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GiftedACIII posted...

Oh yeah, the gensokyo the gods loved is an iconic stage theme. I think it's more representative of an "early-midgame game feel" though. Cirno's theme and Shanghai Teahouse is another. I find Necrofantasia being the most emblematic of the fast-paced chaotic and high pitched final/extra boss themes. UN Owen is obviously another. Although I can understand if you may find them overrated due to just how saturated they are in the fandom lol.

I don't really mind those songs. Sometimes people tell you the themes' owners are their favorite characters and you realise they don't play the games really fast, though. U.N. Owen like it or not is the Touhou song. And Touhou achieved that by riding Ronald McDonald's coattails. I'm not crazy about Native Faith but that's a real all rounder as far as Touhou music goes too.

GiftedACIII posted...

True, but I find just Reimu and Marisa pretty boring honestly. They haven't done that since MoF actually, every game since then had some form of third or fourth character, even after the "Moriya arc" DDC and up. Sanae basically became a main recurring character though (she sat out 16 and 17)

Reimu and Marisa are blank slates for people to make things up about. I don't dislike either, but if someone asked me which I preferred, I'd immediately assume it was a gameplay question. Homing shots vs piercing lasers. There's not a whole lot there, character-wise.
Doesn't really have to be though. Something I used to enjoy in games but rarely encounter now because of diverging interests is in-jokes amplifying characters and stories. Nowadays people all go online, find out what the big accepted joke for a game is and all just repeat that. No spontaneity. Touhou used have a lot of people making dumb things up about the characters.

GiftedACIII posted...

I was about to say, I'm very surprised to hear that you fight two stage 6 bosses from previous games in the middle of the game but then I realized you were talking about HM, Hopeless Masquerade the 13.5 fighting game, not UM, Unconnected Marketeers- Touhou 18 lol.
I actually played HM fully with every character. It was a lot of fun, actually, this was when the fighting games started getting really creative. When you say you remember it does that mean you played it too?

Oh my bad, I only have the abbreviations memorised up to LoLK. I call the subsequent ones by their number.
I played 13.5 very briefly, mostly curious to see what it was like since it was so different from the grounded fighters. I never tried the follow up with more characters though. Music was good.

GiftedACIII posted...

Yeah, 13 is very slow-paced and is a bit experimental. The best and most iconic track from that game is actually the stage 4 theme, Desire Drive.
Here are two remixes I like of it.

That one definitely feels like the favorite. Puts Seiga right with Nitori and Keine in the stage theme better than boss theme club. I feel like people remember the stage 3 graveyard theme over the zombie boss' theme too.