When it comes to shmups, it's very simple, Caves just the best to ever do it.

Love this game. Almost feels like a remake of batsugun, which tracks as one of the founders of Cave actually did work on this game. I think it's visually stunning and very fun to look at. A friend told me that it was some what satisfying to watch, of course it probably would be a lot more if I wasn't dying every couple of seconds but regardless.

The movement feels great, not too fast not to slow. It gives the perfect amount of control to dodge around the insanity of color circles at you. Shooting is also very intuitive. A press of the shoot button shoots machine guns bullets in a wide range, holding the shoot button create a powerful laser that's smaller and focused. Just these two controls offer a lot in terms of figuring out stats to most effectively kill the enemies. It also has the stable bomb button, but something I adore is how the game rewards you for using the bomb at the right time. In these games shooting off a bomb clears the screen and should be used in an emergency. In this game it does the same, but it turns the bullets into objects to pick up and give points. Incredibly simple and satisfying to do on a boss screen.

Anyways I probably talked to much about a very simple game, but it is an easy rec to anyone who has never played a bullet hell/danmaku game. It's simple enough and challenging, but when you get in the zone with it - extremly metitative.