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Touhou Fantasy Eclipse Review(s)
3.8
This is probably the best Touhou gacha game out there right now gameplay-wise. I'm very surprised that it took this long to get a shmup in this scale onto mobile devices. The visuals and presentation are clean and striking, the soundtrack is good (as usual), and the story seems interesting from what I've read so far. However, this game doesn't seem to have much staying power right now, due to the strange choices it has made.
The stamina system (AP) is brutal if you are starting out. Although it regens at 10 minutes for 1 AP (Max is 100), you will level up pretty quickly so you will end up overflowing. So you would start doing character stories/events to drain AP, but each run would take 15-25 minutes (no autoclear), which won't be looked at favoredly for basic dailies. If you aren't proactive, I'm sure you'll just end up with too much AP that is kept everyday, and you will end up wasting a bunch of regen everyday.
Then there is the shmup gameplay. Using 30 AP, you will play 5 unique stages, and you just clear them. However these 5 stages are only unique to the story. If you were to replay the story, you play the exact same 5 stages, which will become monotonous as you grind that. You will probably say, "Isn't that just mainline Touhou?". There's a difference between playing stages because you feel like doing it and playing stages because you need to use AP so that it doesn't cap. You will end up just burning out at some point if you keep that mindset for a while.
The characters are also pretty important when playing a Touhou game as well. You will have Reimu, and then a free character chosen at random. The only way to obtain new characters is through the gacha, which is a bad decision in my opinion. As its a shmup, there is already little variety in how its played: shoot and dodge, so having them being locked behind that isn't nice to say the least. On the plus side, there isn't a big power gap between the worst and best character, so you can play whoever you like without worrying about being suboptimal.
Then, there's the gacha. There is a character and weapon (card) banner: 2.5% to spark a 5* and 200 pity to guarantee. The banner characters are limited, so you won't be able to get Aya anymore as of right now. If you obtain the banner character before 200, the pity will reset. Strange idea, it means if 2 banner characters are running, you can't use the guarantee to get the other banner character if you already got one early.
As for the endgame, it's where it gets polarizing. There's only a couple things you can do. First, the Tower, which is basically a long list of stages that increase in difficulty. Next are the character stories and events, only good for if you need a better kit for a character, or for event currency. Lastly are the boss rush stages, done once a day, but you can select the difficulty you want. There isn't much depth put into anything besides the gameplay.
In conclusion, I still think its a good Touhou game since it is "free", and it's worth a try if you have ever played any mainline Touhou. But I wouldn't recommend playing it for the gacha itself, unless you really want a character you like. I can appreciate the amount of effort put into this, but as I stand:
Good game, but keep playing only if you feel like it's still fun.
Edit 1 (11/29/23): With the first event now being released, there is now another source to use AP (Stamina), although you would still need to do the usual 20-30 minute runs in there as well.
Edit 2 (12/11/23): Since I've reached level 22, the highest level as of now (not anymore 12/14), I added a category for the state of the endgame. They also fixed linking accounts and the loading glitch, so I've removed that entire paragraph. I've decided to overhaul most of the review since its 3 weeks into the game, and I've gotten out of the honeymoon period.
4.0
Graphics: Damn, CAVE really make their own style of Touhou, one word "unique" (they even have L2D). The VFX is quite decent, but it's mostly fine. Quite hard to run in an old device, but atleast you need that Snapdragon chipset to run it.
Sound: Their sfx is not using Touhou sfx that might everyone ever heard, everything is fresh. Their music is also good, you might can stay in the music library interface for just hearing their musics
Gameplay: Danmaku with gacha game element, same as Arcadia Record. Also, since this is easy to play danmaku, you still needs the skill you get from Touhou's easy mode.
Storyline: Doesn't fully understand Japanese, but i can tell, this one is good.
Noteable: This games rlly sucks to run at Android, story bug and framedrops, since Japan mostly used Apple products
Another Note: Remember, their gacha system is suck. So, keep gambling my fellow gamblers!! Also, they tried to improve the performance, so in every update you might can found a bugs or glitches while playing in Android
4.4
Good selection of song remixes from all previous mainline games
could be big if it went global.
5.0
3.5
Other people are still waiting there favorite characters and you're not making new one its 2024
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5.0
4.8
I hope this title gets enough reception. It was very sad to see Danmaku Kagura closing (as I expected from previous DeNA games). I hope they fix the story mode sprites, because they are tiny / huge (they don't take the shape of my screen). I have no words for this Touhou title, simply amazing! Let's make a wish for a PC port
4.6
3.0
The overall art style and theme of the game feels a little weird? to me as the colors used are very dark and I guess I'm just not used to it. Personally I don't really like it.
The costumes of some of the characters are redesigned. Sometimes for the worse. I don't like that either.
The music is amazing as always for Touhou, not much to say here.
I cannot comment on the story as I haven't read it.
The gameplay was kinda fun. I didn't really enjoy it that much.
4.0
Most of the tips I gave below still seem to stand so I'm mot going to delete any if it. I hope people still find it useful.
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I'd like to give a proper review when I have to the head space but I'd like to drop a few things real quick.
A tip for those who don't understand how the character system works: You play a stage once as a character you've obtained via the gacha in the main mode. Once you've completed the main mode your character gains a copy of sorts that can be used in other game modes.
It carries any cards and upgrades you got in-game/from that playthrough. The same cannot be said for your base character (the one you play as in the main mode). You upgrade your base characters from the character upgrades menu. Might sound confusing on the surface but hopefully might make more sense once you've played for a bit.
But the copy characters are sort of an interesting gimmick. Since you can play them in other modes you can keep a low level copy to reap the benefits of easy level stages without killing the boss too fast. Though the idea is probably to work your way up to extreme mode so that you can gain even more rewards through understanding how to score through and survive harder spell cards (... Exploiting burst and the numerous cards you gain at the end of each stage - specifically the cards that give you a temporary shot type...).
... I felt like mentioning this whole thing because one commenter mentioned something about how you end up becoming too strong to be able to properly gain points from lower levels due to beating bosses too fast. I get that for gameplay it can seem odd, but it really does allow for replayability. And so long as you keep getting new characters, that might not even be a problem as you get to keep working your way up but with different characters and finding what combinations score better together.
... This is coming from someone who's played since day 1 and was stuck with Reimu and Youmu only due to getting a dupe as a thrid character. I have 5 characters now, but I was stuck with Reimu and Youmu for a good few months. Thank goodness the game gives you a few 'character-only summon tickets' through reading the story... So long as you don't forget about it you should be fine. If not, re-roll early if you can. Being stuck with 2 characters puts you at a disadvantage and makes everything way slower than it would be if you had 3 from the jump.
Another tip: This game is sort of generous with the gems/premium currency (the one you exchange real money for)... Don't forget at least to login to get a few from Rinnosuke's shop. He'll give you 10 daily, 100 weekly (I think? Will edit this once I clarify since I can't remember on the spot) and 500 monthly. This is on top of the free 10 gems you get from the gem shop. Getting 20 by simply login in a checking certain menus might not seem that much considering how much you my need to 10x summon. But it will build with time. And hey, sometimes it's 500+ at the turning of a month. And if you sweep certain resource stages that's more gems with just a few button presses.
Edit: Even if your favourite character isn't in the gacha pool yet, that doesn't mean they won't be at some point (unless they're PC98 but... who knows).They'll come in with time, so long as the game has the longevity to get to them. In the meantime we might get some alt. units of characters already in the game (would be weird if they pulled a Cannonball Koakuma on us though. LW kinda did that too didn't it?). It let's you play as the same character but with a different elemental... Whether they have a different shot type as well or not, IDK at the moment. But let's hope that we get some new characters soon. (Though I do find it odd that we got Kaguya and Suwako before Meiling or other early stage bosses from the earlier windows titles.) Even though LW releases a character- what, every 2 weeks - it also has as many characters as it does because it's been around for a good few years now... This game just came out about half a year ago (as of editing (16/05/2024)).
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I won't lie. I kinda lost respect for Lost Word, and I miss Touhou Cannonball and Danmaku Kagura a lot. They kinda taught me that we don't seem to appreciate casual games a lot. Either you dig a solid hour or 2 or 5... 10 into a game or what's the point? Though I wonder if I'm the one who doesn't get it. After all Twisted Wonderland is a casual game to some degree and yet it still seems to be doing well. I wonder what it is... Over saturation of gacha games on the scene...? IDK! I just really hope we don't lose this game too... Yes. Even if the gameplay isn't phenomenal.
(TL:DR - I really hope this game with actual gameplay, and great QoL improvements, voice acting, animation/Live2D doesn't suddenly up and become literally inaccessible in contrast with an RPG that is literally mostly JPEGs that didn't even have a pause menu when it started out. Yes. I might have a grudge against LW, my bad.)
Sorry for the rambles! Started out as me wanting to help, ended with me lamenting and ranting about mobile games and stuff. Only typed all this under a review as I kinda doubt most people will see it in the other tab... May delete all this and move it to the other tab later.
4.4
2.6
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