Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom

Touhou Kanjuden ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom. (Japanese: 東方紺珠伝 〜 Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom., Hepburn: Tōhō Kanjuden, lit. "Eastern Tale of the Ultramarine Orb") is a scrolling shooter game developed and published by Team Shanghai Alice. It is the 15th installment to the Touhou Project series. The demo was first released on May 10, 2015 with a full release on August 14, 2015 at Comiket 88. It was released on Steam on April 1, 2019.[1]

Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom
Developer(s)Team Shanghai Alice
Publisher(s)Team Shanghai Alice
SeriesTouhou Project
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release
Genre(s)Scrolling shooter
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay
Main article: Touhou Project § Gameplay

Like the previous games in the series, Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom uses a Spell Card based danmaku system, in which the player fights various common enemies in a stage, and then a boss, who has various Spell Cards, advanced attacks with specific patterns.

Four characters can be selected, each with their own storyline and shot type. A new feature added in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom is the option to choose between Pointdevice Mode or Legacy Mode. In Pointdevice Mode, whenever the player dies, they have the option of restarting from the previous checkpoint, with the only penalty being a small loss in shot power, Legacy Mode plays like the rest of the games in the series, with the character given a set number of lives to clear the entire game. The game is generally harder than most Touhou games, and ZUN stated that he was inspired by games such as I Wanna Be The Guy, which feature extreme difficulty combined with the ability to freely retry each stage.

Also introduced in Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom is the chapter record feature, which evaluates the overall score of the player in each stage. The score is affected by the number of grazes and enemy kills without retries or dying. Extra lives and spell cards are granted to the player if they have a high enough score.

Plot

Following the events of Urban Legend in Limbo, a probe crashes into Youkai Mountain and started to roam around. Reimu and Sanae decide to investigate the probe and found out it was of otherworldly origin. With the probe's arrival, trees begin to wither, and mist is eroded. At Eientei, Eirin and Kaguya are fully aware that this day would come for the Lunarians to take action to invade Gensokyo. In response, they prepared a special medicine and asked Reisen to deliver it to Reimu and her friends. Meanwhile, Marisa is still studying the Occult Balls, finding out why one of them is different, as Reisen appears with the medicine. With Gensokyo facing a new crisis, Reimu and the others must stop the one behind the incident.

Characters
Main article: List of Touhou Project characters

Playable characters
  • Reimu Hakurei (博麗 霊夢), attacks using homing amulets, and needles.
  • Marisa Kirisame (霧雨 魔理沙), attacks using lasers, and magic missiles
  • Sanae Kochiya (東風谷 早苗), attacks with scattering frogs, and searching snakes.
  • Reisen Udongein Inaba (鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ), attacks with a wide range of bullets, and concentrated, piercing bullets.

Boss characters
  • Seiran (清蘭) - Stage one boss. The moon rabbit Seiran is a military infiltrator of the Lunarians and member of the "Eagle Ravi" squad. She usually communicates to her kin via telepathy and makes Mochi for her comrades.
  • Ringo (鈴瑚) - Stage two boss. The moon rabbit Ringo is an informant of the Lunarian military and member of the "Eagle Ravi" squad. Being laid back and often chewing on mochi, she rarely fights her opponents until given permission.
  • Doremy Sweet (ドレミー・スイート) - Stage 3 boss. Doremy Sweet is a baku and the manager of the dream world who has the power to control, erase, and create dreams. She guards the dream world herself for its order not to be disturbed.
  • Sagume Kishin (稀神サグメ) - Stage 4 boss. A high-ranked Lunarian and goddess who has the power to reverse any situation just by speaking. This means that she always has to watch what she says.
  • Clownpiece (クラウンピース) - Stage 5 boss. A fairy from hell and subordinate of Hecatia Lapislazuli. She has the power to drive someone to madness. Her clothes imitate the American flag that was placed on the moon.
  • Junko (純狐) - Final boss. Junko is the embodiment of all hatred towards the Lunarian race, especially Chang'e, whose husband shot down the sun and killed Junko's son. She is friends with Hecatia Lapislazuli who sympathized with her as she holds a grudge against Chang'e as well. Based on the Chinese mythological figure Chunhu (Junko is the Japanese reading of the same Chinese characters), who was one of the wives of Houyi, the sun-shooter.
  • Hecatia Lapislazuli (ヘカーティア・ラピスラズリ) - Extra Stage boss. Hecatia Lapislazuli is a goddess who governs the Hells of the Earths, the Moons, and the Spirit Worlds. Like Junko, she also has a grudge against Chang'e, whose husband shot down Apollo and indirectly weakened Hell, as Hell wouldn't be able to exist without the sun. She's friends with Junko, and lent her Clownpiece, her subordinate, to fulfill her plans. She is based on the Greek goddess Hecate.

Development

ZUN first announced the game on his blog on April 22, 2015, confirming the title and the characters. He himself said that the game will have a huge departure from the original game's formula, and implementing "different" and challenging gameplay changes yet retaining the core elements of the series.[2]

References
  1. https://store.steampowered.com/app/937580/__Legacy_of_Lunatic_Kingdom/
  2. "東方Project 第15弾です。 : 博麗幻想書譜". kourindou.exblog.jp. Retrieved 2015-05-16.
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