Touhou Scar of the Sky (Touhou x Xuan-Yuan Sword Crossover): Lunatic 1cc (Reimu)

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Published on May 29, 2023 6:31:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spNBVBGA600

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Xuan-Yuan Sword (1990)

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From the guy that brought you the Touhou x Octopath crossover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHfF3FpZBQc), here's another crossover fangame, this time with Xuan-Yuan Sword, a fantasy rpg series set in ancient China. "Scar of the Sky" is specifically the third side game in the series.

Overall, I feel pretty much the same way as the last crossover. Very high effort, but as someone who doesn't play or know about the crossed-over series it's hard to care that much. The patterns are kinda mediocre as well.

The gameplay is basically Let's Play SA Marisa B, but with elemental affiliations and UM cards.
You switch between the five elements either with shift+Z like SA, or pressing C and a direction key to pick.
According to the Chinese tradition, each element "generates" an element (the next one in the circle clockwise), and "suppresses" an element (the next-next one in the circle clockwise).

Killing an enemy with an elemental aura can do two things:
- With the element that generates the enemy's element, extra items are dropped
- With the element that suppresses the enemy's element, you get a pretty large screen clear around the enemy
- Boss spell cards can have elements as well, you can tell by looking at the first Chinese character in the spell's name. If you capture a spell with the element that suppresses the enemy's element, you get extra drops.

Grazing produces power every so often.
At the end of each stage, if you have full power you get life/bomb pieces, otherwise you just get items.
Next, your power is drained and you get a pool of cards, one card for every 2 power you have. Either you take them (Z), or smelt them (C), which turns them into point items. Cards only last for the next stage and then disappear.

All the shot types are the same, only differing in their bomb and special ability. Reimu's special ability is that after dying you get 2 life and 3 bomb pieces back. This stacks with the card I got in stage 2 and 4 that also does something similar, which led to every death basically only losing me 1/5 a life in those two stages. Very OP.

Here's all the cards that were available in each shop (the shop is technically the beginning of the stage):

Stage 2:
1. Get 2 life pieces back when dying
2. Fire shot +1 way
3. Water options become homing
4. Fire shot +1 option

Stage 3:
1. Smelt for 2 life and 2 bomb pieces
2. Every 50s, get a life piece and a full screen clear
3. Main fire shot becomes homing

Stage 4:
1. Get 2 life pieces back when dying (I got this one twice lmfao)
2. When you get items from grazing, also fires off an attack
3. Fire shot rate up
4. Metal shot rate up

Stage 5:
1. Water shot rate up
2. One-use item, press shift+z during the stage to consume it and deal 9999 damage in front of you
3. Fire shot +1 way
4. Guarantees your lives will be 4 or more at the end of the stage (aka if you have below 4 lives, refill to 4)

Stage 6:
1. Water shot rate up
2. Wood shot +1 way
3. Wood options becomes homing
4. Main fire shot becomes homing

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