Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Earlier this year I posted a video showcasing the demo for this game on Normal mode. I initially said it was a little easy, with the caveat that I was playing on Normal like I usually do with Touhou games, and that harder difficulties, especially Lunatic, would kick my butt.

_Anyway I beat the game on Lunatic._

Yeah...I'll be honest, this game is a little on the easy side. I don't think it's any one quirk that makes it easy, though I suspect it's a combination of the patterns being lenient, bombs and lives being plentiful and the manual borders regenerating a little too quickly on top of the borders activating automatically like in PCB. Granted, it still gave me somewhat of a challenge on Lunatic, so I still had fun, but I don't think I'd be singing the same tune if I were playing on Normal or even Hard. (Supposedly Ultra mode will fix this...)

The presentation is still great, though! I liked all the different backgrounds and sprites, the music (both original and remixes) sounded excellent, I liked a lot of the setpieces in stages (specifically, I loved the high-speed section in Stage 3), and some of the later spellcards are honestly really cool! (Special mention goes to Reisen's final spellcard and the space station survival card during the final boss!) The story was nice, though admittedly I haven't beaten FDF1 or played FDF2 so I'm not sure how this fits into the timeline (if it even exists).

Even if it is a little easy, I still had fun playing it! Might revisit it with the other characters at some point.
-Trojan

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Fantastic Danmaku Festival III was developed by 东方幕华祭制作组
You can find the game on Steam here: store.steampowered.com/app/2877170/Touhou_Makuka_Sai__Fantastic_Danmaku_Festival_Part_III