The result "should not be an ordinary game. It may offend everyone. It may even offend Sony."
... Oh boy... Zun's going down this path, is he...
Dose anybody remember a year or so ago when Hideo Kojima was developing Metal Gear Solid 5 and he gave a huge bit of detail about Quiet (the sniper deprived of her clothes) and said that "you will feel ashamed of your words & deeds"? A pretty bold claim to make at the time that got people really speculating and guessing about what would be so special about this new character.
When the game was released, we found out it was all simply "Lol guys, she breathes through her skin!". Everybody thought it was stupid. Everybody was not ashamed of their words or deeds. Everybody was disappointed in the end.
The moral of this story: Don't let developers excite you too much about a characters new direction or design. You will ultimately be left disappointed each and every time. Yes, I know ZUN is nothing like Kojima but I am using Kojima as an example of how developers talk about something great or epic happening in their next new project and then intimately people don't think the reveal is as good as originally said before release.
Sorry ZUN, but you don't have any track record of having your Touhou project being offensive, shocking or emotionally dividing. I am skeptical in your ability to make a move in this direction, especially when you have specialized in heart warming, light hearted games for appropriately 15 to 20 years. Nothing in the Touhou series has ever rocked the foundation or been a real game changer in the overall series of things except for new characters being added into the lore. I am not saying that he cant pull it off (I hope he douse), but what I am saying is that your claim about the new addition being "offensive to everybody" just makes me not hold my breath over it and I say to myself "sure, we'll see". I'll decide for myself when it's released if it's offensive or not (I doubt it).
InB4 Reisen fights the giant mechanical spider... I mean, nobody fought it in LoLK and something like that just demands it be fought! :derp: