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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/touhou15boxartplus.jpg]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:Even more [[NintendoHard lunatic]] than the previous games.]]
3	->''The metallic spider's march of purification cannot be stopped.\
4	The trees wither before one's eyes. Not one blade of grass was left in the spider's tracks.\
5	When Gensokyo is completely purified, it will be transformed into a perfect world. Into a beautiful planet unmarred by life...''
6	-->--Epigraph
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8	''Touhou Kanjuden[[note]]"Ultramarine Orb Tale"[[/note]] ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2015. It's the fifteenth videogame installment in the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' franchise.
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10	The source of the [[VideoGame/TouhouShinpirokuUrbanLegendInLimbo Urban Legend Incident]] has been identified, but [[FromBadToWorse it raises even more cause for alarm]] - among Sumireko's Outside World power stones was a ball with the power of the Lunar Capital, apparently planted there by someone trying to hijack her plans. As a new urban legend spreads that "Apollo never landed on the Moon", a strange probe materialises on Youkai Mountain, surrounded by a purifying aura that renders it invisible to {{youkai}}.
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12	Fearing that the {{Lunarians}} have finally decided to invade Gensokyo, [[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight former "Brain of the Moon" Eirin Yagokoro]] sends her apprentice Reisen to deliver a powerful elixir to Reimu, Marisa and Sanae, promising that it will help them fight the Lunar Capital on even terms. [[HumanityEnsues And after so long on Earth, Reisen has developed a mortal heart]], deciding to [[UnexpectedCharacter join the roster herself]] out of worry for both her new and old homes.
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14	If the player chooses to drink Eirin's "Ultramarine Orb Elixir" then they play in Pointdevice mode, which removes lives and continues in favour of regular [[CheckPoint checkpoints]] to which the player returns if they die (with no penalty other than a 0.01 drop in Power). If they don't then they play in Legacy mode, which has more standard ([[HarderThanHard if difficult]]) gameplay.
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16	The game's official website can be found [[http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th15top.html here]] (in Japanese).
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18	!!This game provides examples of:
19	* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: In the Extra Stage, lives cost 5 fragments instead of 3 like in the main story.
20	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Junko knows if you've been playing on Pointdevice or Legacy Mode. If you're playing on Pointdevice Mode, she admits she underestimated you for getting that far. If you're playing on Legacy Mode, she [[EasyModeMockery chastises you for taking the easy way out because you died so many times]].
21	* ContinuityNod:
22	** Ringo recognises Reimu from the time she spent in the Lunar Capital at the end of ''Manga/TouhouBougetsushou''.
23	** The object Doremy is holding is a Dream Soul, first introduced in ''Manga/TouhouIbarakasenWildAndHornedHermit''.
24	* DeflectorShields: Reisen's bomb casts three shields around her. They also enlarge her hitbox (which shrinks back as you lose your shields), which, while making it harder if not impossible to dodge certain patterns, also increases your [[HighSpeedMissileDodge graze radius]], which is handy for meeting your quota for life fragments.
25	* DevelopersForesight: [[FinalBoss Junko]] has two sets of dialogue if you played on either [[VideoGameLives Legacy Mode]] or [[FinalDeathMode Pointdevice Mode]], wherein she berates you for being flawed (i.e., dying multiple times) in the former, and is surprised as to how you made it this far without making mistakes (since Pointdevice uses the Chapter Finishes as [[CheckPoint checkpoints]] if you die) for the latter. In an aversion to GameplayAndStorySegregation, she'll use the Pointdevice dialogue on Legacy if you [[NoCasualtiesRun happen to get to her without dying once]].
26	* DualBoss: During the {{Superboss}} fight against [[spoiler:Hecatia Lapizlazuli]], normally she takes turns attacking you with [[spoiler:Junko]], the game's FinalBoss. However, for the finale, they attack together.
27	* GodzillaThreshold: The threat posed to the Lunarians is so severe it threatens to wipe them out completely, so Sagume concocted a plan ([[spoiler:that started back in ''Urban Legend in Limbo'']]) to move them all to Gensokyo, which would wipe ''them'' out. However, this is only the back-up plan; her initial plan is just to get the protagonists to stop the threat to the moon.
28	* HostileTerraforming: Or rather, lunaforming. "The metallic spider's march of purification" [[spoiler:is actually just a side-effect of its CloakingDevice, though Sagume is ready to do it on a larger scale if she has to. Meanwhile, Junko is trying her best to render the moon too Earthlike for Lunarians to survive on it.]]
29	* HyperspaceLanes: This game reveals that the "normal" way to travel to the moon is through sanctioned paths in [[DreamLand the Dream World.]] Though, at the time the game takes place, they have [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the most powerful of dream world youkai guarding them]].
30	* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: Like ''Imperishable Night'', the difficulty levels are named after the phases of the moon, although their descriptions seem to be describing mochi firmness instead.
31	** Easy: New Moon (Well, this difficulty should be easy to chew.)
32	** Normal: Crescent Moon (A nice amount of firmness.)
33	** Hard: Half Moon (So firm that your jaw will get tired.)
34	** Lunatic: Full Moon (Please do not eat.)
35	** Extra: Dark Moon (There are some people who like this sort of thing.)
36	* InvadingRefugees: [[spoiler:The Lunarians are preparing to invade and [[HostileTerraforming lunaform]] Gensokyo only because they're under attack by Junko's forces, who have the power to [[MortalityEnsues take away their immortality]]. Fortunately, this is only a plan of last resort.]]
37	* ProdigalHero: Being a runaway from the Lunar Capital herself, Reisen is the only one of the player characters with a personal stake in their plight. Her route emphasises [[CharacterDevelopment just how much she has changed]] over the years since [[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight the inhabitants of Eientei first decided to open their doors]], to the point where she has become essentially an Earthling herself.
38	* SaveScumming: The main gameplay mode is ''Pointdevice'' mode, in which, thanks to [[AscendedFanon Eirin's shady new drug]], the player has no lives but infinite retries, and since the stages are divided in "chapters" and an automatic checkpoint is made every time one is cleared, the point of the game is to clear it all on a technical-no-death run. The exact conditions that were present when the chapter was cleared are recreated every time the player resets, with the exception that you start with 0.01 less power than you had at the initial chapter clear.
39	* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: The heroines can only actually win against Junko by [[NoDeathRun reaching her without incurring impurity,]] because otherwise for her it's just GoingThroughTheMotions since she can OneHitKill the impure protagonist with her ability if she felt like it. {{invoked}}
40	* TokenNonhuman: It's unusual for a non-human like [[MoonRabbit Reisen]] to be playable in anything other than a GaidenGame, though it's {{justified}} by her being [[ProdigalHero more personally and emotionally invested in the plot than any of the human cast]]. This would be escalated in [[VideoGame/TouhouTenkuushouHiddenStarInFourSeasons the next shooting game in the series]], where only two of the four playable characters are human.

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