Comments on: Girls do their best now and are preparing.

Girls do their best now and are preparing.

squidlarkin — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:15:42 -0800

The Touhou, or Shrine Maiden, series of "curtain fire shooting games" start off challenging and quickly become hard enough to satisfy any hardcore gamer/masochist. They're also gorgeously crafted works of art, and were created in their entirety by one man, ZUN. If you want to play them you'll have to import them* from Japan, but you can download the demos here.
* site sells naughty things as well. Don't order at work.

By: squidlarkin

squidlarkin — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:16:08 -0800

Direct links for those not wanting to wade through Japanese text:
Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Perfect Cherry Blossom
Imperishable Night

By: squidlarkin

squidlarkin — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:18:31 -0800

Also, at least one of these was mentioned in a previous post, but I thought they deserved their own.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:27:26 -0800

What is an lzh file?

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:35:48 -0800

It's a compression format. WinRAR should be able to open it for you. (maybe new winzip too)

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:32:06 -0800

The third link should point here. And it seems badly designed, anyhow.

By: luckyclone

luckyclone — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:48:57 -0800

Have I just stepped out of my normal, everyday reality and into the world of fucking maniacs?

By: Bugbread

Bugbread — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:51:50 -0800

Dunno, what's your definition of fucking maniac?

By: hypersloth

hypersloth — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:58:00 -0800

Neat games, but ow, my retinas.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:44:39 -0800

I'm really enjoying Mono. It's a very clever little hypnogogic shooter.

By: InnocentBystander

InnocentBystander — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:41:51 -0800

If you want more wacky Japanese shooting games, I'd also suggest the work of this man: ABA Games They're all incredibly hypnotic and set to funky trance music. His design style is interesting as all the games use abstract polygon thingies as characters and vehicles. My personal favorite is TUMKIKI Fighters, which has a neat twist that whenever you kill a bad guy, you can catch his falling ship and add it to your own. And Parsec 47 is like playing an acid trip.