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>>10530997

...But I'm being 100% serious. How about I name off what I don't like -

- Barely any bullet pattern layering, even on bosses. CAVE usually has at least two layers of bullets on every boss or midboss attack pattern, plus some large mooks also have multiple layers. Crimzon Clover goes so far as to have multiple attack layers on some 1HP enemies.
- Many bullet patterns by bosses and mid-bosses are repeated. This would be okay if it weren't for the fact, as I mentioned above, that most attack patterns only have one layer. As a result it's a massive borefest.
- Presentation (Graphics, music, etc.) are not exactly bad, but they're certainly sub-par. Before you say, "But it's a DOUJIN game!!", recall that Crimzon Clover is also one and happens to be on-par with CAVE's quality.
- Antialiased projectiles. This may seem laughable but any time a projectile has smoothed edges there's often a question of where the hitbox is. CAVE goes out of its way to remedy this, to the extent of giving the player a visible hitbox, but Touhou seems awful confusing in that matter.
- Incredibly boring player, boss, and enemy designs. I ultimately don't care about powerlevels, a dumb-looking mouse girl is not on par with Suzaku 08 (Or a Venus Flytrap for that matter) in any version of the universe. In fact, why is the midboss the same as the boss? Whatever happened to variance in the enemies you face?
- Many of the enemies have a similar feel to Harihacks in the original DoDonPachi - they feel like they're just trying to kill you and get it over with, not spam bullets. Granted, CAVE remedied this later, but apparently Touhou hasn't figured out that's not how you make a danmaku game anymore.

I could probably name more, but I'll just wait for someone to put up a response of some kind. Like I said, I'm 100% serious.

I will also say that Marisa is actually pretty decent, I wouldn't mind playing her in some other shmup.

Don't mind me, just posting epic shmup artwork.

Also, you'd be surprised what kind of fan art can pop up for things.