Best Beginner Shmup to Learn, Touhou 8 Imperishable Night! | Touhou Quest. Getting better at shmups (shoot em' ups) is a challenging and sometimes frustrating process. One reason for that is that older shmups tend to challenge your memorization of that specific game more than the fundamentals of dodging. Touhou on the other hand, especially Touhou 8, is a fantastic series to help you learn the genre because the design and challenge of the game is all about testing your fundimental dodging skills. Skills that you can practice and then apply to all shmups, not just bullet hell danmaku or CAVE games. What makes Touhou 8 specifically good at this is its really strong mix of fundimental dodging patterns, as well as a few puzzle ish patterns that secretly teach you fundimental concepts of reading and dodging complex patterns. On top of that IN has a very steady and helpful difficulty curve and difficulty options that start at complete beginner and end at super player, not many shmups have this variety of well made challenge. Then you add in the wide accessibility, the large variety of quality of life features (especially if you download from the shrine), the rock solid replay system, and the large wealth of information about the game, and you have a winning recipe. I know a lot of old school players tend to shy away from touhou because of the visual style and character design, but putting that aside it's almost always the case that the strongest players we see actively playing today often have their roots in the Touhou series and scene, and that's because of how the games are designed and played. The cherry on top of all this goodness though is the spell card practice mode. I never realized how good this mode is until I grinded it for this hard mode 1cc that I show in the video. The spell card mode is just as fun as playing the full runs and its very fast and dense in terms of gameplay. It also doesn't have load times or have the soundtrack restart, so it feels less janky than pure save state practice. It's like save state practice but properly built into the game. Sadly touhou remains on the pc only, but someday I would love to see the main touhou games, especially imperishable night, ported to ps4, ps5, nintendo switch, and xbox.
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19 май 2023
