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As of recently, I have just started with the bullet hell genre, specifically Ikaruga. As a fan of both Ikaruga, ZeroRanger and Ime44, This game for me is a stellar masterpiece of a gem in both feel, visuals and gameplay loop. I genuinely let out a sigh of relief, seeing that I was able to do the boss of the demo from chapter select. Continues put you back at a checkpoint, so that you can retry, and master enemy paterns with more ease than ever before. The dialogue and characters are charming, the color scheme fits with the setting, Enemy placements and bullet patterns feel good to learn, and I could go on and on about how much I adore this game.
You´ve truly done something amazing. I only made this account, just to write feedback.
If I had to say any issues, After exhausting all dialogue in the break room, I was soft-locked and couldn´t go out, and had to quit the game. I also found myself using the blades not that much, but this is solely a nitpick.
In other words, It´s a 10/10 game AND Experience, and I am giddy to see even more.
Until next time, I will be mastering Stage 1. Blast on!

Thanks for the fun demo. The music and visuals are fantastic (particularly the intro cutscene!), and the gameplay is solid. I also really respect the difficulty, it took me a few hours to beat the demo without using a continue, and the gameplay was engaging throughout that time. Like another commenter, I played this on Linux instead of Windows and it ran flawlessly. I found that the backshot powerup was really fun and I preferred it to the saw. I noticed that if you kill the miniboss that drops the saw powerup, the powerup stays onscreen until you pick it up, but if you let the miniboss live, the powerup does go away after a little time. Is this intentional? I kept letting that one live so I could keep the backshot lol. Again, great work and I am looking forward to the full release!

While I haven't quite beaten everything the demo has to offer quite yet, I am extremely delighted with the game insofar. The aesthetics, the banter between the characters so far. I love how easy it was made clear that "this object is a bullet" for very clear and concise patterns that most folk should make out (however I cannot speak to colorblindness as I am unfortunately lacking in experience for such accessibility needs). The controls are surprisingly more complex and yet really simple at the same time with mixing the buttons to access your secondary or tertiary shot and am curious to see how this fleshes out in the remainder of the game.
The music and art direction is gorgeous and I'm definitely eager to learn more about this world, the characters, and our protagonist's role in the grand plot.
I think the only "issue"  I've noticed, which could also be a problem with configurations of some sort, is that the itch version of the demo does not detect my Dualshock 4 at all, even when ensuring and running it without steam being online or active at all. Steam version works as is. Just something of note.

I look forward to the full release as well as buying a copy for myself and for as many friends I can share this with!

I liked the concept. The demo stage is a bit long for my taste, but it's a good showcase of the mechanics and ideas, so it does ultimately work. Enemy designs remind me of ChoRenSha. Lasers are well telegraphed, shot visibility is good, though in some sections I was getting some Garrega moments (might just be my aging eyes but there were times where I completely overlooked the grey shots and would just slide into them lol). What I'm not sure about in terms of layers are the on rails enemies, are they considered enemies or moving turrets? I was thinking I could try to seal them but I couldn't tell and I didn't want to chance slamming into them.

legit one of the coolest demos i've played in a while dude, this game oozes personality and the gameplay just feels crisp asf
tbh i'd be so happy if you made a discord server so there could be a place where it'd be easy to see the progress of the game n allat

I spent some time playing this yesterday and today, and had a lot of fun! I'm really looking forward to the release. I compiled my feedback on youtube here: Youtube Link

Things I like:

• I love the visual style and soundtrack! The color scheme is really well thought both in terms of being both fitting the setting and also providing good bullet visibility.
• The weapon switching mechanic is really engaging, and the enemy layouts do a good job of encouraging you to think about when and where to utilize each shot type.
• The break room is a neat way to give the game some lore and personality without bogging down the core gameplay.

Things that can use work:

• The scoring system doesn't have a lot of depth. You have a long time to chain enemies, and the penalty for missing a chain is really small, so there isn't really any reason to pay much attention to it. Because of that, scoring mostly comes down to just not getting hit and quick-killing enemies.
• No tate mode :(
• I'm hoping the final version has leaderboards and replay support

on windows 11- game crashes during the intro, both if i try and let it play out, and if i try skipping

i have a windows 10 laptop, so i'll check if it runs on that when i have time