Touhou Mechanical Scrollery | 幻想討幻経 Reviews

I play it on my steam deck with my PS4 controller. plays very well amd is very pretty- my biggest criticism is there are no danmaku duels with other touhou characters so far. I dig the weapon building mechanic akin to GodEater/Monster Hunter, but it could have benefitted if there were spellcard duels. The camera does take some getting used to. The music is great so far and I'm overall having a great time.

mouse & keyboard now usable, that's enough for me to enjoy this game and performance issue was a main reason why this game unplayable, but it's not a problem anymore I got around 12-15 fps before it's fixed, now got 55-60 fps looking forward for more improvements & content updates

Control with mouse & keyboard is still a bit wacky tho but it usable now, but it's better with controller, a performance is better than day one, solid live2d, still need a lot of improvements

I would consider the gameplay as interesting, its fun to play, but the game suffers from technical side of aspect, and controls would really need refining works. Every melee attack are really slow, and you cant move your character freely during melee attack. Combining these 2 factor, and you'll get a melee attack combo that completely falls upon enemy's mercy to NOT move away from you to land. But enemy are generally much more agile... at least compared to you when you attempting a melee attack combo. The camera movement is rough, it will not hover closer to the character if you go near the wall or surrounding, so going into aiming mode while near ANY surrounding object is a great way for you to play the game blindfolded, because the object will block your entire view. so you BETTER, find an open area without any surrounding objects whenever you want to fight a tougher boss enemy. And since you need to recharge your shot attack bullet reserves, the faster way is to warp yourself to the boss and melee attacking (grazing works a little, but the game put you on timer for score bonus, so I would recommend not going that unless opportunity present itself), have fun watching yourself trying to go full brawl against boss while the boss swiftly move across half a map, or just apply a thick layer of bullet in your face. The most game-experience breaking thing would be the missions objective. Once you clear mission objective, the stage would end shortly after, regardless of your choice. One example would be, if you are playing a stage to farm a boss monster, BUT the boss monster IS NOT the stage objective, you'll need to carefully, skillfully, gracefully, AVOID the mission objective the entire boss fight, which will be other small fry mob that will actively try its best to attack/get near you. Good luck. Despite all those drawback, if you can live with them/get used to it, I would say the game is OK I guess. So I'll just gonna put a Recommended opinion from general gameplay conclusion.

With the recent update with key binding, this is worth getting. there's a few bugs here and there and I can't really go into menu when clocking (esc) key so I guess we're stuck in there OwO PLAY THE GAME IN BORDER MODE IF YOU WANT TO EXIT (Autosave enabled) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Those afraid of the requirements of the game, I'm currently on Ryzen 7 with a strix 1080ti doing just fine with 60.1fps and very quick loading screens. CON: Only con is this game doesn't have super ultrawide support (32:9 ratio) for ultrawide thicc bois like me. fullscreen just overscales the entire game. so far I'm loving this game the tag on (full controller support) means you'll most likely need to bind the hell out of it, just stick to keyboard and mouse tbh PRO TIP: the game starts in Japanese so if you want to have english then use the up, down arrow keys and click the (second box) which is (settings) then click your (enter) key for it to toggle (english language)

This game has a lot of potential but the end product feels like a bad asset flip. Clunky and ugly environments, bad controls, but deep down a good game is hiding somewhere. It just won't come out. If they had a few more months to work on the game it would probably have been great.

So far so good! I really love this game, it's really as in the trailer. I hate that most bad comments only mention about either performance or keyboard support. Yes, this game require a good PC and an Xbox controller, but it shouldn't be the only reason of voting down a game, especially indie ones! Because apart from these two problems, the game is fantastic! It's really in the Touhou spirit. Good combat system, awesome boss battles, even a small crafting and shop system! For 15€, it's definitely a good game that I recommend. Edit: For those commenting that keyboard and performances are very important in the review, I'm not saying you shouldn't mention them at all. However, if you do not say anything about the game content itself, complaining only about these is really not helping other users. The only good "bad review" I've read was someone complaining about keyboard & perf, but also talking about the content itself. Edit 2: So I've played this game for 5 hours now, I'm up to chapter 4. I really enjoy the epic musics while you fight a boss :3 The different maps are also interesting and well made. It changes every chapter. A downside though: this game is quite easy, even in hard mode. It also gets a bit repetitive after a while, even if it's not a big deal to me at the moment. Considering the price, it's still worth it.

I was really looking forward to this game, but unfortunately I cannot recommend it in this state. There's no keyboard support, so you pretty much need a gamepad in order to play. Thankfully that wasn't the issue for me, but what WAS a major problem was the terrible optimization. Now I know my gaming laptop isn't the strongest, but it can run most modern games with very little issue. And yet this game chugs along at 15 FPS even with all the graphics set to minimum and Vsync shut off. And what's worse, the game doesn't even have a pause menu (which is a major red flag right there), so every time you want to fiddle with the settings you have to hard-quit. I might revisit this game at a later time if the developers majorly rework the engine, but until then I'm refunding and advising a hard pass on this game.

"But can it run Touhou Mechanical Scrollery?" Can't even play the game. Controls are very confusing and seemingly does not work (Day one). EDIT: So I managed to get into the game using an xbox controller. Game is very poorly optimized. Got 20 fps on a GTX 1660 TI + i7-9750H (which is considered overkill for an Unity game) On the bright side, this seems to be the first attempt at making a graphically stunning Touhou game. EDIT 2: So I checked Task Manager while running and opening the game, it reported around 8 percent CPU, 800-900 MB RAM and 100 percent GPU. Maybe allocate more resources to CPU and RAM? EDIT 3: The character model needs a lot of polishing, and I found the game somewhat repetitive on the first stage, as it's all the same map over and over again. EDIT 4: Issued a refund. I just felt there were too many things wrong about this game.

[h1]Intended keyboard mappings[/h1] [noparse]Format: [/noparse][b]Controller button[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u]Keyboard button[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Usage in Preset A[/i] [b]LT[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u]K[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Descend[/i] [b]LB[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u]J[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Melee attack[/i] [b]Left joystick Up/Down/Left/Right[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u]Up/Down/Left/Right[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Move[/i] [b]Left joystick press[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u]Y[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Switch dash[/i] [b]Left navigation Up/Down/Left/Right[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u](not accessible)[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i](no use)[/i] [b]Start[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u](I didn't find this)[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Menu[/i] [b]Select[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u](not accessible)[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i](no use)[/i] [b]RT[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u]L[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Ascend[/i] [b]RB[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u]I[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Shot attack[/i] [b]A[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u]D[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Toggle[/i] [b]B[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u]S[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Dodge[/i] [b]X[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u](I didn't find this, but I guess it's E)[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Spell Card[/i] [b]Y[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u]W[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Switch firing[/i] [b]Right joystick Up/Down/Left/Right[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u]8/2/4/6(small keyboard, with Num Lock on)[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i]Move camera[/i] [b]Right joystick press[/b][noparse] - [/noparse][u](not accessible)[/u][noparse] - [/noparse][i](no use)[/i] [noparse]--------[/noparse] [noparse]If you find more, please comment to fill this list. Thank you.[/noparse]