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what are ur opinions on lost word

Buwako

Buwako

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i've personally never played lost word before, and honestly its not really something that im interested in trying. but i know that lost word is very divided on whether it's good or bad, im just curious on what you think of it, whether you've played it or not
 
never played, but some of the designs ive seen look like pretty solid alternate clothings. thats all i think about it honestly
 
tried it for like 20 minutes and instantly got bored. the gameplay seems just like your standard turn based strategy rpg common amongst gacha games and the visual spectacle didnt impress me either. though i wouldnt say the game is cheaply made since i do see some real production value put into it. i have no rights to say anything about the story however since i've only played the beginning and gacha games tend to have really weak early story chapters and somehow turn into peak fiction later on, so maybe its good, maybe its not, i just havent seen a lot of it
 
I say it's alright. Story is halfway decent and it has a nice amount of wholesome content while not being overly positive, with highlights being the ruins of memories for the story implications (even if that is a bit late game) and events for just some dumb fun. Keep in mind that you would have to take the Memories of Phantasm approach for the story where the "Main touhou characters" have a loose fannon interpretation. All in all, it's nothing great, but nothing poor either. Play it if you want the backstory for some of the custom gift fumo designs and want an expansive story based on touhou.
 
Shit from an ass, a genuine insult to your money, your time and your entire existence as a functioning member of society.
 
I tried it like a year ago and tbh i was extremely confused on what and how the game worked, and i felt like the menu was way too messy and cluttered. I tried to sink some hours into it but most of the time i was just letting the game do it's own thing and didn't have to do much myself. I also tried pulling for characters i liked but the gacha system in the game imo doesn't feel rewarding. so i just stopped playing the game cause i felt like it was way too confusing but also really boring.
 
Haven't played it since I don't do gacha games. In the amount of time that it would take to grind a good team and actually make progress in the story, you could have actually learned how to play the official titles and normal 1cc'd nearly all of 'em.
I will give the team props for some of the costume designs, however. Mokou's Defiant Blue Phoenix and Patchouli's Loyal Elemental Magician costumes looks so badass that it's not even funny.

Terry Bogard, is that you?She's played too much Symphony of the Night.
 
We must concede that LostWord is currently the most successful commercial Touhou derivative mobile game: it has survived for five years and appears unlikely to shut down in the foreseeable future.
Although its gameplay resembles gacha games from ten years ago, this is understandable given that its audience is composed almost entirely of Touhou fans; moreover, LostWord has indeed helped, to some extent, to promote the development of the Touhou community.
Judging by Cannonball, Dungeon Dive, and Danmaku Kagura, commercial Touhou derivative mobile games have largely been failures — whereas LostWord at least seems to better conform to the contemporary gacha game model.
 
I played the game with varying consistency for a year. In the end, I found the gameplay boring, and stopped playing
 
Been playing Lostword since like 2023 and that's when Touhou because my new hyperfixation. Never played any other gacha games before and it was pretty much the only game I had on my phone, but it's a decent game. For the story cutscenes, straight snoozefest, it's 2hu pngs moving up down side to side n whatever. I dropped the main story on the very start of Chapter 4 "Eternal Battlefront," which sounds cools, but I just can't get myself to sit down and just read, it's equivalent to reading a book and will just make me sleepy. For gameplay, it's fine, gets technical at times with the really difficult enemies IE: Scarlet Devil Tower climbing. A whole lot of grinding n whatever for upgrading units and rebirthing them. The outfits, alt universe designs, and rebirth costumes are pretty cool. I've reached a point where my spirit points and coins are way over the max limit, now it's just me collecting stuff like story cards, osts, units n whatever. Starting to log in less often because life, new hyperfixation(Horse), and I feel like I could be doing something better with my time in general.
 
Just thinking about this game hurts my soul... 😔

I've been playing LostWord since the Japanese version in 2020.
When I first played it, it started off okay. There are some flaws that they could've fixed to make the game better (like the battles feel slow and generic, fully limit breaking the story cards requires 1 duplicate at a time rather than up to 4 at once, etc.), but I realized that it was too early to judge the game yet. And I just decided to give it some time to get updates so I can see if I can like it even more.

To me, Touhou Cannonball (the game that I actually liked) gets updates that makes it better. And Touhou LostWord's updates makes it even worse!
They didn't fix the boring and repetitive battle system. The stages and boss fights are still lame and generic. We get child, adult, swimsuit, and recolored variants. The L0 Units, not only just basically washed-out versions of the L1 Units with Fantasy Rebirth costumes, but they each cost like $300! The main story barely goes anywhere. Most of the events are either repetitive or just bad. And other than Yukkuris, they didn't even make alternative universes and units based on other Touhou fanworks. So, they're just using the alternative universe plot as an excuse to shove a lot of fanservice and fetishes down our throats.

And as of the second half of May this year, I stopped playing Touhou LostWord because of it's really bad.
But, I still believe that the devs could make Touhou LostWord good or at least decent. The thing is, they don't want to.
 
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