It's fine for a free fan game, but asking $30 is insane.
The English translation isn't just bad, it isn't just buggy, they straight up misspelled character names. The one thing you would expect to be actually correct regardless of english competency.
The music is um, it's fine I guess, doesn't sound like any Touhou game I ever played before though. It's just this generic soundtrack that feels like it came from a licensed pack on itch.io for 2 bux.
Controls are bad, just bad. Even after remapping my controller binds I still found the game awkward to control. The platforming is sloppy to boot.
Combat however was fun for a bit, but leveling is slow to a fault. It gives no feeling of progression whatsoever and the amount of grinding for even one level is way too much.
Not that there is a shortage of fights, infact I got stuck in a loop of beating and enemy and another fight starting instantly as soon as the world map loaded. It wouldn't stop, wouldn't let me move away, and just slowly drained my items and HP until I gamed over.
I never had a game softlock itself with a nonstop enemy spawn before.
Obviously it's a Mario RPG tribute, but it comes off more as the "We have Mario RPG at home" option less than a proper homage to it. Plus at it's $30 asking price you might as well just buy Mario RPG's remake. I mean everything in here is lifted from it shamelessly. Attacks, timing, area layouts, enemy types, I could keep going. Sadly it rips off all of those things but doesn't bother to try and feel like a Touhou game at all.
I love old school RPGs and can overlook a lot but charging that much for what really should be a cheap as free game is unforgivable.
Skip it, it's not worth it, your going to have a bad time.
