CosmoDreamer

好玩，画风也可爱

CosmoDreamer has instantly become one of my favorite all-time bullet hell shoot 'em ups! :) It's a relatively fast-paced shmup with a cute art style, with the focus more on reaction than memorization. This game offers: - 8 stages, and an extra stage - a stage selection mode, and an arcade mode - customizable shot/bomb types for different playstyles (4 parameters x 4 options) - 4 difficulties, and unlockable [spoiler]revenge bullets[/spoiler] mode - a practice mode that allows you to practice specific stage parts, or the boss - a short tutorial, and an in-game manual that explains the mechanics - the game registers pacifist runs - achievements - online leaderboards for arcade mode / extra stage The game has several options that make it very accessible for beginners (single-stage selection mode, homing/spread shot available, better autobomb settings at the cost of efficiency, stage help settings), w/o affecting advanced players. The game rewards you for: - defeating enemies quickly - getting close to enemies - grazing - item collection (game has a point of collection mechanic) - using bombs to clear many bullets, instead of using them defensively - not getting hit during a boss fight - not (auto)-bombing during a boss fight - picking stronger attack options, at the cost of weaker / no autobomb The soundtrack is from the Japanese royalty free music site MusMus, and can be downloaded for free. Note: I found the Mature Content description on the store page a bit confusing, since I saw no sexual content whatsoever in this game. The only thing that comes close is that 2 bosses have large breasts, but ... that's it. It's just a cute game with a cute and innocent story, about a girl who dreams that she and her classmates can fly.

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SI

Best bring your A-game. This game is a perfectly made shooter. Got the 1cc on the first try on the easiest setting, still stuck on the single bump in difficulty with more difficulty to bump. It allows you to learn the game and has multiple modes for practice and more. One of the best shoot em ups Ive ever played 10/10

I'm a danmaku enjoyer, but in the last few months, I've started to burn out on the genre a bit. But this game, along with its sequel Like Dreamer, has reignited the flame for me. I highly recommend it. It feels much more Touhou than Dodonpachi, so keep that in mind before you buy it. But the polish and amount of content is above and beyond your typical Touhou game, and there are difficulty options for all skill levels. The music, the hand-drawn artwork, all the weapon options, made this one very replayable. The graze mechanic (which isn't mentioned in the tutorial, so it was a happy surprise when I noticed it was there) reminds me of a simplified version of the Cherry Point system from Perfect Cherry Blossom, with grazes increasing a score multiplier that affects the point value of everything else -- though there's no "supernatural barrier" or anything like that for when your multiplier goes up a certain amount. It also doesn't decrease when you get hit or use a bomb, another difference from Touhou. One thing I do think would have been nice is an actual graze counter, just so we could see how many bullets we grazed in a stage. The number of grazes isn't displayed anywhere, and since grazing isn't the only way to increase your multiplier (it also goes up every time you kill an enemy), you can't really figure out how many bullets you've grazed by looking at the multiplier. But this has absolutely no effect on gameplay, so it's not a big deal at all. I just personally like seeing my graze count go up in games with a graze mechanic. The Touhou item gathering line is also here, where items will be drawn to you if you move towards the top of the screen, which is a feature I don't think I've ever seen outside of Touhou. Actions that increase your multiplier also contribute to a bomb meter which, when full, will give you another bomb. Bombs don't get more expensive as you go on, meaning that the game is VERY generous with them. But you can only hold 3 at a time, so the bomb generosity is balanced out by the low bomb capacity, which also encourages you to use them rather than hoard them. At the beginning, there's an auto bomb system where getting hit while holding any bombs will activate a shield instead of taking a life, but will also deplete your bombs to zero, regardless of how many you're holding. You can set it so that you only lose one bomb per hit, but if you do, you miss out on the option to boost either your regular shot or your focused shot. Later, you also unlock the ability to turn auto bombs off entirely, which boosts both regular and focused shots. One final note -- "trial mode," the traditional arcade mode where you play through all of the stages in succession in one continuous run without saving your progress or getting your lives and bombs back between stages, isn't unlocked at the beginning. To unlock it, you have to complete each of the stages one at a time, selecting from a stage select screen, with each stage being a self-contained run. So if you want to jump in and try to 1CC the whole thing right off the bat, you can't. It would have been nice if that was an option from the start, but if you're familiar with danmaku, it doesn't take long to unlock, so, again, not a terribly big deal. All in all, I definitely recommend this game for danmaku players of all skill levels.

On aime ou l'on n'aime pas le style artistique, mais CosmoDreamer est un shmup très compétent. Tous les boss ont une gimmick assez intéressante (faire apparaître les balles sur une ligne, invoquer des urnes qui attaquent, changer ses attaques en fonctions des modes de tir du joueur, etc...), les patterns sont uniques sans devenir trop tirés par les cheveux Il n'y a rien de particulièrement innovant, on peut choisir un loadout, on gagne des vies/barrières en fonction du score et on augmente son multiplicateur de score en battant les ennemies ou en frôlant les balles. Beaucoup de contenu et tout est très bien fait. La hitbox est très généreuse. 8 à 9/10