History VideoGame / TouhouTenkuushouHiddenStarInFourSeasons

* DenserAndWackier: Cirno's story is this compared to the other three playable characters. While Reimu, Marisa and Aya set out with the specific purpose of investigating the incident (albeit Aya is as interested [[IntrepidReporter in writing an article]] as she is in solving the incident) and are genuinely concerned about the seasons going haywire, Cirno is just DrunkWithPower and childishly plotting to take over Gensokyo, and her cutscenes have a lot more comic relief as a result. Critically, while the other three spot the door in Narumi's back and use it to enter the Land of the Back Door to investigate, Cirno ends up there accidentally when she is tricked into opening ''her own'' back door.

Notably, this game was the first one made commercially available outside of Japan. You can get it on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/745880/__Hidden_Star_in_Four_Seasons/ here]].

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Unlike the other characters, Cirno doesn't realise that she's drawing power from an external source - she just thinks she's developed a cool suntan (despite being ''[[ElementalEmbodiment made of ice]]''). Cirno using the power of the Fifth Season in the Extra Stage also seems to be nothing more than a freak coincidence, [[spoiler:though Okina takes it as evidence that Eternity Larva (whose door Cirno used to reach the Extra Stage) [[AmbiguousSituation might be much more than she seems]]]].

* InTheBack: This game eventually reveals itself to have a fascination with "back doors", which is exemplified when the FinalBoss and her flunkies are fond of shooting you from behind with several of their spellcards. [[UpToEleven Taken to its logical extreme in the Extra Stage,]] where not only are there several waves of enemies shooting you from behind, entire spellcards are made completely around the idea of shooting you from behind or having {{Mook}}s do it. In any other game a stage made wholly around this idea would be [[HarderThanHard nightmarish to deal with, even for Extra Stage standards]], so to balance it out your heroines have a fixed, powerful Extra Stage-exclusive option that shoots directly behind you, and which can be used to form up small, temporary barriers behind you. So yes, prepare to spend at least half your time playing from the ''top'' of the stage and intercepting ''downwards''.

* RememberTheNewGuy: The first four stages are each associated with a different protagonist, [[{{Revision}} introducing a new character who has some kind of pre-existing connection to them]]:

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: Canonically, [[HopelessBossFight the heroines are unable to overcome Okina's final spellcard]] and [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere retreat]], since they were [[HoistByHisOwnPetard attempting to defeat Okina]] with powers ''[[SuperEmpowering granted]]'' by [[PhysicalGod Okina]], [[DefiedTrope only to have the tables turned on them.]] It's not until they [[EleventhHourSuperpower harness the "fifth season"]] that they actually are able to defeat Okina, and even then, for Cirno, it's theorized that [[GodWasMyCopilot she received help from another god who is enemies with Okina.]]

* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: Zant Stage Rush variant. The first four levels each corresponds to a season, the Gensokyo Sky (Summer), Youkai Mountain (Autumn), Hakurei Shrine (Spring), and Forest of Magic (Winter). During the final battle with Okina, she teleports you to one of these locations after each spellcard, which also correspond to what seasonal power she'll attack you next with.

''Touhou Tenkuushou ~ Hidden Star in Four Seasons'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2017. It's the sixteenth videogame installment in the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' franchise.

* AsianLionDogs: Aunn Komano is the Hakurei Shrine's komainu statue, brought to life in a LittleBitBeastly form by the overflow of seasonal energy in the game's plot.

''Touhou Tenkuushou ~ Hidden Star in Four Seasons'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2017. It's the sixteenth videogame installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' franchise.

The game's available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/745880/__Hidden_Star_in_Four_Seasons/ here]].

* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: The first four levels each corresponds to a season, the Gensokyo Sky (Summer), Youkai Mountain (Autumn), Hakurei Shrine (Spring), and Forest of Magic (Winter). During the final battle with Okina, she teleports you to one of these locations after each spellcard, which also correspond to what seasonal power she'll attack you next with.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Touhou'' hits UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} for the first time.]]

''Touhou Tenkuushou ~ Hidden Star in Four Seasons'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2017. It's the sixteenth installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' franchise.

Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame, Aya Shameimaru and Cirno are investigating why seasons in various locations are going crazy.

The game features the Seasons system. Each character has a Main Season that greatly affects their shots and can also pick a Sub-Season for a scaled down extra shot.

''Touhou Tenkuushou ~ Hidden Star in Four Seasons'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2017. It's the sixteenth installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' series.