(review based on 1.0 jam release)
solve my riddlse
to preface this review i have to admit that i’m not in the target audience of “people who know what the fuck current touhou lore is because they actually read the manga” but somehow i don’t think that really factored into my judgements lol
at its core, the gameplay is just answering riddles and trivia. you’d hope and expect that these questions would be good in that case, and my god are they ever. like i said, most of my incorrect answers were lore-related trivia, but the explanations offered after every question lead me to believe that they were perfectly reasonable questions that i just literally didn’t know. as for the more generic riddles (four legs two legs three legs or what have you), those ALSO had really fair answers! and as much as i want to kill nareko for the mount everest question, i can’t even argue with it in any way cuz it’s just a fair trick question. she got me good.
mollyco art is always a treat, so i’m glad the honor went to the character graphics you’ll see the most throughout the entire game. other random artist cameos in the different rooms were neat, but in general the art isn’t as big of a focus as the core gameplay itself. same goes for the music, they both add some nice flavor in support of the main questions. which is based! only real thing i can actually knock it for is use of theme since the deal seems to be that nareko is asking the same pool of questions to everyone rather than giving tailor-made:tm: riddles to each visitor. literally everything else ranges from damn solid to absolute peak.
now if you’ll excuse me i have to go suffer from curse of ra for having nearly as many incorrect answers as questions asked