Touhou: Hollow Song of Birds - Stage 1
182๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ป๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฌ๐บ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ข๐ณ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ'๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ.
๐๐ถ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ-- ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ด ๐ซ๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐ข๐ญ-- ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ง๐ข๐ช๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ.
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---Gensokyo. The last paradise left on this island nation.
Long ago, it was isolated from the outside world by a barrier, and became a world where the flow of time has stopped.
In spring of that year, Gensokyo faced the biggest threat it had ever seen (for the umpteenth time).
The flow of time throughout all of Gensokyo had stopped. Literally, this time. Not figuratively.
Every creature, every plant, every drop of water or gust of wind-- it happened suddenly, without anything resembling a warning or omen.
With all color fading, Gensokyo's transformed state resembled a pearl-white ocean.
But aside from the culprits, there was still one person alive and able to see this bizarre world.
---The Scarlet Devil Mansion.
The western-style mansion in which the time-manipulating Super Maidโข Sakuya Izayoi (plus some other whoevers) worked.
Having narrowly avoided disaster with her own time-control powers, Sakuya spent a while thinking about how to deal with this unforeseen event.
With the use of her ability, she could unfreeze her master and resume activity even with the surrounding environment plunged into silence.
But then, her master would probably insist that "Sakuya and I shall hunt down the incident's mastermind!", and refuse to hear any differently.
Even with everything in sight still frozen, her master would be in danger of evaporating in direct sunlight. It wouldn't do to thoughtlessly let her out of the mansion in (what was moments ago) the blistering midday heat.
After some brief hesitation, Sakuya left her master where she was and set out to find the local incident resolution specialist.
It would normally put her at a huge disadvantage to disrupt an enemy's state of frozen time, but right now, the person she had in mind was the perfect one to use this ability on.
---The Hakurei Shrine.
Having been unfrozen by Sakuya, the shrine's maiden, Reimu Hakurei, was in a state of absolute fury.
She was determined to crush the cruel, abhorrent mastermind under her foot.
With the natural luck and talent she was blessed with, it was never hard for Reimu to swiftly deal with any incident she'd confirmed the outbreak of.
But this time, she didn't even have a chance to react to the sudden, massive time freeze. Perhaps the enemy, too, had kept in mind the presence of Gensokyo's all-too-famous incident resolver, Reimu (and also Marisa, the ordinary magician who Sakuya unfroze along with her).
Marisa: "Man, that gave me a scare! If it weren't for Sakuya, we'd be toast right now."
Reimu: "Oh, shush. You could've just stayed there, scared stiff the whole time."
Sakuya: "Let's save our frustrations for the mastermind, shall we? We'll depart whenever you're ready."
---The device whirred on restlessly, emitting its mysterious writing.
The sight of it inspired confidence; by poring over the text, their plan's success would become more certain.
Her voice echoed into the distance in that motionless, pearl-white sky.
It was a joyous and euphoric song, hardly befitting of the feeling of death the rest of the world gave off.
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Practically speaking, this stage isn't that difficult (which is normal for Stage 1), but there are some moments that can trip you up. Only thing you really need to keep an eye out for is the large enemies in the second half of the stage. With how many bullets they shoot, you will have to actually focus and get to an escape gap instead of just flying about freely.
Ranran isn't terribly difficult either and her attacks are fairly direct and self explanatory. Only thing that may catch you off guard is her second spell card where she disappears and the scoots in from the left or right side of the screen. Just make sure you keep up with her, without forgetting about the rest of the bullets around you.
Difficulty - Normal
Character - Extremely Ordinary Magician: Marisa Kirisame
Stage 1 - A Scarlet Wind Blowing in a White World: Village Frozen in Time
BGM - Silent Spring Scenery
Boss - The Scarlet Magic Monkey: Ranran Higami
BGM - Scarlet Ranran
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:16 - Characters
3:41 - Shot Customization
7:56 - Stage
8:50 - Non-spell
9:03 - Stage
10:03 - Pre-fight Dialogue
11:05 - Non-spell
11:23 - Submarine Voyage "Scarlet Stormy Situation"
11:39 - Non-spell
11:55 - Beast Claw "Saruin Slash"
12:23 - "New Testament: Grand Illustration of the War of Monkey and Crab"
13:01 - Post-fight Dialogue
13:36 - Next time
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Translations courtesy of the Touhou wiki
You can download the game here
https://www.freem.ne.jp/win/game/19424
You can download the English Patch here
https://mega.nz/file/yBJgGYoI#qL5Z3Mv5SX0XvYiMT31wVT-kjL1JZL4Ci13A_4QEn9g