The real question at hand is how do they meme so well? The characters appear as either the character you play as or bosses of levels and are all intertwined with each other in terms of storyline and relationships, but we can go on for days talking about that. We are talking fairies, devils, witches, ghosts, that kind of thing. Now, all but a few of the characters can be identified as being rooted or inspired at some level by folklore be it Japanese or otherwise and are commonly referred to as youkai. While not much is known about him, he is a former employee of the Japanese game developer Taito Corporation who apparently began creating Touhou games to get beer money.
Actually, the Touhou series is programmed entirely by one man who goes by the name ZUN.
These games are also dirt cheap to produce since they are not very graphically intensive and can be ported to either Windows or older existing arcade or console game hardware with ease. "Bullet Hell" video games are on the upper echelon in the Japanese gaming scene requiring lightning quick reflexes and the ability to maneuver through countless patterns of bullets to prevent death. You're playing as the little girl (indicated with red dot) at the bottom of the screen and if you touch anything else in the field, you die. She is one of the characters in the Japanese video game franchise Touhou Project.Īlso known as Project Shrine Maiden, The Touhou Project (東方 Project) is a Japanese indie game series focused on bullet hell shooting arcade, created by the one-man developer Team Shanghai Alice.Īs you can see in the screenshot, Touhou gameplay is quite similar to that of classic "shoot 'em up" arcades like Space Invaders and Raiden. This pretty little lady is an ice fairy, has her own lakeside real estate, hates frogs, is only around 60 years young, and is known to be called an idiot.
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