Best controller?

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arent bullet hells better with joystick?
I'm the wrong person to ask, since I haven't played a variety of shmups nor have I played any with a joystick. I imagine it varies by game. Touhou uses a keyboard by default, and it often requires rapid little adjustments that I think would be hard with a joystick. I started Touhou using an analog stick and I found it noticeably easier once I switched to dpad. I imagine it might be different for an arcade shmup designed with a joystick in mind. At the very least, I don't think shmups are like fighting games, where joysticks are almost universally preferred across the entire genre.