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* SchizophrenicDifficulty: The Prismriver Sisters fight is... not properly balanced across the difficulties, to put it simply. Certain spellcards become ''easier'' to learn on higher difficulties. Most notably, Lyrica's second non is so slow on Easy that ironically it can become way harder than even the Lunatic variant.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: From this game onwards, practice mode gives you maxed out resources, so you can afford to go through trial and error while studying the stages and coming up with routes and strategies.

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* PowerupMagnet: Unlike the main story, where you must be at max power for it to work, in the Extra and Phantasm stages the item border, which draws items to you when you go above it, is active at all times.

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** During a Supernatural Border, all items on screen are automatically collected regardless of where you are on the screen.


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* SingleUseShield: When you gather 50,000 cherry points, you gain a Supernatural Border, a temporary shield that [[PowerUpMagnet automatically collects items for you]] and protects you from a single hit, [[SmartBomb clearing the screen of bullets if this happens]]. If the border times out without getting hit, you get a score bonus instead.
* SmartBomb:
** In this game only, your initial stock of bombs depends on your character. Marisa only gets two, Reimu gets the usual three and Sakuya gets a whopping four.
** In addition to the series's conventional bombs, if you get hit while a [[SingleUseShield Supernatural Border]] is active, the screen is cleared of bullets. You can also manually break your border to accomplish the same effect by pressing the bomb button while the border is active.
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* PowerupMagnet: Unlike the main story, where you must be at max power for it to work, in the Extra and Phantasm stages the item border, which draws items to you when you go above it, is active at all times.
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* ContractualBossImmunity: This is the only game in the series where a ''midboss'' has a bomb shield; in the Phantasm stage, Ran Yakumo, who had previously been the Extra Boss, returns as the midboss, and gets a bomb shield during her two Spell Cards.
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* ContinuityNod: In Stage 3, Alice tells Reimu "Long time no see", and after Reimu replies "We've only just met", Alice asks "Don't you remember me?" This references Alice's previous appearance as the Stage 3 Boss and Extra Boss of '''[[VideoGame/TouhouKaikidanMysticSquare Mystic Square]]'', and Reimu not recognizing her is likely due to her [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference greatly different looks]].

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* ContinuityNod: In Stage 3, Alice tells Reimu "Long time no see", and after Reimu replies "We've only just met", Alice asks "Don't you remember me?" This references Alice's previous appearance as the Stage 3 Boss and Extra Boss of '''[[VideoGame/TouhouKaikidanMysticSquare ''[[VideoGame/TouhouKaikidanMysticSquare Mystic Square]]'', and Reimu not recognizing her is likely due to her [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference greatly different looks]].
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* ContinuityNod: In Stage 3, Alice tells Reimu "Long time no see", and after Reimu replies "We've only just met", Alice asks "Don't you remember me?" This references Alice's previous appearance as the Stage 3 Boss and Extra Boss of '''[[VideoGame/TouhouKaikidanMysticSquare Mystic Square]]'', and Reimu not recognizing her is likely due to her [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference greatly different looks]].
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* BossAlteringConsequence: In the Stage 4 boss fight, the Prismriver sister you damaged most during the 1st spell card will attack you alone for the 2nd spell card, with each sister having a different attack pattern.

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* BonusBoss: As usual, completing the game will unlock the Extra Stage, where the player faces [[AsianFoxSpirit Ran Yakumo]]. However, completing PCB's Extra Stage and capturing (Beat without bombing or dying) 60 unique spellcards across all 3 heroines will unlock the ''Phantasm'' Stage, where the player fights Ran's master [[TheArchmage Yukari Yakumo]].


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* {{Superboss}}: As usual, completing the game will unlock the Extra Stage, where the player faces [[AsianFoxSpirit Ran Yakumo]]. However, completing PCB's Extra Stage and capturing (Beat without bombing or dying) 60 unique spellcards across all 3 heroines will unlock the ''Phantasm'' Stage, where the player fights Ran's master [[TheArchmage Yukari Yakumo]].

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* DeadCharacterWalking: Certain versions of this game has Merlin Prismriver continue attacking even after the Prismriver sisters are supposed to be defeated, potentially killing your character. So much for sisterly solidarity. This bug has been [[MemeticMutation mercilessly ridiculed]] by {{doujin}} artists.



* GameBreakingBug: The Prismriver sisters' glitch, that was unexplained until 2022; [[https://nylilsa.github.io/#/bugs/th07/0 precisely timed pattern clears with Sakuya]] lead to stack overflow that causes Merlin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU2Z6VobIvc&feature=related to fail to transition properly into the final spellcard]] and continue to attack the player -- causing her to lose lives even ''after'' the battle has ended.

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* GameBreakingBug: The Prismriver sisters' glitch, that was unexplained until 2022; [[https://nylilsa.github.io/#/bugs/th07/0 precisely timed pattern clears with Sakuya]] lead to stack overflow that causes Merlin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU2Z6VobIvc&feature=related to fail to transition properly into the final spellcard]] and continue to attack the player -- causing her the player to lose lives even ''after'' the battle has ended.ended. This bug has been [[MemeticMutation mercilessly ridiculed]] by {{doujin}} artists.
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* GameBreakingBug: The Prismriver sisters' glitch, that was unexplained until 2022; [[https://nylilsa.github.io/#/bugs/th07/0 precisely timed pattern clears with Sakuya]] lead to stack overflow that causes Merlin [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU2Z6VobIvc&feature=related to fail to transition properly into the final spellcard]] and continue to attack the player -- causing her to lose lives even ''after'' the battle has ended.
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** Cirno is referred to as an ice youkai in her character profile. Her being an especially powerful fairy, and indeed that being something separate from a Youkai, wouldn't be established under ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''.

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** Cirno is referred to as an ice youkai in her character profile. Her being an especially powerful fairy, and indeed that being something separate from a Youkai, wouldn't be established under until ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''.
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: When you arrive at the end of Stage 4, it takes a while for the pre-boss cutscene to begin, and even longer for said boss (or rather, boss''es''), to actually appear. When playing as Reimu, she actually lampshades, "Doesn't someone usually pop out with a response at a time like this?", and only then does Lunasa Prismriver present herself.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Yukari is treated as a regular Youkai who just happens to have the power to manipulate boundaries, and it's implied she and Reimu aren't personally familiar with each other. Her role as Gensokyo's leading founder and Reimu's StealthMentor wouldn't be established until the following game.

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** Cirno is referred to as an ice youkai in her character profile. Her being an especially powerful fairy, and indeed that being something separate from a Youkai, wouldn't be established under ''Phantasmagoria of Flower View''.
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Yukari is treated as a regular Youkai who just happens to have the power to manipulate boundaries, and it's implied she and Reimu aren't personally familiar with each other. Her role as Gensokyo's leading founder and Reimu's StealthMentor wouldn't be established until the following game.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Yukari is treated as a regular Youkai who just happens to have the power to manipulate boundaries, and it's implied she and Reimu aren't personally familiar with each other. Her role as Gensokyo's leading founder and Reimu's StealthMentor wouldn't be established until the following game.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Yuyuko's father, all but directly stated to be the real-life poet Saigyou Hoshi, is generally agreed to have lived in the 12th century. This would place Yuyuko's timeline over a ''century'' out of sync, given that she supposedly died as an adult over 1000 years ago.
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* TheWorfEffect: Ran Yakumo is a [[{{Kitsune}} nine-tailed fox]], one of the most powerful classes of {{Youkai}}, and is capable of binding lesser youkai as [[{{Familiar}} shikigami]]. But Ran herself is ''Yukari's'' shikigami, which hypes up Yukari as being stronger still.

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* TheWorfEffect: Ran Yakumo is a [[{{Kitsune}} [[AsianFoxSpirit nine-tailed fox]], one of the most powerful classes of {{Youkai}}, and is capable of binding lesser youkai as [[{{Familiar}} shikigami]]. But Ran herself is ''Yukari's'' shikigami, which hypes up Yukari as being stronger still.
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* BonusBoss: As usual, completing the game will unlock the Extra Stage, where the player faces [[{{Kitsune}} Ran Yakumo]]. However, completing PCB's Extra Stage and capturing (Beat without bombing or dying) 60 unique spellcards across all 3 heroines will unlock the ''Phantasm'' Stage, where the player fights Ran's master [[TheArchmage Yukari Yakumo]].

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* BonusBoss: As usual, completing the game will unlock the Extra Stage, where the player faces [[{{Kitsune}} [[AsianFoxSpirit Ran Yakumo]]. However, completing PCB's Extra Stage and capturing (Beat without bombing or dying) 60 unique spellcards across all 3 heroines will unlock the ''Phantasm'' Stage, where the player fights Ran's master [[TheArchmage Yukari Yakumo]].

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* BonusBoss: As usual, completing the game will unlock the Extra Stage, where the player faces [[{{Kitsune}} Ran Yakumo]]. However, completing PCB's Extra Stage will unlock the ''Phantasm'' Stage, where the player fights Ran's master [[TheArchmage Yukari Yakumo]].

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* BonusBoss: As usual, completing the game will unlock the Extra Stage, where the player faces [[{{Kitsune}} Ran Yakumo]]. However, completing PCB's Extra Stage and capturing (Beat without bombing or dying) 60 unique spellcards across all 3 heroines will unlock the ''Phantasm'' Stage, where the player fights Ran's master [[TheArchmage Yukari Yakumo]].
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''Touhou Youyoumu''[[note]]roughly "Ghostly Dream" - ''youyou'' is normally "gradually", [[{{Pun}} but here it's spelled like]] the first half of "{{youkai}}"[[/note]]'' ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2003. It's the seventh installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' franchise.

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''Touhou Youyoumu''[[note]]roughly "Ghostly Dream" - ''youyou'' is normally "gradually", [[{{Pun}} but here it's spelled like]] the first half of "{{youkai}}"[[/note]]'' ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2003. It's the seventh installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' franchise.
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* AscendedGlitch: The deathbomb, previously a bug in ''EOSD'', was made a standard gameplay mechanic in this release.
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* RecurringRiff: Parts of ''Mystic Square'' Stage 3 theme ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMaqhhrZkvc Romantic Children]]'' get reused in this game's Stage 3 Boss theme ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwstM4vZC8 Doll Judgement]]''.

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* RecurringRiff: Parts of ''Mystic Square'' Stage 3 theme ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMaqhhrZkvc Romantic Children]]'' get reused in this game's Stage 3 Boss theme ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwstM4vZC8 Doll Judgement]]''.Judgement]]''; fittingly enough, Alice was originally the Stage 3 boss in that game, as well.
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''Touhou Youyoumu''[[note]]roughly "Ghostly Dream" - ''youyou'' is normally "gradually", [[{{Pun}} but here it's spelled like]] the first half of "{{youkai}}"[[/note]]'' ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2003. It's the seventh installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' series.

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''Touhou Youyoumu''[[note]]roughly "Ghostly Dream" - ''youyou'' is normally "gradually", [[{{Pun}} but here it's spelled like]] the first half of "{{youkai}}"[[/note]]'' ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2003. It's the seventh installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' series.
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* UndergroundMonkey: Yukari fights like a more difficult version of Ran and even has similar theme music, {{justifed}} by her being Ran's "programmer" and the source of her power. By WordOfGod, Ran should be taken as a weaker version of Yukari rather than the other way around.

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* UndergroundMonkey: Yukari fights like a more difficult version of Ran and even has similar theme music, {{justifed}} {{justified}} by her being Ran's "programmer" and the source of her power. By WordOfGod, Ran should be taken as a weaker version of Yukari rather than the other way around.
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* EstablishingCharacterMusic: Used to show the relationship between Yukari and her [[{{Familiar}} shikigami]] Ran. Ran's theme ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul8UFl72KOY Maiden's Illusionary Funeral ~ Necro-Fantasy]]'' has a simple, restrained rhythm broken up by a trumpet chorus. Yukari's theme ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=195XntreoMc Necrofantasia]]'' is a more fast-paced, chaotic and eerie version of this chorus.


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* UndergroundMonkey: Yukari fights like a more difficult version of Ran and even has similar theme music, {{justifed}} by her being Ran's "programmer" and the source of her power. By WordOfGod, Ran should be taken as a weaker version of Yukari rather than the other way around.
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->''The next world, resplendent with sin-laden cherry blossoms.\\
Unseeable in life; unseeable again in death.''

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''Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2003. It's the seventh installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' series.

Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame and Sakuya Izayoi are trying to find who is causing winter that doesn't seem to end.

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''Touhou Youyoumu Youyoumu''[[note]]roughly "Ghostly Dream" - ''youyou'' is normally "gradually", [[{{Pun}} but here it's spelled like]] the first half of "{{youkai}}"[[/note]]'' ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2003. It's the seventh installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' series.

It's May, and Gensokyo is gripped by [[EndlessWinter an unnaturally long winter]]. But {{cherry blossoms}} float on the wind, meaning ''somewhere'' is still experiencing spring. Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame and Sakuya Izayoi are trying set out to follow the trail to its source, gathering every drop of spring they can find who along the way.

While ''[[VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''
is causing winter the start of the Windows series, it's ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' that doesn't seem to end.
gives ''Touhou'' [[{{Worldbuilding}} a defined setting]] and kicks off its MythArc, differentiating it from [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness the anything-goes days of the PC-98 games]].


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* BonusBoss: As usual, completing the game will unlock the Extra Stage, where the player faces [[{{Kitsune}} Ran Yakumo]]. However, completing PCB's Extra Stage will unlock the ''Phantasm'' Stage, where the player fights Ran's master [[TheArchmage Yukari Yakumo]].


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* ContinuityCreep: ''PCB'' marks the start of ''Touhou'''s switch to heavier worldbuilding.


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* {{Foil}}: Sets up the contrasting duos of Reimu/Yukari, Marisa/Alice, Sakuya/Remilia and Youmu/Yuyuko, as preparation for [[VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight the next game]].
* HellGate: Due to the boundary between Gensokyo and the Netherworld being weakened, phantoms have started to leak out into Gensokyo, becoming noticeable by the time of the Extra Stage. {{Downplayed}} since they don't do much harm other than [[GhostlyChill make their surroundings colder]].
* HitboxDissonance: In addition to characters' hitboxes being smaller than their sprite, this game marks the introduction of Reimu having a smaller hitbox than other characters.
* PromotedToPlayable: Sakuya, returning from ''[[VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]''.
* RecurringBoss: Chen first appears as the Stage 2 boss, then in powered-up form as the midboss of the Extra Stage. Likewise for Ran appearing first as the Extra Stage boss, then as the Phantasm Stage midboss.


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* RedHerring: The demo ends with Stage 3 boss Alice Margatroid, a redesigned version of Alice from ''Mystic Square'', who greets the protagonist as an old friend. Sounds like another returning PC-98 character will be behind the incident? Nope, and this Alice turns out to have a completely different BackStory from her PC-98 incarnation.
* SealTheBreach: The Extra and Phantasm Stages are about the PlayerCharacter seeking out [[BarrierMaiden Yukari Yakumo]] and reminding her of her promise to repair the barrier between Gensokyo and the Netherworld.
* ThereWasADoor: Instead of flying over the barrier to the Netherworld like Marisa and Sakuya, Reimu ''breaks'' it. She then complains that it was too weak and anyone could wander in by mistake, much to Youmu's annoyance.
* WolfPackBoss: The Prismriver sisters of Stage 4, who fight as a trio.
* TheWorfEffect: Ran Yakumo is a [[{{Kitsune}} nine-tailed fox]], one of the most powerful classes of {{Youkai}}, and is capable of binding lesser youkai as [[{{Familiar}} shikigami]]. But Ran herself is ''Yukari's'' shikigami, which hypes up Yukari as being stronger still.
* WorldBuilding: While the setting was first named "Gensokyo" ("Land of Illusions") in ''[[VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil Embodiment of Scarlet Devil]]'',[[note]]This name had earlier appeared in the title of ''Touhou Gensoukyou ~ Lotus Land Story'', but referring to something else entirely[[/note]] ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' is the first installment to expand it beyond "a remote place in the mountains of Japan", introducing concepts like the [[FantasticNatureReserve Great Hakurei Barrier]] and the unusual relationship between humans and youkai. ZUN claims that introducing a character like Yukari literally "set the boundaries" for the first time of what would fit in the setting and what wouldn't.
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''Touhou Youyoumu ~ Perfect Cherry Blossom'' is a video game created by Team Shanghai Alice for Windows computers in 2003. It's the seventh installment in the ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' series.

Reimu Hakurei, Marisa Kirisame and Sakuya Izayoi are trying to find who is causing winter that doesn't seem to end.

The game features the Cherry Points mechanic. Shooting enemies gives Cherry Points, bombing or dying reduces them, and getting 50000 of them grants a temporary shield.

The game's official website can be found [[http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/html/th07.html here]] (in Japanese).
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* CherryBlossoms: Present here, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin of course]]. They apparently contain the power of spring. Some of the bosses charge their spell cards by absorbing cherry blossoms.
* DeadCharacterWalking: Certain versions of this game has Merlin Prismriver continue attacking even after the Prismriver sisters are supposed to be defeated, potentially killing your character. So much for sisterly solidarity. This bug has been [[MemeticMutation mercilessly ridiculed]] by {{doujin}} artists.
* EndlessWinter: [[CuteGhostGirl Yuyuko]] steals spring to feed a giant monstrous cherry tree in the ghost world, causing perpetual winter in the land of Gensokyo.
* RecurringRiff: Parts of ''Mystic Square'' Stage 3 theme ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMaqhhrZkvc Romantic Children]]'' get reused in this game's Stage 3 Boss theme ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVwstM4vZC8 Doll Judgement]]''.
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