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What is Touhou LostWord?

Touhou LostWord is a Touhou JRPG officially licensed by Team Shanghai Alice.  As a spin-off from the main series, combat revolves around turn-based skill usage instead of bullet hell gameplay, with visual novel-based storytelling and professional music, artwork, and voice acting from people passionate about the Touhou franchise.  Despite the change in genre, the developers are confident in translating the feel of a Touhou game into a mobile JRPG with spell cards, bullets, and an impressive soundtrack.

Downloading Touhou LostWord

Touhou LostWord is available for free on the App store for iOS users and Google Play Store for Android. To download the game, simply visit the link of your respective system.

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Touhou LostWord is available in many different countries. However, if it does not show up in your country's App Store/ Play Store, that means it is not available. In this case, there are still a few options available, such as waiting for Touhou LostWord to become available in your country, or downloading the game through a different country's App Store/ Play Store.

How Do I Play Touhou LostWord?

While the game does provide a nice tutorial on how to play the game, things might seem overwhelming at first.  Here are some common terms in the game before starting:

Glossary

  • Friends - These are the playable characters of the game.  Friends are primarily obtained via Prayer, but are sometimes obtained from special game campaigns.  
  • Prayer - The primary method of obtaining Friends.  Each roll requires either 1500 Coins and 5 Seal Crystals for one draw, or 15000 coins and 50 Seal Crystals for a ten-draw.  It costs 600 God Crystals for a premium ten-draw that guarantees one Friend.
  • Seal Crystals/God Crystals - These are the currencies used for Prayer.  Seal Crystals are obtained for free via login bonuses, clearing stages, and more methods, while God Crystals can rarely be obtained for free but are primarily paid.  God Crystals can also be used to purchase Costumes.
  • Coins - the main transactional currency of the game.  Coins are used in many activities from Prayer to strengthening Friends.  They can be earned through various quests.
  • Spirit Points - the other main currency of the game, this is like the "Stamina" of the game.  Stages with battles will cost Spirit Points to attempt.  Spirit Points are also used to purchase food for recovering Friends' morale.  
  • Story Cards - These are the equipment of this game. Obtained from Prayer, events, log-in rewards, and some stages. 

Combat

Combat is most of the active gameplay in Touhou LostWord.  It is turn-based, where players select an action for each character/use a skill, then let the turn play out.

Every turn there are a couple of different options to choose from.  The player can choose non-active actions:

- Graze - dodging attacks for a turn

- Skills - using skills that  have various effects from buffs, debuffs, and more.

- Boost - Power up a shot/spell card.

- Target a specific enemy.

Next, the player can choose a combat action.

  • Shot - basic attack cards.
  • Spell Cards - powerful attacks with a cooldown.

Story

Touhou LostWord prides itself on having a strong narrative campaign.  Stories can be read by selecting them on the mission screen, or revisiting unlocked stories in the library.  Additionally, not all missions have battles tied to them.  Playing a mission with battles will cost Spirit Points.  This cost is based on how many characters you deploy, and how upgraded they are. You can see how much a character will cost to deploy on their stats screen. 

Character Raising

Characters are primarily leveled up through battle, but can also gain levels passively by leaving them at School.  In addition to levels, characters can also get stronger by enhancement (requires enhancement items), learn new Spell Cards by Limit Breaking (requires a duplicate character or a rare currency called Paper Doll), and level up Skills by Awakening (requires an enhancement currency called Tokens and certain enhancement items).  

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