Touhou Rei'iden: The Highly Responsive to Prayers
The game introduces the Shrine Maiden Reimu Hakurei, who frantically attempts to persuade a bouncing Yin-Yang Orb to hit various on-screen targets, "cards" and "bosses" alike. Reimu can knock and maneuver the…
Touhou Rei'iden: The Highly Responsive to Prayers is an arcade developed by Team Shanghai Alice, released 1 November 1996 on PC-9800 Series.
What Touhou Rei'iden: The Highly Responsive to Prayers is
Touhou Rei'iden: The Highly Responsive to Prayers is an arcade game developed by Team Shanghai Alice and released in 1996. It is available on PC-9800 Series only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The strength of the seal that keeps demons and other evil creatures from entering the Eastern Country via the Hakurei Shrine, which also serves as an entrance to the “outside world” as you and I know it – has been diminishing. Reimu decides to go in of her own volition to see whether the cause is in there, and needs beaten up. (It does.)
How it plays
It is played from a third person 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 Rei'iden: The Highly Responsive to Prayers is the first of 71 entries we hold in the Touhou Project series. The next entry was Touhou Fuumaroku: The Story of Eastern Wonderland in 1997.
What it launched against
Touhou Rei'iden: The Highly Responsive to Prayers launched on 1 November 1996, within three weeks of Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! and Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.
Released around the same time: Tomb Raider, Circle of Blood, Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain.
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