good

Really great card roguelike game, amazing doujin soundtracks

Now that I have Lunatic (7) perfectly solved, I think I'm ready to give my review. The main thing I want to review is difficulty. This game is very easy, which imo is a good thing. If the game was too difficult out the gate, I wouldn't have gotten hooked in the first place. But if you like your rouguelikes difficult, I recommend starting Lunatic right out the gate (if you can). The reason being, I didn't start finding seeds that were unbeatable until I started playing Lunatic. And the game really doesn't punish you for playing bad in lower difficulties. Like I mentioned, the difficulty isn't a criticism as it may be for others. It might be unpopular, but I prefer when the game starts easy with options to make it as hard as you want. Not only does it make the game more inviting, but it also gives you a nice and addictive progression to follow.
Presentation wise, this game vibes a lot. I'm a big Touhou Project fan, so it goes without saying I was sold on the style and the music. But also the playful and absurd fantasy atmosphere that Touhou harbors. It's enchanting, it's inviting, it's fun. This really captures the Touhou style that fans know and love, so big thumbs up there. And that is helped in big part by the card art. Huge w to all the artists that contributed to the game, they bring so much life to the game and the fantasy really wouldn't hit the same without them.
Next is gameplay and boy do I love it. There are many different builds, and you can tell a lot of care was put into the card pool. The more familiar I become with the card pool, the more little synergies and theories I take note of. There's been many times where I take a card during a desperate run saying, "there's no way this will work with my build." Only to be surprised that it was exactly what I needed to raise the ceiling of my deck. As a player I took note of all those little discoveries. And as I took on more and more difficult challenges, it was very rewarding to put both my knowledge and risk taking together to make a winning build. And that's the pinnacle of TH:LBoL for me. It's genuinely exciting playing into mid or late act 3 and being anxious, not knowing if your build is gonna make it. And then you find that 1 missing piece you were holding out for that gets you there. Pure euphoria man. It's that type of gameplay loop that makes you wanna play the game again and again.
I have a goal of perfectly solving Lunatic (7) with each character, and I certainly wouldn't have that goal if I didn't adore this game. So shout out to Alioth Studio. I like what your game has delivered so far, and I look forward to the new content coming down the pipeline. I already feel this game is worth the money as of now, so the fact that there's still more being developed is quite exciting for me.