matteste
Since: Jul, 2010
08/02/2014 00:00:00
I think the reason is really simple. They are fun to play as well as the genre being by nature addicting, and throw in a creator who makes them just for the love of it and you get a kind of feeling you are not likely to find in many other games.
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I Just Don't Understand
I'm serious. Why am I so addicted to a series of games that, by all rights, I should stay as far away as I can from?
Let's think about it.
The danmaku ("bullet hell" for you newcomers) is without number; I'm afraid that I'll start having heart problems trying to dodge them all, patterns and safe spots notwithstanding. And for a few of the games, this is even on Easy Mode.
Aside from Double Dealing Character, the plots are all instigated by those who had good intentions... and to resolve them, you must control either the hard-hitting Marisa Kirisame or the methodical Reimu Hakurei (or an occasional guest character) through six stages, blasting everything in sight in order to reach them.
The characters—-each and every one of them—-are oddballs to varying degrees. Amongst others, we have: a child-sized oni who is never seen sober (Suika Ibuki), a vampire who escapes sunlight with a parsol (Remilia Scarlet), she who adores superior firepower (the aforementioned Marisa), an amanojaku who probably took a few hints from Hunchback of Notre Dame's Clopin (Seija Kijin), and a lazy overseer who'd sic a runaway train on you given half a chance (Yukari Yakumo). The statement that there is no common sense in Gensokyo is completely true.
The artwork, especially in the older games, is rather low-quality. The gameplay (tons of bullets aside) is simplistic, for the most part. The music is excellent, but from an outsider's perspective that's the series' only real plus.
So why do I like these games? I just don't understand.
And I don't care.
Because regardless of all the negatives, the series as a whole is—I feel—second only to the NES's Super Mario Bros. trilogy as the greatest games I've ever played.