[TWO NICKELS TROPE] Indie game devs from a Japan making bullet hell games with close to no male character/ dominantly female casts

[u/kramsibbush]

Tohou franchise, made by ZUN. The only noticeable male character is Rinnosuke Morichika.

Asterika: Phantom Rose refrain, made by Makaroll. The only bullethell game in the Phantom Rose franchise thus far. There is only a few times when the game used the he/him/his in the story, there is no explicitly male character on screen.

[u/Legitimate_Airline38]

“The only noticeable male character is Rinnosuke Morichika.”

Bro’s slandering our GOAT

[u/AddressBright8 → u/Legitimate_Airline38]

Genjii erasure is wild ,bro.

[u/Robotic_Organic → u/AddressBright8]

Genji Apprecation, we must.

[u/PeasantLich]

Blue Revolver.

Everyone should go buy and play Blue Revolver btw. Easily one of the greatest shmups ever.

[u/AdAgreeable252 → u/PeasantLich]

Blue Revolver mentioned 👁️

[u/PayPsychological6358]

Don't forget about Seihou

[u/Aiden624]

Asterika counts as a bullet hell? Really?

To be fair I’ve only seen my friends play it since I liked the card game better but idk

Anyway common ZUN W

[u/kramsibbush → u/Aiden624]

Got this screenshot from Youtube since I'm not on my pc now.

But yes, it is a bullet-hell in a sense that the map will spawn a mountain of obstacles to break your combo. Path finding is the second most important aspect of the game only after keeping up with the beat.

[u/Aiden624 → u/kramsibbush]

Mmmmmm I’m hesitant to call it a bullet hell, since it’s primarily a rhythm game and obstacles blocking your path doesn’t really feel bullethelly to me, though I will admit I’m not quite sure what to call it myself. Feels like calling the final boss of Helltaker a bullet hell, just kind of wrong

[u/kramsibbush → u/Aiden624]

Makaroll call their game a bullet-hell rhythm game. So there's that.

[u/taylorgamebuild]

I thought Maka lived in the US

[u/kramsibbush → u/taylorgamebuild]

The United State of America? The country famous for people immigrating in?

That aside, a lot of Makaroll's screenshot of their games are in Japanese (if I remember right), they use Pixiv, the also got Astrrika published in a Japanese game magazine.