This series of fan games takes joy in referencing various other media, particularly when it comes to equipment and enemies.
Labyrinth of Touhou
Equipment
- Chrono Trigger: Green Dream, Sunglasses
- Disgaea: Galactic Muscle (which increases its wearer's HP by 40%)
- Final Fantasy: Bomb Ring, Ribbon (which increases resistance to all ailments), Zodiac Stone
- Fire Emblem: Armads
- Mobile Fighter G Gundam: King of Heart's Badge
- Pokémon: Machoke's Bracelet
- School Days: Portable Makoto Ito
- Shadow Hearts: Great Question's Mask
- Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 Glasses
- Zone of the Enders: Zero-Shift Program
Bosses
- CAVE: Several bosses are taken from CAVE's games, such as Hibachi.
- Shin Megami Tensei: One of the bosses is named Great Tetragrammaton and takes the appearance of YHVH from the series.
- ZAngband: In Hengband, derived from Japanese version of ZAngband, ***WINNER*** is the title given after defeating the Serpent of Chaos. His attacks are various items and equipments you can obtain in the game.
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Although this section is a work-in-progress, a translation spreadsheet containing every reference in the game is located here
.Equipment
Nearly all of the game's Main and Sub Equipment are references to anime and other video games, with their Flavor Text making it more blatant. Here are just some examples, some of which were also in the previous game:- Boktai: Gun de Sol - Infinite
- Borderlands 2: The Bee (HP/Defense/Mind +20%, increases damage done by 12% while HP is full; the shield has no amp drain and high amp damage in its source), Cobra Sniper Rifle
- Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter: D-Ratio 1/4
- Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow: Kicker Skeleton's Soul
- Cave Story: Booster v0.8
- Chrono Trigger: Green Dream, Prism Specs
- Doom: BFG9000
- Dragon Quest: Shoes of Happiness (wearer gains 6% more Experience; wearing them in the Quest series gives Experience points for every step)
- Dragon Ball: Scouter
- EarthBound: Buzz Buzz's Shell
- Fire Emblem: Nosferatu Tome (increases HP Recovery; this was the life-drain spell in Fire Emblem), Exalted Falchion (20% more damage when hitting a weakness; the effect matches Weapon Triangle advantage in Fire Emblem)
- Final Fantasy: Blood Sword (a recurring sword that heals you when attacking enemies), Growth Egg/Training Egg (wearer gains 10% more Experience; named after an item that doubles experience), Genji Glove (Attack/Mind/Speed +128%, allows the wearer to occasionally deal double damage; the equipment lets the user attack twice in Final Fantasy games), Paladin's Shield (named after the strongest shield in Final Fantasy VI), Ribbon (increases resistance to all ailments; it grants immunity to them in various Final Fantasy games)
- Half-Life: HEV Suit
- Kirby: Copy Ability "Smash Brothers"
- The Legend of Zelda: Violent Green Rupee (earns 4% more money), Piece of Heart (boosts health by 12%), Fairy "Navi"/Glowing Navigator
- Mega Man Battle Network: Full Custom, Life Aura (reduces incoming damage by 8% of Max HP, and may rarely nullify incoming damage), Hub.BAT (MP +2, TP +2, Speed +210%, Defense/Mind +144%, Evasion +24, Fire/Cold/Wind/Nature Affinity +50; the last effect matches the four element types in Battle Network 2)
- Mega Man Zero: Cyber Elf Grandie (HP +240%, HP Recovery Rate +1%; this Cyber Elf boosted Zero's vitality)
- Metal Gear Solid: Infinity Bandana (occasionally nullifies MP costs; it nullifies ammo in its series of origin)
- Metroid: Energy Tank (boosts health by 32%)
- Pokémon: Choice Scarf (boosts the wearer's Speed Growth Rate by 1), Helix Fossil (the flavor text references Twitch Plays Pokémon)
- School Days: Portable Makoto-kun
- Shadow Hearts: Great Question's Mask, Getitup V
- Shin Megami Tensei: Luster Candy, Nerve Shells, Demonica, Demon King's Reason
- Shining Force: Jogurt Doll
- Team Fortress 2: Mad Milk/Crazy Milk, Chargin' Targe
- Terraria: Lucky Horseshoe (Physical Affinity +50. In the original game this accessory negated fall damage.)
- Tolkien's Legendarium: "The One Ring"
- Vagrant Story: Grand Master Breaker Title
- Zone of the Enders: Zero-Shift Program
Bosses
- Cookie Clicker: The Great "C" takes the form of a single cookie that quickly spawns multiple copies of itself, each of which are completely immune to damage until their first action. Defeating them gives you a Large Macaron Collider, an item from the game, upon defeat.
- Full Metal Daemon Muramasa: The Second Sun drops the Nodachi "Kotetsu", which is what the protagonist names his sword.
- Kaiji: The Desire-Eating Demon has the appearance of "The Bog", and hits one target with Instant Death on every third action. It's guaranteed to drop Chinchirorin Custom Dice, dice carved from a T-bone steak with all sides displaying 1's from the finale to "Underground Chinchiro", when defeated.
- Rance Series: Green Brute is based on Rance, the protagonist of the series.
- Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne: King is based on the Demi-fiend
- Super Mario RPG: The Crystal Guardian greatly resembles Culex, and summons four elemental crystals on its first turn, which repeatedly heal and buff the main boss until they're all eliminated. When defeated, it's guaranteed to drop a Quartz Charm, the same item that Culex gave upon defeat, and shares its protection from Instant Death effect.
- Ys: Red Hero is based on Adol Christin, and his attacks have references to the games.
