This platformer is okay for the most part, but it’s not quite on par with the two games I posted about previously. There are a few times where the game makes you time jumps from moving platforms that also have springs on them, so you have to wait a bit for the platform’s movement to line up with the springboard’s constant bouncing of you. Plus, it has a couple minor issues, like how signs don’t always change your actions at the same points as other signs (though this never caused any cheap deaths for me) or how you can’t use up on the arrow keys to perform your equipped aciton like you can with the W key for WASD, but overall, it’s okay, and I can recommend it since it’s free. You can play it here: https://jefry-umanzor.itch.io/duckbert

This bullet hell, on the other hand, is really well made. The game’s defining feature is that you can “steal” from yellow sparkling enemies by pushing the X key near them when your meter is full. You’re told that doing this makes the game harder–which it does (mostly more projectiles, though some of them move a bit faster–but never so fast that you can’t react to them)–but you’re never told that this is also how you upgrade your weapon, nor are you told that this move can also be used to clear away nearby bullets. On my first playthrough, I didn’t steal anything so that I could better see how the difficulty ramped up, and while it did take a bit too long to kill the final boss, it was still pretty fun. On my second playthrough, I found out that getting hit lowers your weapon power and thus the difficulty, which is a bit frustrating since I mainly only got hit while trying to get close enough to a sparkling enemy to steal from them. I also found out the difficulty/weapon-power doesn’t go above three stars, so you can hang back once you get that far. Still, the extra projectiles and faster boss deaths helped keep the harder difficulty feeling fresh while the game overall was still very fair, and on top of everything else, this game is also free, so I highly recommend it. You can play it here: https://doctor-succubus.itch.io/gotcha-gun