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Agreed. It's only a guest appearance, after all. ZUN shouldn't have any obligation to change Touhou in any way because of it. If anything, it's good to have people's first introduction to Touhou through the mainline games, rather than through porn or other secondary material.
I wouldn’t say it was huge for me, but there was a period of time where I was really into the fan games and played a bunch of them. I dabbled in some mainline games but mostly played fan games. The support for Reimu is reigniting my interest in the series though and making me want to revisit some of those games lol
I only got into it a couple years back, after seeing the characters posted everywhere for ages. I'm still working on my first Normal 1CC, for Marisa/Winter in HSiFS, but haven't practiced in a while. I can get to Okina with a bunch of lives left but can't quite get over the top. I think if I work on sharpening up my bomb usage and practice Stage 5 a bit more, I'll be able to do it.
There are no official Touhou mainline/canon games currently on the Switch. There are fangames, but none are particularly good. Two games which you may be interested in are coming to the Switch in the near future. The first is an official game, and is a 2D fighting game, called Antimony of Common Flowers. This has a bunch of story/arcade modes and will expose you to a ton of the currently relevant characters, but will only really be fun if you like fighters.
Of what's currently on the Switch, I hear Azure Reflections and Genso Wanderer are good. As Tuninator said, though, the cream of the crop is going to be the future releases of Antinomy of Common Flowers and Luna Nights
I'm still relatively new to the series, it's only been 3 years. But I must say, Touhou is something I live for. It's one of my top priorities when it comes to sub-culture. For me it holds just as much weight as Nintendo, which is something I loved for over 10 years.
Technically, he didn't. But it's definitely toeing a line I don't think anyone with an NDA would wanna cross.
I'm no lawyer, but it seems fine to me. He says he'd like them in Smash, just like any game dev would probably think, and then he basically says "but saying that won't make it happen".
Good question! If you're talking original mainline games, i.e. the bullet hell ones, I would probably recommend that you start with Imperishable Night. I'd personally call it the easiest of the "iconic" games (EoSD, PCB, IN) because it has a very large "deathbombing" (pressing bomb as you get hit to save the life) window, especially if you select the Reimu/Yukari team, which makes avoiding dying much easier.
Tbh I have to disagree with almost everything.
I think the newest game, Wily Beast and Weakest Creature, is a pretty good entry point. The patterns aren't too difficult and by collecting 3 or more spirits of the same type you can unleash a Hyper attack which makes the harder parts a lot easier. Music, plot and cast are also really strong imo. I suggest giving this one a go.
It could very well be that Reimu might not make it into the game. However, I do think that the series' popularity is still strong enough to get it considered for Smash. Even if it's popularity peaked a while back, it hasn't fallen into obscurity. New Touhou games, whether fan-made or not, come out regularly. On top of that, the doujin scene for Touhou is very passionate. There is an entire convention about Touhou that runs yearly. Touhou is a long-standing franchise that doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon.
tbh, I think if we didn't get the announcement of more DLC fighters, it would have been way more of a ****show.
Yeah, I agree with you. A lot more people would have been upset about his announcement. A little sad, because I think he's a cool inclusion.
Oh absolutely. I'm surprised he name dropped Smash at all, even if he did publicly say that he'd love to work with Nintendo more after the Band Brothers contest.
Yeah, I don't think the statement changes much, at least for the long term. Only thing it changed for me is her chances in the short term, but without leaks, it's just a waiting game. One I'm hoping pays off.
So ZUN wants to expand the brand of Touhou further, but doesn't want it to get corrupted with corporated stuff (which it pretty much into the Touhou spirit to allow other doujin groups to work with the brand).
I think whenever Smash 6 comes around and if Reimu doesn't end up in Ultimate's DLC, she might not be considered until DLC for that game. Obviously, this is thinking WAY too far ahead since we have no idea what a theoretical Smash 6 would be like, but there'd be a lot of competition for who would get into the base game. Not just for third parties, but for first parties as well, since third parties are mostly reserved for DLC. A lot of characters that we might consider deconfirmed for now would potentially be possible for Smash 6, such as an ARMS character, Waluigi, Isaac, another Xenoblade character, Skull Kid, ect.
