Way too short even for its kind, has huge framerate issues and you can't replay the game as another character like the previous games because there is only one character this time. Don't forget there is a demo on the official website if you are really interested.

Rendering is broken, there is solid black box around sprites. I have HD530/960M but from reading online it seems it will probably be broken on all laptops using Nvidia Optimus.

Also cannot configure shift key for slow shot, only alphabet keys.

I think that is lazy programming.

Jade Penetrate Black Package, the Touhou game that isn't Touhou. You can tell right away where this one gets all of it's inspiration from. This is the third game in the Exceed series, and coming off of REX it feels soulless. It's Touhou in every way other than it's superior art and music (your mileage my vary). A by the book bullhell that does nothing “wrong” but doesn't stand out other than for the fact Touhou isn't on Steam; the minute is it I'm changing my recommendation. (Well Touhou is now on Steam, and as I said, I'll now give this a thumbs down).

Shoot stuff, focus around patterns (in fact, always focus it's over-powered) collect bombs and power ups. Played Touhou? You played this. I may be being a little hard on it, but I hope the forth game isn't more of the same.

I only “recommended” this because it's a good entry point into the Touhou series. I can't say I was impressed.

It is labeled as unsupported on SteamDeck and to no surprise it does not work. You can launch it under Proton GE 4.16 but won't have any control. I hope one we get a proton version that can run it soon but it might never happen I want to play this on handeld rather than on PC.

https://youtu.be/gRVUc7uCJjU

The third and ?final? chapter of the eXceed trilogy falls a bit short of what the second entry had to offer. While not a bad game it doesn't offer enough to be a standout product.

Like it's predecessors Exceed 3 is a bullethell shmup. The 3rd one is very close to the 2nd one. Only it ditches the polarity mechanic. The third one has problems that enemies who get killed drop some sort of coin. This coin goes over the screen to your character and making enemies bullets harder to see. It still has the problems the second one had. It's just not a game for everyone.

I rate the game, eXceed 3rd - Jade Penetrate Black Package 3/5. OK for the price but too mediocre to be worth much time or effort. And what does the name of this game even mean? I don't think it matters and that's not even the worst of it.

This game is a top-down view schmup arcade style game except instead of getting to control a nifty, futuristic fighter craft or airplane, you get to control a weird little flying, vampire girl with little flapping wings who wears a miniskirt and gets followed around by dragons (which are really her best weapon because they auto aim). Worse, the game's menu music sounds, laughably, like some sort of crappy rip-off of the Exorcist and that's the best music this game has to offer. I ♥♥♥♥ you not.

So far as I can tell, this game's story is that various vampire girls are competing in a to-the-death tournament to see who among them gets to become a "cardinal lord" though what that really is not well explained. The one who becomes a "Cardinal Lord" would then get to compete in yet another tournament (which, I guess, might be the sequel to this game). Unfortunately, all of the dialogue is spoken in Japanese but subtitles are only available for certain parts (though probably the more important parts). Dialogue spoken during the actual battles have no subtitles.

In this game, the boss battles are the focus of the game and they can be fairly exciting. Each level is really just a lead-up to the next boss battle as lesser enemies tend to be repetitive and boring. The key to winning, so far as I can tell from playing on easy difficulty, is to let your little dragon friends do most of the aiming for you automatically while you focus mostly on using super-powers at the right times (as often as possible) and focus on dodging enemy projectiles. The game can seem hard at first, even on the easiest difficulty level but if you just focus on not getting hit you will eventually win, at least on easy difficulty.

+Okay voice acting I guess.
+Responsive controls
+No major bugs

+/- Boss battles are the focus of this game. Lesser enemies tend to get boring and repetitive fast. Boss shot patterns do to tend to be interesting.
+/-Great sense of speed but the backgrounds racing by are, for the most part, highly repetitive and boring.

-Your character's abilities get boring fast and there is only one character to play with. Each boss you defeat should ideally have unlocked a potentially playable character but oddly, this doesn't happen. You can only play one character.
-Lots of stupid "fan-service" panty shots of no practical use to anyone as they are not even hot hot hot enough to actually be interesting. Mostly, they just seemed boring and obvious.
-Bad music (or mediocre at best) and mediocre sound.
-While this game is capable of being played in full-screen mode it can only play at a lowly full-screen resolution of 640 by 480.

Mostly, this game just plays and feels mediocre. If you collect schmups, get this game on a big steam sale. It's still really hard to ever be too disappointed in a game that costs 6 dollars when not on sale and probably costs about 2 dollars when it is on sale no matter how mediocre it is. If you're looking for a really good game however, this isn't it.

I was looking for some bullet hells to try out and this was highly recommended in reddit. So here's my review:

No controller support. Seriously?
Really low res graphics. Very low res, they look terrible full screen at 1080p. I requested a refund after playing for 13 minutes on the keyboard.

The game had some great music so I'll give it that.

Finally, there is some voice acting and it sounds like it is voiced by 8 year old girls. Depending on what you like, you may really hate that, I did.

Either I need to unlock anything good in this game, or it's some kind of weird, mutant step back version of its predecessor. Seems to actually have less control when I'm playing, but feels more like a "standard" bullet hell game than the prior one. I dunno. Maybe I'm being too hard on it after flipping between all 3 of these (and finishing #2 prior) but this game really only seems remarkable for its name, which is still amazing.

I don't recommend it.

I didn't play the game much yet, but I guess I'll give it a review already.
In short, the game feels like a major stepback in series compared to the previous installment.

Abandondment of the mode system removed probably the most prominent and exciting feature.
While the graphics was somewhat enhanced, and bullet patterns became more complex and interesting, I simply can not feel the hitbox. Boss fights are way too long. The music is not looped properly; it would end the track fading it into silence then start it again, which feels disturbing.

I vote 'No' because I think the game should be about having fun, and I didn't really have fun with this game. May be later, when I find it in myself to play more, I will like the game more, than I'll change my opinion, but as of now, I don't really like this game. I took it as a part of the bundle, so I don't regret it, but I probably wouldn't buy it by itself.

6/10 BTW.