Guys, you keep missing the point *sigh* (It is a sharp and narrow point, I admit)
Touhou is a niche bullet hell game. ...Sure, I guess. But we aren't really talking about the game, here, we're talking about the community and culture.
Here's a analogy that kinda works. Imagine LotR was simply the Hobbit. A short story written by a dude. Imagine that everything else (The trilogy, all other side works, the movies, the merchandise, the games, the map, the language, the lore) was made by fans. But of course, there are still people who haven't heard of LotR. So they google it and say, "Oh, it's just some niche fantasy short novel."
Some mythbusting:
1) Touhou is hard.
Not really. By modern video game standards, maybe, but then modern gamers are spoiled. Demon's Souls would've been an easy game back in the day. Touhou is considered one of the easier bullet hell games.
2) Touhou is a niche Japanese thing.
Not really. And here it's important to make a distinction for America because they have a really weird anti-Japan/weeabo sort of thing going. Japanese culture is very big globally, especially the kind that often gets lumped into the anime/otaku category. You often find Spanish/French/etc. fan translations of videos and games before English ones. Is it niche? Maybe. But with the Internet, what's considered niche depends on where you go and who you ask.
PS sorry about the necro, then
PPS Gensokyo is the world in Touhou
PPPS Yes, we're somewhat of a cult. It's called CULTure. Yes, we're crazy, but in a good way =)
Touhou is a niche bullet hell game. ...Sure, I guess. But we aren't really talking about the game, here, we're talking about the community and culture.
Here's a analogy that kinda works. Imagine LotR was simply the Hobbit. A short story written by a dude. Imagine that everything else (The trilogy, all other side works, the movies, the merchandise, the games, the map, the language, the lore) was made by fans. But of course, there are still people who haven't heard of LotR. So they google it and say, "Oh, it's just some niche fantasy short novel."
Some mythbusting:
1) Touhou is hard.
Not really. By modern video game standards, maybe, but then modern gamers are spoiled. Demon's Souls would've been an easy game back in the day. Touhou is considered one of the easier bullet hell games.
2) Touhou is a niche Japanese thing.
Not really. And here it's important to make a distinction for America because they have a really weird anti-Japan/weeabo sort of thing going. Japanese culture is very big globally, especially the kind that often gets lumped into the anime/otaku category. You often find Spanish/French/etc. fan translations of videos and games before English ones. Is it niche? Maybe. But with the Internet, what's considered niche depends on where you go and who you ask.
PS sorry about the necro, then
PPS Gensokyo is the world in Touhou
PPPS Yes, we're somewhat of a cult. It's called CULTure. Yes, we're crazy, but in a good way =)
