This was a lot of fun! I played in Gentle Mode because im bad at Touhou and I thought it was a little bit too easy, not so much because of the bullet patterns and more because the default starting life and bomb values were too high. I would have liked to see more use of bullets from behind the player, but other than that I have no qualms with the gameplay. I have a hard time differentiating between the background, point items, and bullets a lot of the time, and I'm not sure why P2 is so big compared to P1, but otherwise the visuals are awesome.
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Thank you very much for playing!
You'd be pleased to hear that an upcoming post-jam update not only changes the background to contrast with bullets better, but also includes options to reduce player shot and item opacity! You can now make your experience just a bit more enjoyable with these accessibility options.
In this update, your default lives and bombs have also been reduced to 3 starting lives and 2 bombs per life, in exchange for a system where you gain bonus lives by obtaining high scores. Hopefully this will make the game more challenging and engaging!
I hope you will look forward to it!