DoDonPachi II - Bee Storm picks up the vertical shooter saga that Cave had established as synonymous with "bullet hell," with extremely dense firing patterns and a demand for memorization and reflexes that the genre elevated into an art form of its own. Unlike other entries, this one came out with shared development alongside another studio, which sparked debate among the saga's purists.
For the shmup community it's a permanent point of discussion —does it live up to its predecessors?— but no one disputes that it's an unavoidable part of the history of one of the most venerated sagas in Japanese vertical shooting.
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