Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism
Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism is the eleventh main game of the Touhou Project scrolling shooter series. Subterranean Animism features two playable characters, each with three weapon types representing…
Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism is an arcade developed by Team Shanghai Alice, released 16 September 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism is
Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism is an arcade game developed by Team Shanghai Alice and released in 2008. It was published by Mediascape. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
One day in Gensokyo, all of a sudden, there were lots of evil spirits going around. Reimu Hakurei, a Shrine Maiden and Marisa Kirisame, a black-clothed Magician were getting suspicious. They go into the underground to ask them to stop driving them to Gensokyo's surface. Depending on who you choose, one of them goes out to investigate. The heroine starts to head underground, but runs into a Tsuchigumo, Yamame Kurodani who tries to stop the heroine from continuing. Yamame is quickly defeated and the heroine moves on. She moved on to a bridge leading to the Ancient City but runs into the bridge guard of jealousy, Parsee Mizuhashi, who also tries to stop the heroine from proceeding. Parsee is…
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 Chireiden: Subterranean Animism is the 16th of 71 entries we hold in the Touhou Project series. The next entry was Touhou Pocket Wars in 2009.
What it launched against
Touhou Chireiden: Subterranean Animism launched on 16 September 2008, within three weeks of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, Rock Band 2, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition and Pokémon Platinum Version.
Released around the same time: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut, Rock Band 2, The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, Pokémon Platinum Version.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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