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[mashounen2003]

Patchy's Magical Maze ~ v0.2 demo for the Touhou Pride Game Jam 2022 – Easy Mode playthrough

After discovering Touhou: Luna Nights and the demo of ILLURAMA: Masters of Illusions and finding both of them very satisfying, I decided to delve into the world of Touhou fan games and Touhou-inspired indie games even more. This is when I found out that, just like the Sonic series with the SAGExpo and the Sonic Hacking Contest, the Touhou fandom also holds annual events featuring games made by the fan community: the Touhou Game Jams, both the main one and a separate event for games with LGBTQ+ themes, the Touhou Pride Game Jam.

Among the titles released as part of the 2022 edition of the Pride Game Jam, I found this one: Patchy's Magical Maze, described as a Dungeon Crawler with Action RPG mechanics and Hack-and-Slash combat. I don't really know what Dungeon Crawlers are about, but I'm already playing a series of Action PRGs –Mega Man Battle Network aka Rockman.EXE– and I've already seen some very interesting Hack-and-Slash titles –namely Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance– that I'd really like to play someday (when I get my hands on a PC that doesn't melt upon trying to run those games), so I was already sold on this. Plus, doing a playthrough of this game in Pride Month would be perfect timing; I hope this playthrough here gives this cute-looking and also badass game the attention it deserves, as well as convincing more people to go support it and its creators.

Patchy's Magical Maze can be found on itch.io: https://fiorefire.itch.io/patchys-magical-maze/

This game is being developed by "FioreFire" (also known as "FireLily", "Fiore", and "Firecat1311") with Touhou music covers arranged by Miles "Chuunibyou" Yalzin (also known as "Mai-chan") and sound effects made by "Gubbles".

FioreFire's accounts:

itch.io page: fiorefire.itch.io

Twitter: https://x.com/Firecat1311

Miles Yalzin's itch.io page: https://milesyalzin.itch.io/

Gubbles's accounts:

Personal web page: https://www.gubblesdev.com/

Twitter: https://x.com/_Gubbles

[yurisoftgames]

Now we have @_Gubbles ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ They handle all the music and sound and stuff for this game. If you can hear it, it's her work! An isopod who loves djent with a passion.

[mashounen2003]

Deadly Dog-Dating Dungeon ~ Demo for the Touhou Pride Game Jam 2021 – Playthrough

And here's another game from one of the Touhou Pride Game Jams, the 2021 edition in this case.

Made by the same team that would later make Patchy's Magical Maze, Deadly Dog-Dating Dungeon also combines Dungeon Crawler (it's literally in the title this time), Hack-and-Slash and Action RPG elements, along with LGBTQ+ themes and Touhou characters getting involved in both serious and silly situations mixed in the cutest possible way. Now, unlike Patchy's Magical Maze, the battles in this game are in 2D (that makes it feel a lot like Streets of Rage, which I love to see) and, more importantly, the gameplay features puzzles to solve outside of the battles as one of its defining elements.

Remember to go support "FioreFire", the original main developer of both Deadly Dog-Dating Dungeon and Patchy's Magical Maze, as well as many other games (both Touhou fan-games and indie titles) made by the same author.

Deadly Dog-Dating Dungeon can be found on itch.io: https://fiorefire.itch.io/dogdungeon/

This game is being developed by "FioreFire" (also known as "FireLily", "Fiore", and "Firecat1311") with Touhou music covers arranged by Miles "Chuunibyou" Yalzin (also known as "Mai-chan") and sound effects made by "Gubbles".

FioreFire's accounts:

itch.io page: https://fiorefire.itch.io/

Twitter: https://x.com/Firecat1311

Miles Yalzin's itch.io page: https://milesyalzin.itch.io/

Gubbles's accounts:

Personal web page: https://www.gubblesdev.com/

Twitter: https://x.com/_Gubbles