Game Night #14: Touhou Luna Nights
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owsf2000Wow, been a while since I had a an actual game night.
Touhou Luna Nights was recently 'finished' on steam. Prior to this they were in an extensive early access. Currently it's 25% off for it's launch until June 21st, 2019.
The game is a touhou fan game that takes the bullet hell franchise into metroidvania-ism. Let's call that a word now. You play as Sakuya - a time-controlling human maid. On her way back from shopping she gets sucked into a fake world created by her mistress Remillia who was bored out of her mind and wanted to play. In short, it's Touhou meets SotN Castlevania. There's powerups to get, backtracking to do and bosses to beat down.
I'm not going to go too much into the bosses, storyline, etc. The game's overall a bit on the short side but certainly fun to play. At it's price point I'd say it's worth the purchase.
Two of the main skills you have at your disposal is the ability to slow time, and the ability to freeze time. I was a bit worried about how they'd implement these without making it gimmicky but it ends up both skills are quite useful and pretty much essential both for fighting the bosses and for getting through the levels. To help complicate and spice things up there are both enemies and objects you'll find as you go that have auras - purple, green, and yellow - that change how time stopping affects them.
Purple - they can move even if you stop time.
Yellow - They move in the opposite direction (they rewind) when time is stopped.
Green - they only move when time is stopped.
Objects affected by these also include some attacks by bosses, and you need to use your time powers to use those principles to create openings in some attacks.
They also got the grazing mechanic implemented well in this game. This is the act of being able to stand next to the object without it hitting your relatively small hit box. This causes power to get yanked from enemies that will replenish your mana and hp a little bit. This makes for some relatively easy healing spots in the map at the starts of levels where you can rush in graze an enemy then rush out again before it can attack - making it reset. Repeat until health is full.
You collect gems from enemies to sell at the shop in the game to buy items. Or you can keep them to yourself since they also power up your abilities - although most people seem to agree that it's pointless to use them to power up yourself - normal leveling is more efficient. That being said I'd probably recommend not selling any to the shop. You'll see why by the end of the game.
After beating the normal game a "chaos area" opens up from the white gate that's basically an extra area. That's the only boss I haven't managed to beat entirely yet. She, like the boss before her, has two forms. (or maybe more? I dunno, haven't beaten the second form yet. ;)
End result, if you're a fan of touhou and Symphony of the Night (And those styled metroidvanias) the game is definitely worth a look at.
Touhou Luna Nights was recently 'finished' on steam. Prior to this they were in an extensive early access. Currently it's 25% off for it's launch until June 21st, 2019.
The game is a touhou fan game that takes the bullet hell franchise into metroidvania-ism. Let's call that a word now. You play as Sakuya - a time-controlling human maid. On her way back from shopping she gets sucked into a fake world created by her mistress Remillia who was bored out of her mind and wanted to play. In short, it's Touhou meets SotN Castlevania. There's powerups to get, backtracking to do and bosses to beat down.
I'm not going to go too much into the bosses, storyline, etc. The game's overall a bit on the short side but certainly fun to play. At it's price point I'd say it's worth the purchase.
Two of the main skills you have at your disposal is the ability to slow time, and the ability to freeze time. I was a bit worried about how they'd implement these without making it gimmicky but it ends up both skills are quite useful and pretty much essential both for fighting the bosses and for getting through the levels. To help complicate and spice things up there are both enemies and objects you'll find as you go that have auras - purple, green, and yellow - that change how time stopping affects them.
Purple - they can move even if you stop time.
Yellow - They move in the opposite direction (they rewind) when time is stopped.
Green - they only move when time is stopped.
Objects affected by these also include some attacks by bosses, and you need to use your time powers to use those principles to create openings in some attacks.
They also got the grazing mechanic implemented well in this game. This is the act of being able to stand next to the object without it hitting your relatively small hit box. This causes power to get yanked from enemies that will replenish your mana and hp a little bit. This makes for some relatively easy healing spots in the map at the starts of levels where you can rush in graze an enemy then rush out again before it can attack - making it reset. Repeat until health is full.
You collect gems from enemies to sell at the shop in the game to buy items. Or you can keep them to yourself since they also power up your abilities - although most people seem to agree that it's pointless to use them to power up yourself - normal leveling is more efficient. That being said I'd probably recommend not selling any to the shop. You'll see why by the end of the game.
After beating the normal game a "chaos area" opens up from the white gate that's basically an extra area. That's the only boss I haven't managed to beat entirely yet. She, like the boss before her, has two forms. (or maybe more? I dunno, haven't beaten the second form yet. ;)
End result, if you're a fan of touhou and Symphony of the Night (And those styled metroidvanias) the game is definitely worth a look at.
