Metroidvania ‘Touhou Luna Nights’ Rewards Players for Taking Risks in Combat

Touhou Project‘s lethal maid gains more and more power from getting dangerously close to enemies and attacks in Touhou Luna Nights.

Our maid, Sakuya has been sent to another dimension by her master, and the place is crawling with youkai with ill intentions. The maid knows her way around a knife, though, and is more than capable of stabbing her way through anything that means her harm. Like, a lot. Let’s just say that she has a lot of knives. Oh yeah, and she can control time a bit, so that probably helps too.

Sakuya’s time powers, which let her stop or slow enemies and level mechanisms, will make for handy combat powers. They’re even better when combined with the Graze system, which rewards you with health and MP when you get close to enemies and their attacks without getting hurt. this encourages players to take dangerous risks as they play, but it can make for a huge boon as you start to get really good at it.

Touhou Luna Nights offers challenging combat between adorable enemies and characters, and with a system that lets players really cut loose when they get good at skulking near their foes, it aims to offer some compelling fights as you explore its sprawling, interconnected areas.

Touhou Luna Nights is available now on Steam.

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Joel has been covering indie games for various sites including IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine, and more over the past seven years, and has written book-length studies on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is constantly on the lookout for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what games can be, and seeks to delve into the creative process, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.

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