The Legend of Dark Witch

A Mega Man-like platformer with Touhou-like aesthetics, and a very fun customizable difficulty system that makes replaying it addicting. While the second character available to play as is mediocre, it forces you to use the sometimes underutilized special weapons from the bosses to make sections easier. Play it! It's fun!

Megaman gameplay with Gradius style upgrades mid stages make for a really neat game filled with cool secrets, super charming early 2000s era doujinsoft key art / spritework , and awesome music by RAITO of Melty Blood fame. It's really not perfect, if you died to a boss and lost your dammage upgrades you're boned, the little hidden collectible seigas can suck to track down for upgrades and bonus stuff , and as cool as having an upgrade shop is, it encourages spending a big chunk of the early game grinding for tres. Even if the game is pretty short, it has a lot of NG+ stuff to mess around with, especially with lunatic difficulty and the additional playable character. Even with the clunk and being overshadowed by its sequel , Legend of Dark Witch is a very precious little game to me. (You're also better off getting this version than the remake imo. Pretty sure both run on the exact same engine with renovation grossly smoothing over sprites and upscaling backgrounds into some midjourney mish mash for the sake of a higher resolution.)

If you'd like to play this game there is a remake of it on steam that even feature's the original graphics as an unlockable. I'm not really sure why they're still selling this version on steam.

This is PEAK game music

Control are not friendly and make it confusing and difficult to play.

ロックマン系を想像していたらグラディウス系で、道中の回復は無いです。 ロックマン系をやりたい人は買わなくていい