I’ve never really been into 2D shooters, but recently I’ve found a new genre that is pretty awesome, named “Bullet Hell”. What sold me on these games was a game called rRootage. There’s also a port for Linux (and apparently an iPhone app as well). Below is a video of me playing one of the stages of the game.
There’s some other games like this such as the Touhou series, which I’ve been meaning to play, but don’t have the hard drive space for ATM.
The first few levels of rRootage are easier, but they start to get harder after stage 4A. It’s definitely a fun genre once you get past the whole “too many bullets, I can’t do this” mindset.
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Gotta play perfect cherry blossom if you haven’t yet – its loads of fun if you can get past the ridiculousness of being a a girl that shoots lightning instead of a plane that can shoot lightning. rRootage is good, and the guy who ported it also ported a lot of other really nice shooters (plus the bullet libraries are interesting to check out if you code).
Yeah, now I’ve been playing a lot of Touhou, it’s a fun game. I’ve got most of the PC games. Good stuff.