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[Sort of on topic] IDK About ‘Bullet Heaven,’ Steam (aftermath.site)

submitted 20 hours ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/shmups@lemmus.org

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Steam has added "bullet heaven" as an official tag, in an effort to separate games like Vampire Survivors from danmaku, "bullet hell" shooters. The author would prefer "survivors-like." But it's pretty clear that "surviors-like" has been rejected, broadly speaking. Either way, I hope this helps people find the kinds of games they're looking for.

You can see more background here: https://lemmus.org/post/18552033

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[–] MarauderIIC@lemmy.zip 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I disagree with the author. Bullet Heaven is simply the opposite of Bullet Hell because the bullets come from the player instead of the arena. One of the points the author's argument stands on is that "fans of one aren't necessarily fans of the other" and that 'bullet hell games don't resemble bullet heaven games', as if the similarity in the name implies some similarity in genre, which is obviously not the case.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

I agree. It's why we settled into genres like FPS instead of doom-clone as well.