A humble attempt at a Mega Man X game, but it is lacking in multiple departments.

- The controls mostly feel solid. I like how the MMX4 dash-hopping is in this game.
- The bosses are the best part about the game though, as their patterns are easy to understand yet challenging enough to surpass through.
- The visuals are incredibly nice, and I especially love the colors being used for the environments.
- The story if pretty neat.
- The shop system is really cool, being able to upgrade your player's abilities with P-card you collect in the stages and obtain from bosses.

- Reisen's / Seiren's weight feels too heavy to the point falling down is almost as fast as Simon Belmont walking off a platform in Castlevania 1.
- The level design leaves a lot to be desired, with it being incredibly flat and hardly any stage obstacles outside of the enemies and spike hazards.
- Each level hardly has much identity in its level layouts outside of its environments. The only two stages that had memorable layouts / gimmicks were Seija's stage and the final fortress stage.
- The music is incredibly mediocre trying to emulate the SNES prog rock / hard rock that X2 / X3 offered, but it sounds more like a shoddy DOOM midi than it does Mega Man X music.
- The bullet hell stages being a huge departure from the standard platforming gameplay and would require you to be familiar with the genre if you plan on getting through those stages without much trouble.
- Seiren does not feel like she's designed for the game as many bosses are made way more difficult because she's a close-range combat character (like Zero in the PSX/GBC/PS2 Mega Man X games).
- I think it's worth noting lack of special weapons from bosses (like in the Mega Man games) means there's a lack of thought in stage order, though I also wouldn't really say it's that much of a big deal compared to my other cons.

Just to be clear, I'm a huge Mega Man (X) fan (and a huge Touhou fan as well) and reviewing this from the perspective of a Mega Man fan as this game clearly was made with that in mind with everything Touhou related being more of a flavor text (minus the two bullet hell stages).

I can only recommend this to the most die-hard Mega Man X fans, but it's a hard sell if you're not one of them. If you're a Touhou fan who hasn't played a Mega Man (X) game before, then I implore you to at least play at least one or two of the Mega Man X games before even thinking about tackling this.

nah udonge in interspecies cave is better highkey

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Good if you like unfair impossible games.

game design is a bit amateur. decent try though I guess.

Super cute art!!

Mind numbingly boring and unfair gameplay.

I love bunnies!!

I played on Normal difficulty and finished the game. Zero achievements given on normal difficulty which is dumb.

Graphics are alright but music is terrible. It uses the exact same synthesized guitar sound from the SNES sound chip on all the tracks and it's awful. Level design is kinda meh, and the bosses don't give you any powers after defeating them either.

There's Hard and Lunatic difficulty so I gave hard a shot. Nope. Masochist's dream.

hottest piece of garbage I've ever played.

The price is right, but the gameplay and level design ain't.

Admirable effort, but the enemies are spongey and tedious to fight and aren't arranged in interesting patterns. The whole point of this genre is to deal with tricky enemies while skillfully navigating the environment, and pushing yourself to see how well you can assess risk in vain attempts to speed run.

None of that here. Go play the free and infinitely better Mega Serval instead:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2009720/Mega_Serval/

Before I'll jump into the bad points of this game, I'll start with some positive/neutral ones.

-Art
I think that the author overall did a decent job here, he managed to combine the styles of both Mega Man X and Touhou so that it feels like a regular Mega Man X game but with Touhou characters.
However I would say that some bosses from the Mega Man X and Zero series had overall more "alive" animations. Here, many bosses feel "lifeless" in terms of motion.

-Performance
I have no objections here, the game runs perfectly smooth and has no crashing or freezing issues.

-Soundtrack
Most of the soundtrack is a remix of existing Touhou music in a retro style, but many of them don't really sound special.
However, I did genuinely enjoy some of the tracks, but I definitely wouldn't buy a soundtrack for them.

-Story
I won't spoil it, but it works, I guess. There's no epic or deep storyline involved if you're coming here from the Mega Man X or Zero series.
I would say that the story is an afterthought for the most part, but it isn't terrible, just not really memorable.

-Gameplay
Oh boy, where do I even start... As someone who has completed multiple Mega Man X and Zero games, I didn't enjoy this game's gameplay at all. It feels like the author didn't seem to understand very well what made these games "click".

For starters, when starting the game for the first time, you have a difficulty selection of Normal and Hard.
That's good, isn't it? I would say yes, as well, but if you decide to play on normal difficulty, then while you're able to complete the whole game, you won't be able to earn any achievements/challenges.
Why? This is just purely alienating people with lower skill ceiling, so that they won't be able to unlock anything just because they aren't good at platforming games.
I understand restricting some of the achievements, like "Complete the game on the hardest difficulty", but why would you even restrict achievements like complete the game to the harder difficulties?
Ironically enough, achievements like dying 50/200 times are also restricted to the harder difficulties because reasons.

Now, moving on to our protagonist's movement/upgrades and other stuff.
For the most part, Reisen controls smoothly, there's no input delay and no "icy" movement, so the author did a pretty good job here.
However, as others have already pointed out, there's no double tap dash like in Mega Man X games, but you can rebind keys, so it isn't that bad. However, the author has said that he won't add it because it doesn't fit his playstyle? That's at least what I gathered from one thread in discussions where he himself replied.
As for upgrades, I'll be frank that they feel useless compared to upgrades from Mega Man X games.
Other than upgrading your max health and charged shot charging speed, most of the upgrades don't really do much to give you extra options like different weapons to deal with various enemies or even upgrading your evasive maneuvers like air dash, like it would be in Mega Man X/Zero games.
So no matter what, you still feel weak, even after fully upgrading Reisen.

Now, going to the stages themselves, if you played through the Mega Man X/Zero games and absolutely hated pitfalls and spikes, then it's even worse here.
A lot of flying enemies that in some cases, can tank charged shot and pitfalls/spikes that insta kill you on hard/lunatic difficulty.
It wouldn't be so bad if Reisen actually could have the options mentioned above, like different weapons to deal with them or even dash upgrades, but she doesn't have any of them, so enjoy your suffering of "Buster only" gameplay.
If you're playing on normal difficulty, then it's manageable since spikes don't instantly kill you anymore and damage received is halved, so it's kind of balanced considering that you don't get any extra options.

Going over to the bosses.
To put it simply, most of them aren't even fun to fight. They are either ball-busting hard or laughably easy, no in-between.
The reason behind that, is that the author simply decided that not all bosses require such thing as a predictable pattern or even telegraphing their attacks by doing certain animations before connecting the attack.
Most of the fights are pure RNG, as in, you have to just hope that the boss won't decide to use the worst attacks all the time during the fight.
Most of the attacks are also pretty dense in terms of projectiles and speed, so if you don't have some godlike reflexes, then be prepared to die a lot of times before finally the RNG shines on you to make the boss more tame than usual.
Reisen also does pitiful damage with her charged shot which combined with the fact that bosses have long i-frames after every shot, make every boss fight drag on for too long.
The reason behind that, is that lack of extra options also means a lack of elemental/weapon weakness for bosses, so you can't just pop up a certain element/weapon to deal extra damage to bosses.
Also yes, there are no subtanks, like in Mega Man X, so you have to do the whole boss fight on one health bar, so enjoy!
You could technically heal using the bullet erase for bomb, but the amount healed depends on the amount of bullets erased, so don't count on it really saving you in a bad spot.

As a closing point to my review, if you enjoy Mega Man X/Zero games, and you're looking for something similar, then don't bother with this one, it lacks the polish and enjoyment of these games.

And to the author, I don't expect you to rebalance the game or anything, but at least allow people to earn achievements/challenges on normal difficulty, so your game is more accessible to casual players.
With the way you did it, you're offering no replayability to them, since after beating the main game, they don't have anything else to do, because they aren't "skilled" enough, and I doubt that most of them would spend many hours to go through harder difficulties, considering that they aren't even that fun to play through for the average player not accustomed to Mega Man X games.