June Mejos and the Moonlit Curse

Hi, I recently found your work and can say that you are very talented creator, I had so much fun playing "June Mejos and the Moonlit Curse" and "A Change of Heart: A Magical Girl Adventure". So much that I decided to record my gameplay and publish it on my little (hobby) youtube channel. I hope that you are ok with this? If not please let me know and I will remove those videos :) Please see

Hey, I had a fun time with this! Cleared A-side on easy. I know it's an old project, and I'm not a SHMUP/Danmaku player by any means, but some thoughts:

- Often I found myself much more focused on avoiding bullets than being able to hit enemies, especially with shots with limited vertical range like the laser. June has a wide hitbox so it seemed pretty difficult to avoid taking damage at all.

- The colour schemeing was too similar between June's bullets and enemy bullets, and often was kind of dark-red on similarly-dark colours. Applies to a lesser extent on the enemies

- The power-ups were difficult to read because they were so small and the iconography wasn't strong! Often I'd just blindly go for whatever was there and get a Basic Shot and be sad :(

- Especially with spider boss it was common to get with a bullet from the top of the screen without knowing where precisely was dangerous.

I also have to admit I kind of... flew through the dialogue, since I just wanted to test out the gameplay.  But I had a good time with it!

Hiya I did a run of this game and love it.

I messed up on the B side 

Finally got some breathing room between my schedules to test the updated version.

The control is definitely much better now; I have got way easier times dodging the bullets this time, but I've got a feeling I've gotten rusty since the last time I played games (^.^;

I think B mode stage 2's boss is waaay too hard... How am I supposed to simultaneously be careful as to not drain my stamina too quickly, heal myself by killing those quickly moving small stuffs, while dodging some holy bullets...? Kinda impossible for me :(

Probably make those small stuffs move slower and easier to hit?

EDIT 1&2: Spelling

EDIT 3: (I was about to proclaim victory once I destroyed all the shields; only to find out that it's not over yet... sorry, but I think I have to rage quit this one m(_ _)m)

Nice work shibey :) Really like the art and narrative as always. You've got some good enemy variety too. The second boss with the massive hand that comes out actually made me jump a bit, that was pretty cool.

I definitely had a hard time beating this one though I eventually managed to do it. I think there's a few things that you could try to make things a little more doable:

• A lot of the time you'll get the shield powerup before any offensive upgrade, which often ends up with you losing the shield powerup because you can't destroy the enemies as effectively. You could make it so the shield only spawns once you've gained at least one offensive upgrade.
• The acceleration based movement kind of threw me off, I feel like for most shmup type games they have linear movement. The acceleration also means that if you follow your bullets forward, you can catch up to them (Resulting in a big stack of bullets, which while fun doesn't end up being very effective)
• I felt like some of the upgrades weren't worth it. The laser seemed the strongest to me, followed by the curving shots, the spread shot, and then last would be the rockets. They just felt too slow by comparison. The upgrade that takes you back to the normal shot was a bit annoying -- the icon for it looks a bit similar to "speed up" so I kept picking those up and losing my laser or curvy shot or whatever.

Take all that with a grain of salt and whatnot since good game difficulty is a fine line :P

I'm not going to nitpick the art, but I think since you outlined some of the background buildings and such it might look better to outline the main character as well. The enemies read really well with the red outlines and black interior, it'd be good to have the main character pop out a similar amount.

Very good pixel art! Glad to see another construct 2 user as well ;)

I like the game! It reminded me of this hardcore shooter game from Touhou series.  And since there are no music in this game, I inserted some music of my own. Probably gets copy righted but I don't care lol... as long as it makes it fun!