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I like that this game doesn't try to create an unnecessarily complex backstory where there is no need for one. Plotlines and dialogue etc is fine if done right, but all too often it's shoehorned in in games that really don't need one, and is done very poorly. This game knows what it is and provides enough story to explain why we're a floating ship shooting at floating orbs, but not enough to detract from the game. It gets a 5/5 from me, even if I suck at some of the levels ;)
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Developer, you should never make a bullet hell game where you force the player to control their character with a keyboard. Your game has an awesome concept and great level design. But using a keyboard is so infuriating because of its inaccuracy. I find myself frustrated because I'm limited by the controls and get killed because my character doesn't do what I want. I hope you take this under consideration if you make a similar game. Or if you could patch in an option to use the mouse instead of arrow keys that would be awesome. I would then be much more interested in playing the game.
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It took the credits for me to realize exactly where the hitbox was. That seems like it would've been helpful to know earlier.
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You can get hit and still get a "perfect" rating, you just can't lose a life. Once you have all 5 hearts your goal shouldn't be to never get hit, but to only get hit 4 times. You can plan your movement more effectively this way.
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The tutorial was beautifully made, and very thoughtful. The save warning was also a great indicator of what a thoughtful author we have here :) I really liked all of the game mechanics, it was very interesting. I LOVED the sync with the music. It added an extra dimension, not just using sight but also sound to determine the bullet patterns. Beautiful. The only thing that I would have perhaps changed, is I might have made the enemies' guns each have their own health bar, rather than one group health bar. I just think it would have added an extra degree of difficulty and challenge to the game, but hey that's just me. Great game!
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I feel like the game dev seriously underestimates the difficulty of dodging lasers. There is no clear indicator of when the hitboxes of lasers become active until they're already active. I mean yeah, they grow to a set size, but you can't be expected to have that exact size memorized and pay attention to it while dodging a million bullets at the same time.
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I come back to this game 4 years later and finally get the last two badges. I forgot how much this game made me rage quit, but now I've learned to focus and dodge a **** ton more and utilize the slow so much. (**** lasers)
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Awesome game, great job, I just wish I could use my mouse to control the ship, especially when i need to be getting up close and personal with the very things trying to kill me.
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I didn't even know there was a tutorial until I read the comments, the game was simple enough to learn quickly. Games like this are games Kong needs, not the boring idle games that are currently flooding it. Also, this game is easy to learn but hard to master which is why I like it.
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I got the Badge of the Day in Mar. 11 2013, so I just had to go to this webpage to claim it. Then I noticed I was missing the hard badge, as I hadn't done the Stage 19 (the final boss stage) perfectly, and managed to get it today. My suggestions for beating it are to focus on slowing time down for the hard forms and music, and then only do attacks when the form and music make the attacks easy to dodge.
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I really like this game and have only one suggestion: If I hit restart on cancer 19, it means I'm probably going for a perfect and I've definitely already seen the cutscene. I don't need to see it twice, let alone how many attempts that was.
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Such a great idea. Music is great too.
But if you ignore the tutorial, you don't know how to play, and that's bad specially when you can't access the tutorial in game. Tutorials are boring, make games that you can learn as you play (and no, refreshing the browse so I can play the tutorial isn't any good either).
Even when you know how to play, it doesn't have the speed to entertain you untill you upgrade. And feedbacks could be better too.
Had to give 2 stars, sorry man :/
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Gamebreaking lag issues. Cool idea and well executed synchronizations between music and graphics, nice upgrade pathing but painful lag makes the game difficult to sink into.
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Really nice game! Loved the absorb system, which makes for high risk high reward gameplay, I loved the upgrade system which was really well balanced and I loved the limited number of life system for all levels so you can have one hard level with a lot of deaths without making it heavily block progress. 5/5, added to favorites
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Not bad, but on keyboards where Y and Z are swapped (other languages), it is uncomfortable to play.
That said, I never used time-slow.
4*