東方花映塚　〜 Phantasmagoria of Flower View

The 9th Project Shrine Maiden.

This is a Touhou Project game. Here's some info about it.

Touhou 9 (as lots of people refer to it) was the fourth Windows Touhou game. It was the last first-generation Windows Touhou game (as long as you don't count 9.5). It's almost completely different from games 6, 7, and 8; it's actually more similar in gameplay to Touhou 3 and 19. Touhou 3, 9, and 19 were released years apart from each other: 3 was released in 1997, 9 was released in 2005, and 19 was released in 2023.

Touhou 10, which was released about two years later, was the first 2nd-generation Windows Touhou game. But we're not talking about that here.

I started playing it in June 2024.

I managed to 1cc it on June 11, 2024 on Easy.

This is a list of the tracks in the game and where they play.

Here are my favorite songs from this game.

• オリエンタルダークフライト
• フラワリングナイト
• 風神少女　(Short Version)
• ポイズンボディ　～ Forsaken Doll
• 六十年目の東方裁判　～ Fate of Sixty Years

Here are some of my favorite arrangements of the songs from this game.

• オリエンタルダークフライト
• "あの子はなぞのスピードスター" by 凋叶棕 (album containing song)
• フラワリングナイト
• "ナイト・オブ・ナイツ" by COOL&CREATE (one album containing song, song on YouTube)
• "メイドノココロハアヤツリドール" by 森羅万象 (album containing song, MV)
• ポイズンボディ　～ Forsaken Doll
• "Fräulein Lilie" by IOSYS (album containing song, song on YouTube)
• "あのこがほしい" by 暁Records (single, song on YouTube)
• 今昔幻想郷　～ Flower Land
• "タイニーリトル・アジアンタム" by ShibayanRecords (album containing song, song on YouTube)
• 六十年目の東方裁判　～ Fate of Sixty Years
• "その正しき言葉のもとに" by 凋叶棕 (album containing song)
• "華鳥風月" by 幽閉サテライト (album containing song, MV)

Including the protagonists, these are the characters that appear in this game and when they are unlocked as playable characters in Story Mode.

• Reimu Hakurei (博麗 霊夢) - available from start
• Marisa Kirisame (霧雨 魔理沙) - available from start
• Sakuya Izayoi (十六夜 咲夜) - available from start
• Youmu Konpaku (魂魄 妖夢) - available from start
• Reisen Udongein Inaba (鈴仙・優曇華院・イナバ) - available from start
• Cirno (チルノ) - available after seeing 2 unique endings
• Prismriver Sisters (プリズムリバー三姉妹)
• Lyrica Prismriver (リリカ・プリズムリバー) - available after seeing 4 unique endings
• Lunasa Prismriver (ルナサ・プリズムリバー) - available after completing Extra Mode with Eiki Shiki
• Merlin Prismriver (メルラン・プリズムリバー) - available after completing Extra Mode with Eiki Shiki
• Mystia Lorelei (ミスティア・ローレライ) - available after seeing 2 unique endings
• Tewi Inaba (因幡 てゐ) - available after seeing 4 unique endings
• Aya Shameimaru (射命丸 文) - available after seeing endings 1-9
• Medicine Melancholy (メディスン・メランコリー) - available after seeing endings 1-9
• Yuuka Kazami (風見 幽香) - available after seeing endings 1-9
• Komachi Onozuka (小野塚 小町) - available in Extra Mode after seeing endings 1-12, available in Story Mode after completing Extra Mode with Eiki Shiki
• Eiki Shiki, Yamaxanadu (四季映姫・ヤマザナドゥ) - available in Extra Mode after completing Extra Mode with Komachi, available in Story Mode after completing Extra Mode with Eiki Shiki

For a long time, I had Touhou 6-9 on my computer (don't ask me where I got them), but for whatever reason, I just couldn't get Touhou 9 to work on the computer I was using at all. After about a minute into a match, the game would just freeze and exit.

In June 2024, I started tinkering with another computer, and the game actually worked on that computer.

By the way, Hepburn romanization can lead you astray in some situations (especially if you don't know Japanese), and this game title is one of those situations. The reading used for the last kanji in the Japanese title is つか. However, if you don't know Japanese and you were to type this game title, you might accidentally use ず, which, when using Hepburn romanization, is romanized the same as づ.