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Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night

This game features eight playable characters, with four starting preset teams of two and unlockable individual character modes. When playing with the character pairs, one character fires when unfocused, while…

15 August 2004

Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night is an arcade developed by Team Shanghai Alice, released 15 August 2004 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night is

Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night is an arcade game developed by Team Shanghai Alice and released in 2004. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A human and youkai team set off along a forest path to investigate. Along the way, they encounter a firefly (Wriggle Nightbug) and a night sparrow (Mystia Lorelei), who are quickly defeated. Next, they meet a half-beast (Keine) who is protecting a Human Village from youkai. She mistakes the team for enemies and attacks them. After the team defeats her, Keine indicates that the person who switched the moons is in the bamboo forest. In the bamboo forest, they encounter a character (either Reimu or Marisa) who demands to know why the team has been freezing time and causing an imperishable night. Finally the team reaches the mansion of the perpetrator. But once inside, they find that the…
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 Eiyashou: Imperishable Night is the eighth of 71 entries we hold in the Touhou Project series. It arrived 12 months after Touhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom. The next entry was Touhou Suimusou: Immaterial and Missing Power in 2004.

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What it launched against

Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night launched on 15 August 2004, within three weeks of Burnout 3: Takedown, Doom 3, Dofus and World Soccer: Winning Eleven 8 International.

Released around the same time: Burnout 3: Takedown, Doom 3, Dofus, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 8 International.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night come out?
Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night was released on 15 August 2004 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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