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
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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
Skyward Descent
A really compelling game, I started it up to see what the deal was and immediately lost half an hour to it.
– Real player with 25.2 hrs in game
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The game is very easy to pick up and play, and for the most part the gameplay is easy to understand. There are a few things that are frustrating to me playing this game, though.
After defeating a boss, if you haven’t taken any damage, you get an option to shuffle around some of your stats. I’ve gotten options like “+30 HP & -30 HP” multiple times, which is incredibly frustrating because it makes one of your options useless. There is another power up called “Lucky Items” that is supposed to give you more stat boosts in the game, but I never noticed any difference when I got it.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game