The title we're tackling today is Koumajou Densetsu 2, part of a series by Frontier Aja. This one is for those who are interested in Touhou(Shoot em' up series for those who don't really know) and Castlevania. It's even referred to as 'Touhouvania' by fans of the series. I'm doing the second one cause it's the only one I had an experience with by the way.
The game can be played with a keyboard or gamepad, with the default controls involving the Z,X,C and V keys. Movement don't need much explaining. Z for basic attacks involving her knife(though the range feels more like it should be a sword?), X for jumping, C for Special weapons/Character assists and V to cycle between the special weapons. Combining the Up and Down keys with Z or X will have her doing special commands like a rapid slash, though some of these actions do consume MP. Speaking of which, the HUD consists of the Health Bar, an MP bar and a Soul count. Souls are red orbs collected from fallen enemies or destroyed objects and are used for the Special weapons/Character assists.
There are 8 main stages in total and 1 'Extra' stage. Before each stage, 3 special weapons/assists can be picked for usage throughout that stage.
For those who do enjoy Castlevania, even if you don't have a grasp on the lore where the game derives from, the game itself is entertaining and rather challenging, requiring the player to really take notice of surroundings as enemies can hit REALLY hard and healing items are scarce. It's art style mimics that of Castlevania, mostly that of Symphony Of The Night and the sprites do their best to resemble that of the portraits(Though the sprites have a much healthier colour to their skins for some reason).
The game also features a scoring system that's calculated by kills, clear time, unused Souls, remaining health and clearing a stage with no death(Which is telling of how hard the game is when it EXPECTS you to die).
This does put a replay value upon it as a form of challenge to perfectly run through a stage.
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Feeling rather depressed that I can't find a means to get this game anymore.
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