This is a very pretty game, despite some of the sprites aging like spoiled egg and some of the dialogue not translating well in English at all, this game is genuinely really fun and genuinely really pretty to look at, and it is definitely the game out of the early windows era Touhou games I recommend the most.
Continues where Embodiment of Scarlet Devil left off, except it adds some cheap shit (difficult-to-see homing lasers, bullets appearing behind you) and attempts to balance things with a new 'supernatural border' (shield) mechanic and a new (slightly OP) spread-shot character, Sakuya.
Overall, it's still really clean danmaku fun, but I like EOSD better.
Overall, it's still really clean danmaku fun, but I like EOSD better.
Touhou 7 isn't a perfect sequel. It's a worthy successor and introduces many great things to the table; more complicated danmaku, being able to visually see your hitbox and the enemy at the bottom of the screen, Youmu, and the introduction of gimmicks into the 1st Windows Era. However, I think it lacks on the character department compared to 6 and the music, a pretty iconic part of the series isn't as good this time. However, overall 7 probably is better than 6 just because of the QoL it introduces, and also Youmu.
This one's probably my favorite of the ones I've played. I really love the music and the vibes of the levels. I think the scoring system is really good in this game, like simple to understand but hard to master. This is also one of the easier ones to get into. You can also play as Sakuya, what's not to love about it?
Pretty much the same as EoSD but decently easier and with some minor quality of life improvements. I really appreciate the name for midbosses being given unlike Daiyousei in the last game, and being able to see how many health bars a boss has left is huge. Also more creative patterns in a lot of instances like Chen zipping around, The Prismriver Sister’s group attacks, or all of the time stop direction change attacks in the game.
Game Review - by Kitsune Sniper (aka Foxhack)
The game seems to be a vertical shooter, similar to the latest Cave offerings. The screenshots at the site show 80-90% of the playable area covered in bullets, so this is one of those insane games that only hardcore shooter players will touch. Seems fun, but as it is not a free game, I cannot test it.
The game’s homepage is located at http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th07.html.
(editor's note: hard to remember back to a time where people didn't know what Touhou was, this was written back when the game came out)
The game seems to be a vertical shooter, similar to the latest Cave offerings. The screenshots at the site show 80-90% of the playable area covered in bullets, so this is one of those insane games that only hardcore shooter players will touch. Seems fun, but as it is not a free game, I cannot test it.
The game’s homepage is located at http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th07.html.
(editor's note: hard to remember back to a time where people didn't know what Touhou was, this was written back when the game came out)