幻想四倍剣^2 悔悟棒の謎 / GensoYonbaiKen^2

One of the best Touhou fan-games I've ever played, perfect for fans of the series and a great tactical SRPG in its own right! Touhou Gensoyonbaiken^2 offers a campaign scenario with around 20-30 hours of gameplay and rather high replay value due to allowing for some varying paths, optional boss battles, a large amount of recruitable characters to try out and customize into different team compositions and the ability to start a new game with your current level and stats ala NewGame+. What does not carry over is the recruited characters whom you'll need to defeat in battle once more if you wish to recruit them, but rather than being a set-back I think this serves a purpose as some of the harder battles can only be reached by avoiding the recruitment of certain characters. The story is of course nonsensical in the best of ways, as is typical of Touhou games, and the characters all act as you'd expect leading to a lot of funny and interesting interactions. What is unfortunate however, and by far my biggest gripe with this title, is that it is not yet fully translated into english so it is alienating a large chunk of potential players. The developer gave others access to the script an…

Genso YonbaiKen 2 has very unusual gameplay mechanics for a strategy-roleplaying game and executes them well. Rather than having a direct number of hitpoints, characters have their durability divided into multiple lives. No single hit of an attack can take more than one life away, resulting in a different tanking behaviour depending on how many lives and how many hitpoints per life a certain girl has. The other noteworthy implementation is the party-wide magic pool. Individual magic points don't matter much: Whether you can perform a spellcard depends on a resource that everyone shares. A character may have a very powerful and costly spellcard, an example would be Okuu. They will be strong on their own, but if you bring just those kinds of characters to an encounter they will not harmonize well. Everyone can find their purpose and you have to find out who works with whom. I enjoyed my time with the game a lot. At release, it would have been hard to recommend, but by now, there is beta support for English and Chinese languages. You may miss out on the story, but you'll understand the menus and commands well enough to have fun.

spellcards look sick af

A short but solid Touhou Tactical RPG! The whole game is in Japanese and, while I don't understand it, the mechanics were easily understood. There were some things here and there that needed me to use translator (such as recruiting Mystia) but that wasn't the game's fault. It was a relatively easy TRPG where grinding is rarely necessary except for maybe one or two difficulty spikes. I hoped for the game to be longer but I enjoyed my time with it regardless! Now I sit and wait for another Tactical RPG Touhou to be made...

If you can bear with the unfinished translation, it's good TRPG game to play

good mini touhou game adorable character cheap UwU