A fun game!

What I liked:

- The graphics, music, and overall feel.

- The overall difficulty.

- The variety of enemies, weapon upgrades, and shield upgrades.

- The parallax backgrounds to distinguish levels.

- The length was quite good for a jam game

- The shield upgrades were cool!

- I could use my xbox 360 controller without any issues

- The enemies seem to follow the same script so you can replay the game and memorize the patterns to get a perfect score

What could be different:

- There were some "NES Hard" moments, with enemies coming up behind you, combined with the slow movement speed made it hard to react to. But once that happened I learned to stay more towards the middle of the screen which seems like how your core game loop was designed, to encourage the player to weave in and out (I like this part)

- Also there is a "maze" part in the 2nd level where it looks like if you don't take the middle path you will just die? I don't know for sure.

- There is no cool down on the fire button? so spamming the laser, especially after an upgrade makes dispatching enemies quite easy.

- Didn't see any volume controls and the music was loud

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In summary I really enjoyed this game.

I know you always have more ideas and things that can't make the cut into the game with a limited time limit. 

Thank you for participating in Buddy Jam! =)