For the sake of full disclosure I should start by saying that I am completely unfamiliar with the Touhou series, official or otherwise, so the fact that this is a fan made entry into the Touhou line means very little to me, and I have no way to compare it fairly to the other games. It’s understandable, given that this is only the second Touhou game to come to the West. It’s not an apology, but a simple statement of how I approached my own review of this game. With that out of the way, I did find Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity surprisingly fun, a delightful blend of a few genres and mechanics that makes for enjoyable gameplay, even if the story presented had a hard time catching my attention during its earlier hours.
Remilia is a 500-year old vampire that looks like a 12-year old girl, which puts American’s obsession with the Twilight series into some serious perspective. Sakuya is Remilia’s maid, a human with unique powers that make sure she’s up to the task of caring for the powerful and bored vampire. Together they live in Scarlet Devil Manor in Gensokyo, among a colorful cast of fantastical characters like fairies, wolves, animated plant life, and bugs. At the beginning of it all, Remilia faces a problem that many of us find on a daily basis. She’s bored. Her boredom isn’t as easily sated as ours, by browsing our favorite gaming websites or binging on the latest TV shows on Netflix. She’s bored because she is all powerful, and...