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Touhou is a game created by a one-man game developer named Team Shanghai Alice. His name is ZUN. Yes, he's the main programmer, scriptwriter, graphic artist, and music composer of the game, no kidding. This game is proven to be the most drastic "bullet hell" game ever made, and until now, there are 10 Touhou games including 2 fighting games and one spin-off.
Yes, bullet hell. It ain't the shooter ya always play. Normal shooters won't have more than a hundred bullets on a screen at a time, but in Touhou, there are 200. LOL.
PICTURE TIME. (they are different from the past post rawr)
NOTE: Everything or anything which has different colours than the background are BULLETS. Character is marked with a GREEN box. Bullets cannot touch the small red dot (hitbox) of the character. Every pictures below are from the hardest mode in the game, so don't be afraid, easy mode is just EASY. Last Word is a boss's finisher move.
And this is just the bullets of a normal enemy in the hardest (lunatic) mode.
Final stage, yet it's just 2 enemies but the bullets are more than 200. =.=
Sakuya Izayoi's Last Word- Deflation World. YESH, THOSE ARE KNIVES, HAPPY?
Eirin Yagokoro's Last Word- Heaven Spider's Butterfly-Capturing Web. Spider webs prove to be dangerous sometimes, especially in bullet hell games.
Reisen Udongein Inaba's Last Word- Lunatic Red Eyes. And she's just a moon rabbit who can drive people insane and blablabla.
Alice Margatroid's Last Word- The Phantom of the Grand Guignol- The combination of a girl and her 8 dolls. Beautiful eh?
Tewi Inaba's Last Word- Ancient Duper. The finisher of yet another bunny, and boy those bullets are just FAST.
Yukari Yakumo's Last Word- Profound Danmaku Bounded Field -Phantasm, Foam and Shadow (Part 1). Long name, long spell (you have to survive for 90 seconds!) and also the hardest spell on Imperishable Night.
Yukari Yakumo's Last Word- Profound Danmaku Bounded Field -Phantasm, Foam and Shadow (Part 2). Second part of this hell. Yes, all of the red, blue and purple "cards" are bullets, yes, they form a pattern.
Yukari Yakumo's Last Word- Profound Danmaku Bounded Field -Phantasm, Foam and Shadow (Part 3)- The final 15 seconds of this hell. Imagine guiding your character's hitbox past all of the narrow-spaced bullets, WITHOUT GETTING HIT.
Some Perfect Cherry Blossom pics. (PCB is the hardest Touhou game available, taken from TouhouWiki)
GAWD, this is not even a spell, it's just a boss's normal attack, I mean it, NORMAL ATTACK.
Yukari Yakumo- Bounded Field "Boundary of Life and Death". Mind counting how many TYPES of bullets there are?
Yes, now it's time for TEH ULTIMATE REVIEWS. D:
*Drum rolls*
Gameplay value: 8/10
It solely depends whether or not you are interested in shooters at the first place. But it's no harm trying even if you HATE shooters very much that you prefer bashing your head against the wall than shooters, since I don't really call this a "shooter".
Replay value: 9/10
Which shooter doesn't have a good replay value? With so many bosses and some OMGWTHBBQ-ing bullets, replaying is a must.
Storyline: 9.5/10
Each Touhou game (7 altogether) has a different storyline with different girls introduced (Yes, everyone, the protagonist and antagonist are girls). Plus, these characters are just memorable. (hugs Reisen)
Sound: 9/10
MOST shooter's music are just repetitive, but this isn't. Seriously, these musics actually represents what stage/boss you're in/fighting. And ZUN is the only one making it, yes, all 100+ musics, cheers!
Learning Curve: 7.5/10
Yes, every Touhou game has different power-ups, score systems and sometime penalties. You need to get used to it when you play, or else you might just crash into a bullet. But once you mastered it, it won't be the slightest confusing, seriously.
Overall: 8.5/10
YOU LOVEz SHOOTERS? YOU MUSTz TRY.
To get it, for CHS-ians, just call/MSN me and I'll give you the game stored in a thumbdrive. For my online pals, just MSN me and I'll give you the link, since posting the link here isn't a smart decision.
