Hello guys, today I wanna show you one of my all-time favorites:
The Touhou Project
Touhou is an infamous "Danmaku" or "Bullet Hell" shooter, known for its near impossible levels, catchy music and endless fan made stuff.
What exactly is Touhou?
Touhou is a serious of vertical scrolling bullet hell shooter games, developed by team "Shanghai Alice", I say team..even though it's just one person. "Zun" or Ōta Jun'ya (太田順也) does everything, he programs it all, he does the art, the music, it's simply amazing.
There are over 20 official Touhou games as of right now, today I am going to show you one my favorite Touhou games, even though it's fanmade!
Touhou Fantastic Danmaku Festival
Touhou Fantastic Danmaku Festival is a Chinese Touhou Project fangame made by StarX.
Gameplay and Controls
The gameplay is simple, you have to dodge EVERYTHING and I mean literally everything.
You start with 2 lifes indicated by purple diamonds at the right side of your screen
You start with 2 bombs indicated by green diamonds at the right side of your screen
You control your character with the "W" "A" "S" "D" keys
Pressing "shift" will make your character move slower and it will make your hitbox visibile(it's just a tiny red dot), using the shift key is extremely important.
Use the "z" key to shoot
Pressing "x" will activate one of your bombs, bombs are used to escape tricky situations, as they will destroy enemy bullets
Why do I like Touhou that much?
First of all, I love Touhou because of how difficult it is, you will have to spend a lot of time into Touhou if you want to clear even the normal difficulty stages.
Secondly, Touhou has the best music of every game in my opinion, trust me, you will find some true peaces of art.
I also love thinking about what kind of math the programmers used to make the different patterns, as I am a programmer myself and also work on a small Touhou clone as a private project.
I hope you liked my small Touhou FDF review.
Have a nice day everyone!