History VideoGame / GensouShoujoTaisen

* MauveShirt: Tengu A, Tengu B and Kappa C in ''You'', three recurring enemies who are identical to standard {{Mooks}} of their species but have a few lines of dialogue and slightly higher stats. Kappa C stands out for also [[CharClone being red rather than blue like the other kappa, and claiming to be three times faster]].

* StoneWall: [[spoiler: Hisoutensoku. It's understandable, really, given the fact that the Hisountensoku in the party is a dream manifestation in the form of a giant robot.]]

** FinalBossPreview: Marisa's stage 13 features Flandre as an NPC competitor. She turns into a BonusBoss if the Gensokyo Chronicle has been completed. You also meet a pre-powered up version of Utsuho as one of the weakest bosses in the game, to foreshadow her character development.

Recently, the game got an UpdatedRerelease in the form of ''Fantasy Maiden Wars Complete Box'', which condenses the four games into one package, and polishes various aspects of the game (such as giving characters more facial expressions, to give an example).

* BrutalBonusLevel: The entirety of [[spoiler:Dream Mode's Future Route. If you trigger it at the end of Chapter 70, you have to face, in order- a tougher version of Chapter 71, a chapter where you have to shoot down three 100k HP bosses in five turns while also being unable to use Makura, a chapter where you fight an empowered Nightmare Hisoutensoku, a BossRush including Nightmares of some of the most threatening characters, involving their spell cards from their chapters (Including but not limited to Flandre's Four of a Kind, Remilia's Scarlet Gensokyo, Yuuka's Dual Spark, Toyohime's Waveguide Fan, Yorihime's Take-mikazuchi, Ran's Ultimate Buddhist, Reimu's Fantasy Nature and Marisa's Master Spark) alongside some new original spells, like one from Yuyuko that reduces all afflicted units' HP to 1... and this comes at the same time as [[OhCrap Yuuka and Toyohime's spell cards, which are both infinite range MAPs (which cover each others' blind spots to boot)]], and lastly a battle against Shitone and her army of Nightmare Giant Sheep and Nightmare Hisoutensokus. They're all brutally difficult- even on ''Normal+'', let alone Lunatic. Shitone in particular is a [[{{Pun}} nightmare]] to face, especially in final last spell card, which boosts her defense and accuracy as her hp drops (On Normal+, she has ''600,000 HP'', in stark contrast, Makura's final healthbar is only 300,000, split into two 150,000 spell cards), to the point where eventually even characters as evasive as Reimu and Yorihime will have no chance to dodge without using a Spirit, and even extremely tanky characters like Hisoutensoku and Tenshi are in danger of being wiped out from the sheer damage the attack puts out.]]

** [[spoiler: In the Future Route, the theme used for Shitone’s final spell card is a medley starting with Enigmatic Doll, then continuing with ''every main game final boss theme'' from ''Embodiment of Scarlet Devil'' to ''Undefined Fantastic Object''. It then plays sections from Meeko’s and Makura’s themes before ending with the main theme.]]

* AreaOfEffect: What ''Touhou'' brings to the ''Super Robot Wars'' formula, other than the characters, is Spell Cards. The cards that bosses use take the form of this trope, outlining spaces on the map; anyone who attacks the boss from a marked spaced will be counterattacked, and anyone ending their turn on one can be targetted by the actual Spell Card, which can be any or all of them depending on the card.

* NewGamePlus: In ''Complete Box'', beating the game as well as the three bonus scenarios (Sakuya's, the gaiden chapters [[spoiler:featuring the Yorihime refight]] and [[spoiler:Meeko's]]) will unlock Dream Mode. This allows the player to pick any six units (except [[SecretCharacter Akyuu]]) from any point in the game to start with (and they'll never leave your party, even during chapters such as Chapter 13R where you can only deploy Reimu), as well as having all characters start with PP equal to the total amount acquired across the previous playthrough (Including a prior Dream Mode playthrough). [[spoiler:Dream Mode also lets you use Makura and Meeko from the very beginning of the game, as they join during Chapter 1 in a Dream Mode playthrough, and there is a special Future Route for Dream Mode playthroughs, to take into account that Meeko and Makura are party members.]] This is why the ''Kou'' chapters have the cost mechanic applied to them in ''CB''; in Dream Mode you can pick enough heavy hitters that you can use enough cost to run out. Any units you bring will also keep any buffs they would acquire over the story (i.e. Tenshi getting the Courage spirit and her second finisher, Yuuka getting access to her Full Bloom Mode, Reimu and Marisa starting with their MidseasonUpgrade forms and True Trichromatic Lotus Butterfly). Additionally, any secrets you unlock (except for Reimu and Marisa's pre-upgrade forms) in a given playthrough will be available on any future playthrough- including route exclusives like Akyuu and Lily Black.

* NewGamePlus: In ''Complete Box'', beating the game as well as the three bonus scenarios (Sakuya's, the gaiden chapters [[spoiler:featuring the Yorihime refight]] and [[spoiler:Meeko's]]) will unlock Dream Mode. This allows the player to pick any six units (except [[SecretCharacter Akyuu]]) from any point in the game to start with (and they'll never leave your party, even during chapters such as Chapter 13R where you can only deploy Reimu), as well as having all characters start with PP equal to the total amount acquired across the previous playthrough (Including a prior Dream Mode playthrough). [[spoiler:Dream Mode also lets you use Makura and Meeko from the very beginning of the game, as they join during Chapter 1 in a Dream Mode playthrough, and there is a special Future Route for Dream Mode playthroughs, to take into account that Meeko and Makura are party members.]] This is why the ''Kou'' chapters have the cost mechanic applied to them in ''CB''; in Dream Mode you can pick enough heavy hitters that you can use enough cost to run out. Any units you bring will also keep any buffs they would acquire over the story (i.e. Tenshi getting the Courage spirit and her second finisher, Yuuka getting access to her Full Bloom Mode, Reimu and Marisa starting with their {MidseasonUpgrade}s and True Trichromatic Lotus Butterfly). Additionally, any secrets you unlock (except for Reimu and Marisa's pre-upgrade forms) in a given playthrough will be available on any future playthrough- including route exclusives like Akyuu and Lily Black.

* NewGamePlus: In ''Complete Box'', beating the game as well as the three bonus scenarios (Sakuya's, the gaiden chapters [[spoiler:featuring the Yorihime refight]] and [[spoiler:Meeko's]]) will unlock Dream Mode. This allows the player to pick any six units (except [[SecretCharacter Akyuu]]) from any point in the game to start with (and they'll never leave your party, even during chapters such as Chapter 13R where you can only deploy Reimu), as well as having all characters start with PP equal to the total amount acquired across the previous playthrough (Including a prior Dream Mode playthrough). [[spoiler:Dream Mode also lets you use Makura and Meeko from the very beginning of the game, as they join during Chapter 1 in a Dream Mode playthrough, and there is a special Future Route for Dream Mode playthroughs, to take into account that Meeko and Makura are party members.]] This is why the ''Kou'' chapters have the cost mechanic applied to them in ''CB''; in Dream Mode you can pick enough heavy hitters that you can use enough cost to run out. Any units you bring will also keep any buffs they would acquire over the story (i.e. Tenshi getting the Courage spirit and her second finisher, Yuuka getting access to her Full Bloom Mode, Reimu and Marisa starting with their {{MidseasonUpgrade}}s and True Trichromatic Lotus Butterfly). Additionally, any secrets you unlock (except for Reimu and Marisa's pre-upgrade forms) in a given playthrough will be available on any future playthrough- including route exclusives like Akyuu and Lily Black.

* NewGamePlus: In ''Complete Box'', beating the game as well as the three bonus scenarios (Sakuya's, the gaiden chapters [[spoiler:featuring the Yorihime refight]] and [[spoiler:Meeko's]]) will unlock Dream Mode. This allows the player to pick any six units (except [[SecretCharacter Akyuu]]) from any point in the game to start with (and they'll never leave your party, even during chapters such as Chapter 13R where you can only deploy Reimu), as well as having all characters start with PP equal to the total amount acquired across the previous playthrough (Including a prior Dream Mode playthrough). [[spoiler:Dream Mode also lets you use Makura and Meeko from the very beginning of the game, as they join during Chapter 1 in a Dream Mode playthrough, and there is a special Future Route for Dream Mode playthroughs, to take into account that Meeko and Makura are party members.]] This is why the ''Kou'' chapters have the cost mechanic applied to them in ''CB''; in Dream Mode you can pick enough heavy hitters that you can use enough cost to run out. Any units you bring will also keep any buffs they would acquire over the story (i.e. Tenshi getting the Courage spirit and her second finisher, Yuuka getting access to her Full Bloom Mode, Reimu and Marisa starting with their MidseasonUpgrades and True Trichromatic Lotus Butterfly). Additionally, any secrets you unlock (except for Reimu and Marisa's pre-upgrade forms) in a given playthrough will be available on any future playthrough- including route exclusives like Akyuu and Lily Black.

* NewGamePlus: In ''Complete Box'', beating the game as well as the three bonus scenarios (Sakuya's, the gaiden chapters [[spoiler:featuring the Yorihime refight]] and [[spoiler:Meeko's]]) will unlock Dream Mode. This allows the player to pick any six units (except [[SecretCharacter Akyuu]]) from any point in the game to start with (and they'll never leave your party, even during chapters such as Chapter 13R where you can only deploy Reimu), as well as having all characters start with PP equal to the total amount acquired across the previous playthrough (Including a prior Dream Mode playthrough). [[spoiler:Dream Mode also lets you use Makura and Meeko from the very beginning of the game, as they join during Chapter 1 in a Dream Mode playthrough, and there is a special Future Route for Dream Mode playthroughs, to take into account that Meeko and Makura are party members.]] This is why the ''Kou'' chapters have the cost mechanic applied to them in ''CB''; in Dream Mode you can pick enough heavy hitters that you can use enough cost to run out. Any units you bring will also keep any buffs they would acquire over the story (i.e. Tenshi getting the Courage spirit and her second finisher, Yuuka getting access to her Full Bloom Mode, Reimu and Marisa starting with their MidSeasonUpgrades and True Trichromatic Lotus Butterfly). Additionally, any secrets you unlock (except for Reimu and Marisa's pre-upgrade forms) in a given playthrough will be available on any future playthrough- including route exclusives like Akyuu and Lily Black.

* NewGamePlus: In ''Complete Box'', beating the game as well as the three bonus scenarios (Sakuya's, the gaiden chapters [[spoiler:featuring the Yorihime refight]] and [[spoiler:Meeko's]]) will unlock Dream Mode. This allows the player to pick any six units (except [[SecretCharacter Akyuu]]) from any point in the game to start with (and they'll never leave your party, even during chapters such as Chapter 13R where you can only deploy Reimu), as well as having all characters start with PP equal to the total amount acquired across the previous playthrough (Including a prior Dream Mode playthrough). [[spoiler:Dream Mode also lets you use Makura and Meeko from the very beginning of the game, as they join during Chapter 1 in a Dream Mode playthrough, and there is a special Future Route for Dream Mode playthroughs, to take into account that Meeko and Makura are party members.]] This is why the ''Kou'' chapters have the cost mechanic applied to them in ''CB''; in Dream Mode you can pick enough heavy hitters that you can use enough cost to run out. Any units you bring will also keep any buffs they would acquire over the story (i.e. Tenshi getting the Courage spirit and her second finisher, Yuuka getting access to her Full Bloom Mode, etc). Additionally, any secrets you unlock (except for Reimu and Marisa's pre-upgrade forms) in a given playthrough will be available on any future playthrough- including route exclusives like Akyuu and Lily Black.

** In ''Complete Box'', these are altered. While the Alice example is unchanged, as is the example in Chapter 72, talking Cirno down no longer starts her with two upgrades, and instead just clears the EX mission, granting you 10,000 points.

* BrutalBonusLevel: The entirety of [[spoiler:Dream Mode's Future Route. If you trigger it at the end of Chapter 70, you have to face, in order- a tougher version of Chapter 71, a chapter where you have to shoot down three 100k HP bosses in five turns while also being unable to use Makura, a chapter where you fight an empowered Nightmare Hisoutensoku, a BossRush including Nightmares of some of the most threatening characters, involving their spell cards from their chapters (Including but not limited to Flandre's Four of a Kind, Remilia's Scarlet Gensokyo, Yuuka's Dual Spark, Toyohime's Waveguide Fan, Yorihime's Take-mikazuchi, Ran's Ultimate Buddhist, Reimu's Fantasy Nature and Marisa's Master Spark) alongside some new original spells, like one from Yuyuko that reduces all afflicted units' HP to 1... and this comes at the same time as [[OhCrap Yuuka and Toyohime's spell cards, which are both infinite range MAPs (which cover each others' blind spots to boot)]], and lastly a battle against Shitone and her army of Nightmare Giant Sheep and Nightmare Hisoutensokus. They're all brutally difficult- even on ''Normal+'', let alone Lunatic.]]