Bullet Beat: Musical Shoot'em up

insane for uploading your own music and it runs mad smooth. Looking forward for futurte updates.

I rate Bullet Beat: Musical Shoot'em up 2.5/5. This extremely short, simple, vertical scrolling “bullet-hell” game is a good idea done badly. The manner in which enemies appear and behave is partially controlled by the beat and intensity of whatever song is playing during each level, which is a good idea (one which has been done before, as in the Beat Hazard games for example). Unfortunately, Bullet Beat takes that same cool, seemingly simple idea and then does very little with it. As it currently exists, Bullet Beat is a missed opportunity. + Bullet Beat has some mild replay value if you want to play the game using different song files of your own. There are also 3 difficulty levels. +/- The mouse controls are sharp and respond instantly. The keyboard controls (which do not need to be used) are floaty, imprecise and slow to react however. +/- The simple, modern-art, abstract style seems vaguely interesting at first but gets boring fast. The graphics can also be extremely distracting and visually irritating at times (like during the entire first level). +/- The game’s default music is entirely dub-step techno. If you like that style of music, you’ll be vastly more likely to like this game. +/- You can also have the game use your own music tracks however I don’t think the game responds very well or behaves in an interesting manner when using custom music, particularly if the beat of that music is very regular. I tested this game’s custom music mode by using “Can I Have a Word” by Capsule (which isn’t dubstep techno but should have been suitably frenetic) but the gameplay ended up being quite sedate and boring. Apparently, if the beat is very regular, the entire game will respond in an extremely regular manner too, as it appears to ultimately ignore all other aspects of music other than, perhaps, overall noise or volume level, I guess. The beat is definitely what is most important in Bullet Beat (I think it determines how the enemy shapes move and how often they appear). - Bullet Beat is a single player game ONLY. This is a missed opportunity. Any game of this general bullet hell style which is single player only is missing an obvious opportunity for further fun. - No soundtrack is available to buy on steam and as far as I can tell, no soundtrack comes for free with this game. I did manage to find this game’s soundtrack on Youtube however. I like the game’s menu music fairly well after all. - This is an extremely short, bare-bones game severely lacking in extras and features. As I remember, it took me about 38 minutes to play all the way through it on the casual difficulty level.