Touhou Luna Nights 2019

Is it still worth playing?

Sakuya Izayoi, a maid who can control time, fights her way out of a mansion in a parallel world, in a 2019 Metroidvania for Windows based on the Touhou Project shooters. The mansion has five regions and an optional sixth, each closing on a boss from the series, which you need not know to play. Time is her main tool: first she can only slow it, later stop it at will, even to walk on water. Colours on some enemies and obstacles show how they behave while time is stopped. Green ones start moving, yellow ones reverse and purple ones carry on. Her knives use magic and stopping time drains a meter, and grazing, letting attacks skim past her, refills both. Gems from enemies strengthen her, or sell for gold that buys upgrades. It is fairly short, and time control comes into fights and puzzles alike, so each room is still something to work out today.