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Double Spoiler: Touhou Bunkachou is a photography game in which you control the tengu newspaper reporter Aya Shameimaru. You photograph the youkai, humans and other residents of Gensokyo to inflict mental damage. Avoid enemy bullets and the subjects themselves while photographing bosses; completing a mission requires taking the specified number of successful photos. Failed missions do not count toward your high score.

Photographing bosses

Your film gradually reloads over time, and you can take a photo when it reaches 100%. Hold the photo button to enter viewfinder mode, where you move the focus frame instead of Aya and can photograph a spot some distance away. The frame shrinks over time, and if the film is exposed before you take the shot, the photo fails. Holding the photo and slow-movement buttons together reloads film much faster, while also letting you move with high precision.

A photo counts as successful when the boss is in the frame. Shots that miss the subject do not count toward the mission, but they can still clear enemy bullets. Taking a photo of a dense barrage can help you escape danger, and failed shots are discarded rather than kept in Aya’s notebook, shortening the wait until the next shot.

Scoring and shot types

Photos score more when they capture more enemy bullets and place the boss closer to the center. Other conditions can add bonuses, including capturing both Aya and the boss, taking a shot in a dangerous situation, photographing the boss at close range, using the short edge of the frame, and getting a clear image. When a large circle appears around a boss with a clacking sound, photographing it at that moment earns a bonus.

Photographing a barrage also erases the bullets caught in the shot, and the photo’s score depends on the beauty of the captured barrage. The highest-scoring photo is saved in Aya’s notebook as a decisive-moment photo.

Controls and camera

You can move slowly by holding the slow-movement button. The camera’s rotation button switches between vertical and horizontal framing. Vertical framing generally reaches farther and can help with missions.

In viewfinder mode, the focus frame turns red when it contains the boss, indicating a successful shot. Its initial position follows the viewfinder cursor: the cursor swings toward your direction of travel at high speed and points toward the boss while you move slowly. If it is not aimed at the boss after you approach quickly, briefly moving slowly can realign it.

Saving photos

You can lock a decisive-moment photo during subject selection; locked photos cannot be replaced by a higher-scoring shot. On the stage-clear or game-over screen, you can browse the displayed photos and manually save one, even if the current photo is locked.

A boss cannot be photographed successfully while it is absent, off-screen, translucent or transformed into something else. The shot will also fail if the film is exposed before you take it.