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Just picked up the game, currently giving first impressions.

  1. No dialogue skip feature? It's a bit nitpicky for me as someone who had avidly played (and malded over) some Touhou games (mainly 15, some 16, and a bit of 6), but when you're constantly restarting for whatever targets you have (I currently am practicing to get the 1cc clear), having a "hold next to skip" feature is useful.
  2. Add a small help section. It's kinda confusing to try and tell between Power (Harmony) and Point pickups, despite them having the same color scheme as Touhou. It'll also help to know at what points of Harmony does your shot upgrades.
  3. Would help if there was a clearer way to tell if you're currently grazing. Only having those subtle sparks around A-Chan to tell so is kinda hard to tell. Having something like a slightly dark circle around A-Chan to tell when you're grazing and to show the graze range would be nice.

I would also talk about the shot type A-Chan has, but that's gonna be very biased as I am a Sanae main in TH15, who has a homing shot for her focused shot. (Though it would be a bit... weird, since it feels like I don't get any spread from unfocused at all, but I've only reached the 2.00 power shot, so I need to play more.)

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Hey!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, very good points you make, number 1 and 3 were things I considered for release, but ended up not implementing because I wanted the game out, was losing steam/motivation for developing it so I didn't want to be stuck trying to implement those features, even though it'd have been simple, but it was a lesson learned for next projects.

Number 2 I didn't even consider, I never thought about how I never specify which pickup is which, same with lives and bombs. It should have been there.


As for homing, it was also considered and implemented, but it made the game too easy, mainly because I didn't take the time to balance it around homing. That would have costed a lot of time so I ended up scrapping the second shot type.

Thanks again for your detailed feedback, I appreciate it a lot <3.

Have a nice day!

It would be nice if you were to try and implement the three points I mentioned in an update. Unfortunately, I felt discouraged to play the game due to those three points, but I will still pick it back up for that 1cc clear.