Touhou
2010-07-13 @ 21:07:17
Yup, you may wonder what touhou is (I mentioned it in my first post on the blog). Touhou is series of horizontal shooter danmaku games created and developed by only ONE author: ZUN. He creates music, draws characters, writes codes for games... A true one-man band. ZUN is from Japan and so his games are in Japan language, however you can find english patches for touhou.
What is danmaku? It's a pretty popular style of shooting games (mainly in Japan, but it's quite popular here too) where you have to dodge EXTREME amount of bullets. Danmaku shooters are very challenging, but they're fun (unless you're playing Lunatic Mode in touhou games...).
The game's taking place in Gensokyo a dream land. Main protagonists are Reimu Hakurei a shrine maiden and Marisa Kirisame an magician. Girls are saving Gensokyo from threats and dangerous situations.
Touhou has probably biggest fanbase ever for a shooting game, it's probably ZUN great way of introducing characters in a way that fans need to add something from them, making these series very unique.
Why touhou is such an addicting thing? Some say it's music (and it's great...), some say it's the story and characters and some say that's the difficulty of the games. For now there's 22 parts of the game. 5 for old PC-98 and 17 for PC. The last game is labeled 12.3 because some spin-offs like fighter games (Yes ZUN did make fighter games together with Tasogere Frontier that created Eternal Fighter Zero) or...photographic games where you control Aya Shameimaru and make photos of bosses attack patterns. The game has also a very big amount of fan games like Super Marisa World where you control Marisa Kirisame and the gameplay is exactly like Mario games (well some things change but not much)
And due to all these things, someone said:
"Touhou isn't a game, it's a genre itself..."
And now few links if you want to know more:
Touhou.pl (You can download every touhou game, fan game and many many other things)
http://touhou.pl/
Touhou wiki (Everything about touhou, EVERYTHING.)
http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Touhou_Wiki
And like always... comment ;)
What is danmaku? It's a pretty popular style of shooting games (mainly in Japan, but it's quite popular here too) where you have to dodge EXTREME amount of bullets. Danmaku shooters are very challenging, but they're fun (unless you're playing Lunatic Mode in touhou games...).
The game's taking place in Gensokyo a dream land. Main protagonists are Reimu Hakurei a shrine maiden and Marisa Kirisame an magician. Girls are saving Gensokyo from threats and dangerous situations.
Touhou has probably biggest fanbase ever for a shooting game, it's probably ZUN great way of introducing characters in a way that fans need to add something from them, making these series very unique.
Why touhou is such an addicting thing? Some say it's music (and it's great...), some say it's the story and characters and some say that's the difficulty of the games. For now there's 22 parts of the game. 5 for old PC-98 and 17 for PC. The last game is labeled 12.3 because some spin-offs like fighter games (Yes ZUN did make fighter games together with Tasogere Frontier that created Eternal Fighter Zero) or...photographic games where you control Aya Shameimaru and make photos of bosses attack patterns. The game has also a very big amount of fan games like Super Marisa World where you control Marisa Kirisame and the gameplay is exactly like Mario games (well some things change but not much)
And due to all these things, someone said:
"Touhou isn't a game, it's a genre itself..."
And now few links if you want to know more:
Touhou.pl (You can download every touhou game, fan game and many many other things)
http://touhou.pl/
Touhou wiki (Everything about touhou, EVERYTHING.)
http://touhou.wikia.com/wiki/Touhou_Wiki
And like always... comment ;)