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Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet

Reminiscent of a fighting game, Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet takes the traditional shoot-'em-up genre and infuses it with a 1v1 battle scenario, allowing for a unique gameplay experience. Learn more about…

63 6 October 2016 ESRB E10+

Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet is a fighting developed by CUBETYPE, released 6 October 2016 on PlayStation 4.

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What Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet is

Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet is a fighting game developed by CUBETYPE and released in 2016. It was published by NIS America. It is available on PlayStation 4 only. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Somewhere in Japan, the Great Hakurei Barrier separates Gensokyo from the rest of the world. Although it has no ocean, it contains an underground world called Hell, and a world in the sky above called Heaven. It is said that things that have been forgotten by the outside world, as well as living things that have gone extinct, find their way to Gensokyo. In this world of abundant nature, which has not be sullied by industrialization, humans and yokais live together...though not peacefully, and disputes are always erupting. The yokais are always causing incidents that stir up all of Gensokyo. To resolve these issues, they have implemented "Spell Card Rules," a.k.a. "Playing Danmaku," which…
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How it plays

Its themes are action.

How it was received

Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 28% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 5 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet launched on 6 October 2016, within three weeks of Persona 5, Battlefield 1, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition and Sid Meier’s Civilization VI. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Persona 5, Battlefield 1, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, Sid Meier’s Civilization VI.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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When did Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet come out?
Touhou Genso Rondo: Bullet Ballet was released on 6 October 2016 for PlayStation 4.

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