Sixteen tracks of pure dungeon RPG tension built entirely on Touhou's melodic DNA. Touhou Gensouju is a 2010 Windows fangame that scores its crawl through the Gensou Tree with tight battle themes and moody location tracks.
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The boss battle themes escalate in exactly the right way, with Boss Battle 2 layering in this urgency that Boss Battle 1 only hints at. The Hakurei Shrine track is warm but brief. Scarlet Devil Mansion's theme brings the expected gothic weight.
Then the final battle just goes off. The EX boss tracks feel like reward music for anyone stubborn enough to keep going. Short soundtrack, no filler. If you dig Touhou fangame RPGs from the early 2010s PC doujin scene, this one's worth tracking down.