The first official touhou available in english on the Switch! That's the version I played, and it's fine but not as impressive as the various fan patches. There are a few odd things in the translation and the presentation isn't as slick but these are very minor problems and it's all quite workable.
I have to assume this is better as a fighting game than Urban Legend in Limbo. The pseudo tag-team aspect where you have a backup character to temporarily swap in seems much better than all the ball stuff, and the handful of new fighters are cool. And anyway this one has Yukari's special 'hitting you in the face with a god damn train' attack so how could it be bad. The package doesn't have any kind of tutorial or move list though, which is normal for these but you don't get any manual on Switch and it might come across as barebones to you. I dunno if it has rollback I'm not playing online
I'm here for story mode though and while I'm not as into AoCF as I am ULiL I still had a real good time. The story does tie into some other things, and I love to see Yukari and Tenshi back, but the story is nothing special. The antagonists this time are the Yorigami sisters: Jo'on, the pestilence god, and Shi'on the poverty god. Their plan is just to steal a shitload of money from everyone at concerts and honestly good for them. I love these two very much and am happy to know they come back in 17.5 when I get to it. They have a very complicated rules-lawyering setup to make themselves unbeatable and everyone kind of dicks around having problems with the dream world until it's time to beat them. A workhorse plot without any deep meditations on much but some fun moments with the characters.
The fights in story mode are a little bit mixed. The tag team thing means there are a lot of modular attacks, but some of them are unique and very clever combinations of the character's abilities. It's ultimately not too dissimilar from the repetition of previous games and they don't make you fight the sisters all as often as you've had to repeat the final boss in the previous fighters.
Yeah I guess in totality Gensokyo is a land of contrasts and this was fine and nice. If you were curious about these Touhou fighters this would be fine to mess around with and I had a good time. Solid middle tier of the fighting spinoffs.
I have to assume this is better as a fighting game than Urban Legend in Limbo. The pseudo tag-team aspect where you have a backup character to temporarily swap in seems much better than all the ball stuff, and the handful of new fighters are cool. And anyway this one has Yukari's special 'hitting you in the face with a god damn train' attack so how could it be bad. The package doesn't have any kind of tutorial or move list though, which is normal for these but you don't get any manual on Switch and it might come across as barebones to you. I dunno if it has rollback I'm not playing online
I'm here for story mode though and while I'm not as into AoCF as I am ULiL I still had a real good time. The story does tie into some other things, and I love to see Yukari and Tenshi back, but the story is nothing special. The antagonists this time are the Yorigami sisters: Jo'on, the pestilence god, and Shi'on the poverty god. Their plan is just to steal a shitload of money from everyone at concerts and honestly good for them. I love these two very much and am happy to know they come back in 17.5 when I get to it. They have a very complicated rules-lawyering setup to make themselves unbeatable and everyone kind of dicks around having problems with the dream world until it's time to beat them. A workhorse plot without any deep meditations on much but some fun moments with the characters.
The fights in story mode are a little bit mixed. The tag team thing means there are a lot of modular attacks, but some of them are unique and very clever combinations of the character's abilities. It's ultimately not too dissimilar from the repetition of previous games and they don't make you fight the sisters all as often as you've had to repeat the final boss in the previous fighters.
Yeah I guess in totality Gensokyo is a land of contrasts and this was fine and nice. If you were curious about these Touhou fighters this would be fine to mess around with and I had a good time. Solid middle tier of the fighting spinoffs.