
Touhou 6 Game
I am a Touhou Fan, Touhou is a Japanese Bullet Hell Franchise that I really like, I played the games throughout my Highschool days, I’ve played most of the mainline games except Touhou 6: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. I was told about this game and got the general story, but I hadn’t played it yet, I was always told it was a terrible way to get into the franchise. Recently, I discovered a Reddit post which had a copy of a modded version of Touhou 6, I downloaded it immediately. In hindsight, this was a terrible idea to download a random file to my new PC, but I was too curious about the game. I launched the .exe and got ready to play.
I entered the main menu and I saw Reimu the main character sitting with the title in Japanese. I was familiar with this since I had seen small clips and images from this game. I selected “Start” and it gave me the option to choose between Reimu and Marisa as usual. Since the Reddit post said this was a modded version I checked to see if there were any other playable characters, as that’s to be expected in mods, but no. It was only Reimu and Marisa, as if I was playing the base version. I decided to go with Marisa B on Hard, as I have a lot of experience with bullet hell titles, and the game started.
Stage 1 began and it was pretty much easy and uneventful, until the boss appeared. Normally, in the videos I’ve watched of Touhou 6, the Stage 1 boss would be Rumia. A little girl with blond hair red eyes a black vest and skirt, and a white blouse with a red tie boardered by 2 large beads around her neck, with a Red Ofuda tied to the left side of her hair that looks like a Ribbon, which in lore, she cannot touch it or take it off. But Rumia wasn’t the same Rumia that I remembered. She had the same clothes except the beads were replaced by little pins. She looked older, with her hair grown out just enough to brush against her shoulders. Her eyes were black with a light glow to them. But what caught my eye was instead of one Ofuda being tied like a Ribbon it was four Ofuda’s in the shape of a headband. She seemed happy, but in a friendly type of way instead of childish like many would expect Rumia to be. The dialogue then began. Marisa said, “Only freaks come out at this hour.” Rumia replied, “Who are you calling “freak”?” Marisa quickly responded with “Nobody’s talking about you.” Rumia responded with “Oh, ok I thought you were talking to someone else.” Her name came up as “Lumia the Youkai of the Light”. I recognised this name, Lumia was what many fans confused Rumia’s name for, so I guess this mod made her as an OC. Marisa and Lumia continued this back and forth dialogue until the boss fight began. Lumia’s patterns were pretty difficult to dodge while simultaneously trying to use Marisa’s laser attack on the offensive, all the while Rumia shot small butterfly bullet’s to try and hit me. It wasn’t unmanageable as this is the Stage 1 boss after all, but it was satisfying seeing the graze meter go up exponentially during the fight as I dodged her increasingly difficult attacks. Eventually I won the battle, and Lumia admitted defeat by Spell Card Rules.
The next stage was normal. I just needed to blast through everything in Misty Lake as usual. Surprisingly, it wasn’t too hard. In fact, it was easier than Stage 1.
Besides this strange decrease in difficulty, Marisa was flying through the sky shooting down Fairies. Normally this kind of stage is normal in other games this kind of stage is normal, but Touhou 6 doesn’t have characters flying through the top of the sky other than the first level. That was until I saw a beat-up Lumia who asks, “what are you doing here Magician?” To Marisa responds, “I feel like there’s something you're not telling me.” Lumia seems confused. But then the Boss fight begins, and the patterns are pretty difficult, with most of them being tighter than before. But eventually I won, and she flew away. Marisa was able to catch up with her, when she did, I saw Lumia was cut up with some blood dripping out from her injuries, she said “please spare my life.” And Marisa responded with “nah.” So i fight her again this time her attacks were even more chaotic than before. I was able to beat her by spamming bombs until the fight was over. I took a deep breath and carried on.
I got to Stage 4, and it was empty nobody in sight not even enemies to fight. After a solid minute Lumia came back, but she looked worse than ever. Her face was just burnt flesh her cuts where even bigger than before bits of her clothes and skin was heavily burned. Lumia just said 1 simple word “End”. She didn’t try to throw any attacks at all, I decided to instead not fire but wait for the boss timer to end and sim that way.
I do so and I was able to just continue to Stage 5 like nothing happened. I was able to beat Sakuya like you normally would and afterwards the Game Ended. Normally the Game would only End at this point if you were to play on Easy Mode, but i clearly remember playing on Hard so I was pretty confused. But it was late, so I closed the Game and went to bed.
The next morning i decided to go back onto my PC and it was running slowly, it running poorly it was weird as this was a new PC. But then I looked into my Files and found out my Touhou 6.exe file was downloading thousands of text files, no wonder it was running so slow. The files were all named ‘End’. I then tried to delete my Touhou 6 File but my PC couldn’t load properly with everything being downloaded. Eventually my PC crashed. The Motherboard was fried beyond repair.
I decided to go back on the Reddit thread, and it had hundreds of downvotes with people saying that It’s going to destroy your PC, all of this could have been avoided if I had just waited for others to comment.