Touhou Gouyoku Ibun ~ Sunken Fossil World.

TH!7.5 Sunken Fossil World key art for Nintendo Switch (with the translated title)
Steam Page (Touhou Wiki)

I finally got around to finishing this, which is good ‘cus when I first played it the final story wasn’t in (as it was added in the Switch ver and later updated in the Steam ver) and honestly it’s been a while but.

It’s. A game! A “horizontal side-scrolling danmaku water action game” if that means anything! I get what they were going for but it I now have cramp in my wrist oop. Conceptually the ideas work, but everyone (especially Murasa) either feels super sluggish or has feel like they don’t have much air control, or both!

Because of getting to the penultimate character back in 2022? 2021? I admittedly have forgotten a lot of how I felt about except just, frustration. Everyone would be fun to play as if the game didn’t seem to actively hate you. Oh well, that’s the last Windows Touhou game left on my list (that’s playable) now cleared. Finally.

On that note I could never find non-YouTube rips of the additional Switch tracks so I finally just did it myself here: No More Going Through Doors & Secret God Matara

The Jewel/Cover art for the touhou fan-game: Book of Star Mythology

東方魔宝城 ~ Book of Star Mythology

The Jewel/Cover art for the touhou fan-game: Book of Star Mythology
Official Site (Touhou Wiki)

This isn’t a particularly big or long post, but given I’m making an attempt to have a post for each game I beat I want to get something down, even if short!

Book of Star Mythology (BoSM) is one of those fan-games I’ve known about for ages, but like all the other big ones I’ve never got round to even though I know it’s extremely good. And now I can confirm that I agree with that!

A screenshot of DO clearing Book of Star Mythology

I never said I did good at it though! Tbh only 23 deaths on a first run, and the majority are stage 5+ I could probably do this as a proper 1cc on Legacy Mode, but I mostly just wanted to finally play through it despite never touching it for YEARS.

The entire soundtrack is fantastic though, like that’s probably not a surprise when the final boss theme is by Wanwan but seriously, all the composers that came together for what was originally going to be an album turned game did such a great job! Starry Wisdom hasn’t gotten out of my head since tbh :’D

I’d recommend it! It’s great! There’s an English patch as well, updated by Azure (who worked on Copy Kitty and some other damakufu scripts in the past if anyone remembers them. I do! They were rad!), so it’s really worth that look in 😀

東方獣王園 ~ Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost

Steam Page (Touhou Wiki)

It fun! Wow! I did a big review over on Steam though if people want to see what my thoughts are in a review setting (it’s also below the OST download). I know I could put that here but I don’t want to work out how to do spoiler text on my site B)

I’m mostly just posting this so I can link the BGM extractions I did (MP3 | OGG)!

So yeah, my thoughts: Game fun! Wow!

Genuine summary: The game has it’s flaws but for a Vs Danmaku game (The 3rd official one) it is genuinely enjoyable and dare I say it “fun”. Though if you really, really, really like Phantasmagoria of Flower View, then give the demo a shot ‘cus you don’t like the demo you might not enjoy the full game

There’s spoilers hidden away here, even on returning chars, so people can be surprised if they’re trying to be spoiler free (somehow, after 48 hours)

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