I can't seem to play this, every time I attempt to move my character flies off the screen. I have a feeling it might have to do with frame dependence.

This game was pretty challenging! Though, I'm not experienced with or very good at bullet-hell games in general.

I was able to beat it after several tries!

It's be nice to have an intro page, story, or something before getting tossed right in. Without that, there's not a lot that screams "Magical Girl" currently.

I'm glad the controls were very simple and intuitive. The graphics and audio were all solid. I actually didn't have much trouble until the boss, who was quite hard! (For me anyway)

I didn't initially understand the enemies were dropping power ups on my first playthrough, but I caught on by my second try. One possible bug I noticed was that my "dodge" count didn't reset after a game over.

There's plenty of potential here! I'd love to see this fleshed out with some story, additional stages, etc. As it stands, it's a fun demo that kept me on my toes! Nice work!

I like leaving detailed reviews, but I'm struggling to find a lot to say about this one to be honest. It's not a bad game, it's just very barebones.

I like the story concept, but it's not in the game. There's no intro cutscene or even a splash screen. I can't say much about the magical girl concept, because all we get is a tiny sprite and a short blurb. The game does play pretty well, though if I'm being completely honest it's pretty generic. I don't even play bullet hells yet this still felt familiar. It's not necessarily a bad thing but if you take it further I'd like to see it differentiate in some way.

I think the only thing I can comment on specifically is that it wasn't clear what you were supposed to collect and what you were supposed to avoid, because both the energy things and one of the enemy projectiles is orange.

Thoughts recorded during my playthrough

+ = I liked it

- = I didn't like it

* = Comment/neutral

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- The game starts immediately with no title screen. I didn't realize this until I heard my character start firing, and even then I was still getting oriented, so I died right away.

- The interface lies; it says you control the character with the mouse, but that does nothing for me; using the arrow keys actually works

+ FWIW, the arrow key movement is good. I can get to where I want to be without trouble. It doesn't feel too fast or too slow, and there are no acceleration/deceleration shenanigans. Maybe you should drop the mouse movement idea and just run with keyboard movement?

+ I like that the character fires automatically. No need to find a fire button to spam or hold down for the entirety of the playthrough!

+ Fun background music. I wish it looped better, but I like the style!

+ Enemies, obstacles, shots, and the main character are all presented clearly. I never had to guess where I was in relation to an obstacle.

- It's possible to fly out of the screen's boundaries to what is effectively a safe zone.

- There's a pattern somewhere in the middle of the level where enemies come from behind me and damage me if I don't run away from their spawn point. I didn't like this because there's little warning that it's about to happen, so I always take at least one point of damage from a cheap hit. This either needs to be telegraphed better or the enemies need to spawn away from the player so the only way the player will be damaged is if they deliberately run into the spawning enemies.

- The initial sound from the boss is extremely loud. I suspect there's an overlapping sound effect because the issue subsides shortly after the boss appears.

- It's not clear how much damage I'm taking. I glance at my health bar and it looks like there's plenty of health left, so I run into a bullet to try to get out of a bind but I end up dying.

+ I do like that I can take multiple hits generally.

- Full health bar doesn't look full; there's a little tip on the end that looks like it could be filled more.

- Sometimes the game crashes when I die during the boss battle.

- It's not clear if the health bar is accurately reporting my health. Sometimes I die when I thought I had a full health bar.

- I think the health bar needs to be put somewhere on the screen where it would be easier to glance at. Having it on the extreme right side away from the action makes it hard to see while trying to dodge the obstacles.

Summary

I like where this game is going. With a little more polish to the underlying interface and some tweaks here-and-there I think this could be expanded into a full multi-level game.

I believe this game only has one stage? After I defeated the fish boss, it just kept on scrolling, so tell me if there's more that I missed.

The first thing I'd like to mention is the control. The mouse based movement is an interesting idea, but it is also very imprecise as slight movements of the mouse can get you killed. I'd suggest an alternate control scheme of arrow keys and Z to shoot.

The idea of "conservation of energy" made for some challenging gameplay, except for the fact that you can collect 1 energy, start firing the 3 sets of bullets, and then as long as you don't let go of the left mouse button you can continue firing 3 bullets even if you're out of energy.

The boss fight was fairly challenging and had some varied attack patterns. You've made a good start!