GundeadliGne

GundeadliGne is the next game on my list. So...

...cute French cartoon girls shooting flying robots? Hehe, I guess this is going to be a silly, lighthearted...

...woah, geez, what's going on here! This is--

Gah! This is really hard! It's like--

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HOW ARE THERE SO MANY BULLETS OH GOD

Welcome to Bullet Hell. This is GundeadliGne.

Yeah, don't let the cutesy graphics fool you. (Aside: The graphics are adorable.) What we have here is a brutal, brutal game. Maybe I'm just a softie and it's actually the easiest Bullet Hell game in the universe, but, like...yikes.

There are two characters to choose from. The girl in the black dress has weaker guns, but she has a selection of special abilities she can activate. The girl in the red dress doesn't have the special abilities, but she gets a big laser gun that deals a lot of damage. Either way, there will be lots and lots of bullets to dodge.

As far as I can tell, this is, more or less, a fairly standard representative of the genre. It has a few quirks, like the special abilities and such, but the core gameplay is your basic Bullet Hell formula: give the player a gun and throw a million enemies and two hundred billion bullets at them. Sound like fun? Then you just might enjoy this game.

Of note is that there is also a co-op feature, including online multiplayer. I wonder if...

Yeah, obviously. Hrmph.

Bullet Hell is a niche genre. I don't think this is a game I can universally recommend. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who would hate it. I'm also pretty sure that there are a fair share of people out there who would think it's awesome. Personally, I kinda like it, sort of. It's challenging, but it's also adorable. *shrug*

Nooooo



I made it all the way to Satan and he killed me. No fair. >:-o

Anyway, I've been playing The Binding of Isaac this week. I beat Mom for the first time a couple days ago, and today I played through again and beat Mom's Heart twice (once with Magdalene and once with Eve). As you can see, I just finished another playthrough with Cain where I used a shovel to skip Mom's Heart and go to Sheol, where I fought Satan (and died, sad face).

The sad part is since I skipped Mom's Heart, I don't even get the thing I'm supposed to unlock for beating her. Awww.

It's okay, I'll get it next time.

I like this game. It does a great job of blending Legend of Zelda-style dungeon-crawling with roguelike-style replay value and intensely creepy horror elements. There's definitely a learning curve, and it's not very forgiving, but now that I've gotten the hang of it (more or less), it's hard to put down.

On an unrelated note, there's a new Indie Royale bundle out this week. I haven't decided whether or not it's good value.



The games are:

• Harvest: Massive Encounter, a combination tower defense/real-time strategy;
• The Journey Down, an adventure game;
• Serious Sam II, an action-heavy first-person shooter;
• Gundemonium Recollection, a trilogy of bullet hell shooters;
• Acceleration of Suguri, a combination bullet hell shooter/fighting game;
• And Dino Run SE, a platformer starring a velociraptor.

 The trailers look decent, but the price tag is on the high side. It shot up past $5 pretty quickly this time. Is it worth it? Eh, well, like I said, I'm not sure. I'll have to sleep on it. Will decide tomorrow.