So I finally looked up what Really Big Sky is. When I saw what it was, I got extremely excited. I absolutely LOVE bullet hell games. Beat Hazard is a really fun game. My favorite Game Cube game is Ikaruga. There are also some great bullet hell flash games. Such as:

Now, I haven't played Really Big Sky yet, although I do really want to. But I think that anyone who enjoys Bullet Hell games should try out the games listed above. And if you guys have an Xbox, you can purchase Ikaruga on XBLA for about $10. Or, you could buy a copy on the Game Cube. The problem with that is that Ikaruga is a very rare game, so you'd have to pay a lot more than $10.

For you people who haven't played a bullet hell but thought about it, I would recommend Frantic 2 as a gateway. DN8:Pulse is a bit too easy compared to regular bullet hell games, and Frantic 2 is the perfect difficulty for such. Ikaruga is a very hard game, even by bullet hell standards. I myself have only made it to chapter 3. Even though it has 6 chapters, it's very hard to make it all the way through in only 3 lives.

And for the 3 of you who don't know what a bullet hell is: A bullet hell game is one where there are bullets EVERYWHERE. These are usually space shooters. They are known for the absurd amount of projectiles on the screen, both yours and your enemies', the high difficulty, and their addictiveness.

So what are your thoughts on Bullet Hell games? This could be about their difficulty, their length (Most are short), or other things. And what are your favorite bullet hell games?

TL;DR- Bullets everywhere, play some games where that happens, and tell me your feedback.

EDIT: I wanna say that I Wanna Appreciate Meteor Stream's boss fight could be considered a bullet hell fight. You can decide that (Also, great song. I love Nico Nico Douga- Ryuuseigun. ^^) ...Well, I guess most boss fights of I Wanna Be The games are the same, so I guess it's a matter if all or none are bullet hell.

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I post Gundemonium in recommendation threads whenever I can.
EDIT: also, I'm sad CAVE hates PCs. And Ikaruga is extremely unlikely to come to Steam.

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Jamestown!-Because at CS parties, you have a ton of mice.

Waves?

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Touhou.
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I've heard of that. I thought it was an anime, though. DId they make a game based off of it or something?

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Nope, it's a game.
There are some doujin anime though.

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Seconded. There are English patches for all of them, unless a new game got snuck out recently that I don't know about yet.

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Paranautical Activity its a great game I really hope they can go through greenlight.

Edit: Here is the greenlight page

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Just read the thread again and my post is completely out of context but ill leave it be because its still a good game :P

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I find them pretty fun once I can actually figure out the patterns and survive through them o3o;

Also, Touhou :v

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on my XBox 360 I have some Cave titles and porting of shooter of other platforms (like Ikaruga or Under Defeat), I really like shmup games :D

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I'm glad you use the term in the general sense. :)
There are some who get really pedantic over what does or doesn't make a game a bullet hell game. Nice for getting specific, but annoying as hell to read.

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Added a game's boss fight that is pretty grey area on whether it's bullet hell, so you guys can decide on that

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I dont know if it belongs to that genre of the games, but I think Warblade is the preety close to it.

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Gundemonium Collection is the best of steam, Hitogata Happa is one of my favorites games on steam, and i love the music, but is very hard, can only beat the game on easy mode xD (maybe because im bad at this games)

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Great "bullet hell" games on Steam:

  • eXceed 2nd: Vampire REX

  • eXceed 3rd: Jade Penetrate Black Package

  • Gundemonium Recollection

  • GundeadliGne

  • Jamestown

And not so good, but still playable:

  • Sine Mora

  • Hitogata Happa

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I enjoyed Sine Mora.

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Sine Mora is great!

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Touhou is a great bullet hell, the music of the series is simply beautiful. Imperishable Night (eight game i think) is a personal favorite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqqaxjowd8A

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Frantic 2 was really cool, the other 2.. not so much :/

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Mostly mentioned already but Touhou is great and Jamestown on steam is fun too, especially with friends.

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I really like Beat Hazard, it's one of my favourite games on steam. Also liked Jamestown but I like Beat Hazard more because it's music-driven. As for Really Big Sky, I dind't like it so much as the other two but it's also fun.

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Try any Metal Slug without dying more than twice.

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They are actually called shmup .. Or Shoot 'em up ... And they are AWESOME!

EDIT: let me correct myself. Bullet Hell is a type of Shoot em Up. So yea, same difference

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Danmaku

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I like these games. The I am something in a game with zombies on XBLA is good. BTW what does TL;DR mean?

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too long didn't read = TL;DR

its basically a summary

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Oh thanks xD gonna be using that a lot I see

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