RAIN Project - a touhou fangame Reviews

As of writing here, I have finally beaten last boss after 6 hrs of constant retry. I am never a avid bullet hell player. But I have finished it. Game is pretty unfair, to the same degree as the original megaman. But great game

Surprisingly fun game. Great Soundtrack, decent platforming, and pretty good art. I really like the Tenshi boss fight, it made great use of the game's movement mechanics. I also like how the whole area you have to get through to get to Tenshi is completely optional, so you don't have to go through that really hard platforming segment if you don't want to. I really liked the Hina boss fight as well, I think the fight flowed really well. As for the Aya boss fight, I think it was pretty good, but I think her hitbox is kinda wonky, and her last spellcard(with the camera) is also kinda janky with the platform RNG, but it wasn't too bad outside of that. The one boss fight I just can't say anything good about is the Kanako boss fight, which is also the final boss. It's just too RNG based, and every time you lose, you have to go through the whole 1st phase and then the like 2 minute survival phase over and over again. There's also the fact that even if you trigger one of her cut-scenes, you can still get hit by a random attack and get hurt or die. I had this happen to me personally, I beat the whole fight, but I was on 1 heart, and when the cutscene triggered, her attacks didn't despawn and it killed me, so I had too once again attempt the fight all over again. The Kanako fight honestly just sucks. It's kinda sad when the rest of the game is really good. I think if they added a checkpoint after the survival phase, it would be so much better. I definitely wouldn't recommend buying this game if you're not a Touhou fan, you probably won't have much fun. Otherwise, as long as you're willing to put up with the final boss, this game is really good.