No.107859
>>107771And Patchouli's being okay with Alice's presence instead of throwing shade at her
No.107906
>>107764Some people might call her a thief but she actually just
borrows things
indefinitely.
What she
steals is your
heart.
No.107911
>>107906I guess it's fine so long as she takes responsibility for stealing my
heart.
>>107909I'm sure it's going to be different for everyone, and for me it's a little tough to describe succinctly.
I guess if I had to boil it down to a few key points it would be:
Her friendly personality and bright demeanor are appealing to me.
She has a lot of implied depth, especially in regards to how she carries herself in public vs her more introspective private self.
I love how she's portrayed as this hard working underdog in a world of people with immeasurable and monstrous power, it makes her easy to cheer for.
Lasers are cool.
>I'm personally more of a Reimu fan so I don't really get her.I used to be a fan of Reimu too but she's really fallen out of favor over time due to numerous writing decisions ZUN has made with her. I actually really liked the scene in FS where Reimu killed the Fortune Teller, I felt it was compelling in the sense that it demonstrated that Reimu is committed to her role and it laid the foundation for an interesting conflict of interests down the road, but then it and everything it set up was seemingly undermined as Reimu just dodges the ethical dilemma of Kosuzu going down a similar path in FS's utterly disappointing conclusion. Reimu also just kind of became a dumb jobber in games like SFW and UDoALG and in the manga CDS, which didn't really help matters. Speaking of CDS, I though Mizuchi was insufferable so I'm sure you can imagine how I felt about Reimu's halfassed solution to the Mizuchi problem. The way ZUN has been treating both main heroines since LoLK has been pretty disappointing, but it feels like Reimu gets it worse since she's
the main character.
No.107919
>The way ZUN has been treating both main heroines since LoLK has been pretty disappointing, but it feels like Reimu gets it worse since she's the main character.
To be fair, he’s an old man now, he probably doesn’t care about his games that much anymore now that they’re so popular. His latest game was filled with messaging about AI that nobody cares about except Reddit trannies. I think he just wants to make the games and doesn’t care how the characters act or what the story should be now since normalgods will just play or not care about the story anyways.
No.107920
>>107919>His latest game was filled with messaging about AIHe doesn't really even say that much about AI. You could really just boil it down to two things:
1. There is a lot of AI garbage out in the wild.
2. AI is a thing and it's best to just accept it for what it is.
It's a very milquetoast take on the topic.
Also you forgot to post
Marisa.
No.107921
>>107919I mean he literally said that he just treats Touhou like a personal journal where he writes what's currently bothers him.
It's pretty obvious that he has different priorities now.
I don't really hold any ill will towards him for that, but I do think that he should just finish the ongoing print works and just retire.
Also
>>since normalgods will just play >Implying that normies actually play the games. No.107923
>>107919Honestly his implementation of AI as a subject in FW pales in comparison to how awful the NFT/crypto chapter in LE was. I'd even say he did a pretty good job in 20, it's not too "in your face" and he managed to make it fit within universe.
The crypto chapter in LE on the other hand just came and went and it felt super forced and out of place.
No.107925
>>107921I think he meant players that just play the game once on Normal difficulty before moving on to other things they enjoy. >>107922 is correct that this is a Marisa thread first though, even if I do enjoy critical analysis of Touhou characters and lore that's probably a subject better left for the LE thread on /amv/.
Anyway
Marisa is my
golden goddess and I enjoy seeing her be cute in official media and fanworks alike.
No.107932
>>107920>Also you forgot to post Marisa.No alice? Ogey then. Here’s a ‘risa.
>He doesn't really even say that much about AI.I guess? Yukari in one of endings goes on a whole thing about AI and it’s evils (which I guess is just yukari being an old woman) but in general the story having AI as apart of it’s message at all seems out of place.
>>107921 is probably right and he’s just writing about AI because it bothers him, but it really feels out of place in the story, even with how simple the story is.
No.107934
>>107925>I think he meant players that just play the game once on Normal difficulty I see, I might be retarded then.
>107922 is correct that this is a Marisa thread first though, even if I do enjoy critical analysis of Touhou characters and lore that's probably a subject better left for the LE thread on /amv/.I disagree.
When a discussion naturally pops up, it's better to just let it run its course, rather than forcing it out of the original environment.
Also using LE thread for this feels inappropriate to me, if anything it should be a separate thread.
No.107937
>>107934I suppose, I just don't particularly want to to impose myself as a new poster on the site. It's best to try to fit in with the board culture wherever you are.
As for a thread discussing Touhou grievances, while it could be an interesting discussion I'm a little hesitant if only because it's a topic that, in my experience, nobody really seems to agree on. Some people just have nitpicks, some want the games to end, and others would argue that the series was just never good at all. It ends up being kind of hard to have a coherent discussion because nobody really agrees on what Touhou should even be.
I'm also not a big fan of sentiments like "ZUN should retire", it just feels dismissive of his efforts or desires for the series.
>>107932Cute 'risa dude.
No.107943
>>107937>I'm also not a big fan of sentiments like "ZUN should retire", it just feels dismissive of his efforts or desires for the series.X should retire is a valid argument for when an artist has gone the corporate route and made so much money and given up so much personal freedom/creativity to people in suits that they lose their personal flair. This has never and will never be ZUN, so I don't see why the argument should ever be applied to him.
No.107944
>>107943Because he clearly doesn't care about Touhou anymore?
No.107947
>>107946I don't think there are really, truly bad mainline Windows-era Touhou games aside from UDoALG.
FW was neat but I wish the gimmick was better balanced. Too many useless shots.
No.107949
>>107918It's funny because she prefers Japanese food.
No.107950
>>107947Me neither, I mean, my favourite Touhou game of all time is actually WBaWC, which unfortunately people seem to despise. I really liked the Hell arc, I thought the power struggles it displayed and extra lore that it added to the place was great and the Yakuza factions (plus Keiki) especially add to the place. The build-up to it in printworks and whatnot was also really cool. Gameplay-wise I thought it was super satisfying, nothing beats getting that full beast meter and becoming the boss for a little bit, just raining hell on everything you see.
FW is my second favorite, I agree with you on the shot types but at least it still has more useful shots than, say, MoF and SA
combined.
No.107951
>>107949Thirteen breads. I'm a little disappointed there doesn't seem to be any art of Marisa turning down bread, clearly such an important part of her character just lost to the sands of time.
>>107950I don't think I've ever seen anyone call WBaWC their favorite. It's a cool game though, I feel like it fixed a core issue I had with UFO's gimmick so I appreciate it for that alone. Otter was a little overpowered, and while it's hardly the game's fault or an issue at the time I'm pretty thoroughly sick and tired of the Animal World families.
No.107952
>>107951>Otter was a little overpoweredIt was, but that was balanced out by it being very
boring.
No.107957
>>107956Armpits and a flat chest erotic...
No.107959
>>107956I love cute and flustered Marisa.
>>107958I think a little Marisa bullying is fine.
No.108303
I want to lick Marisa's perfectly flat tomboy chest while I slowly trace the contour of her generously sized butt.
No.108309
>>108303Is it weird that I think of Marisa in a more platonic manner than sexual? Don't get me wrong, I would love to have mind blowing sex with the witch, but what I
really want to do is cuddle with her and listen to her talk about how her day went.
No.108310
>>108303One of the most delicisous bodies in Touhou
>>108309Honestly same
No.108326
>>108309That's because she's a tomboy
No.108409
>>1084081 or 4, there's no point to it if she isn't aware of it.
No.108410
>>108408my body is moving on its own*
No.108416
>>108408Not a big fan of hypno stuff but 1 and 4
No.108417
>>1084081 and 3, though I way prefer 1.
No.108586
>>108582I would steal her panties. eratohoTW docet.
No.109019
>>107950none of the shot types in MoF are bad. if anything, MoF has the smallest gap between the "best" shot type and the "worst" shot type, despite Marisa's considerably larger hitbox. this is probably because every shot has the same bomb so you can brute force your way through the game with bombs no matter what shot type you are using
No.109020
>>109019I disagree, there's a significant gap in performance between some of them. ReimuC is significantly worse than her other 2 options (and this is coming from someone who loves spread shots) and both MarisaA and MarisaC just aren't worth how gimmicky and restrictive they are compared to MarisaB or even ReimuB.
Like seriously, when was the last time you booted up your computer and told yourself "hmmm today I will play MarisaC on MoF"?
No.109028
>>1084081, since all others aren't actually Marisa being 100% Marisa
No.109325
>>109321I love that image so much, happy drunk 'risa is so fucking adorable
No.109490
What if marisa was purple?
No.109494
>>109493You're not fooling anyone you blue-eyed impostor!