The parry and shooting were designed to work not on beat.
I tried to experiment with a "player parry to the beat" kinda deal but it was impossible to implement with the power up mechanic! Projectiles would have to go at like mach 10 and you won't have the time to send some of your bullets, actually not a bad idea without the power up mechanic but it would be a completely different game, maybe another time for that one.
As for the shooting I tried that but it was way tougher to aim when your bullets moved to the beat also you sometimes wouldn't know which bullets was yours or the enemy's when there was no beat to moves them around.
Each power/weapons has it's own firerate, ammo count and speed, no link to the beat.
Thanks you for the compliment though! The team killed it with the music and visual and I'm proud to have worked with them.