Slant community chat on DiscourseA shoot 'em up game (or a shmup) is a game where the player character engages in a lone assault, often in a spacecraft or aircraft, shooting large numbers of enemies while dodging their attacks.
Pro Several Soundtracks
You can switch to different soundtracks in the options, or even mix and match the tracks.
Pro Many Graphics Options
You can tweek screen size, resolution, even rotation to suit how you play. There's even a Kiosk mode that presents the game like an Arcade title.
Pro Mission Mode
Completing challenges helps you learn and practice the mechanics of both this game and shoot 'em ups as a whole.
Pro Starts off easy
The difficulty curve is fair and can be scaled to suit your needs.
Pro Fun multiplayer mode
To share the fun with your friends is easy through the multiplayer mode that is offered in Jamestown.
Pro Multiple ship/character choices
There are several characters and their ships to choose from which allows for one to change the gameplay up.
Pro Simple, yet In-Depth scoring
The scoring is based on item collection without much complexity. Learning when to collect the items or generate more is where the depth comes from, and learning it can also help novice players by granting Extends, letting them play longer.
Pro Relaxed paced
Compared to other Cave shooters, this game has a more relaxed pace to it, making it easier to recognize bullet patterns and enemy waves.
Pro Variable difficulty
Before every stage, you can choose between varying difficulty levels allowing you to tailor the game to your skill level.
Pro Easy to learn, hard to master
The mechanics to the game are simple: A normal wide shot, and a focus shot which can also lock on to enemies to increase your multiplier. There is a bomb gauge which can be partially used to clear the screen, or once full can launch you into Boost mode, increasing your ship's power and score m...
Pro Well balanced and polished
Crimzon Clover may have begun as a fan title ("doujin") but has become exceptionally well made with the release of World Ignition, on par if not better than many recent professional releases.
Con Visually busy
There are always a large amount of bullets and enemies on screen, making it sometimes difficult to be able to tell what's going on.
Pro Beginner Friendly
The learning curve starting from the easiest difficulty levels is very easy to follow. The bullet density starts off light and cranks up when you're ready to challenge yourself with a higher level of difficulty. This helps you learn about your hitbox. Also, 1UPs are quite plentiful, letting you
Pro Amazing Soundtrack
Both the original and arranged soundtracks for this game are absolutely fantastic and always a joy to listen to. This is very appreciated in a genre where you practice stages many times in order to improve your score.
Con Normal mode is very simplistic
For fans of more complicated systems, normal mode might be too simplistic. Your power doesn't change through the game, so you go through everything with a straight shot, a wide shot, and a temporary shield as well as bombs that drop from enemies. That's it - just 4 mechanics.
Pro Many ship choices
Different ships based on previous games in the Darius series, including game mechanics from those titles. This allows you to choose what playstyle you enjoy most. More ships available from different game series' via DLC.
Pro Many many levels
A ton of content, guaranteeing many hours of playtime.
Pro 4 player support
Play with up to 3 friends at once. Powerful combination moves can only be done with more than 1 ship.
Pro Many customizable options
The PC port of Mushihimesama is very tweakable. You can orient the screen for different monitor positions, expand the game window, move it around, have extra windows for displaying score, etc.
Pro Finely balanced level design
The levels are difficult and challenging, but never truly unfair. They encourage you to practice and increase your skill.
Pro Gameplay is balanced well
Often in a roguelite game there can be the chance of getting delt a bum hand on any particular run, luckily Enter the Gungeon does not suffer from this issue as there is a good balance of the gunplay mechanics that sees any death by you as your own fault of not playing to your max ability. Never is
Pro Cool collection aspect
There are 190 guns available in the game that the player can collect through purchasing them in an in-game shop as they progress through the game. Most likely this will take multiple playthroughs with all four of the available characters, which means tons of playtime for those that like to collect...
Pro Satisfying replayability
Thanks to the roguelite aspects of the game, there is randomly generated levels, which means fresh gameplay each time the game is played. There is also 4 different characters available in the game, each of which has a different boss fight at the end of the game as well as different characteristics...
Pro Easily change strobe effects
There is a setting in the game that allows users to change the strobe effects in the game, which may help those that do not enjoy the effects or find them medically dangerous.
Pro Multiple difficulty modes
There are multiple difficulty modes in the game allowing for anyone's preferred skill level of gameplay as well as Insane, and suicidal if you really want to fail or experience a challenge
Pro Multiple ships/characters for replayability
Several characters and their ships are available to choose from in order to change up the gameplay.
Pro Multiple ships and character allow for changing up the gameplay
Several characters and ships to choose from which allows for one to change up the gameplay.
Pro Free on kongregate
No cost if you play the flash game, so no harm in trying.
Con Should have been named bullet hell
Because there are so many bullets, you'd have to be a pro in order to finish this game on max difficulty.
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