That's a good game! Reminded me playing sonic wings with my father, nice bullet hell. The system of having less health to have more power is very well used here, very nice design!

I liked it a lot! Got a high score of 1369 - I wish there was a public leader board, but probably not possible in a jam game lol. I liked the visuals,  though I thought the grey blocks were a wall I couldn't fly over at first. 

Some constructive criticism for you - there are a few design problems. Or at least, a few ways game design could be improved. Biggest one is that I found myself mostly not really trying to dodge bullets - which is sort of central to the genre. I think the bullets were a little too small - so it made it difficult to predict where exactly they would land - which made dodging difficult.

While I like the idea of dealing more damage when you are on lower health - I feel like it didn't really affect me as a player. It seems like there would be this interesting choice of how much damage do I want to take and am I willing to shoot fewer bullets - but In practice it always felt better to just always heal right away and constantly shoot. Because health drops aren't always available (or feel like they might not be, as they are drops) I found myself always picking them up without thinking. I think you could force the player to engage with the games concept if there was another mechanic that incentivised it. Maybe you manually heal with a button press, giving you more control over when you heal and when you start shooting less. Or maybe you will heal only after not shooting for a few seconds - idk but I feel like it could have been explored more. 

Anyway, great entry - you should be proud especially as (as you said in another comment) you are new to Godot. Great work!!

I did not expect to find a bullet-hell in this jam, but I was pleasantly surprised! 😄

I feel like the less health = more damage aspect works remarkably well with the theme of the jam! It lets you come back from the edge, but still retains the excitement of failure when you are really powerful!

For this one, I feel like going on with high health was maybe a little too weak, to the point where I intentionally crashed into as many bullets as I could to get my shield to drop and take damage. I guess this is an interesting emergent gameplay possibility in its own right!

Overall, I enjoyed this game quite a lot! Gut gemacht! 😄

I finished the game, final score: 12941!

I like the game, though I have to admit that the screenshake was a bit much, very hard to see the bullets when the screen is shaking.

It felt moderately fun, but it felt held back by the theme. The damage bullets could also be more obvious for a bullet hell game.

Thank you for your game! I haven’t played games of this genre for quite a long time and enjoyed the memories it borough back. Also, I liked that the first bullet comes straight on you, and you have to take it to become stronger :). Balancing your health and strength is a great idea. The bullets were hard to track visually, but I assume this is part of the challenge. Although, some variety in their size/effect will help to make the game more interesting. Shields made my day. I didn’t use the bomb, though. It could be my style of playing.

Currently, staying at full health doesn’t feel particularly useful. On the other hand, receiving two/three dmg is very helpful. So an idea came to me that you can balance this somehow. I.e., give players a bonus for having full health that could be useful in particular situations or against some bosses. For example, spacecraft with more health could be more maneuverable.

Sweet game, though a little hard to read at times. I think having player and enemy projectiles be opposite colours could have helped? Loved the screenshake and overall juiciness, and I thought the main menu and tutorials were very well-presented (odd compliment I know, but my beginner menus are butt-ugly and I'm jealous lol).

14471! Very very smooth, very nice theme connection, and I love that also balances the game. Also very much agree that not needing to look at your health bar in this kind of game is a huge benefit. Excellent!

I love this, it has juice, and it’s really fun to play. It felt well balanced. I want more.

My highlights are especially the “gravity” mechanic and the visual clarity, even tho the enemy bullets were really a bit hard to see. I also really appreciate the fact that I do not have to check my current health at all because I could easily tell by just how I shoot. That is a nice outcome of the mechanic!

I did not effectively understand why is the game divided between levels, it feels a bit pointless as nothing is actually reset on a level start (nor healths nor powerups). It in fact could felt a bit unfair sometimes, because I could not collect the rain of points from the last enemy!

I was excited to play this game, and I was not let down.