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Explore Gensokyo from an outsider's perspective in this old-school Touhou DRPG!
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia is a dungeon crawler, turn-based combat and first-person game
developed by Bar Holographic Otaku
and published by Bar Holographic Otaku and 东游鉴.
Released on September 22nd 2023 is available only on Windows
in 7 languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Spanish - Latin America and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,058 reviews of which 1,026 were positive and 32 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.
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- OS *: Windows 8/10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 256 MB RAM
- Graphics: Shader Model 3.0 compatible
- Storage: 124 MB available space
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I don't like it. ...but I'm not going to review it negatively because I can tell that the game developer put alot of effort and passion into this fan-game and I found myself listening to the OST a bunch of times because it scratched my brain well. I just do not like this type of game at all but it doesn't warrant a negative review at all because it just isn't fair and I really appreciate the effort put into this game. This is coming from a guy who's never really played this type of genre before so do bear with me. I wanted to like this game, I really did. So much that I tried this game four different times for half an hour, hoping that something would change my mind about it which ended up with me not really enjoying it because clearly this type of game genre is not my thing. I don't like the maze-like gameplay, I don't like how the stats are explained and I don't like how repetitive or annoying it can be most of the time. The only thing I found really nice about this game is the OST because I just really like music. The pixel art in this game is also really really pleasing to look at alongside it's steam page art, workshop art and those backgrounds you can put on your steam profile. These are mostly MY issues and I don't think that anyone has any issues except for the repetitive nature of T:ADIA. I found myself really enjoying the music and I do still listen to it alot and I plan to purchase it. I really love how the characters in this game are portrayed as how they are in the original game's lore (Mainline Touhou and it's lore). I just find it really a bummer that I cannot get into this type of game without feeling frustrated about it's lack-luster boring gameplay to me. 90% of this game was mostly just frustration and nothing positive. I can tell that this gameplay is solid to the many people out their into this type of thing but it's just not for me. So for anyone passing by to find a good Touhou fangame then I will say that if you're into this type of gameplay then you should 100% play this for yourself and you will enjoy every moment of it and everything it has to offer. Just because I do not find this fun dosen't mean that you shouldn't try this for yourself so I suggest you to forget about my own opinions on T:ADIA, go buy and go into the game and see if you'll love it. I recommend this game despite me not liking it myself.
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I don't know what a touhou is other than a fumo and I've never played an SMT game in my life. I do however, know my dungeon crawler RPGs and this is a damn good one. Exciting areas, strange characters, constant progression and growth, simple yet dynamic combat, banging music and art that's easy on the eyes. Think I'm about halfway through the game and my only real complaint is there shouldn't be more than 4 poison forest areas. If you even remotely enjoy dungeon crawlers, SMT or touhou you'll get hooked if you give it an honest try. If you enjoy 2 or more of those this'll probably end up being an addiction.
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Touhou: Artificial Dreams in Arcadia is a blobber (that is, a party-based grid-based dungeon crawler) with some classic SMT elements, a JRPG overworld, and a bullet-hell-based capture mechanic. And it's absolutely amazing. Just looking at the store page and screenshots I was still a bit skeptical, but honestly, the first impression doesn't do the overall quality of this justice. This type of game, in my opinion, lives and dies based on a large number of things coming together, and here, everything does: [*]The old school dungeon crawling and mapping, with good variety, interesting (but not too prevalent) gimmicks, and with a nice little acknowledgment reward for fully mapping out floors [*]The SMT aspect works, if anything, better than it ever did in SMT, at least for me. Because every single character is a Touhou character, and so has their own quirks, expected affinities, and so on, which makes them interesting to encounter/discover/use. The game really benefits from decades of franchise building in that sense. [*]There are some really smart tradeoff decisions when it comes to resource management, which is always important in a good blobber. It has a lore justification for basically having a (soft) exploration timer, but you can decide the tradeoff between longer exploration and a more powerful party. [*]The battle system, while rather basic overall, has some emphasis on buffing/debuffing in boss battles, with stackable buffs. It also has an additional party-wide resource (SP, in addition to each character's traditional HP/MP), which can be used for more and more interesting effects as the game progresses. Party composition and placement also becomes more important, as does the specialization of your own player character. [*]Even the writing fits the setting to a T. Touhou stories have this special and rather somewhat unique quality, where the characters are just so matter-of-fact about even outlandish incidents, and the game captures that perfectly. Interacting with the various characters, although it's just a few sentences each, is fun. [*]Finally, the game developer understands and implements pacing better than a lot of huge projects manage to do. For example, when the game world opens up a lot more, I thought that this could get a bit annoying to traverse, and this is where the game unlocked a new mechanic (even with an intriguing in-universe event) exactly to cover that. And similar things happen later on when dungeons become longer and the save points more sparse. Oh, and you also get something absurd like 9 hours of gameplay on a charge with this on Steam Deck. Overall, if you like either traditional dungeon crawlers or Touhou I highly recommend this game. If you like both, you should have already bought it.
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Pretty good SMT-alike. I would say its big weakness is if you don't know about Touhou (or maybe even if you do) it's lacking the ability to "educated guess" weaknesses like a skull is probably weak to holy, a bird is probably weak to bullet, etc. How am I supposed to remember what this anime girl is weak to ADDENDUM: I do feel like the game reeeeally starts to drag on 20 hours in. The "plot" has stretched past its limit, every encounter is a pretty annoying composition of 3 or 4 tough enemies, dungeons are getting more and more obnoxious... actually finishing this is for hardcore sicko crawlers
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An absolute must play if you love dungeon crawler especially if you had played the older SMT titles before. Soundtrack is godlike but the gameplay can be quite cumbersome at time if you don't prepare with items to help you explore. Still overall great with post-game content as well. and if you can't get enough, there's even steam workshop for custom created levels. I already liked Sumireko but she was accurately well-written with her lines so I love her even more. There were many times I laughed out loud from her responses.
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Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia received 1,026 positive votes out of a total of 1,058 achieving an impressive rating of 9.12.
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Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia was developed by Bar Holographic Otaku and published by Bar Holographic Otaku and 东游鉴.
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia is not playable on MacOS.
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia is not playable on Linux.
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia is a single-player game.
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Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia does not support Steam Remote Play.
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Developer
Bar Holographic Otaku
Publisher
Bar Holographic Otaku,
东游鉴
Release
22 Sep 2023
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