Why are the touhou games so unpopular outside of japan

Touhou is old news, Japan is obsessed with mobage shit now.

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not jrpg

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The games aren't very popular in Japan either

No pls don't bully her AVGN

The fact that only a portion of the sprite is affected by the bullets ruin the inmersion

People don't want to be good at games anymore. They want to pick up a game and get instant gratification. Same reason why fighting games are getting so casualized with autocombos and other bullshit mechanics.

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because we already have deviantart and enough shitty games as it is

>shut it
>don't get shut
>with random anime girl

here's why

That's what makes the patterns possible and all bullet hells are like this. You would have to be a huge autist to let this tiny detail affect your whole option

Because Americans want MANIME-style characters, not this sissy slice of life candy-ass, shading-less gutter trash.

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And that's a good thing

I too also want a video game based on Urotsukidoji

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Because nobody knows about them. It's not like they've ever been advertised here or anything, people only know about Touhou through word of mouth. The series has only started to get official, published releases on major distribution platforms as of very very recently, and even then, it's mostly shitty fangames and not the mainline series itself. If Touhou had been released on consoles for the past few decades, it would probably be reasonably popular in the west.

Touhou fighting games get more casualized every entries to be fair

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this, from SWR/soku there's increasing casualization and accordingly disdain from the previous games' fanbase.

If you don't play I&MP you're not a person.

Advertising is certainly an aspect that would contribute (but are the games really advertised in Japan, apart from Internet word of mouth?)
But why would console releases matter? Almost everyone has a computer that can play Touhou games.

god i want tenshi to step on me so bad

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It's too hard nigger

get good_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

A plain girl in cute clothes.

>advertising
Even a mass advertising campaign couldn't save bullet hell games. They're an anachronism nowadays and they weren't appealing to anyone except autists in the first place.

If you're not talking about the games and are referring to the popularity of the characters or some shit then kill yourself, this is Yea Forums, not /jp/.

>addicting gameplay
>superior waifus
>top tier music
>normie filter
a shame, really. It's not that popular in the west because it has no big titty sluts and it's too hard for your average gaymer, but it's coming on steam and consoles so maybe things are going to change

>No big tiddy sluts
Sanae is the biggest big tiddy slut in all of Japanese canon

>Touhou
>No big tiddie sluts

>(but are the games really advertised in Japan, apart from Internet word of mouth?)
Word of mouth is a lot more potent in its country of origin (in this case, Japan), particularly considering that all of the source material is in Japanese. Also, although I don't think Touhou is explicitly advertised in Japan per se, it works its way into a TON of other Japanese media (like pretty much every rhythm game in the arcades, for example), so in a way, it is indirectly advertised. It also has a profound presence at pretty much every anime/manga convention, as well as possessing many conventions of its own, which is naturally something that's not nearly as popular in the west.

>But why would console releases matter? Almost everyone has a computer that can play Touhou games.
Well, traditionally shmups have been more popular as arcade/console games than as PC games. There are a few Japanese shmup franchises that have (well, had--the genre as a whole is -much- less popular nowadays) a decent degree of popularity in the west and were published on consoles--Ikaruga is an example that comes to mind. Really, though, the biggest thing is just if Touhou had come through some sort of official distribution platform, of which consoles would have been the most sensible choice. With regards to PC, by the time Steam came onto the scene, shmups were already on the downturn. Look at Crunchyroll, anime has become much more popular in the west just because there's a (semi) official distribution avenue for it here now, even though you've been able to download subbed anime for ages.

I am talking about the games. I agree that bullet hell games and shmups as a whole are fairly niche these days and there's no way Touhou could have ever conceivably reached the same level of popularity in the west that it has in Japan.

Listen here you secondary pieces of shit. None of the characters have canonically large breasts. They're all modest girls.

Because touhou is actually not that good.

"Why are my shit weeb tastes not shared by normal people", asks the weeb.

Nice headcanon

Reimu will be in Smash. Mark my words.

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Touhou is unironically one of the less weeb japanese franchises

Bad gameplay thats boring inflated by artificial difficulty

Easiest shmup series still

Because it's for pedophiles.

Keep telling yourself that, weeb.

>i-it's the game bad i'm not b-bad i swear

I do because i'm right

this, little to no wish fulfillment is utilized, and it isn't even an isekai despite taking place in a sealed world. Sure you can wish you were in Gensokyo, but living in Gensokyo as a normal human isn't exactly an ideal lifestyle.

Everything wish fulfilly is pure fanon.

>there are cute girls so it's full on weeb

>it's too hard for me so it's artificial difficulty
git gud

all single-player games are inherently categorically easier than any game where you must directly compete against a human opponent, especially ones where you must use teamwork to win

that said touhou is probably on the more difficult end of single player games

>>there are cute girls so it's full on weeb
>REEEE I'm not a weeb, I'm just a pedophile!
Imagine ACTUALLY making such a retarded argument.

>it isn't even an isekai despite taking place in a sealed world
Technically anything involving Sumimi is isekai. Somewhat a parody as she gets fucked over most of the time

>single player chess against modern chessbot is easier than chess against another person

>I like Touhou so I must be a pedophile
damn that's some strong projection there

that's a bit of a stretch of the definition of "single player", it's not like playing puyo tetris vs a TAS-tier AI is any easier unless you recognize an exploit (e.g. Rybka vs Nakamura)

let me put it this way: give the average vidya player infinite tries vs any given touhou game and they'll reliably win eventually, give the average vidya player infinite tries vs a human player and you encounter the problem of the human player also increasing in skill

If it were projection the sentence would read "YOU like Touhou so YOU must be a pedophile". The fact that you put I sounds like a Freudian slip to me.

Someone post that dojin where they stick roaches up her poon.

or you could not and save hours of your life to spend them on something better

So they'll remain good you nigger faggot

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Well they aren't good for one.
The entire appeal is based on how obsessed you are with jerking your dick to little cartoon girls, which is a national pastime in japan

Who cares if anything it's a good thing

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The difference is whether the players actions are (accurately) predicted, not whether you are facing a computer or real person.

Have you ever played them? They're fucking terrible.

if you're going to be spending hours on video games you might as well play something you feel content with beating