TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part III

I developed a motor disability after one of my brain surgeries. I no longer have proprioception, which means I can’t tell where my hands are in space, which means playing games with the controller or a keyboard is nearly impossible. I transitioned to only playing games on the steam deck, because out the corner of my eyes, I can see where my hands are. But getting an early 2000s Japanese game with an English patch running on linux? Good luck. This meant that I could no longer play my favorite Touhou, Imperishable Night, the first one I ever played, I when I realized that, I was so devastated that I wanted to throw my keyboard across the room like a baby. So when I saw this remake, reimagining, whatever you wanna call it, I felt so overjoyed. And playing it, it plays like a dream, the music sounding so much like the original yet so rich, the bullet patterns new and inventive, the cool character redesigns, everything, I love it, and I’m so happy, so grateful, that something that was taken from me by disability has been returned. Thank you, team TDF. Thank you so much.

if you have any experience with shoot em ups, normal/extra stage should not be too much of a difficulty for you to conquer, and then you can turn your attention to the higher difficulties. insane visual feast for the eyes, ridiculously fun spell cards and really good arranged versions of songs from touhou 8. i'm not overly fond of the OCs in this game but shrug closer to something along the lines of a CAVE game than what touhou is traditionally in terms of visuals and clarity but still a strong recommend for me.

It's like a 5/10 from me. The good: Some stage design is occasionally great - the speed up segment is rad and traversing moving platforms is fun. It's pretty at face value, at the expense of some visibility. The sprites are neat. the music is aaalllriiiigghttt. Everything else: Too easy. Like, WAY too easy. Not very memorable. Character shot types are really boring and A/B is meaningless. Like FDF1 (I haven't played 3) the "new character(s)" are beyond OP with Mokou breaking the game outright. 90% of stage and boss patterns are stream, dodge random junk with a stream, or sight readable one-offs. IN's mystic gauge/time mechanics were mechanically interesting and that's just not here. I'm not sure if there was any philosophy or comedy to begin with but in the EN translation dialogue might as well not exist. IN's story premise is actually pretty interesting and characterizes its cast. Even setting up the lunarians etc for future material so the basis of all of this is great - yet I don't think it's used like at all here. I'm incredibly weak to a goth loli but even I can't look past the OC's being shoehorned for really no reason. Maybe if the dialogue had any kind of function to …

Trust me, very fun Classic touhou bullet hell game GREAT visuals great themes great stuff great game try now trust

Another really good Touhou fangame. Danmaku patterns are once again really well made and some of them look great. Soundtrack is also very good and fits the fights nicely. Difficulty is still much lower compared to the original Touhou games though. Even the Extra Stage feels more like a visual showcase than an actual Touhou-style Extra Stage challenge. Still, very fun and definitely worth playing.

Remake of my favourite TH game! Amazing music, cute designs and animations.