Touhou ThousandNightAnamnesis

Your other ones that were all strictly Spell Practice style felt somewhat incomplete (even though a few of the official games are only that). This one feels a lot more like the original games. No fairies or fuzz-balls between bosses, but who cares about the cannon fodder (besides death-fairies like PCB stage 4 or IN Ex) anyway? Most of the patterns clearly recall ones that boss used in the real game, too. Overall, I’d call the difficulty level slightly below that of the easier official games, but this game will still destroy anyone who doesn’t take it seriously. UPDATE 3/4/20: The most recent update is another major step forward with two of the stages having standard shmup segments before the boss fights. However, there’s a major bug where the Spell Practice menu doesn’t recognize cards after the first page have been faced. Most of the bugs and balance issues I previously noted have been addressed, but there’s still the occasional problem of patterns with more than one foe not fully clearing, usually for the team fights like the Prismriver sisters, but occasionally on minion spam patterns.

I’ve loved many of the developer’s past games, but they’ve always had the problem of feeling too much like spell practice. This game is a huge step up, with features like lives, bombs, and multiple bosses in one run, which feels really engaging! The bomb system is a little difficult to work with - raising sensitivity makes bombing mistake too easy, yet lowering sensitivity makes bombing system unreliable. I felt like I had to really spam the screen to make the bomb work at the right time under lower (but not too low) sensitivity. I think this kind of problem will naturally come up because of the double tap mechanic as well as the fact that you are using your finger to control the character instead of the mouse. A suggestion I have is that maybe you could implement an option to allow a small button to appear on the screen, and when you want to bomb, you just press the button. The button could be ~50% transparency to not be too distracting. Otherwise, fun game!

I’ve played this creators other touhou fan games and it’s apparent just looking at the game that it’s his latest one, there are 13 different characters and over 12 stages , each one is a boss rush of 7-9 bosses. I beat all of them with Reimu and it was fun all the way. There’s is a music room where you can listen to the soundtrack ( he used the house set of touhou albums for the game). But there are some problems with the game. There are ads at the bottom and I accidentally touch them and it redirects me to a random site for air conditioning or something. And in the Hidden star in 4 seasons stage, when you defeat the second boss (and only this specific boss in the entire game) it explodes sending out a bunch of bullets. basically taking one of your lives. It’s like the creator of this game tried to take one of my lives to make it harder. Besides those it’s a perfect game.

Ever since I played your first app, the one with Doremy (I forgot what the name was), I was addicted to your games! Then the next 8 stages 64 spells thing came, then the next, and the next... It got boring. Then this game came out! I've never seen so much work put into a free app. There's little to no ads, it's bug free, balanced, and super fun to play, in fact, it's my favorite app! I have a few suggestions to make: -Revert Hectia's moon spell, I know your intention was to make the spell less difficult, but now it's a liiiiitle harder. Especially with focused shot types. -Nerf Reisen B, she's my favorite shot type, but the fact that she has super high damage with such a wide attack along with a bomb that can allow you to literally skip spells makes allows you to make really cheesy victories. -Keep up the good work! I check your twitter page along with the app store to check for updates, I want to play the new update as soon as it comes out! Don't rush yourself though, I don't want your hand getting hurt or whatever part of your body you hurt that one time

Bombing and deathbombing feels super strange in this game! 1. I’d love for there to be an option to bomb by tapping the screen with a second finger. The current options feel very strange and makes it so that you have to plan your bombs ahead of time, which is fine on its own, but entirely redundant in a game with deathbombing. 2. I wish that hitting a bullet locked you in place or something so that you could have some sort of visual cue for getting hit. As it is now it’s really hard to get a read on the bullets’ hitboxes because of how I just pass through them and die a second later. 3. I’ve also had a bomb go off in the middle of the death animation itself...? I dunno if this was done to reduce the effectiveness of deathbombing, but I personally would rather have a shorter time window than have bombing during the deathbomb window just feel... pointless. These are my main criticisms. I dunno if you read these, but it’d be nice to see some changes to this effect— maybe add different options for toggling how deathbombing works, or something. As it is now I just get really frustrated with the game even when I turn bombs off.