Touhou Library Survivors

ヴァンサバ系の東方二次創作タイトル。グラフィックは可愛らしく、音楽も雰囲気に合っていて好印象。世界観づくりは丁寧で、見た目や演出面のクオリティはしっかりしています。 しかし問題はゲームバランス面。各種チートモードが用意されており、ついには完全無敵まで選択可能。その自由度自体は否定しませんが、通常プレイがむしろ“縛りプレイ”のように感じられてしまう設計になっているのは気になりました。 ユーザーフレンドリーであることは大切ですが、度を越えるとゲームとしての達成感や緊張感が薄れてしまう印象です。 ビジュアルや音楽が良いだけに惜しい作品。今回は残念ながらバッド評価とさせていただきます。

Very nice, simple and yet very fun Touhou fan-game. I'd really love if this game had some kind of endless waves mode, to give me a reason to keep playing even after beating it. With that, and some kind of rework to the upgrades grid passives and modifiers, I think I would spent hundreds of hours playing this. The concept of the grid is very nice and works well with the existing upgrades, but once you learn to use it properly, every run has basically the same build, which makes replayability kinda boring. Since all stats have similar value, you basically want everything: Damage, Fire Rate, Projectile speed, etc. There's some smart building by using modifiers that diminish certain stats together with spell cards that don't use such stat, but that's where the creativity ends. There's no incentive to prioritize one stat over the other. You end up wanting some "balance" because all stats are good, which makes every end-game build extremely similar with very little personalization. Also, while spell cards have "elements", they don't really change anything. There's no modifiers that buff specific elements or anything even remotely similar. I think the system could be made slightly more complex, by changing modifiers and global passives into ones that buff specific elements in a certain way, and maybe adding tiers. RNG can feel pretty rewarding when you get a high tier modifier that buffs, let's say, Metal Spellcards, and it would incentivize going for a build that buffs this type of element. Still, maybe I'm asking for too much for a 5$ game that most of the time has a 75% discount. For Touhou fans, this is a very recommendable game that can be finished in a day or two.