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ViewtifulJoe posted...

I wasn't crazy for 14's music. Stage 1 was good, then it wasn't until stage 5 it picked up again. Raiko has a pretty good song.
And speaking of going back to older games, how come he's made 3 of these Touhou 3 style 2v2s but we've never gotten a second Imperishable Night style game with character duos and an alternate final boss route? That plus picking any two characters instead of a preset pair sounds pretty good.

As for newer characters, I just think it's lame when a final boss coasts by on deity status and an innate implied threat rather than actually going out and causing problems.

Someone I know had two of the fighting games, so I've played Hisoutensoku and Hopeless Masquerade very briefly. I was pretty picky about fighting games at the time so I didn't really get into them. Most of the novelty was seeing the characters in another style of game.

Stage 1 is actually the only one I dislike lol. I liked both stage and boss theme for 2, 3, 4 (well the boss theme isn't as good imo), and 5 and 6 and Extra are especially great. I think Little Princess is one of the best final boss themes.
Speaking of final boss themes, I always thought the Extra boss themes in the older games were the best but starting from UFO I feel like the Stage 6/final boss themes started surpassing the Extras for some reason. Even Okina's Stage 6 boss theme Concealed Four Seasons is better than her "true form" theme, which I can't even remember the name of.

I think Imperishable Night was just very ambitious. iirc he was kind of figuring it'd be the last Touhou game or something. You can tell MoF was again kind of a reboot of sorts/the start of a new arc, going back to just Reimu and Marisa and focusing on an entirely new cast with no returning characters from past games.

I think most final bosses even in the older games weren't very active either though? They mostly do one thing which causes a bad side effect that gets Reimu and co on their tails. Junko and Okina are even pretty active by intentionally sending their lackeys to "invade/collect" instead of the stage 5 bosses mainly just being bodyguards like Sakuya, Youmu, Reisen, Sanae etc.

Yeah, the novelty is definitely true. Some of the attacks are really cool especially from HM and up. Mamizou transforming characters is especially great.