風の祝子 ～早苗さんの妖怪退治～

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Fun little Touhou fan made game. It is a mega man clone with its own interesting control schema. I finished this game once on the steam deck.  Pros: - Nice control schema. Well like in any mega man game you can jump and shoot. This game allows you to also hover in the air and start running with the shield when the fire button is held. You also can jump infinitely and those additional jumps allow you to attack the enemy from above. In fact it is the strongest attack in the game so if you want to beat the boss well try to utilize that attack as much as possible. All of that works well with the game level and enemies/boss design. - Nice enemies/boss sprites. They are very nice and cute. I especially liked Parsee and Remilia (my beloved) ones. - Nice soundtrack. Well, those are fan made tracks that are based on the track from mainline Touhou games made by ZUN and his team. Well, it is nothing special but is good enough for this game. - Price. It is very cheap so even if you won't like it then it is not a big deal. Also you can finish this game below 2h period so you can even return it if you do not like this game that much. Cons: - No save system. I started playing this game very late. When Remilia was kicking my ass because I was too tired I just closed the game and wanted to continue it the next day but sadly I could not because there are no saves in this game. I had to start from the beginning. You have to finish this game in one go. Maybe a simple level select would suffice here? - No pause button. Yeah, this was strange. You cannot pause the game or at least I could not do this when playing on the steam deck. It was a bit frustrating when I wanted to pause but I could not when I had to answer some message on my phone. - No story. You just go through the levels and that it is, you won. There is a small segment with credits but very brief. Any story would suffice here. Maybe Remilia stole Kanako/Suwako sandals or something and now you have to take it back? Missed opportunity here for something that at least would make some player giggle. - Really short. There are 5 stages that you should complete in 1 hour. Yeah I know that it was specifically described on the steam page but yeah, a desire to have some more fun this game remains when you beat this game. Tip for non Japanese speaking users:  At the beginning, the game will ask you to configure buttons. First question is for shooting, second is jumping and last is for the hovering button. I recommend setting the fire button to RB, jumping to A button and hovering button to LB. This layout should give you a nice experience with the game. In general, a nice game that I can recommend to any Touhou fan that is looking for some quick fun with a moderate challenge. There are better mega man Touhou games but this one was not so bad in my opinion. I would really like to see more Touhou fan games on steam so people can support those small developer teams that create those small little gems for Touhou fans.