Bullet Hell: Difference between revisions
m
no edit summary
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (put first title drop in boldface, removed boldface on other title drops, fixed overemphasis elsewhere in article) |
mNo edit summary |
||
Line 5:
|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}oGAjtr8Cujw YouTube commenter] on ''[[Touhou]]'' [[Fan Work|Ultra mode]].}}
'''Bullet Hell''' (called ''danmaku'' or "barrage" - literally "bullet curtain" - in Japanese, and sometimes called "run and gun") shooters are a subgenre of [[Shoot'Em Up]]s that test both your dodging skills and your resistance to seizures. To put it simply, they're vertically scrolling shooters where all the enemies have ''[[More Dakka|lotsa (but not enuff) dakka]]''. They often feature extremely elaborate and beautiful patterns of bullet flows, especially for bosses, with hundreds and sometimes thousands of bullets on the screen at once, requiring constant weaving and pattern memorization in order to get the elusive [[Rank Inflation|S++ ranks]]. Not so [[Painfully-Slow Projectile|painfully slow]] when they ''cover the screen'', eh, tough guy? These games also tend to have [[True Final Boss]]es.
However, the genre is not always as [[Nintendo Hard]] as it seems. The player's [[Hitbox Dissonance|hitbox is often very small, sometimes only one pixel]]. In addition, [[A-Team Firing|the majority of enemy bullets are sprayed wildly and have no chance of actually hitting the player]]. Finally, the player is almost always given some variant of the [[Smart Bomb]], which will remove bullets from the screen. Most modern bullet hell games give the player another way to avoid being killed, such as hypers in ''[[Do Don Pachi]]'', ''[[Touhou]]''{{'}}s deathbombs, or ''[[Giga Wing]]''{{'}}s [[Attack Reflector]]. Though by no means easy, a bullet hell game can be cleared without memorizing patterns or continuing. In fact, Bullet Hell games tend to be just as difficult as older, less bullet-intensive games.
Line 114:
* [[Trouble Witches]] is bullet hell series with emphasis on Magic Barrier system and utilizing Magic Cards to gain Star Coins and earn points.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Yq-ThqIZAJI My Little Pegasis: Kizuna DoPonyPachi], a danmaku fangame based on [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]
* ''[[Enter the Gungeon]]'' is a [[Roguelike]] Bullet Hell with a topdown perspective. There's even a level called "Bullet Hell".
== Non-shooter examples of Bullet Hell-style projectiles ==
Line 151 ⟶ 152:
* ''[[Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2]]'' has a DLC character by the name of Cave. [[Don Pachi|Yes,]] ''[[Espgaluda|that]]'' [[CAVE]]. True to the company she represents, she has [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnG9ITNgRyE an attack] called [[Shout-Out|Black Label]], in which she unleashes bullet hell on the enemy.
* ''Shinywuffles'', naturally. I mean, just look at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJEbxn39vU this].
----
| |||