Bullet Visibility?

[Gnasty Gnome]

Anyone else struggle with discerning the bullets from the background. A lot of older Touhou games had darker backgrounds making bullets distinct in the foreground.

[Groen90]

yeah, visibility in this game is... a known issue, if you can call it that?
I don't even think it's the fault of the background brightness, it's just that often the background is the same color as the bullets. There's also the problem that the season items are not transparent enough, making a mess with the bullets and the item pickups on top of that.

[ChurchGorilla]

It's because season items overlay everything. To fix that, grab Thcrap and install season item patch.

[Acubens]

Yes. Worse bullet visibility of all touhou games

[KoishiHat514]

I guess it's supposed to be a part of difficulty?
IDK

[Washing Machine]

Yeah, first experience I had was in stage1 was "holy moses, what is all this" then realizing the little confetti is actually pickups. It's really distracting that they move down on the screen as well, but guess something that the player ought to get used to in time.

Agree with bullet visibility thing though. Orange and yellow bullets in a brown and yellow background is big oof. Fortunately it's only first few stages where this felt like a problem I guess? Could be worse.

Unsure how to utilize the season barrier thing properly anyway, it removes bullets in a radius so I guess it's like a secondary bomb, but it often leaves one random stray bullet right near me and my invincibility is immediately gone at that point so I tend to get hit. Oof.

[Sicris]

It's going to vary based on your monitor. I've had issues with visibility on LoLK stage 3 on one monitor yet on a completely different monitor visibility was just fine.

[100% lob juice]

It's mostly stage 3 that has bullet visibility issues