Wow, we're only a week away from release! Before Touhou Crisis comes out, I'd like to introduce some ways to play to help maximize your enjoyment!
Despite its modern design approaches, Touhou Crisis is made to play like a certain series of classic arcade lightgun games. So while it can be played with a mouse and keyboard, I did a lot of testing to make sure it's playable with a lightgun and pedal.
Below I'll be going over some hardware that I personally recommend picking up to help play Touhou Crisis and other lightgun games on PC.
This isn't a very exhaustive list nor will I go into a terrible amount of detail as there are plenty of guides out there that go deep into this stuff. Hopefully, this little post will serve as a good jumping-off point for you to get into lightgun gaming at home!
The Sinden Lightgun
The Sinden Lightgun is probably the device that set off the recent surge in interest for lightgun games. It's largely due to the way it works, which deviates from the usual "infra-red" tech that most modern lightguns make use of. The lightguns of old previously went the way of the dinosaurs since they relied on CRT tech that modern LCD TVs and monitors couldn't make use of, but the Sinden solves that through the use of a camera in the gun barrel literally looking out for where you're pointing on your screen!
You can check out a video on it here for more detailed info:
I've got it myself and there's even built-in support for it in Touhou Crisis, so I am absolutely biased on this.
A Wii Remote
If you still got your good ol' Wiimote from ages ago, you can pair it with your computer to play all sorts of games! For the best experience, you'll also want to pick up the Mayflash Dolphinbar to enable proper tracking on the darn thing.
That's not all though, to play Touhou Crisis, you'll have to install software like TouchMote so you can convert your Wiimote button presses into mouse clicks!
Dinky E-Commerce Pedals
If you only plan on getting a pedal for playing specific lightgun games, getting one of these plastic foot pedals off the web isn't a terrible idea. They're not super durable, but they're cheap and will last long enough for you to think about whether or not you like pedal action gameplay in the first place.
Dance Pad as a Pedal
If you're a big dance game guy like me (or you just like doing Dark Souls challenge runs) you can hook up your pad to your computer, get a program like Joy2Key to bind one of the pad's buttons to the pedal key and go at it like that!
Alright, that's it, there are a couple of cool products I haven't brought up like the Gun4IR lightgun and the Elgato Stream Deck Pedal but I'll leave some of the fun of researching to you, see you all next week!