Reign of Bullets

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great game

A pleasant surprise! Wasn't sure what to expect from the screenshots, but it has a few fresh takes on the SHMUP genre. It lacks a bit in personality, in variety and in balance, but it's still a perfectly decent title with a relaxing core loop with a bit of grinding, but not to the point of becoming a chore. Reminded me of Jets-n-Guns in some ways. 7/10

This game is pretty well put together! I do my share of badge crafting, something for which you get game coupons. While I used to largely ignore these, I've taken it as an opportunity to add some games to my collection I might not otherwise hear of. Reign of Bullets is one of those games today! A pretty straight forward side-scrolling shooter with smooth 2D graphics. While I'm only less than an hour in and admittedly playing on 'Beginner', the first 10 levels have shown that this game will definitely scale well and offer some replayability. In this SHMUP, you collect scrap during each level (about 1.5 minutes in length) and use that on upgrades to weapons that you find and upgrades to abilities. Here's where the game seems to have put some clever thought into what it's doing. Upon each level's completion (or defeat) you'll have a few random items from the level that'll get added to your inventory. These are usually weapons for your ship or upgrades for the slots that weapons have to them. The game was wise to make these weapons have a rarity to them and 10~ or so stat lines to give you a good variety to the the weapons you find. You'll be revisiting the hangar regularly to swap out something old for something new to give you a better chance in the next level. Along with this, the game gives you a letter grade ranking for each level you complete; Naturally, each level gets harder and requires the constant upgrades to your ship. You'll quickly see on the launch screen some of the levels you barely scraped through with a 'C' rating and catch yourself thinking "you know what, that could be an A now that I just added this new weapon slot to my ship and have this lazer that's just absolutely banging and upgraded to put in it.." Between this and the good variety of difficulty levels, I can safely say that this is a fun shooter. The first few stages gave me some worry that there wouldn't quite be a bullet hell element to it, or a lack of enemy variety, but each new stage seems to add a new enemy or give an enemy a new ability, keeping things fresh. As you progress further, the bullet hell finally starts to reveal itself with some enemies doing a good job to give you something to doge. You also have a shield ability on cool-down to balance things out and give you some reprieve. LASTLY, I want to throw out that this game just runs SWIMMINGLY on the steam deck. at 5.9W of power usage, this to me is a good game to have as it's one that can provide some longevity on a single battery charge. Being 7 years old and barely reviewed, I feel this is worthy of leaving a new fresh review on as the game has some substance. In any case, it's worth a look for anyone looking for a shooter to throw on their steam deck.

Everything I've ever wanted from a shoot-em-up. Upgrades, selectable difficulty that scales fairly, customizable weapon, and an eminently skippable story.

This game is a shooting paradise!! And upgrading!! And story (initially) mildly reminding of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! Oh and... well, you have to choose yourself if you want to play braindead or full of brain! Well, if you aim for completion, you will probably need some brains even... or maybe guides or something, not sure if those are existant. Besides the story mode /which is easily doable in one day - well, on easy modes- you can have a near endless grind for beating those survival mode stages you will be stuck on (probably, or maybe you turn out to be a genius) and customizing a whole arsenal of weapons as you see fit. As an example; I play this for about a day now, and went through the easiest of storymode settings, ending up with mostly frontside fanned weapon range, but also sneaking in some targeting enhancements on the outermost weapons to get rid of the small pesky fly enemies or just missiles I don't want to dodge/use my shield for. Directly on front I got my main dmg source, which is arguably about a 6th of the screen size away from my own ship (as some range+explosions-dependant weapons help keeping this "safety distance"), and filled with small dmg enhancements like pierce, splitting/bursting projectiles and all that. After the final boss I went back to clear some beginner stages with S-Rank... I made a super autotarget laser with a big targeting angle and just enough dmg to be able to beat the easy mode small fries who come from up top and behind to drop some rockets on me, while in front I got a huge homing flamethrower to eat away stuff before it even enters the screen lol... Well, that is the easy part... difficulty may scale to near impossible, and you don't need to first unlock the higher 6 or 7 difficulty settings for maps.. should be fun for anyone who likes sidescroller shoot em ups, and is a better game than most of them. The ambiente is kinda funny/senseless, so some may prefer games with more "dystopean" (yeah not a really existant word kinda like utopia just for words lol) fatmosphere like Einhander. BUT it is in my opinion definetly worth the money in an age where people spend hundreds on seemingly free to play mobile games and such! Enjoy <3

This game was a gift from a friend - way more fun than the screen shots give it credit. It's a fun play-through :)

As bullet-hell games go it's extremely fun. :) Very colorful, a lot of different weapons, different enemies and difficult bosses. :)

Fun game