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| Author | taisei-project |
| Type | Shooter |
| Version | 1.4.1 |
| License | Mixed |
| Last Updated | 2024/03/11 |
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Taisei Project (泰西プロジェクト) is an open source fan-game set in the world of Tōhō Project. It is a top-down vertical-scrolling curtain fire shooting game (STG), also known as a "bullet hell" or "danmaku." STGs are fast-paced games focused around pattern recognition and mastery through practice.
Tōhō Project is an indie game series known for its ensemble cast of characters and memorable soundtracks. It is produced by a single artist known as ZUN, and has a permissive license which allows for indie derivative works such as Taisei Project to legally exist.
Taisei is not a "clone" of Tōhō, and tells an original story with its own music, art, gameplay mechanics, and codebase. While some familiarity with Tōhō is helpful, the gameplay can be enjoyed on its own without prior knowledge of the series. Its development began in 2011 by Laochailan, under the tentative title "OpenTH". Akaricchi, another programmer, became involved with the project starting in 2012, and the game saw its full first release later that year.
Taisei Project is officially supported on Windows, Linux, macOS, and through WebGL-enabled browsers such as Firefox and Chromium-based browsers (Chrome, Edge, etc). It can also be compiled for a number of other operating systems.
Note: Use at your own risk.
Installation
Download the latest release, and extract the archive in the /switch/ folder on your SD Card.
Then, run the game from the hbmenu using hbl.
Note: This will crash if executed from an applet such as the Photo/Library applet, be sure to launch it from hbmenu on top of the game of your choice, which can be done by holding R over any installed title on latest Atmosphère, with default settings.
User guide
Taisei is a shoot-em-up game. Lots of bullets cover the screen and if you are hit by one, you die.
To make things easier, your hitbox is very small–much smaller than your character.
If you get hit you lose a life; if you are out of lives, it’s Game Over, but you get a few Continues to keep playing (without scores).
See here for gameplay instructions. For the story, read this (Spoiler warning).
Screenshots
Media
Taisei Project v1.3.1 — ReimuA Stage 1 Hard (Akari)
Changelog
v1.4.1 2024/03/11
- Fixed a crash that happened after a few minutes would pass without any input if the intro cutscene had previously played.
- Fixed a crash when attempting to start a stage on OpenBSD systems.
- Fixed heavy audio distortion on the Switch.
- This was a matter of updating the SDK, and entailed no code changes on Taisei's side.
- On the Switch the resolution will now automatically adapt to the console's docked/undocked state.
- Threaded loading is now enabled on the Switch.
- Optimized a few hot paths in the game update loop.
- Optimized the tree branch mesh in the Stage 2 background to avoid rendering a lot of tiny triangles.
- Worked around a Meson issue that broke Emscripten builds.
- Enabled some "modern" WASM features for the Emscripten build. This raises the browser version requirements for the official build to Chromium 91 or Firefox 89.
- Added a gamemode build option to control whether to enable GameMode integration on Linux.
v1.4.0 2023/09/08
- The game logic engine has been rewritten from the ground up.
- Every stage has been rewritten and substantially redesigned, and some remade from scratch.
- The dialogue and story have been completely rewritten. Starting to notice a pattern?
- All stages have received updated, detailed 3D backgrounds with improved rendering.
- New art for the endings and lively character expressions has been added.
v1.3.2 2021/05/01
- This is a stable maintenance release. It features various bugfixes, optimizations, and minor features backported from the v1.4 development tree.
- There are no gameplay changes and this version should be replay-compatible with the initial v1.3 release.
v1.3.1 2019/09/30
- This is a stable maintenance release. It features some important bugfixes and a few optimizations and visual improvements backported from the v1.4 development tree, as well as new character art by @afensorm.
- Other than fixing some rare game-breaking bugs, there are no gameplay changes and this version should be replay-compatible with the initial v1.3 release.
- Semi-official homebrew Switch binaries are now also available, thanks to @p-sam's porting efforts. Use at your own risk.
- Silent update : recompiled with latest libnx.
External links
- Official website - https://taisei-project.org
- GitHub - https://github.com/taisei-project/taisei
- ForTheUsers - https://www.switchbru.com/appstore/#/app/Taisei