Dad : "You spend too much time on it doing pointless things rather than productive things such as hobbies or schoolwork, and as a result, your grades have fallen by the wayside. Do you want to graduate from some community college around here and work as an Arby's manager for the rest of your life?"

@Kilin

http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php/topic,12016.msg789816.html#msg789816

Anyway Taizen, you know I'm just messing with you, right? I don't really get worked up over games. But my point stands. I've done several playthroughs since, and while I could knock out Lunatic in three retries on PCB, I couldn't even do it in ten. ._.

Ten retries, what the fuck.

It's not even the bosses either, it's the fucking stages. Also, the music has sucked since 12. =<

Then learn some non-GML languages and tell him you're learning something you'll need if you want to persue a CS degree, assuming you're like almost everyone else on the site and doing that…..

@Kilin

only because this bears repeating, "messing with me" or no

ten desires does not drown you in resources like perfect cherry blossom does

I do have to ask you what it is about the stages that you hate.

@Rob

Workin' on it!

Without a doubt, TD appeals toward the casual players, and simplifies everything a bit (no alternate shot types ;_;). And by resources, do you mean things you have to learn? Or do you mean the availability of lives and supernatural border? Because if it's the second, it's pretty much for that reason that I think PCB is still the easiest in the series.

Don't get me wrong, PCB has a special spot in my heart for being the first game I cleared the extra (and phantasm, mind you) stages in. It took a fuckton of grinding, a lot of breaks, and then I found out it's supposed to be the easiest game. And it makes sense, because Ran is just a series of puzzles instead of power, and Yukari is a Ran clone with slightly more difficult puzzles. However, it's that kind of element I love about a lot of Touhou bosses. Sakuya was fun to try and figure out, especially when I realized 90% of her stage is streamed.

Far as the stages in TD go, there's just a lot of "power" there, lots of randomness going on, and it gets me all the time. I was never a fan of stages in Touhou (especially after repeating the extra stages over and over AND OVER again), but in most of the other games, the stages were relatively easy to figure out.

As for bosses, well, at least they have new mechanics. Haven't seen them emphasized like that since Touhou 6. While the continue system alone makes it much easier than its three predecessors (ten continues on lunatic, what the fuck), I don't think it's so disappointingly easy that it's worth raging about. Fits in with the difficulty of IN and PCB, I'd say, but I think most of the rage comes from the tendency to die by being rammed instead of taking a bullet.

I dunno man, maybe I just suck at Touhou now.

Wait how is this not your hobby.

It severely impedes on my ability to do schoolwork, is the stance he's taking.

Learn to play the piano instead. Take up art instead. Play sports instead.

But not too much because we have a strict "no overenjoying things" policy.

I like how in the activity feed it seems as if the entry after this one finishes the sentence -

"little children and kilin's hatelist'. :P

Yeah. Sports will make it much easier to get a job than learning to program will!