Koumajou Densetsu (AKA: Legend of Scarlet Devil Castle, 紅魔城伝説 緋色の交響曲, こうまじょうでんせつ あけいろのこうきょうきょく) is a series of independent (fan-made) games inspired from Castlevania developed by the fan club Frontier Aja from Japan. It can be seen as the fusion of KONAMI‘s Castlevania series and Toho Project‘s (AKA: TouHou Project, 東方プロジェクト, Touhou Purojekuto, Project Shrine Maiden) series of doujin games.

Both T?h? Project and Frontier Aja are independent doujin game communities from Japan. And Koumajou Densetsu I: Scarlet Symphony (Koumajou Densetsu I: Akeiro no Koukyoukyoku, Legend of Scarlet Devil Castle I: Scarlet Symphony) is actually a secondary creation of doujin game based on the series games of Toho Project with very rich content and Castlevania style. Moreover, in order to keep the original features of Toho Project series, Koumajou Densetsu I was designed into the classic side-scrolling type adventure action game with a total of 8 stages.

Koumajou Densetsu II: Stranger’s Requiem (Koumajou Densetsu II: Yougen no Chingonka, Legend of Scarlet Devil Castle II: Stranger’s Requiem, 紅魔城伝説Ⅱ 妖幻の鎮魂歌, ストレンジャーズ・レクイエム) is the sequel of Koumajou Densetsu I: Scarlet Symphony, which continued the 1st generation of Castlevania style, but changed the game protagonist and main weapons (from whip to knife), supported props/partners up to 7 (of course, they are not allowed to attend at the same time, and need to be chosen before the checkpoints, up to 3).

Although as secondary fan-made game works, we can see that they have released its second edition, which is clearly enough to see their popularity.

// Key Features //

• 8 stages (in each game)
• Original theme song and OST
• 14 professional voice-over artists dubbing for the roles
• Classic and popular cartoon characters
• The whole plot is filled with human voices
• Powerful secondary weapons and skills
• Saving state allowed
• Adjustable life quantities
• Difficulty level is adjustable
• Many enemies and BOSS settings
• Gamepad support

*** Highly recommend using the game pad to play this game, and you are only allowed to set the handle buttons within the config.

// Edition Statement //

AppNee provides the Koumajou Densetsu I & II portable full undamaged versions for Windows, with latest update from official and multiple language files.

// Prompts //

• Mare sure run game under a path with only English name
• For English & French translation files, just extract and copy them to “data\language” folder
• config.exe for setting your game setting from window to fullscreen
• keyconfig.exe to set your keys or game pad setting
• Game Crashes depend on how you set the GPU or CPU for game (that means if your computer doesn’t have GPU then set it to CPU instead
• Recommended to play the game on window mode, because sometimes the game crashes on fullscreen mode (especially with GPU) – for older Windows, just set the game to window mode and CPU

// Download URLs //

Edition	Version	Language	Download	Size
Koumajou Densetsu I: Scarlet Symphony	v1.04a	EN/FR/JP		198 MB
Koumajou Densetsu II: Stranger’s Requiem	v1.01	JP	lost	402 MB
Koumajou Densetsu II: Stranger’s Requiem	v1.02a	EN		412 MB
Koumajou Densetsu I & Koumajou Densetsu II	v1.04a & v1.02a	CN		771 MB
Language Translation Patch	for Koumajou Densetsu II	EN & FR	lost	280 MB

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