Absolutely amazing. No other game has made me feel as skillful as this did. The controls just melt away and you can preform an absolutely amazing ballet of precise air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and shooting. I don't know how the game can throw that many projectiles at me that fast and expect me to dodge, but does, and I do.

At one point in the game there was a boss who would teleport around the screen, and somehow I started being able to predict where it would appear, but I have no idea how I knew it. Bleed 2 is full of this kind of experience.

Boss fights are dense in this game. I found that most bosses took me a few tries, and left me with almost no life left (so I would definitely die on the next boss). I got C's and D's on most levels. I made it through the game like this on hard mode in 91 minutes, which feels a little short. But I pretty much never beat two bosses in a row, and playing this game is really more about mastery than about narritive. So I'm eager to play through again, trying to die less, get better grades, and better understand each boss's patterns.

Plus there's a harder difficulty and different weapon sets to try. Can't wait to see what it's like with just a sword and no gun.

Absolutely amazing. No other game has made me feel as skillful as this did. The controls just melt away and you can preform an absolutely amazing ballet of precise air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and shooting. I don't know how the game can throw that many projectiles at me that fast and expect me to dodge, but does, and I do. At one point in the game there was a boss who would teleport around the screen, and somehow I started being able to predict where it would appear, but I have no idea how I knew it. Bleed 2 is full of this kind of experience. Boss fights are dense in this game. I found that most bosses took me a few tries, and left me with almost no life left (so I would definitely die on the next boss). I got C's and D's on most levels. I made it through the game like this on hard mode in 91 minutes, which feels a little short. But I pretty much never beat two bosses in a row, and playing this game is really more about mastery than about narritive. So I'm eager to play through again, trying to die less, get better grades, and better understand each boss's patterns. Plus there's a harder difficulty and different weapon sets to try. Can't wait to see what it's like with just a sword and no gun.