Touhou LostWord - Anime Battles & Strategy

◇◆◇About Touhou LostWord◇◆◇

Words are mysteriously disappearing, but the cause remains unknown... The Lost Word Incident has engulfed Gensokyo. Embark on a journey through Gensokyo to unravel the mystery alongside Reimu, Marisa, and a diverse cast from the Touhou Project!

Set in Gensokyo, Touhou LostWord is an officially licensed derivative work inspired by the Touhou Project created by Team Shanghai Alice.

◇◆◇Characters◇◆◇

Reimu Hakurei:

Known as Hakurei Shrine Maiden, Eternal Shrine Maiden, and Wonderful Shrine Maiden of Paradise.

A human residing at Hakurei Shrine.

Marisa Kirisame:

Known as Western Magician of the East, Strange Magician, and Ordinary Black Magician.

A human living in the Forest of Magic.

Encounter a multitude of characters from the Touhou universe such as Yukari Yakumo, Youmu Konpaku, Alice Margatroid, Reisen Udongein Inaba, Remilia Scarlet, Patchouli Knowledge, Sakuya Izayoi, and many more!

◇◆◇Game System◇◆◇

Engage in thrilling bullet battles using your characters' Spell Cards!

Enhance your favorite characters and form a team of up to 6 members.

Select from 3 voice options for each character and customize them with various outfits!

◇◆◇Participating Artists◇◆◇

Akitsu Mikami, Arata Toshihira, Capura.L, Eretto, Fruit Punch, Girotin, Hagiwara Rin, Hinayuki Usa, Hiura R, Mikeou, Minamura Haruki, Morinohon, Mottun*, Natsume Eri , Ragho no Erika, Rui Tomono, Sakura Hiyori, Sakuragi Ren, Sakurazawa Idumi, Shinia, Socha, Takehana Note, Tanaka Shoutarou, Tomioka Jiro, Umeckiti, Yamadori Ofuu, Yano Mitsuki, Yumeno Rote, Yuuki Keisuke, and more!

◇◆◇Participating Musicians◇◆◇

AramiTama, Butaotome, Cajiva's Gadget Shop, flap+frog, Foxtail-Grass Studio, Hachimitsu-Lemon, COOL&CREATE, Melodic Taste, O-LIFE.JP Tokyo Active NEETS/Kokyo Active NEETs, and more!

©Team Shanghai Alice

©GOOD SMILE COMPANY, INC. / NextNinja Co., Ltd.

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Once you progress in the game and can access the menu button, you may locate it on the menu screen.

Touhou LostWord Beginners Guide and Tips

Unit Collection and Progression

In Touhou LostWord, there are a total of two summon categories, one is the ‘Friends’ and the other is ‘Story Cards’. The latter plays a part in buffing ‘Friends’. One can essentially just summon for either Units or Weapons if it helps you to think of it as such.

If you’ve played a Gacha game before, then this system should start to seem familiar. You have limit break mechanics where you can fuse copies of cards to level up your unit’s maximum level.

Lastly, some tokens can be collected after clearing stages, these tokens can be spent to increase your units’ stats. These stats which we will be explaining are particularly important for beginners and would guide you in clearing missions in Touhou: LostWord.

Friend Stats and Mechanics

Friends are split into roles to give the player an idea of what they do:

Defense: Protects the party and utilizes abilities to draw the enemy’s attacks.

Support: Buffs the party to make your party stronger.

Heal: Restores lost party member health.

Debuff: Debuffs the enemy and creates opportunities to get through enemy defenses.

Attack: The team damage dealer.

Technical: This is a specialist unit; it shines when conditions are favourable for their abilities.

Speed: High agility, takes turns first typically.

Destroy: Breaks things in one shot, this type of unit usually need a bit of setup, but can be dangerous when used properly.

Friends have several stats which are concerned with:

HP: Hitpoints – self-explanatory, but this hits zero, your Friend is gone for the level.

Agility: The higher this stat is, the sooner the Friend takes their turn.

Cost: How much spirit energy it costs to deploy this Friend in a level

Yang Attack / Defense: Increases / Decreases how much Yang damage this Friend deals / suffers.

Yin Attack / Defense: Increases / Decreases how much Yin damage this Friend deals / suffer.

Temperament: This is elemental affinity. There are eight Phases: Sun, Moon, Fire, Water, Wood, Metal, Earth and Star. Each Friend is weak to some Phases, while being resistant to others. Using Alice Margatroid as an example, her Temperament is Hyou [Wood]. This does make her weak to Metal and Star but strong vs Sun and Water.

Each friend will also have two attacks. Each ability is affected primarily by either one’s Yin or Yang stat. Taking Alice Margatroid again as an example, we can see that her abilities can both use her Yin to calculate the damage. As one gains more P items during battle, he would notice that the abilities can modify and have more effects.

To build a proper team, one must first be able to see which stat each unit uses and what roles they would play in the team. Next up, the focus should be laid to balance temperaments. This is to maintain the fact that your team don’t all share weaknesses. Then, one can finally check each units’ passives as some passives can boost Temperaments and stats.

Combat Breakdown

The combat screen has a lot going on that can be a little overwhelming for first-time players. The image below shows what the game looks like in combat. The enemies are on the left and the right has your friends. Your party is split into frontline and backline with 3 team members in each, totalling 6 members. You can switch your units at any time so you can always change out a poor matchup, however, once you switch you would have a cooldown before switching your units again.

Directly below the enemy portrait would be their spell bar, when this bar fills up the enemy can use a powerful spell, so be prepared to counter this with your barrier. Below that is the enemy Weak and Resist. This is as it says what the enemy is weak and resistant to. On the bottom half of the screen, from left to right, you see a lot of information.

Spell Card

Every Friend has two spell cards, to begin with. This comes with an additional three being unlocked as you rank your Friend up. Spell Cards can only be used once per level. It typically comes with a high assortment of damage or effects. One can replenish the spell cards by occasionally coming across an S item. These items drop randomly from enemies.

Last Word

Last Word Spell Cards are your character’s ultimate techniques. These typically do heavy amounts of damage or come with game-winning buffs or debuffs. There is a drawback though, the Last Word is used, you are unable to use spells for the rest of the level.

Spread Shot and Focus Shot

These are your primary attacks. Spread Shot is equivalent to a light attack, which generates a lot of P items. Focus Shot is equivalent to a heavy attack and typically focuses on dealing increased damage, at the expense of finding fewer P items. Solo attacks are against a single target, while All attacks hit multiple enemies as an AOE. CP is combat power, which is essentially how much damage the attack is going to do on average.

Temperament modifiers

The bullets above the attacks are the Temperament modifiers. Using the example of Alice Margatroid as above, we can see that Spectrum Mystery has no Phase associated with it, along with the Shanghai Doll, which also has no phase associated with it.

Boost

Whenever you strike an enemy P, items flow out of them which your characters can collect. Players can spend them by tapping on the boost button. Each whole number indicates one level of Boost, which deals increased damage and effects on your abilities. The skill menu indicates all the buffs given by the Boost and one can boost an ability up to 3 levels. The same is applicable for the spells as well.

Graze

These are the shields. By Grazing, you can nullify an attack once. However, one must expend one Barrier Token per Graze. You can Graze up to three times per turn, a maximum of four times per level.

You may see five Barrier Tokens, but you cannot spend your last Barrier Token. If you are hit by a super-effective attack, it will break a Barrier Token. Get all of your Barrier Tokens broken and your Friend will enter the Full Break status. This means that your Friend cannot attack and takes increased damage from all sources.

Barrier Tokens can be replenished randomly from B item drops in a level.

Skill

Each Friend comes with some skills attached, one innately and two unlocked via upgrades. These skills can be activated during your turn and typically buff, debuff, or otherwise change the status of the playing field. Moreover, it comes with a high cooldown cost.