Questions to Those who Listened, Played Touhou Games, or Both

[Ghostly ~]

Since I noticed there are some people who have their Touhou avatar, signature, or both. I was wondering if you (as you read the title) can asked some of my questions below.

Spoiler: Click this if you listened to Touhou music, played Touhou games, or both

1. What month and year did you discovered Touhou?

2. If you did discovered Touhou, where did you discover it?

3. What is your favorite Touhou music? You can pick one or some of the songs.

4. What is your favorite Touhou characters?

5. To those who play a Touhou game, which one did you play it first? You can skip this one if you haven't play it.

6. Related to question 5, would you rather prefer to try the easy difficulty? Or would you rather prefer to try the normal difficulty? Again you can skip this question if you haven't play a Touhou game.

7. If there is a Touhou fighting game that has the Smash Bros or Street Fighter mechanics, which Touhou characters would you main?

8. Smash Bros mechanics or Street Fighter mechanics for the Touhou fighting game?

If you want an example of mine...

Spoiler: My answers to my own questions

1. I discovered Touhou at December 2008.

2. I watch this Youtube video at the time I first discovered Touhou:

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Although I don't know what is going on that Pikmin video, I notice a thumbnail of a related video where a girl and her living doll was mad and starts running. It looks weird so I decided to watch that video for curiosity. It revealed that the related video was Marisa Stole the Precious Thing (reverse version) and that the angry girl was Alice. It also revealed that the song of Marisa Stole the Precious Thing was the same song as the Pikmin video that I watched before. As such I look at Marisa Stole the Precious Thing in the Youtube search bar and it turns out that the video was a fanmade PV of the Touhou franchise.

Spoiler: Related Video

3.

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That song was one of my Top 10 Favorite Touhou Songs though.

4. Youmu, Yuyuko, Alice, Junko, Byakuren, Komachi, Koishi, Kokoro, Miko, and Marisa. Top 10. No order.

5. Imperishable Night was my first Touhou game.

6. I rather play the easy difficulty because I'm going for the higher scores.

7. Youmu and Komachi.

8. I prefer the Smash Bros mechanics for the Touhou fighting game.

 

[Rashyboy05]

Oooh, this looks fun.

1. December of 2013. Forgot the day but I remember it was on December.

2.

Spoiler: It was all thanks to this video

3.

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4. Marisa Kirisame, Sumireko Usami and Youmu Konpaku. Top 3. In order.

5. Like most Touhou fans, I started with EoSD (Embodiment of the Scarlet Devil)

6. Normal difficulty as easy is, well, too easy. I'm actually attempting the Hard difficulty nowadays

7. Marisa and Sumireko

8. Can't say since I like the mechanics of the current Touhou fighting games with ULiL being my favorite. But I guess Street Fighter style works?

 

[Kapus]

Spoiler

1. What month and year did you discovered Touhou? Sometime in 2010, don't remember the month. It was a gradual thing.

2. If you did discovered Touhou, where did you discover it? Lots of people from another community I was a part of were all into touhou.

3. What is your favorite Touhou music? You can pick one or some of the songs. Chinese Tea and Riverside View, off the top of my head.

4. What is your favorite Touhou characters? Hong Meiling, Reisen Inaba, Iku Nagae, Komachi whatsherface.

5. To those who play a Touhou game, which one did you play it first? You can skip this one if you haven't play it. Technically I played Megamari first, but the first traditional shooter I played was TH6.

6. Related to question 5, would you rather prefer to try the easy difficulty? Or would you rather prefer to try the normal difficulty? Again you can skip this question if you haven't play a Touhou game. Normal. Too prideful to go on easy but not patient enough for anything above normal.

7. If there is a Touhou fighting game that has the Smash Bros or Street Fighter mechanics, which Touhou characters would you main? probably just my favorites mentioned above.

8. Smash Bros mechanics or Street Fighter mechanics for the Touhou fighting game? just give me another game like 12.3 please

 

[Zankoku]

1. Winter 2008.
2. Introduced to me by a friend who saw I was playing ABA STGs and thought I'd have more fun with a bullet hell game featuring cute girls.
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12AHLzW4kks (I also like Witches Ball ~ Magus, but I'm not sure if Seihou songs count https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPwCCoPhy7k )
4. Kirisame Marisa, Flandre Scarlet, Kijin Seija
5. EoSD
6. I regularly play whichever mode I believe I can eventually 1CC. That's usually Normal.
7. I play Marisa, Yuyuko, and Sakuya in IaMP.
8. I play IaMP. All I'd want is another IaMP.

 

[SpacemanDan]

1. What month and year did you discovered Touhou?
I can't remember the month, but 2008-2009 was when I got into it.

2. If you did discovered Touhou, where did you discover it?
Someone from a forum I used to go to linked to Cirno's Perfect Math Class. At this point, I had heard a bit about Touhou but never really looked into it. This video more or less pushed me to look into the series more.

3. What is your favorite Touhou music? You can pick one or some of the songs.
Necrofantasia, Satori Maiden - 3rd Eye, Pure Furies - Whereabouts of the Heart are just a few - the list could go on for quite awhile.

4. What is your favorite Touhou characters?
Yukari Yakumo, Remilia Scarlet, Koishi Komeiji, Reisin Udonge Inaba...there's just so many, ha ha.

5. To those who play a Touhou game, which one did you play it first? You can skip this one if you haven't play it.
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil was my first.

6. Related to question 5, would you rather prefer to try the easy difficulty? Or would you rather prefer to try the normal difficulty? Again you can skip this question if you haven't play a Touhou game.
I usually play Normal. When I first started I tried on Hard, but realized it wasn't going to work.

7. If there is a Touhou fighting game that has the Smash Bros or Street Fighter mechanics, which Touhou characters would you main?
Yukari Yakumo or Koishi Komeiji

8. Smash Bros mechanics or Street Fighter mechanics for the Touhou fighting game?
I'd prefer Smash style mechanics.

 

[LunarWingCloud]

1. October 2010.

2. It was from superskarmory's upload of his fight with Whitney in HGSS and I listened to a remix a friend of his did of Sakuya's theme.

3. Kobito of the Shining Needle ~ Little Princess, Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial, Faith is for the Transient People, Futatsuiwa from Sado, and Necrofantasia

4. My top 5 in order from highest to lowest: Sakuya Izayoi, Reimu Hakurei, Sanae Kochiya, Toyosatomimi no Miko, and Remilia Scarlet.

5. Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

6. Typically I start on Normal. If the game is easier, I might attempt Hard. If it's harder (currently only one game this applies to, the newest one) I might go for Easy. However proudly I can say I've 1cc'd every Touhou game that is a shmup on Normal difficulty, with the sole exception of the newest one.

7. Sakuya, I use her in the official fighting games she is in.

8. Smash Bros. definitely, unfortunately a project to do such was started and then was given a C&D so they couldn't finish it as a Touhou fan project. :/

 

[ScarletRed012]

Okay touhou is life so here goes

1. What month and year did you discovered Touhou? Well I think it was around summer of 2014 I think when I first heard about it. But it wasn't until a year later when I actually played Touhou 14: Double Dealing Character which was my first Touhou Game.

2. If you did discovered Touhou, where did you discover it? I play this game called Osu! (rank 7.8k whoo) and I would take a particular interest into all the Touhou music in the music database (it's a music game don't worry)

3. What is your favorite Touhou music? You can pick one or some of the songs. LUNA DIAL, FLOWERING NIGHT, AND BEST OF ALL: BAD APPLE

4. What is your favorite Touhou characters? Preferably the SDM cast. Sakuya is my all time favorite character tbh. With remilia and flandre near behind.

5. To those who play a Touhou game, which one did you play it first? You can skip this one if you haven't play it. Touhou 14: Double Dealing character

6. Related to question 5, would you rather prefer to try the easy difficulty? Or would you rather prefer to try the normal difficulty? Again you can skip this question if you haven't play a Touhou game. I play Easy a lot to try and understand the basics of patters, but if I know the patterns I'll jump to normal and continue learning what I don't know.

7. If there is a Touhou fighting game that has the Smash Bros or Street Fighter mechanics, which Touhou characters would you main? Sakuya. I even made a post on how she would be in Smash-like.

8. Smash Bros mechanics or Street Fighter mechanics for the Touhou fighting game? Smash bros! SF imo is not that appealing compared to Smash's speed.

 

[FamilyTeam]

1. What month and year did you discovered Touhou?
A: November 2010. I didn't start playing the games until March 2011, but at first I didn't like it enough for it to stick with me. I didn't really get into it until two years after finding out about it, at October 2012.

2. If you did discovered Touhou, where did you discover it?
A: My friend one day came to my house and started showing me a crapton of videos of this series called Touhou. Yes, amongst them were the usual ones, like McRoll, UN Owen was her, whatever. Then he forced me to watch one of the animes and I didn't like it. We didn't talk about it much, but apparently we had enough interest in Touhou to keep it somewhat relevant until about March 2011, because that was when I first got one of the games. I liked it, but again, it wasn't anything I thought was that noteworthy at first, so I forgot about after about two tries of finishing the game at Normal. Said tries foiled at Stages 4 and 5.

Over a year and a half later, in late 2012, I was browsing... "business" sites and I noticed that I was saving way too many damn images of Touhou characters, and a lot of them were of Kasen Ibaraki. Then I remembered I still had a Touhou game lying around my Hard Drive somewhere... I started playing it, this time at a harder difficulty, and I actually really liked it! Then I got all of the other Windows games, I liked some far better than others, and before I noticed, I was hooked, Kasen became my waifu and still is to this day (even if it doesn't look like it) and I was spending a good bit of my days playing Touhou games attempting Normal 1CCs. It was a crazy summer.
My interest for Touhou lasted up until about November 2013. Then it would only be another year and a half until I got hooked again. I downloaded Jigoku Kisetsukan from the Steam Store because apparently it played like Touhou, then I didn't like it much and thought "Huh, real Touhou is much better than this! ...Is it?", then I went back to check by playing PCB and thought "Yeah! It is much better!", then I got hooked again. Then Smash happened and I haven't had the time to play much Touhou since.

3. What is your favorite Touhou music? You can pick one or some of the songs.

It might be this one. Honestly I don't even remember that much.

4. What is your favorite Touhou characters?

Spoiler: List

1-Kasen Ibaraki
2-Hong Meiling
3-Yuyuko Saigyouji
4-Marisa Kirisame
5-Yukari Yakumo
6-Raiko Horikawa
7-Komachi Onozuka
8-Yuuka Kazami
9-Kanako Yasaka
10-Iku Nagae
11-Eirin Yagakoro
12-Kagerou Imaizumi
13-Youmu Konpaku
14-Keine Kamishirasawa
15-Byakuren Hijiri
16-Tenshi Hinanawi
17-Minoriko Aki
18-Minamitsu Murasa
19-Hina Kagiyama
20-Suika Ibuki

EDIT: That list frankly was an abomination. Anyone outside of the Top 5 was massively wrong, which is why I removed it. It was far more outdated than I thought it was.

5. To those who play a Touhou game, which one did you play it first? You can skip this one if you haven't play it.
Touhou 6 ~ Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.
Yeah, like most people, I know.

6. Related to question 5, would you rather prefer to try the easy difficulty? Or would you rather prefer to try the normal difficulty? Again you can skip this question if you haven't play a Touhou game.
Normal. I always play on Normal. Well, I said before that when I came back, I started playing on a harder difficulty. Although I could finish the games no problem, I couldn't 1CC them, and turns out that you need a 1CC to play the Extra Stage. So I switched to Normal and my hunt for 1CCs goes on to this day. I finished these games in this order with one credit: EOSD (6), POFV (9), 10D (13), PCB (7), IN (8), MOF (10).
The first three were in 2013, the last three were last year. Well, I used Marisa Bugged for MOF, but IMO it still counts and I'll go back to it someday and finish it properly anyway.

7. If there is a Touhou fighting game that has the Smash Bros or Street Fighter mechanics, which Touhou characters would you main?
Meiling. Maybe Marisa, but definitely Meiling first.
I can already imagine Meiling playing a lot like Captain Falcon.

8. Smash Bros mechanics or Street Fighter mechanics for the Touhou fighting game?
Smash. We already have Hisoutensoku for a more traditional fighting game.

 

[LeifEriksson]

Is this thread considered dead? Oh well, I might as well post here anyway.

1. What month and year did you discovered Touhou?
2016, March. I knew about it before but I didn't care until recently.

2. If you did discovered Touhou, where did you discover it?
Tv Tropes introduced me to it, SaltyBet convinced me to learn about it and play some games.

3. What is your favorite Touhou music? You can pick one or some of the songs.
Reverse ideology.

4. What is your favorite Touhou characters?
Patchouli is my favorite, with Flandre and Sayuka as a close second.

5. To those who play a Touhou game, which one did you play it first? You can skip this one if you haven't play it.
I played 6 and still struggle to beat it on normal.

6. Related to question 5, would you rather prefer to try the easy difficulty? Or would you rather prefer to try the normal difficulty? Again you can skip this question if you haven't play a Touhou game.
I don't have fun on easy, so I stick to normal to have a bigger challenge.

7. If there is a Touhou fighting game that has the Smash Bros or Street Fighter mechanics, which Touhou characters would you main?
Sayuka, because she's pretty much Dio Brando and he's a buttload of fun to play as in JoJo.

8. Smash Bros mechanics or Street Fighter mechanics for the Touhou fighting game?
Street Fighter, because the Touhou fighting games are REALLY projectile friendly, and I would like a more up close fight personally.