«If you're a fan
of bullet hell shmups, Score Rush Extended is one of the best I've played in a while...» - Everything Action
Set on a future British Colonial Mars, this enhanced version
of the bullet hell shmup is packing new ships, new levels in the form of moons Deimos and Phobos, and new story content that fleshes out and finishes the original Jamestown tale.
Not exact matches
It also borrows elements from
bullet -
hell «
shmup» titles, with enemies frequently throwing overwhelming amounts
of bullets in your direction.
Fans
of bullet -
hell games and doujin (indie)
shmups have a few new options to turn to over the holidays in order to sate their hunger for screen filling artillery and cool, transforming space fighters.
It slows down a little, if you manage to get passed the hardest first part, in phase 2 and ends with
bullet hell straight out
of a
Shmup - game.
The gameplay can range from that
of an action RPG platformer to that
of an all - out
Bullet Hell shmup; enemies can quickly fill the screen with projectiles or even with themselves and their buddies.
Other notable indies that were back - ported to the Commodore hardware included Kobo64 (an excellent conversion
of Kobo Deluxe, the 8 - way scrolling, base - infiltrating,
bullet -
hell shmup from the dawn
of the current indie scene), Devil Ronin (a C64 conversion
of a faux - «retro remake» based on a fictional C64 release) and the now - free - to - download final version
of Assembloids (a conversion
of the Flixel - based casual puzzler Quartet by Photon Storm).
Ben
of XBLIG.co is one
of the few reviewers to understand and appreciate that Score Rush is not a dual - stick arean
shmup, like Geometry Wars, but instead is a 2D overhead view scrolling
bullet hell shmup that happens to have dual - stick controls.
It's this style
of ship control that is generally utilized in the
bullet hell style
of shooter, while the twin stick is more often used in non
bullet hell shmups.
While the Saturn may be the undisputed king
of shooters,
shmups,
bullet hell games or whatever you want to call them, its successor is no slouch in that department either.
This is why, perhaps, the majority
of Western
shmups pin their hopes on procedurally - generated levels and offer a huge range
of weapon variety, such as the forthcoming «
bullet -
hell dungeon crawler,» Enter the Gungeon, or the Borderlands series» hyperbolic claims
of a gazillion guns.