It's been how long and the game still deletes your save?

[HP Office InkJet Pro 6978]

Ok, I love this game to death, but dear god you've got so many people complaining about the save deletion and it's still not gone?? Why??? This is clearly hated by a massive majority of your players, and it seems to be the only reason that most of the negative reviews exist. Literally just getting rid of this would make it nearly a perfect game, so why is it still here? I understand that other shmups make you start over at stage 1, but you don't dangle the idea of having saves and being able to continue from later levels and still access the endgame from there only to say "sike" right at the end if the player makes like 1 mistake. This isn't justifiable by using other games as an example, this is just straight up lying to the player. The warning at the end of the game is really vague, and most players who got there for the first time would probably still have that lingering energy and are too eager to play than to try and decipher a sentence that's written weird, or even connecting the dots that it isn't talking about a story setting. And even then, what if someone's keyboard is wack? Mine occasionally doesn't register my finger lifting off buttons, so what if it did that on the last stretch and I get a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ death? I was having so much fun fighting the last few bosses, having like 50 aneurysms at once from stress, and in the end I just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lose everything. What kind of game design is this? PLEASE remove this. This is gonna scare off new players, and probably has many times.

[blade]

The game is an hour long. If people don't like it, there's plenty of other shmups they can play. Heck, there's plenty other games they can play. I applaud the developer for sticking by their vision.

[Grilled Sandwich]

It's a good filter.

[Haka]

Imagine creating art and sticking to your intended vision for it instead of changing it to suit others. making it lose the weight of its message if not changing it completely into one of "Do anything necessary to stop people complaining, and you'll be 'happier'".

The path to enlightenment isn't one of indiscriminate base appeasement.

[Empyrrean]

It's there for a narrative reason. You're pretty much meant to experience it at least once. If you hate it that much, no one's stopping you from save scumming.

[Egotod]

I know I'm late here, but I think its awesome, especially because it is such a short game. Initially, it feels so cruel, but if you continue to play, you'll find the game to be much easier because you have gotten better. Though it does sound like you need a new keyboard.

[:D?]

This is clearly hated by a massive majority of your players

Source: my ass

[Nicolas]

Git gud scrub

[Doomster]

New Players? This is the first shmup I've ever played and love that aspect of it. So I'm a new player to the genre, yet love this. Plus, once when you start getting the hang of the gameplay you can get back to the final boss in under an hour. I haven't beaten the game yet and have been reset twice already, but it's enjoyable for me every time. The frustration doesn't make me dislike the game, it just makes me feel like I need to get better. I believe that's the point, after all.
Most shmups are actually even less approachable than this from what I can tell. ZeroRanger, though not easy, certainly holds new players' hands.

[Okami Amaterasu]

Getting my ass kicked so far, just made it to stage 2 - 2 and I'm dreading this moment lmao. Still though, this game is short so I don't think it's a terrible thing, since you'll get better as you play more anyway. Plus when you finally do beat it, imagine the feeling.

[Krag]

I'm not bothered by the save deletion as much as how grindy is feels to get all the orbs back.
It's like 3 good long runs worth of points for a casual shmup player like me, so around 3 hours worth of grinding back those continues.
I finished it now but I enjoyed the themes of letting go and sacrificing everything more than the grind back to a second attempt, I think the game should unlock a continue for each stage you beat after your first reset just so you get back there more quickly.

[Thunderchild]

You saved me a lot of time and effort. I was looking for advice on the space-girl boss only to find that it was not the true final boss and that, in top of that, if you fail that last run you have to redone all again.

This game is nothing compared to Undertale. It may be good as art, but as a videogame it is so frustrating to loose all your progress just at the very end. And even if you beat that you have to beat all of that again to see the "true" ending and the credits... Awful, very Awful.

Just read your post, watched the ending on YouTube and gave this game a negative review. Not worth my time, go play Undertale or DeltaRune if you want to experience good art and a good game.

[Dept. of Savings & Pwns]

the real progression was inside you the entire time and the skills you built up along the way

[KING DADDLE DINGO]

The games an hour long and it's the best part that literally teaches you the point and fun of shumps, it's not just some dumb meta joke like undertale stop comparing it. Most / basically all games don't have the balls to do something like this, if your still pissy then just back up your save data and miss the entire point of the game that it literally spells out to you.

[100% lob juice]

Nah the save deletion is kino, it makes narrative sense and it also forces players new to shmups to embrace the 1CC mindset (or at least, be more mindful about credit feeding) which is a big part of the genre's appeal. Also the game is pretty short and when you run out of lives/continues in most other shmups you will be sent back to the beginning anyway.

[Boddy]

Originally posted by lob:

Nah the save deletion is kino, it makes narrative sense and it also forces players new to shmups to embrace the 1CC mindset (or at least, be more mindful about credit feeding) which is a big part of the genre's appeal. Also the game is pretty short and when you run out of lives/continues in most other shmups you will be sent back to the beginning anyway.

That kind of stuff is why I can't get into this genre and bought this game because I thought it didn't have ir.
So... thanks for wasting 13 hours of my life.
I'm just done with these genre at this point.