If you want to, you can change the difficulty at anytime by pressing TAB/whatever the "Select Button" would be on controller (-, Options, Capture).

There's no form of punishment for doing so.

To be fair it's also been stated on their official website since the steam release

Fantasy Maiden Wars
This game hit directly in the intersection of two things I'm really passionate about (mecha and touhou) and I got hooked from the start. It's easily the best touhou fangame I've played and it'll be tough for anything else to beat it. The ending had me trying hard not to cry ;_;

Mook Rush to build Power is Enemy phase slop, Boss positioning around Danmaku is Player phase slop... But not all maps are binary like that with maps where bosses rush you, or tight turn limit bonus objectives, making it both but neither especially on Hard and Lunatic

TL;DR... yes

Fantasy Maiden Wars: 10/10
If you like Super Robot Wars and/or Touhou, play this game.

It is a fantastic entry point for anyone who might be interested in the series but feels the main game are a bit too daunting to tackle, and for existing fans-

Yeah, I probably came off a bit strong and defensive sounding with that original reply... having been a fan of FMW for over a decade now I just like giving background context about aspects most modern day fans may not fully know about it and I love sharing it's rich hystory

Hope you're enjoying it!

Most of these (there will be more) can be attributed to the game having been scripted between 2008-2012 and the writer sticking to the narrative and themes he wanted to tell despite new lore from TD and various written works onwards further expanding things like the Human Village or how Youkai act

Funny you say that, Since you can carry over Murasa and due to the sheer headache trying to code around it, The Devs programed it so that at the start of Eternity (regardless of carrying her over or not) You can deploy Murasa as a stand alone unit, giving access to main pilot Rinnosuke early

(Ignore the Lowest difficulty, I was speedrunning to get to the Final Map to record stuff)

Can 100% say Yukari/Yam/Other Personal Skills you've probably yet to see are the kings of LTCing NG+, the shit you can do is actually absurd

A friend group who VCed together on streams that love Super Robot Wars I used to watch would jokingly start referring to streams they could only play 1 Scenario that stream "One Map Taisen" with how long the average mid to late game SRW map can get

NP, In case you wanted to quickly compare for yourself I even made a quick vid

Honestly may make more to share how silly some of these remix are references wise

Funny enough, if you've been using Alice the main chorus of Marisa Stole the Precious thing is the breakdown of her FMW theme right before it loops, said breakdown is also playing double duty as its ALSO the main motif of Ace Attacker (namely the original version)

I love how layered FMW remixes are

okay next prize is BEST TOUHOU FANGAME, NO I SWEAR, YOU SHOULD PLAY THIS EVEN IF YOU DON'T LIKE TOUHOU, PLEASE DO IT

hey. play fantasy maiden wars. this is no contest the best tactics rpg that came out this year. it's so good.

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>Fantasy Maiden Wars being the highest Touhou fan game AND higher than the mainline franchise itself

TRUE

Aw, hope you and your partner enjoy it! Anything to get more people to play whats been my favorite Touhou fan work for over a decade, IMO it IS that good and easily lives up to the hype you've heard about it

Done, Enjoy it, the game is nothing short of phenominal

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