
Deliberately Monochrome: The song " Bad Apple!!" of the Touhou Project update features all objects and characters solid black against a white background, harkening to the style of the (unofficial) music video for the original song. Furthermore, any ghost notes that occur in a chain don't count as part of the chain and must still be manually hit, though you can hit a second button for the appropriate input to hit them without worrying about dropping your chain. This is a far harder task than you would think. Utilizing this to its fullest extent requires unlearning the "must hit the input for every note" mentality that every other character demands and instead learn where the chains start and end, treating those as hold notes. Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Sailor Buro has the ability to allow you to hit chains of notes in quick succession by hitting the first note of the chain (marked with a double-circle) and just holding the input down to hit the rest of the chain (marked with a single circle). Within the same month, they also collaborated with DJMAX Respect V, adding 15 new songs from the game as well as including El_Clear as a playable character. In January 2022, they added a collaboration with NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD, adding its theme song and an illustration based on the game. In December 2021, the game got one with Arcaea, notably marking the first time Arcaea collaborated with a non-arcade game in two years. In November 2021, the game would get their second arcade collaboration with WACCA. On the same day in 2022, the other protagonist, Marisa Kirisame, was added alongside seven more Touhou song arrangements. Septemhas one with Touhou Project, which features its protagonist, Reimu Hakurei, as a playable character, and up to ten arrangements of songs from the franchise. The Septemupdate featured a collaboration with game developer 7th Beat Games, featuring songs from A Dance of Fire and Ice and Rhythm Doctor, as well as including a new elfin, Doctor Paige. On February 5th 2021, the game added a crossover pack for Cytus II, adding a total of 12 songs technically 13 if you count the glitch version of Chaos hidden on the title screen that accompanies the pack along with the game's second collab character, Neko#ΦωΦ. There's one with Groove Coaster, adding not only songs from it but also the character Yume. Or rather, it is the lane whose button you need to press, as exemplified by the barriers that can only be dodged by moving to the other lane. Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Anything that goes on the bottom lane is pink, anything on the top lane is blue.
Some bosses also have finishers that work the same way.
Button Mashing: The "punching bag" enemies give you a set amount of time to mash buttons as many times as possible for bonus points.For example, putting Marija in the Maid outfit turns her into a Reluctant Fanservice Girl who asks her "master" to be a little more "gentlemanly" to her, while putting her in the Girl In Black outfit cranks her dominatrix elements up to eleven. Becoming the Costume: Many characters take on different voiced lines when you put on their alternate outfits.However, its release on the Steam Deck, which has a touch screen, gave some of its relevance back. These messages remain in the Steam version, where they won't make sense if playing on PC. The Artifact: Some of the loading screen messages suggest that you tap the screen with more fingers to hit faster chains, or rotate your device for a different experience.The gameplay takes place in a side-scrolling perspective, with your character running along and hitting enemies in time to the music attacking enemies is done by pressing buttons corresponding to the ground or the air.Ĭompare Taiko no Tatsujin, another horizontal-scrolling rhythm game.