Touhou Danmaku: Infinity

Touhou Danmaku: Infinity is a Touhou Project fan-made bullet-hell shooter built around successive boss fights. It has no particular story. The game features 107 bosses—16 in Level 1, 15 in Level 2, and 18 each in Levels 3 and 4, followed by 20 each in Levels 5 and 6—and 147 Spell Cards. Its roster includes almost all characters who have used Spell Cards in the original games from Touhou Koumakyou onward.

Game modes

You can choose between two modes. In Infinite mode, bosses keep appearing until you lose all your lives; there is no clear condition. In AllBoss mode, defeating every boss completes the game.

Dodging and resources

Taking a hit costs one life. If you are hit with no lives remaining, the game ends. Using a bomb consumes one life fragment and unleashes a spiritual attack that clears bullets like being hit and grants about three seconds of invulnerability.

You build fragment charge by grazing bullets. When you defeat a Spell Card or a regular danmaku attack with charge at 100%, a life fragment appears. The required amount of grazing increases each time a boss uses a Spell Card. Charge can exceed 100% even though the display does not show it; the excess carries over when a fragment appears. Fragments can appear even when you are already at maximum lives, consuming the charge, but they do not appear—and charge is not consumed—when a life item appears.

Items and viewing

All items are collected automatically. Star items appear when enemy bullets disappear and always award the same score. Point items appear when you defeat a Spell Card; more time remaining means more appear, while your total grazes and Spell Cards captured affect their score. Collect three life fragments to gain one life, while life items grant one life and appear under specific conditions when you capture a Spell Card.

You can enter View Mode by pressing Tab on the title screen. You cannot be hit in this mode, but rankings and Spell Card records are not saved.