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Good idea, we could use a Touhou thread anyway.We should actually move this discussion to its own thread in the weaboo forum, I think.
And now that we have one, why not list our favourites? Mine are, in no particular order:
- Perfect Cherry Blossom - easy to learn, hard to master; fun scoring system that rewards grazing; great bosses, music etc.
- Subterranean Animism - more difficult; very diverse playable characters; another grazing-focused scoring system; great bosses, music etc.
- Shoot the Bullet - innovative and fun gameplay; spellcard practice cranked up to eleven
The way I see it, you can't learn the patterns if you're bombing them. And when you're new you don't know where the good places to bomb are yet. Deathbombs let you improvise better. And Reimu has a homing option too, although weaker.She's good too, but I found Reimu's long deathbomb window very helpful when I was starting out.I always thought the easymode character was SakuyA though.
I feel like that deathbomb window creates bad habits in new players. On the other hand, Sakuya gets 4 bombs, which encourages their liberal use - a very good habit, and not so easy to get into for some people (like myself). Also, a lot of the more difficult stuff in PCB becomes even more so when you add the requirement of actually staying under the boss in order to damage it. New players will have their hands full just dodging.
Are you sure? I watched one of my replays and I had 721 at the end, and that's close to the max I think. I only let 2 point fairies escape and no more than 5 point items dropped off the screen. In some stages you get extra enemies if you defeat the midboss quickly enough, I'm not sure if that's the case here. I wasn't able to do so.Don't worry too much about point items, you only need 250-ish before Ran to reach the 500 threshold, I don't think 800 is reachable. Aim to reach the boss without losing a life, I didn't beat her until I could do that. I found Chen to be pretty fun, I guess you haven't figured out her last attack yet.
You can actually reach over 800 if you gather everything, but fuck me if I'm going to do that in the second part of that stage. All those asshole aimed-bullet fairies can go to hell. For Chen, it's her nonspell that's actually difficult for me, I have trouble moving through fast, small bullets for whatever reason. Her first spell is kind of misleading as well, spent some time dying stupidly before I got over just trying to stream it mindlessly.