#touhou highly responsive to prayers

[foxgirlchainsaw]

Touhou: Literally All Of Them, Part 1

Hey there! This is a new series of reviews I'll be doing of Literally Every Single Touhou Game, from the PC-98 era all the way up to the most recent release. This is, notably, my first ever time playing any Touhou games. Our first game on the block is;

TOUHOU REIIDEN ~ HIGHLY RESPONSIVE TO PRAYERS

Highly Responsive to Prayers is, predictably, kind of rough and bad. Don't get me wrong, it's not *unfun*, it's fun to waste time for like 10-20 minutes on, but it's not the kind of thing one could make a series out of - thankfully, ZUN did not do that.

Anyway, HRtP is a fun, kinda short, break-out style game. It's gameplay loop is simple enough. For four stages, you as Reimu bat around a yin-yang orb either through fired cards or through hitting it with a stick. You're trying to bat the orb into these cards floating in formations around the stage in order to flip them over - once all of the cards are flipped, you win.

On the fifth stage, you fight a boss of some sort, which gameplay-wise is more familiar to anyone who's played a danmaku game. It's still the same yin-yang batting gameplay, but you have to repeatedly bash your orb into the boss, who fires simple bullet patterns at you as you try.

Overall, I'd give Hightly Responsive to Prayers a 3.5/10. It's kinda bad, I didn't end up having the fortitude to beat more than one path, and it's a little ugly.

While I'm glad ZUN dropped this style of gameplay in favour of turning Touhou into a danmaku series, I *do* think this kind of gameplay is worth revisiting in the modern day. It'd still not be superb, but I think there's interesting ideas in there. Doubt it'll happen though.

[splashgarden]

new species discovered in 1995, called "Girls",

[lagijongkok]

feel like iterating on random 2hus rn and sketched this reimu real quick yall fw this?

[koyoba]

For going on 20 years I have always been curious to learn more about Touhou, but never did because I am terrible at the games and couldn't figure out where to jump in, though honestly I know a decent amount at this point via sheer osmosis. Still, I figured that it was time once and for all to FINALLY dive in and I have decided to do so by watching playthroughs of all the main games in order

Anyway, this is my impression of Reimu so far based solely on Highly Responsive to Prayers

[noctiilio]

Are your sins worthy of my sorrow, is your existence worthy of my forgiveness, Fear me not, human, take my hand, for we shall measure your answer together.

Sariel comm!! I sincerely thank you for continuing the trend of paying me to draw my favorite bunch of favorite characters that i WOULD also draw for free completely unprompted otherwise. thankyouthankyou for feeding my wallet and brain chemicals both.

[aemulatorizrafel]

Happy Sariel day once again!

I drew an armored Sariel piece about 6 years ago and have been wanting to do another one of them like that for a while now, something a little better, more fancy! This is my first time ever doing chainmail so that was a fun experience! Enjoy~

[aragonlediagon]

Mr priest Shingyoku......

:)

The ONLY "official/canon" art of him is his crusty pc98 sprite ok im never going to use the art from the sorters/tierlists even under threat

Also I know even this as close to canon as possible one has headcanon details but shhh muscle memory

🤸 wow shingyoku singyoku (😬) touhou 1 hrtp the highly responsive to prayers

[maurofonseca]

Touhou Reiiden ~ 東方靈異伝 ～ The Highly Responsive to Prayers

[lemon-dokuro]

Originally intended to finish this for Shingyoku Day (June 9th, also when I started), but got a bit too busy with exams and all. In my interpretation, they are (formerly?) a kannushi and a miko.

[askhenrymorris]

i like to headcanon sari being the biggest creation shinki ever made, but yet favoritism comes around and considers yumeko as the strongest caliber ever made.

[void0mega]

All Touhou characters (Up to TH18)

[06/04/23]

[splashgarden]

forgot to post for nearly a month oops

[lagijongkok]

holy shit it's reimu (again!) gave my reimu design some touchups, really happy with how it turned out, prob my favorite redesign I've done so far

also expect another (unrelated) piece on sunday, been waiting to show that one for awhile now :>

[rylusussy]

For @gensokyozine