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Imperishable Night
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| Developer | Team Shanghai Alice |
| Publisher | Team Shanghai Alice |
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Trial+: April 18, 2004 Trial: May 14, 2004 Full: August 15, 2004 |
| Genre | Vertical Danmaku Shooting Game |
| Gameplay | Single-Player Story Mode |
| Platforms | Windows 98/SE/ME/2000/XP |
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東方永夜抄 ～ Imperishable Night (Touhou Eiyashou, "Eastern Eternal Night Vignette"), known as IN in English speaking community, is the eighth official game in the Touhou series. It is the third to be released for Windows.
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Gameplay
Imperishable Night features eight playable characters, with four starting preset teams of two and unlockable individual character modes. When playing with the character pairs, one character fires when unfocused, while the other switches in and fires when focused, with a reduction in movement speed. The two shot types can be drastically different. The individual characters, with the exception of Remilia, do not change shot types while focusing/unfocusing.
Imperishable Night features Last Spells. For the enemy, a Last Spell is a bonus Spell Card which the player can challenge without the option to use bombs and without the risk of losing lives. On the player side, Last Spells are secondary "bomb" Spell Cards, which last longer and do much more damage than normal bombs at the expense of two bomb stocks. Player Last Spells can only be used immediately after being hit, with a grace period of less than 1 second.
Additionally, there is a new "Time Orb" system which affects the story/score, as well as a gauge which tracks how human/youkai (normal/focused) you are and determines how you can collect more time orbs.
Concept
ZUN has stated that the entire story was a result of his decision to use a partner system in the game (as was the later Subterranean Animism).
Story
- Main articles: Story and Characters(includes the translated script)
- While the story differs slightly depending on which team you select, the general story is as follows. It is based on the the traditional Japanese story "Kaguya-hime."
It's the eve of the Harvest Moon Festival in Gensokyo when youkai sense that something is wrong with the moon. It appears that the moon has been replaced by a fake moon. Someone must freeze time and find the real moon to ensure a full moon on the night of the festival.
Music
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External links
Official
- Imperishable Night: Official Site
- 1.00d update patch
- Imperishable Night: English Patch (For best results, you should use this patch without having your locale set to Japanese, as having one will cause some of the text in the game to be cut off. To install the game itself without having Japanese-language capability as required for a conventional installation, simply right-click on the drive with the TH08 CD, select "explore", then copy the "eiya" folder and paste it elsewhere. An alternative way is to install the game with the locale, then rename the game directory using non-Japanese characters after changing locales.)
Unofficial
- Imperishable Night: Shot Type Comparison
- Imperishable Night: English scoreboard, at Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
- Imperishable Night: English scoreboard, at Shmups Forum
- Imperishable Night: Japanese scoreboard
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