Highly Responsive to Prayers

東方靈異伝 The Highly Responsive to Prayers Превосходная отзывчивость к молитвам (?)

Разработчик	ZUN
Издатель	Amusement Makers
Дата выпуска	Full: November 1996
Жанр	Scrolless Action Shooting Game
Режим игры	Single-Player Story Mode
Платформы	NEC PC-9800 / EPSON PC-486/586
Системные требования	Intel 486 33MHz, 3MB hard disk, EGC, PC-9801-86 (FM SOUND BOARD), 550k RAM

The Highly Responsive to Prayers (東方靈異伝, romanized Touhou Rei'iden, meaning Unusual Spirit Transmissions) - первая игра из серии Touhou, выпущенная для японской PC-98 в 1996 году. Игра имеет общие черты Арканоидом, но при этом она является по сути своей уникальной.

Something has wrecked the Hakurei Shrine, and the resident Shrine Maiden isn't going to take it lying down. She charges through the gateway into another world, intent on locating and punishing the one responsible for the act. Although she isn't capable of harming her enemies directly, she wields an incredible weapon: the Hakurei Yin-Yang Orb. With it Reimu will be able to cut a bloody swath through all who stand before her...assuming that she can manage to control it!

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Main article: Highly Responsive to Prayers: Gameplay (includes a more detailed description of the game and information on scoring)

The Highly Responsive to Prayers introduces the Shrine Maiden Reimu Hakurei, who frantically attempts to persuade a bouncing Yin-Yang ball to hit various on-screen targets, "cards" and "bosses" alike. Reimu can knock and maneuver the ball around by whacking it with her gohei, slide-tackling it, and firing shots at it. Enemies will be trying to hinder your progress by firing at you, but you can cancel out their shots with your own, or even deflect them by swinging your gohei. Only the Yin-Yang ball can damage the enemies, however, so simply firing your shots at enemies will have no effect whatsoever. As a last resort, Reimu can use a "bomb", once per life, to hit all cards on the screen. There is no guarantee that any given card will be hit. Bombs will often fail to damage a boss.

The game consists of several fixed-layout levels which increase in difficulty, with a boss fight occurring every fifth level. To complete a level, the player should disable all cards or strike the boss of that level a certain number of times. Reimu will lose one of her lives whenever she is hit by an enemy's bullet/laser/magic or gets hit by her own ball (no pun intended).

There are two selectable paths in the game: the Jigoku (Hell) path and the Makai (Demon World) path. Each route features unique stages, bosses, and endings.