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Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom
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Trial: 2015-05-10 (Reitaisai 12) | |||
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Vertical Danmaku Shooting Game | |||
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Single-Player Story Mode | |||
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Touhou
Gameplay
There are four playable characters: Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Sanae Kochiya, and Reisen Udongein Inaba. Before release, ZUN stated that the gameplay would be "very different", though still retaining core shoot 'em up fundamentals. He also made mention of the challenge and difficulty in implementing these changes, especially in time for the demo's release. [2]
Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom allows a selection between game modes: "Legacy Mode", which functions similarly to previous Touhou Project titles, and "Pointdevice Mode", a gameplay mode that removes lives and continues from the game but adds chapter checkpoints. When the player is hit in Pointdevice Mode, the game reverts back to the state at the beginning of the current chapter with only a small penalty to power. Additionally, after choosing the difficulty and character from the menu, Pointdevice Mode grants the option to resume the previous game session.
Grazing is notably changed from previous titles, slowing the fall of point items so long as the player continues to graze. Prolonged grazing of bullets grants an additional 5 graze points. Grazing becomes important as players may be awarded a life fragment (in Legacy Mode) or a bomb fragment (in Pointdevice Mode) at the end of each chapter depending on how many graze points were earned and how many enemies were defeated.
Concept
Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom's Pointdevice Mode takes inspiration from games such as I Wanna Be The Guy,[3] where the player can respawn from checkpoints each time the player dies. Many games copied the formatting of I Wanna Be The Guy, which encouraged ZUN to try something similar. He also noted that the reason he came up with the concept of the Ultramarine Orb Elixir was because he wondered why those types of games never gave a reason for as to why the player character was allowed to respawn at the beginning after each death.
Story
Someone is causing havoc in the Lunar Capital, and evidently, Lunarians have come to purify Gensokyo to make it suitable for them to live there (as they oppose "impurity"). With the help of the Ultramarine Orb Elixir (so long as the player is on Pointdevice mode), the girls must now set out to stop this invasion and find the perpetrator behind this incident.
Music
ZUN has been using fewer English subtitles in song names each game, but Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom is the first game in the series to omit them entirely.
Press
Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom was first announced on ZUN's blog on April 22, 2015. He confirmed playable characters and posted in-development screenshots, along with making vague mention of gameplay and story, the latter of which would remain a secret. Of the gameplay, he noted the difficulty of implementing it in time for the demo release at Reitaisai 12, which he would work on until then and would be released on CD-ROM.
Gallery
CD Demo featuring Seiran
Demo disc
Game disc
Additional Information
- The game's Japanese name (紺珠伝) mentions the Kanju (紺珠), and one of its characters refers to it being ultramarine in color (紺). Ultramarine is a blue pigment extracted from lapis lazuli, possibly referring to Hecatia Lapislazuli's surname, following the trend of the mainline games' names referencing their final bosses or other important characters.
English patch
Touhou Community Reliant Automatic Patcher / THCRAP
- Community translations from the Touhou Patch Center wiki.
- Select lang_en during patching.
- Video walkthrough
- Also available as a pre-packaged standalone (not recommended).
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 Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom.
External Links
- Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom Web trial 0.01b (Japanese)
- Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom Patch 1.00b
- Steam
- DLsite
- DMM
Notes
- ↑ The Ultramarine Orb (紺珠 Kanju) is a gem said to belong to Zhang Yue, a prime minister of China's Tang dynasty. When he forgot something, he would hold the gem in his hand, and be able to remember everything.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 ZUN (April 22, 2015). "東方Project 第15弾です。" (in 日本語).
- ↑ Strange Creators of the Outer World- The Challenge of "Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom"
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