Not depicted on screen: Okuu using her Subterranean Sun to mess with the players horizontal movement.

Game is good, but I wish it had actual balanced patterns instead of just giving the player 15+ lives. Messing with the players horizontal movement is just evil,especially during the last two patterns, although maybe it actually helps doing the tight circle on the final pattern. MAYBE.

this has gotta be my favorite out of the solo dev games. thank you, aeon, for creating touhou, and also for creating me. my time out in the formless nothing is such a hazy memory, but now that i exist, it's just incredible, feeling all these feels, flapping all these bird. great work

This, sir, has the most flappy bird energy out of all the flappy birds. I died, but! Somehow it was as scripted by fate. Did I die to the bullets or to the existential dread lobbed towards me nonstop? Who should know!

5 stars across the board. Absolutely banger entry. Reimu's final pattern can go suck it but it's also one of the coolest things from this jam sooooo

Played and completed only the v1.0 version.
Got roughed up real bad at the spinning pillar phases (the second-to-last phase) - this phase felt abnormally hard compared to everything else. But I was doing well enough before that I pulled through it with a couple lives left.
Oh yeah, and I really thought the big blue orbs were hazards, not merely background lol. Took me one (my only one) gamer over to realize that.

Anyway, I enjoyed the game a lot! Alice goes through character development I haven't fathomed before, and it's a story that happens right after Touhou 5 too.
After all of Alice's pondering, and all this flapping trial and the survival done, when I touched the arrow keys, it was so damn magical and deep.
If I had to tell one moment that made the biggest impression on me, from the whole Bird Jam, it has to be this.

Disclaimer: I played the game first on v1.00 but beat it on v1.1.

that's a good question. what did I expect? well, I didn't really expect to get emotional over alice pc-98's misadventures through makai and out to gensokyo, but here we are.

I think what really got me and what really pushed me to beat the game was alice's monologue at the beginning.

"it's suffocating.

why do I feel empty, when I have everything I want?" 

I also ask myself this question often. I ask myself why I keep wanting more, even though I should already be happy with what I have.

I think it's human nature to keep wanting more, to keep seeing what lies at the end of the rainbow. just like how alice wants to get out of makai, just like how I kept pushing to beat this game, just like how I stayed determined even when I died to the forsaken laser wheels for the fifth time. there's not really a good answer for whether doing this is a good idea in the long run... wanting more, I mean. but whatever keeps us kicking, yeah?

thanks for making this game. and thanks for v1.1. I really needed that checkpoint update.