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Yay, Touhou!

Wait, no playable Ordinary Magician Marisa Kirisame? 0/5 worst game ever! /jk

My humble suggestions:

-Basic enemy bullets should have different colors, not all white, double so when the player's hitbox is also another white dot.

-The unique mechanic is interesting and theoretically could allow for some crazy moves, but in pratice it's really hard to keep track of both characters and all the enemies and bullets to know the best moment to swap. Also I feel like both forms should have some shooting capacity so you can hit enemies directly in front of your controlled unit.

Otherwise mechanically the game is quite well implemented, nice original music and art, very nice more "serious" Reimu and original enemies Zun-style, although it feels off that the 1st boss starts dropping the plot while usually in Touhou games the first boss is some random smuck that just happened to run into the characters and barely knows anything about the plot.

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1. Tbh that's due to laziness on my part because i ported over the bullets from my other shmup game which is all black and white and only started putting coloured bullets in the boss patterns while forgetting to put them in the stage enemies.

2. I tried to account for that and when you play the game a lot through trying to route it, it gets easier to use. Although yeah it's still difficult but that's part of the fun.

3. This isn't meant to be a full game and more so a single one off extra stage-like level. Which is why it all gets resolved in one level. 

I honestly didn't even plan on revisiting this game (the original had only 5 phases to Raiko) but there was an opportunity to submit some games for touhoufest to be displayed there and this was an low stakes one to develop upon as all I needed was add more phases to make the fight longer. Then I randomly found this jam which coincided with the same period so I submitted it here because why not.Thanks for playing though!