These games are addicting like hell. I mean, seriously, is there a free vial of crack and a needle full of heroin secretly hidden in each disk?
Not as addicting as the doujinshi it inspires. :3
Where I can find a playing system guide to phantasmagoria of flower view?
I bought PCB because it is the best one!
how is PCB best?
only got 2 interesting chars in the whole game
Yuyuko and Ran
>>6
it's a shooting game. who gives a shit about characters?
These games are great although I wish someone would release a translation patch so I knew what was going on (,,ﾟДﾟ)
Thank you very much!
>>12
Awesome. I look forward to it. I wonder if it will really feel much different though. ZUN makes it sound like it will be easier to pick up and play while also improving on the past installments.
>>13
I'm not really "2" I had that in the box by accident. orz
kita!
http://tracker.minglong.org/torrents/%5BNEET%5D%20%5B同人ゲーム%5D%20(2007-05-20)%20上海アリス幻樂団%20-%20東方風神録 ～%20Mountain%20of%20Faith.体験版%20(例大祭4)%20%5BEXE%5D.torrent
(mods: this is a demo version so it's not warez)
there are probably other torrents and DDL elsewhere on the internet
I like IN because of the spell practice option.
MY code is 502618925093 Please mail as quick as you can i ont care who it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry wrong page!!!!!!!!!
New Touhou is out now
http://www.pooshlmer.com/wakaba/src/1187526513799.jpg
also, easy is harder then normal
gurm i found a MoF that need a key to install...
any1 got a key?
Mountain of Fake
>>21
No Touhou game (probably no doujin game period) has ever required a CD-key.
I can almost, almost finish PCB on easy. With 3 continues. orz
Don't sweat it, it took me around 150 tries to 1cc PCB easy (with Sakuya-A.)
The most critical things to do at that skill level are developing deathbomb reflexes, and getting the hang of stage 4.
To be frank, I'm bored with Toho now.
I'm liking horizontal shooters these days.
> Sometimes I can make it past Alice without losing a life.
Funny, I always found Alice a cakewalk. The catgirl on stage 2 kills me far more often then she does.
> I tend to get caught by the half-ghost girl when she shoots out those ribbon patterns in the middle of the yellow and green balls.
Youmu's normals are a bitch. I tend to just bomb through them.
>>26
What the shit is a 1cc. I keep reading it everywhere. 1cc'ed this, or that. 1 credit-something, that I heared, but what? You completed the game with a continue?
>>31
One credit clear, i.e., beating the game without continuing.
Hey, >>24 here, I finally finished easy mode with Reimu A on my last life in my last continue. Bad end, natch. ;_; The last boss was kind of confusing, it took me a minute to realize the pink things were cherry points and not bullets. Wasted a lot of bombs. Oh man, the last patterns were so fast I could barely think. Should I go for the 1cc or move on to normal?
>The catgirl on stage 2 kills me far more often then she does.
The only tough part for me is the card with red bullets turning into white ones. I find it's easy if I try to maneuver above as many red ones as I can before they change but that means sometimes the clock runs out on me and I fail the capture.
i downloaded a copy of immaterial and missing power
i burnd it
and when i put in the disc
i get SETUP.EXE is trying to install[or something like that]
nothing else shows up
no touhou txt or anything just SETUP.EXE ...
bad copy and evil virus
or is this normal...?
I have bought every Touhou PC game except StB, but IN's the only one I've managed to beat. On easy. With a couple of continues. I fucking love STGs, but have never 1cc'd any, despite having played those games for almost a year. :( Some people are hopless, huh?
>>27
Darius Gaiden!!! Horizontal shooters will unfortunately never feature as complex bullet patterns as the vertical games.
> Horizontal shooters will unfortunately never feature as complex bullet patterns as the vertical games.
> never feature as complex bullet patterns as the vertical games.
> bullet patterns as the vertical games.
> vertical games
Wut? Rotate the screen 90 degrees clockwise?
>>37
If you actually played those games you'd understand what he meant.
Trouble Witches English version announced.
http://trouble_witches.mails.ne.jp/tw_eng.htm
Trouble Witches looks alot like magical chase for pcengine
only diffrence...TW=crappy char art compared to magical chase
MC win?
>>39
A Cave employee on the topic of Progear, said that a horizontal shooter simply can't measure up to a good vertical one. Also according ti him, this is because you aren't able to see properly if you are in the path of a bullet, as is possible in vertical games at all times. As >>38 said, try one for yourself, like Progear.
>>42
I don't understand this reasoning.
My monitor is 33% wider horizontally than it is vertically. I've never seen one that wasn't at this aspect ratio or wider.
(I'd prefer a vertical shooter for top-down aesthetics, but I don't find this reasoning satisfactory)
>>43
Go play Progear and compare it to a vertical shmup. You'll see the difference!!
Ignore >>42.
It's an intentional mistranslation.
>>36
Don't feel bad. I've been beating my ahead against the wall trying to beat PCB on normal without continues. My best so far is 2 continues, both of which were used on the last stage.
The best advice I ever saw for those trying to get good at Touhou games is this: don't cut your teeth on Imperishable Night. If you absolutely have to (i.e. you cant get your hands on EoSD or PCB) then for the love of god don't use Reimu/Yukari. Reimu's border of life and death (the time between getting hit and dying where you can use a bomb to save yourself) is so long that you can nail it in your sleep. This will completely destroy your ability to use bombs effectively since you get into the mind set of "I'll just pop one if I get hit" and think you're invincible as long as you've got a bomb left.
I made the mistake of learning the ropes with Reimu in IN, and I'm still trying to unlearn the bad habit of holding onto my bombs like a miser and coveting each one like its The One Ring. Bombs are not rare commodities, frikin use them.
It's pretty difficult to explain how differently your brain processes information in horizontal and vertical games. That's why >>44 recommanded you try Progear.
For heavy STG players, the difference is self-evident - it's almost as if you asked "what's the difference between first- and third-person shooters? in the end you just have to run, aim and shoot stuff".
Now I have no idea whether the difference is mostly cultural, or if the horizontal perspective is actually harder to process, but what is certain is that the skills acquired in vertical games don't transfer to horizontal games, as Progear makes brutally evident.
>>49
It's all about music
I just got PCB with the English translation patch.
Is there a way to change the control scheme? Other shmups I've played like warning forever let me use a mouse/gamepad.
I see a controls menu in PCB, but I can't seem to change anything, and it doesn't list any buttons, just the actions that are bound to some button.
>>51
Well, you can use gamepads. I've played with both Xbox and PS2 controllers, plus some generic HK USB crap. Don't know about keyboard remapping though, probably doesn't work. Neither does the mouse.
Most gamepads come with software that allows mapping of buttons to keyboard keys. There are also some third-party software to fill that function. You'll never get Tohou to work with a mouse though, not without a heck of a lot of buttons on it.
You don't want to play shmups with a mouse.
>>54
http://zenjohost.com/~hunty/platine/ddl_test2.zip
(This is Platine Dispotif's game "DanDeLion: Starchild Journey", unfortuntely the official website is a 403 error)
>>1
Yes. There are addictive substances in Touhou SHMUPS. Infact, there are addictive in almost every danmaku shooter.
>>52
Yup. I can re-map gamepad controls, but not keyboard ones. Good enough. Analog gamepad feels more precise than keyboard anyways.
Is there any way to tate Touhou games? I have a widescreen monitor that I'd love to throw on its side and play Touhou with.
Help
after i installed Mountain of Faith
i try to start the game...nothing,,, no error msg no nothing
just look like it loads for 1sec then nothing
i have latest DirectX,good enogh video card and i use vista...
all the other touhou games works
so hmm...
helP
