For whatever reason it took me longer than it should to 'get' this game. I thought it was some sort of quirky notebook paper platformer. Maybe one with a goofy story to draw me into the inventive world the creator has made, but no.
This is a shoot 'em up at its core. One loosely held together with some minor platformer segments and hardly a story to tie anything together.
All in all, once things clicked, I really enjoyed this one. It's super cheap and I'm glad to have played it.

Before I begin, one disclaimer. This is an Indie game on a budget price, and the developer "studio" is really just three dudes who love making games together - as it says right there in the About section. So I will cut them slack for the janky mouse control in the platformer part of the game that everyone is complaining about. Yes, it was annoying, and I did waste some time getting used to it/redoing stuff, end of story.

WIth that off the chest, I'd give a 10/10 for game art, the concept, and uniqueness of lore. You're a doodle in an artwork Universe, and as you finish missions and beat bosses you unravel the whole saga of Geometry Logicians vs Doodles and earn ink, with which you upgrade your battleship. That's some concept!

The shooter part of the game is near-perfect in gameplay, with just a couple quirky interactions with some bosses, nothing significant. The variety of upgrades actually matter, and you can 100% the game with whatever options you like and prefer as per your playstyle (as long your choices are within reason, duh!). The well balanced upgrade tree was surprising in a game of this scope.

BP-U is 1 part puzzle-platformer and 4 parts arcade shooter, all-in-all a pretty fun package that I would recommend!

I got this as a gift, was a cool game ngl. Weird but cool.
Its giving School shooter doodles vibes,

has a silly little guy

amazing detailed, lovely and breathtaking art all from a ballpoint pen. i beg you, play this game

Horrible Shoot'em Up and bad Side Scroller.

My rating 1/10, not recommended.

Nonsense game half side scroll and half shoot em up, both mechanics lack content and you end up bored quickly.
Annoying graphic, all those bright colors strain the eyes

Nope, bullet hell, not my style at all. Graphically nice tho

awesome style, love the art a lot. the target practice got me stuck but thats just my skill issue, other than that its very fun and chill alldat

Decent arcade shooter, gimcrack platforming. The ballpoint aesthetic is only cute for a bit before it feeling overbearing. Exploration of the platforming levels was good, if it only wasn't stippled with weird doodled collectibles (I didn't like this even on Psychonauts, thanks) and some rather awkward platforming controls. I enjoyed the shooting levels, it's responsive and snappy, and has the right amount of difficulty.

Surprisingly fun.