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Topic	Do you have any opinions on the Touhou games?
ViewtifulJoe 11/14/23 5:38:35 PM #150:	GiftedACIII posted... There was also that little Death Waltz stint too. I actually knew somebody in real life who recognized the song as "Death Waltz" when I played it on piano but not its actual origin. Native Faith is pretty good too, I think the piano is one of the best parts about Touhou songs, particularly the earlier ones. Speaking of piano, Reimu's main theme, Maiden's Capriccio is one of the premier examples. I didn't really like Wind God Girl, Aya's theme from Touhou 9 in the game but the full version from one of the music albums is so much better due to the long piano solo after the "game" part was done. When I was really into the games, whenever I found a song I liked I'd immediately go see if any of the usual suspects had made a good metal/rock version. There used to be a guy on Youtube who would upload multi-hour compilations of arranges for each Touhou 10-12 character and stage. It disappeared at some point. Some of those were peak comfort and it was a great way to find rare arranges. Maiden's Capriccio was one of those songs where for some reason it was always really difficult to find a lot of versions of it I liked. Something about it made people want to experiment and go crazy I guess. GiftedACIII posted... Oh, I absolutely like them as characters. They're pretty fun in the official mangas that I've seen too. I just think it's way more interesting when having multiple characters. Touhou 5 was multiple characters all the way since PC-98 days. Reimu and Marisa is basically the difference between reliability and power. Although ever since Reimu lost her smaller hitbox in TH16 and up it seems Marisa is actually the more rounded and reliable choice. That smaller hitbox was there for a long time, taking it away just seems wrong. Reimu is still the default until the homing shots are taken away. If that happens then I have no idea what ZUN's doing. GiftedACIII posted... Oh for some reason I thought you'd recognize the abbreviations more than the numbers. Yeah, I think the numbers would be easier to remember from now on. The follow ups are even better I believe. The characters get more moves and the portraits are drawn by Forbidden Scrollery's decent art instead of 13.5's weird portraits. Yeah, Kokoro's music is pretty good. I like it more than the previous two fighter bosses, Suika, and Tenshi's. I liked Tenshi's more than the other two. That was another song that was hard to find good arranges of. Which is kind of messed up because even though it's a side game, it's still a final boss theme. GiftedACIII posted... I think most of TD's stage theme is seen as better than the boss. Stage 5 is also much nicer to listen to than Futo's theme (which isn't that good, I think the remixes in the fighters are much better). Kyouko also has one of the blandest boss themes in the series. Miko and Mamizou are the exception. Outside of those games, Shanghai Teahouse and Mystic Oriental Dream seem to be more iconic than their respective boss themes as well, the latter is most notable since Youmu is one of the most popular characters so it's interesting how her stage theme is the one that she's most associated with. Especially since Nitori still uses her boss theme in the fighting games. Also Clownpiece's stage 5 theme and Unlocated Hell, the stage 4 theme of Touhou 17 are much better than the boss theme too. Every now and then I see people try to put Byakuren down with these. Like sure Fires of Hokkai is different and some people like that but did they even hear the final boss theme it's competing with? Orin kind of has this. Her stage theme is a lot more distinct at least. Maybe Yuugi earlier in 11 as well? Aya's a weird case. See I think her stage theme in 10 stomps her boss theme (Which isn't even bad) but then she technically has a bunch of other themes in different games and spinoffs making up for it. I think Keine's far and away the most severe case though. Old World might be the best song in that game meanwhile I struggle to remember what Plain Asia sounds like. And then she's in the extra stage so it's like she has a whole other stage theme for good measure. --- Still waiting on that third threat <cite>ViewtifulJoe posted [p:977216198] in Do you hav... [t:80523651]...</cite> <quote>GiftedACIII posted... </cite><quote>There was also that little Death Waltz stint too. I actually knew somebody in real life who recognized the song as "Death Waltz" when I played it on piano but not its actual origin.Native Faith is pretty good too, I think the piano is one of the best parts about Touhou songs, particularly the earlier ones. Speaking of piano, Reimu's main theme, Maiden's Capriccio is one of the premier examples. I didn't really like Wind God Girl, Aya's theme from Touhou 9 in the game but the full version from one of the music albums is so much better due to the long piano solo after the "game" part was done.</quote>When I was really into the games, whenever I found a song I liked I'd immediately go see if any of the usual suspects had made a good metal/rock version. There used to be a guy on Youtube who would upload multi-hour compilations of arranges for each Touhou 10-12 character and stage. It disappeared at some point. Some of those were peak comfort and it was a great way to find rare arranges.Maiden's Capriccio was one of those songs where for some reason it was always really difficult to find a lot of versions of it I liked. Something about it made people want to experiment and go crazy I guess.GiftedACIII posted... </cite><quote>Oh, I absolutely like them as characters. They're pretty fun in the official mangas that I've seen too. I just think it's way more interesting when having multiple characters. Touhou 5 was multiple characters all the way since PC-98 days. Reimu and Marisa is basically the difference between reliability and power. Although ever since Reimu lost her smaller hitbox in TH16 and up it seems Marisa is actually the more rounded and reliable choice.</quote>That smaller hitbox was there for a long time, taking it away just seems wrong. Reimu is still the default until the homing shots are taken away. If that happens then I have no idea what ZUN's doing.GiftedACIII posted... </cite><quote>Oh for some reason I thought you'd recognize the abbreviations more than the numbers. Yeah, I think the numbers would be easier to remember from now on. The follow ups are even better I believe. The characters get more moves and the portraits are drawn by Forbidden Scrollery's decent art instead of 13.5's weird portraits. Yeah, Kokoro's music is pretty good. I like it more than the previous two fighter bosses, Suika, and Tenshi's.</quote>I liked Tenshi's more than the other two. That was another song that was hard to find good arranges of. Which is kind of messed up because even though it's a side game, it's still a final boss theme.GiftedACIII posted... </cite><quote>I think most of TD's stage theme is seen as better than the boss. Stage 5 is also much nicer to listen to than Futo's theme (which isn't that good, I think the remixes in the fighters are much better). Kyouko also has one of the blandest boss themes in the series. Miko and Mamizou are the exception.Outside of those games, Shanghai Teahouse and Mystic Oriental Dream seem to be more iconic than their respective boss themes as well, the latter is most notable since Youmu is one of the most popular characters so it's interesting how her stage theme is the one that she's most associated with. Especially since Nitori still uses her boss theme in the fighting games.Also Clownpiece's stage 5 theme and Unlocated Hell, the stage 4 theme of Touhou 17 are much better than the boss theme too.</quote>Every now and then I see people try to put Byakuren down with these. Like sure Fires of Hokkai is different and some people like that but did they even hear the final boss theme it's competing with?Orin kind of has this. Her stage theme is a lot more distinct at least. Maybe Yuugi earlier in 11 as well?Aya's a weird case. See I think her stage theme in 10 stomps her boss theme (Which isn't even bad) but then she technically has a bunch of other themes in different games and spinoffs making up for it.I think Keine's far and away the most severe case though. Old World might be the best song in that game meanwhile I struggle to remember what Plain Asia sounds like. And then she's in the extra stage so it's like she has a whole other stage theme for good measure. --- Still waiting on that third threat </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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