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Touhou Kaikidan — Mystic Square#

• Title: Touhou Kaikidan — Mystic Square (東方怪綺談 ～ Mystic Square)
• Release Year: 1998
• Release Date: December 30, 1998 (Comiket 55)
• Original Platform: NEC PC-98
• Developer: ZUN Soft
• Publisher: Amusement Makers
• Creator: ZUN (Jun’ya Ota) — Programming, Graphics, Music
• Genre: Vertical scrolling shoot-‘em-up, bullet hell (danmaku)
• Perspective: Top-down vertical scrolling
• Art Style: Anime / Pixel art (16-color)
• Gameplay System: Four playable characters (each with a unique shot type); features a Dream Gauge that rewards item collection by clearing all enemy bullets when filled; 6 stages plus Extra Stage; includes a comprehensive Music Room with soundtracks from all five PC-98 games (including unused tracks and a full rearrangement of Touhou 1’s soundtrack)
• Setting: Demons pour out of a cave in the mountains, invading Gensokyo from Makai — the playable characters must journey to the fortress Pandemonium in Makai to confront the creator goddess Shinki
• Themes: Demons, Makai, gods, invasion, magic
• Playable Characters: Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Mima, Yuuka Kazami
• Notable Characters: First appearance of Alice Margatroid (Stage 3 boss and Extra Stage boss), Shinki (final boss, creator goddess of Makai)
• Legacy: The last PC-98 Touhou game and reportedly the last game ever officially released for the PC-98 platform; the most refined of the PC-98 entries, with gameplay closest to the Windows-era titles; introduced Alice Margatroid who later returned in Perfect Cherry Blossom; all five PC-98 games ceased sales on September 19, 2002; also the last Touhou game published under Amusement Makers before ZUN founded Team Shanghai Alice
• Composer: ZUN
• Sound Chips (PC-98): Yamaha YM2203 (OPN) and YM2608 (OPNA) — dual soundtrack versions
• Music Driver: PMD (Professional Music Driver by M. Kajihara)