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My review (tl;dr: it's good):
The artstyle and UI is the best part about this game, the portrait art is cute, and i love the way the graphics in the UI bounce around
The song is really great, but it gets repetitive very quickly, i was hoping there would be more music variety
The lack of sound effects noticeably detracts from the gameplay, it kind of makes it harder to know when you've been hit for example, and in the later stages, that becomes very important
When it comes to balancing, i do feel like the game becomes a lot less fun once you halve the power of the player, the rest of the power decreases are quite fun actually, and the "enemies are faster" downgrade is actually kind of an upgrade because it allows you to come back quicker to a boss you died to
Overall, the game is fun, and even easy for an experienced Touhou player like me (I do normal 1cc's), but the player and bullet hitboxes are very huge, it makes it feel unfair when you get hit sometimes, in Touhou, the hitboxes feel much smaller,  so the difficulty spike is huge when you have lost all of your powers, it goes from easy to basically hard/lunatic against the cheerleader girl (in terms of how the difficulty feels to play)
The bullet patterns are also very reptitive...
And i understand that the in-universe explanation is that you are fighting alternate versions of the main character, but it feels like an excuse rather than a concious part of the lore

My ratings:
Theme: 5/5 (The theme is well integrated into the game's gimmick of losing powers, it also reinforces a subconcious encouragement for the player to improve their own "power" by getting better at the core dodging mechanics, which makes the theme work well on a meta level too)
Fun: 5/5 (it's fun for 90% of the game, even if the difficulty spikes at the end detract a little bit from it, i'd feel like it'd be petty to decrease the score if i had fun for 90% of the time)
Originality: 4/5 (minus points for repetitive patterns)
Presentation: 4/5 (incredible UI and artwork, nice bullet graphic variety, great song, but minus points for lack of song variety and SFX)

~~(Oh by the way, i have my roots in Touhou style original music, been doing it for around 13 years, if you ever wanna collab for a future gamejam or something, lemme know hehe (the composer for this game still did a great job though! I am not trying to discredit them, this song slaps, it's great))~~