This is really fun! If you want to lean into the bullet-hell aspect, you should make the enemies shoot everywhere, and not just at your ship. Currently, you can avoid their bullets by going in a circle and you don't actually have to dodge. The first firerate downgrade halves your DPS, but doesn't give much score increase, this should be balanced. I like the art and the enemy variety, the fact each one has a different attack is a nice touch! Are your particles randomly distributed? 0.0