GanaBlade

This game is awesome - a truly retro feeling shooter, I got major Konami vibes, but in many ways it's better because you have a lot of quality of life, and since this isn't originally an arcade game you don't have to empty your pockets. It says on Steam that there is no controller support, but it runs fine on my controller without any extra configuration. So what makes this game unique? well quite a lot of things actually -you have infinite continues, but if you die, you start from the beginning of the current stage, so grind it is, but that's the name of the genre, you can get good pretty fast. The diffculty - normal is HARD, but EX is just sadism to the next level :D, I actually can't beat this on normal, but I'll keep trying, once you beat a level, you can select it from the start menu You have two ships, and on top of that there are three power ups you can pick up, though the newer power up is going to replace the older power up - the power ups also change how your secondary weapon works that loads up There is also an autobomb, but it's more like an energy shield that recharges, in 30 seconds or so, but yeah you can take two hits, the energy shield (autobomb), and then after that you are dead and go back to the beginning of the stage, unless you had time to recharge the energy shield again. Once you clear a level you get to buy some power ups, that carry over to the next stage, better said you level up your ability to get power ups, that you then have to pick up on the stage. The game has a banger soundtrack - true chip tunes pearls here. I think these guys are Chinese or Taiwanese? I know some Japanese, so I can read some text like names of the planets and so on. Thanks a lot! A fantastic shooter!