Absolutely breathtaking, Gensokyo in Minecraft

[Prosis]

Video is interesting. Lot of effort, and quite a few of those places are really impressive looking. I think why a lot of people are disregarding the video is because its 45 minutes long. That's like 2 weeks by the Youtube Calendar. Should probably make another video with just the highlights. For example, that starting overhead flight and the shrine thingy was kind of underwhelming. The clock tower/mansion and that thing with all the portals hanging in the air were awesome.

As for how popular Touhou is.... I kind of view it like Monster Hunter. Huge following in Japan, not so much outside of it. I've seen a handful of memes related to Tohou, but really it only seems to be about equivalent to the total number of anime memes. You see them, just not that often (unless you're specifically googling for it or regularly visiting a touhou site)

I'm only aware of it because my youtube searches one day brought me to some music from Tohou. Enjoyed the music, looked for the game, realized I couldn't get it without sifting through a ton of torrents.

 

[dancinginfernal]

I actually have heard of Touhou, and still had no fucking clue what you were referring to when I entered this thread.

 

[Dfskelleton]

Nothing will impress me more than the guy who made Minecraft in Minecraft. No anime cities, no recreations of Tolkien's universe, etc. Until of course someone does something more impressive. I might add that the videos portraying those creations usually don't feature a camera that's strapped to one of those Vietnam era one-time miniature jet engines that fly at ridiculously high speeds and cannot be stopped once started until it runs out of fuel.

Also, I like how OP has the notion that anyone who doesn't share his love for his Japanese Bullet-Hell game is just playing a prank on him and pretending to deny the glorious light of Touhou that literally puts every other video game in existence to shame. Anyone who doesn't enjoy video games about anime girls spraying millions of projectiles across the screen with an overly complex backstory for such a thing must surely be a troll or entirely devoid of intellect.

 

[jpoon]

It was interesting and pretty creative. Not sure wtf touhou is all about though so yeah...neato I guess.

 

[LilithSlave]

pretending to deny the glorious light of Touhou that literally puts every other video game in existence to shame.

See, this is the problem. If I said things like this, I would have been being aggressive.

But I never said anything like this and these statements are complete strawmans, aggressive, and not very civil. I didn't even mention anything about how good Touhou is, I mentioned that I liked it. But I didn't say anything about the quality. I said that it was famous and that I was surprised that users here haven't heard of it.

I have visited dozens of communities, not anime related of course, and this is the first one I've visited where the majority of people hadn't heard of it. So this outrage and viciousness towards my surprise is completely unwarranted. And to be honest, wholly uncivil.

 

[Xannieros]

Yeaaah it's impressive. But I have no idea what Gensokyo is. I looked it up and I don't recognize any of the characters or terms. I think it's not THAT big of a thing.

The OP shouldn't be surprised that people don't know what it is. Seems more of a JRPG. /shrug.

 

[Mudkipith]

At least people don't know what it is, most other websites (a letter v related website in particular) would react with a level of hate unseen by mortal men.

OT: Neat, I suppose.

 

[Bigsmith]

This is really impressive, but just like most of the people who seemed to have posted I have no idea where this is from.

 

[Alhazred]

Meh, I've seen better in Minecraft. The problem is that there isn't an actual counterpart in the games to compare it to; we don't really know what Gensokyo looks like, only that there are locations in it.

The Azeroth replica is cool because you can compare it to the actual Azeroth, whereas what we have here is not really Gensokyo, but rather a reasonably impressive build calling itself Gensokyo.

 

[NiPah]

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While not much coming from a huge Japanophile like myself I love Touhou and found this video amazing. I still think Studio Ghibi's Minecraft wins, but this is awesome (especially with the music).

 

[Jarek Mace]

Raging Wapanese and Weeaboo's VS Annoyed western gamers.
This battle shall last a millennia. A very entertaining millennia. *Popcorn*

 

[4RT1LL3RY]

pretending to deny the glorious light of Touhou that literally puts every other video game in existence to shame.

See, this is the problem. If I said things like this, I would have been being aggressive.

But I never said anything like this and these statements are complete strawmans, aggressive, and not very civil. I didn't even mention anything about how good Touhou is, I mentioned that I liked it. But I didn't say anything about the quality. I said that it was famous and that I was surprised that users here haven't heard of it.

I have visited dozens of communities, not anime related of course, and this is the first one I've visited where the majority of people hadn't heard of it. So this outrage and viciousness towards my surprise is completely unwarranted. And to be honest, wholly uncivil.

What i relate to Touhou and what Touhou is are very different. I know it is a long running doujin bullet hell game by Zun. What I seem to get from the fandom and tvtropes is that it spawns lot of memes and flanderizations.

Also the amount of fan art is staggering.

 

[RN7]

Even after seeing this, I STILL don't understand the plot or concept of Tohou other than the fact that it has like 15 main characters and 150 supporting characters who all just happen to be gods or demons in the form of little girls wearing odd yet fancy clothing. And that one of them has a frog hat, which improves my image of the series in my opinion, because now someone other than Graham has that hat.

 

[evilneko]

This thread NEEDS MOAR...

And that one of them has a frog hat, which improves my image of the series in my opinion, because now someone other than Graham has that hat.

...well I was gonna say Suika, but Suwako is fine too. Nice boat.


Ah what the heck. SUIKA TIEM.

 

[tobi the good boy]

should try wording your posts better and less aggressively.

That's the thing, I wasn't being aggressive at all.

~

"I didn't realize it were possible for my opinion of the Escapist to go any lower."

Yep, not antagonizing at all, that comments just there to make people smile and scream yippie.

 

[Jaeke]

And nice to see that anyone who doesn't know what you're talking about is a troll.

No, it just shocked me so much it seemed more like a prank.

I still hold that I'm just one drop in the puddle of millions of Touhou fans.

Have fun in your pond?

Hate to break it to you but most people find anime dumb, if not childish, and judging from your blatant and pretentious reactions, I can assume you fall in this same category.

Don't get angry over dumb things, sure its cool... I guess... but it's not THAT big of a deal, at least not nearly as big of a deal as this ocean of awsome:

 

[Zeckt]

It's definitely an impressive piece of work, even though I honestly have no idea what Touhou is beyond the cracked article. Don't be so hard on us though, I won't try to revoke everybody's gamers license for not liking obscure things I love like heroes of might and magic, or Space Rangers or something.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

This is really impressive, but just like most of the people who seemed to have posted I have no idea where this is from.

I pretty much have to echo this.

I like when people take the time to make something creative. They obviously put a lot of work into it, it's an impressive piece, but I have absolutely no idea where it's from.

 

[Joshimodo]

Yeah, I've never heard of it.


At least now I know to avoid it due to rabid fans. Decent Minecraft world, but I've seen far better.

I didn't even mention anything about how good Touhou is, I mentioned that I liked it. But I didn't say anything about the quality. I said that it was famous and that I was surprised that users here haven't heard of it.

No, what you did was call everyone trolls, claim people were living under rocks, and consolidated the entire Escapist community into a low opinion status. Then ranted on about how amazingly famous and popular this thing is, despite most people here having never seen it or heard of it.

Ergo, it's a subculture that is limited to certain Japanophile areas of the web, not universal. I'm sure if you referenced stuff like Studio Ghibli, then others would know, as Miyazaki's work is actually famous, not merely popular in areas.