd]

Shoot the Bullet
Fairy Wars
The Genius of Sappheiros

[Shepardus]

It is far better to bomb two or three spell cards than it is to capture everything and never bomb at all. Bombing is a huge part of MoF scoring and saying otherwise is plain misinformation and that isn't good when you advise a new player.

I thought spellcards don't give any faith items from bullets cancelled by bombs, is there any other scoring-related reason to bomb them? The current record captures all the spellcards except Hina's midboss spell, and I have no idea why he bombed that. Non-spells are great for bombing though, yes, specifically deathbombing if you can pull it off.

[Obscura]

Oh and the last boss final pattern (best pattern ever btw)

Choose your joke:
1. I didn't know there was a modded MoF that had replaced the last boss with Dragon Blaze's stage 6 boss! Got a link? (EDIT: Just to be clear to any mods reading this, I don't condone piracy, I'm not actually asking for an MoF link, this is a joke, etc etc etc)

2. I like the DOJ st 4 boss's first pattern just as much as the next guy, but calling a multi-color version of it the best pattern ever is a bit much, don't you think?

That's a nice basis to say a game sucks on

Sometimes you don't need to play a game to know that it sucks.

[Sakurei]

It is far better to bomb two or three spell cards than it is to capture everything and never bomb at all. Bombing is a huge part of MoF scoring and saying otherwise is plain misinformation and that isn't good when you advise a new player.

I thought spellcards don't give any faith items from bullets cancelled by bombs, is there any other scoring-related reason to bomb them? The current record captures all the spellcards except Hina's midboss spell, and I have no idea why he bombed that. Non-spells are great for bombing though, yes, specifically deathbombing if you can pull it off.

Yeah, bomb them if you think you will die. Don't do it otherwise, is what I meant to say.

Oh and the last boss final pattern (best pattern ever btw)

2. I like the DOJ st 4 boss's first pattern just as much as the next guy, but calling a multi-color version of it the best pattern ever is a bit much, don't you think?

You're a dumbass if you think they're the same of pattern just because they have bullet lined up next to each other. To quote a good friend of mine:"It's hard not to be elitist when people are this stupid"

[Chaos Phoenixma]

If you speedkill midboss Hina, you get more waves of enemies that drop faith items that end up getting you more points later in the game.

Another note about bombing in MoF is that it costs you 3,000 Faith unless it's a deathbomb, in which case you don't lose any faith. So in a scorerun, any time you want to bomb, you have to do it when running into a bullet so that you avoid the faith penalty



As for recommendations, I'd probably say IN, MoF, and SA.

If you prefer consistency in boss patterns(since generally most stage patterns are able to be memorized regardless of game), then IN is going to be the best for that. It has the most spellcards that you can do the same thing for every time, which makes it a more consistent game.


If you want more RNG dodging in bosses, there's EoSD, PCB, MoF, and UFO. But I would suggest against UFO as there's quite a bit of bad design at times in quite a bit of the boss patterns. DDC also looks pretty neat from what I've seen except for the stage 5 boss, but I haven't played that one myself.

[cicada88]

Touhou is a lifestyle choice. All or none.

You must also watch Touhou hentai and fully embrace the inseparability of lolis and silly hats.

Like I said, ALL or NONE.

[KAI]

Funny answer:
Touhouvania 2
Touhou Sky Fight
Youyou Kengeki Musou


Serious answer:
7, 8 and 12. The rest are meh.

[SuperSoaker360]

PCB, IN, and UFO.

[Captain]

[Mischief Maker]

I hope one of them is Shoot the Bullet, even Touhou haters like that one!

[Mischief Maker]

Hellsinker is Touhou???

[Lilium]

If you're looking to play for score, pick another series. These games have woefully bad practice modes. If you insist, play 12 :3 - or 10, 10 is pretty good mechanics wise but the patterns are pretty weak and will likely leave you bored quickly.

If you're just going for survival, get 12, 14 and 6 (avoid 8, 13 and 11 for this) and don't ever use your bombs. They make any game easy :3

[Captain]

Hellsinker is Touhou???

Hellsinker is love.

Hellsinker is life.

[Vetus]

The only Touhou game (from the official bullet hell shooters at least) I could easily replay and highly recommend to everyone is Fairy Wars, one of the most original and enjoyable shmups I've ever played. And unfortunately one of the most overlooked (despite the fact that it's fan-translated).http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Fairy_Wars

[Doctor Butler]

A bit late, but I'd say EoSD, MoF, and UFO.

Personal faves.