Victory!

Funny that this game with an intentional time pressure also has another unintentional one with the lag at the end ;) .

The character's animation is super nice, the music is excellent and I really like the bullet pattern progression, it feels really good. The game controls well, the freezing ability of the special attack is cool.

Very fun game, thanks for sharing.

Your original art & music are really nice! I there were some positions on the left edge of the screen that I was able to just camp and shoot from, but nothing game-breaking. Fun game and also sort of relaxing!

This was a really neat one honestly. I really love the art, the player char's design too, she's really cool (quite literally I guess). The music is also a nice vibe, and the game over screen is actually kinda cute too honestly x)
The gameplay is still pretty simple, but it gets the job done.

I also suffered the fps drop on one of my runs after the spiral patterns came in sadly, but other than that the bullet patterns are actually all pretty nice. The perfomance issues actually kinda became a ticking time bomb on my next run after I had to reset (since they made the game unplayable when I got to it) so I guess that kinda served as an extra challenge too, thanks to that I actually had to kill the Boss quickly. I managed to do so by always hitting both the center red hole + a turret of choice at the same time on every bullet burst, but then this actually drained his health so fast that I barely had to move the entire time since the more challenging bullet patterns couldn't actually kick in :P

I usually try to avoid the cheese as much as possible, but I guess it was kinda inevitable this time around, sorry x3
Altought for a non-playtested game that was actually pretty good already

the opening and animated background is amazing. the gameplay is ... slightly confusing. I feel that i a, supposed to destroy turret one by one. but i can't actually tell if a turret  is destroyed or revive, i can only tell by shooting a random turret and see if the thin red hp bar change.

I had fun playing! There is an area in the center of the screen that never sees any action, so I just hung out there, haha. I think the boss might have too much health, though, and there's some noticeable framerate drop after a few minutes in. 

Art and sound were both great! Gameplay was simple but easy to understand and fun!

Nice work!

I love the art. I like the simple but restrictive approach on gameplay too. I'm glad I tried it. Good job!

The intro was really cool and I like the aesthetic. The mechanic was interesting but it got a bit old waiting to shoot over and over and the Boss felt like it had too much HP. The bullet patterns were fun to dodge and the movement felt good but it started lagging pretty bad towards the end when the huge amount of bullets game out. Nice job!

This one looks so cool! The artwork is beautiful!

I do think it could have used a little bit more balancing with how much you can shoot. It does not feel that good to have to wait 2 seconds to recharge, which is not really explained, and was also a bit hard to guess, because shooting does not respond immediately, but has a windup time.

Overall, it’s a very cute game, good job on your first project in Godot 😃

Damn what nice art! Especially the background like the cloud and stuff :) The bullet hell stuff was really well implemented and it was really fun to play. Good job :)

I did cheese it a little though haha. I was able to stay here for a pretty long time without bullets coming XD Can you see me in the bottom right? :P

the art was super cute and the music was very nice, with a little more polish this game would be so lovely, i had lots of fun :)

Beautiful art direction !

Both the main menu still, and the spritework look amazing.Music wise i like the discrete very chill tune, it kinda helps keeping calm and focusing on finding your way through the patterns.

One thing that confused me a bit at first was the fact that you don’t start shooting imediately even when you have the energy to do so so at first i thought you couldn’t shoot at all, once i got around that tiny hurdle the controls felt fine, one thing though is that when the boss starts shooting some of the more complex patterns (about around 50s left on the timer) the performance slows down to a crawl :(

Aside from this setback the game some solid elements already there, would be cool to see what a full version would be like with the optimisation issue solved.

Regardless you did good :)

Loved the visuals, there were places where the bullets never reach but only in the beginning. The gameplay was a little difficult for me  because the enemy takes too little damage.

Very well presented and overall a chill (pun unintended) experience ^^

Some things I wanted to mention, safespots aside:
- Tighter spreads of bullets are really hard to avoid because the normal player speed is quite high, yet there is no focus/slow-down button. So dodging wide is the only way
- Turrets took quite a while to destroy, even with several fully-charged attacks, and there wasn't much visual feedback on when a turret is destroyed. It may be easy to miss the moment when you destroy a turret, considering everything else on the screen to keep track of
- I don't play horizontal shooters much, so the player hitpoint wasn't so clear to me. Some kind of indication, be it a hitpoint visual marker or a clothing accessory covering it, would have been nice

It's unfortunate that you ran out of time, as there really are way too many safespots which trivialize the game at the moment. Some aimed bullets and generally varied bullet speed could have kept the player on their toes. Still, I did enjoy the older anime aesthetic, and the sound effects felt very fitting. And the heroine on the victory screen was adorable, haha. Would love to revisit the game after you make some updates!

The bullet patterns don’t cover the whole screen. It’s easiest to find a spot where the bullets can’t reach and then destroy the shooters at your leisure. If the action were sped up, this could be a fun and frantic adventure. 💙 Thank you for sharing it with us!

I echo Celtia's comments above. Cool art style.

I really liked the "80's City Pop" vibe of the game art, and the idea is interesting. Congratulations!