Legend of Himari

Legend of Himari is a compact, arcade-style action experience that embraces simplicity and speed, placing the player in the role of Himari as she tries to survive relentless waves of enemies. Rather than building the experience around story or exploration, the game strips everything down to its core interaction: timing your attacks, maintaining momentum, and reacting quickly to threats coming from all directions. Its pixel-art presentation and anime-inspired character design give it an appealing retro charm, and from the moment you start, the game makes it clear that its focus lies entirely on fast reactions and high-score pursuit rather than narrative depth. The structure is straightforward by design, asking players to rely on reflexes and pattern recognition to endure increasingly hectic encounters. The action unfolds in a confined space where enemies rush Himari from both sides, occasionally appearing above or in patterns that demand quick decision-making. Success relies heavily on chaining combos and avoiding damage, as breaking a combo significantly lowers your scoring potential. This scoring system encourages players not just to survive but to play with precision and aggress…

good game

This is definitely a fun little cute arcade style game with unlockable characters and upgrades! Definitely makes me want to play more to unlock more adorable sprites. Some levels have bugs when the enemies spawn below the screen?? But otherwise everything is so fun to play! Simple fight mechanic with a challenge and great music track!

When it first came out, not the best. After some time the devs made it a fuller game. Not a super in depth game but for sure a fun little game. I am pleased to see how much it has grown over time. Edit: Bought the game in 2019 now its 2026 :)

If I should describe this game shortly, then I would call it a "multitask challenge"! Honestly, as I first saw the store-page video I felt like this game would look "too much". All of the attack-effects and the increased speed in higher levels seemed to me like something I couldn't handle for. But I'm really glad that I still gave this game a chance. It's simply addictive, easier to control for then it looks and offers the right arcade-feeling. You have to attack in the direction of the approaching enemies with the a (left) and d (right) keys. With the left shift-key you are able to do a small dash and while fighting you need to use at the same time your mouse for clicking on flying enemies or for picking up helpful objects (health, power-ups, etc). There's a big variety of unlockable characters available and what I enjoyed the most to see was to unlock crossover characters from this developer's other games (the robot of the game "In-Vert" for example).

Simple, but very nice game