I have posted this game in five places, and in the last ~five days of being up, it's gotten 30 downloads, which, hey, isn't bad for an unknown such as myself.
The people at MoTK were most gracious, as I've received stage breakdowns from a couple of people.All on Easy, but that's to be expected, I suppose.One guy is going the extra mile and checking out every stage and difficulty and shottype though, which surprises me.Anyway, can y'all guess what the lot of them all say?• "Firstly, it's pretty damn difficult, even on 'Calm.'"• "The reason why your scores aren't clears isn't because you suck, it's because the game is pretty much impossible."• "I game overed in Stage 4 easy…" "More in your game than any other, did I notice that the slow moving bullets actually felt right for Easy…"• "It's higher than what most Touhou players would expect from Easy mode."I'm not sure how impossible it's supposed to be if I can clear it :V
impossible, my ass580, 118, 340I do have a fix list, though.Stage 1Storm Danmaku - make slowerStage 2Joy: Assault Rush - make easierStage 3Starry Trap (Lunatic) - remove blindspotEntombing Cross - remove walling tendencyApathy: Deadly Grid - make easierScience: Converge Cube (All difficulties) - make less impossibleCatharsis: Release Ruin (Standard) - make easierStage 4Mysterious Angular Rain (All difficulties) - make easierTrick Formation - lengthen laser wait timeStage 5Solitude: Divine Protection - make easierThe Final _______ of the Guardian - make easierStage 6Surprise: Macro Circle (Easy) - make slowerTorment: Rainy Season - make less denseSnow Sine: Blizzard Bullet - lessen HPSnake Sine: Curves Barrage (Easy, Standard) - make easier, lessen HPLightspeed Lunagun (Easy) - make harderFirst Trial: Disbelief - less bullshitFirst Trial: Denial - less bullshitThird Trial: Torment - make harderFourth Trial: Depression - less bullshitFifth Trial: Resonance - less bullshitFifth Trial: Realization - slowerSixth Trial: Acceptance - make harderSixth Trial: Embracement - make slowerLunacy Star Supernovae (Easy) - make harderHave something to add?I IMPLORE YOU TO TELL ME.That way nobody can suddenly die to the last card before the final boss on a Normal 1CC attempt.
(I can still feel the upset. Feels bad man.)
Good God. Do the people you know IRL play video games, or are these random people? xD
Oh, some do, just not games like this :V
There is a girl I know, though, and I think LS ruined her or something, because she tried no less than twelve times to beat level one.She doesn't really play video games ever.Of course, she adopted the strategy "bomb everything," and finished te first stage.She then immediately was all wtf because level 2 started.She likes the game, you see.She's just bad at it :VSame. :P bullet hell is so not my thing. More of an RPG/FPS girl myself, but then who isn't? lol I'm going to keep trying to not suck, so I can get through the first level without feeling like a total ass for spam bombing lol. :)
I need to find more people who are into both bullet hells and RPGs because for some reason they're few and far between.
I should resurrect that horrible-ass BH RPG I made a few years ago.It was fun, but it was bullshit, because (and bear in mind this was before Touhou for me) the first boss had a Boundary of Wave and Particle ripoff and the second boss… did nothing but shoot streamed arrows.But hey! Those BoWaP bullets dealt usually three damage, while the arrows dealt about thirty. Balance!I posted a game years ago (so strange to say that, but it's true) that was way too hard, and few people played it. But I, having designed and tested it, could complete it pretty easily. You might be going through the same thing. You have to understand that in making it, you have already put hours into learning it (plus, I understand bullet hell is your thing).
Just my word of advice.I'm already nerfing the Easy Mode to hell, though, in response to such feedback ;p
Rest easy, everyone! Somehow, Stage 1 will get easier! :VRule 1 of game development: You'll always find your own game easy.
That's why you need testers like us to tell you it's too difficult.I got to level 6 eventually, but got beaten by the second form of the boss. On Calm, of course.Well, hey, that's actually really impressive, given the Touhou jockeys at the MoTK referred to the second form as "total bullshit" :V