>>718302545
It's fun, but man what a shift from the demo.
I expected to get my ass kicked, I ended up 1st trying clear despite doing awful vs Ayira, with 4 lives left. It wasn't even close.
The difficulty is there, for sure. The crazy fast GFW like patterns of the Wonder Stone midbosses, Toyohime's spells are pretty hard.
I think the most pleasant surprise might be the stages, and a couple of spells like Toyohime's where you have to take cover under these big white bullets, or Ariya's wall of yellow gems and yellow ball toss.
The variety in enemy spawn, suicide bullets in a game with bullet cancel, makes it quite thrilling. They really are nice.
Ariya's bouncing spells are a little unimpressive for a final boss. Tricky, but the setup for it is non existant. Tone down the amount of bullets and this would fit in an early stage. A bit of a letdown. The Stage 6 background is very cool though.