Touhou Lensed Night Sky, Kaseigai

I think I found this game looking for Touhou games on steam during a sale one time. I think this is a truly special kind of game with an incredible presentation and heart that offsets the very blatantly fanfic-y feel of the story. The game is a like a sequel to Unconnected Marketeers in terms of gameplay (Touhou shmup stages, has a shop occasionally pop up during stages, etc), but with a very Binding of Isaac inspired balance where unlocking everything and making utterly busted loadouts is the goal. One thing I will note is this game is Extremely Western fanfic in terms of it's dialogue and humor which is... interesting. Let's just say there's a ton of swearing, Fumo's are spare lifes in this game, and a random reference to Payday 2. Also interestingly the first few playable characters are Reimu, an older Sumireko, and Chiyuru with Yumemi, with an emphasis on the story of the game being a groundhog day loop. Which said story leans heavily on some old long standing fan theories and alludes to elements to other fan things like Concealed the Conclusion. Also the art is honestly pretty good, the pixel art of the gameplay feels very Studio Pixel inspired (The Cave Story guy) and the Portraits from That One Helltaker's Touhou Guy are nice to look at, along with the very painterly CG's makes the game unique in how it looks (and honestly the mishmash of styles is on brand with Touhou in general lol) The only real bad of this game is... It's kind held together with duct tape and dreams. Once you start getting into the extremely broken loadouts to the game and/or start getting into the autosave system this game has (which you will, as crashes can occur) the stability and performance of this game gets all sorts of whack which can hamper the enjoyment (I should know, I ended up getting a crash against the stage 6 boss with Ms. Unlockable and ended up with no shots, weapons, anything on playing from the autosave with a slow movement speed of ungodly proportions that made me barely unable to beat the final boss at that point) Despite that, I still recommend giving this game a shot, it's a truly unique Touhou shmup, and it'll make you want to hug some Fumo's.

Really good game! Plot is incredibly good for Touhou standards. I was actually expecting it to be more jokey due to seeing screenshots of Chiyuri using zoomer lingo before playing the game, but everyone is actually characterized really well. I'm a big Sumireko and (Fifth Character) fan and felt like I was eating good every ending and cutscene they got lmao. Only downside is the occasional typo, but those will likely all be fixed in the future because the devs have an active bug report room in their discord so other than that occasionally taking me out of the immersion I really really enjoyed the story this game had to tell. Gameplay is also really fun, usually I find it hard to come back to a Touhou bullet hell after getting my initial 1CC, but even after seeing through the Epilogue I still boot up occasionally because the roguelike elements work really well in the games favor. The bullet patterns are fun and pretty, but late game bosses do have frequent lag spikes. This was my main issue with some parts because it also doubles to make patterns easier by slowing them down and breaks some of the tension from things like the Epilogue's final spell, but it didn't cause any frustration or unnecessary deaths or anything so it's not too horrible. Soundtrack and Graphics are both amazing, character portraits are very expressive and the redesigns are cool and feel natural because the characters are aged up a good amount, some favorites for me were Sumireko and the Stage 7 boss they both get really good expressions too. Music wise the genres vary a lot but the most common is Jazz, which is really fun and pretty rare for a Touhou game. ZUNpets are rare to hear, but whenever they do show up its a fun treat. In all, probably my favorite experience I've had with a Touhou Fangame, it's main flaws are mainly minor lacks of polish with the occasional typo and lag spike, but both of these will likely be fixed in the future and I'll be more than happy to do even more runs when it happens. Well worth the 20 dollars both in quality and playtime, and has reinforced my love for this franchise and it's community.

Buff Reimu Best game ever made

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lesbian touhou game. finally.

Now the game is fun but like, it's very mentally and physically draining so to speak. Reached stage 7 so far (which i only discovered exists now)