Many boss parties will become a lot tougher if you defeat their teammate. Most will gain extremely powerful, party-wiping attacks when low on health. Turns Red: Very common among many later bosses.Recurring Boss Template: Alice and Maribel will have 3 summons that is a physical attacker, a magical attacker, and a supporter.Marathon Boss: Rinnosuke who has no less than 8 forms, most of which can heal if he switches before you kill them.Flunky Boss: The second fight against St.In addition, when one is killed, the other gains a massive health restore and will break out the best attacks it has. One is immune to physical attacks, the other to magical attacks. Degraded Boss: All the enemies on the 30th floor are nothing more than souped up party members that were previously fought as bosses.Of course, you shouldn't have access to instant death spells at that point, but on a New Game+. Several of the earliest bosses aren't even immune to instant death. Many bosses are vulnerable to either paralysis or status debuffs, and almost none have resistance to poison. Contractual Boss Immunity: Averted for much of the game.Climax Boss: On the 16th and 18th floors.Boss Rush: Unlocked on the 20th floor.And then there's Nitori before that, although you get a proper boss fight later. Boss in Mook Clothing: Almost every enemy on the 20th and 30th floors.Bonus Boss: The Bloodstained Seals, the Version 2 bosses, and the new bosses added in the Plus Disk.Boring, but Practical: Remilia, one of the first characters you get, only has two spellcards in the entire game, and neither are flashy.In particular, the lack of an Excuse Plot is actually the reason Eiki Shiki attacks you. At this point there isn't even an Excuse Plot to explain why you're doing it, which gets mentioned multiple times.

Bonus Dungeon: Floors 21-30, in the Plus Disk.Marisa and Patchouli are the first two to join your party. And then it turns out the true 'villain' is actually Maribel. Then its learned that Rinnosuke is the mastermind as part of his plan to remake Gensokyo. Then the Eintei Trio seem to be at the heart. First, all signs point to Yukari being responsible for the Spacial Rift. Notable for being significantly buffed in the Special Disk, almost to the point of being a Game-Breaker. She has some decent offensive spells under her sleeves, but she also has some defensive spells like Exorcising Border and Great Hakurei Barrier that gives her a supporting role in your team.

Rinnosuke changes his elemental resistance with every different form, as well.

Suwako changes from having high defense to high mind and vice versa every so often.

Barrier Change Boss: The Serpent of Chaos changes its elemental resistances every turn.

The remaining 8 are left to recharge their SP in battle over time.

Arbitrary Head Count Limit: You can only take up to 12 characters into the labyrinth at a time, and only 4 of these can fight at a time.

One of this game's most distinguishing features is that despite completely removing the ability to dodge (in a Touhou game, no less) and despite some characters clearly being built with relative evasion in mind and the spellcards clearly designed with accuracy-damage-cost tradeoffs in mind, the game still balances.

Always Accurate Attack: Everything, due to the evasion mechanic being entirely nonfunctional.

Exploiting these patterns is a major part of the game's strategy. Roulette: Some bosses use this, but there are several that have defined patterns. Beware when it looks likes there's only one foe present.

Actually Four Mooks: There are some enemies that have their sprites literally stacked on top of each other, preventing you from seeing just how many there are (although you can still target them).

The actual level cap is far, far higher than that. The last boss of the Plus Disk will probably require a level of 500+.

Absurdly High Level Cap: You can beat the main game easily in the low 100s.

Labyrinth of Touhou 1 contains examples of: An updated version containing both the main game and Plus Disk, dubbed Gensokyo and the Heaven Piercing Tree, was released on Steam on August 23, 2021, with an official English localization released on October 13 that year.ДЄ third game, Labyrinth of Touhou 3, has been announced and is currently in development, though very little else is known, and there's no clear release date yet. A Plus Disk was made around the end of 2016, and was translated in early 2019. It retains the similar humor but more elements from dungeon crawlers, such as passive skills and item crafting. For more information, check out the game's wiki page on the main Touhou Wiki.ДЄ sequel to this game, Labyrinth of Touhou 2, was released in 2013 during Summer Comiket 84.

Touhou labyrinth 2 plus disk