Shmup Spotlight #5 [Deadline met]

東方幕華祭 (Tōhō maku hana matsuri)　～ Touhou Fantastic Danmaku Festival.

COMPATIBILITY: Windows.
LENGTH: 6 Stages + 1 Extra.
LANGUAGE: Full CHN.
DIFFICULTY: Easy on lowest, Lunatic on highest.
PERSONAL RATING: ★★★★☆ - Chinese Touhou fangame that seems to remake EoSD (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil).
DOWNLOAD: Click - Mirror
OFFICIAL SITE: Click
CONTROLS: Arrows: Movement - Z: Shoot X: Bomb - L-Shift: Focus.

Ok, I wanted to change from the CAVE style, but I didn't wanted to abandon the Bullet Hell subgenre. Originally a game from the Le'en would have appeared here, since I didn't wanted to put Touhou fangame because most of them require some knowledge of the series, but I found these a little more hard than expected and I don't want to overwhelm people yet, don't make me regret this choice :P. But since this one is a remake from a game of the main series (or atleast seems to be, I don't understand chinese), I think it doesn't require any knowledge from the series really (even tho they changed two characters, Patchouli is no longer the stage 4 boss, instead she is a playable character for some reason. Rumia is gone, instead she is replaced by Nyx, an "original" character).

Anyways, let's go to mechanics, shall we? If you played Touhou, this one works like DDC with some minor difference that you'll quickly notice. If you never played any Touhou game on the past, then I'll explain the basics: Score system revolve around grazing, collecting items and defeating enemies as fast as possible. Bosses have something called "The Spellcard system", they have various health bars, and when they reach a certain point, they throw a spellcard. While the spellcard last, if you don't miss and don't bomb, you get a bonus for "capturing" it, if you did either, you get nothing. You also get something called POC (Point of Colletion) that's located on the top part of the screen, when you get there, you auto collect all items on the screen. That's about it. Couldn't find a translation patch for this neither, and it's in full Chinese, but the story seems to be same as EoSD with some minor changes, so those who played it aren't missing much. As like most Touhou games, it's really generous when it comes to lives and bombs.

Also Extra seems to be stupid hard, gave it some more tries but I can't do it, some of the Flandre spells are way too hard (well... most of them). On the other side I found normal pretty easy (with the exception of Remilia).

NOTICE: You need to do one of those two steps to play this game: Either set your locale to Chinese, or just download Locale Switch. AppLocale doesn't work as reported here.

Replay (Marisa). Quite old replay... Did it almost at the start of the spotlight, so no comments about this one. Hopefully shouldn't desync, haven't checked myself. Tell me if it does.

So the requirements this time are:

• Post a replay of yourself clearing the game, this can be done on any difficulty. Replay should have your SG nickname.
• It should be a .rpy file, named thmhj_xx (xx=numbers) , any other file will be ignored.
• It should be uploaded in a trustworthy host. If MyWot doesn't show perfect green on the site, it will be ignored.

DEADLINE: 9/7 - Deadline met.

Once you did this, and I checked that it was a valid rep, you'll be invited to a group with the giveaway posted on the forums as a private link.

When the giveaway ends, everyone in the group will be kicked and you will need to provide a new replay on the last game presented.