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3 stages!

4 characters of varying playstyles and difficulties!

Not only are there 3 difficulty options, but the difficulty adapts to your skill via the rank mechanic!

An ultra challenging final boss, can you beat it?

Buttons:

Z - Shoot

B - Bomb

C - Meteor mode

Arrows - Move

Shift - Slow mode

Ctrl - Turbo mode

General gameplay mechanics:

1. Point-blank - The closer you are to an enemy, the more damage you deal, and when you destroy them, the more meteor-orblets you gain, and the more score you get
2. Grazing - If you stay close to an enemy's bullets, you "graze", each bullet can only be grazed once, grazing has many benefits: It gives score, it's one of the two primary ways of getting multiplier (and the primary one on boss situations), it fills your meteor-mode (the only way in boss situations), and it increases rank, which means that for runs where you only wanna get to the end it can bite you, but in runs where you wanna score, it's benefitial, since rank is a direct multiplier
3. Charging: Similar to grazing bullets, you can do a similar thing with enemies, but you can do this multiple times per enemy, as many as you can,  the distance you have to be away from the enemy to do this is way larger, which means you can charge from multiple enemies at once, it's important to note that you can charge from enemies which are in their death animation, a technique best used in stage 1, the purpose of charging is only for scoring, only giving raw score and multiplier, it is, however, very efficient at building multiplier
4. Rank - The higher it is, the stronger the enemies' attacks are, it's also a direct score multiplier
5. Meteor mode - Use your meteor-meter to enter mode, non-boss enemies gain stronger attacks, you have much stronger attacks and killing an enemy gives double the chain and all of their bullets are converted into score

Try to get a high score, here are the scoring mechanics:

1. Don't get hit for a stage for a huge bonus
2. Don't use a bomb for a stage for another huge bonus
3. Don't lose your chain through the stage for an ENORMOUS bonus (the chain timer stops when necessary to ensure that it's possible, losing lives and bombing automatically ends the chain)
4. Be as close to the enemies as you can when they die, the closer, the better, this way, they will give more score and more meteor-orblets
5. Keep your chain, the chain is one of the 3 multipliers, along with rank and the original-named "multiplier", also, the higher your chain, the higher the maximum multiplier
6. Seriously, don't die, nor bomb, not only does that take away the huge multiplier, but doing so lowers the rank and resets your chain, which in turn probably lowers your multiplier since it's maximum also goes down, if it was already below the default maximum, hooray.......
7. Keep your rank high: Not only is the direct multiplier good, fiercer enemy attacks means more bullets, more bullets means more things to dodge and absorb with meteor mode
8. Abuse the fact that you can charge from dying enemies
9. Know that whether you should focus on grazing or chains depends on your situation, if you're against enemies, chain, grazing is always good even in stages, but as the saying goes "if you try to catch two rabbits you'll catch neither"
10. Beat a boss phase without getting hit or bombing and you'll get a "perfect dodge" these are amazing so always try to get them
11. The faster you beat a boss phase, the more score you get, combine this with meteor mode and point-blanking for maximum effect
12. Use meteor mode in the right situations - It can give a lot of score if you use it carefully, or beat a boss phase faster for it's bonus

......Making this game took 14 months and it meant a lot to me, I never made a project this big so it changed my confidence and patience for the better forever