Quite the fun arcade game!
I wonder if there's some inspiration to Patchouli being a looming menace in the stages. Is the game screen glitching due to her sheer jealousy?
I was trying to reach the "end of the game", until I realized there's none since it's just the same level layouts with different skins. Since I was on the quest towards the end of game I was wondering why there was no pause key.
But now that I know better I tried going as far as I can: 20 stages is my limit, like hotdamn after stage 17 it becomes so wild! There were enemies immediatly jumping into pits with the letters, and some enemy-dropped letters falling into pits or other enemies. I must say those moments made me slam the table.
But I really enjoyed the bonus item mechanic, it puts a strategy touch and got me starting the game like 6 times before I moved on. I'd say if the enemy-dropped letters have intangibility while flying and a bit after landing I'd have gotten farther, heheh.