Touhou

What is Touhou? People like me who have gone deep into this particular culture of Japan will probably know about it.

Touhou is a game series very famous in Japan. What kind of game? A vertical danmaku shooting game. What is danmaku? Bullet hell! It means that most of the time the screen is covered with bullets. So you have to survive through that. For experts, they can get away without a scratch.

I first discovered Touhou due to some of the characters, but I didnt go too deep into it. Wasn't too interested in it at that time. It was during an anime party in Uni that I saw a fighting game based on Touhou characters. I found the game that night, and start playing it. I got hooked!

After that I downloaded the whole game series(excluding the non-windows ones, yupe it exists before windows). It has pretty high difficulty, so a bit of practise is inevitable. The bullet patterns are creative for some, and beautiful for others. Beautiful but deadly can be used here. This game already had 9 games for windows, with the tenth one releasing soon I think. Including the 5 non-windows games, 14 games are currently released.

Why is this series popular? For a game of its kind, the cast of characters is huge. Up to the most recent game it has more than 30 characters. All the characters are lovable in their own way. My favourite is a vampire named Remilia Scarlet.

It has spawned a lot of fan work. Doujins, music, anime, videos, other games, they are everywhere! well, in Japan =.= This shows how popular it is.

Its difficult to tell you all about it, thats just a glimpse of it. For more information, go to the Touhou Wiki. To end this post, I will put a picture with the most casts. (I think you can click on it to enlarge)