Let's Play Touhou Blind (Part 1) EoSD: This Is Supposed to Be Easy Mode!?

[@UmbrakineticMusic]

"I have never played a touhou game in my life, ever." _grabs popcorn_

[@PikachuLee]

Same

[@rjplays8397]

@COOLkid123 goodForLife_103 lol k

[@daothanhhai711]

@@rjplays8397 i see what u did there

[@Fogolol]

haven't played either and that's why im here As far as i can tell, it seems this is going to be a ride

[@jadebayoba7073]

@Samuel Houlding noob

[@logansmith2703]

Those "STOP DOING THAT"s at the start were hilarious

[@yuyureishinoshojo]

i was dying laughing xD

[@cavegamer0139]

I totally agree but... STOP DOING THAT!!!! XD

[@Mitzi-chan224]

Yeah. 😂 Touhou 6 was like: "No, I'm not gonna stop!" Lol

[@55alegria]

The worst part: he choose to start with 2 lives without even noticing it

[@SleepyPathos]

“This is-o h, n o...” That pretty much sums up Touhou in a nutshell

[@logansmith2703]

"Do something hard" Half a second later "OH GOD I DIDN'T MEAN IT

[@PinaColada104]

37:27 "So why are you stretching out your arms like that?" *I'm T-posing, Duh.*

[@Phantasmagoria32]

*It's easy when your drunk with ZUN*

[@andrewnguyen1117]

Easy at the start, but gets real difficult by the end. Exactly like drinking with ZUN

[@User-gk1yi]

I just want thank you for being a down to earth kind of guy and not constantly yelling and over exaggerating everything that happens ingame like other KZbinrs, this instantly makes you 500 times more likeable.

[@graysongdl]

I feel bad for taking a month to respond, but thank you! Most of the reason I do KZbin in the first place is because I'm disappointed in the way a lot of channels work nowadays and I try to be like the kind of channels I wish still existed, so it always makes me happy to hear that people think I'm succeeding at that goal!

[@andrewnguyen1117]

“I just want to see what Lunatic Mode looks like” #FamousLastWords

[@lunar1905]

I think you did pretty good for a blind playthrough! You learned a lot of game mechanics by yourself. From reading the other comments, I see you have moved on to Touhou 7, and I think that's a good idea. Because Touhou 6 is not very beginner-friendly due to the following reasons: 1. No visible hitbox while focusing. 2. No enemy marker at the bottom of the screen (so you don't have to look up to see where the boss is). 3. Final stage is not accessible in Easy mode. Once you get better at Touhou games, then you'll find it easier when you come back to this game. Here are some tips and tricks you might not know yet: - A bullet's hitbox is generally smaller than what it appears to be. Especially those huge bullets you encounter in the midboss of stage 4. - When you reach full power, you can move to the top of the screen to collect all items on the screen. But beware of moving into enemy or bullet. (Newer games make it easier to do this) - Try to bomb as much as you can. Because when you die, your unused bombs are wasted. (Not applicable to some games which has a different bomb and power mechanics) Finally, I just want to say welcome to the Touhou Project series. It'll be a long journey to play through all the main series games. The spinoff games are amazing as well. Me and other Touhou fans will be happy to guide you along the way. You'll probably regret calling Flandre Christmas lights when you eventually fight her in the Extra stage...

[@graysongdl]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! All I really knew going into it was that there was a bomb, and a "thing" (which I later learned was called focus) that slows you down and shows your hitbox (though I knew from 6's download page that it only shows the hitbox 7 and onwards). I didn't even know the buttons, because I thought the game would tell me, or at LEAST tell me in the key config in a way that isn't "01, 02, 03," etc. It actually took me a while to figure out how the "enemy" marker worked. I saw it at the bottom, but had no idea what it meant. I figured it out eventually, though. I actually have played this game a bit more in between the other games I've been just getting to 50% on. And I've actually installed the hitbox patch, because I thought it'd make it easier. I also finally remembered you can give yourself more lives. I play a bit off camera, then once I get to where I was stuck previously, I start recording and hope I can get further. I made it to 70% on EoSD! I didn't know that thing about the bigger hitbox. I think Reimu's gonna be easier to play overall. I did know about moving to the top and getting everything, but I'm a bit more concerned about living than I am points, at the moment. In the later episodes (after I've learned this), you can actually see me moving to the top when the screen is empty, like before a boss shows up. I wish I could use bombs effectively, but I never know when I'm in "true" danger. Sometimes I'll just get through something that looks super threatening without needing to, and other times, something that looks super easy will give me trouble. I don't have a way of telling when I "need" the bombs. If I knew how to use bombs effectively, I'd have beaten the game by now. And maybe as the games go on, I'll improve my reflexes so I can bomb faster when I'm in a REALLY impossible situation. Thanks again! I was only going to play the main games down the list, but if you think I should include the spinoffs too, I could give them a try! Just as long as you don't mind how terrible I'm probably going to be at the fighting games, having never played many other fighting games in my life. I already played 8, but I could go back to 7.5 if you think I should play all the spinoffs, too. The only real reason I wanted to skip them to begin with was because I didn't think anyone who watches my videos would care about Touhou. I never expected this video to be more popular than all my other ones.

[@slashine1071]

The walls of text has awoken!

[@johnjoh2034]

It still is possible. Eosd was my first normal 1cc, and the skills from it have a good carryover to other gamrs in the series.

[@Zack_Zander]

Improvise, Adapt, Overcome That’s pretty much the only way to become better in Touhou.

[@codyrobinson8987]

downloaded touhou eosd for my first touhou game because I heard it was the first one for windows, and after 12 attempts was so happy to have beaten it on normal mode. Now I have people telling me that I tortured myself by playing the harder one? I did this with splatoon 2 as well by playing the octo expansion before anything else. On a separate note, love the profile pic :)

[@walfasremi190]

"I never played touhou before" Me: I'm sorry...little one

[@iversonsilva793]

For a "no focus" run you did surpringly well.

[@andrewnguyen1117]

For a “first play through” it’s quite impressive. I tend to watch a lot of play through which usually let me get through Normal or Hard mode in the early game. (Edit: I mean before starting playing Touhou. Now I am just naturally going for Normal Mode rather than Easy when playing the new games) But I feel like my sanity is leaking out whenever I attempt Lunatic...

[@haphephobia]

What is focusing- İ've been stabbed back my whole life?

[@TotallyStatue]

on my first playthrough I figured out you could focus almost immediately, could say I was a natural. those were some fun pacifist runs. took me like... 8? 9? attempts for me to realize I could fire

[@asianpengi680]

Obligatory “EEEEH? EASY MODO?” Joke

[@PRINCENARCISSIST]

If you think Lunatic mode is hard... Phantasm Mode is just pure hell (Pun Intended)

[@R24-m1k]

I hate to be a party popper, but... Phantasm is easier than lunatic. It's not as... lunatic, you know? Sorry I'll go

[@atijohn8135]

@@R24-m1k Lunatic might bring the difficulty to the moon, but the phantasm difficulty is truly... phantasmal.

[@flyingburger3990]

The playlist has over 100 vídeos...I am gonna witness someone becoming a touhou fan trough out this?

[@graysongdl]

Pretty much.

[@Bladehound83]

I believe the enemies talk about eating people a lot because most of them are demons or something.

[@darkace98]

Vampires, actually

[@kristianperez4108]

Youkai

[@cooleecoolee9504]

Vampires: heh im the only known monster in the world Youkai: hold my blood wine

[@grimmtroup2324]

Youkais and vampires

[@n.f.ch.m.ph.67]

I think vampires would be a type of youkai (and fairies another one) in this game, as "youkai" refers to monsters and supernatural creatures in general.

[@nikmaxter]

Just discovered your channel. I really like how you are learning from this series from zero. I feel like you deserve more recognition.

[@graysongdl]

Thanks! That really means a lot to me. I'm glad you're enjoying the series so far. I've definitely come a long way since the days of not knowing what "spell card" means.

[@clevrb1860]

@Nikmaxter Same

[@Fogolol]

i'm here learning along as well! Wish me luck!

[@Shifty-012]

This is likely one of the best let's play's I've enjoyed in awhile, thank you.

[@graysongdl]

Aww, thank you! That makes me really happy to hear! :)

[@Shifty-012]

@@graysongdl Yeah really, I really enjoy your laid back attitude during most of these videos. Meta youtubers these days are just straight annoying sometimes. but Again thank's a lot, i'm gonna enjoy watching this let's play series of yours for awhile!

[@AlphaBoy1807]

I've been wanting to get into touhou games lately. Thank god for your channel so I can see what I'm getting into lol. Gonna enjoy your lets play

[@librask3009]

I didn't realise just how much easier "easy difficulty" was

[@logansmith2703]

"I shouldn't speak with my WORDS" Honestly this is more fun for me to watch than playing STGs

[@clockworkcat8576]

GASP you read the text ;∨; people never do that. I'm very happy

[@Cyril86]

Danmaku games sure are fun, eh? Also: Always better to use a bomb than lose a life, though can't always react in time, unfortunately.

[@Time-stretch]

Im new to touhou and watching you is a nice intro to it. Also your non over-exageration makes it seem like your actual having fun. Edit:OMG He is still hearting comments on vids this old thats true dedication there.

[@graysongdl]

Just so you know, editing a comment automatically un-hearts it. XD I'm glad you're enjoying so far! I thought I already replied to this but I guess I got too distracted before I went to sleep. Whoops! The goal of my channel is to be like the let's players I wish still existed, which means being genuine instead of exaggerating everything to appeal to children, like oh so many channels unfortunately do nowadays. I really love reading comments like these because they assure me I'm on the right track, so thank you!

[@Time-stretch]

@@graysongdl no problem dude. KZbin needs more people like you. Listens to the comments, still reads comments from old videos. You deserve WAY more then 1k subs. Alsl good job on 1k

[@mikofanboy9711]

oh wow It's had already been half year since I found out your channel :V I remember at that time I was search "Touhou" on youtube and set the filter to "today" then I saw this video, at that time it only had 3-4 views :v you are the first gaming youtuber who doesn't have a facecam in the video that I subscribe to and I glad that I continue to watch this channel :3

[@graysongdl]

Aw, thanks! Yeah, it's amazing that I've been doing this for half a year. Over half a year ago, I decided that I wanted to try a new "popular" game that I never played since I've been living under a rock. I don't remember if I mentioned it in my series or not, but the choice was between either Touhou, or Yume Nikki. I couldn't decide which to do, so I asked a friend (Emily), and she said I should do Touhou first. Then instead of being a simple thing that I did for a couple episodes before quitting, it turned into a thing where I'm *still* doing it this many months later because people like it.

[@Anon21486]

I will admit, you did a pretty good job for your first time... And yes, Lunatic Mode is just that, for Lunatics. From past experience (only played to TH10... or was that TH11), the first 2 stages are always misleading and the difficulty usually picks up fast in the 3rd stage. I think there is 1or 2 times when the stage began to pick up in the 2nd stage though...

[@CarmsCelestia]

Yeah, that gets worse from 6-10 at least. In touhou 2-5 the difficulty curve is rather smooth, leading to a good learning experience, while starting with 6 there is always a spike. I was able to No miss No bomb Stage 1-3 in TH10 on hard before clearing stage 4 on normal

[@znfd6947]

Thanks for doing a full playthrough!! Much appreciated :D cant wait to start this playlist and follow along

[@Paradee477]

I’m gonna watch this whole playlist overtime, aren’t i?

[@graysongdl]

I don't envy you, having to hear my voice that long would suck! :P Jokes aside, if you do, I hope you enjoy!

[@Paradee477]

@@graysongdl nah your voice is actually pretty good, i’m gonna watch the whole thing B)

[@shadowcreeperthe4thwallbre6]

My god An actual Touhou let's play series

[@mysterymuffn]

This man is sagume. He says he's doing good then dies immediately. Everytime.

[@Curseofculture]

First time playing touhou huh this is gonna be worth a watch

[@Error_Snow.]

"do something hard" *_1 second later_* "I DIDN'T MEAN IT, I DIDN'T MEAN IT, I DIDN'T MEAN IT!!!!"

[@CrimCrim]

My favorite part is when he said stop doing that

[@lilestojkovicii6618]

Honest gameplay You got my sub

[@pokemonkarma]

My guy lost on Icicle Fall. Haha that's funny considering it's a meme in the TouHou community for how easy it is

[@Cieln0va]

Neither have I, but bad apple is great and I wanna get into it

[@yousefslimani99]

I'm Glad You Played Touhou 6 Firstly Because The Fans of Touhou They Recommend Playing Touhou 6 First for Those Who Never Played Touhou Game Before!!

[@theflightguy8726]

S T O P D O I N G T H A T ! !

[@loboxpc98]

I just got this video on my recommended and ... EASY MODO!?

[@jadebayoba7073]

This is going to be fun

[@jemmawalker4485]

Touhous still good I want too play it. I'm lucky I came across it by accident searching for another game. Thankyou for uploading game play it's not that scary now.

[@owonapikins]

Just started playing these games myself. So Ill be playing along with you lol

[@DreadTeamLeader]

13:47 for a cursed image

[@splnter648]

I wonder when he’ll discover about the POC

[@abarette_]

dying on Icicle Fall in good fashion

[@austinwiley733]

I have never seen a touhou game in my life

[@Dukstless]

No comments about Cirno's blindspot? Truly a miracle.

[@cooleecoolee9504]

Shes a fairy give her a break

[@andrewnguyen1117]

COOLEE COOLEE “⑨" Only Cultured Touhou Fans knows

[@skitsschist11]

Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about

[@WomanSlayer69420]

don't. use. marisa. A. It's the biggest mistake you can make if you're new to touhou. She's too fast, and needs precise movement just to hit an enemy. Also, you do realize, high speed and requiring precision is easily the most unfriendly to beginners. If you are new to the whole idea, play reimuA, then reimuB, Play reimuA defensively, just hold down Z, look at your side, dodge bullets and use shift if needed. Bomb if you feel like you can't handle it. Play reimuB if you feel like you could grasp most of the spellcards if they don't last long, as she could easily rush a midboss/boss spells and make the fight a heck-of-a-lot less eye-straining, except that it comes with one downside. You would have to go out of your way to aim for the enemies, dodging their projectiles while you do so.

[@graysongdl]

I was only trying this game out for the first time in my entire life. I just wanted to try Marisa out for the fun of seeing how she compares. And I mean... You do realize this is only the first episode of a currently 67 episode series, right? This video's 5 months old.

[@daothanhhai711]

marisa helped me beat extra lol

[@HyperVanilo]

Touhou 6, the gateway to every newcomers, welcome to Hell

[@graysongdl]

Bullet hell, to be precise. I didn't think I'd end up liking the series, but even though it's hard, it's really fun so far! Maybe one of these days, I'll actually beat one of these games. Probably an unrealistic dream, but hey, it might happen SOME day.

[@HyperVanilo]

If you want nightmare, PC98 is for you, no focus button. you can see The player hitbox from PCB and onward

[@graysongdl]

No focus button? That sounds crazy. Well, I wasn't planning on playing the PC-98 games for a while, but if you think there are any games outside the "typical order" you want me to play, then I'd be happy to check them out. This includes like, the "retro era" and the #.5 games, or the #.3 games, etc. So if you have any recommendations, feel free to suggest them!

[@HyperVanilo]

My only recommendation is beating the game, beating the game is a good accomplishment for newcomers, then 1CC Normal, later on you manage you beat the game without using bomb and no death, you become curious and trying to 1CC Lunatic, next step is hardcore 1CC Lunatic No Miss (capture all spellcards), No death and No bomb, 1CC LNN for short. Extra stage is optional to see how far you can get with your decent skill, then you can advance to another game

[@graysongdl]

I was told that beating the games wasn't important for enjoying them, so I moved on to the next two games, and maybe some day, I'll go back and beat some of them. I'm mainly thinking of the near future. I'm not gonna 1CC lunatic mode this week or anything. Maybe I will EVENTUALLY if I play the games enough, but I don't want the series to just stay on the one game forever, and have nothing interesting going on besides retrying the same parts over and over again.

[@GrimTzu]

EHH?!! EASY MODO?!??!!1 HOW LAME EASY MODO IS FOR KIDS GIT GUUUUD Just kidding, nice playthrough man keep it up.

[@GrimTzu]

LMAO my man still givin hearts to comments, new sub.

[@yousefslimani99]

No Death Sound Effect!! 13:11

[@Teampikachou]

Go to W.C Grabs your phone and say "I AM NOT HERE !" Close and lock your doors Eat a good BIG BURGER for not being hungry Prepare your brain for not being crazy Prepare your fingers Launch the game And verry good you now ready to play easy mode for the 5 next hours

[@ssjcrafter8842]

I'm watching this while I'm playing this game also 37:44 I think I understood it(only took me a few hours, perhaps a day), I think it's because that stance kinda looks like +, even though it's supposed to be like Jesus when he was stabbed but then again I'm guessing that it's just connected to math, while decimals remind me of number with dots(sorry, English isn't my first language so IDRK) and 39:46 I think it's because if you die you lose all your power so they give you a chance to survive instead of being stuck with no damage, so not exactly pity...

[@graysongdl]

I think part of the joke is supposed to be that 十 is 10 in Japanese. "The decimal system" actually refers to the numbering system almost every language uses, where there are 10 different numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9). But it is a LITTLE confusing because the dot in numbers like "9.5" is called a decimal point. So Marisa is just saying Rumia looks like the number 十.

[@ssjcrafter8842]

@@graysongdl oh, thanks, didn't know that Also surprised you actually looked at this comment

[@idkwhattoputhere8753]

*EEEEEEEEEEHH? EASY MODO?*

[@Azrielfiend]

lol, don't be salty. You are a newbie after all. Use ReimuB because it deals more damage and has wide attacks. (or not if you found it harder.) Don't use Marisa, her hitbox are bigger and she's faster than Reimu, a way to get yourself easily killed, i would say. Go at the top to collect all powerups when you're at a max power. Easy mode is hard? Boy, try Ultra extra mode. Use shift to slow down often. If there's too much bullet on screen, don't focus on collecting powerups. You'll die very quickly. It's a bullet hell game after all. What did you expect?

[@graysongdl]

Thanks for the tips, but this video is over half a year old. I know/do most of these things now. Plus, I already knew how to focus in this video. Still, appreciate it!

[@Azrielfiend]

@@graysongdl you're welcome!

[@noonecansavethedamageisdon9725]

...salty boi

[@lynchie2073]

is that seriously teto territory i hear in the background?

[@somerandomweebo6367]

You need more subs, good sir! As a side note, where did you get this game from? I can't find it anywhere.

[@graysongdl]

Thanks! As for where I got the games, I got them from a site called Moriya Shrine. Though recently, ZUN has been releasing them on Steam, so I'd recommend checking them out there. Not all of them are there yet, though. I'm not sure how long it'll be until he releases EoSD, if he does. And if you buy the Steam versions, you'll have to apply the English patch manually, which isn't too hard, but I thought I'd mention it. store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=%E4%B8%8A%E6%B5%B7%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E5%B9%BB%E6%A8%82%E5%9B%A3

[@lemonhead1571]

I know there's lore in Touhou, but what the hell is going on in the first game? ...Or the second? Y-you know what, what's going on in general?

[@andrewnguyen1117]

This... this comment basically sums up a first play though of Touhou

[@M1RACLEWEAVER]

Hank Hill plays Touhou

[@SaturnSenshi3105]

About to start these games soon. Is scarlet devil the first one?

[@graysongdl]

It's the 6th one, but the first 5 require an emulator to be played. It's your choice which one you start with, I just chose this one personally.

[@LilyKazami]

Christmas lights? No, no, there's something else that comes to mind here. imgur.com/a/RqhOcmL That conversation with Marisa v. Rumia is actually a very accurate translation, but it depends on a certain thing about Japanese. Namely, that their character for the number ten looks like a cross. So when Rumia goes "Hey, don't I look like Jesus?", Marisa goes "Nah, just some math."

[@graysongdl]

Ah. I understood the first part when I was playing it, but didn't get the second. Thanks for the explanation! Also, thanks for the new potential Flandre nickname.

[@fabianklevenz4800]

Blind play troughs are better *laughs in blind pacifist undyne*

[@Valtsu0]

Just blame the fact that your game was running ~4% too fast

[@IkaraPopsicle]

*STOP DOING THAT*

[@skyreapergamer1832]

I have never played a touhou game and yet i refuse to play on easy. am i stupid? no i just wanna play it the way it was meant to be played

[@andrewnguyen1117]

No, I agree with you. Even “if” I don’t know how to play, I don’t put my standards low for easy mode

[@deploration]

hard space invaderer game

[@graysongdl]

Agreed.

[@Maric18]

"stop doing that" was a bit right? because unlike a hard-coded behaviour in a video game, you as a human are capable of thinking and learning that it will keep doing that

[@graysongdl]

Yes.

[@Maric18]

@@graysongdl good xD

[@mikofanboy9711]

if the main game are too hard you can play the fighting game spin off

[@graysongdl]

It's not really that I'm not enjoying the games, but if you want me to do a specific non-main-series game (like the PC-98 games or "#.5" games), I'm open to suggestions. Otherwise, if I get no specific requests, I'll just keep going forward in the list of "main" games.

[@mikofanboy9711]

If so then I suggest you play Touhou 14.5 and 15.5 :D

[@graysongdl]

Like, right now? Or eventually when I get to them in the list? My original plan was going to be to do the games in order after 6.

[@amandasnow9363]

#stopdoingthat

[@ArtzyxArtzz]

I had play it its easy to me ! When i suck at it

[@Mitzi-chan224]

I'm... kinda good at Touhou so, I play on Normal mode.

[@scarletal7270]

you are so lucky my game is for some reason 30 times faster than that i cant even make it to stage 3 without dying instantly

[@graysongdl]

I think that's a glitch. Have you tried looking for fixes on Google?

[@scarletal7270]

@@graysongdl thank you so much i was stupid to not try that

[@nanakokuroi3619]

Easy modo?! )))

[@kura_video]

*stop. doing that.*

[@graysongdl]

What?

[@rockettaco]

@@graysongdl When the menu kept going to the demo xD

[@colleenkay9433]

Dude, you had a high score of 1,000,000 before you played, this is not blind, but pretty much blind, yep, you had a high score

[@graysongdl]

If you go to 17:09, you'll see that those scores belong to "Nanashi", which is Japanese for "nameless". Meaning that nobody actually got those scores, it's just the "default" high score table that comes with the game. They're only there to be replaced by the players' own scores, which is also why they're all so low. Basically every game that *has* a high score table does this. I'd actually be IMPRESSED if someone managed to get EXACTLY 1,000,000 points in a run, not a single more, not a single less. I'm not even sure if it's possible without hours of trial and error, considering you get points so fast in this game. The same thing happens in every other Touhou game, too. I'm flattered you think I'd be dedicated enough to go through the trouble of getting *exactly* 1,000,000 points on every single Touhou game before doing this series. But that's a lot more work than I was *actually* willing to put into this series.

[@colleenkay9433]

Oh...

[@colleenkay9433]

Well, Undertale players are like raging hard

[@colleenkay9433]

Most...

[@colleenkay9433]

Well, might as well play Touhou

[@spiffylog1451]

Ehh? Ez modo?

[@grimmtroup2324]

Eeeeeeeeeh eazy mode?!!!!! Who lame only kids play in eazy mode Posdata: this a meme of the comunity

[@nyanevans5304]

Eehhh?! easy modo?? Only kids play on easy modo! Kya ha ha ha ha!

[@IgroSome]

*STOP*

[@graysongdl]

...What?

[@IgroSome]

@@graysongdl the beginning part, where the screen kept coming up while you were trying to do the intro

[@graysongdl]

@@IgroSome Oh, for a second I thought you were telling *me* to stop.

[@IgroSome]

@@graysongdl oh, lol sorry

[@walfasremi190]

@@graysongdl no really stop playing this game or else you'll legit cause WW3

[@gensokyodumpster8386]

STOP DOING THAT