>>1919
Either Junko or Sagume.

Shinmyoumaru was my favorite from DDC.

>>1833
That's how I was, too. I wasn't very interested in shmups before getting into Touhou, but I thought I might enjoy them a lot. I do, what prevented me from being more into them in the past was their difficulty and how much practice is involved.

You don't need to be a pro at shoot 'em up games to beat a Touhou game. You just need tons of patience, time and practice. I think that people like us who sucked at shoot 'em ups but kept playing Touhou over and over for weeks or months trying to beat the games are more devoted fans than people who beat the games with little effort and mocked others for being bad at them. Let alone secondaries who claim to love Touhou but don't play the games because they're too hard. Saging because this thread is rather kuso, you shouldn't be unable to be someone who plays the games and someone who is obsessed with girls and "waifu bullshit", playing the games is what should be making you fall in love with them, considering all the effort you have to put into playing them if you're not experienced with such games.

The Satori boss fight in TH11 is really, really good. You know her spellcards change depending on what character you play? It makes sense cause she reads minds. Satori means "seeing into one's true nature." Thank you for reading namaste.

>>1882
>and mocked others for being bad at them

You left out that part. I've seen so many people say "LOL TOUHOU ISN'T HARD" but they've played shmup games all their lives and don't really like Touhou that much in the first place. But whatever, it doesn't really matter.

>>1833
>To them: You and I are worlds apart. You don't know the characters as I do.

Holy shit, this. I'd like to emphasize this a bit.
I also kind of forced myself to get into Touhou. After hearing about it over and over from a friend I played with on Runescape, and being frustrated by his increasing absence due to the games, I've decided to begrudgingly try it. My first game was Imperishable Night, I think. I was surprised with just how difficult the games were, and the entire genre was completely new to me. The game seemed to be making fun of me for losing and even taunted me for playing on easy mode (which I though was insanely hard at the time). And I was getting my ass kicked by little girls to boot. There was no way I was going to let myself walk away from the game without beating it first. Before I knew it, I finally cleared Normal difficulty and unlocked the extra stage. I decided to challenge myself. "This'll be the last one. I'll beat this on Lunatic difficulty and be done with this game," I told myself, but by then I had a lot more fun than I'd like to have admitted.
Getting to Mokou was insane, and trying to beat her even moreso. She'll always hold a special place in my heart, being my first EX boss, from only beating Normal difficulty just twice, I don't think I'll ever experience that kind of leap of a learning curve and the effort I had to put into pushing through that. She's literally freaking immortal, and super cool to boot. Her theme rocks too.
I know I'm just rambling on now like a nerd, but what I'm trying to say is that what this guy says is entirely true. Now I'm hooked to Touhou and couldn't be happier. I never got to thank my friend for getting me into it, though...

Probably this

>>1680
>I never really found the games to be frustrating, though- it's very difficult, to be certain, but it's exactly because it has such a simple premise (don't get hit) and manages to be both challenging and entertaining that I find it appealing.

Same here. If I did not like it, I would not have practiced it so much. I just think that those who are only playing it for the fandom would find it irredeemably frustrating.

>>1681
I generally pay attention to the entire screen/pattern, unless it's one that requires extremely precise micrododging. I never actually set out to pay more attention to the rest of the screen, I just found that as I played more I got used to where my character was and was able to pay attention to the danmaku on the whole screen better (instead of the just the bullets immediately around my character). It does help greatly in not getting trapped, though.

>>1673
I'm surprised at how many people here are bad at the Touhou games. Every other touhou community I've gone on is filled with scary people who have 1CC'd every game on Lunatic. I just barely managed to 1CC EoSD on Normal, but I realized I had it set to 5 lives for some reason, so I'm going to eventually redo it with the default number of lives.

>>1813
We take it wasy

Does it have to be touhou?

You know, I am really surprised there are no takers. People complain about people not scanning shit all of the time.

Aquaplus has a Touhou roguelike series that's quite entertaining if you like the japanese take on the genre(ie. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and the likes). Name is Fushigi Gensokyo IIRC.
Touhou Pocket Wars is an awesome timekiller. You can start directly from the 2nd one if you feel like since the plot is pretty unimportant and it's the better game.

http://moriyashrine.weebly.com/official-touhou-games.html

Here's Urban Legend in Limbo, if anybody prefers to torrent it or whatever: http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=694697&showfiles=1

I downloaded the file and everything seems alright so far.

http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1080199

>>1792
Is there an English version out yet?

In case anyone's interested, the full game is now out.

>>1801
Which who in the what now?

Numbers 4 and 5.

#3

>>1443
3rd and 4th from left are such cuties

4-6. In that order.