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Exotic Butterfly Net

By greasemonkey

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio174.25
Fun1123.71
Overall2983.47
Mood3873.24
Graphics7402.82
Innovation9212.29
Theme10361.94
Coolness214324

Comments

gmerencio 2015-04-21 02:42

Fun and challenging, good old school stuff.

iapc 2015-04-21 04:02

Fun, oldschool, difficult ;).

sinclairstrange 2015-04-21 04:10

Very nice indeed. I went onto hard mode at first and was like OH MY GOD, but after some practice on the other difficulties it became a lot easier (still very challenging.) Very good music also, was nice to dust off the old GBA emulator! Great stuff!

os_reboot 2015-04-21 04:56

Very fun game! Moving forward is a little pointless, but the focus is a nice touch. Great work!

foxthestampede 2015-04-21 05:01

I liked the strong Touhou feel to the boss, especially the boss music :)

ladyenigma 2015-04-21 23:03

I was confused about what I was doing but I was having fun doing it! Great graphics and audio and love the old school feel.

domnomnom 2015-04-22 00:35

Managed to clear easy+normal and get to the boss in hard.
I find the difficulty curve is quite well balanced between the three difficulties.

Some criticism:
- at medium and hard difficulty the boss uses the same coloured projectiles as you do, making them unfairly hard to spot when they are coming straight at from above.
- there is no game over screen after you kill the boss
- there is no clear indication that your hitbox is only your head and your feet can touch projectiles.
- the game doesn't seem to be based of the theme.

Overall, pretty neat that it's a well balanced bullet hell for the GBA

greasemonkey 2015-04-22 01:56

@DomNomNom thanks for voting, I'd just like to reply to one comment:
The reason there is no game over screen after you kill the boss is so you can see your score and lives - I didn't really have much time to add any "nice" functionality for that.

ohsqueezy 2015-04-22 19:16

Cool music and funny touhou style game title! Reverent bullet-hell action. I request a special move of some kind.

crefossus 2015-04-22 21:34

Really fun game, great energy and music

Maybe tone down the saturation on the colors ? The background sort of blends into the gameplay.

benjamin-soule 2015-04-25 10:22

very fun, and nice job with the music. Just because of the lack of ending screen the game looks quite unfinished. By just adding a "gameover" and "press <a> to continue" message to go back to menu, you could correct it and let enough time to player to see his score.
I also think you can improve greatly your overal but just spending 30min-1hour on sprite design

andrea 2015-05-11 09:19

I have nothing wrong to say about this game, apart from the fact that the boss launches a blue fireball sometimes which is confusing because it's the same color as the player's.
Very nice and challenging game, with nice music and art!
Great job!