Tameshi

Big fan of Ben James' previous works but this was an amazingly bland and repetitive experience even three stages in. First mid-bosses of each stage moving in exactly the same way and having the same second stage. Backgrounds that are the same symmetrical patterns vertically zipping by for the entirety of the stage, telling no story. Some boilerplate OST and boss intro signage. Absolutely baffling eye-shaped bullets that flicker between bright blue (good) and dark blue (why on earth). The biggest killer to enjoyment for me was the lack of any button to slow down movement for finer discrete shifts in position and of course getting bopped for it. This feels like research was done into What To Do in SHMUPS, but as a result played it very safe and didn't do anything interesting or out of the ordinary. This genre has about 3 and a half decades worth of entries and too many greats too list, but let's just keep the recommendations to Western devs from the past decade: ZeroRanger Teslapunk Eigengrau Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo

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I don't trust the hitboxes at all in this game, I was forever getting unfairly clipped during the bosses so I was just bombing through them on very hard difficulty. I think the hitboxes on the enemy bullets need to be a lot smaller. I think that's the issue. Some of the patterns can be quite dense during the bossfights and going between bullets often results in an unfair death. The bombs in this game are ludicrously overpowered though! One bomb takes off 90% of the TLBs health! Bit of a pedestrian game, to be honest, but worth the 4 quid they're asking so it gets a thumbs up. Would be elevated by an extra scoring mechanic or a hyper button or something. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Arnonz0SQ

It is a well made game, has good controls, sounds and looks great. I couldn't have much fun because the background confuses me, it scrolls too fast and and the colors are saturated, which makes it difficult to see the bullets.

Tameshi is a really fun and accessible shooter. It looks nice, sounds nice, and has an interesting power-up system. You can't go wrong for the price.

A lot of fun and challenges from the beginning to the end of this one. Unbelievable that this is so well done, music, diversity of enemies, even practice mode for all of the stages that you can decide how powered up you would like to be, and for such a manageable price. It's a great game for vets of the genre as well as being welcoming to folks who are new to the genre. The only thing that would make it better is accessibility on the Steam Deck, but a very, very easy recommend.