Finished Touhou-A-Live. Knew only a little of the original and only played this because Letty is in it.
It was mostly god in the moment. The battle system has no right to hold up as well as it does. The puzzles are also mostly good, but some of them are dumb or absurd. The original might have been the one that started the top-down-RPG bad stealth, which this game perpetuates.
This game never really figures out what it wants to be. It ends up somewhere in between everything. It has jokes and references, but it's also too often serious to be a parody. For seven chapters it more or less follows the original plots, even when they don't make sense with touhous, and then it makes off into its own thing, not quite either Touhou or LAL. It has some climatic moments, but that's when poor RPG Maker has the biggest chance to choke and glitch out.
The Fantasy chapter is something very special and I want to say that the game should be played for it. The side stuff and the rough parts make me think it doesn't really hold up.