So I have started playing Mountain of Faith this morning, and boy, are my arms tired! Is that how it goes?...no?...okay.
In case you didn't know, Mountain of Faith is the latest in a line of danmaku/curtain fire/bullet hell games done by this one guy named ZUN, under the name Team Shanghai Alice. In case you like to have your eyes bleed at complex pretty patterns, try a demo or two.
http://www16.big.or.jp/~zun/top.html
Anyway, I started playing today, as you can see.
And I was expecting the first few levels to be a relative breeze, as I had played through one of the previous game in the series, Imperishable Night. So, I was rolling along, la di da, when I was suddenly hit like this:
and I died right after. I mean, I wasn't stuck at that part or anything
but I was surprised, you know? So anyway, I guess I will update this with my further progress, even though the game ramps up in difficulty pretty fast (that may just be my perception, because certain other people live off this type of game).
Imperishable Nights is probably one of the easier game of the series. Mostly due to the timing where you can replace a lost life with using a bomb is pretty forgiving.
Try Perfect Cherry Blossom. It's the prequel to IN. It's also fully translated to english. My favorite in the series.