Mmmmm delicious bullet hell I cronch

Some very nice patterns you've got in here! The difficulty is well-balanced and the spells were quite pretty. Some patterns like Avalanche or Piling Snow were a bit uninspired though, being either too easy or too RNG-reliant.

I did notice there was a RANK system at play, though I'm not sure if it really affected anything?

Good work overall!

Definitely Touhou-tier difficulty, in that I can reliably dodge and clear the spell cards, except when I can't. Hella fun. Could maybe use some kind of indicator for when I'm about to run out of slowdown juice.

A really solid Touhou-style boss fight, with a cool gimmick. One of my favorite games this jam for sure. The difficulty is just right for a jam game, with the fight overall being notably more accessible than a normal Extra boss, but still with some tricky patterns that I'm not gonna successful dodge any time soon. I'm impressed someone no-missed it.

I also particularly love the slalom non-spells. It's a bit unusual that you have to stay at the same side twice, but it's a welcome change of pace from the usual right-left-right-left rhythm of high movement spells. I thought the survival was nice, but I can see how it becomes RNG hell if you don't use the slow-down. It could probably be a bit shorter to make it less RNG sensitive? And it would have helped slightly to have the bullets from the top be a different color - it was something that occurred to me once I figured out that I should just slowdown myself into a nice gap in the lower bullets and follow them up: the lower ones can basically be ignored at this point as long as you move with the right speed, so having them be the same color adds visual clutter.

Also, for anyone that has problems with the refresh rate being tied to your monitor, you need to turn off vsync.

First time seee danmokou with such beautiful UI elements, the invisibility timer, capture results, death effect, and stuff like doubling boss HP at bottom of screen (where I have spent a lot of time), they are really good

I've only finished one Touhou danmaku game, so I'm not exactly a pro, but I enjoyed the few tries I attempted at yours! The slowdown mechanic is interesting and works well with the patterns you devised, although I kind of miss bombs.

Pretty cool but the challenge's all over the place.

The Diamond Mogul and the Avalanche spells I think are too easy, I mean it as they look more like Nonspells.
There's the first spell, the Lightning Snow, and some other nonspells that use the dark small pellets: these pellets unfortunately are really annoying in a bad way. That's because they're both blending with the dark backgrounds (yes even on nonspells they tend to be hard to keep track off) and they're also together with bright-colored bullets.
There's also the survival spell which I really didn't like at all. Even with the slowdown mechanic, the highly random nature of the pattern often makes it unfair and unjustifiably hard. I think different colors with the falling bullets and the piling ones could help greatly (for identifying which is falling and which is rising - especially when they overlap so often), and make either the falling bullets OR the piling ones have only one speed for all. And also Yukari's sprite hides bullets so that was one unforeseen curveball right in my gabber.

All of the rest however is pretty great and accessible. Especially liked the slaloming nonspells. The theming too is well done.
Now all it needs is a replay option, and good thing I've recorded my perfect run.

(Also yes I managed to No Miss No Slowdown after dying 100+ times in the survival spell, how could you tell?)

It's a fast-paced Danmaku game, Z is for shooting, and X is to slow the bullets down so you can dodge easily.

The bullet patterns are really beautiful to watch, plus the cover is really beautiful, so it would rank high in Art for sure.

I am glad it doesn't have a try limit because I am really terrible at this type of game, it's good to know that suckers like me can also finish the game without any problem, other than dying a lot.

Overall, a great game to try if you like the Danmaku games, it's really challenging as well.

I like danmaku games so I liked this one. Some patterns seem a little dense but they're all doable with practice. I had a lot of rage filled fun.

pretty fun patterns! they're hard but enjoyable

the patterns in this game a STUNNING, they're difficult but every death doesn't seem unfair. the bullets are absolutely beautiful aswell. if you put me down and asked me if this was a fan game or an actual touhou game, i wouldn't be able to answer. that being said, it doesn't really feel wintery. idrk how to explain it though. anyways, great game!

Really fun patterns :)