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Spell Card 206

	No. 206:	「季節外れのバタフライストーム」 «Unseasonal Butterfly Storm»
Owner:	Wriggle Nightbug Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	リグルは少々頭が弱い感じがする。というか、今回の主人公達相手じゃ ちょっと可哀想。チルノ辺りと遊ぶのが丁度良い位だ。 I think Wriggle is a bit slow in the head. It’s a pity, since she has to face player characters in this title. Cirno might be better for her to play with. To unlock: Beat main game through Final B with more than 2 teams, difficulty doesn’t matter.

Spell Card 207

	No. 207:	「ブラインドナイトバード」 «Blind Nightbird»
Owner:	Mystia Lorelei Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	ローレライ。どうも私はローラレイとよく言い間違う。んん～ローラ。 絵では指３本に見えるけど、隠れているだけで指は５本だってば。 Lorelei. I often misspell her name as «Lorarei». Ahh, Lora. It looks as though she has only 3 fingers from these pictures, but she actually has 5 fingers. To unlock: Beat main game through Final B with more than 3 teams, difficulty doesn’t matter.

Spell Card 208

	No. 208:	「日出ずる国の天子」 «Emperor of the East»
Owner:	Keine Kamishirasawa Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	ああ、そのお姿は神々し過ぎて見えません。それにしても、慧音はなん で変なスカートをはいているのだろう。帽子も。 Aah, your shape is too bright to be visible. So, why does she wear that weird skirt anyways? Same for her hat. To unlock: Capture more than 50 spell cards in Spell Card Practice, all characters combined.

Spell Card 209

	No. 209:	「幻朧月睨(ルナティックレッドアイズ)」 «Lunatic Red Eyes»
Owner:	Reisen Udongein Inaba Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	変なあだ名で呼ばれまくりの宇宙兎。その腹いせにスペルカードは 漢字に妙な読み仮名をつけてみた。カード名は気に入っているらしい。 The space rabbit with many stupid nicknames. To vent her anger, she named her spellcards with weird captions. She likes these card names, though. To unlock: Beat Final B with all 4 teams, difficulty doesn’t matter.

Spell Card 210

	No. 210:	「天網蜘網捕蝶の法」 «Heaven Spider’s Butterfly-Capturing Web»
Owner:	Eirin Yagokoro Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	如何なる者も逃さない天にも地にも張り巡らされた光の蜘蛛の巣。 監視から逃れる事はもはや不可能だ。ついでに映画倫理も監視するぞ。 Spider’s web that reaches from the ground to the sky, not allowing anything to escape. It’s impossible to avoid this. In addition she monitors ACoMPCE too. (ACoMPCE: Administration Commission of Motion Picture Code of Ethics. In Japan it’s called 映倫 (Eirin) for short… poor joke.) To unlock: Capture No.138 (Apollo 13 -Hard-).

Spell Card 211

	No. 211:	「蓬莱の樹海」 «Tree-Ocean of Hourai»
Owner:	Kaguya Houraisan Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	方位磁石が狂うのは、実は回転罠の所為だったと専らの評判の樹海。こ のゲームを終えたら樹海に行こうと考えていたら、是非思い直しなさい。 The ocean of trees that is famous for its turning trap, making compasses inoperative. If you’re thinking of going there after you’re done with this game, think twice. (This refers to the forest around Mt. Fuji. It is famous for its broad expanse of dense woodland and… many suicides.) To unlock: Capture more than 15 different Last Spells in Spell Card Practice, all characters combined.

Spell Card 212

	No. 212:	「フェニックス再誕」 «Phoenix Rebirth»
Owner:	Fujiwara no Mokou Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	妹で紅、って誰かを彷彿させる名前だが、本当は、自分”も紅”色に 染まれ、と言う意味。これ以上紅くなったら只の火の塊になりそう。 妹 (little sister) and 紅 (scarlet) (together: Mokou) may remind you of someone else’s name, but actually, it can mean «paint me red» as well. If it was any more red, though, it’d just be a fireball. To unlock: Capture No.146 and No.196, face No.205 at least once (no need to capture No.205).

Spell Card 213

	No. 213:	「エンシェントデューパー」 «Ancient Duper»
Owner:	Tewi Inaba Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	根っからの詐欺師。人を騙す度に報復を受けるが、全く懲りてない。 耳は白く、髪の毛は黒い……。これは白兎なのかどうか判らない。 Natural born duper. She always gets paid back for her dupe, but she never learns. White ears and black hair… It’s hard to tell if she’s really a white rabbit. To unlock: Face No.209, No.210 and No.211 at least once (no need to capture them).

Spell Card 214

	No. 214:	「無何有浄化」 «Total Purification»
Owner:	Keine Kamishirasawa Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	世界再生。人間が自然保護とか言っているのがちゃんちゃらおかしい。 自然に保護されている身分の癖に、上の立場から物を言うとは……。 World reconstruction. It’s really stupid for humans to say something like nature conservation. They’re being conserved by nature after all, but they speak like if they’re above nature… To unlock: Face No.206, No.207, No.208 and No.212 at least once (no need to capture them).

Spell Card 215

	No. 215:	「夢想天生」 «Fantasy Heaven» (Sounds the same as Kenshiro’s Musou Tensei of Fist of the North Star fame. Once activated, Kenshiro is able to evade all sorts of attacks from his enemies. Likewise, Reimu is invincible in this spell card.)
Owner:	Reimu Hakurei Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	色々と究極奥義。霊夢はありとあらゆるものから宙に浮き無敵となる。 もしこれが遊び（時間制限付き）でなければ、誰も勝つ事が出来ない。 Supreme Master-Arts by any means. With Reimu’s ability to float, she floats from everything in reality and becomes invincible. If it wasn’t just for play (with time limit), no one could beat her with any method. To unlock: Capture all spell cards of Normal difficulty in Spell Card Practice with Marisa Solo.

Spell Card 216

	No. 216:	「ブレイジングスター」 «Blazing Star»
Owner:	Marisa Kirisame Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	自らが彗星となる究極の体当たり芸。かなり直球。彼女らしい。 もはや弾幕ではないのだが、まぁ魔理沙の事だから、とみんな黙認。 Her ultimate charging attack where she turns herself into a comet. Plain straight, very her-ish. It’s no longer a danmaku, but it’s Marisa anyway, so no one really minds. To unlock: Beat Hard or Lunatic main game with Reimu Solo, you need to choose Final B.

Spell Card 217

	No. 217:	「デフレーションワールド」 «Deflation World»
Owner:	Sakuya Izayoi Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	時空を縮小させる咲夜の変化球。小さくなった時間は、短期間の過去と 未来を同時に現在に映してしまう。それらが全て襲い掛かる恐怖の技。 One of her secrets that compresses the flow of time. Compressed time allows the past and future to exist in the present at the same time. You have to deal with all of them, so it’s quite a tough move. To unlock: Capture more than 120 spell cards in Spell Card Practice, all characters combined.

Spell Card 218

	No. 218:	「待宵反射衛星斬」 «Paschal Moon-Reflecting Satellite Slash»
Owner:	Youmu Konpaku Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	月の力を借りて斬る。この一振りだけで物凄く広いといわれる西行寺 の庭全てを網羅する斬り技。月の力が力を生み、無限に横に広がる。 Slash that borrows the power of the Moon. One slash can cover the whole garden of Saigyouji, which is very huge. Power of the Moon calls more power, making its width infinite. To unlock: Beat main game through Final B with more than 6 teams, difficulty doesn’t matter.

Spell Card 219

	No. 219:	「グランギニョル座の怪人」 «The Phantom of the Grand Guignol» (Grand Guignol: either any dramatic entertainment that deals with the macabre and features overly graphic violence, or the French theater that specialized in that entertainment.)
Owner:	Alice Margatroid Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	この人形は奇怪な人形だけで構成されていて気分が悪い。普段は封印 している魔法。この人形、涙は流すは毛は伸びるはやりたい放題。 This doll only consist of bizarre dolls and is really weird, so she seals it most of times. This doll can self-indulgently drop tear, its hair grows, and even more. To unlock: Beat Extra with 3 or more different teams and/or characters.

Spell Card 220

	No. 220:	「スカーレットディスティニー」 «Scarlet Destiny»
Owner:	Remilia Scarlet Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	高速の紅。小細工無しの直球で力を見せ付ける。レミリアは実は魔法 より肉体派で、反則的な身体能力で他を圧倒する。弾幕より直接格闘。 High speed scarlet. Showing her power straightly without any cheap tricks. In fact she’s more of the physical type than magic type, dominating everyone with her superior physical strength. Melee > Danmaku. (Later Immaterial and Missing Power showed that it’s really true…) To unlock: Capture 30 or more separate Last Spells in Spell Card Practice, all characters combined.

Spell Card 221

	No. 221:	「西行寺無余涅槃」 «Saigyouji Flawless Nirvana»
Owner:	Yuyuko Saigyouji Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	幽々子の最大奥義、彼女の死。ゲーム中では彼女の能力を見せる機会って殆どないのが困ったものだ。あんなのにぽんぽん殺されてもねぇ。 Yuyuko’s ultimate move, her «death». It’s really shame that there’s not many chance to reveal her true ability. It doesn’t look cool that brat’s killing anything and such. This is similar to her last spell in Perfect Cherry Blossom. To unlock: Beat main game with Lunatic difficulty. Continue/Character doesn’t matter.

Spell Card 222

	No. 222:	「深弾幕結界　-夢幻泡影-」 «Profound Danmaku Bounded Field -Phantasm, Foam and Shadow-» (夢幻泡影: Originally a phrase from buddhist sutras, this phrase states that everything is as hollow and transient as phantasms, foam and shadows.)
Owner:	Yukari Yakumo Last Word — Last Word
Comment:	弾幕結界は無限に続くＳＴＧの万華鏡。紫のさじ加減一つで生きる か死ぬかが決まる。なんて人間は、ＳＴＧは、儚いものなのだろう。 Danmaku Bounded Field is the kaleidoscope of everlasting shooting games, Yukari’s tip of finger decides its life and death. How frail humans… and shooting games are. To unlock: Face every other Last Word at least once, no need to capture them all.

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Imperishable Night
Original CD-ROM cover, featuring the silhouettes of Kaguya Houraisan (in the center) and Fujiwara no Mokou (in the moon in the bottom left).
Developer(s)	Team Shanghai Alice
Publisher(s)	Team Shanghai Alice
Composer(s)	Team Shanghai Alice
Series	Touhou Project
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows
Release	JP: 15 August 2004[a]
Genre(s)	Bullet hell (danmaku)
Mode(s)	Single-player

Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night. (Japanese: 東方永夜抄 〜 Imperishable Night., lit. «Eternal Night Vignette from the East») is a 2004 vertical bullet hell scrolling shoot ’em up developed by Team Shanghai Alice. It is the eighth game in the Touhou Project series, and the third main Touhou game to be released specifically for the Windows operating system.

Imperishable Night introduces the ‘partner’ system, allowing the player a choice between four teams of two characters to switch between, each with their own shot type, in real-time.

The story centers around Gensokyo’s moon being replaced by a fake during the Harvest Moon Festival, with the chosen team warping time to try and find the culprit before the end of the night and festival. It was first released at the 66th Comiket on August 15, 2004.

Gameplay[edit]

Imperishable Night is a vertically scrolling danmaku game, in which the player character is always facing towards the top of the screen, attacking enemies, dodging their attacks, and having to face a boss at the end of each stage.

Unique to Imperishable Night is the Last Spell system. Some of the bosses’ last spell cards are called Last Spells, some of which are regular spell cards that require the player to deplete the boss of their life, whereas others simply require the player to survive until the time runs out. When a Last Spell is active, the player cannot activate their own Spell Cards, and will fail if they are hit, regardless of how many lives they have. The player also has access to Spell Cards referred to as Last Spells, which are secondary Spell Cards, which last longer and do more damage, but cost twice as much to use.

Another unique part of Imperishable Night is the bosses. Depending on the player’s character, the player will either battle Marisa Kirisame or Reimu Hakurei during the 4th stage of the game. there are also two final bosses, Eirin Yagakoro and Kaguya Houraisan. If the player has not used any continues by stage the end of stage 5, the player will fight Kaguya, and if they have, they will fight Eirin. It is required to fight both, however, before unlocking the extra stage.

Time counter[edit]

Imperishable Night utilizes a ‘time’ counter, which requires the player to collect a certain amount of «time points», which are acquired in the same manner as regular points – collecting point items, grazing enemy bullets, or killing enemies. The game begins at 11:00 PM, and with each stage, thirty minutes passes, or an hour if they fail to gather enough time points. The player will receive a bad ending if the clock reaches 5:00 AM. Time will also advance by half an hour if the player uses a continue, or fails any of the Last Spells of Kaguya Houraisan, the game’s final boss, who is also the only character to have multiple Last Spells. Because of this system, Imperishable Night is the only Touhou game in which the player can use a continue, and still get the good ending.

Human-yōkai pairs[edit]

Imperishable Night features a total of eight playable characters, in pre-set pairs, and, upon completing the game with all teams, the game allows the player to select these characters individually. Each pair consist of one human, and yōkai, with the human being the player’s unfocused shot, and the yokai as the focused shot.

A gauge on the lower left corner of the screen keeps track of how human or yōkai the player is, and affects the player’s score accordingly. The gauge, ranging from -100% (human) to 100% (yōkai), is determined by which mode the player uses more. When the player reaches 80%, they can collect time orbs by hitting enemies (as a human) or by grazing against bosses and killing enemies (as a yōkai). Because Youmu Konpaku of the Netherworld Dwellers team is a half-ghost, their gauges are adjusted accordingly (-50% to 50% solo, -50% to 100% as the team), and the minimum values for time orb collection are reduced.

Some enemies use familiars that change their vulnerabilities depending on whether the player is playing as a human or a yōkai at the moment. These familiars are completely invulnerable when the player switches to a yōkai, but at the same time these familiars cannot collide with the yōkai player and do not shoot bullets when the player is on top of them. The enemies’ alternating vulnerabilities in this game have been compared to Ikaruga.^[1] Bosses may also change their standard attacks depending on the orientation of the player, usually firing slower bullets and/or homing bullets when the player is a yōkai.

Spell Practice Mode[edit]

The Spell Practice Mode is unlocked by beating the game with the normal ending (i.e. before the game time reaches 5:00 am). This feature allows a character/team to practice any of the game’s spell cards, so long as they have encountered them. In this mode, players have only one life and cannot use their spell cards. Clearing spell cards here will show the creator’s own comments on the spell cards or the characters associated with them. The stage practice, allowing the player to practice an entire stage, provided they have completed it already, is also present in Imperishable Night.

Only available in the Spell Practice Mode are Last Words, which are typically the hardest spell cards in the game. These spells are earned by accomplishing certain feats such as beating the game using certain characters, or capturing a large enough number of spell cards.

Plot[edit]

On the eve of Gensokyo’s Harvest Moon Festival, the moon has been replaced by a fake moon that can never become full. In order to find the real moon before sunrise, the protagonists search for the person that stole the moon, so they can return it, and prevent the possibility of an imperishable night.

After multiple battles, including one with Reimu or Marisa (depending on who the player character is), who was also searching for the answer, the protagonists reaches Eientei, the mansion of the perpetrator. Once inside, they find that the mansion is guarded by the moon rabbit Reisen Udongein Inaba. From here, the team may either choose the path that leads to the fake moon conjured by Eirin Yagokoro, or the real moon, where the exiled moon princess Kaguya Houraisan is hiding. People from the moon wanted Kaguya to return Reisen to their home planet, and so, she created the fake moon in order to sever the link between the earth and the moon, meaning they would not be able to find either Kaguya or Reisen. The team then accepts Kaguya’s «Five Impossible Requests» and fight until daybreak.

Having completed the Five Impossible Requests, the team is given another challenge by Kaguya in the Extra Mode: defeat her rival, Fujiwara no Mokou. Afterwards, the moon is restored, and Kaguya, Reisen, and Eirin continue to live in Gensokyo peacefully.

Development[edit]

Imperishable Night was created by Team Shanghai Alice, which consists of a single member, who goes by the pseudonym of ZUN. ZUN had interest in making a danmaku game in which the player can switch between two characters easily during the game, as he believed there weren’t many games that incorporated such a system. The idea for Imperishable Night started with this desire, and the plot was written later to justify this system. ZUN had considered the idea for Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, but he felt that having playable characters that had not previously introduced would be unnatural. Thus he decided to make the system in Team Shanghai Alice’s third game, Imperishable Night, so he could introduce new characters in the first and second game.^[2]

ZUN found it particularly difficult to find a youkai character to pair Reimu and Marisa with. In the end, ZUN picked Alice from the pre-Windows games to be Marisa’s partner since he thought Alice was a «Youkai version of Marisa», and thus reintroduced her in Perfect Cherry Blossom. Yukari was selected to be Reimu’s partner because their personalities were similar, making them a natural fit.^[2]

Reception[edit]

Writing for Gamasutra, Michael Molinari singled out an aspect of Imperishable Night’s stage design for analysis: the stage two boss had a gimmick that limits the player’s field of view and «bring[s] the most tension, excitement, exhilaration, etc., despite it simplifying the game and bringing me to the most primitive of mechanics (the process of movement)». He then goes on to say that the presentation and the mechanics of the bullet patterns not only make it possible for this to happen, but also make the gimmick «worthwhile and memorable».^[3]

[edit]

Touhou Bōgetsushō (東方儚月抄) is an extension of the story in Imperishable Night, split into three parts, each carried by a different Ichijinsha magazine. The main component, Silent Sinner in Blue, is a manga serialized in the monthly Comic Rex; it is through Silent Sinner in Blue that the main plot progresses. Cage in Lunatic Runagate is a novel being serialized in the quarterly Chara Mel; it centers on the viewpoints of the characters around the story. Finally, The Inaba of the Moon and the Inaba of the Earth (月のイナバと地上の因幡, Tsuki no Inaba to Chijō no Inaba) is a lighthearted yonkoma focusing on Reisen and Tewi Inaba. The plot of Touhou Bōgetsushō overall revolves around the disturbances on the lunar capital, Yukari’s plans to invade the moon, and Remilia’s rocket trip to the moon.

Ichijinsha sought ZUN for this venture before he started to work on Mountain of Faith, and ZUN once had thoughts to make the manga about the upcoming game. However, as development of Mountain of Faith progressed, ZUN decided that he should base the story on something that Touhou fans were already familiar with.^{[citation needed]} He turned to Imperishable Night because he felt the game did not provide much room for character development despite having such a rich cast. With the three-part media blitz, ZUN hoped to expand on the characters’ inner thoughts.^[4]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Imperishable Night on Touhou Wiki

Imperishable Night is the 8th game in the main series of Touhou Project. The moon’s been replaced by a fake one, and the youkai don’t like that, so it’s up to the protagonists to get to the bottom of it. The main gameplay gimmick is that each of the three human (and one part-human) playable characters is paired up with a non-human character whom they can shift to by focusing. It also has an unofficial English patch that makes the characters cuss like sailors.

«Now, bitch, get out of the way!»

Full Unlock Code

Imperishable Night follows up the previous two games with yet another full unlock code.

On the Score Ranking menu, hold either Shift or Ctrl and press Right five times, Left one time, D two times, and Q three times. If done correctly, you’ll hear the 1up sound, and the Extra Stage, all solo characters, and all practice stages and spell cards (including Last Word spell cards) will be unlocked for all characters and difficulty levels.

(Source: Original TCRF research)

Unused Graphics

Phantasm Stage Unlock Screen

The unlock screen for Perfect Cherry Blossom’s Phantasm Stage is left over from the previous game.

Unused Grades

Upon clearing a stage, you are given a grade depending on how well you did, and the higher the grade, the less time is added. ランク申 (Rank A) and ランク乙 (Rank B) are used and advance the clock by 30 minutes and 1 hour respectively, but the following two are completely unused:

• ランク丙 (Rank C): The clock advances by 1:30 hours. Was used in the trial version, but removed in the full version.
• ランク丁 (Rank D): The clock advances by 2 hours. Not mentioned in the manual at all. If it was used in-game at any point, then only in the earliest trial version, which is lost to time.

Oumagatoki

This graphic (逢魔が時, commonly translated as «twilight» or «witching hour») bears a striking resemblance to Perfect Cherry Blossom’s 森羅結界 text graphic, which appears when a Supernatural Border is activated. A similar mechanic may have been planned for this game, too, but seeing as not even the manual makes mention of it, it was likely scrapped very early on.

Music Oddities

Extracting the game’s MIDI soundtrack reveals several oddities:

• The first track in the soundtrack, track 00, is not the menu music but rather the Stage 1 theme, «Illusionary Night ~ Ghostly Eyes». It’s possible that because the song originally appeared on ZUN’s album Ghostly Field Club, the song’s MIDI was simply copypasted into the game’s soundtrack before the rest of it was written. The menu music, «Eternal Night Vignette ~ Eastern Night», is track 01.
• The numbering on the soundtrack skips over track 02, likely because the song that would normally go there, the Stage 1 theme, is track 00.
• th08_16.mid (Ending theme) has some notes after the loop, though they seem to be a copy of a main part.
• The MIDI files from Trial Version 0.02 are malformed, and don’t play correctly outside of the game.