New game from Zakichi: WEXEW MEXEM

[Ixmucane2]

Not tried yet because I'm at work:

WEXEW MEXEM

The provided trailer and screenshots suggest CAVE-style intense shooting with simple but not too annoying low-resolution graphics.

More games:
https://zakichi.itch.io/
http://zakichi.ojaru.jp/

[Nahar]

Very nice game, indeed. The short levels are a plus on this kind of freeware games. Entices a lot to the perfectionist.

[Sengoku Strider]

If the title seems weird, it makes sense when you realize the game is basically Capcom's Exed Exes (1985) remade as a bullet hell.



Called Savage Bees in NA, I'm sure someone else knows if and to what extent this influenced Donpachi as well.

[Despatche]

I seem to remember that Exed Exes is a game with more bullets than the norm at the time. Technically speaking, it's probably the first game with an honest to God "smart bomb" weapon. It doesn't hurt enemies, but it does destroy bullets. It's a step on the road to Donpachi at least.

Also Wexew Mexem, or I guess Wexem for short, is hilarious. Build hypers to create 100000000 items and grab everything. Like most recent zakichi games, this feels like a strange derivative of Kaikan. Maybe that's why he did that big Kaikan update recently...