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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Hell Blasters
I’m fairly new to playing shoot em ups (shmups) to actually be good at them rather than just credit feed my way through an arcade game. I wanted to get into ‘bullet hell’ shmups but the games are really intimidating. This game was recommended because the designer is an accomplished bullet hell player who made the gameplay the top priority - and made it so you can use the story mode to actually learn to play a bullet hell.
It’s been an absolute blast and the story mode really delivers bite sized chunks of training and the arcade so you can practice them and learn how to deal with the enemies.
– Real player with 24.4 hrs in game
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This is the Bluesmobile of shmups. It may not look like much on the outside, but it’s got the cop motor, cop tires, and probably even the cig lighter. Great level design & bullet patterns, a ton of modes, leader board & replays, great shmup tunes, it’s all there. Great work, devs!
– Real player with 12.5 hrs in game
Touhou Luna Nights
You’re a knife throwing maid who can stop time and slow time and it’s awesome. Slowing time constantly and weaving through Patchouli’s almost unavoidable attack patterns just now was seriously some of the most fun I’ve had in a game since I was a kid. I haven’t even beaten it yet, but my feeling is this game is a solid 10/10. Boss fights are really quite fun. Marissa’s was great too. Regular enemies range from super easy to somewhat difficult and sometimes enemies or traps will be immune to time shenanigans. There are some neat time puzzles involving fluid dynamics too, but I think where the game really shines is the boss fights and the time mechanic. You can also heal a little bit by getting very close to enemies or their projectiles, so it encourages a high risk play style that feels great when you pull it off. The art style and music are good too. Great game.
– Real player with 20.8 hrs in game
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A beautiful Metroidvania game. The music is incredible, the scenery is gorgeous, and the gameplay is fast paced. Even if you’re not a metroidvania fan, I feel that you could play this and enjoy it nevertheless.
– Real player with 20.0 hrs in game
永远消失的幻想乡 ～ 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.
– 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)
– Real player with 30.3 hrs in game
Demon Slayer Akagi
Just as advertised: a solid, classic arcade-styled game; the sort that will kick your butt at first, but becomes very satisfying and replayable as you get better and learn to handle its unique and tricky mechanics with all three of the different selectable ability sets.
Jammin' soundtrack with simple but cute visuals and character designs as well.
– Real player with 2.4 hrs in game
DISCLAIMER: I received a key to bug test this game a few days before release.
Short Version: If you like Touhou 1, then you’ll probably like this game.
Long Version: Demon Slayer Akagi is a bullet-hell breakout arcade game where you control Akagi in her quest to free girls from the control of a demon. The core gameplay revolves around propelling a magic ball onto tiles to slowly break them down, but, unlike many Breakout-like games, the tiles will shoot back at you, and you will have to avoid those in addition to your own ball. Additionally, there is no penalty for missing your ball, so you can drop the ball as necessary to avoid incoming projectiles. Just make sure that you don’t get hit by it yourself, since it counts as a projectile.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
eXceed 2nd - Vampire REX
Exceed 2nd is a bullet hell shooter that lifts its main gameplay mechanic from Ikaruga. All bullets/enemies come in two colors, and you can switch your own color to absorb same colored bullets (which recharges your invulnerable laser) while being vulnerable to opposite colored bullets. You also do more damage to opposite colored enemies, though it’s often riskier to do so.
Exceed 2nd is more of a traditional twitch/reflex game than the puzzle shooter Ikaruga though. You can still apply strategy to the stages and bullet patterns to get better at them, but it has a lot more flexibility and room for improvisation.
– Real player with 81.7 hrs in game
eXceed 2nd - Vampire REX, the sequel to Gun Bullet Children, has everything that the 1st one lacked: Astonishing graphics, a soundtrack you’ll want to own, and tight gameplay.
The game is story-wise a sequel to Gun Bullet Children, but this time you’ll side with the vampires against the Church and their Gun Bullet Children. You play as Ria File, a half-human, half-vampire (aka a deviant bloodline). She has the ability to shift polarity: switch elements to absorb bullets of the same element while the other type becomes fatal. This is a mechanic that shouldn’t be unknown to Ikaruga players. The game also has a dynamic difficulty implemented, whereas long survival and scoring gets you in a higher difficulty while playing, and dying reduces the difficulty. The overal difficulty of the game is okay. It might be tricky at first for newer people, but you’ll get the hang of it quickly.
– Real player with 12.1 hrs in game
Gun Wings
An Overlooked Danmaku Game on Steam
[Recommended Buy]
A Bullet Hell game reminiscent of the Touhou Project series.
Overview:
Gun Wings is a shmup/danmaku (bullet hell) game released in 2015 by DEZ Studio. For a cheap price, this game is quite a steal as it offers a challenging gameplay with a unique mechanic for both beginners and veterans alike. Sadly, it has a low replay value due to the low amount of content in this game. Despite being overshadowed by more well-known danmaku games, Gun Wings is still an enjoyable game.
– Real player with 6.1 hrs in game
Gun Wings is a fast paced shmup game.
Story:
The story is about three cybernetic girls who are tasked with stopping an alien invasion. It’s a decent story that ties the gameplay together.
Gameplay:
The Gameplay is fast and fluid, it can be dificult at times, but it’s always fair. At the end of each stage there is a boss fight, which is always diffirent and changes things up.
Graphics:
The graphics are really polished and well done, the sprites all move fluidly, and there is a variety of enemies and locations.
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
Hypersonic Speed Girl / 超速少女
This is a horizontally scrolling danmaku game, with a very unique mechanic of “Hyperspeed”, that allows you to go super fast in stages but at the cost of being way more vulnerable to dying to the obstacles while trying to achieve it. However, if you do achieve this Hyperspeed, you can skip a large portion of the stage, and also get a lot of points. Being able to route the stages to master this technique is very satisfying to do.
When it comes to the bosses, they play like the usual Touhou danmaku boss, with non-spell and spellcards. The danmaku of these bosses is relatively hard, but thankfully the game gives you a lot of resources so you don’t die immediately.
– Real player with 3.0 hrs in game
This is an interesting race and shooting game.
Basic control:
Normal flight
SHIFT - Decelerate
Z - Accelerate
X - Bomb
Direction Keys - Move
ESC - Menu
(You can’t get any points if your speed is zero)
Boss fight
Z - Shoot
X - Bomb
Direction Keys - Move
ESC - Menu
(You can’t select your speed in boss fights)
About cautions:
Yellow caution - Obstacles ahead (brick wall)
Purple caution - Encounter special Fairies
Red caution - Boss inbound!
If you touch the left edge of screen, you will lose a life.
– Real player with 1.3 hrs in game
TCSTRIKERS3
Don’t ask me why.
– Real player with 12.4 hrs in game
DANMAKAI: Red Forbidden Fruit
Cute little STG that feels like a nice and huge love letter to Touhou (especially PC-98’s vibes). I will write my pros and cons with the expectation that the reader is at least somewhat fond of Touhou.
Pros:
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4 difficulties, 6 stages with an extra stage. Very Touhou-style
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Mechanic is simple enough to understand. The tutorial video helps.
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The difficulty is generally digestible. You can go ham on resources once you master the mechanic, but isn’t that true of most STGs and Touhou games anyway…
– Real player with 22.7 hrs in game
A hilariously unbalanced game with a bomb mechanic that can be spammed to hell and back. Once the player has figured out how, where, and when to bomb graze, its difficulty becomes trivial, and the game becomes a fun novelty. A veteran shmup player should be able to clear Lunatic in under 10 credits.
While there is little challenge to be found in the main game, there’s plenty of extra content to keep yourself busy with. There also seems to be a hidden condition for what I think is a TLB or something equivalent, but I’m too lazy to confirm it.
– Real player with 16.8 hrs in game