have you ever thought to yourself: “what if more games, and specifically the Touhou bullet curtain games for windows, had a space on the screen where your character could communicate a constant feed of her current emotional state to you in the semantically dense Grotto Toad glyphs of Goblet Grotto (2012)?” well now you don’t have to imagine it, because i’ve made a series of artist’s renditions from the final bosses of games 6-19 in the Touhou series.
Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
Blood - Blood - I don’t want to die - Sound of panic/hyperventilating - Sound of panic/hyperventilating - Blood blood blood blood
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Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom
Weeping - I’m hungry - “Meaningful silence” - Sound of panic/hyperventilating - Sound of panic/hyperventilating - Sound of panic/hyperventilating
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Touhou 8: Imperishable Night
I do not understand the map - I do not understand the map - I can never be healed - Searching for medicine - Treated by false doctor - Treated by false doctor
Searching for hidden door - Night - Hello friend - Hello friend - I do not understand the map - I am searching for Gemerald
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Touhou 9: Phantasmagoria of Flower View
King’s road - Death death death death death death - Dario is searching for me - I don’t want to die - [SCREAMING] - [SCREAMING]
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Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith
Haunted lake - Temple - I am afraid of Dario - I regret everything - Take my wallet - Take my wallet
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Touhou 11: Subterranean Animism
I have fallen into a pit - Sorcery - Sound of panic/hyperventilating - Sound of panic/hyperventilating - I am on fire - The birds are too loud
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Touhou 12: Undefined Fantastic Object
Sorcery - Scroll - I lost goblets - I am completely lost - I can’t find the exit - I can’t find the exit
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Touhou 13: Ten Desires
Got goblet - Let’s trade - I am searching for clay pot - I am searching for Mirror Shield - I am searching for Lion Sword - “Bury me with my goblets”
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Touhou 14: Double Dealing Character
I am searching for goblets - Hello friend - Hello friend - Goblets goblets goblets goblets - Hello - My goblets were stolen
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Touhou 15: Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom
I can never be healed - I have been submerged in filth - I have been submerged in filth - I have been submerged in filth - [LAUGHING] - Got Gemerald
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Touhou 16: Hidden Star in Four Seasons
“Who is there?” - I’m starving - [GOD] - I have starved to death - I have starved to death - Hidden
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Touhou 17: Wily Beast and Weakest Creature
Hello - Please stop biting me - I do not understand anything - Dario is searching for me - Dario is searching for me - I have been killed by horned beasts
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Touhou 18: Unconnected Marketeers
[GOD] - Let’s trade - Take my wallet - Goblets goblets goblets goblets - Agora - Goblets goblets goblets goblets
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Touhou 19: Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost
I have fallen into a pit - I do not understand anything - Please stop biting me - I do not understand anything - I have been killed by horned beasts
Hello - “Meaningful silence” - “Meaningful silence” - “Meaningful silence” - Bones
all screenshots were taken by myself with the exception of the EoSD screenshot, which was graciously provided by my friend @emberlily, so now you know exactly where my level of ability to play any given touhou was at the time of making these screenshots. UDoALG was lunatic and i was screaming the whole time