New Touhou Game Announced

This is actually kind of old news, but due to its awesomeness, it cannot go unmentioned. Team Shanghai Alice has announced the latest installment in the Touhou series (the mega-popular shmup/curtain shooter that has all the doujin fans going gah gah). The new game will be called Touhou Chireiten ~ Subterranean Animism (東方地霊殿 ~ Subterranean Animism), and a demo will be available at the upcoming Reitaisai on May 25th, and will later be made available online.

Gensokyo.org has a translation of ZUN's blog (ZUN is the creator of Touhou games) regarding the announcement:

Story:
"With the spouting of geysers, the spirits of the Earth emerge. Reimu and Marisa are fine with it, but the youkai can’t allow this. Sluggishly, they go underground, to the source of the disturbance. Sealed deep within the earth are youkai with a detestable ability... what will the pair do this time?"

Well, the story sounds interesting, maybe they'll even encounter some random dwarfen civilization underground...

This time around, you can chose youkai you like. I tried to create the feeling that Reimu and Marisa are borrowing power from the distant earth above. Up until now, there hasn’t been much difference in playing style between characters, but this time, chosen youkai have different abilities that seriously impact playing styles, so players should be able to see the pros and cons of using different characters clearly.

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Depending on what youkai you choose, the dialogue might change into something like rapid-fire stand-up comedy.

Ohhh sounds kinda of like Imperishable Night, can't wait to see more on this new system.

On a side note, for those who cares, Twilight Frontier has released another demo for Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, check it out here. The full game will be released at the upcoming Touhou Reitaisai.