Uploaded January 2012 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
This is the first Touhou game ever released, it's called Touhou Reiiden: Highly Responsive to Prayers, it was published in 1996 for the NEC PC-98 only in Japan (which was a popular computer at the time) and as always, it was made by ZUN.
This one is WAY different to the other games of the series, because this one is like a combination between Breakout (or Arkanoid, etc.) with some shoot 'em up elements.
I also think this is the most unique game on the series. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the other games are bad.
So, yeah.
This video shows the first five stages and the boss whose name is Shingyoku. And I chose the Makai route because I think it's much easier than the Jigoku route.
I also played under the Normal difficulty because Lunatic is insane due of the fact that Reimu's hitbox is REALLY big, making it easy to get hit by bullets.
This is the first Touhou game ever released, it's called Touhou Reiiden: Highly Responsive to Prayers, it was published in 1996 for the NEC PC-98 only in Japan (which was a popular computer at the time) and as always, it was made by ZUN.
This one is WAY different to the other games of the series, because this one is like a combination between Breakout (or Arkanoid, etc.) with some shoot 'em up elements.
I also think this is the most unique game on the series. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the other games are bad.
So, yeah.
This video shows the first five stages and the boss whose name is Shingyoku. And I chose the Makai route because I think it's much easier than the Jigoku route.
I also played under the Normal difficulty because Lunatic is insane due of the fact that Reimu's hitbox is REALLY big, making it easy to get hit by bullets.
![(Original) The High-Schooler who Spirited Away in a Dream [5th Anniversary Mix]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gh6ZUicR7XY/mqdefault.jpg "(Original) The High-Schooler who Spirited Away in a Dream [5th Anniversary Mix]
The year is 2020.
A global pandemic was taking place, forcing everyone to take shelter on their homes and do what they usually do outside via remote measures. However, for people like myself who stay indoors nearly all the time, things werent that much different. One thing did change, though...
Around the first quarter of that year, I was invited to be part of Paradise of Boundaries, a community focused on Touhou Project where fans could share their interest with the games, the printworks and anything related to it. At the time, the main staff of the community were taking their first steps on becoming a creative team, which resulted in the release of a few albums centered on arrangements of music from older Touhou games. Then, by the time we were already through half of the year, they tried something a little bit more ambitious: create an album, based on ZUNs Secret Sealing Club collection, that narrates an original story while being bundled with arranges of Touhou music AND original compositions.
That resulted in their first original album, 令和時代好奇心 ~ Otherworldly Paradox. It was premiered on September 26th of that year (https://youtu.be/c_wcAQEfx4w) and it was a moderate success, Id say.
Now, considering that today has been exactly 5 years since its release, Ive decided to redo one of the two original songs that I composed for the album, which is Track 1 (https://youtu.be/XBedc1xG_OA).
Despite knowing that Track 6 seemed to be my most liked song (https://youtu.be/LzTi7VdqMDI), since Ive learned that some people have done arrangements to it, I have a strong connection with Track 1 on a personal level. Considering that this was the first major-scale project Ive ever worked on, coupled with the fact that I was tasked to compose an introductory song that could invest listeners to be interested on playing the rest of the album, I initially felt insecure that I was gonna fail at it... however, the positive feedback Ive got from the staff when I finished writing it left a major impact on myself, to the point that I feel this song became a cornerstone on my music-making career. My magnum opus, some people might say.
Despite the fact Im not part of the team anymore since Ive left a couple of years ago due of burnout and my personal frustration of the lack of monetary compensation, I still decided to recreate this song so the album could be remembered one more time.
Even though nowadays my musical skills have expanded to the point I dont consider myself anymore to be exclusively a Touhou-style music composer, Im still proud of this song, to the point I feel it should remain as my legacy.
So yeah, happy 5th anniversary to Otherworldly Paradox, Paradise of Boundaries! Godspeed you on your future projects!")
