Nightmare Trip

Developer:	Outside Sotonohito
Release date:	October 26 2018

Nightmare Trip (ナイトメアトリップ) is a shmup by Outside Sotonohito released in October 26 2018 as a freeware doujin game. It is highly inspired in Touhou games like Imperishable Night and Elegant Impermanence of Sakura. The game uses free royalty music from Dova Syndrome.

Gameplay Overview

The player controls a team of 2 characters, the primary character fires the unfocused shots, while the secondary character fires the focused shots. When destroying enemies, stars and Dream Power (DP) bubbles will appear. When enough Dream Power bubbles are collected, a Dream Power circle will be added to the Dream Power bars. Dream Power consists of acting as a shield when bullets hit the player`s hitbox. Be aware, all Dream Power circles will be gone upon shield activation. Up to 5 Dream Power circles can be collected.

Scoring

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Scoring consists getting stars, increasing the score and increasing the multiplier by obtaining Dream Power circles. Dream power circles also multiply the score rate. If the player manages to No-Miss No Bomb an entire boss` phase, a Perfect Fight Bonus is awarded. If the player gets hit while having a Dream Power circle or when bombs but never dies during a boss` phase, it is considered a Beautiful Fight Bonus. After clearing the game, the player`s remaining lives will sum up to the total score.

Difficulties

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-Game Start: The standard game mode that has 4 difficulty modes

• Casual
• Maniac
• Expert
• Nightmare

-Extra Start: An insanely difficult Extra stage that features unique bosses.

Character teams

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• Madoka and Makoto:

Madoka (as unfocused mode character) can fire shots that bounce off the left and right walls, and her bomb releases cake explosions all over the screen. Makoto (as focused mode 
character) can fire forward penetrating star shots, and her bomb is a forward stream of black and white waves.

• Yukino and Mizuki:

Yukino (as unfocused mode character) can fire wide butterflies that can also target enemies, and her bomb releases penetratring butterflies in all directions. Mizuki (as focused      
mode character) has bits that go after enemies, and her bomb is a bubble wave that slowly moves forward. 

• Nobara and Matsuri:

Nobara (as unfocused mode character) can fire wide shots, and her bomb acts as a protection field that can also damage enemies and cancel bullets (pretty much like Karous and Radirgy). Matsuri (as focused mode character) fires auto aimed shots, and her bomb launches a series of explosives that when they impact, they release an explosion if a flower 
shape.

Items

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	Star: These star appear from destroyed enemies. They also appear from cancelled bullets after beating a whole boss phase.
	Dream Power bubble: They appear when attacking enemies, which fill up the DP gauge. Depending on how close the player attacks an enemy, the size of the DP bubbles will vary.
	Bomb: Grants the player an extra bomb.
	1UP: Grants the player an extra life. Appears when destroying the big diamond from Yujiru (the Stage 3 Midboss).

True Last Boss / TLB

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In order to fight the TLB, the player must not get hit until obtaining all 5 DP circles. When all 5 DP circles are obtained, a gold star will appear on the right side of the DP circles, which means the access to the TLB is granted. After defeating the regular form of Kikuzuki, she will reappear in her true form, equipped with a bomber-proof shield.

Trivia

• The game is inspired in Touhou games like Imperishable Night and Elegant Impermanence of Sakura.
• Nobara`s bomb is a reference to the D.F.S. from Karous and the ABS Net from Radirgy.
• There`s a section in Stage 5 that has enemies rotating in circles which makes a refernce to the Tiger Lillies wheels from DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu.

Replay Index

Replays from players
Player	Mode	Character team	Score	Area	Link	Date
Rezardi	Expert	Yukino and Mizuki	13568797830	ALL (No TLB)	YouTube	2021 October 5th
JulianSeph 842 Gamez	Casual	Yukino and Mizuki	105596839250	TLB ALL	YouTube	2023 April 12th
JulianSeph 842 Gamez	Casual	Nobara and Matsuri	116422447480	TLB ALL	YouTube	2023 August 20th