For an arcade port of a Chinese fangame, this was actually pretty good. I liked how the sakura barrier system basically gave you a reusable screen clear that's separate from your spell cards. Other than that, it's really just another Touhou but without ZUN's brand of objectively shitty but super charming art, even if the character art used here was surprisingly good.

edit: Went back and played PCB again after not touching it for a few years and forgetting a lot about it, and this is basically a pseudo-remake of that game with some changes like different bosses(including an OC sheep boy named Hyp that's actually a pretty fun fight) and being able to play as Youmu. It's still cool playing an actual Touhou game in an arcade setting and I do actually really like the art, but it's nowhere near as original as I thought it was when I first played through it. The sakura system is nearly identical to PCB's cherry system (it might affect score a little differently but IDK) which was the one thing that really stood out to me as cool when I played through PSF, but it's still a cool system.

Reviewed on Jan 22, 2024


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