Colorful, brash and difficult in all the right ways. Boiling Bolt had me yelling at my screen, but it also had me wanting to play more. Solid art style, great soundtrack, intuitive gameplay. Well worth your time. https://youtu.be/J7p2jfkYyiw

Game has all the fixin's for a great title like multiple modes and the ability to collect crystals from fallen enemies to upgrade but the game play itself bounces back and forth between dull and frustrating. I blame it on being confined within a ribbon that wraps back and forth in 2.5D and the bullet-time system

Interesting concept, very well done in most aspects, cool tutorial, but the gameplay itself is pretty boring and slow. One standard weapon that fires balls with the speed of an old grandma and some more or less useless second fire guns/perks. The upgrade system is meh. I wish more Shmups were like Raptor, Tyrian & Jets'n'Guns.

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edit:: Aight, I'm gonna go ahead and downvote this. These levels are so damn ridiculously long and slow. I would like to beat it but my gawd what a trudge, and the dash seems to execute quite poorly diving thru lasers and lvl.4 boss's body. You know it's not even that hard, but this game feels like your stuck on an elevator. Molasses. I do not think I can play this a 3rd time. ::original thoughts:: MAn, when you are so close to having a winner, but for some odd reason you leave voice acting out of this beautiful world. Alright, so you've got some great anime shots, nice 3D world, and man, it is just lifeless without voice-acting. Good concepts. Tho the dash seems to be iffy on the lvl 4 boss which just now pissed me off... and actually, the hitbox on this ship is funky and I felt like sometimes I was just getting lucky (some bullets and ships would sometimes hit me or I'd pass through them, and like I come out fine). Wish the ship could feel more powerful, but a single fire shot ...

Super strange. Awkward... One shmup on a 2D plan, itself on a 3D plan so, you stick to a 2D rail while you move and shoot but this rail have a Z axis that is often used. Even your bullets follow the rail, very strange. Confusing... bizarre. Visuals are not bad for the background but vessels are really simplistic. Too much manga for me. Classic arcade cabinet music. Some sort of fast paced techno jungle. Moving anything on your controller skip the animated scenes. This is also confusing. And it is immediate. No transition, no wait. You move, it skips. Brutal. I would recommend it only if you want to experiment a strange shmup. Today it was something like 3$ with just a fistful of reviews 5 years after it came out. That is why I added it to my library. Considering that price, I wont ask for a refund and I won't even say it is bad. I may also give it another try but I admit that after 12mn in, I already need a break and I am going to try another game. I was not ready for that. So, th...