C74 — TWilight refrAIN Impressions

August 16th, 2008

     

I really liked this game’s predecessor, TWIlight INSanity, and so far, I really like TWAIN too. I’m not sure why it hates FRAPS though. As soon as I loaded it, the framerate plummetted, but it was fine so long as FRAPS wasn’t running. Whatever. I was all ready to praise it for feeling quite a bit more ‘new’ than Subterranean Animism, but then the stage E1 boss (Mimi) theme is a remix of one of the TWINS boss themes. Oh well, it still feels like they’re doing a lot more with this one than Zun is with the Touhou series as of late. The rather nice art is certainly a pleasant change of pace, and it certainly has one thing the Touhou series doesn’t… pretty boys in dresses. The style is definitely a lot more cutesy and less techno-crazy than TWINS, which I kind of miss, but this is still an extremely solid game that you should definitely check out.

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5 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Malek says:
    August 16, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Mimi looks a lot like Mia. I was surprised when I saw her, and also when I heard the music. I like it that way though.

    But I’m not sure I like the gameplay. Correct me if I’m wrong, but the game’s difficulty level changes on the go depending on your rank… right? Because there were many times that I was breezing around (well, after playing SA…), but other times when I had trouble. And usually, after getting hit (with my rank going down), the patterns seemed to become much easier.

    I prefer when I can have a fixed difficulty level. Still, I’m liking the art and music a lot, and the production values are good. I also want to see all the endings :P

  • Aroduc says:
    August 16, 2008 at 10:28 pm

    Yeah, it’s sort of a weird mechanic. EoSD had a similar mechanic, but it was totally invisible to the player. You could create some really screwed up/broken patterns by hacking it to absurd levels though.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRNkJTUInAU

  • Zeroblade says:
    August 17, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Getting it now; a shame I missed TWINS, but TWAIN looks to be pretty awesome too.

  • sage says:
    August 18, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    Yum, shota trap.

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