History VideoGame / KoumajouDensetsu

In 2011 during Winter Comiket 81, Frontier Aja released the ''[[CompilationRerelease Koumajou Densetsu Premium Pack]]'', a fully updated re-release of ''Scarlet Symphony'' and ''Stranger's Requiem''[[note]](however, ''Stranger's Requiem'' was updated to v1.02a after the re-release)[[/note]] with an abridged version of the soundtracks, character artworks, and [[UsefulNotes/BitmapsSpritesAndTextures sprites]] of the characters and enemies from both games in one package.

On June 5th, 2021, it was announced that the first game in the series would be coming to the Nintendo Switch and Steam for the first time as ''Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony''. This release features a few new additions, including a [[EasierThanEasy Super Easy mode]], a Suika assist, and most notably, full voice acting. It released on July 29, 2022. On September 12, 2022, the game's sequel was announced that it too will also be re-released onto the Nintendo Switch and Steam on December 14, 2023.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A possibility for why [[spoiler:Remilia]] went along with [[spoiler:Yukari's]] plan, another being GrandTheftMe.

** The second game plays it pretty much straight, seeing as how [[spoiler:Yukari has brainwashed Remilia and is gathering fighting power into the Saigyou Ayakashi (and Remilia) to make a full bloom. Do note that it's already been established in Touhou canon that the Saigyou Ayakashi is the one truly evil thing in all of Gensokyo and a full bloom would be very bad. Flandre also goes to her fanon portrayals of being a genocidal, amoral maniac.]]

* MindControlEyes: Remilia sports these when possessed by Saigyou Ayakashi and forced to go OneWingedAngel.

On June 5th, 2021, it was announced that the first game in the series would be coming to the Nintendo Switch and Steam for the first time as ''Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony''. This release features a few new additions, including a [[EasierThanEasy Super Easy mode]], a Suika assist, and most notably, full voice acting. It released on July 29, 2022. On September 12, 2022, the game's sequel was announced that it too will also be re-released onto the Nintendo Switch and Steam in the near future.

** Thought the above girls were bad enough? Once you finally struggle through [[BrutalBonusLevel the Phantasm stage]] and reach BonusBoss [[spoiler:Yukari]], her ''opening move'' will not only put the above girls to ''shame'', it will also likely elicit [[OhCrap the appropriate reaction]] from you. ''And she's barely getting started.''

* {{BFS}}: Flandre's Laevateinn doesn't look so intimidating at first glance at her sprite, right? Then she starts swinging around the gigantic laser blade. Also, Remilia's Gungnir is quite the BladeOnAStick. Apart from getting a design overhaul, it is larger (and rather heavy looking) than Remilia is on top [[BeamSpam of spawning lasers from its flight path]]. [[ShmuckBait Try getting hit by the attacks where those weapons are involved.]] Go ahead and see how much damage a direct hit will inflict. Hint: [[spoiler:You may lose as little as 40% (laser) to up to '''80%''' (direct hit).]]

The first game in the series, ''Koumajou Densetsu: Scarlet Symphony'', features [[{{Miko}} Reimu Hakurei]] from the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' as its main character. The story: Gensokyo is covered in a scarlet mist... Again. Reimu Hakurei sets out to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, since that was where [[TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil the previous scarlet mist incident happened previously]], to fix this problem. Along the way, she meets Marisa Kirisame, who joins Reimu, and Cirno, who attacks Reimu at first, but eventually [[HeelFaceTurn ends up joining Reimu's party]]. Together they fight through the newly built Scarlet Devil Castle, guarded not only by fairies and the other usual inhabitants of the Scarlet Mansion, but also by enemies straight taken from the world of ''Castlevania'' like the [[GoddamnedBats Medusa Heads]], until they finally reach the mistress of the castle and discover [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments the shocking truth]]...

The first game in the series, ''Koumajou Densetsu: Scarlet Symphony'', features [[{{Miko}} Reimu Hakurei]] from the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' as its main character. The story: Gensokyo is covered in a scarlet mist... Again. Reimu Hakurei sets out to the Scarlet Devil Mansion, since that was where [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment the previous scarlet mist incident happened previously]], to fix this problem. Along the way, she meets Marisa Kirisame, who joins Reimu, and Cirno, who attacks Reimu at first, but eventually [[HeelFaceTurn ends up joining Reimu's party]]. Together they fight through the newly built Scarlet Devil Castle, guarded not only by fairies and the other usual inhabitants of the Scarlet Mansion, but also by enemies straight taken from the world of ''Castlevania'' like the [[GoddamnedBats Medusa Heads]], until they finally reach the mistress of the castle and discover [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments the shocking truth]]...

** SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: The second game mostly averts this, however, as the translation of that game is pretty good.

** The omake with Remilia and Sakuya ends with Remilia declaring Sakuya the winner of a contest to see who could alleviate her boredom the best, and upon the others expressing their disbelief, she launches into an adorable "[[LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana Urusai, urusai, urusai!]]"

* AnnoyingArrows: Averted; Those arrows will ''hurt.'' Especially if loosed by those [[GoddamnedBats Goddamned Red Archer Fairies]].

* FaceHeelTurn: In the second game, [[spoiler:Reimu is asked by Yukari]] to watch over the newly built castle in Hakugyokurou. Not that there's anything wrong with it, because it looks [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome very awesome]].

* LifeDrain: [[spoiler:Remilia]] gets props for being the sole ''Touhou'' boss to pull this on you yet, but will only do so in the second game; Getting hit by this thing results in losing a good third of your LifeMeter, accompanied by a discouraging life meter recovery for [[spoiler:Remilia]]. On Normal and below, dodging it is easy. [[ThatOneAttack On Hard, though...]]

* ShoutOut: Apart from the expected shout-outs to ''Castlevania'', there's also one that any ''Touhou'' fans well-acquainted with the [[FountainOfMemes series' memes]] [[LateArrivalSpoiler should have been expecting]] upon learning that you can use Sakuya's Stopwatch in the second game:

* UnexpectedCharacter: The three fairies of light in the second game's Phantasm stage. No art for them however.

* BonusBoss: Flandre in the first game, and [[spoiler:Yukari]] in the second. However, while the second game's BrutalBonusLevel is longer and harder than the first game's, Flandre is harder to defeat than [[spoiler:Yukari]].

** Saigyou Ayakashi: [[spoiler:POSSIBLY of [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Chaos]], given how it uses Remilia and makes her go OneWingedAngel, while in the original ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series, Chaos is the source of Dracula's power. They're also both ''very'' much {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, so there's that.]]

On June 5th, 2021, it was announced that the first game in the series would be coming to the Nintendo Switch and Steam for the first time as ''Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony''. This release features a few new additions, including a [[EasierThanEasy Super Easy mode]], a Suika assist, and most notably, full voice acting. It released on July 29, 2022.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Yukari

* [[spoiler:MindControlEyes: Remilia sports these when possessed by Saigyou Ayakashi and forced to go OneWingedAngel]].

** Remilia: Obviously, of Dracula. The second game takes her expy-ness UpToEleven by adding on the ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]'' shout-outs and also adding some of Dracula's moves to her attack pattern. [[spoiler:Subverted in the sense that she never meant to do any real harm to anyone. At least, out of her own will...]]

* TookALevelInBadass: You got it. No member of the cast has lost a bit of the sheer awesomeness they had in the original games, and in fact, they have gained some levels in badass ''looks''. Yes, even [[LittleMissBadass Cirno]] and [[BadassAdorable Chen]]. Made all the more apparent in both games' [[BrutalBonusLevel extra stages]], where '''''[[UpToEleven everything]]''''' Takes a Level in Badass.

On June 5th, 2021, it was announced that the first game in the series would be coming to the Nintendo Switch and Steam for the first time as ''Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony''. This release features a fews, including a [[EasierThanEasy Super Easy mode]], a Suika assist, and most notably, full voice acting. It released on July 29, 2022.

On June 5th, 2021, it was announced that the first game in the series would be coming to the Nintendo Switch and Steam for the first time as ''Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony''. This release features some extra additions, notably voice acting. It released on July 29, 2022.

On June 5th, 2021, it was announced that the first game in the series would be coming to the Nintendo Switch and Steam for the first time as ''Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony''. This releases features some extra additions, notably voice acting. It released on July 29, 2022.