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Touhou

I’m beginning to notice that the tags are pretty optimistic.

Imagine trying to walk through heavy rain without an umbrella without getting wet. Congratulations! You now know what it feels like to play Touhou.

Touhou is an amazingly hard shooter in the aptly titled “bullet hell” genre. To sum up the genre, there are hundreds of bullets on the screen at any given time, but you have a small hitbox, so you can let the actual character touch the bullets, as long as the middle of your character doesn’t touch them. This pretty much describes Touhou. You have to weave through very tiny gaps between hundreds of beautiful lasers and energy balls, all the while trying to whittle down the health of the boss firing said lasers at you. However, what really sets the game apart is the amazing music.

Case in point:

One of the most amazing things about the game (besides the music) is that it’s hard but fair. In games like I Want to Be the Guy and Cat Mario, spikes might appear out of nowhere, pitfalls will open without warning, apples that seemed perfectly content sitting on their tree will fly at you in an attempt to viciously murder you, and it generally just seems it was meant for youtubers to make millions screaming at their monitors. But in Touhou, you only have yourself to blame when you die. You should have seen that bullet coming, you didn’t react quickly enough, you might have even flown straight into a bullet, but it’s always your own fault.

So to sum it up, Touhou is an amazing series. I won’t say you should play it, as the difficulty may not appeal to you, but you at least owe it to yourself to listen to some of the music.

 

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