Touhou Kaikidan: Mystic Square
Mystic Square allows the player to select from among four unique protagonists, each hailing from one of the 2 prior danmaku shooting games in the series. Series mainstays Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame are…
Touhou Kaikidan: Mystic Square is an arcade developed by Team Shanghai Alice, released 30 December 1998 on PC-9800 Series.
What Touhou Kaikidan: Mystic Square is
Touhou Kaikidan: Mystic Square 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
For no apparent reason, large quantities of demons and youkai begin to travel from Makai, the world of demons, to Gensokyo, swamping the land and leaving Reimu Hakurei with a lot of extermination to do. Frustrated, Reimu tracks the source of the invasion to "The Cave in Which the Door to Makai is Said to Be," which lies in the mountains behind the Hakurei Shrine. Reimu decides that it is her duty as a shrine maiden to root out the cause of this mess. Unbeknownst to her, Marisa Kirisame has learned of her plans and decides to follow along with the hope of discovering some unique powers to steal within Makai. Elsewhere, Mima, the evil spirit of the Hakurei Shrine, and Yuuka Kazami, 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 Kaikidan: Mystic Square is the fifth of 71 entries we hold in the Touhou Project series. The next entry was Touhou Koumakyou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil in 2002.
What it launched against
Touhou Kaikidan: Mystic Square launched on 30 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil.
Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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