GanaBlade

What an amazing gem. This is a really cool shmup. The difficulty curve is spot on. The game does a great job of teaching you what to do through its level design without ever feeling unfair. There's a clear sense of progression, making it an excellent entry point for newcomers who want to improve at the genre. If you can beat the game on Normal, getting a 1CC should feel like a realistic next step rather than a huge leap. The controls are incredibly responsive. I never noticed any input delay or accidental movement. The visual design is clean, and the pixel art was easily the biggest highlight for me. Visibility is generally good, and paired with the excellent chiptune soundtrack, every enemy explosion feels satisfying. For an indie title, the presentation is impressive. The English translation is a little rough in places, but it's easy to understand and never distracts from the gameplay. My only real complaint is the lack of a dedicated practice mode, though being able to select individual stages helps make up for it. Also, it works perfectly on Linux with an arcade stick.

I want to like this game because the pixel art is cute, the music is good, and the level design seems pretty solid from what I've played, but the performance on my machine is rough. I'm getting these very frequent microstutters when the action starts happening, and it's very distracting in a fast paced arcade style game like this. That might not be the case for other people, so I'd still recommend you try the demo to see how it runs on your computer.

Really good shmup. Just got the clear on hard with the red girl. Not a hard shmup but the lack of the slow button makes doing some of the smaller dodges more fiddly than I was used to. Its fun though, with some generally good bosses and level design. The game is a bit of an homage to many older retro shmups up to more contemporary bullet hells. Some stages have some slow parts that I do feel could have been spruced up with more enemies, and the only issue I really had is the stage 6 boss lead up that should have honestly been reduced or removed, not a big deal but it does slow the final pace of the game. Buy it and play it. Its good.

I like the girls!

Solid shmup. Extremely forgiving with a regenerating autobomb and a lot of lives to burn through - if you've ever played a shmup before you'll have no trouble finishing this on normal difficulty. Some stages I find visibility slightly challenging and there was an instance of overly ambiguous DANGER indicators on the fire planet stage. The first couple of stages are way too easy, even on hard mode, and it's a chore to re-play them over and over. Otherwise: good game, good price.

This game is awesome - a truly retro feeling shooter, I got major Konami vibes, but in many ways it's better because you have a lot of quality of life, and since this isn't originally an arcade game you don't have to empty your pockets. It says on Steam that there is no controller support, but it runs fine on my controller without any extra configuration. So what makes this game unique? well quite a lot of things actually -you have infinite continues, but if you die, you start from the beginning of the current stage, so grind it is, but that's the name of the genre, you can get good pretty fast. The diffculty - normal is HARD, but EX is just sadism to the next level :D, I actually can't beat this on normal, but I'll keep trying, once you beat a level, you can select it from the start menu You have two ships, and on top of that there are three power ups you can pick up, though the newer power up is going to replace the older power up - the power ups also change how your secondary weapon works that loads up There is also an autobomb, but it's more like an energy shield that recharges, in 30 seconds or so, but yeah you can take two hits, the energy shield (autobomb), and the…