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"Kioh Gyoku (稀翁玉, lit. "Rare Old Man Ball") is a vertical-scrolling danmaku shoot 'em up, and is the second official game in the Seihou Project by "Shunsatsu sare do?" (at time part of Amusement Makers). It was released specifically for the Windows operating system around December time in 2001. It is a unique game where two players indirectly battle one another by charging and releasing charge attacks and bombs upon the other player, similar in the style of Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream." Taken from the wiki, you can find the wiki here: http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Kioh_Gyoku

This is a shmup from the Seihou Project! the sister-project of Touhou, sorta.

This game is also a phantasmagoria game, it doesn't seem to have a selectable difficulty :V

Just putting this here as it should explain quite a bit about the gameplay: "Kioh Gyoku is a vertical danmaku shooting game with massive emphasis on grazing streaming bullets, where two characters engage in danmaku gameplay within individual and separate play areas (aka. split-screen). Upon meeting certain conditions, players are able to unleash a variety of character-specific attacks upon their opponents in an attempt to whittle down their remaining health points.

In Story Mode, the player will face five opponents, each more capable than the previous. Kioh Gyoku also features a Match Play Mode where the player may face off against AI opponents or compete against other players, as well as watch AI vs. AI matches." once again taken from the wiki, the only thing it doesn't say, is the fact that your HP regains over time if you aren't hit.

the fact that grazing helps for power is pretty interesting, makes the gameplay a lot more fun in my opinion.

the reason I took Marie is because her level 1 attack is very strong, it kills boss-attacks in about no time!

Marie also seems to be quite the pervert.. I read her dialogue after I played this, I had no idea though! you can read the dialogue here: http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Kioh_Gyoku/Story/Marie%27s_Script

I laughed at some parts of the script, I just can't believe she said such a thing to a clone of herself.. xD

Anyways, back to this game, it only got 5 stages with 5 bosses, the semi-final boss is always Morgan and the final boss, if not Yuuka, is Muse, Muse is one of the most known Seihou characters along with VIVIT if I'm correct, Muse is some sort of Yumemi.. the religious edition of her though, she isn't really hard once you figure out her attacks, this is also a rather silly 1cc as I made big mistakes (then again I just found out about grazing for power and how some patterns work, I wasn't playing for long! I just got it yesterday and got the 1cc yesterday too! :V)

It's also fun to say that Yuuka Kazami is unlockable, as ZUN developed her in Kioh Gyoku :V

This is actually a pretty fun Phantasmagoria Shmup, I recommend other people to try it out too! :P