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Gameplay
Controls
The game must be played using the keyboard.
Keyboard controls are as follows:
- The Left and Right Arrow Keys move Reimu around
- Z fires a single shot* toward the top of the screen *What are these called?
- X swings Reimu's wand (decorated with Gohei) back and forth
- Esc pauses the game and brings you to the in-game menu
Basic Gameplay
Highly Responsive to Prayers is unique within the Touhou series. Rather than being a Danmaku shooting game, it plays something like Arkanoid, though a bit more complex.
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.
