I love this game, I really did but yes, it was a tad bit on the easy side with some of the game breaking powerups. Also, the one downfall this game has is the music. Its grating on the ears.
Other than that, 5/5
Reviews for "DN8:Pulse"
Not bad, man. I've been trying to figure out how exactly to get the Golden Ship, and I haven't figured it out just yet. I thought it may have had something to do with beating the game without using a continue. Perhaps it's doing it without dying? Or even killing absolutely every enemy? One interesting thing I did notice, which I'm not sure is or isn't a bug (outside of the obvious ones) is selecting the boss rush instead of the next level selection for every level. Even beating the whole game like that didn't yield the gold ship for me, however.
Anyway, somethings I want to point out:
Bullets versus Explosions:
Because there are so many particles flying all over the screen from killing enemies from large packs, you literally stop being able to see the bullets. It's like a kind of sensory overload, and that's likely what the other complaints are regarding. Something a little more low-key for explosions or something a bit louder for the bullets would be the best bet here. I know you said you never played Touhou, and you should. You'd learn a lot about Danmaku and get some ideas on what will and will not work visually.
Enemies on the Rear:
Some of your waves with these things are just annoying. There are circumstances, even on the aggressive route, where I just can't kill the buggers because they actually take more than three or four shots to kill. When they're coming from two directions, or are meshed with one or two frontal waves, It gets downright silly trying to kill everything - and then my bonus multiplier goes down the toilet because of it. Worse still, these are the situations that are the most frantic, as well, blinding me entirely from what's going on.
And that's about it. I'll just kick back and enjoy my 1, 106, 230 point score now ;)
love it also love how i got the gold ship for beating outpost haven
I can tell you really took to our advice. Everything that was wrong with the first one was fixed in this one. It was a little easy since I played the first one, my advice in that case is to find some way to make the next one much different, replace graze with a perk like killing x enemies in a row slows down the enemies and their bullets while your ship stays at the same speed.
I know you don't want the game to be to hard, but honestly the graze function makes the game to easy, even with the protective pods I was able to graze my way through many levels.
Anyways. This game is very impressive, it is in fact very well rounded in all game senses, graphics, music, gameplay etc. Great work!
bad-ass upgrade game really nice software