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How to get into bullet hells?
| Suggestions? Focus more on where your character is instead of what enemies you're firing on. It'll help you avoid bullets more easily.
As far as regular scrollin' shooters go, Galaga '88 and Xevious are both oldies n goodies.
| >>343685
I think she meant suggestions on other bullet hell games.
A non-scrolling one that's really good is Enter The Gungeon. It's a mix of bullet hell and a rogue-inspired (don't want to start a war).
When it comes to scrolling ones, I don't know a lot except some good ol' classic Galaga.
| Uh, well. Literally any Touhou game, I guess? Just pick one that looks most appealing. I'd recommend picking up either 7 or 10 or 13 for beginning. Danmaku Unlimited games are also at least passable.
| Yup, as someone above said Enter the gungeon is great, I also love The Binding of Isaac although it's only some bosses tha gove you this bullet hell feeling, but on its own the game isn't that fast-paced, definitely not as much as ETG
Yeah, also Nuclear Throne is cool and very bullethelly, but personally I think it lacks any rewarding, but that's maybe because i suck at it T~T
| Go outside and dodge the rain.
| Download this mobile app on Android called danmaku
| Hitogatta happa
Exseed series
Jamestown (great multiplayer).
Touhou 7 imperishable night.
| If you have a fine taste in anime as well as metroidvania mixed with bullet hell, try Rabi-Ribi
| Pick up Crimzon Clover on GOG. It's not expensive and is great for practicing, it's mechanics are easy to understand and it has different modes and difficulty settings.
| Devil daggers is pretty good if you like fast-paced games. It's in 3D so I don't know if it qualifies as a bullet hell. Still, it's super fun and very cheap
| Fuck reimu she's a whore
| Touhou, Cave arcade games
| GO PLAY MARS MATRIX
| There is only one way
>play 2hu
>get attracted to the waifus
>still play even though you keep dying
>discover the 2hu fandom and all the fan works
>realize you can never get good
>stop playing 2hu and fap to cute youkais
| >>343749
The term rogue-lite should have you covered (and for those who still love to complain, honestly who cares)
| Oh and I support reading Touhou doujins, even if that isn't even Vidya. And I mean non-h, Touhou doujins. There are so many of them and some are so good, specially as you get to know the characters better.
| Not into the genre but Bullet Hell Monday states it's an intro to bullet hell, so maybe try that?
| Reading Touhou comics will not get you into SHMUPs, it will just get you in to the Touhou fan hole, and it is not as nice a place to be as it seems.
As for Recs:
Bullet Hell Monday is quite nice for a mobile shmup, as is Danmaku Unlimited 2&3, and Danmaku Death.
Dodonpachi Resurrection is on Steam, as is Deathsmiles and Mushihimesama
Try Darius Burst for a nice Horizantal SHMUP.
+1 to Crimzon Clover
Ikaruga is a great game. Play it.
| At ground level. Nothing surpasses the accessablity of Blue Wish Resurrection Plus. Also MechaRitz: SteelRondo has a really solid difficulty system that grows as you get better. Highly recommended
| Play Undertale, entry-level bullethell with a fun RPG story
| The only way to get into it is just keep dodging
| Not the first time I've seen someone saying about the Touhou fanbase, yet I still never see a reason
| >>346504
> After touching yourself to cute 2hus realise you need to get better at the game to please mistress remilia
| Touhou is a good starting point I think. Normal mode is pretty reasonable in those games, 6 & 8 seem like good starting points to me. If you don't mind horizontal shooters gradius gaiden and g-darius are pretty great too, the latter leaning more towards bullet hell.
| >>346701
Many shmup fans are annoyed about Touhou fans due to how many of them don't/won't play the actual games, or any shmup for that matter. Shmup fans tend to be heavily incested in to mechanical gameplay rather than theme/characters/etc. In fact, a good chunk of them vehemently dislike the amount of cute girl characters that modern shmups have.
So to have Touhou, which has many fans who don't even know it is a game, be the most popular shmup gets them upset.
| >>348223
Adding to this:
Speaking as a fan of Touhou years ago, Touhou fans can potentially be THE most obnoxious posters on ths internet. This is mainly from my experience on 4chan, but people who are big in to Touhou there were huge shitposters, outrageously self important, elitist about which cute girl they posted, tried to shove their thing in to every conceivable orriface they could find, and were just a huge pain in general.
| As for responses like: >>346586
That one's mine. It was a reaction to Touhou in general (Which are solid games, especially Imperishable Night), but to people suggesting fan comics and fapping to girls in a thread about bullet hell games. To me, it's like somone asking how to get in to Metal Gear, and someone else answering with a picture of Snake in an "awkward" position and a fanfiction.net link.
| >>348235
Any big fanbase is going to have it's annoying members. The cool thing about Touhou is how varied it is, fangames, comics, music albums... As great as Ikaruga or any Cave game is, Touhou is unique, that's why it's so popular. And shmup players being annoyed at Touhou fans because many of them don't play the games? Why even bother? They like the universe, not the games. It would be like hating on me just because I like Dawn of War but I'm not big into the tabletop WH40K.
| >>346567
What kind of manga do you enjoy reading? One of the best ones is The Immortal who saw the Death of the Universe. It's about three characters who drank the immortality elixir and... It should be pretty self-descriptive.
| And yeah, sorry 'bout that.
Going back to the introduction thing, as far as bullet hell goes I'd say th15 Lunatic Kingdom might just be a good one. Rather than lives, it has a "checkpoint" system; it's good for improving, but it might feel like hitting yourself against a wall at times. On the other hand, it feels great when you beat a phase too. And bullet hells are gonna be rough to get into either way...
| BH Monday
Very low time investment but there's these challenges and it gets real intense but for a FILTHY CASUL it lets you learn at your own pace... And there's a "level select" (no story) and an endless mode
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| i started playing blue revolver and am having fun with it even though i'm no good at it. it's the only bullet hell i've played and i'd appreciate some suggestions. i also haven't played any plain scrolling shooters so if you know any good ones please let me know. Thanks!