創世史、或いは慟哭の黙示録 ~ Incarnation Erased From History (v2.0a) - Inhumane 1cc + TLB (Renka & Taito)
9Local trans lesbian plays shmup with character designs way outside her interest.
Incarnation Erased From History is a shmup in the style of Touhou developed by Rian, being a part of a series called Taikan Project. (戴冠Project in Japanese)
Most of the other games are not downloadable, to my knowledge.
Unlike Touhou or adjacent series, the prominent character design in this series is big anthropomorphic guys. Which is, well, not exactly the kind of character design I'm interested in, of course. (Everyone likes to call this game the Widefurry game, I'd say that's an apt description.)
However aside from that, I still grabbed an interest in the rest of the game. The gameplay itself isn't really all that well balanced, but the dev is wholly aware of that. (We're talking "even the stage 1 boss on Inhumane is unreasonable" here...) The page for this game even states to not take this game too seriously because of it. That said though, it is still quite a fun game to mess around with, BECAUSE of its lack of balance. You can mess around with the game's mechanics and find something that works, and I like it for that.
Also the music goes insanely hard, like unbelievably so. It's composed by 飛岳水脈 (Hidaka Suimyak). I'll leave a link here to their YouTube channel, since they make really nice music: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC22ApDcGP23pYUYeojOKmPA
As for the actual gameplay:
There are two playable characters, and three support partners.
The former affects your main shot and your bomb, and the supports affect your subshot, passive effects and Gear.
Gear behaves basically like Len'en flashbombs.
Life pieces are gained every 100 point items, and also one is given at the end of stages 2 and 4. 1UPs are dropped by the stage 3 and 5 midbosses, the last enemy in stage 6, and 3 during the stage 6 boss.
Bomb pieces are gained through score thresholds. Stages 1, 3, 5 and 6 also give one each. Bombs are also dropped by the stage 2 and 4 midbosses, as well as 3 during the stage 6 boss.
As for playables:
Renka fires these red piercing shots. They start up slow, so they deal more damage at pointblank, due to making contact for longer. Her bomb is a bunch of lasers that cover random parts of the screen.
Mana is basically your typical wide shot. Her bomb mainly exists for you to get a shitton of invincibility. I don't like playing as her that much, though. She's really cute though, I have to say. Really she's the only cute character in this game to me. For obvious reasons.
Each playable also fights a different stage 4 boss.
Support partners:
Claudio gives you 5 lasers that spin around you when unfocused, and give a decent forward range when focused. For some reason, shiftspamming makes them do a lot more damage. Claudio's passive effects are a smaller hitbox, and a very slightly larger deathbomb window (from 25 to 30). His Gear provides a shield that lasts 7.66 seconds (460 frames) and protects you from everything.
Reiji gives you a shot that goes all over the screen, almost like BPoHC Tsugumi. His passive effects are a lower PoC line and bigger item collection range. His Gear releases a bunch of butterflies outwards that cancel bullets, has 30 i-frames. Pretty useless.
Taito gives you the missiles just like the ones Marisa has in Touhou. His passive effects are a bigger grazebox and higher Gear gauge increase. His Gear is a gunshot that will lock onto an enemy and deal massive damage to a surrounding area, with 20 i-frames. If there's no enemies on screen, the reticle will default to dead center. It also brings all items to you, which the other two supports' Gear can't do.
I chose Renka and Taito since they're the damage-rush team. What can I say, I like damage.
Also, you get support effects from the previous bosses during the stage 6 boss, but I've already listed so much here... Not to mention the final boost is also support partner-dependant.
This game has a TLB, and it's the actual meaning of TLB (True Last Boss) this time.
If playing on Hard or Inhumane, after defeating the stage 6 boss, having 5 or more lives will allow you to enter stage 7 and fight an even tougher boss. He's even more ridiculous.
You can also increase your starting resources up to 5 lives in the options, but I went with default here.
Link to game: https://ozkankinshitai.fc2.net/blog-entry-10.html
0:00 - Stage 1
1:48 - Wage
2:25 - Stage 2
4:18 - Raven
5:30 - Stage 3
7:53 - Atlantis Fallwalker
9:01 - Stage 4
12:18 - Solomon
14:53 - Stage 5
18:13 - Eiji Hinodera
20:57 - Stage 6
22:23 - Galion Claudius Rightwrong Hexerei Phenometia Azathoth (yes that is his full name, yes I'm putting all of it here, deal with it)
26:56 - Stage 7
28:00 - Claude Brady Friedlion
Replay recorded by InceRabbit.
(Fun fact, I've had these videos on hold for 3 months now. Although I did do this 1cc way after all the videos you'll see next of this game.)
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