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What do you guys think about Current Day Touhou?

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SirtheBastard:
I've no opinion on it to be honest since I'm up to date with the new stuff released, but how about you guys? Do you think the direction of Touhou is good or not?

williewillus:
It's hard to not be disappointed by cuts like no replays and score in Touhou 19 but in general the games are still fun enough, especially for casual players, and the music continues to surpass itself year after year (with TJD containing some of ZUN's best tracks he's ever put out).

The music is the most unreplicable part of Touhou to me, so as long as that's doing fine, I'm happy.
I do hope that ZUN's chat with Ikeda (legendary CAVE employee and worked on many of their classic shmups) inspires him to put a bit more effort into the gameplay and patterns for Touhou 20.

SirtheBastard:

--- Quote from: williewillus on March 14, 2025, 07:19:03 AM ---It's hard to not be disappointed by cuts like no replays and score in Touhou 19 but in general the games are still fun enough, especially for casual players, and the music continues to surpass itself year after year (with TJD containing some of ZUN's best tracks he's ever put out).

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Huh, I've never heard news about a new Touhou CD album being released, maybe I should be more active with Touhou news I guess...


--- Quote from: williewillus on March 14, 2025, 07:19:03 AM ---I do hope that ZUN's chat with Ikeda (legendary CAVE employee and worked on many of their classic shmups) inspires him to put a bit more effort into the gameplay and patterns for Touhou 20.

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HUH?!?! That's the least expected thing to happen for ZUN...

Velociraptor:
I think modern day Touhou is great! The community feels big even in the west, the games are fun and challenging, and the music is better than ever. The small complaint I have is the recent commercialization of the series, primarily the mobile games which feature the usual predatory mobile game marketing and monetization practices. Though I also agree with williewillus that not having replays in 19 was a missed opportunity, and hope they make a comeback in 20!

FamilyTeam:
I'm not keen on being much of a downer on the newer titles, even though I do think HSiFS, WBaWC and UM were all misses and UDoALG has a good game buried somewhere under all the jank and bad decisions. The music is still for the most part good and I don't exactly think ZUN is just completely unable to make a truly great game again or something. I'm relatively excited for Touhou 20, whenever the demo for that comes out. I hope if nothing else that replays are back.

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