Is this a good entry point for the Touhou fighting games?

[AdmiralCarnage]

I've played my fair share of Touhou fan games and tried a couple of the official games, mainly Touhou 7 & 10 (though I'm not exactly the best when it comes to Bullet Hell), I've always been curious about the Touhou fighters myself, but here's the catch: I'm not good at fighting games, the only fighting game I'd say I'm half-way decent at is Super Smash Bros. Melee, so is this game a good entry point into fighting games for newbies and how does it compare to Touhou 12.3 Hisoutensoku in terms of being a starting point for the genre?

Thank you for your time.

[Sk093]

Touhou has 2 fighting games trilogies

First One:
- Touhou 7.5 - Immaterial and Missing Power.
- Touhou 10.5 - Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.
- Touhou 12.3 - Unthinkable Natural Law.

Second One:
- Touhou 13.5 - Hopeless Masquerade.
- Touhou 14.5 - Urban Legend in Limbo.
- Touhou 15.5 - Antinomy of Common Flowers.

As entry points, if its for lore then play all of them, starting with either 7.5 or 13.5, all have very fun and somewhat interesting stories, but, if its for multiplayer and competitive then just play 12.3 or 15.5....


Extras:
- Casually the third entry of both triologies is both the most balanced and most polished.

- Both 12.3 and 15.5 require an external patch to be able to play online, both are equally fun, but sadly 15.5 community is way smaller than 12.3 bc 15.5 online patch uses delay based netcode and 12.3 uses rollback for online wich is waaaaaaay better.

Hope it helps!

[AdmiralCarnage]

Originally posted by Sk093:

Touhou has 2 fighting games trilogies

First One:
- Touhou 7.5 - Immaterial and Missing Power.
- Touhou 10.5 - Scarlet Weather Rhapsody.
- Touhou 12.3 - Unthinkable Natural Law.

Second One:
- Touhou 13.5 - Hopeless Masquerade.
- Touhou 14.5 - Urban Legend in Limbo.
- Touhou 15.5 - Antinomy of Common Flowers.

As entry points, if its for lore then play all of them, starting with either 7.5 or 13.5, all have very fun and somewhat interesting stories, but, if its for multiplayer and competitive then just play 12.3 or 15.5....


Extras:
- Casually the third entry of both triologies is both the most balanced and most polished.

- Both 12.3 and 15.5 require an external patch to be able to play online, both are equally fun, but sadly 15.5 community is way smaller than 12.3 bc 15.5 online patch uses delay based netcode and 12.3 uses rollback for online wich is waaaaaaay better.

Hope it helps! :hnm_smile:

I see, thank you so much!