J T wrote:Grey Matter
http://armorgames.com/play/2566/grey-matter
This one is made by Team Meat, the guys behind the now world famous Super Meat Boy. Grey Matter is a shmup without shmupping. In other words, you don't shoot stuff, but it totally feels like a shmup. Instead of shooting, you have to run into your enemies when they are not firing at you, and you get bonus points for chaining together attacks. Instead of firing, your buttons allow you to boost, or go into slow motion. The controls are tight and though it's only a single screen game, it's still a hell of a lot of fun to play.
I just wanted to bring this one back up as I finished it today (in normal mode only though). While it is not flawless it is pretty good! Go and check it out if you haven't yet.
An example of problems is the enemies with tails which I think glitch often and stay outside the screen for a lot of time not letting you progress (but they eventually get "reset" back to the play area so you can kill them and move on).
On the flipside, it is really cool for a change to kill enemies by ramming (while there are many exceptions, it is very frequent that touching enemies is bad for you). As you progress there is enough variety in enemies (took me a while to figure out how to kill a particular shy type that teleported away whenever I got close), and the final boss has some nifty bullet-hell patterns.
Ivo.