Touhou Kobuto V: Burst Battle
WORST GAMES OF Q4 2017
The Touhou series has featured a few fun titles so far, but Burst Battle is most certainly not one of them. Bullet-hell titles can occasionally offer a sort of masochistic satisfaction, but this arena brawler ranges somewhere between grating and infuriating, depending on how willing you are to exploit the AI.
The storyline is tepid, and though the presentation is quite nice, the graphics themselves leave a great deal to be desired. Overall, this game may seem kawaii — that means cute! After just a few minutes, however, you’ll declare it to be dame — that means a travesty upon gaming that will likely provoke you to slam your console against the wall until it is shattered into a million pieces, and then scatter those pieces somewhere in the Saharan desert (it’s a loose translation).
