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35-445: Double Spoiler inherited the system of its predecessor Shoot the Bullet , where the player cannot shoot projectiles at enemies; instead, the main character must shoot photographs to clear the screen of bullets and take down bosses. Scores are determined by the aesthetics of each photograph taken, such as colours and bullet density, and the risk taken to take these photos. For each "scene",

70-454: A direct, and often rude way, highlighting her tomboyish nature and otherwise carefree attitude. While she is prone to violence, selfishness, and other disagreeable behaviors, she is an honest and hard worker, usually on the front lines of defending Gensokyo whenever an incident occurs. She is contrasted with Reimu, the naturally-talented protagonist, as Marisa's powers derive entirely from hard work and determination rather than any abilities she

105-488: A game which ZUN helped to develop. Marisa Kirisame ( 霧雨 魔理沙 , Kirisame Marisa ) is a human magician who lives in a cluttered house in the Forest of Magic. She is friends with Reimu and visits her often, but is otherwise solitary and spends most of her time researching magic. She is an avid collector, hoarding almost any item she comes across, often "borrowing" things without permission from various characters. She talks in

140-478: A life of drinking tea and taking naps, she does not have enough training. Gensokyo is sustained by the maintenance of the indispensable relationship of yōkai attacking humans and humans exterminating yōkai, of which the Miko of Hakurei plays a part. Since the Miko of Hakurei is also in an indispensable position of maintaining Gensokyo, it has become forbidden for the Miko of Hakurei to exterminate yōkai and for yōkai to attack

175-424: A snapshot around the player character. For every picture taken, the player will need to reload the film from 0% again before they can take another picture. Only photos that contain an image of the boss ("Success" pictures) will be taken into account when tallying up the score. New to Double Spoiler over Shoot the Bullet is the option to change the orientation of the shot between landscape to portrait. The angle of

210-525: A strange atmosphere that attracts others regardless of whether they are human or yōkai. Since her job is yōkai extermination, she takes a stern pose against yōkai, but she herself does not have a particular interest in humans or yōkai, and depending on the circumstances, is willing to help, or attack either. In Silent Sinner in Blue , she looked after the fainted yōkai rabbit, and in Curiosities of Lotus Asia, made

245-417: A surprise attack on a harmless yōkai who was reading her book, and stole it. Since she likes yōkai extermination itself, when incidents do not occur for a long time, she grows irritated due to boredom . This is a personality that strong yōkai especially like, but since she exterminates yōkai, sometimes without prior conversation or warning, she is feared by the weaker yōkai. It is a carefree personality, but on

280-619: Is a list of the characters that belong to the Touhou Project , a series of danmaku and fighting video games by ZUN from Team Shanghai Alice . Most Touhou characters reside in a fictional realm called Gensokyo ( 幻想郷 , 'Land of Illusions'), where humans and yōkai coexist. Gensokyo's culture is like that of feudal Japan , but the Touhou games take place in the present day. Many yōkai prey on and eat humans, and humans subsequently try to exorcise them, but no racial resentment exists between

315-514: The manga publisher Ichijinsha was planning a manga anthology of Touhou Project dōjinshi , but ZUN decided that he can use this opportunity to introduce Aya, and negotiated with Ichijinsha to turn the anthology into a fanbook that contains samplings of Aya's newspaper. The result was Touhou Bunkachou ~ Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red. , which was released three days before Phantasmagoria of Flower View . ZUN had originally planned to include

350-423: The viewfinder while the picture frame shrinks — this can be used to zoom in on the boss. During this time, all bullets on screen are slowed down and Aya cannot move. If the shoot button is held for too long, the film will get overexposed and Aya would have to reload the film. The player can also press the shoot button once without holding to take a snapshot around Aya. For every picture taken, Aya will need to reload

385-401: The "spell card rules" in the "Spell Naming Law." The customs related to the job have been preserved from time immemorial without fail, and as she follows the custom, she takes an attitude of not worrying about the results. Reimu's appearance varies slightly between the games. However, she always can be seen with black or brown hair with a red bow (the length of her hair changes between games),

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420-490: The Bullet . In addition to being a standalone game, Shoot the Bullet became something of a game engine on which ZUN's future games base. Mountain of Faith and Uwabami Breakers ( Drinking Party , 2007) are two games which use Shoot the Bullet as their prototype. On March 14, 2010, Shoot the Bullet' s sequel Double Spoiler was released. It retains the gameplay of Shoot the Bullet with renewed characters. List of Touhou Project characters#Rumia This

455-436: The Bullet. , lit. "Oriental Cultural Album") is a shoot 'em up photography game , and is the 9.5th official game in the Touhou Project by the dōjin circle Team Shanghai Alice . It was first released in the 69th Comiket on December 30, 2005. In English-speaking circles, the game's title is often shortened to just Shoot the Bullet , and abbreviated to StB . In Shoot the Bullet , unlike other shoot 'em ups in

490-634: The PC-98 games, and is on the title screen for most of the Windows games. From Rinnosuke Morichika's viewpoint, she has good relations with Marisa Kirisame and visits her often. However, she has never fought alongside Marisa, and in Imperishable Night , Reimu fights Marisa for getting in her way. When Reimu confronted Watatsuki no Yorihime in Silent Sinner in Blue , she did not cooperate with her allies. Despite

525-510: The Purification Rod, a gohei created by Rinnosuke Morichika, and a red and white hakama with a long skirt. The hakama is unconventional in its appearance due to the fact that the sleeves are detached, exposing her armpits, which has become the subject of an Internet meme . In 2006, dōjin music group IOSYS , who make Touhou -themed music parodies , released the song Tsukiyo wo Kakusanai Teido no Nouryoku? , which made frequent usage of

560-407: The fact she's never done any training of any sort, she is fairly strong. Because of this, she does not believe at all that hard work pays off, and hates putting in large amounts of effort. Since her freedom is to the level of the impossible, she has a negative disposition. As she has a simple and straightforward personality, her human emotions are wild, and she often has hasty conversations. She has

595-612: The fact there would be nothing being left afterwards if she lost a battle with her full power. She is fairly tall. Reimu serves the role of the miko of the Hakurei Shrine , located at the boundary between Gensokyo and the Outside World, called the "Miko of Hakurei." The job of the miko of the Hakurei Shrine is to exterminate yōkai and resolve incidents, and Reimu herself possesses considerable power, but since she habitually lives

630-540: The film from 0% again before she can take another picture. Only photos that contain an image of the boss ("Success" pictures) will be taken into account when tallying up the score. Aya Shameimaru is the tengu reporter of the Gensokyo newspaper Bunbunmaru Shinbun , which she self-manages. Aya goes to search for suitable news topics by taking pictures of bullet patterns with her analog camera. She decides not to shoot subjects herself, because she doesn't want her own bullets in

665-468: The first game of their appearance. Reimu first appeared in the first game, Highly Responsive to Prayers , and Marisa in the second, Story in Eastern Wonderland . Reimu Hakurei ( 博麗 霊夢 , Hakurei Reimu ) is the main protagonist of the series, appearing in some role in every Touhou game to date, and is almost always available as a playable character . She is seen on the cover art of all of

700-401: The franchise, the player cannot shoot projectiles at enemies; instead, Aya, the main character, must shoot photographs to clear the screen of bullets and take down bosses (hence "Shoot" the Bullet ). Scores are determined by the aesthetics of each photograph taken, such as colours and bullet density, and the risk taken to take these photos. For each "scene", Aya is only given one life to complete

735-462: The idea away for two years until after Imperishable Night was released. ZUN decided that in order to introduce the idea naturally, he needed a character who actually had a reason to shoot photographs. Thus, he created the reporter girl Aya Shameimaru and planned to introduce her in the upcoming game Phantasmagoria of Flower View so that she can become the main character of a future photography game without being too abrupt. During this process,

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770-551: The line "Waki miko Reimu" (armpit miko Reimu), leading to an unofficial nickname. Her main abilities are flight, good intuition, and getting along with everyone; even those who were once her enemies. In the games, she is characterized by her homing amulets and yin-yang orbs. In addition to being in all of the Touhou games (apart from Shoot the Bullet and Fairy Wars ), she also appears in Graffiti Kingdom as "Flying Maiden",

805-433: The miko, as well as humans coming to the Hakurei Shrine grounds to meddle. However, since the relation of yōkai attacking humans has thus been lost, yōkai have been in decline, so Reimu approved of a request she received from yōkai to establish battle rules for bouts with yōkai to kill time, thus preserving the relation between yōkai and humans in a mock style, allowing strong and weak ones to have fights on equal ground, called

840-402: The objective — to take a certain number of pictures of the boss without being hit in a limited amount of time. To take pictures, the film must be fully loaded into the camera (100%). The player can move at three speeds, the normal speed, the focused speed, and a super-focused speed which also allows for high-speed film loading. When taking pictures, the player can hold the shoot button to control

875-405: The opposite side of her impartial nature, she does not see anyone as a companion, and even when she acts together with other humans or yōkai, she is always alone. As she is ruthless in her job, especially in the middle of yōkai extermination, she exterminates the yōkai and fairies she comes across without mercy. She is also similar to Alice Margatroid as she chooses not to show her true power due to

910-428: The photography game along with the fanbook, but ZUN did not have enough time to make that happen. Even so, ZUN continued to use the name "Touhou Bunkachou" for his photography game without Ichijinsha's authorization (although Ichijinsha later agreed to let ZUN use the name). Development took a month and a half to finish, and the game Touhou Bunkachou ~ Shoot the Bullet. was finally released on December 30, 2005. The game

945-977: The picture. No one actually knows what she does with these pictures except herself. Apart from the game's synopsis, there is no traditional plot to follow. Aya faces a majority of bosses from past Touhou Project installments in levels featuring their Spell Cards. After reaching a preset score, she will leave a scene-specific comment of that Spell Card. The list of characters that Aya encounters are, in this order, Rumia , Wriggle Nightbug , Cirno , Letty Whiterock , Alice Margatroid , Keine Kamishirasawa , Reisen U. Inaba , Medicine Melancholy , Tewi Inaba , Hong Meiling , Patchouli Knowledge , Chen , Youmu Konpaku , Sakuya Izayoi , Remilia Scarlet , Ran Yakumo , Yuyuko Saigyouji , Eirin Yagokoro , Kaguya Houraisan , Komachi Onozuka , Shikieiki Yamaxanadu , Flandre Scarlet , Yukari Yakumo , Fujiwara no Mokou , and Suika Ibuki . The only member of Team Shanghai Alice, who goes by

980-409: The player can hold the shoot button to control the viewfinder while the picture frame shrinks — this can be used to zoom in on the boss. During this time, all bullets on screen are slowed down and the player cannot move. If the shoot button is held for too long, the film will get exposed and the player would have to reload the film. The player can also press the shoot button once without holding to take

1015-400: The player is only given one life to complete the objective — to take a certain number of pictures of the boss without being hit in a limited amount of time. To take pictures, the film must be fully loaded into the camera (100%). The player can move at three speeds, the normal speed, the focused speed, and a super-focused speed which also allows for high speed film loading. When taking pictures,

1050-570: The pseudonym "ZUN", recognized that all past installments of the Touhou Project drew inspiration from arcade games , so he wanted to turn all that around and make an experimental PC game that throws arcade conventions aside. The idea of a danmaku photography game first came to ZUN when he was taking snapshots of bullet patterns during the production of Embodiment of Scarlet Devil so that he could name them into "spell cards" to distinguish one pattern from another. He realized that taking snapshots

1085-465: The shot is automatically adjusted depending on where the player is in relation to the boss. The subjects: (all bosses from past Windows Touhou Project installments) In the 7th Reitaisai dōjin convention on March 14, 2010 where the game was first released, ten thousand copies were sold by noon. Shoot the Bullet Touhou Bunkachou ~ Shoot the Bullet. ( Japanese : 東方文花帖 〜 Shoot

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1120-441: The two. Touhou characters have unique abilities, and many of them are based on Japanese folklore and religion. Reimu Hakurei , the miko of the Hakurei Shrine and the main character of the series, is often tasked with resolving supernatural "incidents" caused in and around Gensokyo , she is joined by Marisa Kirisame after the second game. All characters, except for the two main protagonists Reimu and Marisa, are listed by

1155-534: Was also released on Steam on June 18, 2021. On January 9, 2006, ZUN added an empty level called "Gōgai" ( 号外 , "Extra" in the newspaper sense) after Level Ex with the version 1.01a patch, with the promise that he would add playable stages in it at a later time. On October 16, 2006, however, ZUN announced that he will not make the "Gōgai" stages since he does not have the time, and he would rather move forward onto new projects, thus leaving an empty level hanging in Shoot

1190-426: Was born with, and it is said that she wins her fights with Reimu "about 40% of the time." In the games, her attacks are characterized by five-pointed stars and lasers, and other high-level destructive magic. Reflecting her "borrowing" habit, many of her spells are inspired by other characters, such as her signature move "Master Spark" which was originally Yuuka Kazami's , or her "Nondirectional Laser" attack, which

1225-433: Was quite fun, and the idea should make a good game. After Embodiment of Scarlet Devil , ZUN tried to incorporate this idea into a new weapon type for Reimu Hakurei (the main character of the Touhou Project ) where she would take pictures and seal away bullets. However, ZUN felt that he was forcing a totally new idea into the game unnaturally, since none of the characters in the games had a reason to shoot photos; so he filed

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