going from MoF to this was some serious whiplash. now i have so many anime women to choose from! now there's different stage bosses! there's like a time/hour system and youkai meter that doesn't make any sense, but i didn't really care too much cause this game wasn't too hard.

it IS cool though. like the long-ass reimu/marisa fight alone brings this up to 4 stars, and the variety of characters is pretty sick too. overall it's a lot meatier of a game than other touhous (if that makes sense), and has the unique boss fights and gimmicks to back it up. i'm definitely not resilient enough to sink 500 hours into it to beat it on lunatic, but i really enjoyed this one.