Touhou Tenkuushou ~ Hidden Star in Four Seasons.

There truly is a hidden star in four seasons hotel.

Please enter through the backdoor please, front door is broken.

maybe the hidden star were the four seasons we made along the way

this game you play as a poor bitch, a witch, some sussy baka, and a bird and there is a butterfly, an actual mountain hag, spring, doggy, a stone thing, two slaves, and a wheelchaired hag

I heard this was the hardest Touhou game, but I have a hard time believing anybody would have more trouble with this than they would with Subterranean Animism. I'd say at least a couple of the other games are close to this in difficulty, too.

Routing some of the stages for score was fun even though I had never done it before. I was worried this part might be a chore when I heard how hard the game was and saw that extends were score-based.

tan cirno

holy shit flashbombs from len'en in touhou

im gonna kill myself

Local celebrity fairy overdoses on performance enhancers and noclips into the backrooms twice.

Fun game, loved bullet hells ever since someone convinced me to try Len'en because it was free, then I bought this game way back when it was first added to Steam.

Trigger warnings for the Proud to be an American incel demographic:

Weird weeb anime uwu owo art-style, a default language that isn't English, an unnatural lack of guns, the blackwashing of a classic favorite character, and I've even heard murmurs of a certain semi-final-boss being trans-coated. You have been warned...

(Satire)

Aya is my wife and you are all just mean internet users

Solid shmup if a bit too easy compared to every other entry in the series.
I'm not quite sure what happened here, after LoLK which was probably the hardest and most unbalanced entry in the series we have this game which is possibly the easiest and also with some of the most balanced shottypes. Pretty much every single combination of character + season is viable and interesting to play, some are better at easier difficulties and some are better for harder ones but overall still very pleasant to play as.
The gimmick of season release is probably the reason why this game is possibly the easiest Touhou game out there - it serves as additional DPS when charged and as a free bomb when released which greatly increases the amount of resources you have and makes the game much easier to bruteforce. Proper combination of character + season makes even lunatic relatively doable even for someone as low-skilled as me.
Game being relatively easy doesn't make it bad however, it's definitely not as bland as TD and it's just easy compared to other games in the series, on it's own it's still challenging and you have to pay attention to what are you doing.
Music in this one is... weird. It's definitely good, but after playing it for a bunch of hours I still can barely recall any track, it's definitely not as memorable as previous entries. Something changed here and I cannot put my finger on what exactly but the tracks just don't stay in your memory for that long.
Story and characters are both interesting, yeah it's yet another "weather is weird - must be an incident" plot that these games love to reuse and I'm not the biggest fan of Okina but it was still entertaining seeing all the story bits and interactions between the characters.
Overall: solid entry, bit easy, worth playing but nothing too special other than relatively easy Luantic and probably the easiest Extra stage in the entire series to grab if anyone wants to for bragging rights.

made it to the end of stage 6, beat okina and fucking lost by a single bullet while doing a 1cc

This is by far my favourite touhou game. Not just the for the story, music, or visuals, but just how fun the gameplay is. The latest touhou games all seem to have lost the meaning of what popcorn is, but even if this one does not have popcorn, the stages are frantic and chaotic, but still possible to route. The bosses ? Some of the best in the series, I'd say. All of them explore very diffrent concept, culminating in the most interesting extra boss in the series.
But I think what takes the top for me is the scoring mechanic. If you've been playing without touching the C key, please try to use the seasonal releases at least once. The scoring system is simple, but the different subseasons you can choose give you a great versatility in how you can approach the many different situations. Will you go for the broad screen coverage of sub-spring ? The strategic immobility of sub-winter ? The whimsy of sub-summer ? Or maybe the frantic speed of sub-fall ? The choice is yours to take.

Glory to the Secret God of Gensokyo.

One of my favourite touhou games. Mai and Satono are the best stage 5 bosses, change my mind.

this game is really easy once you know how to abuse your releases (and your bombs too, you get a lot of them in this game). really beginner friendly i would say

okina finals kinda suck for a capture, even though winter, summer and spring are really fun to practice

Cant beat this shit on Normal

Overall it's a quite manageable game in terms of difficulty thanks to the season mechanics, but funnily enough there are some stages that are harder than the actual boss itself (stages 4 and 5 precisely). The incident is really interesting and both the characters and soundtrack are pretty memorable.

who invited cirno

don't ask how i know about Touhou, just buy it.