History VideoGame / KoumajouDensetsu

* FrickinLaserBeams: ''And how!'' Many a {{Castlevania}} veteran would have a heart attack dealing with BulletHell in their {{Metroidvania}} as it is, but some of these bosses can throw enough stuff at you to start throwing ''you'' around as you take damage. Then you get to [[CuteWitch Marisa]] in the second game and have to deal with her [[BeamSpam laser barrage.]] And any encounter with [[TheOjou Re]][[OurVampiresAreDifferent mi]][[ElegantGothicLolita lia]] ''cannot'' go on without her throwing Gungnir at you and you scrambling to get out of her insane range thanks to laser beams spawning at revolving angles from the spear's trajectory.

** 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.

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

* BrutalBonusLevel: Both of the Extra Stages in general, but especially the second game's Phantasm stage, which introduces a host of new and annoying enemies.

* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Cirno in the first game. Alice, Reimu, [[spoiler:and in the Phantasm Stage, Remilia]] in the second game.

* EliteMook: In the Extra and Phantasm stages. These are enemies with a palette swap. They not only attack a lot faster than the regular versions and take more punishment before going down, they do more damage and some of them gain new forms of attack altogether.

** [[spoiler:She does get comeuppance in the recently added Phantasm stage (we think).]]

* 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 '''''everything''''' TakesALevelInBadass.

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

* MoodWhiplash: The second game is very serious, but the Phantasm stage is about [[spoiler:fireworks]].
** Also in the first game where Remilia hid away after finding an ancient book, ordered Sakuya to build a red castle and lured Reimu and Marisa to come, all so that she could [[spoiler:have a treasure hunt]]... When she reveals this, the music stops playing and is replaced with bird tweets. After the situation is cleared up (in a sense) it ends with Cirno calling Remilia an idiot.

* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Marisa and Alice in the first game. Hilariously, in the second game, the whole reason Alice came to Scarlet Devil Castle is because she was worried about Marisa.

[[caption-width-right:249: It´s not as [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] as it looks, but it's [[NintendoHard twice as hard]].[[labelnote:*]]On another note, you got your ''Videogame/{{Touhou}}'' in my ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''![[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:249: It´s not as [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] as it looks, but it's [[NintendoHard twice as hard]].[[labelnote:*]]On another note, you got your ''Crossovers/{{Touhou}}'' in my ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''![[/labelnote]]]]

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

* ActorAllusion: EriKitamura voices Remilia Scarlet, was once a vampire [[TheOjou Ojou]] from ''Anime/BloodPlus''.

[[caption-width-right:249: It´s not as [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] as it looks, but it's [[NintendoHard twice as hard]].[[labelnote:*]]On another note, you got your ''Crossovers/{{Touhou}}'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY in my]] ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''![[/labelnote]]]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: Sakuya's Stopwatch is useful in only a handful of situations. [[spoiler:Flandre]], after Stage 6 and [[spoiler:Remilia]], in Phantasm, as partners; the two are your heaviest hitters, the former dealing good damage in a wide circular area, the latter doing ''crazy'' damage in a spear shaped area. The disadvantage? They cost a lot of souls in order to summon them, when you can simply use a combination of your skills and partners like Meiling and Alice plus Sakuya's Knives to handle pretty much anything in the game. Doesn't detract from the "'''[[OhCrap Holy Shit!]]'''" factor the first time you summon them, though.

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

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Some examples are quite evident, but two of the most obvious ones are ''Overture'', in the first game, which sounds like ''Vampire Killer'' at some parts, and ''Scarlet Tears'', which plays in both games and isn't even trying to hide that it is a different sounding ''Bloody Tears''. This being a Castlevania clone, it is obvious that this was very intentional.

'''''Koumajou Densetsu''''' (''Legend of Scarlet Devil Castle'') is a ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''-styled[[labelnote:*]]''Classicvania'', if you will[[/labelnote]] series created by the doujin circle of Frontier Aja in 2009.

'''Sakuya:''' "I can't... [[ThisIsUnforgivable I'll never forgive you for this]]!"[[labelnote:*]]The Japanese Sakuya uses here is "''Omae wa zettai ni yurusanai!''" which basically means "I will absolutely not forgive you!" In other words: [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Yukari is in for one hell of an asskicking.[[/labelnote]]

** 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.]]

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

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

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

* AwesomeButImpractical: Sakuya's Stopwatch is useful in only a handful of situations. [[spoiler:Flandre]], after Stage 6 and [[spoiler:Remilia]], in Phantasm, as partners; the two are your heaviest hitters, the former dealing good damage in a wide circular area, the latter doing ''crazy'' damage in a spear shaped area. The disadvanatage? They cost a lot of souls in order to summon them, when you can simply use a combination of your skills and partners like Meiling and Alice plus Sakuya's Knives to handle pretty much anything in the game. Doesn't detract from the "'''[[OhCrap Holy Shit!]]'''" factor the first time you summon them, though.

[[caption-width-right:249: It´s not as [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] as it looks, but it's [[NintendoHard twice as hard]].[[labelnote:*]]On another note, you got your ''Crossovers/{{Touhou}}'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY in my]] ''Franchise/Castlevania''![[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:249: It´s not as [[DarkerAndEdgier dark]] as it looks, but it's [[NintendoHard twice as hard]][[hottip:*:On another note, you got your ''{{Crossovers/Touhou}}'' in my ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}''!]]]]

'''''Koumajou Densetsu: Scarlet Symphony''''' (''Legend of Scarlet Devil Castle: Scarlet Symphony'') is a ''{{Castlevania}}''-styled[[hottip:*:''Classicvania'', if you will]] game created by the doujin circle Frontier Aja in 2009, featuring Reimu Hakurei from the ''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Touhou Project]]'' 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, until they finally reach the mistress of the castle and discover [[CrowningMomentOfFunny the shocking truth]]...

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''[[hottip:*:(however, ''Stranger's Requiem'' was updated to v1.02a after the re-release)]] with the original soundtracks, character artworks, and [[BitmapsSpritesAndTextures sprites]] of the characters and enemies from both games in one package.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Sakuya's Stopwatch is useful in only a handful of situations. [[spoiler:Flandre]], after Stage 6 and [[spoiler:Remilia]], in Phantasm, as partners; The two are your heaviest hitters, the former dealing good damage in a wide circular area, the latter doing ''crazy'' damage in a spear shaped area. The disadvanatage? They cost a lot of Souls in order to summon them, when you can simply use a combination of your skills + partners like Meiling and Alice + Sakuya's Knives to handle pretty much anything in the game. Doesn't detract from the "'''[[OhCrap Holy Shit!]]'''" factor the first time you summon them, though.

* CaptainErsatz: [[JustifiedTrope Expected,]] since these games are ''Castlevania'' with ''Touhou'' characters in place of [[{{Characters/Castlevania}} the usual ones]]. These are just some examples):
** Reimu: Of the Belmonts, but especially of Trevor and Richter.
** Remilia: [[CaptainObvious Obviously]], of Dracula. The second game takes her ersatz-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...]]
** Sakuya: In the first game, of [[TheGrimReaper Death]]. In the second game, of Alucard. Then subverted again; Sakuya, unlike Alucard to his father, is unquestionably loyal to Remilia. Also in the second game, of... [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Dio?!]] Yep, thanks to the inclusion of the shout-outs mentioned below.
*** Sakuya is Dio's ersatz in the original ''Touhou'', so it's not surprising.
** Patchouli: Of Sypha Belnaldes.
** Yuyuko: Of [[TheGrimReaper Death]], in the second game. Another Subversion; [[spoiler:she holds no loyalty to Remilia, and in fact may have been working to control her along with [[TheChessmaster Yukari.]]]]
** Komachi: Of The Ferryman.

* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Cirno in the first game. Alice, Reimu, [[spoiler:and, in the Phantasm Stage, Remilia]] in the second game.

* FakeDifficulty: A criticism of the first game. There simply isn't enough room on the screen to display everything. As a result, it is not uncommon to walk right into a bird that suddenly appears out of nowhere '''''in the very first area'''''! Annoyingly, the action zooms out for boss fights. This is thankfully remedied in the second game.

* ForTheLULZ: Basically summarizes Yukari's actions; However, it seems to border on ForTheEvulz at times.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Some examples are quite evident, but two of the most obvious ones are ''Overture'', in the first game, which sounds like ''Vampire Killer'' at some parts, and ''Scarlet Tears'', which plays in both games and isn't even trying to hide that it is a different sounding ''Bloody Tears''. This being a Castlevania clone, it is obvious that this was very intentional.

** In the game's CompilationRerelease, it includes the original soundtracks, illustrations, and sprites from both games.

--> '''[[{{Meido}} Sa]][[NinjaMaid ku]][[{{Badass}} ya]]:''' (Uses Stopwatch) ''Watashi no sekai...'' ("[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure My world...]]")

-->'''Yukari:''' "Ah, I wonder if the air was too heavy for a vampire."
-->'''Sakuya:''' "Yakumo Yukari... [[YouExclamation you]]!"[[hottip:*:Just in case we're not fully aware of how pissed Sakuya is, the particular form of "you" she uses here is ''kisama''.]]
-->'''Yukari:''' "Hahaha... don't let yourself boil over yet. There's more to come."
-->'''Sakuya:''' "I can't... [[ThisIsUnforgivable I'll never forgive you for this]]!"[[hottip:*:The Japanese Sakuya uses here is "''Omae wa zettai ni yurusanai!''" which basically means "I will absolutely not forgive you!" In other words: [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Yukari is in for one hell of an asskicking.]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Some examples are quite evident, but two of the most obvious ones are ''Overture'', in the first game, which sounds like Simon Belmont's theme at some parts, and ''Scarlet Tears'', which plays in both games and isn't even trying to hide that it is a different sounding ''Bloody Tears''. This being a Castlevania clone, it is obvious that this was very intentional.