Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. (W32)

Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.

Platform: Windows Year: 2002 Developer: Team Shanghai Alice

Touhou Koumakyou ~ the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. (東方紅魔郷　～　ｔｈｅ　Ｅｍｂｏｄｉｍｅｎｔ　ｏｆ　Ｓｃａｒｌｅｔ　Ｄｅｖｉｌ．) is a doujin vertical-scrolling shooter released in 2002 at Comiket 62 for Windows, and is the sixth game in the Touhou Project series. It is the first game in the series released for Windows; all previous games were on the NEC PC-9801. It is also the first game developed by Junya Ota (commonly known as ZUN) under the name "Team Shanghai Alice" as opposed to "ZUN Soft". Improvements from Mystic Square include, other than the obvious sound and graphics quality upgrade, an automatic item collection feature that can be used when in Full Power Mode and a counter-bomb system that activates upon bombing at the moment of death. Even today, this game is considered to be one of the hardest games in the series to defeat.

Screenshots

Girls do their best now and are preparing.

Music

According to ZUN in the Afterword of the game:

“

By the way, how do you like the music?

I intended to make it about three times as bright as usual, and since I haven't seen it in game music recently, I added some jazz fusion to it. I wanted to make it unusual and give it qualities of "This is what I think about when I think of game music!" yet I wanted to avoid the atmosphere that is so prevalent in game music a little bit.

„

If there's only one song people know from this game, it's "U.N. Owen Was Her?". It is because of the song's use in the memetic video "McRoll'd" that a lot of Westerners were exposed to the series, and could be part of the reason the series is so popular in the West nowadays. Many other songs in the game have found themselves especially popular because of certain remixes as well, including Tomboyish Girl in Love and Septette for a Dead Princess.

The move to streamed music obviously saw a large leap forward in overall music quality, however this game is noteable for having lower quality instrumentation than later games, which can be understandable given the series' recent move off of FM synthesis.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Length	Listen
01	A Dream that is more Scarlet than Red	Junya Ota	00:58
02	A Soul that is Red, like a Ground Cherry	Junya Ota	01:24
03	Apparitions Stalk the Night	Junya Ota	00:54
04	Lunate Elf	Junya Ota	01:24
05	Tomboyish Girl in Love	Junya Ota	01:27
06	Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea	Junya Ota	02:16
07	Shanghai Alice of Meiji 17	Junya Ota	01:42
08	Voile, the Magic Library	Junya Ota	01:47
09	Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room	Junya Ota	01:57
10	The Maid and the Pocket Watch of Blood	Junya Ota	02:38
11	Lunar Clock ~ Luna Dial	Junya Ota	01:22
12	The Young Descendant of Tepes	Junya Ota	00:57
13	Septette for a Dead Princess	Junya Ota	02:21
14	The Centennial Festival for Magical Girls	Junya Ota	02:31
15	U.N. Owen was Her?	Junya Ota	02:03
16	An Eternity that is More Transient than Scarlet	Junya Ota	00:53
17	Crimson Tower ~ Eastern Dream...	Junya Ota	01:43

Credits

• Ripper: ?
• Recorder: banshiryuu
• Game Credits:
  • Composer: Junya Ota credited as ZUN

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Game Rip

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The recording was made with Touhou Music Room 2.2.1. The original .wav files can be found in the /bgm folder of the game's main directory.

Releases

Japan Title: 東方紅魔郷　～　ｔｈｅ　Ｅｍｂｏｄｉｍｅｎｔ　ｏｆ　Ｓｃａｒｌｅｔ　Ｄｅｖｉｌ． Platform: W32 Released: 2002/08/11 Publisher: Team Shanghai Alice

Links

• en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Embodiment_of_Scarlet_Devil - Touhou Wiki.