History VideoGame / TouhouGensoWanderer

* ColourCodedForYourCovenience: Copies on the cast members are distinguished in their toughness by what color their clothes and hair are. For example, a regular Cirno in her typical blue and teal outfit is weaker than one wearing all pink.

* ColorCodedForYourCovenience: Copies on the cast members are distinguished in their toughness by what color their clothes and hair are. For example, a regular Cirno in her typical blue and teal outfit is weaker than one wearing all pink.

* DifficultySpike: After a relatively short and simple tutorial dungeon, the next dungeon is 40F dungeon that takes at least 2 hours to complete, Rank 2 enemies in the latter half of the dungeon, and a boss with [[SequentialBoss 3 phases]] that is as strong as a FinalBoss in most [[RolePlayingGame RPG]]s.

* GoddamnedBats: Two types of enemies in particular can make a very nasty combination: Kogasa copies and Tenshi copies. On their own, they're pretty frustrating: Kogasa copies inflict the Frightened Status onto other enemies, making them use their special abilities constantly, and Tenshis have a chance to unleash an earthquake when you're in range- hitting the entire floor at max level. Combine the two, however, and Tenshi copies will unleash their floor-hitting earthquakes every turn, putting you on a strict time limit to get to another floor or kill the Tenshi copies. Unless you're playing as Tojiko, that is, who, as she's always floating, is immune to Tenshi quakes. On their own, they're not likely to kill you (but more likely to soften you up for something else), but together they're probably the most dangerous regular enemy types in the game.
** Enemies with ranged attacks, like Tojiko, can spike in power and health dramatically if they kill another enemy and level up. Depending on where you are in a dungeon and how good your equipment is, they can easily turn from an enemy that relies on CherryTapping to whittle you down to a lethal sniper that’s shaving off entire chunks of your HP in a single shot.

* LimitBreak: As a playable character, Utsuho's fourth danmaku shot powers her up to deal monsterous damage, fire lethal blasts from her arm cannon and dash across entire rooms with a fiery tackle, and she’ll heal off of every kill. However, when she’s in this mode she’ll gradually lose health and will eventually revert back to normal, with severe debuffs being applied for a few turns to signify that she’s exhausted, making it wise to only use it when completely surrounded by enemies and you’re confident you can destroy them all before time runs out. As a partner, Utsuho only perform her LimitBreak when she's surrounded by 5 or more enemies.

** Double the case if a [[TheJudge Shiki Eiki]] copy sees you rob a store or you use her equipment set. You get [[BoltOfDivineRetribution Smited]] right there and it's Instadeath.

* LethalJokeItem: Being a roguelike there are many surprising uses you can come up with even seemingly useless items, but the straightest example is the "Exorcism Rod 99" you are given fairly early on. The yellow seals on it means that you can never do actual damage with the item. However, if level up a "Koishi's Eye" to its final form, you can utilize the "Unnoticed Boost" green seal to safely enter new floors, and levelling up the weapon itself to 99 will let you craft the "Merciless Exorcism Rod" which can attack from two tiles away and scores 7 hits with each swing.

** Cirno and Letty copies dies instantly from spring heat from Lily White as she's an Ice Fairy and an ice youkai respectively.

** Leaving dangerous throwables around for high-level Kyoko copies to throw at you. Even if you can't pick it up, you can still use a function of Nito Fusion to remove it from the map.

* UnskilledButStrong: Kisume copies are the only enemies without special ability. Later variant compensate their lack of ability with absolutely huge stats

** Leaving dangerous throwables around for high-level Kyoko copies to throw at you. Even if you can't pick it up, you can still use a function of Nito Fusion to remove it from the map.

* LimitBreak: As a playable character, Utsuho's fourth danmaku shot powers her up to deal monsterous damage, fire lethal blasts from her arm cannon and dash across entire rooms with a fiery tackle, and she’ll heal off of every kill. However, when she’s in this mode she’ll gradually lose health and will eventually revert back to normal, with severe debuffs being applied for a few turns to signify that she’s exhausted, making it wise to only use it when completely surrounded by enemies and you’re confident you can destroy them all before time runs out.

* EmbarrassingDampSheets: Mentioned in the Satori / Hina introductory cutscene, where Satori blames Rin and Utsohu for making some wet 'accidents' when they sleep in the same bed as her. As it turns out, Satori is really the source.

** Kappa Mob enemies can have items thrown at them to cause various effects. The Black-Haired Kappa acts like a Combo Gap, the Green-Haired Kappa acts like a Compound Gap, and the Blonde-Haired Kappa separates seals from items.

* StalkedByTheBell: Waste 1000 turns on higher levels, and "Lunar War III" begins with the Watatsuki Sisters and their servants invading the level. Take too much time in the level again while fighting (or most likely running); and they nuke the Earth.

** Yuyuko copies die instantly if they eat bad food.

** Allowing enemies with ranged attacks to level up, which often leads to something way too strong for the player to handle.

** Leaving dangerous throwables around for Yuugi and Kyoko copies to throw at you. Even if you can't pick it up, you can still use a function of Nito Fusion to remove it from the map.

* AllYourPowersCombined: The "Friends of the Palaquin" armor. It's a large crafting chain that starts out with only "Father?" (Nazrin's mouse in a basket), but by the end you'll have nearly the entire UFO cast in that basket, with all of the passives that come with each addition. Also the purpose of Pink Seals which can be transferred between gear, letting you power up your favorite equipment with a bunch of bonuses.

** Hatate types can identify items the player possesses, useful in skin-diving dungeons or if Nue types are also around.
** Nazrin types occasionally start dowsing, revealing a spot you can check for an item.

** Double the case if a [[TheJudge Shiki Eiki]] copy sees you rob a store. You get [[BoltOfDivineRetribution Smited]] right there and it's Instadeath.

** Yamame and Medicine Melancholy copies dies instantly if they are given an Antidote as they're poisonous youkai.

* GoddamnedBats: Two types of enemies in particular can make a very nasty combination: Kogasa copies and Tenshi copies. On their own, they're pretty frustrating: Kogasa copies inflict the Frightened Status onto other enemies, making them use their special abilities constantly, and Tenshis have a chance to unleash an earthquake when you're in range- hitting the entire floor at max level. Combine the two, however, and Tenshi copies will unleash their floor-hitting earthquakes every turn, putting you on a strict time limit to get to another floor or kill the Tenshi copies. Unless you're playing as Tojiko, that is, who, as she's always floating, is immune to Tenshi quakes.

* MarathonLevel: Every dungeon is this. It can take at least 1-2 hours to get through most story dungeons and the post-game dungeons are even longer. It doesn't helps that if you die, you have to start over from the 1st floor, losing a few hours of progress.
** Clownpiece specializes in this in her boss battle in ''The King of Fairies'', and it can be a real sucker punch for those not expecting it. Upon starting the fight she'll use her ability to try and drive both you and your partner insane. And given how your partner has no other targets other than you nearby (and is likely holding upgraded weapons and armor), expected to suddenly receive a hard thwack or several from your own ally. Luckily, this can be cancelled out by bringing any item that can nullify insanity from occuring.

* AscendedExtra / PromotedToPlayable: The Re-release adds more characters with its DLC, as well as promotes characters to playable that were mere partners in the base game, such as Suwako Moriya and Kokoro Hata, as well as adding in characters who only had roles as bosses or NPCs, like Cirno, Daiyousei and Tenshi Hinanawi.

** In the Bunnyland saga, there are two- It starts off with Kokoro wanting to enjoy the attractions in Watatsuki Bunnyland with Reimu, but then she runs off. Later, Kokoro causes problems with the Park's generator, and Reimu and Rei'sen team up to make sure that Yorihime doesn't find out and punish them for it.

* HealingHands: Sanae copies do this endlessly with Rice Shower. The real Sanae can also do this as both a player (With Star Ritual, which has a chance to buff or heal allies within its radius) and a partner (The aforementioned Rice Shower), and Daiyousei can do it as both a player and a partner with Sylphy Yell.

* AnIcePerson: Cirno and Letty copies, obviously. If you have the right DLC, the real Cirno is playable.

* LetsYouAndHimFight: Certain spells and items can allow you to encourage enemies to fight and kill each other instead of you for a while, typically through the Insanity status effect.

* AscendedExtra / PromotedToPlayable: The Re-release adds more characters with its DLC, as well as promotes characters to playable that were mere partners in the base game, such as Suwako Moriya and Kokoro Hata.

** Rei'sen, both her partner and playable version is the only character that is able to survive Toyohime's laser unscathed as she's considered "pure" creature by the moon.

** In ''The Seven Trials'', Tojiko is dropped into the training area along with Futo, and the two must work together to escape.
** In ''The King of Fairies'', Alice is dragged into the Fairy Kingdom alongside Marisa, and opts to play along. In the optional Post-scenario dungeon, Fairy Well, this role is instead filled by Flandre.

** In the Bunnyland saga, there are two- It starts off with Kokoro, but then she runs off and Rei'sen replaces her.

* {{Sidekick}}: Futo has been temporarily kicked out the Taoist's temple for being clueless and destructive. Reimu rescues her and she latches on. This is exacerbated by Kasen enthusiastically giving them both "Sage Training."

* AmplifierArtifact: Just possessing Rinnosuke wouldn't be that large of a threat. However, his possessor can access the power of the [[PublicDomainArtifact Kusanagi]] that is canonly in his possession.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Using Two-Handed Weapon or dual wielding weapon. Using those will greatly increase your offense at the cost of completely neutering your defense since you're not equipping shield anymore.

* SummonMagic: The main draw of the DLC characters Alice and Rei'sen. The former of which can summon dolls to help her, the latter can summon a single mecha-rabbit to the fight.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's revealed at the end of the main scenario that [[spoiler:the only reason the spirit within the orb could possess Rinnosuke in the first place is because when Reimu touched the orb, she inadvertently broke the seal keeping the spirit within. Reimu has an OhCrap moment when she realizes this, and opts to tell nobody that she was indirectly responsible for the incident.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: It's revealed at the end that [[spoiler:The only reason the spirit within the orb could possess Rinnosuke in the first place is because when Reimu touched the orb, she inadvertently broke the seal keeping the spirit within. Reimu has an OhCrap moment when she realizes this, and opts to tell nobody that she was indirectly responsible for the incident.]]