Absolutely breathtaking, Gensokyo in Minecraft

[Hazy992]

Great. Is there any way for me to legally acquire a copy without having to learn Japanese?

You don't need to know Japanese to play it. As other have stated, it's a shoot em' up. It doesn't actually need a story, for playing, at least. Major fandom, yeah you might kinda want to know what they're saying. Playing, no.

And there's lots of places that sell it. J-List of course being one of them(if the site's porny-ness doesn't scare you off), and I'm sure Gensokyo.org knows all the best places to buy it. They have a very strict no-piracy policy. Also, patching isn't illegal.

So it never got an official Western release and you're wondering why no-one around here has heard of it? Seriously? That's not to mention the fact that bullet hell shooters aren't that popular in the West anyway.

 

[BENZOOKA]

Anime or a game or something? Anywho. Incredible amounts of effort and time are put into these Minecraft creations.

 

[LilithSlave]

I think that many of y'all and the Escapist in general take the term troll far, far too seriously. Some people use the term troll to merely mean things like "pranking" or "joking around", instead of "saying the most offensive possible thing for the sake of riling people up".

I wasn't trying to rile up anyone and that comment about gaming licenses was just a joke. Some of you here have created an incredibly pointless shitstorm and given me a warn level over this. I meant absolutely no offense and it should have been clear from my words. I think that if anyone needs to lighten up a little, it is many of y'all. And not take offense merely for the sake of taking offense.

I was honestly surprised at the lack of being known around here of such a big internet meme. Disagreeing is one thing, but being outraged and attempting to punish a user is another.

I know very little about Touhou except what I've picked up from TvTropes, and this...

Oh hey, speaking of TvTropes, TvTropes, like Terraria Online, is another one of those non-anime online communities that have a quite sizable number of Touhou fans.

Actually, in my experience, anime sites don't talk about Touhou that much.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=v4k5j7s6rf1avbg6o55m2keo&page=0
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=yci5c9o4sux9pa1gajmuooqm&page=0
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12914835130A21108100&page=0
The various Touhou threads in that section might actually have more posts than all other games put together. Also, I've never seen an anime site that has as many posts about Touhou as non-anime sites.

It's kinda funny, it is. People who don't know about Touhou will say it's "oh some weaboo bullet hell shooter which went out of style ten years ago", completely ignorant of the big ass community and a shitload of fanworks which lie beneath the surface.
It only changes once you actually start peeling that onion and you'll notice it has infinite layers.
Hundreds upon thousands of different fanworks ranging from Youtube videos, songs, books, comics and games, to name a few. It's all right there in front of you and you just don't see it until it's too late and you're sucked up in the endless vortex of content. (Yes, I play Hisoutensoku, and yes, I'm bitter because it cost me my soul)
It's the thing that still keeps Touhou alive and popular.

YES! Someone who gets it.

The number of Touhou videos and video views on youtube alone, is surely equal to or greater than Team Fortress 2 views.

 

[Syzygy23]

I, literally, have no idea what you are talking about.

Then you've just lost your right to ever play video games again.

I'll be taking your license to play video games now. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

Googled this Touhou thing... It looks and sounds like the most generic anime crap I've ever seen. Also, that map is TINY. The guys who did the World of Warcraft in minecraft did the entire warcraft world, ALL OF IT to scale.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I think that many of y'all and the Escapist in general take the term troll far, far too seriously. Some people use the term troll to merely mean things like "pranking" or "joking around", instead of "saying the most offensive possible thing for the sake of riling people up".

I wasn't trying to rile up anyone and that comment about gaming licenses was just a joke. Some of you here have created an incredibly pointless shitstorm and given me a warn level over this. I meant absolutely no offense and it should have been clear from my words. I think that if anyone needs to lighten up a little, it is many of y'all. And not take offense merely for the sake of taking offense.

I was honestly surprised at the lack of being known around here of such a big internet meme. Disagreeing is one thing, but being outraged and attempting to punish a user is another.

I know very little about Touhou except what I've picked up from TvTropes, and this...

Oh hey, speaking of TvTropes, TvTropes, like Terraria Online, is another one of those non-anime online communities that have a quite sizable number of Touhou fans.

Actually, in my experience, anime sites don't talk about Touhou that much.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=v4k5j7s6rf1avbg6o55m2keo&page=0
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=yci5c9o4sux9pa1gajmuooqm&page=0
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=12914835130A21108100&page=0
The various Touhou threads in that section might actually have more posts than all other games put together. Also, I've never seen an anime site that has as many posts about Touhou as non-anime sites.

Ahem, you got that warning because you overreacted. Don't blame us and our ignorance of touhou for that. Perhaps we don't need to lighten up as much as you should try wording your posts better and less aggressively.

 

[LilithSlave]

should try wording your posts better and less aggressively.

That's the thing, I wasn't being aggressive at all.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

should try wording your posts better and less aggressively.

That's the thing, I wasn't being aggressive at all.

Obviously people see differently than you do.

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

Someone has a lot of time on their hands, damn.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

This is the closest the escapist gets to a fight.

 

[Weaver]

I know of the Touhou (I first heard of the project in 2005), but they're not really very popular outside of Japan and 4chan.
Team Shanghai Alice don't even have an English website; making it very difficult for English natives to even acquire the games.

 

[Prosis]

Video is interesting. Lot of effort, and quite a few of those places are really impressive looking. I think why a lot of people are disregarding the video is because its 45 minutes long. That's like 2 weeks by the Youtube Calendar. Should probably make another video with just the highlights. For example, that starting overhead flight and the shrine thingy was kind of underwhelming. The clock tower/mansion and that thing with all the portals hanging in the air were awesome.

As for how popular Touhou is.... I kind of view it like Monster Hunter. Huge following in Japan, not so much outside of it. I've seen a handful of memes related to Tohou, but really it only seems to be about equivalent to the total number of anime memes. You see them, just not that often (unless you're specifically googling for it or regularly visiting a touhou site)

I'm only aware of it because my youtube searches one day brought me to some music from Tohou. Enjoyed the music, looked for the game, realized I couldn't get it without sifting through a ton of torrents.

 

[dancinginfernal]

I actually have heard of Touhou, and still had no fucking clue what you were referring to when I entered this thread.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Nothing will impress me more than the guy who made Minecraft in Minecraft. No anime cities, no recreations of Tolkien's universe, etc. Until of course someone does something more impressive. I might add that the videos portraying those creations usually don't feature a camera that's strapped to one of those Vietnam era one-time miniature jet engines that fly at ridiculously high speeds and cannot be stopped once started until it runs out of fuel.

Also, I like how OP has the notion that anyone who doesn't share his love for his Japanese Bullet-Hell game is just playing a prank on him and pretending to deny the glorious light of Touhou that literally puts every other video game in existence to shame. Anyone who doesn't enjoy video games about anime girls spraying millions of projectiles across the screen with an overly complex backstory for such a thing must surely be a troll or entirely devoid of intellect.

 

[jpoon]

It was interesting and pretty creative. Not sure wtf touhou is all about though so yeah...neato I guess.

 

[LilithSlave]

pretending to deny the glorious light of Touhou that literally puts every other video game in existence to shame.

See, this is the problem. If I said things like this, I would have been being aggressive.

But I never said anything like this and these statements are complete strawmans, aggressive, and not very civil. I didn't even mention anything about how good Touhou is, I mentioned that I liked it. But I didn't say anything about the quality. I said that it was famous and that I was surprised that users here haven't heard of it.

I have visited dozens of communities, not anime related of course, and this is the first one I've visited where the majority of people hadn't heard of it. So this outrage and viciousness towards my surprise is completely unwarranted. And to be honest, wholly uncivil.

 

[Xannieros]

Yeaaah it's impressive. But I have no idea what Gensokyo is. I looked it up and I don't recognize any of the characters or terms. I think it's not THAT big of a thing.

The OP shouldn't be surprised that people don't know what it is. Seems more of a JRPG. /shrug.

 

[Mudkipith]

At least people don't know what it is, most other websites (a letter v related website in particular) would react with a level of hate unseen by mortal men.

OT: Neat, I suppose.

 

[Bigsmith]

This is really impressive, but just like most of the people who seemed to have posted I have no idea where this is from.

 

[Alhazred]

Meh, I've seen better in Minecraft. The problem is that there isn't an actual counterpart in the games to compare it to; we don't really know what Gensokyo looks like, only that there are locations in it.

The Azeroth replica is cool because you can compare it to the actual Azeroth, whereas what we have here is not really Gensokyo, but rather a reasonably impressive build calling itself Gensokyo.

 

[NiPah]

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While not much coming from a huge Japanophile like myself I love Touhou and found this video amazing. I still think Studio Ghibi's Minecraft wins, but this is awesome (especially with the music).