i find myself going for the reimu with concentrated fire more often than not… guess i just like getting through the spell cards as fast as i possibly can ^^; the auto collection ability is really nice for me in the first two stages though – for some reason the added burden of picking up power items distracts me and makes for so many mistakes -_- luckily restarting isn’t bad on the first stage but it’s just frustrating when i’m so careless ^^;

man, those eyes on hoi hoi reimu are kinda freaky. sectoid like ^^; other than that, awesome ^^

I love the music and the characters but this game is more unforgiving then most. The bombs just aren’t that powerful and seem to do little more then save you from a death. I play as Reimu B (with Suika). At least I think that’s the one. When you let go of all buttons, all items on the screen come to you. Her bomb kind of sucks though but the made up lives make up for it.

The farthest I’ve gotten on Touhou 11 Normal without using a single continue is almost through stage 5. Orin (or Rin), is tougher then the last boss so I’m surprised that I almost beat her my first play through (on normal). Some more practice is needed. :p

On another note, I saw this on the FG boards and thought of you for some reason…

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/gundamjehutykai/random/hoihoireimu.jpg

IN does feel like the easiest touhou i’ve played so far though marisa & udonge are giving me a run for my money ^^;; and i thought i read that on the harder difficulties it’s not necessarily the easiest but it’ll be a while before i can tackle those anyway ^^;;

i’m using the keyboard but i’m surprised you commented that i move a lot unfocused, feels the exact opposite to me ^^; in the early stages i might move around unfocused since there are fewer bullets, but i think like in stage 4 i was practically in focuse mode the whole time ^^;;

Well Impersihable Night was recommended to me as the aesiest Touhou game to start with.Out of curiosity are you playing with the keyboard or a gamepad?
You seem to move alot in regular mode and to me that one feels too fast and undprecise to control.I stay in focused mode as soon as bullets get near me

i think that’s why it was fun to play on easy – “woo hoo! i’m winning!” ^^;;

in chireiden there’s even more incentive – it increases your point item multiplier and (if you graze enough bullets fast enough) enables autocollection below the autocollection point on the screen.