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○ Taisei Project
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Characterization and Story
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2017-02-18
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■ 0. Information
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This file contains spoilers and other content intended for players who have
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cleared the game.
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If you still wish to proceed, scroll down.
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■ 1. Incident
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Another villain threatens to turn the land of dreams into a place of terror.
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The barrier is disrupted, and a strange tunnel opens on Yōkai Mountain that
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leads to an unknown land. Gensōkyō is thrown into chaos as humans and yōkai
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alike flock to this rift, where they will discover both new forces and old
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forces that have changed beyond recognition.
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■ 2. Characters
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○ Kirisame Marisa
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Early one spring day, just after dawn had passed, Marisa was finding a
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severe lack of things to do. She had just finished some battle magic
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research for her hakkero yesterday, and as usual, no customers seemed eager
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to brave the dark, dank Forest of Magic in order to purchase anything or
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pay for extermination services.
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The day likely would have stayed dull had Aya not decided to fervently bang
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on the door, a rare presence that normally wouldn’t brave the Forest of
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Magic’s unpleasantness unless something serious was happening.
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“Have you heard, Miss Marisa? The border has been broken on Yōkai
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Mountain, and a tunnel to an unknown world has opened up! You’ll need to
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leave now if you’re going to want to stay on top of this new development.”
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“Sign me up! Beats sittin’ in here all day, and anyway, that sounds like
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it’s the start of a big incident! I can’t be left behind as Gensōkyō’s
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second best incident resolver!”
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With her mind settled, Marisa grabbed her hat and bolted out the door past
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the expectant tengu. Living as isolated as she does, Marisa wasn’t
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completely sure what she was heading into, but that didn’t matter. As long
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as she had her magic and her experience, she was confident that she could
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handle anyone and anything. After all, what incident couldn’t be fixed with
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a liberal application of “Master Spark!” to the face? No incident, that’s
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what.
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○ Konpaku Yōmu
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As what passed for dawn gently shook the Netherworld awake, the world’s
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peaceful tranquility was broken by the disconcerting sounds of the breaking
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barrier. As a world between worlds, the Netherworld was always sensitive to
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changes in the boundary, and this time was no exception as the ghosts cried
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and moaned at the disturbance to their afterlife.
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“Yōmu, I cannot sleep in late with all this ruckus. And anyways, isn’t this
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a bit unexpected? Miss Yakumo doesn’t put such strain on the border without
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asking nicely and this doesn’t seem like her doing. I suspect this is the
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work of someone else, and that’s just no good. We wouldn’t want the spirits
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to break free and be bothersome to whomever they find now, would we?”
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“You’re absolutely correct, Lady Yuyuko! I’ll cut to the truth of the matter
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and ask whoever is responsible to both turn down the noise and the stress
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put on the Netherworld’s boundary! You can count on me for anything!”
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Something new and intrusive was pushing on the borders of the Netherworld,
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weakening them. Were they to break, the restless dead would surely explore
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whatever new space they were led to. Yōmu was resolved to end the incident
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quickly, before any unwanted changes happened.
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■ 3. Stages
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○ Stage 1: Misty Lake
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○ Stage 2: Walk Along the Border
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○ Stage 3: Through the Tunnel of Light
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○ Stage 4: Forgotten Mansion
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○ Stage 5: Climbing the Tower of Babel
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○ Stage 6: Roof of the World
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■ 4. Bosses
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○ Stage 1 Boss
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Cirno
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Incidents are always exciting to fairies. They never know what is going on,
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but seeing trouble unfolding around them gives them the perfect excuse to
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let loose and shoot at whoever they want. Instinctually, Cirno decides to
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play along. Whoever stumbles across her lake would have to deal with an
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ice-cold challenge!
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○ Stage 2 Boss
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Kagiyama Hina
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As the epicenter of the new disaster, the small forest and dark road home
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to the wandering goddess had turned into a hotbed of activity. Although
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misguided, she decides that she needs to take action to prevent anyone from
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entering the unknown rift, fearing that whatever is inside it would lead to
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chaos and the eventual propagation of misfortune in Gensōkyō.
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○ Stage 3 Boss
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Wriggle
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Normally an unimpressive and simpleminded yōkai, Wriggle nevertheless
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manages to sneak past Hina and into the tunnel while the heroines are
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fighting the goddess. Finding herself surrounded by distorted magical
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energies, she gleefully absorbs a power past her own and decides that she
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should prove insect superiority once and for all to the human simpletons
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following right behind her.
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○ Stage 4 Boss
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Kurumi
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This former guardian of the Lake of Blood had found herself jobless and
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homeless after Yuuka dissolved her world and headed to Gensōkyō. Instead of
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following Yuuka to Gensōkyō, however, she and Elly had left for the Outside
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World. While relatively unchanged and unscathed by her long stay there, she
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had grown decidedly closer to Elly, and is happy to support any of her new
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goals, even if they go against yōkai standards. To that degree she is
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gatekeeping once more… but this time for a new, more personal master. And
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since it’s been a while since she last fed on humans freely, she may be a
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little too excited to apply gratuitous force. Only a little.
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○ Stage 5 Boss
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Nagae Iku
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Similarly to Wriggle, Iku took full advantage of Kurumi’s distraction with
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the heroines to sneak past them all and swiftly fly up to the top of the
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tower, where she appears to have set herself up as an impromptu guardian.
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Much like the Netherworld, Heaven’s space and borders were also being
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infringed upon by the new world, and so the Celestials had decreed that Iku
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be there to stop anyone other than them from dealing with it. Having gotten
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there barely on time, she is flustered and irritated, and wants the
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heroines to leave so that she can quietly investigate the issue and file a
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report on it to her superiors. Since they refuse to let her be, she shocks
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them with a surprisingly fierce fight!
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○ Stage 6 Boss
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Elly
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Like Kurumi, this former gatekeeper became literally disillusioned with her
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job as she was cast from Mugenkan into the Outside World, both having
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gotten lost on their way to Gensōkyō. Despite the seeming contradictory
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nature of logic and reasoning being used by a yōkai, it seems as though
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Elly has been able to embrace these things, giving her the ability to
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manipulate relations via complex calculations. Her impossible existence has
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given rise to a fusion of magic and science, and by deconstructing the
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nonsense making up Gensōkyō’s border separating it from the Outside, she
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was able to return to prominence in fantasy once more, as the one who
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created a new world with a mansion and an impossibly high tower breaking
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into Heaven.
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It is in this tower where she devotes herself to researching The Theory of
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Everything, and as long as she continues to do so, Gensōkyō is put at risk
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of being deconstructed due to its inherently illogical nature. She doesn’t
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mean to do this, of course, but by finishing this theory, it is only
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natural that Gensōkyō, which should not be able to exist, would be
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affected.
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Besides that, her world’s pushy nature makes her a very bad neighbor, but
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she’s too busy to care.
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Her spell cards are based on physical phenomena, turning her experiments
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into powerful weapons.
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Fun Fact™: Taisei actually uses complex math for projectile positioning.
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