-I think people overrated FW because the fanbase is deathly afraid of criticizing difficult entries (even if FW's balance is so wildly bad that the game can switch from being the easiest in the Windows mainline to one of the hardest depending on your loadout). It has a number of really strange design choices and fails at both balance and at providing compelling customization.
-HSiFS on the other hand is heavily underrated, it's a very gimmicky game but the balance is immaculate and you can run practically any combination of character and subshot and still have a good time.
-ZUN is terrible at wrapping up long running story arc, I've always known this but I think CDS helped me realize exactly why. He's really fucking bad at tying up stories in a way that's thematically cohesive and satisfying. CDS made this really obvious because the final battle hinges on this really poorly set up philosophical struggle between "Gensokyo is a crime" and "actually Gensokyo good" that just doesn't get a satisfying resolution. Nothing is solved, the good guy just threatens the bad guy until she decides to behave, most of his longer story arcs end in "and then character was defeated and it didn't really mean anything". This isn't an issue with most of the games, since they're self contained and the endings in them generally just need to wrap up a few loose ends and provide cute character moments (since the burden of carrying the dramatic climax of the story can be, thanks to the medium, shouldered by the final boss confrontation and the way the player experiences it through gameplay).
-The entire western fanbase is shit, if they're not secondaries spouting obnoxious memes they're probably massive tryhard faggots that jerk off over how hardcore their pointless challenge run is. Lunatic 1cc? Cool, I do those too and I respect the gusto. Lunatic 1cc + I didn't bomb + I didn't lose a life + I had one hand on my cock the entire time? You're just being an attention whore. At least scorefags, as big of cunts as they can be, are competing in something the game cares to measure. Challenge runs are just masturbation.

>>50122684
I do not like Mizuchi in the slightest and I still agree, it's such a weird character assassination moment for Suika. Like she was always kind of a low key manipulative and secretive asshole, but having her just throw someone under the bus like that when she herself was the one that had encouraged the behavior that necessitated Mizuchi's death.
And is it weird that I think Suika "regretting" that and just letting her run wild in Gensokyo makes me hate her more? It's weird, she went from a solid top 5 hu to I don't care where and I didn't even notice until a few days ago.

>>50122829
LE has a good number of men. As for men in mainline games, I'd have to say no outside of silent "accessories" like Unzan. Touhou has a very specific aesthetic with a very specific tone, adding male characters just to have male characters would ruin that.

>>50122877
You very obviously started playing the games with LoLK.