Hollow Song of Birds v0.10 demo - Lunatic No Deaths/Bombs/Z Spell (MarisaOrange)

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Published on May 13, 2018 9:43:09 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75z-_i0JI0c

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Hollow (2017)

Duration: 14:28

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New fangame. Looks super duper promising honestly.

Mechanics are fun but don't overtake the whole game, patterns are nice and balanced, and the game looks pretty gorgeous.

Thought what I find the best part is how fluently it plays. I never played a fangame that worked THIS well (except maybe SSS).
Almost every fanshmup gives me big issues in the form of input delay or frame drops, or the game is super clunky and full of BS hitboxes that I don't understand (*cough* TLC *cough*). I barely had issues like this in HSoB.
There were still some framedrops but it barely impacted gameplay this time.
Though the game did love to freeze up whenever a midboss appeared, at least when I was doing this run. I think most of the "53 fps" in the replay description comes from that.

The demo did feel quite easy. This demo LNNN took very little effort. Maybe like 50% of the effort it took to LNNN HSiFS demo last year, to give an impression. And that was already relatively easy.

The game has Reimu, Marisa and Sakuya as playables, each with just 1 shot type. But you can add a gem to your shot and that adds an extra shot mechanic.

I won't go through all of them but here I used the Orange gem, which turns every graze you get into a revenge bullet, that either shoots kinda upwards or aims towards an enemy (if you're close enough to one). As you may expect, this gem is kinda broken lol. Especially stages tend to get obliterated if you graze the right things, but you can also see me virtually skipping nons/spell cards with a well timed bullet surf.

MarisaOrange seems to be the go-to LNNN shot for now if you'd ask me. I didn't use Reimu or Sakuya much, but Marisa's generally strong focus damage + the homing&spread that the graze gives you means that stage performance is generally amazing, and boss performance is pretty great as well. I can see some future lategame bosses giving trouble though, if they force you to stay low and don't let you graze everything easily (think Mai&Satono in HSiFS).

The game also has a MoF-style bomb and a "Z spell" that is basically your iconic character bomb but powered up. I haven't used the bombs too much but it seems like you get a lot of them so resource spam will probably get you very far (as is tradition). There's also a danger meter or something to the left but I don't really understand what it's for.

Anyways, with the impression that I got from the game right now I'd totally tell people to keep an eye out on it.

also internet bird widow best girl

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