I started with the PC-98 games and SoEW was the first game I played all the way through (though that's more because the Windows games wouldn't work on my computer than anything else, thanks Ubuntu) and to this day I genuinely prefer the general tone, atmosphere and characters of the first five games to the later games, they're just lighthearted silly fun instead of being forced social commentary on Japan's isolationism or whatever

I miss when Touhou didn't take itself so seriously