Touhou Labyrinth: Difference between revisions

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The original game features 20 floors to explore and up to 32 characters to recruit. The [[Expansion Pack|Plus Disk]] expansion added another 10 [[Bonus Dungeon|bonus floors]] filled with [[Bonus Boss|even more challenging battles]], as well as 8 additional characters. The [[Updated Rerelease|Special Disk]] that was released later includes both the original content and the Plus Disk, and aside from a few gameplay tweaks, its most notable contributions are a new soundtrack and the option to use customized character portraits.

 

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* [[Absurdly High Level Cap]]: You can beat the main game easily in the low 100's. The last boss of the Plus Disk will probably require a level of 500+. The actual level cap is far, far higher than that.

* [[Actually Four Mooks]]: There are some enemies that have their sprites literally stacked on top of each other, preventing you from seeing just how many there are (although you can still target them). Beware when it looks likes there's only one foe present.

** [[Boss Rush]]: Unlocked on the 20th floor. And there's a LOT of bosses.

** [[Climax Boss]]: On the 16th and 18th floors.

** [[Degraded Boss]]: All the enemies on the 30th floor are nothing more than souped up party members that were previously fought as bosses.

** [[Dual Boss]]: The Hibachi Twins. One is immune to physical attacks, the other to magical attacks.

** [[Sequential Boss]]: {{spoiler|Orin}}

** [[Turns Red]]: Very common among many later bosses. Most will gain extremely powerful, party-wiping attacks when low on health. Many [[Dual Boss|boss parties]] will become a lot tougher if you defeat their teammate.

* [[The Cameo]]: In the Plus Disk, one of the bonus bosses is {{spoiler|[[Shin Megami Tensei|YHVH!]]}}

** The [[Bonus Boss|Bloodstained Seal Bosses]] are cameos from other [[Bullet Hell]] Series.

* [[Character Portrait]]: Of varying qualities. The Special Disk allows you to use your own custom portraits.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: What will happen should you try to take on one of the [[Bonus Boss|Bloodstained Seal Bosses]] when you can first get to them. {{spoiler|The [[Final Boss]] of the Plus Disc will do this [[AI Roulette|should he feel like it.]]}}

* [[Death or Glory Attack]]: Flandre's Laveatein will probably result in a Game Over if it doesn't outright kill the enemy.

* [[Defeat Means Playable]]: Lampshaded in one instance when it ''doesn't'' happen. Otherwise played straight to the point where, outside of your initial party, you can count the characters you recruit by simply talking to them once on one hand.

* [[Dump Stat]]: Due to the evasion mechanic of the game being bugged, it's pointless to raise your EVA stat. Most characters have another stat (usually STR or MAG) that they can safely ignore as well.

* [[Dungeon Crawling]]

* [[Endgame Plus]]: Even without counting the Plus Disk, there's still the Bloodstained Seals and Version 2 bosses in the first 20 floors.

* [[Endless Game]]: Each time you defeat the [[Final Boss]] of the Plus Disk, he'll just respawn with higher stats until the game engine can't handle it anymore.

* [[Excuse Plot]]: Big portal shows up in Gensokyo. Let's go exploring!

* [[Extended Gameplay]]: Possibly longer than the main game.

* [[Harmless Freezing]]: Minoriko is found frozen in a block of ice by Cirno on floor 2. She has to be taken to a certain spot on floor 1 to be thawed out - Sakuya notes that if they just break the ice, [[Literally Shattered Lives|it'll be like a horror movie]].

* [[Healing Spring]]: There are two on the 5th floor. One of them is actually a spring of sake.

* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Keine, the definition of average.

* [[Justified Save Point]]: Akyu records your adventures to save your game.

* [[Lazy Backup]]: Many of the characters you recruit will just be chilling back in Gensokyo, doing who-knows-what.

* [[Leaked Experience]]: All characters not in your party will still receive 80% of any experience points earned. This includes characters that have yet to be recruited.

* [[Magikarp Power]]: Due to how stat growths work in this game, some characters start off weak but become far more effective in the late game. For example, Rumia's Demarcation barely heals any HP at first, but her MAG growth will eventually grow faster than your party's HP, thus turning her into a solid healer in the post-game. Reisen may seem mediocre when first recruited, but becomes a powerhouse later on when she has enough SP to keep herself fully buffed with Grand Patriot's Elixir.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Yuugi and Youmu.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Most of the names of the enemies/Non-Touhou character bosses. {{spoiler|There's a reason why the [[Final Boss]] of the Plus Disc is named **WINNER**}}

* [[Overly Long Name]]: The first Bloodstained Seal boss is named "Master Light Wings Close Range Support Cruel Battle Mecha E.V.D."

* [[Palette Swap]]

* [[Restart At Level One]]: True for all the bosses that you recruit. Thank goodness for [[Leaked Experience]] (you still have to spend the points on levels and distribute their level bonuses).

* [[Sequence Breaking]]: Notable in that if you do a certain event out of order on the 1st floor, you can find a secret but otherwise unremarkable boss. [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|The characters will snark to no end about why you shouldn't sequence break.]]

** The fact there's so many, the translation patch for v3.01 comes with a rather large text file which does nothing BUT list the shout outs.

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Patchouli is this trope incarnate. Highest SP, Magic, and Mind growth, lowest HP, Speed, and Defense.

** The most powerful one of these being Shikieiki's Last Judgement attack. It deals 666% of her attack stat to anything. No matter how high the DEF or MND of the target, they will take 666% of Shikieiki's attack in damage. On top of ignoring all defense stats, it's non-elemental so there is literally no way to reduce the damage short of debuffing her attack stat.

* [[Useless Useful Spell]]: Chen's Soaring Guardian God might sound awesome with its +100% EVA. Too bad that EVA doesn't work at all.

* [[White Mage]]: Minoriko is the most dedicated at the role, but Reimu, Sanae, Eirin, and possibly even [[Magikarp Power|Rumia]] can also play the part.

** This is part of the reason why Meiling's an effective tank - not only can she heal herself for a significant amount of her HP (if using an attack build), she can also heal others... not for much, mind, but she is the first character who can remove status effects - and that's the main reason Healer ever gets used.

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