>>49675675>That's precisely what makes the games themselves lacking, they only have a few good tracks (even if they reach very high levels sometimes) instead of being consistently good across most of the OST.That sounds a bit idealistic to me, but my standards are probably much lower. I try to look at the positives of the games and enjoy the good we got instead of thinking about what could've been.
Cool of you to mention Len'en though, I enjoy JynX's music quite a bit too. I'll drop some of my favourite tracks as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSk_qU1xm8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3yEneS92Y0
Funnily enough, I tried to pick from different games but most of the choices that came to my mind first were from RMI. I guess that's the main Len'en game whose OST I'd say is consistently great, though EMS is almost there too.
>>49676931>Will deffo give Len'en series a closer look.Len'en is pretty interesting as it starts off as something very evidently Touhou-inspired, but you can tell JynX isn't satisfied with keeping the series as just not!Touhou and wants it to able able to stand on its own feet, so he spends effort fleshing out the setting and characters, and has his own personal style in how the games are made. There's more emphasis on mystery and plot, and I really enjoy the story structure and continuity in the games. Like in the first game it goes like Tsubakura base game -> Yabusame base game -> Tsubakura extra -> Yabusame extra, but you have to piece the timeline together yourself as you only unlock Tsubakura as a playable character after beating the game with Yabusame first. And I'll always find it hilarious how the entire reason RMI happened as an incident is because Lumen as the midboss of EMS extra got drunk off his ass, turned into a uncontrollable comet and blew a hole straight through the Mugenri barrier. Moreover, JynX gets pretty experimental with the later game entries, like the 4th game being this weird amalgamation of your usual danmaku but with cell-based progression, RNG enemy waves, random events and upgradable character traits, or the game after that being a phone-based cafe management simulator.
Long gushing aside, do give the series a try, but maybe after you're done with Touhou and are hungry for more danmaku so you don't need to switch the contexts too much.
