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| Progear (Cave/Capcom 2001) - 2nd Boss "Gabriel Hammer" |
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Saturday 14 January 2012
What is Bullet Hell
"Bullet hell" ("danmaku" in Japanese) is a term used to describe a sub-genre of manic shoot 'em up. The screenshot below is from Cave's 2001 game, Progear, and summarises the genre pretty well.
As you can probably tell, bullet hell shooters are above and beyond your usual shmup, with intense and complex enemy bullet patterns that require skill and nerves of steel to negotiate. Talking of Cave, they are the bastions of the genre and continue to make arcade games to this day.
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