Touhou Kouryuudou: Unconnected Marketeers

released on May 03, 2021

Touhou Kouryuudou: Unconnected Marketeers is the eighteenth official installment of the Touhou Project. It was announced by ZUN on the Touhou Project news blog Touhou Yomoyama News, February 2021. A playable demo is scheduled for release on March 21st the same year, at Reitaisai 18, and the full version is scheduled to be released in May.


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This game is really good. I feel like it often gets overlooked simply by the merit of being new, which is rather unfortunate.

Though, I will say, I do not think this is a good game for beginners specifically. This game's gimmick is that you can get different cards that give you different abilities. While very fun, I think there's some that can become crutches for people learning, and make other games much, much more difficult because of this.

That aside, it's very fun. I adore the card system, and I feel like it adds a ton of replayability. Your cards can affect your playstyle a lot or a little, depending on what sort of built you have going on. I'd almost dare to compare it to a rougelike in that specific regard.

Presumably because of the cards, however, I do think this game is one of the harder entries in the series overall, so be aware of that! Definitely worth playing though.

ES EL DOCEAVO TOUHOU QUE JUGUE 5 ESTRELLAS

The first attempt to introduce roguelite elements in the franchise. In hindsight we kinda praised the card system because we thought it would be limited to this game and maybe its eventual 18.5 spinoff... And I still like them, of course, but still.

Quite pretty and polished game nonetheless!

The weakest OST in all of Touhou, stages are all barren and boring. Enemies are tanky as fuck so you feel extremely weak, the card mechanic is too insignificant to offer a unique game-play experience.

I already hold the opinion that Touhou games are very weak shmups to begin with but this one is even of low quality for a Touhou game.

Easiest score counter-stop of my life