History VideoGame / TouhouChireidenSubterraneanAnimism

* MissionControl: Various youkai provide this to Reimu and Marisa, leading to different ammo/bombs, different special skills for Reimu, different dialogs and endings, and different ways of getting horribly mauled by Satori.

* BreakingOldTrends: In all previous games, extra lives were obtained either through score, or in the [[VideoGame/TouhouKaikidanMysticSquare case of]] [[VideoGame/TouhouYouyoumuPerfectCherryBlossom three]] [[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight games]], by collecting certain amounts of point items. This game does away with both of those methods and introduces a new mechanic in the form of life fragments, which net you an extra life for each five of them you collect. This system went on to become the new standard for subsequent games, albeit with each installment varying the amount of fragments required for a life, and bomb fragments were also introduced as bombs went back to being a separate resource instead of costing power.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: If Reimu is partnered with Yukari, one of the Spell Cards Satori recreates from her memories is "Boundary of Wave and Particle", despite the fact that Spell Card had only previously appeared in ''[[VideoGame/TouhouBunkachouShootTheBullet Shoot the Bullet]]'' and thus had only been faced by Aya, not by Reimu.

* BreakingOldTrends: In all previous games, extra lives were obtained either through score, or in the [[VideoGame/TouhouKaikidanMysticSquare case of]] [[VideoGame/TouhouYouyoumuPerfectCherryBlossom three]] [[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight games]], by collecting certain amounts of point items. This game does away with both of those and introduces a new mechanic in the form of life fragments, which net you an extra life for each five of them collected. This system went on to become the new standard for subsequent games, albeit with each installment varying the amount of fragments required for a life, and bomb fragments were also introduced as bombs went back to being a separate resource instead of costing power.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Marisa when partnered with Alice. Her focused shot is spread while her unfocused shot is concentrated, opposite of how shot types usually work and reminiscent of Nether Team from ''[[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNightImperishable Night]]'', and her power cap is 8 instead of 4, which also effectively means she can have up to 8 bombs in stock, but to counterbalance this, her bombs have narrow range and have very limited defensive properties, being very short-lived and clearing few bullets.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Marisa when partnered with Alice. Her focused shot is spread while her unfocused shot is concentrated, opposite of how shot types usually work and reminiscent of Nether Team from ''[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNightImperishable Night]]'', and her power cap is 8 instead of 4, which also effectively means she can have up to 8 bombs in stock, but to counterbalance this, her bombs have narrow range and have very limited defensive properties, being very short-lived and clearing few bullets.

* UndeadCounterpart: Zombie Fairies are undead variants of the regular [[TheGoomba Fairy enemies]]. They share the exact same attributes as them (can swarm the player in droves but go down easily), but unlike the regular variants, Zombie Fairies don't "die" and will come back to life shortly after being shot down. They're only ever deployed by the Stage 5 boss: Rin "Orin" Kaenbyou, making them a case of {{Unique Enem|y}}ies as well.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Instead of clearing bullets, Marisa's bomb when Nitori is her partner casts a temporary shield that protects her from one hit. If the shield's despawns by timeout instead of from a hit, you recover half the power that was spent bombing, and if you bomb during a Spell Card but clear it without actually getting hit, it still counts as a capture.

[[caption-width-right:350:CAUTION!! CAUTION!!]]

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* BossWarningSiren: Utsuho Reiuji, the [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear-powered]] [[CreepyCrows Hell raven girl]] (and final boss) of the game, has the distinction of prefixing each of her spell cards with klaxons while the text "'''CAUTION!!'''" flares on-screen.

[[caption-width-right:350:The eleventh game that took difficulty UpToEleven.]]

* UndeadCounterpart: Zombie Fairies are undead variants of the regular [[TheGoomba Fairy enemies]]. They share the exact same attributes as them (can swarm the player in droves but go down easily), but unlike the regular variants, Zombie Fairies don't "die" and will come back to life shortly after being shot down. They're only ever deployed by the Stage 5 boss: Rin "Orin" Kaenbyou, making them a case of [[UniqueEnemy Unique Enemies]] as well.

* TheGhost: Kanako Yasaka is mentioned in Utsuho's profile and the extra stage, and is the GreaterScopeVillain by giving Utsuho her powers, but never makes an appearance in the game proper. By the time you go to the Moriya Shrine, she's apparently away on a shopping trip.

''Touhou Chireiden[[note]]"Palace of the Earth Spirits"[[/note]] ~ Subterranean Animism'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2008. It's the eleventh videogame installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' franchise.

* WrapAround: Reimu gains this ability while Yukari is her partner.

''Touhou Chireiden ~ Subterranean Animism'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2008. It's the eleventh installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' franchise.

Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame are being told to investigate what's causing earthly spirits to erupt from a geyser.

The game features three weapon types for characters and up to four satellites can be added to a character by collecting power items, which behave differently by the character/weapon combination.

''Touhou Chireiden ~ Subterranean Animism'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2008. It's the eleventh installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' series.