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東方怪綺談 Mystic Square
Mystic Square
開発者	ZUN
発行者	Amusement Makers ZUN Soft
発売	体験版：1998年11月21日 製品版：1998年12月30日（C55）
ジャンル	弾幕シューティング
ゲームプレイ	ストーリーモード：1人
OS	NEC PC-9800 / EPSON PC-486/586
動作環境	Intel 486 66MHz以上のCPU、2MB以上空きのあるハードディスク、EGC, PC-9801-86 (FM SOUND BOARD)、520KB以上のメモリ

東方怪綺談 ～ Mystic Square（とうほうかいきだん ミスティックスクエア 通称：怪綺談）は、東方Project第5弾として公開されたゲームです。この作品をもってPC-98での東方Projectの展開は終了しました。It is the first game in which Alice Margatroid appears and features four selectable characters - Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Mima, and Yuka Kazami. As the final PC-98 Touhou game, Mystic Square's gameplay is the most similar to that of the Windows games.

As so often is the case, something is amiss within Gensokyo. A massive quantity of demons are pouring from a cave high within the mountains. Seeking the source of this invasion, Reimu Hakurei and co. must travel through Makai itself to confront the one behind the problem.

ゲームシステム[]

Main article: Mystic Square: Gameplay (includes a more detailed description of the game and information on scoring)

Mystic Square allows the player to select from among four unique protagonists, each hailing from one of the 2 prior danmaku shooting games in the series. Series mainstays Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame are joined by former enemies Mima and Yuka Kazami for a journey reaching to the depths of the Makai. Mystic Square also marks the first appearance of Alice Margatroid as an opponent, who later stages a comeback in Perfect Cherry Blossom.

Although limited by the PC-98 hardware, Mystic Square is the most refined of the PC-98 Touhou titles, and features gameplay quite similar to Windows Touhou games. It employs a variant of Lotus Land Story's Dream Bonus system, rewarding the player for taking risks (i.e. collecting point items from the top of the field area). However, notwithstanding the fact that its rank system is far more lenient than Lotus Land Story's, Mystic Square is the first game in the series to punish the player for the use of bombs.

ストーリー[]

Main article: Mystic Square: Translation (includes the translated script and the manual)

For no apparent reason, large quantities of demons and youkai begin to travel from Makai, the world of demons, to Gensokyo, swamping the land and leaving Reimu Hakurei with a lot of extermination to do. Frustrated, Reimu tracks the source of the invasion to "The Cave in Which the Door to Makai is Said to Be," which lies in the mountains behind the Hakurei Shrine. Reimu decides that it is her duty as a shrine maiden to root out the cause of this mess. Unbeknownst to her, Marisa Kirisame has learned of her plans and decides to follow along with the hope of discovering some unique powers to steal within Makai. Elsewhere, Mima, the evil spirit of the Hakurei Shrine, and Yuka Kazami, the youkai, decide to travel to Makai as well, although they have their own reasons for doing so.

Within the cave, the heroine encounters the guardian of the gateway to Makai, Sara, and dispatches her with ease before beginning a high-speed flight through the boundary between worlds. Therein the heroine happens across a demon traveling in the opposite direction named Luize and crushes her as well. The heroine then arrives in Makai above a massive dark city, where she is confronted by Alice Margatroid, who attacks her with the help of her living dolls. After defeating her, the heroine flies away from the city and toward a grim fortress that rises up in distance. Along the way the witches Yuki and Mai appear and attempt to impede her progress, ultimately to little effect.

Entering the fortress Pandæmonium, the heroine soars past fantastic crystal designs while battling through legions of enemies. At the top she is met by a strange individual named Shinki who politely informs her that the demon invasion is entirely the fault of a civilian travel agency that is arranging tours of Gensokyo and that it lies outside of her jurisdiction. Before the protagonist can inquire as to the meaning of this they are interrupted by Yumeko, who adamantly insists that Shinki retire so that she may dispose of their uninvited guest. After defeating the maid, the protagonist meets Shinki again, who now explains that she is actually the god and creator of Makai itself. She promises to look into the tourist issue, but only after severely punishing the heroine for disrupting her realm so. This final battle is extraordinarily violent and Shinki's tremendous power leaves much of Makai in flames.

At an unspecified later date, the heroine again encounters Alice Margatroid, this time in a strange wonderland. Alice now possesses a large grimoire that grants her great magical powers and challenges the heroine to a rematch. After a lengthy battle and her second defeat, Alice laments her inability to defeat the heroine before fleeing with the book.

関連情報[]

• キャラクター
• 音楽
• 攻略
• その他

外部リンク[]

• 上海アリス幻樂団
• Aotaka.web（旧Amusement Makers公式サイト）
• 東方幻想的音楽(MP3) 旧作BGMのMP3データが配布されています。
• 東方幻想的音楽(PMD) 上記のPMD版です。
• Hoot
• English scoreboard, at Maidens of the Kaleidoscope
• English scoreboard, at Shmups Forum

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