YMMV / Touhou Fuumaroku ~ the Story of Eastern Wonderland

• Epileptic Trees:
  • Some fans theorize Meira to be a distant relative from a very old branch of the Hakurei family, due to her similarities with Reimu (mainly the purple hair and the red and white color scheme), her final phase consisting of scattering bouncing balls that behave similarly to Reimu's yin-yang bullets, and her interest in claiming the Yin-Yang Orb.
  • Similarly, Mima seems quite interested in seizing the Yin-Yang Orb despite knowing only the Hakurei clan can draw its powers, and the fact in itself that she knows so much about the Yin-Yang Orb is pretty strange as well. This has led to fan theories about Mima's past, mainly the theory that she was a Hakurei herself when she was alive, with the theories going from there as to what her grudge as a vengeful spirit might be.
• Fan Nickname: Several midbosses and one boss in the game lack official names, but have names in common use by the fanbase:
  • Shrine Tank for the Stage 1 midboss, in reference to its turret's shape.
  • Noroiko (呪い子) meaning 'cursed child' for the Stage 2 midboss, in reference to her bullets being shaped after the 呪 kanji.
  • Two Red Dots for the Stage 3 midboss, and Five Magic Stones for the Stage 3 boss. They're Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
  • Matenshi (魔天使) for the Stage 4 midboss. Ma (魔) can mean 'magic', 'evil' or 'devil', while tenshi (天使) means 'angel'.
• Good Bad Bugs: You can shoot more danmaku if you repeatedly tap the Z button (similar to the Phantasmagoria games). This can make boss fights laughably short, especially if you're playing as Reimu-C.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In the manual, ZUN refers to this game and the previous one as "The Memorable Part 1" and "The Memorable Part 2" of the Touhou Project. This didn't age well as of today, with the PC-98 games becoming the series's most forgotten and ignored installments due to a combination of ZUN's Soft Reboot of the series and the sixth game's Sequel Displacement.
• It Was His Sled: In the game itself, Rika's name is not revealed until she's met again in the Extra Stage, where Reimu asks her. However, nowadays, anyone who is aware of this game will already know her name and that she is the Extra Boss.
• Memetic Mutation: The yin-yang orb's ability to let Reimu eat sweets without getting fat is sometimes jokingly cited as the reason for Reimu's small hitbox and thinner figure in the Windows games. On its way to becoming something of a Discredited Meme since starting with Touhou Tenkuushou ~ Hidden Star in Four Seasons she has gone back to having the same hitbox as all other characters.
• Scrappy Mechanic: Button Mashing having a higher rate of fire than holding down the shot key, a feature that was mercifully removed in subsequent scrolling shmups. Several players set up an autofire script to avoid discomfort (and potential carpal tunnel if they play for too long).
• That One Attack: Shares a page with the rest of the series.
• That One Boss: Also shares a page with the rest of the series.
• Woolseyism: In the Extra Stage, the last line of dialogue before the boss fight reads: 逝くなのです。じゃなくて、いくなのです！！This is rendered in the Fan Translation as: "Decease it! I mean, this is it!!" The wiki's notes on this line explain what's going on and give particular praise to the way it was handled:
  This is a strange word-play on the words 逝く and 行く. She first says 逝くのです, which refers to dying or passing away. It is read ゆく, which is an old-fashioned version of 行く(いく), meaning "to go somewhere", a common word to use when you're ready to go at it (whatever "it" may be). Whoever translated this as "decease it" / "this is it" was a genius.

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