Labyrinth of Touhou Tri -The Dreaming Girls & The Mysterious Orbs-

I am writing this review on May 27th 2026, some hours after beating the game. As of right now, the post game has not been released, and the game has no downloadable content yet. I might change this review upon finishing any additional content that might potentially be released. [h1]The "bad", with some notes and a little bit of "good":[/h1] - The position of Run Away in the battle menu. This might sound a bit petty (I apologize), It is a little bit easy to accidentally select it due to its position, and it's very easy to accidentally run away because there's no confirmation dialog. - There are some things that in my opinion either overwhelming or a bit intimidating. Such as the huge skill trees. Or some mechanics that I, as a first time player thought I had to keep track of, at first, such as the Despair or Emotion crystals (which for better or for worse, turned out not to be too important in my own playthrough. And thankfully that didn't gatekeep me from playing the game in any capacity) - To piggyback off of, or continue from the previous point, there are some things that I felt like I had to keep track of while playing and planning out boss fights, when I first started. One such example is turn counters, and another is attack cooldowns. I do not know if it's because I don't usually plan way too far ahead like some other people I know do, however eventually this stopped being a huge issue, or an issue at all - To further continue my point about the skill tree. At first it looks really complicated, however for better or for worse, it doesn't end up "feeling" that much like a tree (or at least it didn't in my Hard difficulty playthrough, in which I was probably a bit overleveled, in all fairness). It definitely looks like one, but it doesn't feel like one, to me. What I mean by this is that, I do not think I ever seemed to want for points to an extent where I would look at the skill tree and say, "I need to choose one branch or another". I believe this is because for the most part, I felt like I always had enough skill points relative to my level - The boss refight feature is amazing, however for better or for worse there are actual rewards gated behind the Lunatic refight feature, and some of them I feel are a little bit too important to ignore? I will say that despite them not being way too important, it was enough to make me feel like doing the refights on Lunatic was a choice I should make a little bit sooner than later, or a little bit sooner than I might have liked, if I were a player who did not care for Lunatic. Thankfully, I did care for Lunatic and did the vast majority of them immediately after I unlocked them, so I guess it's not too big of an issue. Some other people might think that this whole thing begs the question of "Why have a difficulty choice if there's rewards that the player would want to get regardless of the difficulty they chose?" The reason why I'm mentioning some of these points is because while later on it wasn't an issue for me, at first, I do remember it being an issue I was anxious about, and I do know some people who felt overwhelmed by all this. [hr] [h1]The "good", with some notes:[/h1] - The story is a huge step up from the previous two games, in that it has a lot more dialogue and is quite a bit more interesting - The BP requirements from previous games are gone, though BP is still useful for other things in the game. While I am not 100% certain I agree with how it was handled in this game, this makes far more sense and it's a far more pleasant experience - The music is royalty free, however there are some amazing choices in there for what they represent - This game took what the other two games did and somewhat improved upon it, without reinventing the wheel, so to speak. Which is a huge positive for me, because as a long time player of this fan-game series, that meant I had a good idea of what to expect, and was very pleased with this - While one could argue that there is less replay value due to the boss refight feature, it's still there [hr] [h2]Some other notes:[/h2] I've been playing this game since day 1. It's been through quite a few patches. I want to say that as long as the developer makes the game possible and smooth enough, they can and should stick to their original vision of the game, and not modify it [b]too much[/b] based on feedback from certain types of players. [hr] [h1]Playability on Steam Deck[/h1] I'm writing this review on my main PC, but I played this on Steam Deck for the most part, and it plays really well under Proton 9, at the time of writing this.