Touhou 1: Prayer's Unanswered

Quick Note: Please play and/or beat the following games to understand some context about the story. Also, please read this story while playing the song "Misri Halek" on loop. It'll enhance the experience. (This is also a sequel to Touhou 5: Dark Square so please read that first.
 * Touhou 1: Highly Responsive to Prayers

Past the Mystic Square ROM I had found earlier, the forum user posted again about one of Highly Responsive to Prayers. Which, by the way, Highly Responsive to Prayers does not have any dialogue at all; nor really any story.

This motherfucker's PC must crash a lot; I was majorly questioning their damn specs. I replied to them and asked why their PC crashed so much, and what their specs were. LO AND BEHOLD, He was running Windows 7 with 1GB of RAM, and a CPU from 2001. I was annoyed at this; what the hell was he doing running this kind of tech in 2020? But, whatever. I told him that I'd run the next ROM he found, as I was curious for more ROM hacks.

Again, if anything genuinely creeped me out, I could close the game at any time because it was a ROM; and nothing else. I'm thinking this guy lied about the whole "I got it off a disk" thing, because this one was English patched as well.

Enough gabbing, I download and load up the ROM. The title screen was.. erm... You can guess what I'm gonna say next. Not normal. For one, there's supposed to be a more red color palette; not this indigo that's shown here. ''Was it really necessary to change the title screen every time? ''Must've been a part of some "creep factor".

There wasn't really anything on HRtP's title screen to begin with; it looked like a color swap for the most part here. Big deal, color palette change. I decided to load up the normal ROM and take a screenshot of that just to make the comparison image for those who didn't know; or wanted a good comparison without having to look online.

Enough gabbing, let's play. I didn't take any screenshots of the gameplay because there are no dialogue pauses. I had to go through the entire game without screenshots or I would've died. I don't feel like recording a video of it either just to take screencaps; the quality would be low, and I don't feel like dealing with that shit.

So the game starts out as normal; I'm hitting the cards with the yin-yang orb. This is the part of gaming creepypastas where they go "everything is normal and then gets progressively worse". But so far? I hadn't actually seen any changes. I picked the Makai path.. and.. literally? The entire game was normal, aside from the title screen. I paused when I got to Sariel, since for some reason I always start this shit without eating. I went to go eat dinner and like in Dark Square, the game had changed.

Sariel.. she.. uh.. was already killed when I got back. It played the ending, and I'm not sure exactly why.

I asked the forum user not to play anymore of this shit that they were finding. One, because it was probably going to harm their computer due to it crashing, two, it's putting me through unnecessary garbage, and three, it's getting old. I'm done looking for ROMs from this guy.

Credited to Insurrective/Shinkolovania