Touhou: New World - Marisa's Story Part 1

Game: Touhou: New World
System: PC

Note: I WAS intending to begin my playthrough of Marisa's story about five days ago, but my Xbox 360 receiver kept disconnecting my controller and eventually just died altogether, AND I was sick for that last few days. Guess it was a matter of time, as I've had that receiver for almost seven years now. Luckily, I found a micro USB wire I can use with a Xbox One controller, and it's working well, so I think I can stick with this for the time being.

Anyway, since my absence, Touhou: New World got another patch that split Bullet Hell Plus into Bullet Hell (more bullets that also do more damage) and Turbo Mode (game speed is 25% faster). There's still the choice to have both active, which is seen here. It also has a graphics setting where you can see silhouettes of your character and enemies behind objects, which I get the feeling will be a nice to have when environments can sometimes conceal what you're seeing.

As for how hard Bullet Hell/Turbo Mode are, I'm getting beaten up much more even by some of the earlier bosses, and even standard enemies are giving me a few close calls. The game is feeling MUCH more of a challenge with these settings present. I'm liking this so far.

Storywise, it looks like it'll follow the same goal of getting Sumireko home, but it's looking like the way Marisa will do so is different from Reimu's. Ok, that'll hopefully keep this playthrough from feeling repetitive. I do find it weird how the translator got correct here that Youmu comes from the Netherworld, yet somehow mistakenly called it the Underworld in Reimu's story. Did the recent patch also fixed some translation errors? If so, the Steam notes for said patch didn't say.

Anyway, good to continuing where I left off with this game.

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