This is a short but sweet Metroidvania with a really cool hook where you slow down or even freeze time to attack. The core combat is standard castlevania slashing but the time manipulation adds a whole layer to the combat not seen in most in this genre. Enemies can overwhelm the player resulting in a sort of bullet hell that is manageable when time is stopped, there is a meter of course that can be filled by getting close to dangers without actually touching them. This encourages aggressive play and rewards high skill level.

The game world is well designed with plenty of neat secrets and constant stream of new mechanics. There are some fun boss battles that really push the mechanics and result in sweaty palms as mastery of the combat system is needed.

I really enjoyed all that I played but it ends way too soon, this game is about 6 hours long which felt like it was just hitting its stride by the time it ended. I felt there was much more the game could have offered, we just skimmed the surface of this combat system.

Overall score: 7.7

Um ótimo metroidvania, como alguém realmente interessado no sub-gênero eu consegui me divertir bastante. O level design é decente, as boss battles são todas incríveis e as músicas são excelentes. Os inimigos são legais e a mecânica de parar o tempo é muito bem utilizada. Eu peguei achando que seria apenas um jogo legalzinho e me surpreendi com sua qualidade, tanto que até fiz o True Final Boss logo depois de zerar normalmente. Foi um pouco difícil, mas super divertido e algo que realmente valeu a pena. Se você gosta de metroidvanias, recomendo muito o jogo.

Fun, but very short metroidvania. The time stop mechanic was so much fun to play around with, but at the same time, it also makes me wish that the game had more meat on its bones. The level design was good too, but the metroidvania elements almost felt like an afterthought, with you not having much reason or opportunity to backtrack with new powers. Just like the original Touhou games, the best part of this game were the boss fights and the musics. The remixes of various Touhou songs were brilliant, and the bosses were great to fight, especially in conjunction with the graze and time manipulation mechanics. As I said before, it's a good game, but I just wish there was more to it. Maybe we'll get a sequel with a PCB and/or IN campaign.

The DIO game I always wanted.

Even if you don't know shit about Touhou like me, you won't be lost with the game's minimal story, so go for it if it looks interesting to you.
The mechanics are perfectly thought out and the levels and even some of the amazing bosses have time fuckery such as some enemies, projectiles or hazards moving only when time is stopped, or becoming reversed. The only problem is that strangely, this becomes less prevalent in the last and extra stages, and it left me wanting a boss that used all the time fuckery against you.

Vocês já se perguntaram o que aconteceria se a palavra "Hype" fosse um metroidvania?
Pois lhe apresento touhou Luna Nights
Touhou Luna nights é um jogo baseado na série touhou, com foco na personagem Sakuya, a principal nesse jogo
Esta personagem possui uma habilidade muito boa de parar o tempo, que claro, torna o jogo meio fácil, mas ainda assim, é muito maneiro parar o tempo e começar a jogar suas habilidades pra ter um monte de facas na tela ao mesmo tempo pra dar um dano realmente pesado.
Uma mecanica muito legal do jogo é que cada ataque seu, incluindo os básicos, consomem sua magia, e para recuparar magia rápido, que é essencial para os chefes, você precisa passar perto dos ataques, mas sem deixar eles te acertarem, o que realmente aumenta o fato Risk-Reward no jogo.
Os itens são muito bons, indo de jogar motoserras, a mil facas, a ter uma espada temporal que ataca os inimigos por você, dando aquela satisfação absurda, mas drenando sua magia muito rápido.
Os chefes também são muito bons, normalmente se mantendo "dificeis" no inicio e aumentando a dificuldade no final quando ficam com pouca vida
E dou pontos extras pra chefe Marisa, tendo a melhor música e o dodge mais hype do jogo inteiro quando usa o Master Spark
Então se você gosta de hype desenfreado, esse jogo é pra ti!

might be the best intro game to touhou if youre here for the characters
the entire scarlet wacko gang is here and you can throw chainsaws (based)
probably my favorite metroidvania if im gonna be honest, its long enough to satisfy my massive brain and not too long that it takes 10 minutes just to get back to the start to break one (1) box
also the music is fantastic holy shit
10/10 game



dont pay for the kappas wares.

I wasn't into Touhou but I played Shin Megami Tensei: Synchronicity Prologue and was pleasantly surprised. I'm very picky with Metroidvanias. Most of them today either lean too hard into the RPG elements of Castlevania, which why I love the game the leveling and constant item switching got too much in later entries of the series. Metroid is all about the movement options. If Super Metroid didn't have the dash, Screw Attack, and other unlocked movement options, it would be boring with all the backtracking. While the upgrades in this game are fairly simple, the core mechanics are super solid. The time controlling mechanics are very well implemented and the games makes full use of it. It's a pretty short game but I'll recommend it to anyone that likes 2D platformers/action games.

I actually have a video where I speak about this game in depth, a triple feature with two other fangames, which can be seen here (good ol' self shill, Kirbonic. Also the audio is a little bit subpar as I had yet to buy a blue yeti yet lol): https://youtu.be/cUvH9yuuaOc

But to condense it into a quick textual review, its one of the genuine most creative and mechanically interesting Metroidvania's I've ever played. Gorgeous spriteart, a great boss roster, phenomenal music, fantastic level design, and tight gameplay. It's simply one of the best Touhou fangames ever made, and in my opinion, one of the best games to ever come out of the Touhou franchise as a whole.