東方幕華祭 TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival

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a Touhou fangame that rewrites the story of EoSD.

Difficulty-wise, it feels like len'en: you get lots of lives (len'en 1 has light mode, that allows to start game with max lives) and ways to cheese patterns, but at the same time, these patterns are dense, and i mean, really dense.
for example, Nix, the stage 1 boss, has a spell card, the pattern of which has openings that constantly disappear, as well as pushes player to bottom of screen. and Daiyousei from stage 2 actually tries to push player back too instead of letting herself get shotgunned by Marisa like it happened in EoSD.

Art style reminds me of Alphes works, and honestly it's quite nice, i like it.

Soundtrack is... amazing. Let me just include 3 themes i enjoyed listening to:
https://youtu.be/gqdBoAcHElU?si=m1fJFUHT3EnTjDF2
https://youtu.be/mDcQ2wzpDjc?si=gOJmXLy0lt152kkT
https://youtu.be/T8NieecdiyI?si=YNS2sQ2s1iYh9KRO

English translation sucks, but if being honest... broken English gives this game it's charm, just like those old 2hus from doujinstyle that use old static English patch, dialogues in which sometimes just don't make sense (like, Reimu threatening to tear Reisen's clothes off in th08)

Mechanics wise, as i understood, capturing boss attack/killing specific enemies gives you spell/life fragment, and you need 1 spell fragment/5 life fragments to get extra resource.
as a note, just like in subterranean autism, bombing is allowed to meet the requirement for getting life fragment after clearing boss pattern.

Overall, it's an enjoyable game that i would recommend to any touhou fan, despite some issues it has.

good game

excellent! very good game to be true, along with its difficulty and badges, all pretty good! super recommended at a good and decent difficulty if you are not so experienced in danmaku games!

i fucking hate walfas

Yes.

Reimu exist
Reimu Good
Me happy

A very fun reimagining/soft reboot of EoSD. The game is a fair bit harder than the original and bullets are used in interesting ways that you don't see in the main games. Enemy variety is also nice - not only do you have fairy maids but suits of armor, male butlers, and different types of fairies. Bosses are great revamps of the originals of EoSD with some new faces thrown into the mix as well. Overall I'd recommend this to anyone who likes the Touhou games or Danmaku shooters in general.

I love this game, I just wish there was a tutorial for movement control because it took me awhile to understand but overall l would recommend playing

Pleasant UI and music to enjoy while playing.

Translation is bad but, you get this for gameplay. This game is really hard or I suck.

a good example of fanon touhou stg games.

THIS IS SOOO GOOD HOLY MOLY

I Suck straight ass 10/10 will keep suffering till i can beat the game on easy (and even stage 5 on practice on easy)

Controls don't work properly for me (slowdown doesn't work). Can't rebind them either.

Lol full power Reimu go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

DON'T READ LITTLE REIMU UNLESS YOU WANNA BE DEPRESSED FOR A WEEK

Greatest TouHou fan made game!

Each time i try to beat this game i feel like my skills are improving. Presentation and music are amazing too. Bullet hell masterclass !

It has smug Reimu in it

I finally see why TouHou is so popular: it's straight up *the most fun-to-play* shmup series.

1) FDF's level design is awesome. It can look chaotic and very random, but there's a viscerally satisfying, musical rhythm to them.

2) Like any good rhythm game, what begins as overwhelming and impossible, eventually turns into "readable" and doable. It's these never-ending a-ha moments of finally "getting" a hard bullet pattern (which are *all* designed intentionally) that keep the game so addictive, 40 hours in (despite technically being a 30-minute game).

3) The input lag is basically non-existent, which is SO underrated. Latency literally makes or breaks games — even if you don't notice it — but once you do see it, you can't go back.

4) The music is so good! Half the time I play this game, it's basically just an excuse to listen to the OST. (And like rhythm games, it's more fun to listen to while playing.)



NOTES:

- Download Joy2Key if you play on a gamepad, and remap:
Button 1 to Z
Button 2 to X
Button 3 to Shift. (Or w/e you prefer.)

- Bullet hell can be an acquired taste... but it takes like 10 seconds to get to the gameplay, so it's easier to dip into than many AAA games — so logistically, it's not too hard to acquire the taste eventually :^)

- Play whatever difficulty (and character) you find the most fun. I like playing Lunatic even though I can't come close to 1cc'ing it. Other people like 1ccing one difficulty at a time.



FINAL NOTE: "Ugly Doctor Effect"

- Nassim Taleb (author of Antifragile) says you should hire a doctor who has great reviews — but is also ugly. That way, you know he earned his praise, and isn't benefiting from any halo effects from his handsome looks. The fact that TouHou is so popular — despite the cringe little girl aesthetics — is an Ugly Doctor signal for how fun it is. You're a rational actor, right, anon?

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All around pretty good vague recreation of Touhou 6. Music is fantastic as per usual for Touhou fangames. If I had to bring up any nitpicks it would be that the boss of stage 1 feels way more tricky than most of the bosses after her. Like seriously she requires way more dodging than pretty much any boss up to Sakuya I feel.

Make sure to use steam input if you want to use a controller.

Went to a rave in EDP's basement.
11/10 game