I love the nixie tube score counter, I would say to ditch the parallax stars because they are very close in size to small bullets, aside from that it's a great game

Definitely one of the best looking games in the jam. I said this before but it reminds me of Gyruss in particular. Also Guardian Legend. I almost gave you a perfect 5 but felt like I had to dock one because so many projectiles look almost like stars. It's a small point to nitpick but I have good vision so you have to be losing a lot of players over that. You drew the bigger monsters throwing bigger projectiles to give the impression of them being stronger but that's backwards. The big ones still only hit for 1 damage and they're easy to see and dodge. The small ones are impossible to see unless I look directly at them, thus turning my attention away from the rest of the screen.

I wish my fighter were slower, actually. I see numerous gaps in the projectiles that I could barely fit through but end up not doing that because I have to move at a direction that isn't on the keyboard. At the speed the fighter moves, it's really hard. I s'pose if I liked the game enough I could just practice but oh well. I made it onto the bottom of the leaderboard on the first try so I guess I should stop complaining. Haha.

I didn't see any powerups after level 1. Is that intentional?

When I'm at the far left of the screen, launching a missile volley makes the missiles go off-screen and get deleted. As you may guess, I haaaate that.

Good job overall! Very polished for a game jam.

If you haven't already, could you please rate my team's game? I'd much appreciate it.

Nice shmup!

The small enemies make it hard to spot at first. And their bullets could look similar to stars in the background.

I wish powerups would appear also in other stage than stage 1.

The art is amazing and the music fits really well. The movement feels good. The smallest enemy bullets can blend in with the stars sometimes. I did notice that if you use the missiles from the very left side of the screen, they turn invisible. As far as I could tell, the enemies stopped dropping the pickup items after the first level. Overall, I did enjoy playing this game, even if it was too hard for me to finish the whole thing, even on easy.

Really cool game! & It looks amazing. the hud is absolutly stunning. 

The ships controls feels good and respond well.

Few points of frustration. The ennemies bullet are very small and kind mix with the background which can make them hard to notice & dodge on time.

The pickable bonuses kinda all look similar, so you don't really know what you pick and when, unless you really look at them. You sould condiser making them look really different (shapes, or colors) so that you know what you'll pick up without having to take your focus off the danger so that you know if it's worth taking the risk to get hit to pick it or not.

Didn't manage to beat the game. but I'll probably come back to it becaus I really enjoyed playing it.

You guys did a great job :)

I love this kind of space bullet hell!
The art is beautiful, the music is awesome, the grid-based controls are a little strange at the beginning, but I get it was a retro design choice. 
The only complaints I have is that the enemies bullets sometimes blend with the background stars on the frenetic shooting action, and the resolution didn't fit in my notebook screen. XD
Overall it is was a great experience!
I didn't get to the end yet, but it is a game I'd like to return to in the future. 
Great job guys!

I'm more than impressed by how you were able to make such a good looking game with only 8 colors, the music is also really good, was it made on FamiTracke?
I'm also a big fan of bullet hells, even tho i'm not the best one at it :p
Well done

The pixel art is amazing. It really impressed me, what you made with these 8 colors. Not only the ship looks awesome, also the UI is great!

Your soundtrack is also great. It fits the game's atmosphere so well! I love it.

What could you make better in my opinion? The small enemies are a bit to small, also the small enemy-projectiles. They do not stand out from the background so well.
Also the difficulty level was not optimal for me. The normal is a bit to hard, the easy mode to easy. And there could be some more pickups.

But overall, an awesome arcade shooter. Great work!

Overall a really good game! The pixel art work is really good and does well with the limited selection of colors. The music is an absolute bop and I would probably listen to it outside the game while doing work.

The bullets though are way too small. They're almost impossible to see especially with similar sized objects(the stars) that look basically the same moving with them in the background. The player movement is also very rigid. The ship seems to teleport more to locations rather than move to them. This is especially jarring since the stars in the background are much smoother leading to two different movement styles.