I do not know if I am the only one that has gone through this: You hear a new Touhou song and your are like "may be, hmm, not bad. Let's leave it in a play list." Then you are working in something and you are just like "crap what is this marveolous thing! Oh yes, that one." It had happened to me in six Touhou songs, by now.
You should try getting ZUN's CDs, you can find them on the moriya shrine website, quite good, got songs like this and the soundtracks for all the original PC-98 games. There's even originals of songs we hear in later games, including Chinese tea, etc. All in all, the CDs are great.
The pc98 songs all have a much darker tone than the windows ones, which I find very enjoyable. It adds a sense of intensity to games which are already really intense.
PC-98 didnt get that much justice, but with more recent and newer technology,it migtve sounded better. But I believe the retro effect of PC-98 is what makes it extremely special and uniqie
*_Kouji_* _コウジ_ ¤ Plant fairy ☆ Turning into a ball of light A fairy who lives in Mugenkan because the pink flower she springs out from was potted and kept in as decoration. She has an aura of positivity that makes anyone near her feel good.
Hands down my personal favourite used PC-98 stage theme. Bad Apple is amazing, pThe Last Judgement is wonderful, The Legend of KAGE is beautiful and Himorogi, Murasaka ni Moe is a gift unto humanity, but Alice Maestra is truly a wonder.
Ugh this is soooo good. I like to imagine this one being Reimu''s stage theme, and Dreamy Pilot being Marisa's stage theme. I know it's not true, but it would've been cool..
I've always thought Alice Maestra would be Marisa's, because y'know... Alice. But yeahh, true reason is probably because I play Reimu more compared to Marisa in LLS.
Oh my goddddd this theme is amazing. It might be my favorite PC-98 stage theme actually. Alice in Wonderland, Bad Apple and Himorogi, Burn in Violet are close though. It's just so pretty and melancholic, and that kind of combination is perfect.
I remember coming across this years after being into the Windows-era Touhou games and realizing just how many times I've heard it before in bits and pieces of fan arranges or medleys, but always thought it was multiple different songs. The melody just has so many different sections that feel "iconic" enough to have been their own song
I discovered this song in one of my first attempts in Touhou 4, which I chose to be my first PC-98 game out of pure random choice. Touhou 7's fourth stage was and remained to be my favourite stage in the series due to its length and the sheer feeling that you are moving at a long distance through the background changes along with beautiful music to tie it all together - but as soon as I heard the opening to Alice Maestra, I felt that this song was going to be great, and had loved it all the way through the incredibly unique stage. Long Touhou stages, usually stage 4s are a rare breed that I wish never died off due to my assumed backlash against them after Touhou 7.
Okay. The song's name contains Alice's name on it. Most of the stage's enemies looks like dolls. The bosses of the stage are Reimu and Marisa, both of them befriended by Alice. Yet Alice appears in Mystic Square...
Didn't alice first appeared in MS?, if you talk about possiblecameos or a foreshadow, these were just references, not allusion to an actual character. And they didn't exactly "befriend" her though, mima and reimu forced her as a servant, marisa hanged her(not suicidal of course) as a "punishment" and yuuka stalked her lol
for me... the stage's enemies kinda looks more like magicians than dolls? wait a minute... many of magicians were slaughtered by Reimu or Marisa? they actually can't respawn because they're dead... 😰
ZUN's comment about the track: "I imagined a cool-looking Western-style mansion while making this song, and it ended up turning into something I really don't understand (^^; But, I think it has an altogether different atmosphere from the the other songs... (Or maybe it's the same (^^;;;)"
Great!! I love when the 8-bit music kicks in at 0:30 :) It gives the "We’re in this together guys. We are the only ones who can defeat this bad guy. Let’s do this” type of feeling!
Hacía ya un tiempo que escuché esta canción, y por fin pude encontrarla, después de ya bastante que la buscaba jajaja Para mi gusto, promete mucho, muy buena está esta música.
This theme has actually made me to try out PC-98 at last. First I was like "Oh lol normal here is so easy, stage 1 clear, stage 2 clear, haha 0 hits 0 bombs used, oh that's Elly lol she's so easy too, oh look it's PC98 Marisa, let's see what can sheOH SHI~ WHAT WAS THAT OMGOMGOMG I CANT EVEN REACT TO BOMB OH SHIIII... fewh, done her, 1 life left. Oh man I've awakened the gazebo... I mean Yuka... ok hard pattern but can make it... still ok... so far so goMASTERSPARKED!!! 0_o" The horror...
the facts that this is the first song i've ever managed to rearrange in Yamaha YMF262 and yeah lots of ppls did prefer my shitposts than my back pain efforts...
this is like a lot of years after but i want to mention maestra literally means teacher in italian i dont know if somebody already mentioned it does that mean alice is a teacher of how to make dolls or something about her grimoire or powerful book ill delete this if somebody already said it
painovoimaton I plan to change that. In my fangame, Stage 6 will have two midbosses and several enemies at the beginning and between the second midboss and the boss.
Probably cause you're getting close to the end of the game by this point? It just sounds sad and dramatic to push you onwards imo, giving the player an exciting stimulation to not give up~
I wouldn't be surprised if ZUN either took some of his old pieces and put them into the newer ones(newer meaning 13 yrs old) or just ended up coming up with it again.
Ernwalfe Green I think I remember now. The arpeggio that plays for nearly the entirety of "Stawberry Crisis!!" Went into "Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom~ Nuclear Fusion" as a melody line.
+Shalashaska Ocelot Necrofantasia is a made up word combining the prefix Necro- meaning dead or death and Fantasia meaning a piece of music with free form and often in an improvised style. So literally "Song of Improvised Death."
To be honest, every time I play the stage with this track, I expect Alice Margatroid to be the boss, not Reimu / Marisa... Just the stage is perfectly designed to suit her.
I have never liked Retribution for the Eternal Night. It's just a fast-paced Theme of Easter Story. Magical Storm, Double Dealing Character's stage 4 theme is however amazing in my opinion. Alice Maestra is pretty good too.
I do not know if I am the only one that has gone through this: You hear a new Touhou song and your are like "may be, hmm, not bad. Let's leave it in a play list." Then you are working in something and you are just like "crap what is this marveolous thing! Oh yes, that one." It had happened to me in six Touhou songs, by now.
It may have happened to me even more often !
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HERALDO SUPREMO 2 Happens to me with about 90% of Touhou songs. Which is a lot. Zun is a genius.
totally relatable
I agree with you very much
I think the PC-98 era has some of the best songs
You should try getting ZUN's CDs, you can find them on the moriya shrine website, quite good, got songs like this and the soundtracks for all the original PC-98 games. There's even originals of songs we hear in later games, including Chinese tea, etc. All in all, the CDs are great.
The pc98 songs all have a much darker tone than the windows ones, which I find very enjoyable. It adds a sense of intensity to games which are already really intense.
@风见幽香 I definitely agree there
It's a quarter of touhou. It can't not have some
PC-98 didnt get that much justice, but with more recent and newer technology,it migtve sounded better. But I believe the retro effect of PC-98 is what makes it extremely special and uniqie
Probably the best stage theme of the PC98 era.
Grossly overlooked.
yes !!
Represents well the whole of the PC98 era being underrated yet amazing, and I'd even say Touhou in general
Yes!
*_Kouji_* _コウジ_
¤ Plant fairy
☆ Turning into a ball of light
A fairy who lives in Mugenkan because the pink flower she springs out from was potted and kept in as decoration. She has an aura of positivity that makes anyone near her feel good.
The way the bass kicks in at the start of this is something else.
Hands down my personal favourite used PC-98 stage theme. Bad Apple is amazing, pThe Last Judgement is wonderful, The Legend of KAGE is beautiful and Himorogi, Murasaka ni Moe is a gift unto humanity, but Alice Maestra is truly a wonder.
i agree
Marisa is plotting something. But this is one of my favourites.
Time to tail Reimu, i don't want her getting there first
Ugh this is soooo good. I like to imagine this one being Reimu''s stage theme, and Dreamy Pilot being Marisa's stage theme. I know it's not true, but it would've been cool..
I've always thought Alice Maestra would be Marisa's, because y'know... Alice. But yeahh, true reason is probably because I play Reimu more compared to Marisa in LLS.
@@Kromiball Alice and Yuuka: ehem*
I fear for Reimu's maidenhood when Marisa is grinning like that
Harristar88 Marisa wants to do something ''fun'' with Reimu. Or maybe that is just my perverted side speaking.
where is that picture from it looks unsual
"I'm just gonna borrow Reimu's virginity"
8 years later this song is still an absolute banger. And 8 years from now I will still be coming back to these osts
@@Praxium 9 year
9 months
dayum, that's some serious passion
The percussion at 1:50 - 2:01 is insane. >u<
I friggin love it~
Especially how it just blends into the normal beat afterwards.
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Drum Master ZUN. B)
It's all over LLS. I love it.
Fun facts : in the "in-game" version, ZUN just use SSG square-noise kick and snare since the ADPCM drum is quiet af
Marisa with a cheshire cat face.
Reimu looks normal, though.
It's not technically the original. I used the tracks from Akyu's Untouched Scores instead of the soundtracks.
Im kinda confused about their difference....
@@KoganeSatot01126 the tracks in Akyuu's Untouched Score sound more clearer than if you were to record the music straight from in-game. :>
@@joururichan oh thanks!
@@joururichanngl ZUN did tweak up his PC-9801-86 card before recording this
Oh my goddddd this theme is amazing. It might be my favorite PC-98 stage theme actually. Alice in Wonderland, Bad Apple and Himorogi, Burn in Violet are close though.
It's just so pretty and melancholic, and that kind of combination is perfect.
I remember coming across this years after being into the Windows-era Touhou games and realizing just how many times I've heard it before in bits and pieces of fan arranges or medleys, but always thought it was multiple different songs. The melody just has so many different sections that feel "iconic" enough to have been their own song
I just realized what awsome of a jazz song this could be... someone needs to make a jazz remix of this!
And then Demetori made the best cover ever
Indeed. It was their Alice Maestra remix that got me into the EPTOS album.
angrodNumenesse ikr
huele a touhou chile
My favorite music stage in LLS🌻❕
Witching dream is also a good one too :)
+loLK Tay komeiji and lotus love
Dream land(for me, the most relaxing 6th stage theme in entire touhou series), a peaceful theme before you encounter a very strong youkai up ahead.
The same to me for two reason :
EPIC DRUM
REMU VS MARSAAAA
I discovered this song in one of my first attempts in Touhou 4, which I chose to be my first PC-98 game out of pure random choice. Touhou 7's fourth stage was and remained to be my favourite stage in the series due to its length and the sheer feeling that you are moving at a long distance through the background changes along with beautiful music to tie it all together - but as soon as I heard the opening to Alice Maestra, I felt that this song was going to be great, and had loved it all the way through the incredibly unique stage. Long Touhou stages, usually stage 4s are a rare breed that I wish never died off due to my assumed backlash against them after Touhou 7.
Stage 4 themes are always the best.
This is my favorite song from the PC-98 era. It sounds dismal without sounding overly dark.
Okay.
The song's name contains Alice's name on it.
Most of the stage's enemies looks like dolls.
The bosses of the stage are Reimu and Marisa, both of them befriended by Alice.
Yet Alice appears in Mystic Square...
Didn't alice first appeared in MS?, if you talk about possiblecameos or a foreshadow, these were just references, not allusion to an actual character.
And they didn't exactly "befriend" her though, mima and reimu forced her as a servant, marisa hanged her(not suicidal of course) as a "punishment" and yuuka stalked her lol
for me... the stage's enemies kinda looks more like magicians than dolls? wait a minute... many of magicians were slaughtered by Reimu or Marisa? they actually can't respawn because they're dead... 😰
Also the midboss of this stage reappears in Mystic Square, directly _in_ Alice's stage
ZUN's comment about the track:
"I imagined a cool-looking Western-style mansion while making this song, and it ended up turning into something I really don't understand (^^;
But, I think it has an altogether different atmosphere from the the other songs...
(Or maybe it's the same (^^;;;)"
Great!! I love when the 8-bit music kicks in at 0:30 :)
It gives the "We’re in this together guys. We are the only ones who can defeat this bad guy. Let’s do this” type of feeling!
Words can't describe how much I loved this song
Marisa has the cutest smile in this picture!
A bit crazy
@@alexmelik4030
“A bit,” huh?
hi this is me from the future, idk why i said this her smile looks kinda crazy
Hacía ya un tiempo que escuché esta canción, y por fin pude encontrarla, después de ya bastante que la buscaba jajaja
Para mi gusto, promete mucho, muy buena está esta música.
Oh, how I love it when you get to fight Marisa or Reimu. I hope ZUN Does this again, but with a good remix of this stage theme!
_Shut up, Komaeda_
HOPE
It’s really hard for me to try to enjoy the older games’ music, but this one really caught my ears. I wonder how that works...
Actually heard Stray Whisper Taker first and had to come listen to the original. It's mesmerizing
Woow just had some goosebumps right there. It's sure been a long time since I heard this theme last time. omg... Didn't expect it at all lol
i love this song so much
That pc 98 music hits different. Especially this song and Doll of misery
I do have to say, after thinking about if for awhile, this is definitely my favorite Touhou song EVER! XD
Fuck, this track...is too powerful..! Really brings me back to the good ol', simpler days. ＺＵＮさん、君がこれを読んだことがあるなら、本当にありがとう！！
this really sounds like doll maker of bucuretsi
12 years, yet it's still a banger
Always 🌟
more like 25 years later, LLS came out in 1998 :P
This theme has actually made me to try out PC-98 at last. First I was like "Oh lol normal here is so easy, stage 1 clear, stage 2 clear, haha 0 hits 0 bombs used, oh that's Elly lol she's so easy too, oh look it's PC98 Marisa, let's see what can sheOH SHI~ WHAT WAS THAT OMGOMGOMG I CANT EVEN REACT TO BOMB OH SHIIII... fewh, done her, 1 life left. Oh man I've awakened the gazebo... I mean Yuka... ok hard pattern but can make it... still ok... so far so goMASTERSPARKED!!! 0_o" The horror...
the facts that this is the first song i've ever managed to rearrange in Yamaha YMF262 and yeah lots of ppls did prefer my shitposts than my back pain efforts...
Absolutely loved this theme! LLS really has some amazing music; one has even gotten viral...
I especially like the first 30 seconds of every loop. c:
1:17 this part reminds me of Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea from Touhou 6...
I love this song so much! It is so good that it gave me chills when I first heard it in game.
Ah, so this is the song that was remixed into "A Single Blow for the Gate of Gensokyo".
I thought it was about Alice Margatroid....
But....
I think this theme foreshadowed touhou 5.
You fighting evil eyes and many other youkai...
Severely underrated
Marisa looks a bit creepy here...
this is like a lot of years after but i want to mention maestra literally means teacher in italian i dont know if somebody already mentioned it
does that mean alice is a teacher of how to make dolls or something about her grimoire or powerful book
ill delete this if somebody already said it
This deserves more love
Favourite song in Lotus Land Story. So adventurous, the entrance of Mugenkan and where Reimu and Marisa fight each other!
This picture is horrifying. Odd, coming from such a peaceful song.
That picture has spirit
Definitely... o.o
> Butterflies
Yes, he did, sir.
The music is great and all, but god damn, this stage is way too long.
Stage fours are always long. They are the long stages in touhou, while stage 6s are short bursts before the impossible final boss.
painovoimaton And the fact that PC-98 stages are even longer compared to windows.
*****
True.
painovoimaton I plan to change that. In my fangame, Stage 6 will have two midbosses and several enemies at the beginning and between the second midboss and the boss.
Imma reply to a 2 year old comment :p
At least this stage is better than PCB's stage 4 *shivers*
I love the PC98 era simply for music like this.
somehow, this theme fits in alice margatroid
yeah I could see this being used as a replacement for Alice in Wonderland in Mystic Square.
Well, it is called _Alice_ Maestra, and LLS was only released months before MS so it's highly possible that it isn't entirely accidental.
NegativeInfinity hell no nothing can replace that theme its a masterfuckinpiece
I know isn't it. I didn't say I didn't say i didn't like it.
What if Alice's real last name was Maestra and Magatroid was the fake one?
1:19: KOKORO WA DOKO MADE
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why this song is so sad? ;w;
Probably cause you're getting close to the end of the game by this point? It just sounds sad and dramatic to push you onwards imo, giving the player an exciting stimulation to not give up~
Beginning of the song is really great and overall this sounds just like how a Stage 4 theme would lol
1:19 Zun definitely reused this part lol
RIP aghart101.
Best theme.
good song
Favorite theme, it's sort of magical...
0:58 seems like cirno's theme
Some parts sounds reeaaaaly similar to Meiling's stage theme :o
4:53 kind of a stretch, but I see it.
1:46 best part
i played LLS for the first time in a while and holy hell i forgot how good this song was lol
This would be Reimu's stage theme in a Team Shanghai Alice vs. Capcom fighting game.
I was think Alice Mangaratroid was here when i readed the name "alice maestra" at the border of the gameplay :c
Well, in touhou 5 yes XD
SEIHOU World theme song in Growtopia
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Fit in deserted place like field with some dead tree
Best quality :p
PC-98 gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling. Perhaps it's because it's less cynical than the Windows era slowly becomes?
This whole theme and stage gives me Alice vibes, and she didn't exist until MS.
I heard a bit of Shanghai Teahouse (EoSD specifically) at 0:55
I wouldn't be surprised if ZUN either took some of his old pieces and put them into the newer ones(newer meaning 13 yrs old) or just ended up coming up with it again.
Ernwalfe Green There was this HUGE example of such that I noticed, but I can't remember it.
Kaiser Dragon
do tell me if you think of it I'm curious now.
Ernwalfe Green I think I remember now. The arpeggio that plays for nearly the entirety of "Stawberry Crisis!!" Went into "Solar Sect of Mystic Wisdom~ Nuclear Fusion" as a melody line.
Wow after hearing the one sang by Nana Takahashi this sounds so different XD
Alice Maestra... Interesting. I don't know any Touhou song with a Spanish word
P.D. My English sucks
Only this
ZUN makes a lot of songs with foreign to Japan names. the most recent is "Occult A la Carte" from ULiL which is french
+The Plus-Minus Complex Oh, I don't know that, thanks
Necrofantasia?
+Shalashaska Ocelot Necrofantasia is a made up word combining the prefix Necro- meaning dead or death and Fantasia meaning a piece of music with free form and often in an improvised style. So literally "Song of Improvised Death."
Marissa's got some *thicc* lips! XD
Really great music! ;D
unironically the hardest stage in the game
That shit-eating grin! XD
Halozy's Collapsing Star Prominence is pretty good, too.
This reminds me of "Echoed Bonds" o.O
0:32 i like this part
0:31
Best everything. XD
To be honest, every time I play the stage with this track, I expect Alice Margatroid to be the boss, not Reimu / Marisa... Just the stage is perfectly designed to suit her.
If you listen closer at the start you can even hear the motif used in the start PCB's stage 3 theme (And maybe Alice's theme too)
emulator actually slows down the game music to like 0.90x, but I think this sounds actually sounds better from it haha
This song makes me feel like I'm lost in a European-style castle
Easily the best song from the PC-98 era.
This has got to be, second best Stage 4 theme (Touhou 8 Stage 4 theme is best, for me at least.)
My best stage 4 always always Fall of Fall Autumn Waterfall. The second is, perhaps, this I think.
I have never liked Retribution for the Eternal Night.
It's just a fast-paced Theme of Easter Story.
Magical Storm, Double Dealing Character's stage 4 theme is however amazing in my opinion. Alice Maestra is pretty good too.
painovoimaton
No wait what am I saying, Alice Maestra is fucking amazing.
painovoimaton I agree. Magical Storm, then this. Magical Storm is my favorite due to its atmosphere...
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Pensé que este tema era de Alice porque tiene su nombre y maestra porque te enseña cómo controlar muñecas
i hear Cirno's theme
You probably mean Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea from Touhou 6 right?
@@anunknowninvididual2005 could be both. EoSD does have influence of the pc 98 games.
I kind of dislike how many arranges leave out the bass drop
Isn't Nostalgic Blood of the East or Plain Asia have some of this in it?
Does anyone have the image from the video?
*it
1:20 lol mike theme
tbh i like Dreamy Pilot more
Same- dreamy pilot is my favourite touhou song
Reimu is the real Alice.
Nah the real Alice is Alice Margatroid you Dumbass 😂
or Marisa
Friendship ended with Bad Apple, now Alice Maestra is my best friend