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The Highly Responsive to Prayers (東方靈異伝, pronounced Touhou Rei'iden, meaning ___) is the first game of the Touhou series, released for the Japanese PC-98 in 1996. The game shares some basic similarities with Arkanoid, but it is mostly its own unique game.

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Gameplay

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 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, 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 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).

Story

Main article: Highly Responsive to Prayers: Translation (includes the manual)

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Additional information


External links

Team Shanghai Alice
Collection of PC98 Game Music (.MP3)
Collection of PC98 Game Music (.PMD)
Music Room Transcripts
Online Manual
Aotaka - PC-98 Touhou Game Demos



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