Touhou Blooming Soul Review Summary

Poor combat feel and impact; controls feel broken.

No controller vibration; right stick used for emotion switching; poor tutorial; clunky controls.

Clunky controls; charging delay; movement lag; unclear skill descriptions; weird enemy hitboxes.

Lack of content; only 2 maps; combat feel unchanged from demo; feels like a half-finished product.

Poor tutorial; clunky controls; awkward emotion switching on controller; strange combat feel.

Clunky controls; sluggish combat; no impact; unintuitive emotion system; poor key bindings.

Jumping blocked by attack; no aerial combo; movement locked during attack; clunky controls.

Combat feel and dice mechanic frustration

Unengaging gameplay and story

Controller not working on Mac; no support for Xbox/PS5 controllers.

No English localization despite English in store description; unplayable for non-Chinese speakers.