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This game is awesome and cute, and I would definitely recommend getting it! The mechanics are solid, there’s a good amount of secrets to discover, a lot of cute NPC’s to talk to, and it’s an overall fun experience. How long it takes to beat the game depends on how much of the world you decide to explore. My first run, where I tried to explore as much as I could (Though I don’t think I got everything!) took over 1.5 hours before I beat it, though I eventually managed to beat the game in under 7 minutes for the achievement (I looked at a speedrun to figure out how). The different wands are pretty cool, even if I mostly just used the pink one (And one other wand later on).
ā Real player with 6.8 hrs in game
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Do not let the cuteness fool you! In this game you can die very easily! I am not good at Bullet hell games but I was able to complete this one unlike a few others. I do feel I will never get all of the achievements because I lack the talent and focus bullet hells require and I have chosen to accept it. It still did not stop me from purchasing and enjoying this game on a whole. Maybe one day I will try to get another achievement but as for now I am content with the experience and what i paid for it.
ā Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Typhoon Unit ~ Butterfly Requiem
Typhoon Unit ~ Butterfly Requiem is a bullet hell shooting adventure where you swap between a trio of heroes on the fly!
Take control of Gale, Fia, and Casey, three flying fighters with their own unique abilities! Through strategic character swaps, and the power of Synergy Boost, you can overwhelm your foes with tactics and style!
In a land where fantasy and technology intertwine, cities across the world are under attack. The only thing connecting these incidents is the Steel Butterfly, a sword wielding butterfly woman who brings destruction in her wake.
The Typhoon Unit, a small but capable band of airborne heroes, have been called in to put a stop to the threat. Can the Typhoon Unit halt the Steel Butterfly’s conquest, and discover her secrets?
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Heart pounding bullet hell action!
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Blast, dodge, and punch as a team of three unique heroes!
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Switch on the fly, and use the power of teamwork to make your heroes even stronger!
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Battle a blade wielding butterfly, a rock star siren, a gadget powered puppeteer and more in challenging boss encounters!
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Experience a world of magic technology and cute monster girls!
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Pursue the mysterious Steel Butterfly, in a Story Mode spanning 7 chapters!
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Test your skills, and go for the highest possible score in Arcade Mode!
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Xmas Shooting - Scramble!!
This basically is QP Shooting Dangerous with New Year theme and Aru the rabbit as a main character.
This game is danmaku, e.g, bullet hell: there will be a lot of enemies flying toward you and shooting cover fire. You need to avoid incoming bullets and shoot down enemies. There will be some bosses, who usually have much bigger HP pool and shoot tougher patterns.
Gameplay-wise, Orange Juice’s danmakus are much simplier than regular danmaku. Bullets are somewhat bigger and usually easier to avoid. The distintictive feauture of Xmas Shooting (and QP shooting) are formations, which determine direction of your fire. You can choose 3 out of 27 formations and switch between them during the game.
ā Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
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Full review at: https://thegamehoard.com/2020/01/05/12-games-of-christmas-xmas-shooting-scramble-pc/
By having multiple difficulty settings, a mode with saving between levels, and destructible shots that clear away other bullets to help prevent the screen from getting too cluttered, Xmas Shooting ā Scramble!! is able to make a more accessible bullet hell game without sacrificing the important elements of the genre. Success still requires precise dodging and the enemies have plenty of shot types that make them diverse and consistently challenging, but thereās definitely a content problem in this small spinoff title. Few stages and most of your shot types requiring repeated plays to buy mean youāll likely have you fill of Xmas Shooting ā Scramble!! before you can purchase most of them, but itās a fun and cute shoot āem up for the short time it lasts. While definitely a stranger pick for a game to play on Christmas day, itās still a lighthearted and colorful way to enjoy the holiday even though it requires weaving through a screen full of deadly lasers.
ā Real player with 5.8 hrs in game
Pretty Girls Breakout!
How do we make Breakout more fun and innovative?
I know, let’s add a bunch of annoying features and throw a whole bunch of shit at the player so they’re just constantly mashing the swing button and can’t properly aim. Everyone loves when you take the skill out of game and make it so it’s pure luck. Also, no paddle. You have to swing a bat at the ball.
I’ll admit, Zoo games are not thatā¦ deep. Lots of them are cookie cutter and share UI and characters so if you seen one you’ve kind of seen them all, but the games are usually so classic that you can’t really muck them up. Casio card games, various forms of Mahjong, some random puzzles games. Simple games that are cheap that you usually buy because you like the genre and you figure why not add some cute anime girls to them for the heck of it. Pretty Girls Breakout felt more annoying than fun and I actually do kind of like Zoo games. Even the ones I don’t like I kind of just see as innocent fun, but… I just didn’t like this.
ā Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
Action breakout + unique gameplay + challenging = One of the best in the genre. Use the light saber to hit left or right to change the ball angle. Collect power ups, reflect shots, unlock costumes.
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ā Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
ę°øčæę¶å¤±ēå¹»ę³ä¹” ļ½ The Disappearing of Gensokyo
If you are a touhou fan FULL STOP; BUY THIS GAME AND IGNORE THIS REVIEW.
If you are looking for a good game, read more below and after that ask yourself if you still want to buy it.
TL;DR: Unpolished, badly translated game with very shallow depth on the story and baffling gameplay design decisions that make the game unfun.
The game features itself as a “ARPG” with bullet hell aspect which is prevalent on touhou themed games. There are a lot of flaws in this game, but the biggest problem in this game is it becomes unfair at the later stage. Touhou bullet hell games always has been hard but fair to me, if you die then it’s your fault. Unfortunately Halfway through the game, the game starts to throw more bullshit, at least give dodging I-frames(invulnerability) to at least to counter it (oh yeah, DLC characters might have I-frames with them LUL). It also changes the camera angle on boss fight to make the fight “harder” since it warps your perspective that you think you’re going to dodge a projectile.
ā Real player with 49.6 hrs in game
Fun touhou fan game although the whole “fan based” style story is cringy at times. Dungeons and bosses can be cheesed with certain character even on Lunatic -coughnotReisenandMarisacough-
Pros:
-Decent cast of playable heroes that can be unlocked via Story/unlock requirments
-It is translated into english just change language in the options off main menu
-mix of bullet hell and meleeish
-boss fights are very fun and requires pattern memorization and HP management (certain bosses can mix their next stage attack with a current attack causing mayhem to the players tempo)
ā Real player with 30.3 hrs in game
Maiden and Spell
Good lord, fastest recommend I can throw.
For a bit of context, I was something of a Touhou nerd back in the day, so I’ve had my fair share of bullet hell playthroughs.
I also find fighting games pretty neat, but could never really find one I liked enough to practice.
This is sort of a midway point, I think.
A bunch of smol cute gorls firing bullets at each other over a series of rounds defined by stocks. Get hit, lose a stock. Simple.
Lose all your stocks, you lose a spell charge (or in simple terms: you lose that round.)
ā Real player with 60.1 hrs in game
Honestly an incredibly fun and accessible PVP shmup. The art style, pattern diversity, music, and backgrounds are all superb. There’s a great deal of complexity in multiplayer, but it’s so simple at its core that it won’t scare off people who are new to the game, or even to the genre.
Every character has its own completely unique play style and set of attacks. In the famous words of the New Super Mario Bros U IGN review, “It has a little something for everyone.” Some characters may seem OP or weak at first, but once you play them yourself to understand how they work and understand their strengths, things start to make more sense. If there is something the community legitimately does see as OP however, please understand this game literally just came out. There will probably be balance patches at some point. There are plenty of people to play with at the moment, but if you don’t see any lobbies up you can always join the Maiden and Spell and the Shmups Discord. You’ll be able to find someone on either of those discords to play with, including me. I’ll have a link to those below in the end of this review.
ā Real player with 39.5 hrs in game
Neptunia Shooter
Steam is dumb and manichaean and doesn’t allow players to give a “Mixed” rating to a game, so I went for negative even though my opinion really is mixed.
Neptunia Shooter is a cute shmup spinoff the JRPG series that stars Neptune and pits you against several other characters in the franchise, who act as bosses. When you defeat one boss, they will join you and you will be able to switch bewteen all the characters you have.
Each one has a specific shot type (forward shot, backshot, charge shot, etc.) and most are useful in certain kind of scenarios so you’ll have to regularly switch between them during the stages or even the boss fights.
ā Real player with 6.2 hrs in game
Surprisingly a lot of fun and challenging. I’m not the best at bullet hell games, but I am able to beat the first level without getting hit, the second I go on to the second level, it becomes harder for me to avoid anything.
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There are only 6 stages in the game
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Each time you defeat one of the bosses, you switch from controlling your current character into whoever the boss was.
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Each character has a different shooting pattern with different ranges. Ex. Neptune shoots 3 bullets at a time straight ahead while Compa flings pills that fall downwards.
ā Real player with 4.5 hrs in game
ProtoCorgi
ProtoCorgi is a retro style pixel art, horizontal shoot āem up with arcade gameplay that gives the player control over Bullet, a C3 class (Cute Cybernetic Corgi) pup.
Be prepared to Shoot, Dodge and Bark your way through in this adorable Barkāem up! Countless waves of enemies, gigantic bosses and deadly obstacles will put your skills to the test. Help Bullet on his journey to save his master and friend Nixie from terrible alien forces!
Fear not, the adventure is available to everyone with an adjustable difficulty from ā Pupā to āUltra Nightmareā.
Take up to 27 different weapons combinations to defeat your enemies! As a true C3 Class Cybernetic pup, Bullet wields more than traditional weaponry. Use 3 different massive attacks to wipe-out the foes or rely on your fighting spirit to kick-ass!
Master the power of the bark and take your skills to the leaderboard! May you engrave your name and see it unmatched. Let your friends know who is the best Corgi!
Unleash your creativity! ProtoCorgi offers a stage editor mode where you are free to create future levels of your liking and to share them with your friends.
Not all dogs bark the same way. Enjoy customizing Bulletās bark to your liking!
QP Shooting - Dangerous!!
In most of the Shoot’Em Up & Bullet Hell games, they are fun to play, delivers good intense bosses moments and frustrations that sometimes enrages you like never before (that depends though). Such elements are well expected in this genre and that’s what make the games nice, if it is. And for that, QP Shooting - Dangerous!! is one of those games in that genre that delivered quite nicely, in a way. Let’s check it out.
The Gameplay
In this kind of game, there’s nothing much to expect, except shooting enemies at sight. It is very straightforward and pretty simple to play. You shoot, evade the incoming bullets and defeat all the bosses until to the end. Of course, the simplicity depends on how hard the game is, in which in this case, is the opposite. One might think playing the Easy difficulty would be fine, but it’s just as unexpectedly hard. And don’t think about the Super Difficulty (the Ultra Hard mode) as it’s insane. Then again, since this is a Bullet Hell game too, so it’s understandable. Moving on, the interesting features in this game are there are the different formations and modes. This is nice because it has so formations and modes to choose from, thus, making you wonder which is the one that fits you best. So, even for just a stage, you can replay it with many different formations and modes. However, unlike most generic games, it has no continue and once all the lives are depleted, that’s it, game over. You can’t continue and that makes it very super frustrating, especially if you’re going for certain achievements and ended up dead in final boss stage. Bummer! Speaking of achievements, there are a few easy to get while some are insanely hard to achieve. It kind of makes you wonder, what were the developer thinking to make such an achievements that could enrages you to the level you’ve never imagine could. Hard game. Plus, it only has 5 stages so it’s kind of short for a shoot’em up game. In fact, it’s kind of rare too.
ā Real player with 28.8 hrs in game
Despite how simple this game looks, it’s a shockingly deep and polished bullet hell smup. While, if your a fan of the genre, you’re probably not going to encounter many completely original mechanics, what you will find is a large range of ways to approach a familiar formula. Unlike many bullet hell games, where defensive play is essential, in this the majority of bullets are produced by low health minions, and since bullets are transformed into points on death, aggressive strategies are shockingly valid. The game also allows you to customize your bullet patterns (although most need to be unlocked) and switch between three of them on the fly (either with a direct bind and/or with cycling if your prefer). While most are fairly simple, some are complex and can be affected by the direction of your movement, your location when you switched to them or the use of slow move (the essential bullet hell feature reduces your speed and displays your hit dot for precise dodging).
ā Real player with 19.6 hrs in game
Barrage Fantasia
Don’t be misled by its cute gfx, this is the real thing.
I would have liked some pixel gfx a bit less coarse though.
Unlocking all stuff will show you the whole content, and then it will be time to go for the score.
(works fine on a lean glibc/linux distro in the steam runtime)
ā Real player with 4.6 hrs in game
Barrage Fantasia is a pixel aesthetic shmup that caters to both beginners and experienced players alike. The music is pretty neat. The different types of familiars and specials depend on whether you want to play for survival or mainly for score. The way the big bullets and big hitbox visually remind me of The Adventures of Ten and Till. Just like Ten and Till the hitboxes seem to be a little bit smaller than they look. Maybe not as extreme as Ten and Till but it’s definitely noticeable.
if you’re looking for a cute shmup and a relatively easy clear this is pretty much the game for you. Not many people will enjoy the type of scoring the game shows but I personally dig it. You pretty much have to “all break” all of the boss’s parts and also cancel OR graze bullets into hearts to be able to refill your heart meter. Once you haven’t been hit for a while (depends what difficulty of life you choose) you will glow a green barrier which will then allow you to get bonus’s each time you extend another life in exchange for already having max life.
ā Real player with 4.3 hrs in game