Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity

A good fun game.
Story:
Following either Remilia or Sakuya, barely any difference aside from dialogues from Remilia or Sakuya. The Scarlet Devil Mansion was attacked, and so one or the other set off to investigate the rumors. This is due to them being blamed for the for the monster.
System:
A simple hack n slash type, with a leveling system to it. Reach the right level and you'll unlock either a regular skill or an ultimate.
Remilia:
Remilia is better at platforming, and faster movements. Her attacks are more wide range, but on a smaller scale. She is typically one on one though, which can make battles slow.
Sakuya:
Sakuya now, is the better out of the two, far better. She is both fast, and decisively attacks both one on one, and a massive range. Her attacks are devastating, making short work of enemies and bosses.
Difficulty:
Main story is pretty easy. However, post story content is more difficult and provides more of a challenge. That's really when the projectiles starts to get quite a lot.
Art Style:
Pretty good.
Music:
Amazing
Overall:
Really good game, but Remilia needed work, her style is very tedious. Sakuya is much more fun to play.

This is the weirdest Ys game I've ever played. There's not even Adol, just some little girl and some chick with knives that isn't Karna.

... All joking aside, this is a serviceable ARPG with 2hus in it. A bit basic and rough around the edges, but if you enjoy either of these things, you'll probably enjoy this.

Now, rough around the edges, I say? Why yes. The platforming as Sakuya, frankly, sucks. Remilia has the ability to slow the descent of her jumps, allowing for more precise landings, but Sakuya does not. Often, I'd find myself either overshooting a jump or just landing on an edge, only to slip off. There's also knock back from enemies, meaning that you can land a jump, then get hit and fall off anyway. This even happens in areas with narrow paths that you can fall off. Now, the real annoyance of this, other than having to redo things, is that you lose money. Granted, money isn't that important until end game, and by then you can get lots, but it's still annoying to go broke because there's a jump or five that just suck because you picked the wrong character.

Remilia and Sakuya, sadly enough, share a lot of the same equipment. Weapons are unique, but they can, will, and do, share a large number of armors and accessories, though each one does have some uniques. The issue with gear is that they're all random, stats wise. There's little rhyme or reason as to what item has what stats, and you can run across items that totally tank most, only to have massive HP boosts, or attack, or any other stat.

Granted, it's perhaps better than just having an objectively best piece of gear, but it's a bit troublesome if you want to have at least decent stats in everything. And again, because it's random, it could mean you will grind for hours just to find something decent. You could go whole maps finding nothing but trash, or waste all of your money from end game boss grinding on buying stuff that is objectively worse in every way.

This is why the end game item dispenser is a gacha machine, because it's all a gamble. And at 40,000 a pop, it's a big gamble.

So what's actually good? The music, of course; this is a 2hu fan game, after all. The combat is also good for what it is, with each character having a decent number of skills with which to use, though the spell card selection is pretty slim. However, you do not level these skills, instead you just earn them via leveling... and, well, it can lead to some skills just being objectively useless as time goes on. Especially with Remilia, as some of her newer skills are just straight upgrades to previous skills.

The plot... well, it's a 2hu game. Especially since the Scarlet Devil Mansion gets destroyed, so it's totally legit. It's not that super deep or compelling, but it would fit in pretty well with the franchise as a whole, and it's very low stakes (Gensokyo isn't really in danger, there's no Lunarian plots, Yukari isn't fooling around), but still enjoyable.

This game has a level 99 cap. You do not actually need to go this high, but you can. It involves a lot of secret boss grinding... and you will come to hate her track, even if it's actually good. I've heard some people claim that Remilia is stronger than Sakuya, but if anything, I think it's the other way around. Sakuya, outside of the terrible platforming, feels like easy mode, especially when she gets her final skill. It shreds the secret boss pretty easily, and only gets easier with more levels. Remilia, on the other hand, I found has a harder time with bosses, and her final skill isn't nearly as good as Sakuya's. But she does have the better spell cards, so...

But if you want even harder mode, just turn on bullet hell. Then cry.

So yeah, this game is pretty good and you should get it if you enjoy ARPGs and 2hu.

Played it and completed all of the achievements in this game, overall satisfied for this game so I can add my completionist arc for the Touhou games that I purchased on Steam.
For me, it just a really simple hack and slash RPG game:
(+) No hard puzzles, just a peak hack and slash (grinding) game till you reach Level 99.
(+) Artstyles are great
(+) Soundtracks are straight up banger (Thank you Hachimitsu-Lemon)
(+) The grapich and visual just makes me chill, kinda remind me of something nostalgic...
(-) It confuses me where to go sometimes, a LITERAL MAZE! But, it's not that problematic. (they should add in-game map for each level)
(?) I have a mixed opinion about the simplicity of the game, especially about the combat mechanic. (Hit 3x > Skill 1 > hit 3x > skill 1 > hit 3x > skill 2 > Skill 3 > Repeat!)

That's all, the conclusion is I obviously like this game, but the gameplay is too simple. (good for chilling tho) 8.7/10

got all of the achievements under 13 hours. once you get used to the game, it's relatively simple and fun. a met a few bugs here an there(screen froze, had to restart the computer), but this game auto-saves, so i didn't lose any progress. the graphics are really nostalgic, remind me of games from early 2000's, and the music is also quite nice. cool challenges, fun farming. an awesome game overall

I also love Remi

Not a particularly hard game. It was pretty fun, but I wouldn't buy it at full price.
The game is pretty jank, combat feedback can be a tad rough, and the last achievements to 100% can be somewhat tedious.
I did enjoy it though which is why I could 100% at all, kind of simple as that.
Made for a great Steam Deck game.

Good enough for one play-through but story is somewhat lacking. The game is also short so I would get it when it's on sale. I also suggest doing the true ending if you really want a challenge. Overall, it's just OK.

Good game! I haven't completed the game yet (because my game crashed in the battle with Okuu and I lost 2 hours of progress (always use saves guys)), but maybe someday I'll continue. From my first impressions, I liked this game and think it worth its cost. I recommend you try to play it. If you don't know anything about Touhou, you can start exploring 2hu with this game. But keep in mind that this is a fan product and isn't a canon. Just same world and characters with small different personalities.
From game I liked graphics, design and controls. For some reason, I felt nostalgia, as I played similar games a long time ago as a child... The music and plot of the game are also great. Bullet hell element from original has been preserved. The game itself is not difficult, you can complete it without ever dying. For fans of original, there is Bullet Hell Mode, which increases the difficulty. Boss fights are really interesting, every boss is unique and repeats original attacks quite accurately.. At the start you have 2 game characters. There are also many different items and abilities here, you can build your "build" for specific goals. Spells are really cool done. The map is not small, there are many different locations with different conditions of passage.
What I really don't like from game: a very uncomfortable camera and his movement, but it's almost impossible to solve this problem for such game. The endless GRIND. The game passing is very slow, it seems that the 1-hour game was specially extended to 10-15 hours with endless levels with same enemies. There are very few different enemies in the game, they are all of the same type and rather annoying. After the first hour of the game, you just want to skip these enemies to finally get to the boss, but you still need to clear the entire location before boss fight. In some locations, the color palette is terrible, the eyes get tired quickly and enemies are not visible. Also you can't return to the previous location, so try to fully explore them before boss fight. There are levels inside the locations that you can move between. And the problem is that if you go to another level and then come back, all enemies will respawn, which can create confusion and annoyance. A lot of bugs, even game may crush and all progress until the last save will be destroyed. This is more for a little circle of players, but there is no localization in many languages, including Russian. Therefore, you will have to play in English.
Overall, the game is really interesting and fun only during the boss battles, the first hour of playing and applying spells. The dialogues and plot are good too. But 80% of your playing time will be monotonous and boring with permanent grind. Also I forgot to mention, OST is really great, especially the boss themes, but each location has only 1 stage theme, which is why it may happens that you will hear the same remix for 30 minutes :/