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[Ryavis]

Well, the reason you lose all of your powerups whenever you die is that maximum power is really, really powerful. All patterns were balanced with the assumption that you had no powerups, so they become a lot easier at max power when you can often blow some of the enemies apart before they even get a chance to fire.

But still, maybe I could have made it so that you lose only some of them? Eh.

[moonmagic]

I wanted to say that I really enjoyed this entry. The clipped phrasing of the dialogue makes me laugh and it makes my skin crawl. Most excellent.

The homing bullets were glorious. The version I played didn't have any firing sounds, which I found immensely relaxing. It pushed me to that "pure (shmup) being" state a little bit faster. I enjoyed the jump evasion; everything seemed to work very well together.

Would have liked to have more progression cues in the level; it did sort of feel like I was sitting in limbo until a boss arrived. But I had a great time with this.

[Oddball]

Liked: Solid gameplay, it felt very well balanced.  Good amount of visual polish. And wacky plot/dialog as well.

Disliked: It was often hard to spot enemies against the background. There needed to be more contrast between the foreground and the background.

Conclusion: Not really my kind of game, but was still enjoyable and challenging. Good entry.

[Ryavis]

Man, playing this again in retrospect, easy mode makes the game pathetic.
I had so many jumps by the last boss fight that I spent the entire fight jumping and didn't even dent my supply.
Maybe I should have capped the max number of jumps or something.