This game is a vertical danmaku shooting game, where two characters engage in danmaku gameplay within individual and separate play areas (aka. split-screen). Upon meeting certain conditions, players are able to unleash a variety of character-specific Spell Attacks upon their opponents in an attempt to whittle down their remaining health points. In Story Mode, the player will face nine opponents, each more capable than the previous. Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream also features a Match Play Mode where the player may face off against AI opponents or compete against other players, as well as watch AI vs. AI matches.
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Ended up enjoying this one a ton truth be told. The shift to a more fighting game style works really well and while it is really easy truth be told, its satisfyingly as hell beating each opponent and the story mode is pretty humorous! I can see myself coming back to this one honestly.
Cadeirada
I thought we were done with the touhou games made before Zun figured out what Touhou was going to be but lo and behold, touhou 3 is a weird split-screen vs shmup with mechanics reminiscent of puzzle game vs modes. Not a bad idea but the firing method absolutely kills it. Remember where you could just fire your bullets and it leveled up as you picked up stuff? Not anymore! Now you have to hold down the button and sometimes it doesn't go further than the second level and sometimes it goes to four and sometimes inbetween and sometimes it continually fires and sometimes it just doesn't for no discernable reason. It's abysmal.
An interesting take on the formula from the second game, yet a bit lackluster in the long run.
Compared to the second game this game takes a formula of some kind of versus battle where your character is on the left with the opposing character on the right and you fight each other trying to fill each other's screen with the most amount of bullets possible. Whoever loses all their HP first, makes the other character win. It's an interesting idea but that's all there really is to it. Not to mention that the game is quite easy since you regain all your HP and bombs after you finish the level and in general the game is just far more forgiving. You can also play this game in multiplayer and that'd probably be pretty fun.
This game also focuses much more on the story, so to speak. There's a lot more dialogue this time around and the endings are actually quite different now since there are also multiplae characters you can play as, all having different speed and projectiles. The music is fine and the visuals aren't bad but they're not as good as second or even first game.
Overall, I still think this is a bit better than the first game but quite a bit worse than the second.
Compared to the second game this game takes a formula of some kind of versus battle where your character is on the left with the opposing character on the right and you fight each other trying to fill each other's screen with the most amount of bullets possible. Whoever loses all their HP first, makes the other character win. It's an interesting idea but that's all there really is to it. Not to mention that the game is quite easy since you regain all your HP and bombs after you finish the level and in general the game is just far more forgiving. You can also play this game in multiplayer and that'd probably be pretty fun.
This game also focuses much more on the story, so to speak. There's a lot more dialogue this time around and the endings are actually quite different now since there are also multiplae characters you can play as, all having different speed and projectiles. The music is fine and the visuals aren't bad but they're not as good as second or even first game.
Overall, I still think this is a bit better than the first game but quite a bit worse than the second.
I just did not really like this one. It's not the split-screen formula that puts me off per say, I enjoyed Touhou 19's take on that quite a bit. Just the execution here is very lacking.
I find the gameplay is boring, repetitive, and not very difficult to make up for it. There's characters in it that I enjoy, but that's pretty much the only thing this game has going for it to me aside from the music. I'd rather play pretty much any other Touhou game over this one.
I find the gameplay is boring, repetitive, and not very difficult to make up for it. There's characters in it that I enjoy, but that's pretty much the only thing this game has going for it to me aside from the music. I'd rather play pretty much any other Touhou game over this one.
Very fun and a lot more accessible than any other games