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It’s that time of year again— Reitaisai Season.

Seems everyone’s releasing something this year; it’s the first time Reitaisai is going to be at the Big Sight. A much larger venue than last year’s means an overwhelming increase in participation.

++GAMES++

First off, we have the two biggies:

Twilight Frontier has announced the release of Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody. You can read more about the release announcement here.

Team Shanghai Alice has announced plans to release a demo of Touhou Chireiten~ Subterranean Animism, the 11th game in the Touhou canon. You can read more about this here.

Finally, on the doujin game front, the final version of Marisa & Alice (Mariari) will be released by Desunoya.

Read on to see what else we’ve learned.

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The newest version of Marisa and Alice, 0.85, is out, featuring a few gameplay tweaks and the addition of another world.

Your goal, as Shanghai, is to guide a blindfolded (blind-hatted?) Alice to Marisa. Using your mouse to guide the doll, you can control Alice’s movement, and manage a variety of blocks and obstacles.
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Site: http://sadinfish.myweb.hinet.net/game/game03_index.html

Download: http://sadinfish.myweb.hinet.net/game/TDP_trial_release.rar

Several people have had a problem with this download, having it end prematurely, therefore use the following.

Alternative Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?sjh4t2munms

Dreamer’s Party is what you get if you stick Touhou in a blender with an RPG. It’s a 2D based shooting game using the WASD keys for movement, and the mouse for aiming.

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Since the previous update, more Touhou ROM hacks have been released. So now it’s time for me to go through them.

Scarlet Devil World

Original Game: Devil World

Link: http://www.saturn.dti.ne.jp/~dastard/0hackrom/scadevil.htm

This was was very creative, since the original game is Devil World, add a Scarlet and voila, instant Touhou reference.

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A little delayed, but finally the second part of our Comiket 73 research - upcoming doujin works!

One Night Stand is releasing the next chapter of the Advent Cirno saga, Advent Cirno -StarDust-. While it’s apparent from the cover that Marisa will be the new addition to the cast (as Yuffie), most of the other details of the story are as yet unknown. Keep an eye out for scanlations (hopefully soon!) as it’s definitely high on our list as well.

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For this update, we have a slightly unusual one, in the form of Rom Hacks, or patches for several NES Roms that convert them to something a little more related to Touhou.

Eientei Action

First up, we have the conversion of Elevator Action, an old arcade game involving action and elevators, unsurprisingly.

Yes, that’s right, Eientei Action, featuring Reisen Udongein Inaba as the main character, presumably sneaking into Eientei which seems have have magically gained a large amount of Elevators and Escalators, The aim is to get to the bottom without being shot by the constantly appearing rabbits or plummeting to your doom.

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閃光映夜祭 - Glimmering Night Parade, the Flash-based danmaku game, has been updated with an Extra stage. For those not familiar with the game, it combines the bombing system of Mountain of Faith with many gameplay elements (most notably the team dynamic) from Imperishable Night.

Currently, the game includes 6 stages with A and B endings, an Extra stage, and spellcard practice, unlockable when you defeat Extra. Progress in the game is saved between attempts, so it’s not necessary to unlock various elements each time you play.

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LION HEART has released a new patch for Rekkaden, which will update the game to version 3.03. The patch primarily contains some character balance tweaking and bug fixes.

Among the fixes listed in the patch notes are corrections to the Flandre’s basement stage and fixes on the character and stage select screens.

The patch can be found here. Users without 3.0 or its successors should download the full thr_303.zip file, while those on 3.0 or greater can download the smaller thr_303s.zip.

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There’s a Touhou RPG found on Coolier made using RPG Maker 2000. The game is pretty basic. You choose a character, you wander around on a Mario Party type map, and then you fight monsters until you reach your destination. And sorry, it’s only in Japanese, so having an RPG/Party Game won’t really do English speakers much good. However, it’s worth taking a look at.

Download the game here.
You may also need to download this to run it.

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Information has recently been released for a Touhou-themed strategy RPG along the lines of the Summon Night series (Wikipedia link), called 東方仙桃伝 ~the Battle of Substitutive Peach~.

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