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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Balance (Challenge and Fairness) | #37 | 2.916 | 2.966 |
| Audio / Music | #43 | 3.017 | 3.069 |
| Gameplay | #51 | 2.746 | 2.793 |
| Story / Writing | #52 | 2.102 | 2.138 |
| Overall | #53 | 2.983 | 3.034 |
| Concept | #53 | 3.221 | 3.276 |
| Use of Theme (Retroactive, Retrospective, Retro) | #56 | 3.085 | 3.138 |
| Visuals | #59 | 3.017 | 3.069 |
| Use of Green (Green themes, style, use of Sanae/Mima, etc) | #66 | 1.424 | 1.448 |
Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team Members
JamnedZ
Streaming Permission
Yes
Touhoufest Showcase Permission
Yes
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very good music and the only issue was that last stage was a little harsh on the eyes (white objects zooming on a black background) fun little 3d game!
Cool game but it's a bit quirky in interesting ways.
My impressions on my first playthrough:
- Is Marisa's movement supposed to be that slippery?
- In the PoDD stage, after going for a few minutes Marisa seemed to go so fast she phased through hazards and souls... Had to restart. She really got too deep in the dreams lol.
On subsequent playthroughs Marisa was not on crack anymore, and I managed to beat the game. Turns out that it's a perfectly chill and casual game when It's not bugging.
It also turns out that the framerate affects the game. And for the first time ever in my life, the game seemed to be bugged when my monitor is set on 60 Hz instead of 144 Hz. Usually it's the other way around, my mind was blown.
Other comments:There's something that is almost hypnotic about the infinite straight paths through the scenery.
Would have liked audio feedback for collecting and losing souls.
But good Eternal Shrine Maiden arrange.
Idk if the others noticed but we're literally travelling through the eras of Touhou.
- Animal Realm (today, also Animal Realm and Hell have been very big world building elements),
- Land of the Backdoor (Okina, a Gensokyo Sage who's been acting in the background, starts revealing herself in HSiFS and will influence the later titles),
- Dream World (DDC and LoLK, marking the start of the 2nd Modern era of games with a standardization of the Touhou games' bases - heavy world development involving the Dream World too),
- Forest at foot of Youkai Mountain (MoF, 1st game of the 1st Modern era, which brings a new engine to the Touhou games)
- Bamboo Forest of the Lost (IN, probably the flagship of the "Classic era" in terms of introducing beginners with a forgiving challenge, and featuring characters from the other two of the "Trilogy". That said, EoSD and PCB may as well be flagships in their own way.
- Probability Space Hypervessel from PoDD, from the PC-98 games, the "Retro era". Magnificent.
Oh god it’s that bad on 60 FPS, I haven’t even thought of a possibility somehow 😅
Thanks for the review!
Fun little casual game. That theme is an absolute jam.
Fun game that reminds me of aya dive from the last gamejam (which was one of my favourite games of that jam). Though wish the dream things were away from each other enough to allow some kind of run where you can't miss any of them. A visual or sound indicator of when you do get them would be nice too.
Low poly marissa is a treat. And the backgrounds look pretty. Except in the last level though, where everything is white. It's really hard to see anything in that level.
Pretty fun.
There's a bit of a visibility issue though. When far away, obstacles and collectibles are too small to properly identify their shapes, so you have to rely on color, and pink and red are quite close to each other. In the last level in particular, with the white background, they're really hard to see and differentiate.
Thankfully, the game is not punishing at all, so this is not a severe problem.
I was very impressed by how you were able to get such appealing backgrounds from so few resources.