Touhou Bunkachou: Shoot the Bullet (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Touhou Bunkachou: Shoot the Bullet

Shoot the Bullet works like a normal danmaku game, with one main difference. You still have to dodge bullets that are thrown at you, but you are unable to shoot at the boss to deal damage. Instead, you must…

30 December 2005

What Touhou Bunkachou: Shoot the Bullet is

Touhou Bunkachou: Shoot the Bullet is an arcade game developed by Team Shanghai Alice and released in 2005. It was published by Mediascape. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In Shoot the Bullet, you play as Aya Shameimaru as she photographs the bosses from various Touhou games. However, no one ever reveals why she is taking these photos. In fact, at one point it is pointed out that "No one knows the purpose of the photos, except Aya", and the only reason she does not shoot the opponents is "not to be nice, but because she doesn't want her bullets in the picture."

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Touhou Project series

Touhou Bunkachou: Shoot the Bullet is the 11th of 71 entries we hold in the Touhou Project series. The next entry was Touhou Soccer in 2006.

See all 71 Touhou Project games in release order →

What it launched against

Touhou Bunkachou: Shoot the Bullet launched on 30 December 2005, within three weeks of Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, 25 To Life and Dead or Alive 4.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Hearts II, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, 25 To Life, Dead or Alive 4.

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