Highly Responsive to Prayers

Touhou Reiiden (東方靈異伝) ~ The Highly Responsive to Prayers was the first work of Touhou Project. It was finally distributed at Comic Market 52 in August 1997. Although Touhou is mainly recognized as an STG game, the first game was a block breaker.

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2 Overview

3 Related Articles

3.1 General

4 External Links

4.1 English

4.2 Japanese

4.3 Chinese

5 Article in Other Languages

Profile

Developers	ZUN Soft
Publishers	Amusement Makers
Series	Touhou Project
Platforms	PC-98
Releases	August 8 1997 (JP, Comiket 52)
Genres	Bullet hell/danmaku
Modes	Single-player (story mode)

Overview

Touhou Reiiden ~ The Highly Responsive to Prayers (東方靈異伝　～ The Highly Responsive to Prayers, lit. "Wondrous Tale") was exhibited and presented at the 20th Hatoyama Matsuri (November 1996), a cultural festival of the Faculty of Science and Technology of Tokyo Denki University. It was distributed from Comic Market 52 (August 1997). It was distributed at the 21st Hatoyama Matsuri and after while Junya Ota was a student, and was also available for mail order at Amusement Makers, a circle to which Junya Ota belonged, until September 19, 2002.

The style of the game is very different from later bullet-hell shooters, being a fixed-screen block-busting game. The only player can be selected is Reimu Hakurei.

The game splits into Makai route and Hell route in the middle of the game, and both have a total of 20 stages. The ending of the game changes depending on the route and whether or not the player continues, and there are a total of four different endings, including a bad one.