Blue Wish: Resurrection Plus

Blue Wish Resurrection Plus (or BWRP), is the 5th game created by x.x game room, and indie shmup developer. Their games are very heavily inspired by Cave's design philosophy. This game in particular has a lot of similar bullet and ship designs as the DoDonPachi series. It was released on PC as free software, and it's the third game in the Blue Wish series

BWRP is a vertical scrolling bullet-hell shmup with many design cues taken by Cave games, as many shot types, enemy formations and bullet patterns. It has up to 5 levels of power up, and the player can hold up to 6 bombs. There are 2 shot types, focus shot and unfocused shot. By mashing the Shot button or holding the Auto-Shot button, the player will do their unfocused shot, and when the Shot button is held, the player will do their focused shot, and the ship's speed will drop, while also revealing its hitbox, much like other indie shmups like the Touhou series.

The game has by default a "Guard" mechanic put in place which can be turnt off in the options menu. When the player is hit, if they have at least one bomb in stock, a shield will cover them for a while, at the cost of one bomb.

Bombs are either big blasts that cover a portion of the screen (Unfocused), or increase the range and damage of the shot types (Focused), depending on when the player bombs.

The game has 3 difficulties:

Heaven: Akin to Novice Mode in other shmups. Heaven BWRP are one of the better shmups for complete beginners of the genre.

Original:The base difficulty of the game.

Hell:Acts like the Ultra setting in the Mushihimesama games, with a substantial increase in enemy bullets.

There are no loops to be found, and the game has only 5 stages. If the player clears the game on Hell difficulty on one credit, they'll fight the Last True Boss of the game.

The player starts with 3 total lives. The player can gain one extend after every 5 Million points