東方幻想郷 〜 Lotus Land Story
The 4th Project Shrine Maiden.
This is a Touhou Project game. Here's some info about it.
Basic info
Touhou 4 (as lots of people refer to it) was the second-to-last PC-98 Touhou game. It brought about a few things that would stick in almost all subsequent games, such as the ability to move more slowly and the counter-bomb system (basically, pressing X right when you get hit allows you to keep your life).
Being that it's a PC-98 Touhou game, good luck getting a copy of it today. And good luck getting that copy working on modern hardware.
This is one of the few Touhou games in which playing on Easy will give you the Bad Ending. The only other games in which this happens are games 6 and 10. In addition, the player is prevented from continuing to Stage 6 on Easy.
Experience
I started playing it in December 2023.
I have played it, but I have not been able to 1cc it.
The farthest I have progressed on 1 credit is Stage 5 on Easy.
Music
This is a list of the tracks in the game and where they play.
| Song name | Accepted translation | Theme for |
|---|---|---|
| 幻想郷 ～ Lotus Land Story | Gensokyo ~ Lotus Land Story | Title screen |
| Witching Dream | Witching Dream | Reimu's Stage 1 |
| Selene's light | Selene's light | Marisa's Stage 1 |
| 装飾戦 ～ Decoration Battle | Decoration Battle | Orange オレンジ |
| Break the Sabbath | Break the Sabbath | Stage 2 |
| 紅響曲 ～ Scarlet Phoneme | Scarlet Symphony ~ Scarlet Phoneme | Kurumi くるみ |
| Bad Apple!! | Bad Apple!! | Stage 3 |
| 霊戦 ～ Perdition crisis | Spirit Battle ~ Perdition crisis | Elly エリー |
| アリスマエステラ | Alice Maestra | Stage 4 |
| 少女綺想曲 ～ Capriccio | Maiden's Capriccio ~ Capriccio | Reimu Hakurei 博麗 靈夢 |
| 星の器 ～ Casket of Star | Vessel of Stars ~ Casket of Star | Marisa Kirisame 霧雨 魔理沙 |
| Lotus Love | Lotus Love | Stage 5 |
| 眠れる恐怖 ～ Sleeping Terror | Sleeping Terror | Yuuka (A) 幽香 |
| Dream Land | Dream Land | Stage 6 |
| 幽夢 ～ Inanimate Dream | Faint Dream ~ Inanimate Dream | Yuuka (B) 幽香 |
| 禁じざるをえない遊戯 | The Inevitably Forbidden Game | Extra Stage |
| メイド幻想 ～ Icemilk Magic | Illusion of a Maid ~ Icemilk Magic | Mugetsu 夢月 |
| かわいい悪魔 ～ Innocence | Cute Devil ~ Innocence | Gengetsu 幻月 |
| Days | Days | Bad ending |
| Peaceful | Peaceful | Good ending |
| Arcadian Dream | Arcadian Dream | Staff roll |
| 幻想の住人 | Those Who Live in Illusions | Name registration |
In addition, there are some unused songs that are featured in Mystic Square's music room and on Akyu's Untouched Score (『幺樂団の歴史１ ～ Akyu's Untouched Score vol.1』). Note that none of these have Japanese titles.
| Song name | Originally for |
|---|---|
| Lotus Road | Stage 1 |
| Dreamy pilot | Stage 4 |
| Incomplete Plot | Stage 5 |
| Border Land | Stage 6 |
| Magic Shop of Raspberry | Extra Stage |
| Crescent Dream | Staff roll |
Here are my favorite songs from this game.
- Witching Dream
- Bad Apple!!
- アリスマエステラ
- 少女綺想曲 ～ Capriccio
- 眠れる恐怖 ～ Sleeping Terror
- 禁じざるをえない遊戯
- かわいい悪魔 ～ Innocence
Here are some of my favorite arrangements of the songs from this game.
- Bad Apple!!
- "Bad Apple!!" by Alstroemeria Records (song on YouTube, MV)
- アリスマエステラ
- "Alice Maestera" by Alstroemeria Records
Characters
Aside from the protagonists, these are the characters that appear in this game.
- Bewitching Lotus Flower (妖蓮花) - conjectural name
- Orange (オレンジ)
- Kurumi (くるみ)
- Dark Mirror/Magic Mirror (闇鏡) - conjectural name
- Elly (エリー)
- Hikariko (光子) - conjectural name
- Yuuka (幽香)
- Mysterious Orb (神秘的な玉) - conjectural name
- Mugetsu (夢月)
- Gengetsu (幻月)
Other info
This was probably the first Touhou game I discovered. Thanks, Bad Apple!
And, surprisingly, it was one of the first Touhou games I played. No, I won't tell you where I got it.
Even before then, I listened to some guy's upload of songs from this game and the other PC-98 games.