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Highly Responsive to Prayers (東方靈異伝, pronounced touhourei'iden, meaning (?)) is the first Touhou game of the Touhou series, released in 1996 for the PC-98. The game shares some basic similarities with Arkanoid, but it is mostly its own unique game.
Gameplay
The only playable character is Reimu Hakurei, who frantically tries to get a bouncing Yin-Yang ball to hit various on-screen targets, "cards" and "bosses" alike. Reimu can knock and manuever the ball around by wacking 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 shots, or even deflect them by swinging your gohei. Only the Yin-Yang ball can damage the enemies, so simply firing your shots at enemies will have no effect. 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 hit the boss of that level a certain number of times. There are two selectable paths the game: the Jigoku (Hell) path and the Makai (Demon World) path. 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).
This game features no dialogue and a less-cute version of Reimu. A patch for the text can be downloaded here.
Cast
- Reimu Hakurei - Shaman
- Shingyoku - Gatekeeper
- YuugenMagan - Evil Eyes
- Elis - Innocent Devil
- Sariel - Angel of Death
- Mima - Vengeful Ghost
- Kikuri - Hellish Moon
- Konngara - Astral Knight
Music
- Title Theme
- A Sacred Lot
- Theme of levels 1-4, Jigoku levels 16-19
- 永遠の巫女 (Eien no Miko)
- Eternal Shrine Maiden
- Theme of level 5 boss
- The Positive and Negative
- Theme of Makai levels 6-9
- Highly Responsive to Prayers
- Theme of Jigoku levels 6-9
- 東方怪奇談 (Touhou Kaikidan)
- Strange Oriental Discourse
- Theme of level 10 boss
- 天使伝説 (Tenshi Densetsu)
- Angel's Legend
- Theme of Makai levels 11-14
- Oriental Magician
- Theme of Jigoku levels 11-14
- 破邪の小太刀 (Haja no Kodachi)
- Blade of Banishment
- Theme of level 15 boss
- 魔鏡 (Makyou)
- Magic Mirror
- Theme of Makai levels 16-19
- the Legend of KAGE
- Makai final stage theme 1
- いざ、倒れ逝くその時まで (Iza, taore yuku sono toki made)
- Now, die for the debt you have accumulated
- Makai final stage theme 2
- Civilization of Magic
- Jigoku final stage theme
- 星幽天使 (Seiyuu Tenshi)
- Angel of a Distant Star
- Ending Theme
- アイリス (Airisu)
- Iris
- 使用箇所不明 [needs translation]
- 風の神社 (Kaze no Jinja)
- Shrine of the Wind
Bugs(?)
- this page need complete revising, especially the music part.
See Also
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