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Mountain of Faith

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東方風神録 (とうほうふうじんろく)
Mountain of Faith
Mountain of Faith
Developer

Team Shanghai Alice

Publisher

Team Shanghai Alice

Released

Trial 0.01a: May 20, 2007
Trial 0.02a: July 26, 2007
Full: August 17, 2007 (Comiket 72)

Genre

Vertical Danmaku Shooting Game

Gameplay

Single-Player Story Mode

Platforms

Windows 2000/XP

Requirements

Pentium 1GHz, 413MB hard disk, Direct3D, DirectX 9, 32MB VRAM, DirectSound, 128MB RAM

東方風神録 ~ Mountain of Faith (romanized: Touhou Fuujinroku, lit. Eastern Wind God Chronicles), also known as MoF in the English speaking community, is the tenth official game in the Touhou series. It is the first game to use the new engine, and it is referenced as the first game in the "Windows 2nd Generation".

Gameplay

Mountain of Faith features two playable characters, each with three weapon types, but no personalized Spell Card bombs. Collecting power items results in an increase in "option" satellites around the character (for a total of four), which behave differently according to the character and weapon type. Each characters' options also fire bullets, and either shift position or freeze in place in focus-fire mode.

The scoring system is based on the Faith meter, which has a refillable gauge and a numeric value (minimum 50,000). As long as the gauge is not empty, the player's Faith value doesn't decrease, but the gauge slowly depletes unless the player is defeating enemies or collecting point items. Point items also partially refill the gauge, and Faith items increase the Faith value. The Faith value directly affects the point value of point items and Spell Card bonuses.

Name and Concept

Story

It is autumn in Gensokyo. A stranger goes to the Hakurei Shrine and says that the shrine should close for good. Reimu Hakurei won't let it happen and she, or Marisa Kirisame is going to investigate the situation.

The heroine went to the Youkai Mountain where she meet three gods and eventually Nitori Kawashiro, who says the kappa are troubled by a new god on the mountain. As the advance further, the heroine meet Aya Shameimaru, who was said to investigate the intruder. Aya let them pass and the heroine moves to the Moriya Shrine. Sanae Kochiya says that the new god tries to collect faith for Kanako Yasaka. Sanae is defeated and Kanako shows up, resulting in a fight, and eventually Kanako says she will make peace with the kappa and tengu, who in contrary accepts Kanako as the new god of the mountain.

In the Extra stage they will meat the other god of the Moriya Shrine. The heroine investiages again and encounters Suwako Moriya, who is the shrine's true god. As our heroines make ready to leave, Suwako demands they play with her, just like they've played with Sanae and Kanako.

Music

The game soundtrack of Mountain of Faith features 18 tracks, which all could be heard in the music room. When composing the themes, ZUN tried to add an Japanese feeling to the themes and he says the songs are particularly nostalgic.

Some of the tracks would reused or arranged in later games and CD's. Most notably is the Player's Score(プレイヤーズスコア), the score theme. The track would be used in Subterranean Animism and Undefined Fantastic Object, also as the score theme theme. Both Sanae's theme, Faith is for the Transient People(信仰は儚き人間の為に) and the extra stage theme Tomorrow will be Special; Yesterday was Not(明日ハレの日、ケの昨日), the latter being Suwako's theme, would later be arranged by U2 Akiyama for Touhou Hisoutensoku an and both appearing in the Touhou Hisoutensoku official soundtrack CD. Aya's theme The Youkai Mountain ~ Mysterious Mountain(妖怪の山 ~ Mysterious Mountain) was also used in Double Spoiler as the photo theme 5, slightly different from the original. Tomorrow will be Special; Yesterday was Not was also which was featured in Unknown Flower, Mesmerizing Journey.

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