Touhou Gensoukyou: Lotus Land Story
This game features two playable characters to choose from, with two different attack types each. Reimu Hakurei can pepper a wide area of the screen with weaker attacks, while Marisa Kirisame relies on her…
Touhou Gensoukyou: Lotus Land Story is an arcade developed by Team Shanghai Alice, released 14 August 1998 on PC-9800 Series.
What Touhou Gensoukyou: Lotus Land Story is
Touhou Gensoukyou: Lotus Land Story is an arcade game developed by Team Shanghai Alice and released in 1998. It is available on PC-9800 Series only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Following the events of the previous games, youkai soon began to swarm the Hakurei Shrine, prompting Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame to seperately head for a lake in the mountains, which appears to be the source of a tremendous power surge. The two reach the gateway underneath the lake, which teleports them to a strange dream world, in which the mansion Reimaden exists, where the mastermind supposedly is. The heroine sets off to the lake, but sees a youkai, Orange. Orange wasn't going to fight, but the heroine attacked Orange merely because she was a youkai. The heroine goes off but encounters a vampire, Kurumi. Kurumi attempts to prevent the heroine from reaching the island in the…
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 Gensoukyou: Lotus Land Story is the fourth of 71 entries we hold in the Touhou Project series. It arrived 7 months after Touhou Yumejikuu: Phantasmagoria of Dim. Dream. The next entry was Touhou Kaikidan: Mystic Square in 1998.
What it launched against
Touhou Gensoukyou: Lotus Land Story launched on 14 August 1998, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid, SoulCalibur, F-1 World Grand Prix and Future Cop: LAPD.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid, SoulCalibur, F-1 World Grand Prix, Future Cop: LAPD.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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