This was my first Touhou game and I love it so much! The character portraits are BEYOND CUTEE! This game introduced Sanae, my beloved daughter, making it an instant 5-Stars! It's short, it's sweet, it has a simple controls, but a high skill ceiling! Unfortunately, fun can't be had forever... You see, every night, my abusive wife, Kanako Yasaka, comes home from her job consisting primarily of collecting dust above the lake atop the mountain (she's an essential worker, don't laugh!) and BEATS ME MERCILESSLY. I'm not strong enough to fight back... I've beaten other games in the series fine, but even after all these years, no matter what I do, no matter what difficulty I play on, her final spell card puts me in urgent care without fail.

It's really sad because I have to lie to the doctors and tell them that I tripped and fell directly on top of 1,000 colored magic bullets protruding from my body at every possible angle all on my own (WHICH I DID BTW)! I read online that this game was a good entry point to the series, difficulty-wise.... I CAN NOT DISAGREE WITH THAT SENTIMENT ENOUGH. THE GAME REALLY IS SMOOTH SAILING UNTIL YOU REACH THE FINAL ATTACK. 1,000 PLAGUES ON THE SICK MONSTER WHO RECOMMENDED TO TRY THIS ONE FIRST!!

Pros:
- Marisa is so adorable in this game!
- Sanae Kochiya
- AMAZING music, as always! Faith is for the Transient People is a BANGER!!!
- Touhou ROCKS!

Cons:
- There are no cons about this game and I especially do not take any issue with my LOVING wife who, for the record, DOES NOT tie me to wooden beams and splay my organs across the gardens of the Moriya Shrine, scattering the droplets of my blood so far and wide that the people of Gensokyo are breathing air with at least 0.001% of it mixed in at any given time.