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misk@sopuli.xyz to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago

We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks

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We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks

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misk@sopuli.xyz to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 2 months ago
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No, Steam, they're not "bullet hell action roguelikes".
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    They’re already called reverse bullet hell?

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      I didn’t know that, but it fits. That or bullet heaven.

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        Bullet Heaven is the name of an existing game, don’t clobber it with a genre name.

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          An existing game from newgrounds posted 14 years ago. I don’t think it’s going to cause that much confusion.

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          Looks like it’s too late. I Googled bullet heaven and it took a few minutes to find the actual game, which is ironically a bullet hell game.

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      What in the heck is a reverse bullet hell? If a bullet hell is “so many bullets” then I have to image it’s like… Not many bullets at all. That sounds too easy.

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        Normal bullet hell (Touhou): the enemies shoot a hell of bullets at you. And your job is to avoid it. Reverse bullet hell (Vampire Survivors): you shoot a hell of bullets at the enemies. And your job is to shoot even more, bigger, stronger bullets.

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        Just like Vampire Survivors!

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        It should be more in inverse bullet hell: it’s hell, but not for you.

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        I didn’t come up with the name, that’s just what people have been calling it for as long as I can remember.

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