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We need to decide on a genre name for Vampire Survivors-like games before a really terrible one sticks (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 35 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

They're already called reverse bullet hell?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 24 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I didn't know that, but it fits. That or bullet heaven.

[–] PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works -2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Bullet Heaven is the name of an existing game, don't clobber it with a genre name.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

An existing game from newgrounds posted 14 years ago. I don't think it's going to cause that much confusion.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Looks like it's too late. I Googled bullet heaven and it took a few minutes to find the actual game, which is ironically a bullet hell game.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

What in the heck is a reverse bullet hell? If a bullet hell is "so many bullets" then I have to image it's like... Not many bullets at all. That sounds too easy.

[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

It should be more in inverse bullet hell: it's hell, but not for you.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 7 hours ago

I didn't come up with the name, that's just what people have been calling it for as long as I can remember.

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 21 points 17 hours ago

Normal bullet hell (Touhou): the enemies shoot a hell of bullets at you. And your job is to avoid it. Reverse bullet hell (Vampire Survivors): you shoot a hell of bullets at the enemies. And your job is to shoot even more, bigger, stronger bullets.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 17 hours ago

Just like Vampire Survivors!