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Phantasmagoria of Flower View (2005)

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"Type: Side-scrolling Shooting Game
Publisher: Souvenir Circ.
Year of Release: August 11, 2012
Language: Japanese
Playable Characters: Reimu, Marisa" taken from moriyashrine.weebly, this is an epic Touhou fangame, it's a horizontal shmup with quite some graphics for a shmup, it features a lot of dialogue that's voiced too! I skipped it here because if I ruin a run, it would only be reasonable to not go through it all again, you don't have a replay system too so it's pretty much live-recording.


Anyways, time to explain some stuff here: it's a horizontal shmup which is a bit like Deathsmiles, you got a shield which you can use to chain enemies and bullets, you can also (have to, even) use it to end Boss attacks, it either be nonspells or spellcards, it also uses a clear-bomb system, although it's mainly to be seen as a clear costing 50 power, so you get 4 clears I think, if you use a clear in a spellcard and you capture it, it's counted as a capture so it's allowed for perfect runs, I got an easy perfect actually!

Also, you can't focus in this game, basically everything got to be done no focused.

I've also noticed that once Lily White comes along with Lily Black, that if you kill Lily White you always get a 1-up, it's pretty handy to do know this!

This was a pretty bad run actually, I got a hard run (which was in an earlier version, nothing is really different, other than that it stops after Sakuya.) in which I almost no missed everything! I just messed up at Sakuya's second nonspell, if I didn't do that I'd atleast have an old version no miss 1cc, although it's barely countable considering 2 whole stages are missing.

I can't believe how much I messed up Satori, even if I did her blind on hard, same follows for Remilia but I only used one bomb at her, sadly, since I've read that if you perfect Remilia you can get to the EX, basically a hidden EX boss (You may call it a secret TLB I guess.. :V) [Spoiler] you'll get to battle Flandre, I haven't even ever seen a video of this other than her theme, it's one of the few times Flandre's obscure somewhere.[Spoiler]

I still captured a few hard spellcards and did pretty nice at times, I got Scarlet Meister and what I think that is Scarlet Gensokyo against Remilia, so that's pretty nice!

Anyways, I'll get to rating this game.

OST: 9, pretty nice themes, fit the game pretty well, it doesn't really miss out on something

Voice-usage: a solid 10 as you won't see it a lot anyways, it's interesting to see, sorry that I didn't really record the voices! maybe that I'll do that in the future.

Graphics and stuff: 10, looks beautiful, enough said.

Gameplay 7.5: very interesting, doesn't really miss out on something to make it more interesting, that's when you play it, it lacks a disturbing amount of stuff though, it doesn't even have a stage practice! The worst is probably that there's no replay system.. You'd be fooled if you think the scores are replays, they aren't, still interesting that they added miniature statues of the characters and achievements, that's a pretty nice thing, the lack of a music room is disturbing, I honestly love to listen to a theme in a game collected all-together, it's sad that I'd have to search for them to hear them :V

Overal rating: 9

I love this game a lot, it may miss out on a lot but it's really fun to play! It feels so interesting.. I just can't give it a low rating for how good it is.

Fun fact: I've tried to upload this about thrice, it failed 3 times, I managed to get it up later on, luckily since I've been wanting to get this up for a long time!

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