Reviews from

in the past


Ein Versus-Shoot'em Up, der sehr deutlich von Twinkle Star Sprite beeinflusst wurde.
Immer noch überraschend gut spielbar heutzutage, nur die manchmal unberechenbare KI ist manchmal etwas kniffelig. Aber immerhin nicht so überladen wie Teil 9 später.

Meh. It's really just a low-rent Twinkle Star Sprites clone. Play Twinkle Star Sprites instead.

Local woman brutally attacks nine people to obtain android girl. More at 11pm.

Ó Deus, ó Deus como dói. Do momento que eu percebi que zerei o jogo minha mão já estava completamente destruída. Eu te odeio imensamente Yumemi Okazaki. Mas falando sério, gostei muito mais desse título comparado aos seus antecessores, tanto na gameplay desafiadora como na trilha sonora BANGER, a interação das personagens ao final de cada estágio não ficam para trás também, e o aspecto de competição com a máquina ao lado adiciona muito a emoção das oponentes próximos ao final do jogo.
E o melhor, não importa quanta raiva dê, sempre dá vontade de jogar de novo.

Not very into these multiplayer shmups since single player is basically a time-out mode and the AI cheats the further you go, but I know these have an appeal to some people.


Pretty fun honestly! The difficult spike for the Decisive Battle and the final boss are kinda crazy, because otherwise it's a pretty easy game somehow. I like this game.

Also known as Touhou 3.

I liked the idea of a versus, even if the final stages include cheating AIs that want to throw the whole galaxy at you.

In retrospective, this kind of games were probably the culprit of me breaking the Z key of my old laptop.

ZUN-SENSEI, ITSUMO! ARIGATO GOZAIMASU!

No-oh is that Twinkle Star Sprites? It's kinda fun actually...

Literally what is going on. Why can Yumemi do that.

Phantasmagoria of Flower View is my favorite Touhou, and naturally, this game is also up there in my top 5. I love all the characters, even our favorite Fuwa Fuwa Copyright Infringement Ellen. Unironically, this game has a much better understanding of its own game design than Twinkle Star Sprites, funny enough, and is a much more fun game to play. The soundtrack is a bit weak, IMO, but it's still so very fun to play.

Pew, pew, pew with new features
I had the feeling the player is dependent on luck, I could be wrong...

One of the best PC-98 games, the soundtrack is especially good!

It's in a different style, apparently a "phantasmagoria" game (which I think there are only 2 in the series so far, this one included).

Still fun, and glad I beat Yumemi's cute ass!!

my favourite of the pc 98 touhous

não joguei mto comparado com os outros de PC-98, mas é sempre bom

A hard game, the idea of battle with an opponent in another screen is cool

(I think i not use continue, don't remember so much, normal)

completely forgot one of these is a twinkle star sprites type beat. twinkle star sprites, for the record, blows this out of the water. good effort tho

This game is shockingly easy, to the point that I had no trouble 1CCing it on my first playthrough. Decently fun for what it is and it'd probably be a lot more fun with a friend.

I just did not really like this one. It's not the split-screen formula that puts me off per say, I enjoyed Touhou 19's take on that quite a bit. Just the execution here is very lacking.

I find the gameplay is boring, repetitive, and not very difficult to make up for it. There's characters in it that I enjoy, but that's pretty much the only thing this game has going for it to me aside from the music. I'd rather play pretty much any other Touhou game over this one.

I love this game so much it's unbelievable. It's the first "good" touhou games imo considering the quality of the first 2 games.
9 was my first touhou game and one of my favourites, and i heard so much about how this game is worse or more jank but I think it's just people who don't particularly like the vs shmup style of gameplay. Because playing this game is extremely fun. Especially when you get to know the mechanics. No screen clear with charge means the patterns are a lot more forgiving than 9 (for the most part, looking at you okazaki), and instead you have 2 bombs each round that you can use at any time. When you run out of bombs, you can instead gain invulnerability if you bomb while having full charge. Full charge is also the only charge worth using as it instantly defeats a boss that was sent to you. This makes getting full charge the most important part of your resource management.

Once you know how this game works. You can easily breeze through the first 8 stages. The last stage is an extreme difficulty step up though, and you'll need a bit of luck as yumemi just randomly decides when she'll get hit, so your match with her will either end really fast or you'll go 4 minutes without her taking a single hit. With enough saved up lives though you can 1cc. The best part about the game is that 1cc'ing isnt as much of a time sink as normal touhou games, as I got my 2 1cc's with Rikako and Ellen just by playing as i normally have and getting just a bit lucky with yumemi's fight.

Even though most of the characters are barebones, their interactions and writing are pretty funny. I especially love the stage 8 and 9 cutscenes and endings. Kotohime's and Kana's are fun to read through.

Also, Kana's theme is a banger.