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Today’s review will be about Touhou Puppet Dance Performance (幻想人形演舞 Gensou Ningyou Enbu) released by Focaslens during Comic Market 87, simply composed of HemoglobinA1C, the artist of the game (beware if you look up his work, they contain NSFW arts as well).
In Touhou Puppet Dance Performance, you play the role of a human who ends up in Gensokyo somehow after visiting the Hakurei Shrine in the real world. However, an incident is ongoing in Gensokyo: puppets can be found throughout Gensokyo, looking like famous figures of the world such as Hakurei Reimu, Shameimaru Aya or Kazami Yuuka.
Our hero/ine however wants to go home, and goes on an adventure through the fantasy world to find her way to the real world, and honestly quite a lot of Gensokyo is shown (No Hakugyokuro unfortunately…).
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The gameplay is similar to a Pokemon game. You capture “Puppets” instead of Pokemon, you use “Threads” to capture them, you train them and fight your way against trainers and explore various environments, meeting prominent figures of Gensokyo.
For those familiar with Pokemon, you will understand the mechanics instantly. At lv 30, your puppet can evolve into two different “styles”. Aya can evolve into either “Power Aya” or “Speed Aya”, who have different stats, moves, and sometimes abilities. These various styles allow your favorite character to be usable in your team in different ways.
You learn skills through leveling up and can teach them to your puppets using SP that you earn by fighting other puppets. You also use those SP to increase your EV (improve your stats), and your IV are shown as soon as you check the stats of your puppet in the form of ranks (from E- to S, S being the highest). And in my opinion, this makes the mechanics easy to grasp: You want to improve a stat? You add points to it. You want to learn a new or old move? You spend points and you learn it.
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A great thing that Touhou fans will enjoy is that you can start with any of your favorite character, and I started with Aya, just like you can even start with Marisa, Renko or even Kikuri of Shingyoku!(Yes, PC-98 characters are in). Keep in mind though that not all characters are equal, but who cares, you get your favorite character. This goes up to Th15.
Unfortunately, as I played the game, I kept running into more and more problems. Although the settings are attractive and the aesthetics captivating the gameplay does not flow too well as the difficulty constantly spikes up whenever you encounter your “rival” (You are lv 10, your opponent has lv 15), and since the game has its own typing, and it’s hard to tell what type your opponent is. Thankfully a wiki is available through the works of the community, which you will either constantly keep open to look up your opponent, or you will suffer through trial and error.
Not only that, the trainers you encounter will be at your level, and there are a few of them. The wild Puppets are also about the same or lower level. Your rival will be at least 7 to 15 levels above yours, even if you train constantly because wild puppets give very little experience.
Another problem is that the story does not always tell you what to do and leaves you to explore entirely without any hints whatsoever of the next place to go to. « You should explore new areas » « I’m not going to tell you where it is, it wouldn’t be fun otherwise », and so you end up wandering around Gensokyo in chase of the next area. Of course, your mileage may vary.
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Speaking of area, the dungeons are unfortunately very plain. Every single area is essentially a maze with a straight path to the goal, with forks. No puzzles to solve or anything. It’s just « try to go from point A to point B by finding the correct path. » and that is unfortunate, the Pokemon games at least had puzzles in the dungeons to keep you entertained and change the gameplay a tad. Here, there is none of that, it’s always the same thing over and over.
All in all, the game is enjoyable if you can get past those few negative points, as for me it made the experience worse than it should/could have been and I have ended up just wanting to finish the game for the sake of finishing it rather than for the enjoyment of the game. I’m not even willing to finish the postgame as the problems are the same still. This is all up to you though, maybe you will enjoy it more than I did, and I hope so for you!