QUESTIONS MEME

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THE QUESTIONS MEME

A first big 'n successful round of apps has concluded and the game is getting off to a roll - since there are always brains to be picked and new pals and acquaintances to be made, how's about we all play a little getting-to-know-you game?

HOW TO PLAY:
• Leave a comment below with your name and the characters who you play.
• Respond to others' comments with questions - they can be about their characters, their current in-game plans or things they'd like to play, their CR, RP in general, their canons and fandoms, or most anything else.
• Answer questions you've received! Keep it short or TL;DR to your heart's content, depending on how much you have or are in the mood to say!
• After each answer you give, ask a question back to the person who answered you. Keep the thread of questioning up for as long as both parties are game!
• Go for it - make friends, make new plans, make anything you like!

Comments

[chainlinks]

So seeing as I mostly know Touhou from fangames, is there a large lore with them and do the games follow each other?

[koishi_komeiji]

There's a ton of lore but most of it is skeletal. The contents that fills out backstories etc is largely fan created. There are some unspoken universal things that the fans agree on and sort of follow for the most part but the rest is pretty fluid. It's why you have such a high degree of variance between character and tone interpretations but the canon stuff is what keeps those interpretations within a given and recognizable range (parodies and memes excluded). It's why fans tend to have the saying "Everyone has a Gensokyo they hold in their heart" acknowledging that everyone's varied interpretation is as valid as anyone else's.

Incidentally, this is also why the wiki can be fairly useless for RP purposes since each individual player will have a slightly different interpretation.

As for the games... Side-games excluded. they're fairly self contained. Each one follows the resolution of an "incident" and characters from previous games will occasionally show up to help solve the incident or act as repeat antagonists. The games may reference things that happened in previous games but not always. Usually references happen in places like the official manga or other printworks.

I've watched persona games being played but never really played them myself. What is your favorite aspect about the gameplay in the various games and what are some of your favorite strategies for difficult encounters?