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Link to a reuploaded version that preserves the annotations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZpW4e5KEaU

Alright, it's time for another Touhou flash game!
This time, it's Hopping Tenshi!

This game can be found here:
http://3-me.net/flashdir/hopten/

This game's gameplay is keyboard-controlled, although you use the mouse for the menus for some reason. The controls during the game are very simple: The left arrow key makes Tenshi go to the left, and the right arrow key makes Tenshi go to the right. That's it, as Tenshi constantly hops automatically. After a game ends, Space restarts the game, and Shift takes you to the title screen.

Now, the goal of this game is to climb up as far as you can by hopping on various objects, such as keystones, clouds, satellites, and UFOs. As you get higher, the objects generally get smaller and spaced further apart, there may be visibility issues (like in the clouds), and the objects themselves may be moving (the red and blue UFOs, and maybe others further up, but I'm not sure). The game scrolls up as you ascend, but not back down, and it ends whenever Tenshi falls off the bottom of the screen. However, if you miss your intended target, but happen to land on something that's still visible below you, the game will keep going.

Now, controlling Tenshi may seem simple, but it's actually a little tricky. First of all, she's constantly hopping, and also, she doesn't stop moving horizontally when you let off an arrow key, so you'll actually have to keep her momentum in mind, and maybe lightly tap the opposite way if you just want her to go straight up. Fortunately, there's no time limit as far as I can tell, so you can try to get her hopping straight up and down on a stationary platform to rest for a moment and/or get ready for the jump to the next platform or something if you want (though stopping her horizontal moment completely can be tricky). I wouldn't try resting on a moving UFO though, but the green UFOs are stationary and should be fine.

Also, keep in mind that Tenshi can wraparound the left and right edges of the screen. This can and will be important for when the next platform you need to reach is on the opposite side of the screen from where you are.

When you do fall, the Game Over screen varies depending on how high you've gotten. I managed to get as high as 25,252km in this video, which gave me a Game Over screen with Satori in it. Other, lower Game Over screens include Reimu, Sanae, Toyohime and Reisen II, and one of Tenshi burning up in Earth's atmosphere! I'm sure there's more Game Over screens after Satori though, as I was still a good distance from the top 100 scores, which range from the 40,000s to the 80,000s. I doubt I'd be able to maintain my concentration long enough to get that high, especially with how tiny the platforms were at the height where I was. It took a lot of concentration to get as far as I did.

Note: This game does not work on the Wii's internet browser. All it appears to do is display a useless white box where the game screen should be. (Not that you could actually play without a keyboard anyway.)

There are still more Touhou flash games that I'm considering making videos of. If anyone has any suggestions for a Touhou flash game for me to play, I'll consider it, but there are no guarantees. It will kind of depend on whether I like the game enough or not.

Feel free to comment, but just know that I dislike profanity. Any comments containing F-bombs and/or S-bombs will burn up in Earth's atmosphere! (In other words, they'll be deleted.)
(Comments containing other types of inappropriate content may meet this fate as well.)

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