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Imperishable Night

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東方永夜抄 (とうほうえいやしょう)
Imperishable Night
Imperishable Night
Developer

Team Shanghai Alice

Publisher

Team Shanghai Alice

Released

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/Vista

Requirements

Pentium 500MHz, 500MB hard disk, Direct3D, DirectX 8, DirectSound, 128MB RAM, 16MB VRAM

東方永夜抄 ~ Imperishable Night (romanized: Touhou Eiyashou, lit. Eternal Night Vignette from the East) is the eighth official game in the Touhou series. It is the third to be released for the Windows OS.

The game takes place in the land of Gensokyo. Someone has replaced the moon with a fake moon that will never become full. Playing as one of 4 human/youkai teams, you must make your way through 6 stages in search of the full moon and face the one responsible for replacing it.

Gameplay

(includes a more detailed description of the game and information on scoring)

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.

Story

(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.

A human and youkai team set off along a forest path to investigate. Along the way, they encounter a firefly (Wriggle Nightbug) and a night sparrow (Mystia Lorelei), who are quickly defeated. Next, they meet a half-beast (Keine) who is protecting a Human Village from youkai. She mistakes the team for enemies and attacks them. After the team defeats her, Keine indicates that the person who switched the moons is in the bamboo forest. In the bamboo forest, they encounter a character (either Reimu or Marisa) who demands to know why the team has been freezing time and causing an imperishable night.

Finally the team reaches the mansion of the perpetrator. But once inside, they find that the mansion is guarded by a pair of rabbits (Tewi and Reisen). The rabbits are defeated, but not before disorienting the team. Confused, the team must choose which path to take (one leads to the real moon and the other leads to the fake moon). After picking the right path, they are able to meet the perpetrator of this mischievous scheme, Kaguya. Kaguya is a moon princess in hiding who has taken the real moon in order to sever the link between the earth and the moon. The team restores the real moon and Kaguya challenges them to face the "5 impossible requests."

Having completed the 5 impossible requests, the team is given another challenge by Kaguya: assassinate her rival, Mokou. With the full moon in place, all the enemies become much stronger and Keine becomes a hakutaku. Nevertheless the team prevails, proving that the player controlling them is indeed skillful and probably hopelessly addicted to Touhou games.

Additional information

External links

  • 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.)



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