UDONGEIN X Reviews

Fun bosses, Lackluster stage design. Regardless, a good game that's definitely worth the 5 dollar asking price

It's alright. Soundtrack is a bit on the weaker side...I liked some of the tunes but a lot sound kinda bleh. It doesn't help that the guitar sample they use in every song sounds really bad.. Stages have sort of bland level design where there aren't too many stage gimmicks and a lot of the layouts are pretty flat. Most notable stages here are the shmup stages. There's two of them, and while they aren't that difficult by shmup standards, they're the hardest thing in the game by far and will probably filter at least a few people. Like for reference, they're about as challenging as some of the secret boss content in DELTARUNE (Not that deltarune is particularly difficult... but the shmup stages in Udongein X took me a similar amount of tries). Bosses are kind of a mixed bag...there's maybe a 40/60 split between decent challenging fights and piss easy encounters. The characters are cool though, I'm personally not that familiar with most of the cast but fans that are more plugged in will probably enjoy the rep here. Unfortunately there aren't any special weapons or sub weapons. You collect little currencies from boss kills and as secrets in stages that you can spend in a shop menu for some upgrades. These upgrades are things like more HP/faster charge...but there are a few that give you new abilities that would be sorta analogous to what an armor upgrade in MMX would do. Regardless...it still feels a bit weird to be at the end of the game without any real visual or mechanical change to the character and how they fight. Well not that I know much about touhou, but I guess none of the characters really "grow" in the conventional sense like how X would? My friend makes it sound like everyone is just OP by default and the only thing happening is character's holding back instead of growing stronger. In any case I found myself wishing I at least got special weapons from defeating bosses. That being said, I enjoyed the gameplay and thought the shmup stages especially were great fun. For only 5 dollars I think it's totally worth it if you have a MMX itch and wanna play something for an afternoon or 2.