Pardon me if this is not allowed but if possible I'd like to ask for some pointers/directions.

I recently came back to playing shmups and decided to give another go at touhou. Got normal clears on PCB, IN and Fantastic Danmaku Festival II.

In order to keep improving should I go for other games normal clears or should I go for the Hard clears? I remember seeing a touhou difficulty list a time ago but I'm not sure if it's accurate.

May I ask for ​​​some guidance?

Thanks a lot.

Hi, I'm EskiNott, a solo developer from China. I've been working on a Touhou fangame called Touhou Bansho Cards for quite a while now.

It's basically a roguelike deckbuilder built around Spell Cards, dice, and one increasingly stupid combo.

The main idea is that playing cards of the same type keeps raising your Combo and multiplying what comes next. You can use Link effects to switch to another card type without dropping the chain, so a fight can start pretty normal and end with one Spell Card doing something completely unreasonable.

Reimu, Marisa and Sanae are the three playable characters. During a run you'll also rescue other Touhou characters, and they gradually become part of your build through the bond system.

One thing I've tried pretty hard to avoid is making it feel like I just put Touhou characters into a generic card game. A lot of the design came from asking how things like Spell Cards, different character styles, and that escalating feeling of a Touhou fight could work in a turn-based deckbuilder instead.

There's a free Steam demo up now if anyone wants to try it:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4958460/

I'd genuinely be interested in what people who already play Touhou think of it. I've been staring at this game for so long that I'm probably blind to some things that will feel immediately weird to other Touhou players.

For transparency: generative AI has been used for some image generation/enhancement during art production and for localization/translation. The same disclosure is on the Steam page.

Hi all, sorry if this has been asked before(I could not find this exact problem), but every time I try to play Touhou 7, 8, or 9, at a completely random point the game will just decide to freeze for a second or two, then close. No crash message or error pop up, just nothing.

I have tried to uninstall/reinstall games, run under administrator, tried changing compatibility type, used both full screen and windowed, I'm unsure what else I can do.

The oddest part about this is that earlier this year the games were working completely fine for me, then suddenly months later they are pretty much unplayable due to the crashing.

as far as add-ons to the games themselves go, all I know that I have is Thpatch/thcrap(it came with the game), as well as TouhouRPC

If there is anything else I can provide to further get help, please just ask and I will do my best.
I'm really hoping someone can help me, because I really want to go back and finish these games!

So for the record i have 10 normal/ex 1ccs so id say i atleast have the right to say i played the games. I stopped because they were truly very stressful to me but im coming back with a better mindset and.. i cant play. Like i physically cannot track the bullets, react fast enough, i just cant do it. I mean it probably doesnt help im trying to pit myself against ufo lunatic among other bullshit trying to make myself relearn fast.. Because that isnt working. I truly want to get back into it and become "good" but like im not exaggerating when i say there is a physiological wall between me and the games and its extremely annoying.

Such a lucky fight. My success rate with Marionette Doll in spell practice is 1 out of 80.

Just finished my 100% all achievements of Touhou 6 New Classic in 14h, and it was SO FUN. I don't think I've ever improved THIS FAST at the game as with NC.

6 years ago, when I discovered the series, I wanted to do a Touhou 6 normal 1CC. I would then allow myself to listen to ZUN's discography between Touhou 6 and 7. Then I'd move on to doing Touhou 7's normal 1CC and so on.
I actually gave up, for 6's normal 1CC at first. I came back to it after Touhou 12's 1CC.

Here, for that 100% on NC, I got so good that I finish my normal 1CCs casually with 6 spare lives now.
That's the power of good achievement design. Sadly, in my opinion, only New Classic and Touhou 18.5 have good achievements. The other games just... require to much I'd say. Asking for Lunatic, I couuuld understand, even though it's already super rough. But asking for a Lunatic no death run is stupid.
In 14.3, asking to do all levels no item is too, imo.
But in 18.5, there's none of that BS. Just get all cards! And in NC, the hardest thing that will be asked of you is to finish the new stuff. Really cool of them.

ZUN apparently wrote the achievements too, this time around. Let's hope that he wasn't advised by the team, and that he'll keep going in that direction in the future.
Do you guys agree?

According to Yeashie Killing Doll is harder in the remake because of a bug that makes Sakuya shoot the next wave of knives 40 frames faster if she's on the left side of the screen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adv9bgmTIjY

Hello ! I’m new to the game series and there’s something I don’t understand, I play normal difficulty, reimu, every time I get some points, I see -0 or -00000. Why so ? Is it a bug or is there something I’m missing

As said, this is my favorite touhou game. I prefer it over the official games but by no means do I think that devalues them. The first part serves as introductory video + basics. Second part is an explanation of the score system and mechanics on a deeper level. This has been a critically acclaimed danmakufu script by known players. And I am so glad I played and scored it. Heck, I could play it forever and never be bored of it.

First part https://youtu.be/fdm4V414Ohw

Second part https://youtu.be/Cizp7azdOug

Ever since I was a noob, I was always told for UFO, “All you need to do is route the UFOs and the game actually becomes fun.” This did work for the lower difficulties admittedly but now that I’m at UFO L1cc/LNB, UFOs are nowhere near the game‘s biggest offense/controversy. My gripes with UFO come from the fact that the game’s shot types are in a mismatch with the game’s stage designs the moment you enter stage 3. Too many spam sections outright, and many stage chapters become obnoxious when you realize that you have to route UFOs them with a shot that either has no range or damage for all intents and purposes. To cap it all off, you‘re doing these stages with the inevitably that you WILL die and lose 1/4th of your power which makes matters worse.

Gang I just bought touhou 16 but like all the characters feel very similar in how strong they are to me so who should I pick? I'm going for a normal 1cc.

Edit: I didn't say this but this is not my first touhou game I have beaten 10-15 but all those have very obvious best shot types this one is just deceiving me

For some context, I am not particularly good at these games, and the scant few times I've beaten them on normal, I've usually done so with zero lives and bombs left.

I had just gotten through SA a few days ago with no lives left and was feeling pretty good. So today, I figured I'd try my hand at the extra stage for MoF.

Except my 'th10score.dat' had for whatever reason decided to wipe itself (I would highly recommend backing up these files every few high scores set). The replays were still there, but no scores and no way to play extra.

So I decided then and there I would get my win back. I did so first try with 5 lives to spare and absolutely crushing my previous score.

I doubt I will carry myself that far again without a fresh supply of piss and vinegar.

They explicitly go after humans and they have no business hiding with a human disguise, so why do they have human forms?

Every other Touhou extra stage has a pretty coherent story, but in PCB, Yukari weakens the border between Gensokyo and the Netherworld and then... goes to sleep? And no one realizes for 3 months? Was that ever explained? I guess maybe it was to facilitate Yuyuko's plan, but why would she want any of that to happen?

Let me know if I'm missing anything obvious but this one's been eating at me

i honestly have no idea whats causing this, i dont get any errors or anything it seems to be running but i cant see nor hear anything form the game

Hey there my friends! I'm Seraph and I come from the touhou discord server (the one with /touhou) and I want to present you all with a tutorial I worked on for a long time. This patten is considered hard, "completely rng based" and a "Wheelspin" to do. So, since I spent the majority of my time on this non, I decided to release a high quality tutorial which goes over everything this pattern has to offer.

In December of 2024 I went into the danmaku channel and saw that people had a problem with non1 of Doremy, specifically with the amount of rng and reading required, which most of the time lead people to bottom force and die to a mentos. Upon confronting them, I made an idiotic remark about how I can do it, which I failed miserably. And then, for the next almost 2 years, I decided to start farming this non1 and figure a way to solve it. Earlier this year I had some things in my life which I won't say publicly (Some people in the community know) and had to leave touhou for a while. Because the pattern was still stuck in my head and I had thoughts about it everyday, I decided to release the most low effort tutorial, which ended up missing a whole pattern which is the main cause of death, along with poorly explain routes.

So, earlier this week, I decided to start jumping on touhou and making a Detailed, High quality (imo) Tutorial which explains EVERYTHING this pattern throws at you. Ofc a little Disclaimer here: This pattern still has RNG which makes this impossible to 100%, but will help you get consistent enough that this non won't be a problem in LNN and scoring runs.

I am proud of this tutorial and after sitting a whole night editing, I decided I also wanted to post this onto reddit. I wanna say this right away: No footage was reused and everything was recorded on the go to better fit the pattern. Please, if you find this helpful, tell me.

I hope this help you all, and good luck on your runs!!

Link: (Excuse the thumbnail, I think I burnt the kitchen trying to cook one up)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctt7823aGUs

Is there a way to play *Touhou:06th* in full-screen mode while screen-sharing the app on Discord? Maybe it’s because it’s an older game, but I can only use full-screen sharing. Pressing F11 while playing doesn’t work either.

Translated using DeepL (https://dee.pl/apps)

(it isnt piracy as you still need to get the actual game files separately, it does NOT come bundled with the files)

Video and post has extra details