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In my search to find more touhou related goodies I found a gem called “Touhoumon”. As you can guess from the title, it is related to pokemon. Infact it pretty much boils down to pokemon with Touhou characters stuck onto it. So I guess in this post I’ll be covering whats good about this game. If you never liked the pokemon series of games then this will do nothing to change your mind unless you’re a huge touhou fan like me.

To clear this up, This is NOT a new game. It’s just POKEMON with a NEW COAT OF PAINT (Caps for emphasis). The pokemon in question happens to be Fire-Red so everything you remember in that game is faithfully reconstructured with a layer of Touhou. (To be honest it’s just applying a mod patch to the Fire-Red ROM file). All your favourite characters return in this mod such as Team Rocket, more Team Rocket and even more Team Rocket. You start off in Pallet Town and well.. I’m pretty sure you all know how it goes from there.

So what’s different about this game and how does the coat of paint taste? For Touhou fans, it tastes pretty good. To everybody else, It’s more of the same. There isn’t much that seperates this from normal pokemon as each touhou is generally just a re-skin of a pokemon albeit with different stats. The english and japanese versions of the mod are quite different though as while the japanese version is more faithful to the original, spawning weak pokemon in the early areas, the english version happens to be more generous as Alice has a high encounter rate right outside of Pallet Town. So with an adequately leveled Alice, you can plow through the early gym battles quite comfortably.

The touhou themselves do have quite alot of effort put into them as each touhou has their own seperate skin and icon and have stats tailored to their character (although thats debatable). But that still doesn’t change the core gameplay which pretty much just revolves around level grinding and spamming a STAB attack to kill anything and as long as you can find a strong enough Touhou, that strategy generally works out pretty damn well.

So to put it simply, this is just the more of the same. It’s good for occupying about a couple of day’s worth of boredom to train your touhou to and beat the Elite 4. But after that, there really isn’t much to do apart from the extra stuff that came with Fire-Red. More dungeons etc etc. Oh and capturing and evolving all your touhous to fill your touhoudex (or ayanote). Apparently you can also battle other players online but I haven’t gotten around to working it out.

In the end, This is still pokemon. So if you have a hankering for some pokemon but can’t handle the crazy designs (Seriously what the hell is a Bidoof?) then give this a try.