Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia Reviews

bit grindy but if your not stupid like me and fight enemys that only use fire while you take double damage to fire, then you should be fine

Fantastic game, retro feeling without having some of the retro limitations. the dungeon crawler gameplay has a good, healthy amount of friction, and in combat a ton of strategies are viable making it challenging but also fun all of the endings are kind of a bummer tho :( was worth it for the gameplay but felt kinda hollow at the end

There's an extremely satisfying RPG in here, although somewhat occluded by janky menus that frequently require you to back out and go down a different branch for relevant information, writing that never rises above 'acceptable' and achieves neither the moodiness of SMT nor the spiritedness of Touhou, dungeons that get tedious in the lategame, resources that shouldn't be tied to all of the functions they are, and a just genuinely atrocious fusion table (you need endgame 'demons' to fuse a midgame generic. What?) that frequently leaves you treading water, desperately looking for a way to fuse your Sleepers forward that just doesn't exist. I know that sounds negative, but 1) you can forgive a lot when development is as small-scale as this and 2) the charm of this game really will overpower that. My experience started to fray towards the endgame, but up until that point, I was hooked for every second. The customisability offered by the fusion mechanics, the ability to tailor the experience to your liking with grimoires, and the simple satisfaction of trudging through gloomy caves to lovely music, having your carefully-tuned and adorable-looking Sleepers walk all over equally lovely enemy sprites drives a really addicting gameplay loop that kept me glued to the screen until I had every single achievement except the one that I accidentally locked myself out of without a second playthrough. Maybe sometime in the future!

If you like the Touhou universe and dungeon-crawling then this is must play. The dungeons and creature-collecting is fun. Just fucking play it, alright?!

this game is a love letter to both Touhou and Megaten, having an incredible story, interesting game mechanics, and an incredible soundtrack. i commend the developers for making an experience that's worth remembering, and absolutely worth your time and money if you're into RPGs.

I don't normally do reviews, but I felt like I had to for this one, as it's been on my mind a lot recently. I do plan on doing a second playthrough soon enough, but I'm still waiting to see if there is a port. But I've done everything except for the very last post game dungeons, and a few achievements here and there. Personally I believe this game is an amazing game, honestly even 10/10 worthy in my own opinion. As someone who knew very little of Touhou going into the game (I knew Sakuya and that's it) I came out of it knowing a bit more about Touhou, alongside a few new favorite characters. It was a lot of fun going into the game, finding a new character that caught my attention, or just having a really strong sleeper and looking up more about them. The game is fairly challenging for newcomers to first person dungeon crawlers, luckily I have experience with the older SMT games. But I believe the difficulty curve was great, nothing ever felt too challenging, and I don't really think I ever needed to grind to succeed. I did at times though just to make traveling through dungeons easier. The team building aspect of the game though was truly my favorite, I ended up getting the character Yuugi in the very first dungeon, and ended up liking her so much that I carried her with me through out the entire game. Same with Sakuya after I got her, which left me with a free slot for other random characters. Alongside Sumireko who you can build to fit any role in your party. All in all play the game. Give me a Yuugi Fumo. I need get a Sakuya one still. Bully Meiling more. Call Cirno a Baka. And make Yuugi Fumos a thing.

A delight of a SMT-like, it even gets magnetite right!! Really, I'm in disbelief of just how much fun I had with this game. I know absolutely nothing about Touhou, and yet I enjoyed exploring its world a lot. Dungeons are great, combat is fun, ost is absolute fire and the art is amazing. Long live maze gameplay!!

I went in expecting a 10 hour little romp, but instead I got a full length 50 hour journey thru Gensokyo! As a dungeon crawler fan its great to see a classic SMT styled game, the exploration is straight forward like alot of older dungeon crawlers, no crazy gimmicks or anything too confusing. The combat is pretty straight forward SMT affair, Buffing, De-buffing, exploiting Weaknesses. Nothing really too hyper difficult until the final boss really. As an Old School Touhou fan it was simply great. They really left no stone un-turned in terms of characters and locations. It was great to see Places like the Animal Realm and Makai, along with all the PC-98 characters represented! Everything from the music to the visuals brought me great joy, Truly a new peak for Touhou Fan games! TLDR; Yeah it's Peak

Fun classic SMT like. Not too easy, but not too hard. I haven't done the post game though so.... maybe that will change. Don't have to know too much about Touhou to get into it. Fun for the price!

An absolute must play if you love dungeon crawler especially if you had played the older SMT titles before. Soundtrack is godlike but the gameplay can be quite cumbersome at time if you don't prepare with items to help you explore. Still overall great with post-game content as well. and if you can't get enough, there's even steam workshop for custom created levels. I already liked Sumireko but she was accurately well-written with her lines so I love her even more. There were many times I laughed out loud from her responses.