TOUHOU IS FUCKING UNBALANCED GARBAGE. IF YOU DEFEND THIS GAME, FUCK YOU. THIS IS GENUINE BAD GAME DESIGN...

TOUHOU IS FUCKING UNBALANCED GARBAGE. IF YOU DEFEND THIS GAME, FUCK YOU. THIS IS GENUINE BAD GAME DESIGN. ZUN IS A FUCKING HACK AND YOU BRAINDEAD WEEBS NEED TO WAKE UP AND ACCEPT THIS

thsi simage disturbs me

makes my skin crawl

Why are you screaming in caps lock on the internet just because you don't like a game?

Kill yourself MaZe

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git gud

>Unbalanced
It's a single player game, what do you mean by this
You mean, like, the different characters/shot types aren't equally balanced? That might be an issue in a few games, yeah.
Or are you just ass at the game and bad at communicating?

OH WOW, I HAVEN'T HEARD THIS BEFORE. FUCK YOU. IF I SHIT IN YOUR DRINK AND YOU SAID "THIS IS BAD", I WOULDN'T SAY GIT GUD TASTE, WOULD I? NO, BECAUSE THE DRINK IS OBJECTIVELY BAD, I FUCKING SHIT IN IT.
THE RNG SHIT IS FUCKING NONSENSE AND SOME LEVELS/BOSSES ARE FAR HARDER THAN WHAT COMES AFTER THEM. WHILE SOMETIMES, LEVELS ARE RIDICULOUSLY DIFFICULT ONLY TO HAVE AN EASY BOSS AFTER. T'S UNBALANCED IN TERMS OF DIFFICULTY. THERE IS NOT A PROPER DIFFICULTY CURVE.

It's a bullet hell. It's not for pussies, and anyone going in thinking they were hot shit and would be good at it immediately is the definition of a casual. Even the Japanese have to actually train with these games to get good.

but if you eat a fine plate of carbonara and say it's shit then saying git gud taste is appropriate, and this is what's happening
You have shit taste and shit skill, git gud

Yes, it's considered one of the most difficult game series of all time for a good reason, you require being japanese or autistic to finish them.
Any more obvious facts that everybody already knows?

>get buttblasted at touhou
>post the easiest extra stage of the entire series

Not OP but mother fuck you faggots who defend bad design with "Git Gud." Your mom should've gotten gud at sucking cocks so she won't shit out babbies as stupid as you are. Better yet, check this 5 so you can fucking kill yourself.

That's not a 5.

>THE RNG SHIT
What? Touhou is one of the least RNG-dependent games out there, to the point that shitposters often make the argument that playing well is just memorization. What do you mean?
>SOME LEVELS/BOSSES ARE FAR HARDER THAN WHAT COMES AFTER THEM
Name some examples. In my experience most of the games have steep but proper difficulty curves. The only dips in difficulty are at the beginnings of lategame stages so that they can ramp up in the later parts, but this makes good sense and is good design.

B-but muh animu girls! >_

Maybe starting off with one of the hardest Bullet-Hells wasn't such a good idea, newfag. It's like giving a middle school violinist a copy of flight of the bumblebee or a kid who got an electric guitar for christmas the sheetmusic to Nottingham Lace-- of course you're gonna get your ass handed to you and it's gonna seem impossible. Try a less difficult BH to start out with and go from there: Ikaruga, Silvergun, Gradius V, games that are balls hard by normal standards but on the lower end of difficulty for this genre. That's how you git gud.

which 2hu wud u fuck

>Not OP but mother fuck you faggots who defend bad design with "Git Gud."
That sort of thing is obnoxious but Touhou is not a case of this, it's a case of the inverse phenomenon where faggots like OP try to defend their piss poor ability with "it's the game's fault"
If you have an actual complaint about the game design go ahead and voice it.

>I'm a worthless faggot who gets ass fucked playing easy mode in Touhou
Fixed

I have played every single touhou game except the .5's and I have never been able to 1CC any of them. How do I git gud, Sup Forums?

Like this pretty much.

More than 90% of the 2hu fandom isn't into the games to begin with. Don't bother.

You haven't explained why it's "bad" design, you are complaining that the game is difficult. You are bad at the game and need to get good.

OP, you should be glad to not be good at this game, just look at the average person who plays them on /jp/.
Why are you mad?

I've 1CC'd every Windows Touhou on Normal but I can hardly get past stage 2 of Ikaruga
The ship has a 2-pixel wide hitbox and all but I still don't have a feel for where it is and the ship moves so goddamned fast
Am I just too old to play something that fast-paced as opposed to the slower Touhou games?
I'm not OP btw

Just play touhou 8 or 13. If you can't even beat these, you shouldn't touch bullet hell ever again.

That's because Ikaruga's focus is less on dodging millions of slow bullets but on dodging tens of fast bullets using a mechanic that forces you to multitask. But even so, once you get the hang of it it's far easier than most other bullet hells, at least up until the third-level boss.

Play for longer than twenty minutes.

Kanako

Just play the PC-98 games, so much more forgiving in terms of difficulty. Easy/Normal feels like the average shoot em up and Hard/Lunatic feels more like the average Touhou. ZUN should've kept it like that

touhou is fairly simple compared to ikaruga - if it's a bullet, dodge it

now ikaruga introduces polarity thing which can completely change the battlefield with one button so you have to manipulate it to eat unavoidable bullets

git good fag and go back to Undertail. Touhou isn't even hard. Try cave (company) games.

Also, use the controlstick for dodging the streams of bullets, and the D-pad for weaving in and out of tight physical obstacles. And learn how to max out the homing missles at every opportunity.

hold shift for focused movement

>touhou
>RNG

wow, RNG is really becoming the new "artificial difficulty" where it loses all meaning because people who are bad at games like you abuse it.

Touhou actually has zero RNG whatsoever, you could program a macro to beat the game for you by repeating the same pattern.

spells like this are easy. The annoying part is just when shit blends in like at 0:13. Really strains the eyes

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EoSD has some RNG

>hardcore difficulty for a game that prides itself in being difficult is bad game design
>bullet hell shooters have RNG

You are literally retarded.

I guess but most of the franchise doesn't and pretty much every game out there has tons of it so its a testament to how retarded OP is.

anti-RNG fags BTFO. HOW WILL THEY RECOVER?

fuck off frogposter

Try something more for your skill group

I-Is that how the spell is supposed to be beaten? I just follow the stream while dodging the small stars to her right.

But I still 1cc TH8 on lunatic and beaten all last words.

Why would that be maze?

>no argument

I don't know what is worse, OP complaining about one of the easiest extra stages in the whole series or the retards talking like touhou is one of the hardest games ever.

dumb phoneposter

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wow, look at this bigshot over here. I bet you can beat any video game in 20 minutes, right?

Ikaruga has three difficulties, at least on Steam, the only difference being which color types will jizz bullets at you when they die: none of them, ones hit with bullets of the same color, or ones hit with bullets of the opposite color. I think Ikaruga in general is a bit overrated, but I have to admit that it's one of the most elegantly conceptualized games ever, and just those minor differences alone make you feel like you're playing an entirely different game. Just suck it up and do Easy mode if the speed is too much, since accidentally switching in the middle of shooting an enemy is responsible for like half of the times you die when you first play the game.

He has a point though. Touhou definitely isn't the hardest game ever.

Not trying to be a shitter here, but how DO you git gud at these games? Is it really just insane boss pattern recognition/memorization?

He's a huge faggot and a shitposter who couldn't git gud at the games

Read the bullet patterns, be autisitic af, or play normal

gg git good fag.

I actually haven't even beaten most Touhous on hard, but I don't need to be able to beat them in order to be able to know that there are harder games.
I did beat that stage, though. Koishi is hard but sanae is easy.

Pretty much.

You sound new, maze shitposts about the games being too easy and gloats about how good he is.
Unless he falseflags too, but I see no reason to believe that from this.

I think that fundamentals are the most important. If you don't have very precise movement and reactions knowing the patterns won't help you get through them. Really just keep ramming your head against that wall until you eventually break through.

>2 on 1 boss fights
this should not be allowed

The stage is mostly memorization.
Most boss spells become significantly easier after you remember the pattern. Only a few spells actually requires really good precision.

Depends. There are a couple of different subtypes of bullet hells: the ones that are littlerally just bullet-mazes like Tohou, the ones with puzzle elements like the Treasure shooters, and others that don't quite fit into either category like Dariusburst. For the bullet mazes,yes-- you basically just have to memorize them.

>Play easiest shmup franchise
>Cry about how it is too difficulty and unfair

okay, buddy, calm down. No one gives a shit if you're good at the games

t. MaZe

No one one gives a shit either if you suck at them.

He doesn't need to be good to understand that other shmups are harder, you retarded faggot.

>touhou 8
literally, (literally), babby's first bullet hell

Play a lot until you learn how to properly "see" your character. After that its a matter of memorization and precise movement.

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Is this the Dark Souls of Shoot 'em Ups?

Touhou is pretty much the hardest shmup series ever created.

13 is even easier although I guess you could say 8 is still babby's first danmaku because nobody starts with 13.

I think Silvergun is the Dark Souls of Shmups just by virtue of being so goddamn bleak, but pretty much every bullet hell is the Dark Souls of Shoot Em Ups in terms of difficulty.

I can't fucking stand this analogy. Everytime I see it, my testicles seep back into my body and the veins in my head pop

Bullet hells are generally harder than other game genres. It's probably the CoD of shooting games.

Gotcha

>danmaku
weebs get out

Its especially great when they say "[game that isnt DaS] is the DaS of action rpgs".

Game is already for weebs anyway

2hu when

Hopefully you're just playing pretend

Sounds pretty interesting. Used to play the impossible game religiously at school although this seems like quite a step up. Been looking for that kind of thing though so thanks anons

Your such a funny guy Mazey-kun

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MEE
MAW

>tfw you realize that Ikaruga is the nirvana that breaks you out of the cycle of endless rebirth and misery of Radiant Silvergun

Keep calling me maze it's making me hard.

Which Kanakp doujin is this?

OP HERE. FUCK YOU GUYS. THE GAMES ARE RNG AND THEY ARE FUCKING HARD. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU AND FUCK TOUHOU AND FUCK ZUN.
IF YOU WERE DRINKING A SODA AND I CAME UP TO YOU AND SAID "I'M GONNA SOIL YOUR DRINK" WOULD YOU KNOW IF I WAS GONNA SHIT OR PISS IN IT? NO, BECAUSE IT'S RNG.
AND TOUHOU IS REGARDED AS ONE OF THE HARDEST BULLET HELL SERIES OUT THERE, DO NOT PRETEND

MAZE
MaZe
Mazey
Mazey-kun
meez
miss

>tumblr gifs
Never post again

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Did either game ever say what the fuck was so important about the Stone-like? What was it even doing throughout the games?

It was some semi-sentient god rock from what I can tell. It directly killed everyone on earth in RS and also was the heart of the final boss, but other than that it never says what it has to do with all the flying shit in the games.

Don't watch all of it, just watch the spots where you're going to be and are.

It was Earth's guardian, it both killed humanity but also keeps remaking it so it'll "Do again, only this time do it right!"

Is it okay to use Continues? I feel like it's no different to losing.