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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.

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!!
  • 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.

Song name translations provided by Touhou Wiki. Content from Touhou Wiki is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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