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Silly game, lol.


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Final thoughts:

I'll say this bluntly, I do not and will never appreciate the missing fundamental features that these games usually have. Things like replays, scoring, extra, esc+r, etc.

You also have the LoLK Pointdevice thing going on where you can basically just continue forever with no consequences. There's really no emphasis on getting a 1cc and it seems the focus this time around is just getting through the game.

In a way, you could argue the imbalances are justified with the infinite retries.... but I'm not so sure I agree. I think just having a set of lives like PoDD/PoFV did would have been fine

I have to admit, however, that the chaos is quite fun to play around with. Despite how broken and unbalanced everything is, I think the actual dodging itself is enjoyable, and I do like being challenged in that aspect.

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I also think the game lacks replayability. Yeah, there are 19 clears you can get... but in other games (even the phantasmagorias) there was always scoring as an option you could pursue after getting the clears.

I suppose you could try some No Miss or No Bomb challenges... but good luck doing that with some of the characters, lol. (Reimu very doable though)

There is a netplay mode which has promise. But the official one we got for the demo was remarkably buggy and just... didn't work right. I do hope that it's fixed for this full version, but I suppose we'll find out in due time.

...Now for the good bits.

I appreciate the character roster this time around. It's super unique and I like seeing underused characters get the limelight more.

The boss sprite artwork is beautiful and I appreciate the character animations! In terms of graphical aesthetics this game looks really fresh and clean! (I'll always nitpick about the reused player sprites but that's never going away so w/e)

I also really enjoy the music remixes. ZUN is a top notch composer so I really didn't have any worries about the music. Some of the new songs are really cool too!

....What I don't like are the generic early boss themes. I think it's a shame that songs like "At the End of Spring" don't get to play in the main story because bosses like Nazrin are kinda locked (As far as I know) in the first three stages. In PoDD and PoFV the character themes ALWAYS played even in the early stages so I don't see why this change was necessary.

Parting Thoughts:

I think this game is one of those games you could have a lot of fun with for a bit, but that it wouldn't really be something to go back to often unless you were really serious about netplay.

I decided against making a full series out of this game because frankly, I'm not gonna have anything insightful to say on any of the future videos, and I doubt I'm gonna go for all 19 clears.