Hey, jerkface. If you want to yell at people, at least use punctuation and capitalization. Carry on.
You are right. I should use proper English rules from now on.
pffft fuck that
anyways, conceptually, the train doesn't work on bullet hells because of the way the bullets spread. it creates and uneven distribution on screen which doesn't make sense considering the object of a bullet hell game: to dodge bullets. instead of dodging bullets, you find yourself just strategically moving into open areas. places that aren't open are complete bs to dodge, creating an extreme spectrum in difficulty. you can calculate the density of bullets and consider the speed in comparison to other spell cards around that point and it just simply doesn't fit. direction is also horrible. train moves downward and bullets come out in diagonals. if you draw it out geometrically, it occupies very awkward areas on screen. if you do some analysis you'll find a trend of movement patterns in the best spell cards and stages, and this one is almost completely opposite.
in addition, zun gets lazy when he realizes he can't increase the difficulty on higher levels. so what does he do? he adds RANDOM bullets. the horizontal cards in hard and lunatic and the chains of red things shooting out directly from kogasa, none of these make sense in terms of the spell card, and none of these focus on the theme: the train. it is blatantly obvious he believed had no choice but to add these things in order to balance the difficulty if he wanted to use the train concept. but instead of trying to incorporate different movement styles on the trains, he decides to keep their position and add random shit.
this makes the spell card horribly planned out, generic, and plain stupid. I don't care how easy or difficult it is (I capture this consistently btw), it's a stupid card. an amateur could make better designs
and this disappoints me because touhou has the best bullet hell patterns in history, and suddenly you have this bs move
it's analogous to generic music. sure, the public/majority likes it and sees them as a great songs, but music experts know they are easily made and simply very bland. this spell card may seem cool due to its unique characteristics, but actually plays horribly
and there ya go. I had to spell it out for everyone. I don't know why everyone agrees with me after the demo release, but as soon as the full version comes out no one seems to see my way anymore. THE CARD DIDN'T CHANGE SO WHY SHOULD OPINIONS CHANGE
it's like you guys are brainwashed by bandwagon or something. I bet if the first post in this thread stated that UFO was absolutely horrible more of you guys would be agreeing with him.
though I did play 4-6 today. and I have to say, on normal, some of it is pretty bs. what the hell is with zun and curving lasers. curving lasers and cheap. at least mof was completely playable :/