Posted 2007-04-15, evaluated by the judges panel
Newcomer Justus Johnston has obscurity cajones the size of small moons (that's no moon... it's a space station!!)... with this ReMix of Perfect Cherry Blossom, a Doujinshishmup for PC that's also been translated to English, he pretty much earns them in one fell swoop. This title barely meets our own criteria for a submittable game; not just any old demo can be ReMixed, it has to be a game with a significant audience, sold for profit, etc. Justus sent us a veritable tome of information along with his submission, which made it considerably easier to track down what it was we were listening to a ReMix of:
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'Perfect Cherry Blossom is the 7th game in the 'Touhou' series, AKA Project Shrine Maiden. This series is, for the most part a series of vertical shmups set in Gensokyo, a sort of 'far-East wonderland' inhabited by various magical creatures out of Japanese mythology. They are a very particular brand of shmups known as 'danmaku', or 'curtain fire', where instead of dodging relatively few quick bullets and enemies, you must weave through a tapestry consisting of an insane number of relatively slow bullets.'
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But wait, if you thought obscure game choice was the only unique thing about this track, you'd be dead wrong. Of the mix itself, he adds:
'I actually threw the notes together last night while taking a break from some paperwork. I impulsively decided to record it after work today (I work at a recording studio, so it wasn't that hard a decision)The arrangement calls for 4 violins. In this case, I just overdubbed myself 4 times, so all 4 are me. They were recorded with a Shure SM-81 mic'd from 2 feet above, off-axis, in our main isolation booth. Everything was recorded and edited in Pro Tools via a DIGI001 (using old-school AMR preamps)... As for the music of the arrangement itself, I'm quite pleased with it. It's been a long time since I've tried anything 'classical', so it's kind of nice to discover that I can still do it after all these years.The harmonization is reminiscent of the neo-classical style, a la Prokofiev (or Koichi Sugiyama even, for that matter). Even though many of the actual chords used are the same as in the original, this arrangement manages to feel extremely different from the original.
So, you've got what sounds like a chamber piece of sorts, except the verb is heavy enough that it'd have to be more like a cathedral than a chamber. Perhaps Donald Trump's chamber? At just under two minutes, this is a brief piece, but it's wonderfully mature and conspicuous, sounding like the type of contemporary classical that gets employed in classier Hollywood and foreign period films. As a warning to the treble-sensitive among you, this goes into the upper registers of violin-dom, and with four of those suckers firing at the same time, you get some real altitude. This is the type of arrangement that essentially dictates the instrument(s) involved be played by professional musicians; I shudder to think what four amateur violinists would do to it, or for that matter how much would be lost if even the best of the best sample libraries were employed. In a word, it's beautiful, though... I know I overuse the adjective 'cinematic', but in talking about game scores it has few synonyms that convey similar meaning. This piece is cinematic, especially the section starting at 1'04' - striking, sublime, epic, and moving could all equally apply. This is fantastic, singular work and it's a damn shame many may pass it by due to the unfamiliar source material - I don't care if you have no intentions of ever playing the game or anything remotely like it, you owe it to your ears to check this piece out. Judges had concerns about the amount of substantive arrangement, but while the melody is pretty darn close, the supporting string parts are where JJ has clocked some time on expanding the original. While the piece is brief, it achieves a mood that is absolutely cohesive and emotive. The recording and performance are superb, and as a side note it was interesting to get so much context from the ReMixer, who clearly cared about the game and the series enough to take some time and explain what's up. Shariq said:
'This is nirvana. String work is gorgeous.'
Amazing violin work indeed; the layering in particular is very well done - it never feels explicitly like one performer quadrupled over himself. I'd love to see Mr. Johnston lend his violin skills to some collabs - I can see major potential there - but as it stands this solo/ensemble approach is rather unique, and turned out well. Timely posting, too; DC's cherry blossom festival just concluded!
― djpretzel
Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom. (Japanese: 東方妖々夢 〜 Perfect Cherry Blossom., Hepburn: Tōhō Yōyōmu, lit. 'Bewitching Eastern Dream') is a vertical-scrolling manic shooter and the seventh official game of the Touhou Project series by Team Shanghai Alice. The full game was first released on August 17, 2003, at Comiket 64.
Gameplay[edit]
Screenshot of stage 5
Perfect Cherry Blossom features three different playable characters to choose from, with two different attack types each. Reimu Hakurei has the smallest hitbox, and homing projectiles, but weaker bullets. Marisa Kirisame is the fastest character, and has a lower boundary to collect all items onscreen, but has a narrow attack range. Sakuya Izayoi has the largest area in which she can graze enemy bullets, a lower Cherry point penalty for dying, and can attack over an even larger area than Reimu.
Cherry Blossom Drawing
The largest change Perfect Cherry Blossom introduces over its predecessor Embodiment of Scarlet Devil is the addition of the 'Cherry' scoring system. Almost every part of the game is linked with the 'Cherry Meter': shooting enemies increases Cherry points, bombing or dying decreases Cherry points, and reaching 50,000 Cherry points gives the player a temporary shield. The higher the Cherry Meter becomes, the more points the player can gain from Point Items.
Other important gameplay changes introduced in Perfect Cherry Blossom are the appearance of the player character's hitbox while being focused (by holding the Shift key), a change in the properties of the player's attacks depending on whether the player is normal or focused, and a cursor on the bottom margin of the screen during a boss battle which tells the player where the boss is currently located.
Exclusive to Perfect Cherry Blossom, there is a 'Phantasm Stage' after the 'Extra Stage', which is a harder version of the Extra Stage and contains the conclusion to the game's story.
Plot[edit]
In the spring of the 119th season, the Spring Snow Incident (春雪異変) . Gensokyo was in an eternal winter, which had showed no sign of falter, with snowstorms happening in May. The three heroines, each for their own reasons, set out to do something about the extended winter. Depending on who the player chooses, only one of these three heroines actually goes out and investigates. Canonically, Reimu is the one that resolves this incident.
Reaching above the clouds from where the cherry blossoms fall, the heroine enters the gate of the Netherworld (冥界). There she is confronted by half-ghost gardener Youmu Konpaku. Youmu explains that she had been stealing the essence of spring throughout Gensokyo in order to make the Saigyō Ayakashi (西行妖), a youkai cherry tree, bloom perfectly under orders from her mistress, Yuyuko Saigyouji. The heroine defeats Youmu and hurries to Hakugyokurō (白玉楼), where the tree is, to get Gensokyo's spring back. There the ghost princess of Hakugyokurō, Yuyuko, reveals that she had an interest in a corpse sleeping beneath the Saigyou Ayakashi from before her existence. In order to break the seal, the youkai cherry blossom tree needed to bloom fully. Yuyuko and the heroine fight to get the last 'spring' contained in the heroine needed for the Perfect Cherry Blossom, and to reclaim Gensokyo's spring. After the heroine defeats Yuyuko, the Saigyou Ayakashi starts to lose its health. However, the seal has been weakened from the near-complete bloom, and the sealed soul is temporarily unleashed. The soul is revealed to be Yuyuko's, and the heroine fights her a second time, until Yuyuko's soul is finally sealed. As a result of the Spring Snow Incident, since the arrival of spring was late, the hanami season became short, and was also the trigger for the incident orchestrated by Suika Ibuki in Immaterial and Missing Power.
A few days later, Yuyuko asks the heroine for a favour. The magic boundary between Gensokyo and the Netherworld was weakened by Yukari Yakumo, one of Yuyuko's friends, to make stealing Gensokyo's spring easier, which resulted in many yuurei being seen in Gensokyo. Yuyuko asks the heroine to find her friend, who would be preparing for the flower-viewing event during this time, and remind her to repair the boundary. The Extra Mode tells of the heroine's effort in trying to find Yukari. Instead, the heroine meets Chen, the stage 2 boss, again. It is revealed that Chen was the shikigami of Ran Yakumo, and an angry Ran comes to fight the heroine after Chen is defeated again. Ran reveals that she is also a shikigami, and that she will not let any troublemakers disturb her master. The heroine figures that defeating Ran will get the attention of Yuyuko's friend, and ultimately defeats Ran.
Surprisingly, Ran's master, Yukari, does not appear, and Ran tells the heroine that she should try coming back at night, since her master sleeps less often during the night. In the Phantasm Mode, the heroine returns that night and defeats a weakened Ran again, after which Yukari finally emerges to greet the heroine. Yukari is quite surprised at the heroine's ability and decides to continue where Ran left off. Yukari is defeated, and quickly uses her abilities to do the heroine's request. However, as this was not resolved and continues for a time, Youmu went to Gensokyo with and gathered back the yuurei with a hitodama light.
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Release history[edit]Perfect Cherry Blossom Mac Download Free
The first demo of Perfect Cherry Blossom was released at the 63rd Comiket on December 30, 2002. Another demo with only the MIDI soundtrack was released freely online on January 26, 2003. The final version was released on August 17, 2003, in the 64th Comiket, while distribution in doujin shops started on September 7 of that year. ZUN, the only member of Team Shanghai Alice, made another version of the game for the first Reitaisai, held on April 18, 2004, where a score attack tournament was held. This version features changed dialogue and background music for the Phantasm stage. The new track is included in the doujin CDCradle -tōhō gegakushi den- (Cradle -東方幻樂祀典-) by Sound Sepher.[2]
ZUN stated that Perfect Cherry Blossom is not a very smart game, saying that since many new people are playing his games, it would be nice to have more fan service, but it is just more of the same. He says that this is on purpose, since doujin games give him the freedom to create what he likes as opposed to game companies where the main goal is to attract new customers.[3]
Reception[edit]
British comedian and satirist Charlie Brooker, in his video game review show Gameswipe, presented Perfect Cherry Blossom as an example of the shoot 'em up genre that 'masochistic maniacs actively enjoy dipping into'. He said the game 'sort of resembles a firework display being sick'.[4]
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