I beat the final boss and only needed to continue once! It's a very charming shoot em up with a very interesting theme of flying cars, I like it. It was cool there was three characters to choose from, each feeling a little distinct in ability but I would like to see a tooltip or stat bar for each character on the selection screen so I know some kind of difference with each character before choosing. The boss fights were pretty good, but it was hard to tell if they were about to die or not. Otherwise awesome demo with very amazing art! Look forward to more levels!
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Very nice and feels very polished. A bit too much stuff on screen, but it's not annoying, so no complaints there. Very wacky bosses.
It's a bit less like a touhou shmup and more like a gladius shmup, which I assume is the inspiration. My only feedback would be - all characters feel the same - the only difference I found were the bullet patterns (which are not very distinguishable, and I found the beam consistently more useful), and a tiny speed change between the left guy and everybody else.
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Enemies feel too static, you may add at least some minor animation to them like reactive exhaust
Everything blends in with the background, have you checked the screen in grayscale? Maybe make it less saturated
Players' projectiles look strange, maybe I miss some deep lore?
Interesting, but a little rough, aesthetic. Very nice explosions, feels like they've been lifted from Metal Slug game. Managed to beat the main boss, the laser beam should be telegraphed a little better. Other than that scrolling was a little sluggish, game wasn't dynamic enough because of that ( I think). Long beam takes a litle time to travel to end of the screen but when I stop shooting it then it disappears instantly. Very odd.
Very detailed backgrounds, I can't imagine how much work went into them and animations of enemies. Shumps can be pretty demanding for artists, I hope you have a lot of perserverance. Keep up the good work!
Pretty basic. I wish it had a bit more speed and a bit more impact with the sound effects. Still a lot if nice little graphical details, funny theme and light likeable character designs.
I'm not sure why, my toaster ran this like a PAL game on an NTSC screen. Anyway, it's a good base for a game, but there's still a lot lacking. Particularly I'd like to see more variety in patterns. The first and second bosses don't feel much different from each other (they both have slow dodging patterns and move up and down, except one has a laser and another fires an object at your face). And this game has great art, but I find the background far too noisy for this sort of game; it draws too much attention to itself.
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