This game's very interesting and something I plan to talk about in a future Touhou fangames exhibition on my channel, so I'll keep this brief.
Beautiful and cozy hand drawn artstyle that really gives the game a nice sense of flair and style, the movement is very clean and your various attacks and movement options can chain together very well into smooth combos or constant fluid movement. The level design is pretty good across the board, the music is very nice and seems to be mostly original? It's very creative overall in a lot of its ideas, and all of the boss fights were fun. The game seems to have a good amount of Kirby inspiration (with some light DKC occasionally?) which I greatly appreciate.
Overall, a very good time.
But a good time that I feel has 3 major issues That effect some of the later stages by quite a lot.
Stages 3-1, 4-1, and 4-3 are especially massive difficulty spikes within their sections of the game and are ultimately some of the worst levels in the game imo. They're overly difficult and for seemingly unfair reasons.
The 3 major issues presiding over the difficulties being:
1. Yuuka's hitbox feels too large
2. Enemy damage output is high
3. There's only one checkpoint per stage, and the distance between reaching the checkpoints and until the end of the stage get ridiculous endgame.
These 3 points can coalesce to make those 3 levels into very arduous tasks that definitely affected my view of the game. Most other levels were perfectly manageable even if a little annoying (like level 4-2) and I dont think were too horribly affected, but when it got bad, it really got bad.
I wont complain too much, because I need to see if Easy Mode fixes the issues I have with Normal Mode's balancing.
Outside of the difficulty spike issue, I really enjoyed my time with this game! I look forward to seeing the rest of the creator's works and I look forward to covering this game in more detail in a video, that hopefully comes soon? I've just gotta get to that script and all lol.
Beautiful and cozy hand drawn artstyle that really gives the game a nice sense of flair and style, the movement is very clean and your various attacks and movement options can chain together very well into smooth combos or constant fluid movement. The level design is pretty good across the board, the music is very nice and seems to be mostly original? It's very creative overall in a lot of its ideas, and all of the boss fights were fun. The game seems to have a good amount of Kirby inspiration (with some light DKC occasionally?) which I greatly appreciate.
Overall, a very good time.
But a good time that I feel has 3 major issues That effect some of the later stages by quite a lot.
Stages 3-1, 4-1, and 4-3 are especially massive difficulty spikes within their sections of the game and are ultimately some of the worst levels in the game imo. They're overly difficult and for seemingly unfair reasons.
The 3 major issues presiding over the difficulties being:
1. Yuuka's hitbox feels too large
2. Enemy damage output is high
3. There's only one checkpoint per stage, and the distance between reaching the checkpoints and until the end of the stage get ridiculous endgame.
These 3 points can coalesce to make those 3 levels into very arduous tasks that definitely affected my view of the game. Most other levels were perfectly manageable even if a little annoying (like level 4-2) and I dont think were too horribly affected, but when it got bad, it really got bad.
I wont complain too much, because I need to see if Easy Mode fixes the issues I have with Normal Mode's balancing.
Outside of the difficulty spike issue, I really enjoyed my time with this game! I look forward to seeing the rest of the creator's works and I look forward to covering this game in more detail in a video, that hopefully comes soon? I've just gotta get to that script and all lol.
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Ah, good to hear, I'll probably update this review based on any Steam Updates. I played the original Booth release. I also still want to play it on Easy Mode at some point as well.
LobbyDob
2 years ago