The bullets are sharper, crisper, vibrant, and nowhere near as dull like in previous Touhou games. The menu screen has a graphical style which is pretty hard to describe in words, but the overall effect is reminiscent of an old black and white film, except that everything’s in color. Also, unlike Phantasmagoria of Flower View, where some of the character designs looked really, really odd (but the corresponding sprites were very good and were not recycled ones from previous games in the series), Aya’s design is very good. I was actually surprised the ZUN was able to improve upon his Touhou engine within a span of less than six months.
To find out more information about Gensokyo, check out the links presented at the bottom of this review. Aya Shameimaru doesn’t want to lose again for this year’s competition for the best newspaper, and Shoot the Bullet represents her wandering around Genksokyo taking pictures at locations where the events of the previous Touhou games took place in order to complete her newspaper.
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In Japanese Red.” Notice that both the game and theīook use the same Japanese characters for their title.īased of what translated material I did come across for Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, the Tengu in Gensokyo are newspaper reporters. If you can’t read the subtitle, it says “Bohemian Archive
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This is also the first game in the series where Reimu Hakurei (the main character of this series) neither makes an appearance nor is playable. Then again, this game is supposed to be only a stand-alone supplemental to a book that was published around the middle of August 2005 that bears the same Japanese name but uses a different English subtitle. Touhou Bunkachou, however, breaks this tradition. ZUN also releases one Touhou game every year.
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What’s even more crazy is the fact that his games rival the quality of most commercial shmups: The music is catchy yet simple, the storyline is good (if far-fetched at times), the graphics look aesthetically pleasing without requiring the latest PC hardware to appreciate, and the bullet patterns are both challenging to navigate through and a sight to behold at the same time (although trying to do both at once will get you killed), not to mention these games can be bought for under 20 dollars (if you don’t count the obscene shipping costs, that is). Yes, this is the same guy who writes the plot, draws the graphics, does the character designs, makes the music, and creates the bullet patterns. These games are also the product developed by a single person who goes by the name of ZUN. Games 4-8 were shmups, with the 6th one being the first game developed for Windows under the name “Team Shangai Alice.” Phantasmagoria of Flower View, the 9th game in the series, is another Twinkle Star Sprites clone, except the amount of firepower directed at you in this game makes playing Twinkle Star Sprites on the Dreamcast without slowdown look like a cakewalk. The third was a Twinkle Star Sprites clone. The first game was an odd, yet interesting Arkanoid clone. It originally began its life on NEC’s PC-98 (which was essentially a PC with a few NEC-specific hardware standards, thus making it somewhat incompatible with other IBM compatible PCs at the time) and then carried over to Microsoft’s Windows-based platforms. The Touhou series is almost a decade old already in the doujin (non-commercial) community. Release Date: Comic Market (Comiket) 69, December 29-31, 2005
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