>>23094605The games are really strange things, difficult to master unless you're really hardcore, some of the best video game music of all time combined with some of the worst official art of all time (of course it grows on most people eventually), and of course everyone's favorite, rainbow shit flying at you from all directions. It's very hard to pick up at first if you've never played bullet hell games but your skills tend to smooth out after that, expect many ragequits unless you're on easy modo.
One thing that's a bit surprising if you don't know and you're already into the fandom, is just how little dialogue most of the characters get, and a good deal of it makes no sense because it's Japanese idiom spiel. Really a fascinating thing how the Touhou fandom grew so massive when most of the characters aren't "properly" fleshed out and the artstyle is cute at best, deformed at worst.