Don'Yoku

Don'Yoku. A Japanese arcade pixel art 2 button vertical bullet-hell shooter adorned with a pulse pounding hard rock soundtrack. No analogue stick support but Xpadder and other 3rd party utilities can remedy this issue. Store page claims full controller support though you have to enable via options and no native analogue stick support is not full controller support. Controls, both Game-pad and Keyboard are rebind-able. Paraphrasing from in game instructions; Tap A for machine-gun to generate "DonYoku counter". Hold A for beam and release coins from enemies. More coins the more difficulty as the old green-light page professes. Two retro CRT settings. Steam Achievements. Three difficulty options though the easiest "Practice" is a challenge. Three types of "aircraft", spread, narrow and wide shot dispersal. I really liked Don'Yoku. Kind of old school arcade, atmosphere, music and sound. A+

スペイン産の縦スクロール2Dシューティング 東亜/CAVE系を強く意識した作りではありますが、 実態はアリュメ/ビスコ系のC級レベルな内容でした。 <GOOD> ・最高に熱いBGM ・東亜プラン風のメカデザイン ・コミカルで悪くないなキャラクターデザイン ・縦画面解像度に対応(1080*1920) <BAD> ・キーコンフィグが糞 　(デフォルト設定のままでJoy2Keyの利用を推奨) ・2015/10/1時点でステージ４のゲームバランスが崩壊している 　(ボムを使いながら普通に進むと戦艦突破後にコイン1000万超え→BOSSの攻撃ランクMAX→クリア不能) 　(戦艦地帯でわざとボムを使わずに取得コインを減らすことでクリアできます) ・その他もろもろ 　(2DシューティングとしてNGな部分が多い。弾幕の弾道にバグもアリ！！) シューターを引き付ける魅力を持ったゲームですが、 難易度調整を放棄しているうえに弾幕のバグもある現状では気持ちよくPLAYする事はできません。 2015/11頃に大型アップデートが予定されおり、 それでどこまで改善するかに期待してます。 50 / 100 点 ※ノーマルランク以上で全ステージクリア後に隠しキャラが追加されます。 （キャラ選択画面でSHIFTキーを押しっぱなしで表示） ※制作者インタビュー http://ch.nicovideo.jp/MaginoDrive/blomaga/ar840434

游戏名是贪欲么？emm~总的来说其实就是个2D纵版射击游戏啦~ 画面默认全屏，而且不知道咋调窗口屏~似乎没法调~ 也没法修改键位，不过默认wasd+b（A）n（B）+回车~ 刚启动游戏的时候连个键盘键位都没提示~好粗糙~

Don'Yoku is the reincarnation of the cabinet that sat in the corner of your local dive arcade. You know, the one that gorged itself on the pocket change of the unwary and stubborn; the one that had even the guy with seemingly superhuman coordination and reflexes sweating during the early levels. If you were that guy, Don’Yoku will reveal whether you’ve still “got it.” If you were the bystander who could barely surmount stage one, then Don’Yoku is your chance for redemption. Whatever your goal and whatever the outcome, you’re going to have fun. This is a brutal but enjoyable game: tough but fair. The first stage mercilessly showers you with bullets. The second? Ditto. The third? Same. The fourth? Guess. The fifth? Good luck getting there. As you make progress, Don’Yoku will pour on the rain in increasingly dense patterns, and you’ll love every minute of it. Controls are just about as tight and responsive as possible, so as much as you might curse the game when death comes (and it will), deep down you’ll know the real reason you keep eating bullets is poor plane placement and/or slow reaction time. Granted, upon first encounter, some patterns will appear impossible to dodge. In these instances, Don’Yoku’s weapon mechanics serve as a buffer. Strategic use of your arsenal can extend your survivalbility by quite a bit. You are given three planes to choose from, and each comes with a standard machine gun, an energy beam, and a Don’Yoku attack (basically, a bomb). Damaging enemies with the machine gun fills the Don’Yoku counter (i.e. gauge) for the Don'Yoku attack; whereas, the energy beam causes slight slowdown of onscreen action and converts kills to coins for increased score. A huge part of surviving in Don’Yoku involves efficient swapping of the the weaker machine gun and the more powerful beam, as well as juggling Don’Yoku energy stocking with Don'Yoku attack striking. Do this balancing act well and combine it with effective dodging, and your plane can endure a beating. All in all, great gameplay and cool presentation makes Don'Yoku a must-have for bullet hell aficionados.

Unclear controls and poor controller support, uninspiring visuals. Modern-style shmup disguised as retro. Unpolished, low quality.

Edit: Updated review after dev response. An excellent shmup that takes me back to playing similar games in arcades in the 90s. Three characters to choose from, each with a singificantly different playstyle. Multiple difficulty levels, the lowest of which should allow even casual players to see most of the game. Very pretty pixel art and beautiful cabinet-style sidebars. Controls are slightly unresponsive, but not so much as to detract from the game. If you ever played an old arcade game with a well-maintained but 'sticky' joystick (pizza parlor Raiden), that's what it feels like. A few caveats: Don'Yoku is full screen by default and I haven't found a way to run it windowed. More importantly, this game is shackled with the WORST default keybindings I have EVER seen. At first, I was convinced the controls were broken. Not only are the default bindings unintuitive (WASD + BNM, Controller support in menu only, no analog stick support, keyboard arrow keys do nothing), but they're also inconsistent. It took a while, but once I'd set controls to joystick and rebound the action buttons, I had a great time with this game. Highly recommended, IF you either have a gamepad and reconfigure the controls, OR don't mind a WASD keyboard setup.

Controls are crap. The game is crap. It doen't launch on some PCs. Don't buy it.

I really wanted this game to be good - I'm big shmup fan and the style of this game is isnteresting, WWI fighters and tanks and all other stuff with anime like characters. When I saw this game I was sold imediately but the reality is that Don'Yoku is done poorly, even the main menu looks like a joke. Rebinding keys is a struggle, I used joy2key. The gameplay is not good either. First of all it doesnt run very smooth. The music after some time feels annoying. On the positive side the mechanic of getting this bomb like attacks is cool and I really like it. The patterns and bossses are ok. Im really pissed about this game because if it was done better I'm sure I would love Don'Yoku.