2:23 "And bullet _hell_ might sound like an extreme genre name until you spend a few _seconds_ looking at gameplay footage." *(shows Flandre Scarlet's **_Four of a Kind_** from Touhou 6: EOSD)* You, sir, know your stuff.
+The one who always changes her UA-cam name It gets even better; the most popular form of Bad Apple that most people know is the Alstroemeria Records arrange, which pretty much loops the introduction of the song. The actual stage theme has a bunch more to it, and loads of people have no idea. Bad Apple itself was likely lifted into popularity by that fantastic black/white music video. It got so popular that even main stream news took note of it (and proceeded to embarrass themselves like most times the internet leaks into real life).
Me: Hey dude,did you know any touhou theme song? Opponent: *Complain about bad apple, U.N. Owen, Night of Nights* Me: Any other else? Opponent: Like what? Me:List below here -Satori maiden;3rd eye -Youmu shoot a strange bird,till when -reach fo the moon:immotal smoke (Most likely to called "Reach fo the sky" by me {Yep,too much Payday 2}) Opponent: What?! Does that exist?! Me: *Drill my eyes off*
The Touhou community is insane. People have made entire anime and comic series out of the series. I think what I really like about it is how the community sees the characters. As a gameplay focused bullet hell game, they aren't focused on character development, but through things like comics and art many of the characters now have generally accepted personalities as created through fan interaction.
The amount of Touhou profile pictures in these comments is insane. Actually, the amount of Touhou profile pictures _anywhere_ is insane. I see them on Steam, I've seen Minecraft skins, I've seen them soundcloud, I've even seen them on TVTropes!
from what i understood, there are three sides of the internet: the side that hasn't heard of touhou the side that's surprised touhou exists and the side that makes touhou memes and hijacks
And, not to remain obscured, the sixth one, the side that tries to play a music video comprised of only silhouettes on every possible platform existing.
Many franchises and interests of all kinds have come and gone in my life, but Touhou will always have a place deep in my heart that words simply can't describe.
@@soooslaaal8204 The only Pokemon groups that are Touhou fans are the former themselves, or you could just hunt down for 1 in Touhou Puppet Dance Performance online (a Touhou-Pokemon fangame that feature Touhou characters as puppet instead of pokemons) and holy cow some of them felt like 1500+ point gamers on Pokemon Showdown
Does anyone else find it sad that the majority of people who call Touhou "insanely difficult" and "impossible" are the people who have never played it and have only watched videos of Lunatic mode?
+Whipper T. Snapper well...I played most of its games and thought "challenging" more than Demon's Souls in some parts, or SVDX(K-ShootMANIA) or osu!(damn i love this game)
Touhou litrarlly changed the internet from a one man's passion, to creating a community that makes the best art, music, fangames, and more. It personally helped me to overcome my deprassion, due to the Covid lockdown. Thank You for your amazing videos
Touhou is fascinating and baffling to me. So many people who are into it don't care about or play the games (which are hard as hell) but that doesn't really matter because so much of the fandom is just making stuff around these characters. It's kind of amazing. People take these badly drawn little characters with generic personalities and turn them into detailed characters with a sort of "fanon" around them.
I think it's interesting how ZUN's drawings look so sloppy, but when you add drawing talent, the character designs are actually gorgeous. It's like he can see the characters in his head but can't draw them.
They don't have 'generic' personalities. If they did I wouldn't even care about the franchise. There are simple characters like Rumia or Wriggle, but even then they're simple in a charming way. And then you have the more interesting ones like Yukari, Koishi, Kokoro, Seiga, Junko, etc. They're all a lot of fun to think about though, which is why Touhou is still so beloved.
If you'd like to know more about touhou and learn about their backgrounds and such, you should read some of the manga, Zun writes the stories himself and has different artists draw them. Forbidden Scrollery is one of my favorites, along with Silent Sinner in Blue and Wild and Horned Hermit.
joweechao There have been tournaments that compares the players score at the end of their runs. Competitive Touhou players graze all the time for the bonus and rarely die, hardcore.
I appreciate that you actually did some great research going into this and created a very entertaining and informative video. Some people look at games like Touhou and kinda just go "man! this game's crazy! Good music though" and provide almost nothing to those who don't know anything about the series. Very well done on the video :)
This kind of reminds me of Cave Story. A game created by one guy on his lonesome, who goes under the handle Pixel. He made the program language the game is scripted in, the software he made the music with for the game, and also an entire music FORMAT to fit the game. And of course also all the graphics, the detailed story line, the whole deal. It's a 2D platformer, and it too has gotten picked up by a big amount of people. Not as much as Touhou though I think.
I'm honestly surprised that this game genre isn't anywhere near as popular in the west. The games are really, really fun, even if you only play something like 2hu, despite there being so many more games you could get on steam if you wanted to try more.
I absolutely love that you connected Touhou to UA-cam. That's awesome. I've always been really proud of how many UA-cam channels have grown from nothing and have reached incredible popularity from just having a great community. Brings tears to my eyes :'D Happy 200,000 man
*_Dons Yama hat_* I might as well judge how you did at representing Touhou in six minutes. You did good. Props, man. We have something to contrast against CNN's example of "how to do it incredibly wrong". But, hey, cut Spacewar some slack. It simulated gravity - that was a pretty big thing for what was a 1960's DEC minicomputer bolted to a CRT more befitting an oscilloscope. (That thing in the center was a star that tries to pull you in.)
A lot more well-informed than some of the other Touhou features I have seen, although there were not references to the more quality fanwork such as Adventures of Scarlet Curiosity... then there is the fact that a lot of the actual lore content is centered around the manga and print works. The fanmusic can actually get pretty amazing, as there is actually a Touhou Orchestra and everything. I think it is more than just the games that got it to this point. The music and lore has helped with the expandability of the series overall.
I didn't even know I was subbed to this channel..... but I saw touhou so I clicked. Also you can type any genre of music followed by touhou, and you will find amazing bands playing touhou music in that genre. EDM touhou, Rock touhou...black metal tovhov. It exists.
You ended up explaining this really well, quite surprisingly considering how many have tried and how many have made some pretty cringeworthy mistakes. You definitely deserve praise for being correctly informative.
I cannot tell you how excited I was to see you guys going over touhou! As a fan of more so the music and characters than the actual game play (i suck at it) there is A LOT of stuff that has a touhou version of it. classical music? touhou version. Prog rock? touhou version. Folk, EDM, Gabber, Pop? Touhou version. there are even legit (fan made) 10-15 min. animated episodes based off of the games! and fun fact, Undertale's Mettaton's bullet patterns were based off of Marisa Kirisame who is the chick in the thumbnail (Co protagonist). a lot of the characters are hilariously OP outside of Dankmaku rules (one has the ability to manipulate all "boundaries" physical or otherwise), but the charm of the music, storyline and game play makes them all interesting. did I also mention there is about 40+female characters and only 3 males? 2 aren't human.
Congratulations for your subscriber count! It's quite fantastic that Touhou was the herald topic for your 200,000 special video. You have done a fantastic amount of research and coverage that really capitalized on the parts of Touhou that are truly impressive, these were great highlights. It touched only the surface of some of the fan produced content, but I'm glad you did that because I hope that encourages more people to give it a fair chance and see the content for themselves. I've been a fan of Touhou for seven years and have never once gotten tired of this series. Also, never before have I seen a coverage of Touhou that was as in-depth and well put together as this. You have my thanks for that. My only grip is that you didn't mention the fighting games, but otherwise this was really nicely done! If I might add some additional input, there difficulty settings in the regular Touhou game that actually make it okay for new people to jump in the series, considering almost everyone saw gameplay footage of the hardest difficulty appropriately named "Lunatic Mode", I see a lot of people getting discouraged from playing the games. Moreover, the four difficulties are: Easy, Normal, Hard, and the aforementioned Lunatic. For anyone who is even remotely new they should go for Easy mode, because I've seen to many people jump to Normal based on the presumption from there other gaming experience that easy is to easy. But to a new player, this is what it actually is: Easy is Hard. Normal is really freaking hard. Hard is tearing your hair out hard. Lunatic is... actually quite a fitting name. If anyone would like to jump in to the Touhou games, I'd recommend three games: _Touhou 4 Lotus Land Story_ - You will need to find an emulator for this and the other 5 games in the era, but this game is one that is very friendly and very easy. The bullet patterns are very simple and easy and the game rewards you with a screen-clearing bomb after you beat a stage. It's also very easy to gain 1-up, so I'd use this as a nice starting point into Touhou. _Touhou 7 Perfect Cherry Blossom_ - It's one of the more classic Touhou games with some really nice challenges but reigns to be a good game to start training and honing your skills at Touhou. Admittedly it's follow in the main series, Touhou 8 Imperishable Night, is a lot easier and extremely fun, but it's got mechanics that encourages using habits and play-styles that deviate from the rest of the main games. _Touhou 14 Double Dealing Character_ - This is one that has mechanics and a good amount of variety that it's one I really have to recommend jumping into as gives a good idea of what modern Touhou games today are like. This one is fairly challenging, but I encourage it because it's the game where you can learn a lot of tricks to do good. That's that, bare in mind this would be my own personal recommendation in order of priority for people yet unfamiliar with Touhou. Apologizes for the lengthy comment, but I figured it's the least I could do for a video that just did so many things right. ＾＾
+TheDoctor64 You are likely to last several stages if you play on easy difficulty. Mind you, for a new player easy is still challenging, and it will take you some practice to beat the game. The "die at the first second" difficulties are for people who have been fans of the series for years and seek challenge.
I've been a Touhou fan for more than a decade now but, surprisingly, it was this video that made me realize why I love the series so much. Like he said, "it's organic". I realized that it was not the series, per se, that I adored, but rather the "living breathing" world kept alive by thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people who all share the same passion.
Nice! Genuine research, background insight, proper editing, correct clip usage, correct referencing and elaboration on the diversity of fanbase medium and culture in a respectfully neutral format. I think many youtubers could stand to learn from you as example. Great work. All this plus you credited video source material. I'm astounded.
I actually have a friend that is obsessed with Touhou. I haven't played any of the games (she's played like half) but I have done a lot of research about Touhou and the bullet hell genre. Succeeding in bullet hell games is mainly a combination of absolute focus, memorization, quick reflexes and small movements. All of which I lack...(~_~;)
Raccoon Child Wow PoFV?? That's One of The games that i really suck at (at least did The 1cc)...but overall that's really impressive having in Count that you don't have specific patterns in that game, just a bunch of random bullets trown at you... You have my respect 😁😍
Touhou for the music - Syrufit, Shibayan, Alstroemeria, Zytokine, ENS, Demetori, FELT and so many many many more talented groups. Highly suggest finding subbed songs and reading the lyrics, singing about an imaginary culture creates a piece unlike anything youve ever seen most likely. Touhou for the fanfics - I read a lot of western comics and ofc mangas; official ones from the big names like One Piece and Berserk. Yet, a lot of Touhou short stories either had me in tears of laughter or other time sadness. Thank you Zun for creating the ground work enabling people to write so many interesting stories. Touhou for the fan games - Most are old school and its the genre I like. Labyrinth of Touhou for RPGs, MegaMarisa, Genius of Sapheiros, TouhouVania. All enjoyable on days you have nothing better to do. Touhou for simply Zun - How can you be such a creatife mofo in so many areas.Those unique character and song titles. Those elegant character back story often taking from eastern culture with an original twist( expressive poker face that shows emotion through mask and goes berserk when she loses her mask of hope? wow) And finally ...inb4 touhou for the yuri
I've been wanting you to go over this for a long time. I'm so glad you did, I love this series and its characters and its godlike music with the whole community surrounding just remixing them.
+ryolo132 Don't forget Necrofantasia. And Septette for the Dead Princess. And Reach for the Moon. And Love-colored Master Spark. And Sleeping Terror. And...
Touhou is an insane cultural octopus of the digital age. Sure, my boomer mom might not know anything to do with Touhou, but there's probably no one my age that wouldn't recognize at least one thing from it. I thought my first introduction was Cristina Vee's English cover of Bad Apple (many people's introduction) but when I saw the characters, I recognized them as character models I had seen in GMod and downloaded because I thought they were just cute anime girls. But no, my TRUE first introduction to Touhou was that fucking Ronald McDonald youtube poop.
Touhou gets so little attention within America sometimes, or is only seen for Touhou 6. I'm glad that this video was done since it is such a great series of games with an even greater (yet annoying) fanbase! Btw Orin is best 2hu
I hate it when people not in the shmup community try to discuss bullet hell. They always get the facts wrong and try to make it seem more inaccessible than it actually is. The games are about memorization and execution, just like any other skill-based game.
+DogeOf Illuminati To be fair, the video did make the games in the genre in general seem harder than they actually are. Are they hard? Typically, yea, but it came across that anybody who is not of Japanese origin with the natural ability to game at the level of a god would fail before they even pressed start. It could possibly make somebody curious about these games not even bother, thinking the difficulty is beyond them.
Sam, you are one of the most interesting to listen to, thoughtful, and insightful hosts of almost any show that I know of on this site. I have learned about so many cool things and things that relate to those things, all because of you. Congrats on passing the 200 grand mark, because you sure as hell deserve it.
I wish Touhou Project had more fan in the West! But this is comming in... We are becoming one of the greatest family in the world! But thnk you thank yooooooouuuuuu thank youuuuu to have made one of the rare video explaining what Touhou is on UA-cam. ~
I don't really know why watching this video made me cry, it might be because it's been a long time since I've actually PLAYED touhou rather than just ranting about it online and so I'm nostalgic or something, but y'know, thank you uvu;
I first experienced Touhou when Smooth Mcgroove did the acapella version of "U.N. Owen Was Her". I freaking loved the song so much that I went to investigate the source material. I ended up playing the games and I was hooked. The music, the characters, the humor, the difficulty, and the fan-base, everything about it is just so, dang, good.
Hey, no bad-mouthing Spacewar!/Space Wars/Orbit. The Cinematronics arcade version (my personal favorite), when played with a good friend, is one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences one can have. A simple, but challenging duel in space, with clicky buttons that felt great to use, and lots of game variations.
something that is similar to the touhou community is vocaloids but that was created by a company and some companies tried to create something like the touhou fanbase like Kancolle and Touken Ranbu
Touhou has always interested me, but the moment I look I game play of it, I instintly put away all thoughts of ever playing these games, as that looks completely impossible.
Lunatic and Hard are the only modes that are difficult. (Hard being arcade difficulty.) Normal is very much doable and Easy is too easy. The hitboxes of every sprite are much smaller than they look and are usually near the center.
+Jonah J They're really not as difficult as they seem, they just look imposing but they're mostly just about pattern recognition and muscle memory. It would be entirely possible to play with your eyes closed, it would just take a shitload of practice before hand.
+Jonah J Don't get me wrong, you'll get whooped a lot at first, but your skills will improve quickly if you keep at it. It's really helpful if you find a veteran who can guide you through some of the basic strategies (streaming, juking, PoC, etc.)
I'm very glad to see "This Exists" will talk about a topic related to a particular Bullet Hell game named Touhou. Didn't even imagined that he will do this. Still a nice video. Keep it up.
its pretty hard to explain touhou in under 50 hours. You did a pretty decent job.
BigBossBob Lolis with Diaper hats and lasers. Done
BigBossBob it is hard to explain in short something that was in the making for 20 years
Poorly drawn girls with jojo tier powers, done. oh and hats, fabulous hats
you all people forgot that they're dhooting each other just for fun or bored or some kind of utter nonsense
Actually, it’s relatively easy. It really only needs 60 seconds tbh
2:23 "And bullet _hell_ might sound like an extreme genre name until you spend a few _seconds_ looking at gameplay footage."
*(shows Flandre Scarlet's **_Four of a Kind_** from Touhou 6: EOSD)*
You, sir, know your stuff.
He does, personally though, I would have gone for the aptly and poorly named Gengetsu rape time.
Four of a Kind is pretty easy compared to Lavaetein
Pls, Cranberry Trap destroys both of them.
kagome kagome is micrododging RNG bullshit
Lavaetein have a lot of savespots
On a side note: It is literally IMPOSSIBLE for you to not have heard a single Touhou song/arrange in your entire life.
Mostly likely Bad Apple
My cousin, let him listen to a few popular ones. bad apple, U.N. Owen, Night of Nights, etc. He said he never heard any of that shit before
+The one who always changes her UA-cam name
It gets even better; the most popular form of Bad Apple that most people know is the Alstroemeria Records arrange, which pretty much loops the introduction of the song. The actual stage theme has a bunch more to it, and loads of people have no idea.
Bad Apple itself was likely lifted into popularity by that fantastic black/white music video. It got so popular that even main stream news took note of it (and proceeded to embarrass themselves like most times the internet leaks into real life).
consider the amount of original songs only, the chance of you listen to a simple arrangement is ridiculously high
Me: Hey dude,did you know any touhou theme song?
Opponent: *Complain about bad apple, U.N. Owen, Night of Nights*
Me: Any other else?
Opponent: Like what?
Me:List below here
-Satori maiden;3rd eye
-Youmu shoot a strange bird,till when
-reach fo the moon:immotal smoke (Most likely to called "Reach fo the sky" by me {Yep,too much Payday 2})
Opponent: What?! Does that exist?!
Me: *Drill my eyes off*
Aren't we all animated, laser-shooting Japanese girls at heart?
+TARDISES
You´re a monster
+ganjamcninja
I feel more like a fetish ninja maid.
After reading your comment i feel so curious
No, I'm Rinnosuke at heart. A useless, male, non-laser shooting Touhou Character
Nishikata Byakko-kun useless? Hear this 4:29 you're that for the fans. XD
"That was Jingle Bells"
Legendary
and DAT is jingle bells.
Thank you for getting the pronunciation right on the names here, you'd be suprised how hard it is to some people.
+Zeromus22 Any video with names is a minefield of terror for me. Glad I got it right!
+Zeromus22 2hu
Toohoo
Tauhoe
Toyuhoyu
+Zeromus22 Actually, no. Tou should rhyme with Hou. But he tried.
+Sakuya Izayoi IX Regardless of if it was right, his pronunciation clearly rhymed.
+Zeromus22 とうほう :^)
The Touhou community is insane. People have made entire anime and comic series out of the series. I think what I really like about it is how the community sees the characters.
As a gameplay focused bullet hell game, they aren't focused on character development, but through things like comics and art many of the characters now have generally accepted personalities as created through fan interaction.
PiratesoftheNorth78 there are billions fanmade about Touhou and its fantastic!! 😁😁😁
Just go to Nhent@i
You should've mentioned also that ZUN did some of the music, and I'm not joking here, while drunk.
The Dark Hour amazing kid friendly trivia ☺️
Now that's impressive
The songs are great bc he was drunk composing the music. When he is sober, he turns them into greatest pieces by improving what he did when drunk
The amount of Touhou profile pictures in these comments is insane. Actually, the amount of Touhou profile pictures _anywhere_ is insane. I see them on Steam, I've seen Minecraft skins, I've seen them soundcloud, I've even seen them on TVTropes!
On _non-Touhou related_ pages!
Mwuhahahaha!!! You can never escape!!
I see a Touhou Mod on Steam games,Most likely being most of them...
i dont know what you're talking about >.>
Kenneth McCarty Shitton of Touhou Mods on Steam games :D
from what i understood, there are three sides of the internet:
the side that hasn't heard of touhou
the side that's surprised touhou exists
and the side that makes touhou memes and hijacks
And there's the fourth one, which is completely unspoken.
The fifth one, which is Cookie kiss
And, not to remain obscured, the sixth one, the side that tries to play a music video comprised of only silhouettes on every possible platform existing.
Many franchises and interests of all kinds have come and gone in my life, but Touhou will always have a place deep in my heart that words simply can't describe.
Pokémon and Touhou keep me young and beautiful
@@raccoonchild I have noticed that most Touhou fans are also Pokemon fans
@@soooslaaal8204 The only Pokemon groups that are Touhou fans are the former themselves, or you could just hunt down for 1 in Touhou Puppet Dance Performance online (a Touhou-Pokemon fangame that feature Touhou characters as puppet instead of pokemons) and holy cow some of them felt like 1500+ point gamers on Pokemon Showdown
@@ephraimium6755 I would be the former type of sweaty tryhard
Does anyone else find it sad that the majority of people who call Touhou "insanely difficult" and "impossible" are the people who have never played it and have only watched videos of Lunatic mode?
+Whipper T. Snapper well...I played most of its games and thought "challenging" more than Demon's Souls in some parts, or SVDX(K-ShootMANIA) or osu!(damn i love this game)
+Whipper T. Snapper I played for ~2 months and it's still insane to me
But then again, I play osu!, so maybe Touhou just isn't my thing skill-wise.
+Whipper T. Snapper I've played 2, 6, and 7 and never gotten too far on regular difficulty, since I refuse to play on easy. They're very hard games.
+Whipper T. Snapper i've never played it, cause it looks visually appauling, not to mention boring.
+Whipper T. Snapper played it, not impossible, but its up there :P
Touhou litrarlly changed the internet
from a one man's passion, to creating a community that makes the best art, music, fangames, and more.
It personally helped me to overcome my deprassion, due to the Covid lockdown.
Thank You for your amazing videos
If you can think of it - A Touhou Version of it exists.
If it does not exist - it's most likely being made as we speak.
Akumu Oukoku
Basically, Rule35
a good minecraft texture pack for 1.13.
doesn't exist.
Rule 34 and 35 Version 2.
@@WomanSlayer69420 there is one that turns slimes into yukkuri
@@God-ch8lq I said a *good* texture pack.
The Black MIDI episode was my introduction to This Exists.
same :)
+Chase The Nightcore.... my first episode was Are Snuff films real? That was a happy episode :)
+R.J. Beasley I came here from Game Theory.
Same :D
+R.J. Beasley Mine was the Ninja Turtles stage show one. Only ad on Twitch I ever was intrigued enough to click on.
Niceeeeeeee! grats
Touhou is fascinating and baffling to me. So many people who are into it don't care about or play the games (which are hard as hell) but that doesn't really matter because so much of the fandom is just making stuff around these characters. It's kind of amazing. People take these badly drawn little characters with generic personalities and turn them into detailed characters with a sort of "fanon" around them.
I think it's interesting how ZUN's drawings look so sloppy, but when you add drawing talent, the character designs are actually gorgeous. It's like he can see the characters in his head but can't draw them.
9 of 10 people have met Touhou by "fandom" but sure I also enjoy the details, lots of work for the art.
They don't have 'generic' personalities. If they did I wouldn't even care about the franchise. There are simple characters like Rumia or Wriggle, but even then they're simple in a charming way. And then you have the more interesting ones like Yukari, Koishi, Kokoro, Seiga, Junko, etc. They're all a lot of fun to think about though, which is why Touhou is still so beloved.
If you'd like to know more about touhou and learn about their backgrounds and such, you should read some of the manga, Zun writes the stories himself and has different artists draw them. Forbidden Scrollery is one of my favorites, along with Silent Sinner in Blue and Wild and Horned Hermit.
When you showed the footage from touhou 6 stage six I tried to press the left arrow to scoot reimu over more to properly counter the coming onslaught.
Started Touhou A week ago, and now we Have tourneys of 9 during lunch.
That sounds amazing
how does a touhou tourney work? do you play PoFV or one of the fighters or something?
joweechao There have been tournaments that compares the players score at the end of their runs. Competitive Touhou players graze all the time for the bonus and rarely die, hardcore.
+joweechao
We play 9 and 3, the 2 Players ones
+Kokiri Kid dang it would be nice to be at your school I could use some competition in my life
I appreciate that you actually did some great research going into this and created a very entertaining and informative video. Some people look at games like Touhou and kinda just go "man! this game's crazy! Good music though" and provide almost nothing to those who don't know anything about the series. Very well done on the video :)
Yeah, like I didn't even know the official Amusement Makers logo even after 'Touhou-ing' for years and years now.
This man has done a great job.
This kind of reminds me of Cave Story. A game created by one guy on his lonesome, who goes under the handle Pixel. He made the program language the game is scripted in, the software he made the music with for the game, and also an entire music FORMAT to fit the game. And of course also all the graphics, the detailed story line, the whole deal. It's a 2D platformer, and it too has gotten picked up by a big amount of people. Not as much as Touhou though I think.
I'm honestly surprised that this game genre isn't anywhere near as popular in the west. The games are really, really fun, even if you only play something like 2hu, despite there being so many more games you could get on steam if you wanted to try more.
Because Modern-Military-First Person-Shooters have oversaturated the Western Gaming Market?
+Tyler Moon Probably. I'm sick of those games already.
+kikones34 deosnt matter its not changeing gameing is dead in the west, unless its indie.
+DogeOf Illuminati Touhou is indie,
I guess there is hope.
Indeed
I absolutely love that you connected Touhou to UA-cam. That's awesome. I've always been really proud of how many UA-cam channels have grown from nothing and have reached incredible popularity from just having a great community. Brings tears to my eyes :'D Happy 200,000 man
+Xiao Mei Thanks!
Has anyone noticed how misleading the Touhou logo is, since Marisa is the one on it and isn't the actual main heroine of the series?
*_Dons Yama hat_* I might as well judge how you did at representing Touhou in six minutes.
You did good. Props, man. We have something to contrast against CNN's example of "how to do it incredibly wrong".
But, hey, cut Spacewar some slack. It simulated gravity - that was a pretty big thing for what was a 1960's DEC minicomputer bolted to a CRT more befitting an oscilloscope. (That thing in the center was a star that tries to pull you in.)
A lot more well-informed than some of the other Touhou features I have seen, although there were not references to the more quality fanwork such as Adventures of Scarlet Curiosity... then there is the fact that a lot of the actual lore content is centered around the manga and print works. The fanmusic can actually get pretty amazing, as there is actually a Touhou Orchestra and everything.
I think it is more than just the games that got it to this point. The music and lore has helped with the expandability of the series overall.
Thank you for being able to pronounce Touhou right.
Awesome! :D Congratulations!
Can you run 50 million on Synthesia?
I didn't even know I was subbed to this channel..... but I saw touhou so I clicked.
Also you can type any genre of music followed by touhou, and you will find amazing bands playing touhou music in that genre. EDM touhou, Rock touhou...black metal tovhov. It exists.
Can confirm this. I just searched for Touhou harsh noise. Got like 12 results of "touhou themed harsh noise"
+Bliced Same here
"tovhov"
Touche.
I fucking love touhou though
Yea, i would marry TH - Project!
who don't
Hello fellow Dutch touhou fan
STRANGE_BRO yoo
+Naamloos reisen=waifu ;)
Wow, looks like a cool game. Maybe I'll check it out.
*****
Who tf is Sakuya. Sounds like a knife throwing maid or something. I could never like such a thing.
Yes but you don't have a tinypire hat.
how can one obtain the other tinypire hat?
the other tinypire hat is unstable and dangerous. Are you up for the task?
some things are worth the risk
You ended up explaining this really well, quite surprisingly considering how many have tried and how many have made some pretty cringeworthy mistakes. You definitely deserve praise for being correctly informative.
I have every single touhou games and I love them!
I cannot tell you how excited I was to see you guys going over touhou! As a fan of more so the music and characters than the actual game play (i suck at it) there is A LOT of stuff that has a touhou version of it. classical music? touhou version. Prog rock? touhou version. Folk, EDM, Gabber, Pop? Touhou version. there are even legit (fan made) 10-15 min. animated episodes based off of the games! and fun fact, Undertale's Mettaton's bullet patterns were based off of Marisa Kirisame who is the chick in the thumbnail (Co protagonist).
a lot of the characters are hilariously OP outside of Dankmaku rules (one has the ability to manipulate all "boundaries" physical or otherwise), but the charm of the music, storyline and game play makes them all interesting.
did I also mention there is about 40+female characters and only 3 males? 2 aren't human.
+Kilanna Do you know how big the torrent of all touhou music is?
Last time i checked it was at about 1.2 TB
+Kilanna More like over 160 characters...
+Karpfador true, (I looked it up to see if you're right, didn't even know they data mined the whole thing!) but for what it is that's a lot of songs!
+Kilanna There are male touhou characters?
Rory Walker two or three :D
This Touhou game looks kinda ok.
Romantique Tp Love your MIDI fixes, m8.
Lord Sithis
~~~The joke
Your head
Yeah, I guess its alright, heh.
*I knew this day would come!*
Congrats DUDE ON THE 200K, Love *This Exists!!*
Congratulations for your subscriber count! It's quite fantastic that Touhou was the herald topic for your 200,000 special video.
You have done a fantastic amount of research and coverage that really capitalized on the parts of Touhou that are truly impressive, these were great highlights. It touched only the surface of some of the fan produced content, but I'm glad you did that because I hope that encourages more people to give it a fair chance and see the content for themselves.
I've been a fan of Touhou for seven years and have never once gotten tired of this series. Also, never before have I seen a coverage of Touhou that was as in-depth and well put together as this. You have my thanks for that. My only grip is that you didn't mention the fighting games, but otherwise this was really nicely done!
If I might add some additional input, there difficulty settings in the regular Touhou game that actually make it okay for new people to jump in the series, considering almost everyone saw gameplay footage of the hardest difficulty appropriately named "Lunatic Mode", I see a lot of people getting discouraged from playing the games.
Moreover, the four difficulties are: Easy, Normal, Hard, and the aforementioned Lunatic. For anyone who is even remotely new they should go for Easy mode, because I've seen to many people jump to Normal based on the presumption from there other gaming experience that easy is to easy. But to a new player, this is what it actually is:
Easy is Hard.
Normal is really freaking hard.
Hard is tearing your hair out hard.
Lunatic is... actually quite a fitting name.
If anyone would like to jump in to the Touhou games, I'd recommend three games:
_Touhou 4 Lotus Land Story_ - You will need to find an emulator for this and the other 5 games in the era, but this game is one that is very friendly and very easy. The bullet patterns are very simple and easy and the game rewards you with a screen-clearing bomb after you beat a stage. It's also very easy to gain 1-up, so I'd use this as a nice starting point into Touhou.
_Touhou 7 Perfect Cherry Blossom_ - It's one of the more classic Touhou games with some really nice challenges but reigns to be a good game to start training and honing your skills at Touhou. Admittedly it's follow in the main series, Touhou 8 Imperishable Night, is a lot easier and extremely fun, but it's got mechanics that encourages using habits and play-styles that deviate from the rest of the main games.
_Touhou 14 Double Dealing Character_ - This is one that has mechanics and a good amount of variety that it's one I really have to recommend jumping into as gives a good idea of what modern Touhou games today are like. This one is fairly challenging, but I encourage it because it's the game where you can learn a lot of tricks to do good.
That's that, bare in mind this would be my own personal recommendation in order of priority for people yet unfamiliar with Touhou. Apologizes for the lengthy comment, but I figured it's the least I could do for a video that just did so many things right. ＾＾
DeityDiz93 woah damn man,,, your details is too many O.O
Synchronized hand movements with 2 hands moving moving up and down is so retro 1990 hiphopstyle
I would die at the first second on Touhou
Unless u play easy or regular and not linatic showed in the video
Lunatic
+TheDoctor64 You are likely to last several stages if you play on easy difficulty. Mind you, for a new player easy is still challenging, and it will take you some practice to beat the game.
The "die at the first second" difficulties are for people who have been fans of the series for years and seek challenge.
+TheDoctor64 You cant die in the first second because no bullets have spawned then :P
+Dissentient I'd like to try Touhou, but my left key is broken...
I've been a Touhou fan for more than a decade now but, surprisingly, it was this video that made me realize why I love the series so much. Like he said, "it's organic". I realized that it was not the series, per se, that I adored, but rather the "living breathing" world kept alive by thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of people who all share the same passion.
Nice! Genuine research, background insight, proper editing, correct clip usage, correct referencing and elaboration on the diversity of fanbase medium and culture in a respectfully neutral format. I think many youtubers could stand to learn from you as example. Great work.
All this plus you credited video source material. I'm astounded.
Touhou is gaining exposure! OMG
+HTFCirno2000 This wasn't planned!!
+HTFCirno2000 I get strangely giddy whenever I see Touhou in places I don't expect..
DIE SECONDARIES! DIE!!!!
Green Purple
Uh. 'scuse me?
***** How can you call yourself a fan if you don't even play the games?
NAGARETEKU TOKI NO NAKA DE DEMO KEDARUSA GA HORA GURUGURU MAWATTE
WATASHI KARA HANARERU KOKORO MO MIENAI WA SOU
SHI-
RA-
NAAIII
Quicksilver_Artist What song is that from?
Mysterious Future Bad Apple
Quicksilver_Artist Haven't heard this song in years, my bad.
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Bad Apple
I actually found this channel because I was listening to some black midi and found your black midi episode.
I actually have a friend that is obsessed with Touhou. I haven't played any of the games (she's played like half) but I have done a lot of research about Touhou and the bullet hell genre.
Succeeding in bullet hell games is mainly a combination of absolute focus, memorization, quick reflexes and small movements. All of which I lack...(~_~;)
I'm the same as you, but I love playing Touhou. I just can't go beyond stage 4 in any of the games except for PoFV. I'm talking Normal Mode.
Raccoon Child Wow PoFV?? That's One of The games that i really suck at (at least did The 1cc)...but overall that's really impressive having in Count that you don't have specific patterns in that game, just a bunch of random bullets trown at you... You have my respect 😁😍
Touhou for the music - Syrufit, Shibayan, Alstroemeria, Zytokine, ENS, Demetori, FELT and so many many many more talented groups. Highly suggest finding subbed songs and reading the lyrics, singing about an imaginary culture creates a piece unlike anything youve ever seen most likely.
Touhou for the fanfics - I read a lot of western comics and ofc mangas; official ones from the big names like One Piece and Berserk. Yet, a lot of Touhou short stories either had me in tears of laughter or other time sadness. Thank you Zun for creating the ground work enabling people to write so many interesting stories.
Touhou for the fan games - Most are old school and its the genre I like. Labyrinth of Touhou for RPGs, MegaMarisa, Genius of Sapheiros, TouhouVania. All enjoyable on days you have nothing better to do.
Touhou for simply Zun - How can you be such a creatife mofo in so many areas.Those unique character and song titles. Those elegant character back story often taking from eastern culture with an original twist( expressive poker face that shows emotion through mask and goes berserk when she loses her mask of hope? wow)
And finally
...inb4 touhou for the yuri
Undertale fans: *heart attack* Touhou fans: *PFFT.* This is easy-peasy-grate-some-cheesey. (Lest it be Lunatic Difficulty.)
Finally, a way to explain my favorite series to people...
Ever since the Black MIDI episode, I had been waiting for this episode dearly.
Thank you soo much to explain Touhou very well M8!!! And congrats for the 200,000 😃😃
"Even erotic fanfiction" Hey that gave me crippling depression
^I don't see any problem :^)
Ay
+Sairento Kira Well the age of consent in Japan is 14 soooooooooo...
It's actually 13
Sairento Kira thats illegal in russia you know
I've been wanting you to go over this for a long time. I'm so glad you did, I love this series and its characters and its godlike music with the whole community surrounding just remixing them.
touhou's music is incredible.
who hasn't heard Night of Nights?
+ryolo132 More than could recognize Flowering Night.
Or Luna Dial.
UN Owen and Bad Apple
+ryolo132 Don't forget Necrofantasia. And Septette for the Dead Princess. And Reach for the Moon. And Love-colored Master Spark. And Sleeping Terror. And...
+ryolo132 Knights*
Thanks to your Black Midi episode, I became a massive fan of Touhou themed metal. I'm super glad that you have now came back to it.
This Exists does covers my favorite game series ever?!
MY HERO!!
Bullet Hell is quite generous as name. Try "Descent in Visual Melting Madness and Audio Corruption."
we all know who is the strongest
⑨ Eye'm teh stronkest!
Yes Sariel is a amazing man.
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Cirno!
Touhou is an insane cultural octopus of the digital age. Sure, my boomer mom might not know anything to do with Touhou, but there's probably no one my age that wouldn't recognize at least one thing from it. I thought my first introduction was Cristina Vee's English cover of Bad Apple (many people's introduction) but when I saw the characters, I recognized them as character models I had seen in GMod and downloaded because I thought they were just cute anime girls. But no, my TRUE first introduction to Touhou was that fucking Ronald McDonald youtube poop.
Touhou gets so little attention within America sometimes, or is only seen for Touhou 6. I'm glad that this video was done since it is such a great series of games with an even greater (yet annoying) fanbase!
Btw Orin is best 2hu
+Jungler Kitsune Don't you talk about my Marisa like that. I will Master Spark the Love out of you.
+Jungler Kitsune Remi best 2hu. :P
Arguing about waifus.
Stupid ⑨s.
+Jungler Kitsune pussy (female cat) pls, Mokou and Keine are best waifu. Orin (and Shou) is stage 5 and isn't playable *insert Sanae's laugh*
+Jungler Kitsune Good taste
People think it's hard but only like 10% of the bullets are actually aimed at you. It's mostly positioning and patterns.
Oh how funny how many know Bad Apple but less know who Elly is....
What I love about Touhou is that it is propelled by its own bullshit.
And by bullshit I mean fan stuff.
HE MENTIONED MEGAMARI. YES.
Congratulations Sam you deserve all the subscribers this channel is amazing
I hate it when people not in the shmup community try to discuss bullet hell. They always get the facts wrong and try to make it seem more inaccessible than it actually is. The games are about memorization and execution, just like any other skill-based game.
+OyVeey get your fucking butt hurt out of here, the guy did a decent video on the subject fuck off.
+THE HUMAN MEME lifelong virgin club?
+DogeOf Illuminati To be fair, the video did make the games in the genre in general seem harder than they actually are.
Are they hard? Typically, yea, but it came across that anybody who is not of Japanese origin with the natural ability to game at the level of a god would fail before they even pressed start. It could possibly make somebody curious about these games not even bother, thinking the difficulty is beyond them.
+THE HUMAN MEME
I encourage people to join our secret /jp/ club. These games are really fun if they're your sort of thing.
Saint Mauve
hellsinker is possibly my favorite game ever made, and yeah
I wish I could subscribe 200,000 more times! The show is so great and you deserve more recognition! Thanks for being excellent to us!
MegaMari isn't a Megaman "hack" but it is based on it, close enough.
Sam, you are one of the most interesting to listen to, thoughtful, and insightful hosts of almost any show that I know of on this site. I have learned about so many cool things and things that relate to those things, all because of you. Congrats on passing the 200 grand mark, because you sure as hell deserve it.
+Indie Run Thanks so much for the kind word!
What to see a GREAT MARIO TOUHOU game. Super Marisa Land. It's incredibly well done tbh.
As a fan of Touhou since Embodiment of Scarlet Devil came out, I appreciate this video
*Me, seing him not talking about Ronald McDonald Insanity, since it made Touhou more known: *Sad clown sounds**
Love this channel so much. And since this video, you're now half way to 300k. Keep up the good work sam and crew!
TOUHOU!!!!!
Nick DoubleN YEZZ
This video was released 3 days ago and you've already gained 10.000 subs. I'm honestly proud of you.
That flandre scarlet fight tho ;)
I wish Touhou Project had more fan in the West! But this is comming in... We are becoming one of the greatest family in the world!
But thnk you thank yooooooouuuuuu thank youuuuu to have made one of the rare video explaining what Touhou is on UA-cam. ~
Touhou community : ever expanding universe
UA-cam community : COPYSTRIKE! COPYSTRIKE! COPYSTRIKE! COPYSTRIKE! COPYSTRIKE! * infinity
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear long live touhou
I don't really know why watching this video made me cry, it might be because it's been a long time since I've actually PLAYED touhou rather than just ranting about it online and so I'm nostalgic or something, but y'know, thank you uvu;
I have a question pro touhou players
How can you dodge all of the attacks?
Did you memorize all the patterns?
I first experienced Touhou when Smooth Mcgroove did the acapella version of "U.N. Owen Was Her". I freaking loved the song so much that I went to investigate the source material. I ended up playing the games and I was hooked. The music, the characters, the humor, the difficulty, and the fan-base, everything about it is just so, dang, good.
*starts off with a clip of Utsuho's battle*
Until today I'm still beating myself over not being able to beat her on EASY MODO
Hey, no bad-mouthing Spacewar!/Space Wars/Orbit. The Cinematronics arcade version (my personal favorite), when played with a good friend, is one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences one can have. A simple, but challenging duel in space, with clicky buttons that felt great to use, and lots of game variations.
something that is similar to the touhou community is vocaloids but that was created by a company and some companies tried to create something like the touhou fanbase like Kancolle and Touken Ranbu
I have a friend who has most of the Touhou games and I've seen him play them. They're really fun to watch, but kinda difficult to get the hang of.
is the touhou project community like the youtube community....
oh god. Where do I start with that sentence.
i can't believe you got almost everything right! as a fan of touhou, since the pc-98 days, i have to say im pretty impressed!
Ah, the wonder of Beer Powered Creativity
Your videos are awesome, and I wish they were longer! You deserve way more subscribers!! :D
To 200,000 more firsty viewers!
I'm so happy to be a fan of Touhou. Only two more extras to beat!
nice job
This is my favorite episode yet, keep it up dude
Touhou has always interested me, but the moment I look I game play of it, I instintly put away all thoughts of ever playing these games, as that looks completely impossible.
Lunatic and Hard are the only modes that are difficult. (Hard being arcade difficulty.) Normal is very much doable and Easy is too easy. The hitboxes of every sprite are much smaller than they look and are usually near the center.
also the loli's.
+Jonah J They're really not as difficult as they seem, they just look imposing but they're mostly just about pattern recognition and muscle memory.
It would be entirely possible to play with your eyes closed, it would just take a shitload of practice before hand.
BigHairyFenian Eh maybe I'll try it someday. I'm sure It'll kick my butt, but I do want to try it at some point.
+Jonah J Don't get me wrong, you'll get whooped a lot at first, but your skills will improve quickly if you keep at it. It's really helpful if you find a veteran who can guide you through some of the basic strategies (streaming, juking, PoC, etc.)
I blame this video for getting me into 2hu
ultra mode?
+Lollipop
That's for people who can walk in the rain without being drenched
I always wondered how people beat touhou on lunatic mode, i couldn't even get past the forth stage on normal in EoSD
You dun did it again
ayy lmao
This is by far my favorite UA-cam channel, it's so interesting an unique.
i enjoy this because you don't pronouce it as toohoo
I'm very glad to see "This Exists" will talk about a topic related to a particular Bullet Hell game named Touhou. Didn't even imagined that he will do this. Still a nice video. Keep it up.