Touhou - Dangerous China
30Dangerous China is a Touhou game by Team Device. You can download the game on their website:
http://teamdevice.net/toho_china/jpn/
The current version is 2009.05.10 - ver 1.3. This is the date that the online ranking service was removed.
This is my best time so far. See if you can do better! =D
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My ⑨⑨th upload, w00t!
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Controls:
(Hold down) Left mouse button - Dodge left
(Do nothing) - Dodge middle
(Hold down) Right mouse button - Dodge right
(Simultaneously) Left & Right mouse button - Spell card
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This is a game that's good for killing some time. You play as China with the simple goal of dodging Sakuya's knives for as long as you can. There's no story given, but it's safe to assume that China was slacking off again, so Sakuya is dishing out some knife punishment. XD
Sakuya throws her knives in 3 different directions: left, middle, and right. The direction is completely random, and she can throw one or two knives at a time. Most of the time, Sakuya throws at a consistent speed, starting slow in the beginning and gradually getting faster as time goes on.
However, there are times when Sakuya will change the speed of her knives. These seem to occur somewhat randomly, although they tend to happen around a consistent time. Play the game enough and you'll see what I mean. Sakuya can slow down time (using a spell card?) for a few seconds, which you can see at 0:50, she can naturally slow down the knives, which you can see at 1:42, and she can speed up the knives, which you can see at 3:51. Because these manipulations occur randomly, there are instances when two happen at the time. For example, Sakuya can first slow down the knives naturally, then immediately use a spell card to slow them down even more. This can actually create some bullshit patterns that are completely unavoidable.
If you get hit by one of Sakuya's knives, you have a split second to save yourself by pressing both mouse buttons at the same time. This uses up one of your spell cards (which act more like bombs) and clears the screen of all knives. If you get hit when you're out of spell cards or you fail to press both buttons quickly enough, the game is over. There are specific times when you will gain back one spell card if you have less than 3 in stock. These are set times, and you cannot hold more than 3 spell cards.
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You'll notice that I tend to fidget around needlessly quite a bit. This game can be very nerve wracking (especially the longer you play it in one session), so it's easy to be very jumpy. But I actually fidget around a lot because it helps keep me focused. I found that if I held my fingers still for too long it was harder to react quickly when I needed to. So, I constantly move to keep my fingers active. Unfortunately, this often puts me into danger or causes a simple mistake, but overall it works better for me.
Sakuya gets pissed at the 2 minute mark and starts throwing faster. This is where the real game begins, and I can usually make it here without getting hit once. As you approach the 4 minute mark, she just goes ape shit and throws ridiculously fast. I still haven't made it to 4 minutes, yet. :3
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Dangerous China belongs to Team Device and its respective owners.
http://teamdevice.net/
Touhou Project belongs to ZUN / Team Shanghai Alice and its respective owners.
http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/
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