Touhou: Spooktastic Mansion Adventure

AN UNEXPECTED TRICK-OR-TREAT!?

As the spook-filled Halloween approaches Gensokyo, Flandre Scarlet excitedly exits her humble abode to prepare for a festive trick-or-treating night...

...that is, until she realised the denizens of the Scarlet Devil Mansion had gone on a rampage led by an unexpected intruder - an umbrella-carrying ghost who seeks to take over the mansion for herself!

Play as Flandre and launch a 2-minute counterattack through the foe-infested mansion! Defeat Kogasa Tatara and assert your power as the strongest little devil in Gensokyo!

CONTROLS KEY (DEFAULT)ACTIONArrow Keys
MovementZShoot/Select/ConfirmXUse Laser (limited use)/Cancel
ShiftHold to slow player for precise movement
EscPause (in-game)
Esc+RQuick Retry (In-game)
Esc+QQuick Exit to Title (In-game)

All keys here are rebindable: see the config.exe in the game directory.

FIGHT SPOOK...

Central to the game's difficulty is the SPOOK METER, which changes dynamically based on your current performance.

SPOOK LV 1 vs 5. Things sure get scary real fast!

By rapidly and efficiently destroying enemies, your SPOOK LEVEL will start to slowly increase, affecting the aggressiveness of Flandre's attacks and the enemies'. Simply put, the difficulty climbs higher and higher the better you are!

Meanwhile, if you make a mistake, the SPOOK LEVEL will decrease: the game eases up on you and lets you regain your breath. Far from being the end - losing a life here and there is simply part of the process!

...WITH SPOOK!

Ready to up your game? Then tap into big lasers and big numbers! At the heart of Spooktastic Mansion Adventure's scoring are two elements: the Chain System and the Laevateinn Laser.

Defeating enemies gives you purple crystals - which increase your Chain Meter up to a maximum of 64x - and blue point items which give some score. When your Chain Meter is high enough, it's time to activate Flandre's ultimate weapon: the deadly Laevateinn Laser which clears chaos just as perfectly as how Sakuya does her housework!

While using your laser, enemies will drop golden point items, which give you massive scores equivalent to your Chain Meter. After the laser runs dry, your chain resets and you can do it all over again.

This is what the shmup enthusiasts call "good visual feedback".

High scores are essential to obtaining bonus lives, and more special enemies which drop laser-refilling items will appear the faster you progress through the stage.

Shoot, dodge, and Laevateinn - that's the nature of this high-speed trick-or-treating shmup!

GIMME A SUMMARY OF WHAT YOU'VE GOT

• 2 minutes of exciting shoot-em-up gameplay, featuring a difficult boss and countless hordes of enemies.
• A simple, yet engaging Chain System focused on unleashing powerful bursts of power and cashing in big scores.
• Charming pixel art style.
• A lightheartedly spooky atmosphere - no jumpscares (promise)!
  
• A fantastic 2-song soundtrack to jam to while playing.
• Quality-of-life features such as toggleable extra lives, background opacity, effect cuts, and more.

...SO LIKE, WHO'S BEHIND THIS THINGAMAJIG?

PROGRAMMER, GAME DESIGNER & ARTIST

Kevin Minh (Kevinmonitor)

PIXEL ARTIST

Pachy

COMPOSER

Armand Payan

ADDITIONAL SOUND EFFECTS

Freesound.org (RaspberryTickle, Matias Michael Lahoud, Zagames)
Ryannlib Asset Library (a library of Touhou-style sound effects for noncommercial use)
bfxr (free SFX maker)