Now i want mangonada damn

Having an upscore indicator with that many digits is insane. I love it

maimai hurts my shoulders usually

I wasnt just thinking about undertale, other games do this too. Undertale just makes it really explicit.

I realized writing this that this is the entire premise of undertale's combat system :/

The second is that, sometimes, you start to infer things about the enemies via the bullet patterns? Like, in certain games the attacks are themed on characters, but the idea that a certain pattern can represent an enemy's personality really intrigues me

Good bullet hell does two very specific things that i think are hard to replicate. The first is having you stare at the chaos on screen until you can understand it in its raw, mechanical beauty. You stop seeing a barrage of bullets and start seeing patterns, lines, and cues that you dance along with

which, to be fair, is an actual math term that does make sense, but out of context is confounding.