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東方地霊殿 (とうほうちれいでん)
Subterranean Animism
Subterranean Animism
Developer

Team Shanghai Alice

Publisher

Team Shanghai Alice

Released

Trial 0.01a: 2008-05-28
Trial 0.02a: 2008-06-29
Trial 0.02b: 2008-07-20
Full: 2008-08-16 (Comiket 74)

Genre

Vertical Danmaku Shooting Game

Gameplay

Single-Player Story Mode

Platforms

Original release: Windows 2000/XP

Steam version: Windows 7/8/10

Requirements

Original release:

  • Pentium 1GHz
  • 397MB hard disk
  • Direct3D
  • DirectX 9
  • 32MB VRAM
  • DirectSound
  • 128MB RAM

Steam version:

  • Core 2 duo CPU or faster
  • 1024 MB RAM
  • Graphics must be Shader Model 2.0 compatible
  • DirectX 9.0c
  • 400 MB of available storage space
  • DirectSound
Touhou Series chronology
Scarlet Weather Rhapsody Subterranean Animism
(2008)
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Touhou Chireiden(Earth Spirit Palace) ~ Subterranean Animism (東方地霊殿 ~ Subterranean Animism) is the eleventh official game in the Touhou Project. The trial version was released at Reitaisai 5, and the full version debuted at Comiket 74.

Gameplay

Subterranean Animism features two playable characters (Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame), each with three weapon types representing a youkai assisting them from above ground. Collecting power items adds up to four "option" satellites around the character (or eight for the Marisa/Alice combination), which behave differently according to the character and weapon type. Power can be used to unleash a bomb, each with different behaviors, and some cause special gameplay effects to occur.

The scoring system is based on grazing, coupled with the collection of items dropped by enemies. As such, the player is urged to actively graze at every possible opportunity in order to increase the point item value. Grazing large amounts of bullets in little time is rewarded by the temporary effect of autocollecting all the freefalling items at their maximum value (identical to the point of collection effect, but without regard to the character's location on the screen), letting the player concentrate on avoiding bullets.

Concept

ZUN has stated that the entire story was a result of his decision to use a partner system in this game, just like Imperishable Night. The partners for Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame in Imperishable Night both show up again as the first choice.

A difference from other games is that you can still get good endings when finishing the game on easy mode. However, the extra stage only gets enabled after a 1cc on normal mode.

Story

A geyser suddenly erupts out of nowhere. Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame take advantage of this by building a hot spring, even though a series of earth spirits emerge from the geyser. Patchouli Knowledge, sensing danger from the incident, consults with Yukari Yakumo regarding the matter. Yukari agrees to send Reimu into the Underworld to investigate with a device that lets them communicate underground.

After passing the tsuchigumo Yamame Kurodani and the jealous bridge princess Parsee Mizuhashi, the heroine reaches the Former Capital, a place where the oni now live. Yuugi Hoshiguma challenges the heroine on a friendly battle, and then says the heroine should go to the Palace of the Earth Spirits. Here, the heroine met Satori Komeiji, the owner of both Rin Kaenbyou (Orin) and Utsuho Reiuji (Okuu). Rin wanted the heroine to come down and help her stop her friend after Utsuho had become too powerful. Utsuho is eventually stopped by the heroine.

Afterwards, the heroine visits the Moriya Shrine to talk with Kanako Yasaka and Suwako Moriya. The goddesses are not there, but she does meet Satori's sister, Koishi Komeiji, who wanted to go to the Moriya Shrine to ask the gods to empower her pets. In the end, they have a duel because Koishi wanted to see if the person who defeated her sister was really that strong.

Music

Just like Mountain of Faith, Subterranean Animism had 18 tracks, but only 17 can be heard in the music room. The 18th track, "Player's Score" (プレイヤーズスコア), is copied over from Mountain of Faith.

The title screen is just like any other title screen, an arrangement of "Theme of Eastern Story" (テーマ・オブ・イースタンストーリー) from Akyu's Untouched Score vol.5. A recurring theme in the earlier stages of the game is that it is "cave-like", with lots of echos.

A couple of songs from this game have been arranged for other games and music CDs. Utsuho Reiuji's theme, "Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom ~ Nuclear Fusion" (霊知の太陽信仰 ~ Nuclear Fusion) was arranged by U2 Akiyama for Touhou Hisoutensoku. "Hartmann's Youkai Girl" (ハルトマンの妖怪少女), Koishi Komeiji's theme, was arranged by ZUN for Trojan Green Asteroid and was again rearranged in Hopeless Masquerade by U2.

Additional Information

Trivia

  • The game's Japanese name (東方地霊殿) is the name of the Komeiji sisters' mansion, and contains the character for "ground/earth" () in Satori and Koishi Komeiji's family name (古明) and the one for "spirit" () in Utsuho Reiuji's surname (烏路), following the trend of the mainline games' names referencing their final bosses or other important characters.
  • While you're playing, if you look at the right, you can see Reimu Hakurei written in yellow and Marisa Kirisame in green.
  • Most of the characters that the protagonist meets think she is talking to herself at first, because the protagonist's partner is not visible.

False positives on Steam Version

On June 6, 2020, a post was made in the Subterranean Animism Discussion Board on Steam about the game containing malware called DarkHotel, which was mainly used for Hotel Wi-Fis for phishing and keylogging.

According to VirusTotal, 30 out of 70 known Anti-Virus/Anti-Malware programs detected the game having the virus. On December 18, 2020, the distribution for the game was halted.

On December 23, 2020, Subterranean Animism was available for distribution on Steam again. However, to date, the virus is still detected on the game.

However, this is a false positive, the secure hash algorithm for the steam version of Subterranean Animism is: >e42c8df5ba2d704fb6bd5c50d9fb35c49ebf3122dab75b19b7ed17b6bc84166d due to how steam encrypts files, it encrypted the EXE file in a manner where some of the encrypted strings in the .EXE files resulted in what looked like the Darkhotel trojan.

This is the SHA of the non-steam version: >2978b17f6184d100d249d4311348dd30c5c32ec75c014b667a525b797d3d8813 as you can see, they are different due to the aforementioned steam encryption, and the SHA of the steam and non-steam version have completely different results on virus scans.

A more thorough explanation is below.

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Gallery

English patches

Touhou Community Reliant Automatic Patcher / THCRAP

These patches are a community translation based on Touhou Wiki and the English Touhou Patch Center Portal.
Visit the thpatch game page to find the specific patch contents for Subterranean Animism.

External links

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Unofficial


Additional information