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Strategy, Indie, Action, Fantasy
Use Traps and Spell Cards to fight back the magical masses! Blistering shoot-em-up action meets tactical tower defense as you choose from almost 20 popular characters to stop the fairy onslaught! Take advantage of their unique powers and tricky Traps to freeze, fry, and blow your enemies away! Cirno, the ambitious icy fairy, has drawn attention from Aya, the Tengu reporter, who's been looking for the best scoop among the hoopla.
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Unpretentious, raw, cosy and cool.
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Nintendo LifeNathanial EkerAug 20247/10Overall, though, the blend of genres works nicely and the sheer array of variables will provide you with a good time testing out what works best for you.
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Video ChumsA.J. MaciejewskiNov 20187.8/10Out of all the Touhou games that I've played so far, Gensokyo Defenders remains one of the best due to its unique and addictive gameplay.
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Chalgyr's Game RoomRichard YorkJan 20198/10Ultimately, Gensokyo Defenders feels like something that would be more at home as a tablet or phone game, just with higher specs. If you plan on using your Switch more as a mobile style device, rather than a console, Gensokyo Defenders feels a lot more “right”. That being said, there isn’t any issue with it as a short and sweet time waster for a console. You can pick up a mission or two, and complete them in 10-15 minutes without too much hassle. Gensokyo Defenders would definitely appeal to those looking to make their Switch more of a mobile handheld, or those who enjoy a good tower defense style game.
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WccftechChris WrayJul 20193.5/10Gensokyo Defenders is a tedious game at the best of times, constantly throwing walls of text at you, most of which is littered with mistakes and also incomprehensible if you don't have a copy of the Touhou Project Wikia memorised. The gameplay is decent enough, to a point, though features a stupidly steep difficulty curve and suffers from the aforementioned tedium. Unless you desperately want a tower defence game, give this a miss.
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TheSixthAxisMiguel MoranNov 20184/10Gensokyo Defenders, like so many Touhou spinoff games before it, is a low budget affair that fails to capture the same level of satisfying gameplay and unique artistry present in the original games. While the gameplay is functional and sometimes entertaining, every other part of the package serves to bring that enjoyment to a screeching halt.
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IGDB rating 7.4/10 from 1 ratings.
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