Recent reviews by ShmittlesThePoe

just the right amount of RPG fun, rewards, and challenge

I didn't care for the return of UFO's mobile changing items gimmick, but this was otherwise a solid Touhou game.

what can I say? I like the classics

I just played a game with every expansion at once. it was madness. worth every penny. would buy again.

So, I just finished playing this game a few hours ago. I really liked it.
Very cute, very charming, lovely scenery, interesting world, solid game mechanics, enjoyable characters, and of course, excellent music. It's pretty much got everything, but it's all on small scale, and intentionally so. It's not some grand, epic adventure like most RPGs try to be. It's a very humble game, consistently so throughout pretty much all of its characteristics. All the aesthetics are kept simple, but because of that, everything can pretty much look exactly as its designers want them to look like and doesn't need to press against any modern graphical limits. The basis of the plot is a fairly well-established scenario, nothing huge or groundbreaking, but because the central idea is so well established these days, it draws more attention to the more subtle details of how it goes about playing it out. The music is kept very simple, only a piano throughout the whole game. Normally, I'd express doubts about limiting an entire games score to a single instrument, but the piano music that plays throughout the entire game so perfectly expresses both the immediate and overall tone of the game's events, as well as represents the games scope and the quality with which it meets that scope. It's because this game, in so many of its aspects, modestly doesn't try to puff itself up as a big deal, that its so easy for us players to accept the game for what it is and see it's more subtle, charming characteristics shine through.