Game:

DRAINUS (2022)

Duration: 1:37:40

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A shmup from the same studio that made Touhou Luna Nights.

The main gimmick of this game is the shield that lets you become invincible and absorb bullets to charge a meter, and release it to shoot homing lasers (bullets highlighted in pink still hurt you though). This shield is also extremely overpowered for survival, it makes it so that you barely even have to dodge anything. In ridiculous mode you die in 1 hit and there are a lot more pink bullets, especially once you loop, so you actually have to dodge things.
The main difference between arcade mode and story mode is that in arcade mode you can only access the pause screen once per stage and it has a timer (the timer is so long though that it makes no difference). It also has no cutscenes, but that's pretty much it.
The only difficulty on arcade mode is "hard" mode, and it's laughably easy. I got through it with literally 0 effort, and I fucking suck at shmups. The life system in this game is also very broken. When you get hit, you lose a powerup, and you need to lose all of them to lose a life. You also get a shit ton of extends, even if you do a bad job at scoring like me. All you need to do is get the emergency powerup bomb and you're basically invincible.

Drainus is still pretty fun though. But it's probably not something you should play if you're looking for a challenge.

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