How it all started..
Who hasn't heard of "bad apple"? Or "marisa stole the precious thing"? Or "cirno's math class"? Well... a lot of people, probably, but being a kid interested in anime, vocaloid songs, and animation memes, it was unevitable to come across one of these songs. That was my first interaction with the Touhou Project. I didn't care enough to research it more,,, actually, there was someone talking about it on the built-in forum in a certain online flash mouse game, and i remember trying to play it starting from the first game, but looking at the gameplay on youtube i remember it being more... blue?? //actually, why am i capitalizing my sentences, talking in a somewhat formal way here...let me change that// though the gameplay of bouncing a ball around is right. it mustve been pretty boring to me, so i didnt go any further than that, though now im having more foggy memories of my mothers olllld laptop running something windows era-ish, but those can be fake and i dont think i recalled having those when i played eosd for the first time. but before that; WHY did i start researching all this more?
Curiosity overtook me. i like ytpmvs , so thats another medium in which touhou songs and remixes of such are used. briefly browsing the wiki, reading wild things, seeing funny names (girl named knowledge? clownpiece??), discovering the setting of the games is something entirely different than what i thought it was,,,, in may 2023 i started playing the games. but not the pc-98 ones, i've yet to play those.. grabbing the community patcher and scouring the internet archive, with intense curiosity, i went on. of course, it was hard at first, but i took time playing each of them before moving onto the next one. though i have to admit that i skipped some of them initially because i got scared because someone said it was hard when i googled whether they were, or, in the case of UFO, i got overwhelmed by the mechanic so badly i quickly went over to the next one .. and it (the next one) was the first one i managed to beat on easy without using continues!!!
i hope to format this page better one day..LOL like i want space to talk about these games & their gimmicks too but having to endlessly scroll through this is not..ideal. yknow?but i dont want whole subpages, something that extends once you click on it, or something.. idk. much to learn!
02.09.2023; I FINALLY PLAYED UNFINISHED DREAM OF ALL LIVING GHOST !!!! i could not bear it anymore, looking up characters and blogs on tumblr, and seeing filtered posts because i blocked the spoiler tag.... as of the time of writing this, i just beat easy story mode with marisa! it seems to be pretty nice so far !! no more dread of having to go through nine whole stages and having to die at the last boss because i just cant beat her otherwise i just can not. the mechanic of having to beat all the boss phases to finish a stage instead of sending attacks at random and hoping they land, i like that! so what if it takes longer, its just, i believe, 6 stages, though i havent counted them yet because i fucking forget to do it every time, so id say that balances it out. ok yea i just checked it is 6 stages. i think we have to take into account the massive amount of playable characters this time - 19 !!!! ahhh.. beating story mode with all of them is going to take some time... /04.09 ; though, to be honest, what is the point of a split screen if i just have to beat boss waves? to see in the corner of my eye zanmu's cpu moving absurdly fast? it was funny, but you can't save a replay anymore, so thats a bummer... i have to write my clears here instead because the game wont remember the date for meeee... i tried doing normal with aunn but yacchie beat me up.. normal is just too much for me, and some characters are way weaker than others, and i dislike when they have that freezing charge that takes long enough that a milisecond of holding the button more makes an attack fire off..
09-10/09 LOLK thoughts because i listened to clownpieces theme and got the urge to have another try at it ; hmm this game as hard as i thought it was when i played it previously.. it may be just that pointdevice mode is just too hard for me since i can screw myself over by getting stuck on a checkpoint with no spell cards, as happened to me previously, but today i managed to beat clownpiece and get stuck on junkos spell instead ... but on legacy, i managed to beat the game, using one continue during the junko fight !! now thats an achievment! reisen's spellcard giving you more tries, and also clearing some bullets on activation, for a game with such difficulty, something like this had to be added..!
11.09.2023; oh fuck wATCH OUT MARISA YOURE GOING TO CRASH INTO THE MORIYA TRADE TOWER !!!! OH GOD SHE HAS KOURINDOU EARPODS SHE CANT HEAR ME!! SHES GOING TOO FAST!! I HAVE TO GO AFTER HER AND STOP HER!!!
and this is how the two girls destroyed the twin gensokyo towers...
anyways, i managed to emulate pc-98 games today! yaaay! ... i am never going to finish highly responsive to prayers without continues! put bombs in her shrine all you want im not going to do it! too hard.. story of eastern wonderland, though, with some training i could do it maybe! picked reimuA first, used a continue or two, then i picked reimuB, used only one continue, but still, mima runs away, and marisa torments us with training. reimu? more like GAYmu, this shit is canon in the pc-98 continuum, but i'd say shes gay with marisa in the windows era too LOL. meira homophobic moment,,. i think that pc-98 tells of reimu and marisa's younger years, maybe after marisa ran away from her parents she got adopted by mima briefly, then she started living in the forest of magic on her own? connecting pc-98 to windows era is tricky, and zun said that its like, whatever, and can be contradicted or something, right? they're childhood friends who were briefly enemies. they are girlbestfriends. anyways. i tried opening phantasmagoria of dim. dream, but some error or something popped up after the zunsoft opening screen.. wah... after playing the other phantasmagoria-type games, im really curious about what the first one was like !!!!!! wahhhhh.... *less than an hour later* ok i managed to launch it yay! time for some proto-recordkeeping, in preparation for an actual table like the windows games have.. this page is getting long, isnt it? i should start thinking about breaking it up into tabs and sections.ah , i almost forgot; PoD.D;Easy; Reimu (11/09), Mima (12/09), Marisa (12/09) | HOWEVER, i have more to say on the game itself; i really like that there is a space between the first 7 fights and the last two! and i overall like the somewhat animated style of cutscenes/endings so far! its really cute ! and something that wasnt done later on in the windows era..!well, speaking for the main games, that is. i havent played any of the fighting games... i like that the easy difficulty is, well, easy, comfortably so, but with enough risks for me to not effortlessly drift through it all !!(..and saying that, i lost my last life with mima.. //one minute after midnight, first minute of the next day, i beat it with mima..!and then, after somehow attaining a third life, i lost them all with marisa.. i guess this is like pofv, i have to lose at least one life at the last boss to win..) the character selection menu is so cool, the music and the visuals in the background, what the hell!!!! |LLS;Easy; ReimuA (12/09), ReimuB (24/11).. wahhh i cant get good endign without using normalll| |MS;Easy; Reimu (24/11 first try baby!!)| Mystic Square, the last pc98 game.. its pretty good! the ride has come to an end.. i will be going back sometimes to rechallenge those, as i do with the others.. seeing some more characters that would later reappear, yuuka has her red plaid dress, one of shinki's attacks reminded me of byakuren's, which makes a lot of sense given the, you know, makai. currently its 3AM and im tired so i cant squeeze any more thoughts out of my brain.. glad i got to play it ^_^
08.04.2024; wondering again which seasons id assign to the games, i decided id play them again to help make my judgement.. pcb is a literal spring game. winter->spring transition.. the flowers are blooming now, this is the perfect time to play this game.. as well as the days before were. and any time you want to play any game, really, this is just for fun. also, ive updated the dates to include the years, as its 2024 now ! thankfully i havent noted any scores here before today, or so i hope at least .... im so forgetful. is yuyuko forgetful? she forgot she was buried there, right? i like yuyuko.. wheeee flowres bloooming its so pretty it makes me glad.. got to see a lot of crocuses and snowdrops when i was with my partner, it was still winter then.. hey, wait, this isnt the changelog!!! aah!!!
| Game | Clears |
|---|---|
| TH6 - EOSD | Easy (just the 5 stages, no 6th stage glitch); ReimuB (05/12/23) | Normal, with using just one continue, ReimuB (09/09/23) |
| TH7 - PCB | Easy; ReimuA (first! 12/06/23), SakuyaA (15/07/23), SakuyaB (08/04/24) |
| TH8 - IN | Easy; Youmu&Yuyuko (first! 11/06/23) ...of course without those hard 15 second spells at the end, but they aren't required |
| TH9 - POFV | Easy; Reimu (first clear of any game! 29/05/23), Marisa (11/08/23), Sakuya (13/07/23), Youmu (11/08/23), Reisen (11/08/23), Cirno(13/07/23), Lyrica (11/08/23), Mystia(01/08/23), Tewi (11/08/23) |
| TH10 - MOF | Easy; ReimuA (first w/o glitches, 15/06/23), ReimuB (07/08/23), MarisaB (power glitch, 04/06/23) |
| TH11 - SA | Easy; ReimuA (first! 17/06/23, also 23/06/23), ReimuB (07/08/23), MarisaA,B,C (12/11/23) |
| TH12 - UFO | Easy; ReimuB (07/08/23), SanaeB (1 continue used, why does the game count it? 16/07/23) |
| TH13 - TD | Easy; Reimu (FIRST EASY CLEAR of standard gameplay!! 09/06/23), Marisa (11/06/23), Sanae (11/06/23), Youmu (11/06/23) | Normal; Reimu (FIRST NORMAL CLEAR!! 21/07/23), Sanae (04/08/23) |
| TH14 - DDC | Easy; ReimuA (10/08/23), ReimuB (21/10/23), MarisaA (07/09/23), MarisaB (19/11/23), SakuyaA (14/06/23), SakuyaB (19/11/23) |
| TH15 - LOLK | Legacy, Easy; Reisen, with using one continue (09/09/23) |
| TH16 - HSiFS | Easy; Reimu+Autumn (18/06/23), Cirno+Winter (first, 18/06/23), Aya+Summer (18/06/23) |
| TH17 - WBaWC | Easy; Reimu+Wolf (24/11/23), Reimu+Otter (21/06/23), Marisa+Otter (08/07/23), Youmu+Otter (09/08/23) |
| TH18 - UM | Easy; Reimu (first, 12/07/23), Marisa (12/07/23), Sakuya (23/07/23), Sanae (23/07/23) *reimu started with just the Lucky Rabbit's Foot card, acquiring Dragon Pipe later, with both of these i've started the other runs |
| TH19 - UDoALG | Easy; Reimu (02/09/23), Marisa (02/09/23), Sanae (02/09/23), Ran (02/09/23), Aunn (05/09/23), Nazrin (05/09/23), Seiran (05/09/23), Orin (06/09/23), Tsukasa (06/09/23), Mamizou (06/09/23), Yachie (06/09/23), Saki (06/09/23), Yuuma (06/09/23), Biten (22/10/23), Enoko (22/10/23), Chiyari (22/10/23), Hisami (26/10/23), Suika (26/10/23), Zanmu (26/10/23) |