(pt 1/3) (sorry for the walls of text)
the 'pods' are a double edged sword, blocks bullets, low dmg, but can be confusing at times, and prevents you from grazing most of the bullets.
one of the last bosses were too easy, and gave too much graze, you get an extra life every 1-3 attacks, and its rare for them to get close, the boss took so long to kill, i had 20 lives after the 1st battle with it, the "boss rush" at the end left me with a total of 50 lives at the end.
another boss (the spinning guy shooting spirals) actually seemed easier to fight the more of them i was fighting at the same time, kind of odd, actually.
most of my lives were lost due to enemies ramming me faster then i could kill them, and some of the upgrades are stupid, "would you like 1 weak gun/shield, or 2?, would you like a damage boost of 30%, or 60%?"
amazing, a bit unbalanced, but amazing, at first i thought "huh, extra mode, eh? too easy, ive fought ice fairies with harder patterns,*new pattern*, make that aliens with harder-*change again*... hell ravens with... weaker...powers? oh hell...", some of the bombs/patterns look like they were taken strait from touhou, natalie's sub and lance's bomb just screamed marisa, and i swear i was fighting flandre at some point near the end, if i could change anything i would just boost anna's sub, double the ROF/drain,
feels like the sub does nothing most of the time, and the aim doesnt work with mouse, but thats just me, good game
the controls are pretty bad, i can play some hard songs on the keyboard at double speed (bored outa my mind) in my room, but i cant even play easy songs on this at half speed! having the ability to change the keys would help a lot, playing with the mouse is way to slow and requires too much accuracy, you cant even hit b/#'s with the keyboard when practicing...
the concept however is great, playing full songs on a full keyboard/piano and loading songs, it would make it easy to learn new songs or practice those you already know...
great concept but unplayable controls 2/5
it seems impossible when you have 25 mph wind and 30 mph treadmill in the same direction, they both go up by 5 whenever they're reversed or increased, so after about 30 sec it seems more about luck and timing of jumps then anything, sucks that your max run speed is 20 and jump speed is 30
i like it a lot, however the keyboard controls are unnatural, and the fact you need to get 95% on the hardest difficulty on most of the songs to advance doesn't seem right, i could pass most of them, but unlocking the rest is next to impossible unless your willing to spend hours memorizing every button with perfect timing... i got 5 stars total before i hit a dead end, i cant even get a star on cirno's perfect math class, a song i memorized by heart way back when, making it all feel hopeless... and i really wanted to play them all, too...
haha! i collected all the gems for the god, collected 10 souls, and made it back up on my own power!, wait, i gota do wha? i know hes evil but... oh @#$%... curse you tempting power-ups!
wow, i got a gold for beating it in 30 days on the spot, and a warning "last day for platinum" on day 30 too, shouldn't that have ben 5 days ago? and the fear of the 1 dmg "death-traps" made me spend those 5 extra days digging around them
great game, a bit short, and hard at first, i didn't even realize you should just make as many short connections as possible till i got to the last level, played it again and it seemed almost too easy
it was pretty good, exp=points was odd, the bombs kept breaking on me, firing a single shot per bomb no matter what, even with just the default, and overall i felt it was too easy, shop needs descriptions of bombs, but apart from all that it was great, 3/5
fix the bomb glitch, add descriptions, add a skip dialog button, and it would be perfect
the windshield is under powered, breaks in like 4 crashes at max level, which sucks when your getting shot at by 3 troops and a heli, WITH a mutant on your hood... the heli can shoot you from a safe distance when your cornered, and theyre so slow you need to move at a speed of about 80 if you want to hit them, making me curse every time i hear "hellfire here". still a good game, even if i keep getting stuck,3/5
its pretty good, gets boring fast once you get to about wave 10, there are a few minor problems, you cant sell/destroy buildings, i had barricades behind turrets late game, and, why do you get freeze 3 before freeze 2?
hmm... piercing shot doesnt seem to work... with max you would expect atleast 1 shot to get past the XL enemys...maybe i just have horrible luck making that 20% into 0%...still made it to 15 that round :P
i forgot to mention the slight problem where, if you hit another ship (other then boss) your both destroyed instantly no matter what, kinda bad when a shielded ship hits a missile or swarmer and explodes after spending so long to capture one
too short, not many enemys, the final boss had too many blind spots in BOTH forms, but still pretty good, now if i could just stop hijacking missiles and get a ship this would be perfect XD 4/5
the golden angel is immune to everything but non-elemental, and absorbs magic, the pixies heal it too fast for you to kill it(usually) i say stop time/shield, and rush,(keeping heroes away) a lord of fire and angel can usually let the fire by until the angel dies, letting you deal about 20% damage... still takes forever, but the enemy wont attack you, EVER XD
the power ups change way too fast, and homing(green) deals next to no dmg and hard to change from (since you cant destroy power holders w/o bombs), other then that, its a pritty good game, maybe add a "slow move" button or somthing and it would be perfect, has all 4 shot types, power (blue) peircing (red) homing(green) and spread (yellow), just needs alittle balancing,and a quit button from pause,3/5
all you need is max efficency, lvl1 gun and maybe lvl3 fuel, turning/radar can help, booster isnt that good, and speed is a waste, making it impossible to get anything
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