Rapis The Bullet

Despite its brevity this game is well worth the price. This game is pretty short under 2 hours to get through the 5 stages. There are interesting bosses and the games mechanics are used in novel ways. The difficulty is overall not very hard given the genre, I suck at these and no boss took more than a half a dozen tries. There is practically no story to the game, there is an opening cut scene but thats about it. Its a bit disappointing to have these cool bosses but not explore their character at all. Certain aspects of the game are a bit hard to figure out without reading the manual. It would be pretty tough to beat the game if you don't read it and figure out that destroying red bullets gives you time, and charging your slash increases the time reflected bullets last. The game opens in Japanese, so you need to change the settings to play English, the options page is the third thing on the main menu, and then one of settings in the options says language, change that one.

Nah man, I give up. Fun concept on paper but the novelty wears off kinda fast. On the bright side, the game takes you directly to the bosses, there's no actual stages. Believe there's 5 bosses and I couldn't even beat the second one. And that's not even due to difficulty, the game itself is pretty tame, it's just... there's a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ strict time limit you have to beat each one and it sucks, which is why I'm thumbing the game down. Artificial difficulty just isn't fun lol. Glad I tried it, but gonna be refunding this, no offense. Also, the Steam page doesn't state it, but the UI is all in Japanese, so good luck with that.