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Re: Okay I bought it. First Impressions: by Fullofkittens 01/01/2019, 7:56pm PST
Mischief Maker wrote:

I beat the first two bosses, the run-n-gun stage, and the first flight segment.

Solid 10/10 on the Fussbett fable scale. The sheer amount of animation work that must have gone into the game is mind-boggling.

While on the forgiving side (then again I'm still early in the game) the bosses show some really great gameplay dimensions with nods to patterns in earlier games like Gunstar Heroes, in addition to their production values. I just wish they had visible health bars.

The shmup section was NOT bullet-hell, they're closer to the R-Type category of memorizers.

The run-n-gun section was bleh.

Keyboard controls are surprisingly good!


I didn't EVEN know it had keyboard controls!

I think based on the kinds of games that you're good at, I doubt that you will find the bosses on island 1 hard at all. I am not that good at games and I can beat all of island 1 in an hour. They get 2x as hard on island 2 and maybe 1.5x harder than that on island 3. The 2nd-to-last boss is a controller thrower.

Re: "bullet hell" you are much more conversant in that kind of thing than I am so I will defer to you on that terminology. I will say that there are two particular bosses (one on island 2 and one on island 3) that require you to completely rewire the way you watch the screen in order to win, I was thinking of them when I referred to bullet hell.

Re: the run-and-gun sections, those were late-breaking additions to the game that they decided to do after Microsoft gave them money to turn it into a fully-funded game and not a much-shorter indie thing. So basically you have to do them to get the money to get the guns you like, but the really inspired stuff is the boss levels. Thinking back on them I think the levels I liked the best I liked more for their art and music than their difficulty.

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